"stupid bitch"? déclassé at best, way too common among the Trump apologists to be ignored.
What? ARe you pretending to find reason to call your enemies some sort of -ist?
I don't need to pretend, déclassé defines you and a couple of dozen of others who were never taught manners, are immature and vulgar.
I treat people with the respect and civility they show me.
Or at least I try.
I've found it difficult to match the sheer assholeness of the Left.
YOur concern about civility is not credible considering the side you have taken.
Look I don't agree with the OP but here's some math to think about: there are 320 million people in the US. there are 150 million in Russia. Do you think when President Trump speaks publicly in a way that you recognize as sarcastic some small percentage of these people will take it seriously? Call it .02% of the people who take this or some other "sarcastic statement" literally (like all media is evil or I want to punch that guy in the face). In the US alone that's 64,000 people taking him seriously. I have friends in the Secret Service who think none of this is amusing including the culture being created in the US by mindless hyperbole on internet sites.
SOme small percentage of people are going to be bat shit crazy. We cant' live our lives tip toeing around them.
It was obviously sarcasm aimed at HIllary for "losing" the emails, and the media for not making a bigger deal of that fact that hillary defied a subpoena.
My point is that it's okay for you and Me to use sarcasm but the king should be careful. He influences people and creates culture (which sadly seems now to accept mindless arguing without any listening). As Shakespeare wrote in Henry IV p 1, "such is the breath of kings."
We republicans have had several Presidents who tried to be "above it all".
All they did was cede the culture to the left, who got to lie and smear unchallenged and end up defining us for the uneducated and ignorant.
The GOP and the nation can't survive any more of that.
who said anything about "above it all?" My point is that as President you can have a profound impact on the culture of discourse by example. Reagan struck a balance between firmness and collegiality that created a culture of optimism. President Trump is creating a culture of discourse that sickens me on both sides. Things are being said on both sides that are not normal. And those who normalize it frankly will end up with a nation that is neither great nor United. You get the culture you deserve, post by post, conversation by conversation.
Sure. Reagan was "firm and collegiality".
And the left treated and still treat him like shit.
In the absence of challenge, such constant repetition of vile lies, can create the illusion of legitimacy.
Proof by assertion - Wikipedia
Proof by assertion, sometimes informally referred to as
proof by repeated assertion, is an
informal fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction.
[1] Sometimes, this may be repeated until challenges dry up, at which point it is asserted as fact due to its not being contradicted (
argumentum ad nauseam).
[2] In other cases, its repetition may be cited as evidence of its truth, in a variant of the
appeal to authority or
appeal to belief fallacies
