General Trump hilarity free-for-all thread

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I concur. Then when you get spectators reacting as though the person just "scored a point" by making these asinine statements, that is the icing on cake.

Makes me wonder whether social interaction that involves upvotes is the origin of the habit.

[Junkenstein]

A President advocating legal restrictions on criticizing the administration should be taken as a direct threat to democracy, but unfortunately, I think a lot of Americans don't really understand or care.

It's a little worse than that, around 50% probably agree with idiot and think it should be dealt with immediately.

I would be very surprised if you told me more than 50% of americans even know the difference between slander and libel. I'm doubtful even 10% of the UK population can.

Thank you for correcting a statement that didn't need correction in order to agree with me while looking like you're contradicting me, I guess?

The quantification was for comedy, the actual point was how many people don't actually know the difference between slander and libel and use the terms interchangeably.

[Junkenstein]

I concur. Then when you get spectators reacting as though the person just "scored a point" by making these asinine statements, that is the icing on cake.

-2 points. Be more amusing.

[MithridatesXXIII]

I wasn't criticizing you junkenstein. I was responding to the phenomenon Nigel outlined. Afterall, you claimed that's not what you were doing, right...?

[Junkenstein]

I wasn't criticizing you junkenstein. I was responding to the phenomenon Nigel outlined. Afterall, you claimed that's not what you were doing, right...?

-1 point.

You'll never get the chance at the mystery box at this rate.

[MithridatesXXIII]

I already got the mystery box. Trump's Presidency was in there along with your rebuttals.

[Junkenstein]

-3 Points.

A bag of shit has been dispatched. By shit, I mean crack. And by crack, I mean actual sheep faeces.

[MithridatesXXIII]

That's what I said. Asinine rebuttals man

[Junkenstein]

Do you have some sort of ethical stance against making with the funny?

[Junkenstein]

Anyway, here's a bit of a laugh:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/03/politics/abbas-trump-white-house-meeting/index.html

Trump reiterated the need for Israelis and Palestinians to broker a peace through direct negotiations and called on Palestinian leaders to "speak in a unified voice against incitement to violence and hate."
"There's such hatred, but hopefully there won't be such hatred for very long," Trump said, speaking alongside Abbas in the Roosevelt Room.

Continuing a trend of other world leaders teaching idiot how their part of the world works, Abbas appears to have had to explain the Palestine problem.

It's a good job he's not appointed a diplomat who thinks the exact opposite.... oh. 

[MithridatesXXIII]

I guess you could say I do have an ethical problem if this is the shit you find humorous. That's fear induced laughter. Violence seems way more appropriate.

[MithridatesXXIII]

Healthy laughter can follow after that

[The Wizard Joseph]

Healthy laughter can follow after that

So too can unhealthy laughter

[Bruno]

If there's one good thing that could possibly come from the Trump Presidency, it would be if Trumpsters get just a glimmer of an idea that international politics are hard.

Most of them, it seems, think something along the lines of "I tell you wut, we just need to git in thurr an be all like 'Hey yall, we're Amurrica and this is how it is (PEW! PEW!)' an then they'll be all like 'oh shit, yall! Amurrica's back, we better straighten up an kwit screwin around! An we'll be all like "Hell yeah, they's a new shurruf in town, and it's US! (Ptoo... Ding!)" An we'll git in there and Git er Dunn an then everyboddy will respek the hell outta us"

So, in that sense, I'm kind of behind Trump's "Golly gee whizz. This is more complicated that I realized." message.

[Junkenstein]

I guess you could say I do have an ethical problem if this is the shit you find humorous. That's fear induced laughter. Violence seems way more appropriate.

You really don't get the laugh I'm talking about. It's not a happy, healthy laugh. It's the kind of laugh you can only have after bitterness and cynicism is beaten into your very bones and then beaten out again, then beaten back in again to teach you the real lesson.

Please, by all means show me something you find funny and teach me your ways. You've utterly failed to amuse me so far but I have faith in you.