djchameleon

This isn't just about someone being bad with money. This is a government agency determining that someone is mentally ill to the point that they need someone else to look over their finances. These are generally people that also need help with getting basic daily things done like making sure they shower/clean/etc. There is a big difference between the two.

Banning those things doesn't deter people from still obtaining them if they wanted. Also you can still carry out a nice massacre with a hand gun that's way more effective than spray and pray.

I might have missed parts of this conversation but when gun control generally pops up it isn't about taking away everyone's rights. I did see a few posters talking about banning all guns in general but that is never on the table when gun control is brought up. It's just a boogie man tactic used by the right to get them riled up about the government coming to take their guns.

You are luck you can do that in Cali. In NY, if you shoot someone breaking into your house you can be charged and sued by the burglar for putting his life at risk.

Comedy Central did that a few years ago bro. You are late to the party.

yeah yeah yeah blah blah blah, that's fine and all for an individual like yourself but when you step into a job that is inherently traditional. You should follow it regardless of your own personal opinion about traditions. That's like him saying "Oh I don't like traditions so fuck doing an inauguration."

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DwnWthVwls

You really give a shit if Trump doesn't go to some dinner? I sure as fuck don't. And I think that's an awfully apples and oranges comparison between a media dinner and an inauguration speech.

Maybe I'm not understanding what all goes on at this dinner, but does him not showing up affect anything? If the answer is no, then I repeat, I do not care.

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djchameleon

It's leading to how Putin did the same thing but on a more extreme basis when he had the state take over a national tv network.

He went to war with the media in his first year as well for the entire year.

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Chula Vista

Obama belittled him? Wouldn't you agree that the Trumpster asked for it with all of the birther BS and trying his damdest to delegitimize Obama's presidency?

"Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones", comes to mind.

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Chula Vista

It's a Washington institution. Like I said earlier, it's been 35 years since a sitting president missed one and that's only because he'd gotten shot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_...9;_Association

This is just Trump being Trump to keep up his rebel facade with his ever shrinking base. Approval ratings under 40% after only a month in office?

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DwnWthVwls

Yeh i understand that Chula and i did read the wiki. Like i said maybe i just dont understand the consequnces of him not showing. I ger that its viewed as disrespectful(even if i think thats dumb), but if it doesnt actually affect anything idc.

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Chula Vista

It further emblazens his zombie followers who truly believe that Trump's problems are all "the media's fault" instead them being Trump consantly stubbing his own damn toes.

Like others have said, deligitimizing the media is step one towards a dictatorship.

That Comedy Central roast a few years ago proved that Trump can dish it out as good as he can take it. He truly impressed me that night. I actually believe he would have loved to have attended but that Bannon convinced him not to to further "the agenda".

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Chula Vista

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

DwnWthVwls

So short answer is no. His zombie followers arent gonna change and his approval ratings are plummeting. I see no reason to care. Actually seems like a good thing that hes just making himself look worse. The more he screws up the less support he recieves, this fear of dictatorship seems pretty irrational.

Also lol at Obama.

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Anteater

Not really. That was a pretty "thin skinned" thing for Obama to do. There were a lot of people questioning Obama's birth certificate for awhile besides Trump during that same time period. He was just one high profile voice among other high profile voices all saying the same thing. So why specifically single Trump out, invite him to the 2011 correspondents' dinner and then belittle him for half an hour in front of millions of people when you are the POTUS and he's a private citizen? That's the kind of thing that you'd expect from someone LIKE Trump, not Obama.

Secondly, this incident is what incited Trump to seriously run for office in the first place, which is why we are in this situation today. So you could make the argument that Obama made a huge mistake by doing something that was fairly unpresidential by his standards. Rather than glass houses, I think "karma is a bitch" is a better summation of what has happened.

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