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Post by ahiller on Jan 19, 2017 15:19:42 GMT
To give people like those were posting on this thread the opportunity to express more code out rage" or ridicule. Knowing I'd be inaugurated tomorrow, I'd be laughing my way all the way to the White House Why would you be laughing?
The President serves at the pleasure of the people. He is a public servant. He should care that people are outraged at his lack of seriousness into what this job entails.
If he is in fact laughing, as you said you would be, then that shows both of you only care about one thing - being the winner. Not actually being right, just being able to stick your tongue out and say you won.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 15:27:11 GMT
I actually don't think it's funny. He presented this photo as though it should become part of the history of the Trump presidency and yet it's fake. It's the concierge desk at Mar-a-Lago with the regular desktop comments removed, he's holding an empty pad and a pen with the cap still on it, pretending to write his inaugural address. This may well become part of OUR American history and yet everything about it is a complete and total fabrication. So it begins. Another lie... don't mean by you, but by him |
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Post by jonda1974 on Jan 19, 2017 15:37:35 GMT
For Pete's sake...every president since the invention of the camera has "posed" for candid shots. Albeit this photographer was an idiot for the staging, but still. Do you honestly think all the photos of Obama, Bush, Clinton are candid "off the cuff" photos?
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Post by ahiller on Jan 19, 2017 15:43:16 GMT
For Pete's sake...every president since the invention of the camera has "posed" for candid shots. Albeit this photographer was an idiot for the staging, but still. Do you honestly think all the photos of Obama, Bush, Clinton are candid "off the cuff" photos? Of course they all aren't candid photos. Like you said, I think the majority of people on this thread are making fun of the staging of it. A picture of him sitting at a desk, smiling and saying "I'm looking forward to you hearing my speech" or something like that would have sufficed. Or perhaps a photo showing him more "off camera" actually writing something or surrounded by pages of notes would have been a fine idea. The ridiculous cheesy smile + blank notepad + concierge desk is what's giving people something to talk about. |
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Post by Sarah*H on Jan 19, 2017 15:49:18 GMT
Are you unable to discern the difference between a staged photo and a lie? If this was just some cheesy, poorly staged photo of the man, whatever. That he presented it to the world with the lie about writing his inauguration speech is the problem. Do you honestly think Pete Souza would have ever done something like this?
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Post by ~Lauren~ on Jan 19, 2017 16:05:19 GMT
I'm laughing at all the sky is falling posts. We survived Obama. We will survive Trump. Somehow those who supported Hillary seem to think they cornered the market on intelligence and have a wonderful candidate. You were wrong. Now if it turns out that Trump is as bad as you seem to think he is, I'll be the first to say it, unlike those of you who supported Hillary and Obama. However I refuse to get old Henny Penny about every single thing Trump does. In my opinion it dilutes any legitimate argument she may have about what he's doing
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jan 19, 2017 16:08:06 GMT
Unbelievable. Why go to such lengths to stage something so ridiculous and so easy to call out?
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the concierge desk?? really?!? that is hilarious!!! (and also sad... angry/sad, that so many people are so easily fooled.)
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Post by PLurker on Jan 19, 2017 16:08:34 GMT
For Pete's sake...every president since the invention of the camera has "posed" for candid shots. Albeit this photographer was an idiot for the staging, but still. Do you honestly think all the photos of Obama, Bush, Clinton are candid "off the cuff" photos? Your right in all are not truly candid photos. But I can not think of one so poorly and cheesily produced to convey something to deceive and fool us little people. The emperors new clothes comes to mind. I think if he and any leader is "naked" it should be pointed out. That is one of the jobs of the press. But that brings us back to a whole 'nuther subject concerning him... |
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Post by imsirius on Jan 19, 2017 16:16:20 GMT
I'm laughing at all the sky is falling posts. We survived Obama. We will survive Trump. Somehow those who supported Hillary seem to think they cornered the market on intelligence and have a wonderful candidate. You were wrong. Now if it turns out that Trump is as bad as you seem to think he is, I'll be the first to say it, unlike those of you who supported Hillary and Obama. However I refuse to get old Henny Penny about every single thing Trump does. In my opinion it dilutes any legitimate argument she may have about what he's doing Maybe you're right. Maybe you will survive Trump. I hope so, I really do. However, Obama was admired and respected by all other world leaders who were willing to work with him without fear of backlash or having their business all over Twitter because Trump decides he doesn't like what they say or do. There is a big YUGE difference with Obama's personality than Trump's. Even you cannot deny that. That may hurt him in the long term. |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jan 19, 2017 16:23:53 GMT
I AM angry that he thinks the American people are so easily duped. And that so many of them will be duped by this photo.
