USA Politics

[Aggelos]

The Maduro regime are a bunch of corrupt authoritarians who have taken a few leafs out of the Stalin playbook. That being said, it's very clear why America is desperate to go to war on them (easy target, big oil reserves).

And I thought they were doing it to spread democracy... silly me.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

a bunch of corrupt authoritarians

Correct, they are, but ... since when did Trump have a problem with that?

 

[Trevoire]

Yeah he loves authoritarians normally.

Could he literally be starting a war to distract from the Epstein files release?
(I'm sure the FBI have scrubbed them of any mention of Trump, hence why he's been delaying so much)

Or he just wants to prove how much of a tough guy he is.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

It could also be that confronting Venezuela is something others in the administration have been pushing for. Their nationalization of oil assets did cause a lot of issues. I have a limited overview of this, but as I understand it there have been international court rulings about how the scores should be settled between the Venezuelan state and the affected oil companies, but maybe the hawks in Trump's administration still see it as a valid reason to start a conflict. For Trump personally, the reasons mentioned could be sufficient that he gladly plays along.

 

[Detective Beauregard]

And this is where you lost me. Accusing Reiner who, according to all accounts was a throughly decent person, of being 'deranged' because he opposed Trump is pathetic and despite your mealy mouthed protest against being described as a "Trumper", this puts you in exactly the same boat as him.

TDS is nothing more than a MAGA invented term to belittle anyone who opposes their Dear Leader and his hateful ideology.

The amount of leftist extremism in this topic is legitimately insane. The mainstream media really has done a number on some folks in here. Just because Reiner was unhealthily obsessed with Trump (hence the TDS diagnosis) does not mean conservatives think he was a bad person.

Always with the TDS. You guys sure can come up with a lot of creative ways to deflect criticism. No shit Trump is on people's minds. He's the president.

He was on people’s minds during the joke of a Biden administration’s reign of terror, too, and he’ll be on people’s minds for decades to come. He’s just that polarizing.

I don't think he meant what most people would have meant by that, though: it ends a rant that begins by describing the guy as "tortured and struggling" - in that context it suggests that Trump hopes, in a pitying kind of way, that the poor guy has some peace in death because he obviously didn't have much in life. It's all rather condescending, really.

We don’t know how Trump meant it, and I don’t think it’s fair to assume he meant the worst just because you don’t like him.

There are people who are unable to discuss Donald Trump with any semblance of objectivity, and just spin off into rants against him whenever his name is mentioned. These are fundamentally different from the people who make legitimate points against him.

Saying that people in the first group have “Trump Derangement Syndrome” isn’t helpful, but I know exactly what behavior they’re describing. Whether Rob Reiner embodied this or not, I don’t know.

Thank you for being the one person in here to understand this. I have seen people who are unable to have a conversation about Trump without yelling, crying, and going on unhinged rants. TDS is and always has been a joke - a very funny joke, but still a joke - created by conservatives to explain the leftists who have been taught to hate Trump by the mainstream media.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

TDS is and always has been a joke - a very funny joke, but still a joke - created by conservatives to explain the leftists who have been taught to hate Trump by the mainstream media.

It doesn’t take any sort of media bias to hate a pedophile, rapist, racist, egomaniac con man pile of shit. Some people just suck.

 

[Vaenyr]

The funniest thing to me is that out of everyone in this thread @Detective Beauregard is the likeliest to be consuming too much mainstream media. Fox News has the highest viewership compared to its peers after all. While many of us in this thread don't follow any of the large networks lol

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

The funniest thing to me is that out of everyone in this thread @Detective Beauregard is the likeliest to be consuming too much mainstream media. Fox News has the highest viewership compared to its peers after all. While many of us in this thread don't follow any of the large networks lol

Whaaaaaaat?! Conservative hypocrisy?! Surely you jest!

 

[Detective Beauregard]

It doesn’t take any sort of media bias to hate a pedophile, rapist, racist, con man pile of shit.

All things the mainstream leftist media told you he was by twisting whatever it is he says and does to fit their narrative - and you gobble it up as if it were gospel.

Can’t disagree on the ego part, though.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

All things the mainstream leftist media told you he was by twisting whatever it is he says and does to fit their narrative - and you gobble it up as if it were gospel.

I’m able to take the things he has said, in the tone of voice in which he said them, with the mannerisms in which he said them, at face value.

I’m able to deduce that when one incredibly wealthy playboy who says terrible things about young women (including his own daughter) takes a ton of photos with another incredibly wealthy playboy (who runs an underage sex trafficking ring) at parties, the chances of them collaborating on wrongdoing is pretty high.

He degrades women, likes ‘em young, hits on his own daughter, mocks the disabled, mocks immigrants while simultaneously hiring them to do his manual labor (and then not pay them), can’t go a single conversation without lying and bringing every topic back to himself.

I’m able to take the measure of a man based on his words and actions. Either you are not, or you agree with him.