The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Frownland]

It's a cold flamewar.

[Psy-Fi]

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

while I do agree with MERIT ideologically, I think its absolutely absurd to think you can have a healthy and functioning society if it were to be his way. Its utopian nonsense. People are **** and will act as such if not legally confined within reason.

Couldn't agree with you more. You've summed the entire debate up perfectly with that last sentence.

Originally Posted by Exo

What the f*ck is wrong with this country where we're sitting idle and letting a dude say sh*t like this? Words can't describe the insanity behind the current political times. I just don't have the words...

It's like a 1st grade school fight. "I know you are but what am I?"

Listing the presidents of my lifetime, could you even begin to imagine Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., or Obama doing something so juvenile and reckless in a public platform? James Clapper was on today basically losing his mind over this.

The US has had 18 months of "Trump being Trump" and a large portion of the population either love it, or have become completely desensitized to it.

Dude is playing with fire. Unfortunately, 35% of the US population love the show.

Insane.

[rubber soul]

Originally Posted by Exo

What the f*ck is wrong with this country where we're sitting idle and letting a dude say sh*t like this? Words can't describe the insanity behind the current political times. I just don't have the words...

I'm no Reagan fan but he has to be rolling in his grave that his own party is playing footsie with "the Evil Empire."

And it's really scary when a sitting President can make you yearn for the days of Bush, Jr.

[Psy-Fi]

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Listing the presidents of my lifetime, could you even begin to imagine Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., or Obama doing something so juvenile and reckless in a public platform?

We begin bombing in five minutes

[rubber soul]

Yeah, but at least he was joking.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

We begin bombing in five minutes

While I think there's a hint of humour/trolling in Trump's statements, hella not the same at all.

[rubber soul]

Originally Posted by Frownland

While I think there's a hint of humour/trolling in Trump's statements, hella not the same at all.

Agreed, but I will say Reagan scared the crap out of us at the time.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by rubber soul

Agreed, but I will say Reagan scared the crap out of us at the time.

Even though the comment was leaked hours after he said it? Five minutes is way less than an hour quick mafs.

[rubber soul]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Even though the comment was leaked hours after he said it? Five minutes is way less than an hour quick mafs.

Reagan was using rhetoric like the Soviets being the Evil Empire so people were a little sensitive when the comment was leaked. We were still very much in the Cold War then so it didn't take much for the public to get into a panic. You can compare it into the hysteria after 9/11 for a comparison (albeit not a perfect one; 9/11 was of course scarier). Fortunately, Reagan was still President when Gorbachev became Soviet Premier and he proved he could also be a peacemaker. We can only hope something will click in Trump that maybe people will like him betteri f he did the same, but somehow I doubt it.