Of COURSE sometimes photos are staged. But if he wanted a staged photo showing him hard at work writing his speech, at least use a desk or table in his actual living space, not the frickin' concierge desk in the lobby!!!
I am CERTAIN he did NOT sit in the lobby of the hotel to write his speech.* THAT is why I am angry, that he thinks we can be fooled this easily, and that so many of us are / were.
* if he wrote the speech at all... because, speech writers?? I'm going to hazard a guess and say that most Presidents don't write anything all by themselves without writers. Heck, I'd be GLAD if he used a speech writer to write his inauguration speech; it might end up being coherent, then. |
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Post by imsirius on Jan 19, 2017 16:27:13 GMT
I AM angry that he thinks the American people are so easily duped. And that so many of them will be duped by this photo.
Of COURSE sometimes photos are staged. But if he wanted a staged photo showing him hard at work writing his speech, at least use a desk or table in his actual living space, not the frickin' concierge desk in the lobby!!!
I am CERTAIN he did NOT sit in the lobby of the hotel to write his speech.* THAT is why I am angry, that he thinks we can be fooled this easily, and that so many of us are / were.
* if he wrote the speech at all... because, speech writers?? I'm going to hazard a guess and say that most Presidents don't write anything all by themselves without writers. Heck, I'd be GLAD if he used a speech writer to write his inauguration speech; it might end up being coherent, then. Agreed. For him to think people will not see how utterly ridiculous he looks is what is laughable. He also looks like he needs a laxative. Is that his "I shit you not" look? Lol |
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Post by Sarah*H on Jan 19, 2017 16:33:50 GMT
What, you aren't buying the constipated "I are srs Prez" look?  |
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Post by lucillebluth on Jan 19, 2017 16:38:18 GMT
For Pete's sake...every president since the invention of the camera has "posed" for candid shots. Albeit this photographer was an idiot for the staging, but still. Do you honestly think all the photos of Obama, Bush, Clinton are candid "off the cuff" photos? Seriously, you're blaming the photographer? I doubt that the photographer wrote that tweet. |
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Post by jonda1974 on Jan 19, 2017 16:40:09 GMT
For Pete's sake...every president since the invention of the camera has "posed" for candid shots. Albeit this photographer was an idiot for the staging, but still. Do you honestly think all the photos of Obama, Bush, Clinton are candid "off the cuff" photos? Your right in all are not truly candid photos. But I can not think of one so poorly and cheesily produced to convey something to deceive and fool us little people. The emperors new clothes comes to mind. I think if he and any leader is "naked" it should be pointed out. That is one of the jobs of the press. But that brings us back to a whole 'nuther subject concerning him... Oh no. I think it's funny as well, and I think the photographer had to be an amateur clown. I guess the "lie" part of it is what I was more protesting to. They are all "lies" in some little way. |
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Post by utmr on Jan 19, 2017 16:51:22 GMT
I saw an early copy of his speech. It's going to be yuge, the bestest speech ever, all the other speeches will be jealous. Melania helped him write it. It's bigly good. It starts off "Four score and seven years ago, I had a dream. A dream that this would be a day that would live in infamy." Trust me, it's going to be yuge.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Jan 19, 2017 17:25:13 GMT
Did a White House photographer ever ask, say, Bill Clinton to pretend he was talking on the phone? Maybe.
But would President Clinton then specifically instruct his press office to announce he was actually talking to Boris Yeltsin during that "call"? I highly doubt it.
Add that our new guy basically self-published the lie and that makes this a ruse only Donald Trump would attempt.
Or a middle schooler.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Jan 19, 2017 17:28:28 GMT
^Recovered memory: my kids used to love to go to IKEA and hang around in all the room set-ups pretending they were Very Important People doing Very Important Things.
And they were young and naïve enough to think that they actually looked important "using" the cardboard computers and plastic telephones props on the desks.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Jan 19, 2017 17:31:21 GMT
I'm not normally in the business of ridiculing people.
This guy his earned the ridicule. In spades.
OK, I'm done.
