Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 101: Purple Sock

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Go read the Barron Trump trend and you will see exactly why the left is so hated. These are sick people.
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I dunno, I think the left is pretty good

https://twitter.com/hegelbon/status/869948254926098432
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UItimaterializer posted...

Go read the Barron Trump trend and you will see exactly why the left is so hated. These are sick people.

yeah, the right would never tastelessly attack the child of a president.

https://www.aol.com/article/2016/05/02/racist-commenters-attack-malia-obama-after-news-of-her-going-to-harvard/21369137/

whoops
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Ulti is starting to vote me again :/
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I've seen way too many motherfuckers saying "woe is Barron Trump, mean ol' Libruls" acting like there wasn't racist and offensive shit directed at the Obama girls every month.
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I haven't seen the tweets/whatevers in question so I could be off-base, but here's my take

If people are meming in good fun about Trump saying Barron is good at the cyber, Ulti can fuck off. Granted, I'm giving him enough credit to think this isn't the case here.

If people are actually attacking the 10 year old boy that has nothing to do with anything, that's pretty fucking disgusting, I agree. On the other hand, Ulti can still fuck off for trying to generalize this into a "the left" thing and fling insults at such a large group unless he's willing to generalize the entire right using the worst alt-right white supremacist lunatics (which is also a problem in and of itself)


And yeah, this doesn't get into the blatant hypocrisy of the attacks on the Obama children.
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Kathy Griffin fired from hosting NYE show this year.
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I think he's talking about people making fun of the "Barron thought Kathy Griffin was holding his real dad's head" story.

which is ok because that story is totally fake, so they're making fun of a fictional Barron
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My Immortal posted...

Kathy Griffin fired from hosting NYE show this year.

I assume the ultra conservative free speech defenders are up in arms like they are every time a conservative is fired for saying/doing something horrible, right

right
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Paratroopa1 posted...

I've been saying cuv-feff

Same. I think it's the best because it sounds as unnatural as the word looks.
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Cuck-Feff.
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Kenri posted...

I assume the ultra conservative free speech defenders are up in arms like they are every time a conservative is fired for saying/doing something horrible, right

right

muffin has been curiously quiet about the whole thing. whenever a comedian makes a controversial tasteless joke he's usually first in line to tell us what a great american hero they are.
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Kenri posted...

My Immortal posted...

Kathy Griffin fired from hosting NYE show this year.

I assume the ultra conservative free speech defenders are up in arms like they are every time a conservative is fired for saying/doing something horrible, right

right

I laughed
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-blast-idUSKBN18R0DT

here's an article about the kabul attack, btw. corrik is right about this being a big deal so there you go.
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I do wonder what it is about some right-wing attack dogs making certain nobodies far more important than they really are.

They did it with Sarkeesian and they're doing it with Griffin.

Like, look, if we're playing this game where we're making football fans of opposing teams look like calm, reasonable people having reasonable debates, let's at least attack each other's star players, not the people who aren't even fit to fetch water bottles.

Mr Lasastryke posted...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-blast-idUSKBN18R0DT

here's an article about the kabul attack, btw. corrik is right about this being a big deal so there you go.

Well shit.

The Taliban, seeking to reimpose Islamic rule after their 2001 ouster by U.S.-led forces, denied responsibility and said they condemned attacks that have no legitimate target and killed civilians.

Bull-fucking-shit, you've claimed responsibility for at least one attack like this already, also at the start of Ramadan.

Germany will cease flights deporting rejected asylum seekers to Afghanistan in the next few days, a German official confirmed.

So in response to a tragedy in their home country, you decided not to force them to go back? Brilliant! Why is that so hard for certain other countries?
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/335809-spicer-offers-cryptic-explanation-for-trump-covfefe-tweet

Trump meant to tweet "covfefe" guys.
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Wang, you remember that text message when I was leaving NYC that was completely garbled and unreadable? That was intentional. I and a small group of people knew exactly what that meant.
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If you don't know what word he was typoing then you are not too brilliant.
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"All the cool kids knew what he meant by covfefe."
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yeah! he was definitely typoing "the emperor's new clothes are wonderful"

i really don't think twitter is important
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Coverage. Durr
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Corrik posted...

If you don't know what word he was typoing then you are not too brilliant.

So why have Trump and Spicer both said he purposefully typed covfefe?
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/335809-spicer-offers-cryptic-explanation-for-trump-covfefe-tweet

Trump meant to tweet "covfefe" guys.

I almost want this to be true. Then, decades from now, "covfefe" could end up in history books on one of those pages vaguely connected to the chapter in question that focus on some singular issue. Uses of code words in the early 21st century, it might be called. Students could be assigned questions about it on quizzes and tests. What a future that would be, all made possible by our great president Trump!
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My Immortal posted...

Corrik posted...

If you don't know what word he was typoing then you are not too brilliant.

So why have Trump and Spicer both said he purposefully typed covfefe?

Neither did. One said guess what it means. The other said ppl knew what it meant.
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It's still not a complete thought.
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Corrik posted...

My Immortal posted...

Corrik posted...

If you don't know what word he was typoing then you are not too brilliant.

So why have Trump and Spicer both said he purposefully typed covfefe?

Neither did. One said guess what it means. The other said ppl knew what it meant.

he said "the president and a small group of people" knew what it meant like it's some secret code.

If he just meant "coverage" then it wouldn't be a small group that knew what he meant because everyone thought that was what he meant.
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MoogleKupo141 posted...

If he just meant "coverage" then it wouldn't be a small group that knew what he meant because everyone thought that was what he meant.

