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Took John 5 mos., he finally

artappraiser — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 23:18:38 +0000

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Took John 5 mos., he finally sees: Donald Trump Will Go Down in History as the Troll-in-Chief

By John Cassidy @ The New Yorker, June 29, 2017

Lindsey Graham ridicules

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 06:30:38 +0000

In reply to Headline news for Mr. Rogers

Lindsey Graham ridicules Trump in tweet, from CNN

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Simply put, any policy proposal which drives up costs of Corona, tequila, or margaritas is a big-time bad idea. Mucho Sad. (2)
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 26, 2017

President Donald Trump himself, of course, is known to end tweets by deciding something to be "sad." Graham -- who, as a GOP presidential primary candidate, once joked "we're going to drink more" if he were elected -- is a frequent critic of the President.

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Women understand the alpha

barefooted — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:20:06 +0000

In reply to Trolls know this, so does

Women understand the alpha male better than most, no? So I can't disagree with your narrative or general position, but ... it's different now that he's POTUS. For all the damage his ridiculousness can cause domestically it pales beside his power to cause harm internationally. And for each catastrophe we hopefully avoid via luck and the occasional cooler head there will be another not so easily averted.

A troll he most certainly is, AA. But he's ours now.

Trolls know this, so does

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 04:34:07 +0000

In reply to While it may be a comfort to

Trolls know this, so does Trump, Bannon et. al., so do Postmodernist philosophers, as one self-described "Message Master" conservative blog coacher instructs:

Whoever Controls the Narrative Wins!

...If you simply attack the existing narrative, your chances of winning are slim...

(BTW,later in that 2015 post, after going into anti-global-warming, he is admiring Trump's skills)

You can't attack, that just feeds, you must re-direct to a different narrative. Their protests are disingenuous: the more attention to their narratives the better; the more opponents you get flustered by illogic, the better; label him dangerous, so much the better. It's all so alpha: all confidence, no doubt, dust one unveiled lie off shoulder, move on to the next.

Again, humiliation is.the other weapon aside from stopping feeding and redirecting to an actual real narrative. Hence, Bannon is using it right now: "the media should be humiliated."

While it may be a comfort to

barefooted — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 01:39:57 +0000

In reply to Headline news for Mr. Rogers

While it may be a comfort to us to consider him a mere troll, unfortunately others are listening - and will react accordingly. Whether we like it or not, Trump is the President of the US and his words (and, mind-numbingly, his tweets) matter.

Trump wants trade war, Trump

NCD — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 01:12:47 +0000

In reply to Headline news for Mr. Rogers

Trump wants trade war, Trump needs trade war, Trump has to have it.

Also was my 4 year old nephews favorite sentence structure relating to toys or food.

Headline news for Mr. Rogers

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:27:41 +0000

In reply to Investing legend Jim Rogers

Headline news for Mr. Rogers et. al.: Nevermind. Was just some more Alpha Male babble about a wall, we didn't think you would be listening.

White House Sows Confusion Over Plan to Tax Imports

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM 52 minutes ago

The White House appeared to endorse a 20 percent tax on all imports, only to insist hours later that it had not.

Officials said the tax was just one in a “buffet” of options to pay for the wall along the Mexican border.

stuff like that is why I

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:09:10 +0000

In reply to Investing legend Jim Rogers

stuff like that is why I think I'm gonna be following business news sections more closely than political ones for a while, until the latter gets a better handle on handling the troll.

By the way, another part of the Muir interview I caught, he took credit for the 20,000 Dow He actually said something like "they love me, see what happened?" I envisioned all kinds of Wall Streeters putting their fists in their mouths so they wouldn't throw up. First prez ever to do that, the unwritten rule is: never comment on the market, puhleez stay away from opining on the market.

Investing legend Jim Rogers

NCD — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 23:48:09 +0000

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Investing legend Jim Rogers says dump stocks if Trump launches trade war.....A veteran investor, who has witnessed several crises over the past half-century, is worried....“He very much wants a trade war. And if that happens, sell everything,” Rogers told MarketWatch...

Yes....Are we biggly winning yet?

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN...LIKE IT WAS LAST WEEK !

P.S. It's just coming so

artappraiser — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 23:45:11 +0000

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P.S. It's just coming so clear: with his narcissism disorder, he is constantly craving respect as Mr. Alpha Male of the whole world for his Alpha babbling, which will scare all the bogey men away, protecting all those little forgotten ones with no power he met on campaign trail, protecting them from terrorism and get them factory jobs yadda yadda and then they will all hail his brilliance further, including the bogey men and the media will be licking his feet. The facts aren't the point. It's acting alpha and scaring people into a deal. ("The art of the deal.") The B males then attend to the messy details of the deal, stupid stuff like facts, after he's scared the shit out of the other side, any eventual deal is fine. (In his real estate deals, the B males are the army of lawyers.)

This is why giving the outrageous "alternative facts" media attention is bad, it's feeding a troll, he just goes with more Alpha.

It is also why ridicule, especially comic ridicule not coming from an opposing politico, should work too. Has to be skilled enough, though, to eventually make a lot of the swings and some of his fans laugh at him.