Trump will win?

[LunarOrbit]

I'm rather intrigued as to why someone who has never posted before on Apollohoax has suddenly shown up to defend Trump in one of it's "Other Topics" threads.

Me too.

[Zakalwe]

Paid Trump shill 

[LionKing]

So he called after the journalists and told them they should be ashamed of themselves for  criticizing him.. oh my God.. isn't the press  allowed to say freely what it wants? It seems he started implementing his bright ideas 

Apart from that  , a funny song for Trump

[LunarOrbit]

The press is free to criticize the President. He's being a whiny baby.

[Jason Thompson]

Not that this should come as a surprise after he whined incessantly about the election being rigged against him  before he actually won it. Now he can't cope with the idea that he and his colleagues are prime targets for satire, comedy and political criticism, just like every other politician and president who came before him. And since he built his campaign heavily on criticising the current president and his rivals in the elections, it just goes to show the level of hypocrisy he is capable of.

The fact that he is already complaining about criticism (either of himself or of his VP) before he even takes office is frankly very worrying, and should be for everyone who voted him in. The man now lined up for the top of government can't apparently cope with the concept of free speech when it comes to commentary about him. Man up, take it on the chin, and show us we're wrong, don't whine about it.

[Glom]

And he is already getting warmed up for regime change before he has even started. He tried to undermine Theresa May yesterday.

[LionKing]

So many similarities with our newly elected president: a particular antagonism towards press and criticism
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/reportsfeatures/567463-will-president-aoun-respect-press-freedom

racism and suggestions of closing the borders
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/racism_and_indifference_bassil_as_an_example_

they both think themselves heroes and saviors of their country..havign this inflated narcissism. what is more Orange is their political party's color, Trump is famous for his orange color. Also, as Trump interferes his son-in-law in politics, so does Aoun. Both were elected in this year in close times. The Lebanese Forces Block surprisingly elected Aoun, and a former member of that same block in America worked for Trump's presidency propaganda

 

[twik]

It's worrying, but if you're into dark humour it's also funny. The Presidency is probably the worst position for someone who cannot bear criticism.

The difference is that I felt a little sorry for Nixon when I read how he'd carefully remove a certain cartoonist's work from the paper before letting his young daughters read it, so that they wouldn't get upset on his behalf. I suppose that Barron just gets to read Stormfront.

[gillianren]

It must be harder and harder for not-racists to look at the people Trump is currently surrounding himself with and defend him.  And his choice for Secretary of Education is appalling, though not actually racist.  Just apparently opposed to public education.

[twik]

I don't know. I think that Trump supporters are in a mental space where whatever he does is good, because to them, he stands between them and The Abyss. If the man who saves you from The Abyss says Steve Bannon is not part of the alt-right, even though Bannon himself says he is, you don't argue with him.

[alvarez]

I'm rather intrigued as to why someone who has never posted before on Apollohoax has suddenly shown up to defend Trump in one of it's "Other Topics" threads.

Who has never posted here and then suddenly shown up to defend Trump in one of the "Other Topics" threads?  I can't find anyone who matches this description.

But, I am confident the board membership will have no problem concocting a conspiracy theory that validates their own sense of self-righteousness to explain this person's sudden appearance, whether that person exists in reality or only in the the conspiracy theorists' brains.

So, alvarez, what's your position on the Moon Hoax?

Huh?

Did we go to the Moon or not?

I didn't go to the moon.  I don't know who you are, so I don't know whether you went to the moon or not.  If by "go to the moon" you include orbiting but not landing, then there are a few more people who did that, so my subjective assessment of the probability that you went to the moon under that definition would be slightly higher, but still very low.

On people who believe this sort of rubbish, well, the kindest thing I could possibly say is, maybe they just haven't taken the time to look into it.  Or maybe they have psychiatric problems.  Or maybe they're just liars, who deserve nothing but disgust and contempt, not unlike people who claim I'm a Trump defender.  Although if people have no problem at all with mass murder, it's not really surprising if they're willing to tell lies, is it.

If Bart Sibrel ran against a Democrat, would you vote for him?

WTF is Bart Sibrel?  Is he some neo-Nazi who wants to kill thousands (or millions) of foreigners, bleat about how incredibly righteous he and his supporters are, and disperse little bits of candy to his constituency?  If so, I think he would need to run as a Democrat to get much support from the people at this board.

[alvarez]

And his choice for Secretary of Education is appalling, though not actually racist.  Just apparently opposed to public education.

Finding a non-racist in the US is already quite an accomplishment.  Finding one that supports public education - well, you can't really expect lightning to strike twice, can you.

[alvarez]

The press is free to criticize the President.

Indeed they are.  Which reminds me of something I've been meaning to say.

but I also understand that she's despised mostly because Americans have been fed unhealthy doses of lies about her from the right wing media for probably close to 30 years.

Perhaps.  She voted for the Patriotic act, but how many Americans, right-wing or left-wing, care about that?  And she doesn't seem to believe in the existence of too many countries that cannot be improved by American bombing, but that actually resonates pretty well with the right-wing.  I don't think very many Americans despise her because of these things.

She has been investigated thoroughly for years and the worst thing the right could come up with to pin on her was her private email server.

Ah yes, that's much worse than all the civilians she's helped to put into body bags.

[alvarez]

He's very rich, he can afford the best accountants and the best lawyers, so yes he can get away with it.

I don't know whether you're very rich or not, but if you are and have that attitude, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot of jail time in your future.

[alvarez]

The right wing media has convinced people that going to war and killing people is good

Maybe that's where Hillary Clinton got the idea.