This.

Also Spicer's explanation still falls flat because the tweet still sticks out like nonsense without context.
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Jakyl25 posted...

It's still not a complete thought.

Yes, this is the dumbest part.

Even if you go with coverage that still couldn't have been the end of the sentence.
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I hate to dissect humor but it's not funny because "LOL Trump made a typo," it's funny because he cut off a thought mid-sentence with garbled letters and then left it up overnight without correcting it.
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It really wouldn't have been hard to admit something like "Trump was making a tweet, got distracted while typing the word coverage, and then accidentally posted the tweet when he meant to cancel."
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Esuriat posted...

It really wouldn't have been hard to admit something like "Trump was making a tweet, got distracted while typing the word coverage, and then accidentally posted the tweet when he meant to cancel."

And then no one pointed it out to him for many hours.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/335809-spicer-offers-cryptic-explanation-for-trump-covfefe-tweet

Trump meant to tweet "covfefe" guys.

wonder what the response of that "lol trump just made a human error and the left went nuts about it" woman would be to this.
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My thought was, Trump got distracted while tweeting in bed, accidentally posted it, didn't notice, and went to bed.

And the aides were too terrified to go into his bedroom to get the phone or wake him up to let him know.
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It's so incredibly easy to laugh along with everyone and admit you made a really weird mistake. I think that's what Trump was doing this morning in his tweet about it. It's not the error that makes him human and likeable, it's his reaction to humorously own it that helps his image. He or whoever crafted the "Enjoy!" tweet this morning did a decently good job at turning it into a positive for Trump; ironically more positive than whatever he meant to actually tweet last night!

Then we get Spicer's take and he turns it into typical political spin and it's like ugh
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Never forget the party of kek and freeze peach both not seeing the humor in a funny typo and getting outraged over a D-lister stunt on the same day.

Sad!
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Never forget the party of kek and freeze peach both not seeing the humor in a funny typo and getting outraged over a D-lister stunt on the same day.

Sad!

Calls for violence are not protected by the first amendment. Make fun of the guy all you want, but a severed head is well over the line.

covfefe is hilarious, because anyone who didn't know it was a typo for "coverage" isn't too bright and it shows how desperate the left is. They're the same people who think the president's dessert is a controversy.
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UItimaterializer posted...

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Never forget the party of kek and freeze peach both not seeing the humor in a funny typo and getting outraged over a D-lister stunt on the same day.

Sad!

Calls for violence are not protected by the first amendment. Make fun of the guy all you want, but a severed head is well over the line.

covfefe is hilarious, because anyone who didn't know it was a typo for "coverage" isn't too bright and it shows how desperate the left is. They're the same people who think the president's dessert is a controversy.

So if a subset of the population were to cry death threats daily to a president, joke about how many states this president knows, and criticize what mustard they use, they would be liberal scum?
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covfefe is hilarious

yep

because anyone who didn't know it was a typo for "coverage" isn't too bright and it shows how desperate the left is.

nope
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I'm pretty sure every damn person in this topic knew that it was a typo for "coverage".

That doesn't make it any less hilarious.
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It would have been nearly as funny if he typed "Despite the negative press coverage" full stop and left that up overnight
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SovietOmega posted...

UItimaterializer posted...

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Never forget the party of kek and freeze peach both not seeing the humor in a funny typo and getting outraged over a D-lister stunt on the same day.

Sad!

Calls for violence are not protected by the first amendment. Make fun of the guy all you want, but a severed head is well over the line.

covfefe is hilarious, because anyone who didn't know it was a typo for "coverage" isn't too bright and it shows how desperate the left is. They're the same people who think the president's dessert is a controversy.

So if a subset of the population were to cry death threats daily to a president, joke about how many states this president knows, and criticize what mustard they use, they would be liberal scum?

That's a silly question. Everyone whose views do not fall in 100% perfect lockstep with Drumpf's is vile leftist liberal scum.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Then we get Spicer's take and he turns it into typical political spin and it's like ugh

It's like he overheard a joke and tried to explain what it meant to someone when he didn't get it himself.
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SovietOmega posted...

joke about how many states this president knows

Real talk: could Trump label all 50 states on a map without assistance?
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Jakyl25 posted...

It would have been nearly as funny if he typed "Despite the negative press coverage" full stop and left that up overnight

Yes.

But covfefe is a new meme and it's not even a forced meme for once.

This is probably the first unquestionably good thing Trump has done for the country.
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covfefe is funny in a totally apolitical way like Ed Balls

https://mobile.twitter.com/edballs/status/63623585020915713?lang=en

it's just great nonsense
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Jakyl25 posted...

SovietOmega posted...

joke about how many states this president knows

Real talk: could Trump label all 50 states on a map without assistance?

He could probably name every state that voted for him
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Speaking of labeling states on a map, this is what the NYT got when they asked random people to find North Korea on a map:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/05/10/upshot/north-korea-experiment-1494449651819/north-korea-experiment-1494449651819-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.png

That's not a "lol conservatives" thing either. Self-identified Independents did best, then Republicans, and Democrats did worst.

The one potentially interesting data point they got from this survey is that if you correctly found North Korea, you were LESS likely to favor military action against them.
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that's probably true for any location.
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Jakyl25 posted...

SovietOmega posted...

joke about how many states this president knows

Real talk: could Trump label all 50 states on a map without assistance?

Didn't Friends do an episode about that? You always forget at least one...
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The people that picked the middle of oceans have to be kidding...right??
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