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Post by pierogi on Jan 19, 2017 17:33:05 GMT
I saw an early copy of his speech. It's going to be yuge, the bestest speech ever, all the other speeches will be jealous. Melania helped him write it. It's bigly good. It starts off "Four score and seven years ago, I had a dream. A dream that this would be a day that would live in infamy." Trust me, it's going to be yuge. "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for me and my Kremlin cronies." ---Donald Trump |
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Post by ~Lauren~ on Jan 19, 2017 17:37:49 GMT
I'm so tired of the idea that you people seem to have that unless we voted the way you think is the right way to vote then obviously we were duped or we weren't smart enough to see what was going on. That kind of elitist attitude is precisely the reason, or one of them, that Hillary lost. People are just plain tired of the Condescension. I am willing to bet that I am more highly educated than 95% of you. My friends are the same way. We were not duped. We understand exactly what was at stake in the selection. We understand trumps strengths and his weaknesses. Get over yourselves with the idea that you're somehow smarter than everyone else. Truly smart people don't feel the need to constantly claim that they are smarter than anyone who disagrees with them. That's what insecure people do.
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Post by jayfab on Jan 19, 2017 17:44:27 GMT
I'm so tired of the idea that you people seem to have that unless we voted the way you think is the right way to vote then obviously we were duped or we weren't smart enough to see what was going on. That kind of elitist attitude is precisely the reason, or one of them, that Hillary lost. People are just plain tired of the Condescension. I am willing to bet that I am more highly educated than 95% of you. My friends are the same way. We were not duped. We understand exactly what was at stake in the selection. We understand trumps strengths and his weaknesses. Get over yourselves with the idea that you're somehow smarter than everyone else. Truly smart people don't feel the need to constantly claim that they are smarter than anyone who disagrees with them. That's what insecure people do. So smart, at least you didn't say 100% of us. Sounds like trump helped you write this. You're doing exactly what you say you dislike in the left. Oops, was that elitist? |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jan 19, 2017 17:51:21 GMT
so, ~Lauren~, I'm just curious: What do YOU think, then, when you see a photo of Donald Trump sitting at a desk which has been shown to be the CONCIERGE'S desk at his hotel, where he says he's hard at work writing his speech? Are you okay with that? Or do you actually believe that he was writing his speech in the lobby of the hotel? |
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Post by ahiller on Jan 19, 2017 17:51:34 GMT
I'm so tired of the idea that you people seem to have that unless we voted the way you think is the right way to vote then obviously we were duped or we weren't smart enough to see what was going on. That kind of elitist attitude is precisely the reason, or one of them, that Hillary lost. People are just plain tired of the Condescension. I am willing to bet that I am more highly educated than 95% of you. My friends are the same way. We were not duped. We understand exactly what was at stake in the selection. We understand trumps strengths and his weaknesses. Get over yourselves with the idea that you're somehow smarter than everyone else. Trulsy smart people don't feel the need to constantly claim that they are smarter than anyone who disagrees with them. That's what insecure people do. Wow, if I didn't know better, I'd read that and think you were a "liberal coastal elite". Congrats on your law degree. I'd be willing to bet that there are a whole bunch of peas who have higher education degrees, myself included, but don't feel the need to bring it up. That's what insecure people do. ETA: And by the way, this: "Truly smart people don't feel the need to constantly claim that they are smarter than anyone who disagrees with them." is a bit rich coming from someone who just told the board that they are better educated than the rest of them. Not that it matters, I'm pretty confident Lauren has me on ignore. I may not have a law degree but at least I have balls. |
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Post by ilikepink on Jan 19, 2017 17:54:21 GMT
I'm nauseated thinking about how far his arm will be stretching to pat himself on the back during his speech. Maybe he should ask Melania to write it. She did so well with hers. peasapie - best line ever, thank you!
Winter White House? Isn't he the same guy who said he'd never take vacations? Going to FL in the winter sounds like a vacation to me, but what do I know?
I completely understand why those who opposed Hillary voted against her, but in doing that, a person who truly doesn't seem to get it will be leader of the free world in less than 24 hours. I'm hoping he surprises me--I want him to succeed. But I don't think that's gonna happen.
In the meantime, it helps to laugh. And he's doing so much for the comedy world--keeping and creating jobs and all that. 
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 17:55:17 GMT
I'm so tired of the idea that you people seem to have that unless we voted the way you think is the right way to vote then obviously we were duped or we weren't smart enough to see what was going on. That kind of elitist attitude is precisely the reason, or one of them, that Hillary lost. People are just plain tired of the Condescension. I am willing to bet that I am more highly educated than 95% of you. My friends are the same way. We were not duped. We understand exactly what was at stake in the selection. We understand trumps strengths and his weaknesses. Get over yourselves with the idea that you're somehow smarter than everyone else. Truly smart people don't feel the need to constantly claim that they are smarter than anyone who disagrees with them. That's what insecure people do. You know my sister has all these degrees but she was one of the dumbest people I knew. I really wondered how she was going to survive. But over time she "smartened" up. Just because you are "highly educated" doesn't mean that you are smart. Hopefully there is still time for you. PS you were duped. And us uneducated elitist liberals will be here to remind you everyday of the fact that you were duped. |
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Post by imsirius on Jan 19, 2017 17:57:20 GMT
I'm so tired of the idea that you people seem to have that unless we voted the way you think is the right way to vote then obviously we were duped or we weren't smart enough to see what was going on. That kind of elitist attitude is precisely the reason, or one of them, that Hillary lost. People are just plain tired of the Condescension. I am willing to bet that I am more highly educated than 95% of you. My friends are the same way. We were not duped. We understand exactly what was at stake in the selection. We understand trumps strengths and his weaknesses. Get over yourselves with the idea that you're somehow smarter than everyone else. Truly smart people don't feel the need to constantly claim that they are smarter than anyone who disagrees with them. That's what insecure people do. Hypocrisy...table of 1. How dare you sit there and bag on "we people" because we don't see it YOUR way. On top of that, tell us you are smarter than 95% of us. Who the hell do you think you are? Hate to tell you, being book smart is one thing lady, but I can guarantee 95% of us here have more decorum and kindness in us than you will ever dream of having. You are nothing better than ANYONE here. SO sick of YOUR condescending attitude and bullshit...you will never change. If being "smart" means being anything like you, I'd rather be dumb every time. FFS. |
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Post by Prenticekid on Jan 19, 2017 19:58:05 GMT
I'm so tired of the idea that you people seem to have that unless we voted the way you think is the right way to vote then obviously we were duped or we weren't smart enough to see what was going on. That kind of elitist attitude is precisely the reason, or one of them, that Hillary lost. People are just plain tired of the Condescension. I am willing to bet that I am more highly educated than 95% of you. My friends are the same way. We were not duped. We understand exactly what was at stake in the selection. We understand trumps strengths and his weaknesses. Get over yourselves with the idea that you're somehow smarter than everyone else. Truly smart people don't feel the need to constantly claim that they are smarter than anyone who disagrees with them. That's what insecure people do. FWIW, not all of us are "you people." I don't think anyone needed to vote the way I vote. I also don't put all Trump voters into one pool. I'm not sure I've ever posted my thoughts on Trump voters, and if I have, I would only remark on the Trump voters that I know in real life. This is what I can tell you about the Trump voters that I know. Some are hugely educated. Some are rough necks who live in trailers. They all have the same things in common. Can you guess what they are?? There is simply no rationale for voting for a willfully ignorant individual like Trump to be the leader of our country. In my opinion, people up and had a snit fit. Feel condescended to? Vote to undermine our country. Feeling slighted by Mexicans? Vote to end our country as we know it. Scared out of your wits that anyone who is of a different religion is going to harm you. Vote to make the US a laughing stock. That is all that any Trump voters have really done. There is nothing I've heard from anyone that successfully defends my opinion. (Not that anyone is required to, mind you. That has just been me holding out a grain of hope in the humanity of this country.) I was even going to "give him a chance," but he has blown that right out of the gate with every move he has made and every thing he has said. Mostly, I just hear Trump voters say we don't understand. Well, the sense that I have to understand this is absurd. If anything, Trump voters should understand what they've done and just own up to it. DeVos, anyone? Perry? You guys really okay with this craziness? So, don't peg me as "outraged" at this silly photo. I'm only outraged that short sighted people (even smart, educated ones) had a huge snit fit that will greatly impoverish this country. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 20:02:40 GMT
"Trulsy smart people don't feel the need to constantly claim that they are smarter than anyone who disagrees with them. That's what insecure people do."
Didn't Trump claim he was smart? Smarter than the intelligence community and generals? By that logic, Trump is insecure.
Plus, if you're so smart and secure, why did you feel the need to throw out the "I'm better educated than you" card?
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Post by PLurker on Jan 19, 2017 20:15:06 GMT
"Trulsy smart people don't feel the need to constantly claim that they are smarter than anyone who disagrees with them. That's what insecure people do."Didn't Trump claim he was smart? Smarter than the intelligence community and generals? By that logic, Trump is insecure. Plus, if you're so smart and secure, why did you feel the need to throw out the "I'm better educated than you" card? I dumb it down to "If you claim to be the smartest person in the room that is a good sign that you're probably not." 'cuz I know I'm not and am okay with that. |
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Post by pierkiss on Jan 19, 2017 20:18:59 GMT
This whole thing is just stupid.
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