Questioning Trump's legitimacy makes Lewis fair game. Trump is going to have to realize that being President means that you are going to get a steady stream of people attacking you. He is fighting a war on too many fronts. I have a feeling that he will be tweeting about a perceived slight each and every week.

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You don't need to punch down when you are president and you definitely don't attack a living civil rights legend a day before MLK birthday.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I'm glad that you said that. If I had said it Nas would have started railing about me being a trumpet. When I read my Twitter feed today I actually thought Trump just fired on Lewis out of the blue and some of the hysteria from the liberals made me believe Trump may have done something really crazy like call him a racial slur.

Let's get what happened straight. Lewis attacked Trump and his presidency. Still, I think we can all agree that it's a little ridiculous for the president to respond the way Trump does to every insult or attack.

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Freedom is our Strength.

He's still tweeting about John Lewis. Unbelievably!

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GO BEARS!!!

I acknowledged the political stunt.

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GO BEARS!!!

Once a week? You might get some great odds on that.

For me, though, I'll take the under.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I think where Trump makes his mistake is that he acts like he is the only President to ever have things said about him. He also hasn't demonstrated that he should be immune to it because he launches into personal attacks himself. He personalizes things that shouldn't necessarily be personal.

I'm interested in seeing if he can engage in real political debates about things that legitimately effect the country. Once you get past Presidential elect and transition into President status. Will he be able to deal with politicians that simply have a difference of opinion or will it always be adversarial simply because they differ.

I also want to see when the expiration date on his victory lap will be.
He seems overly interested in litigating the election results too. We get it. You won when no else thought you could. We get that the Republican establishment worked against you. May even give a nod to him regarding bias (don't think so) but for the sake of argument give him that.

At some point it's time to govern. Enough with the twitter beefing and woe is me B.S. We get that some people don't want you to be President. That doesn't make you any different than any other President in history save for Washington. Quit the damn whining.

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Probably one notable a week. Some of his beefs may be the twitter equivalent of junk mail.

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The fact that he can baited that easily is embarrassing.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

short Johh Lewis:
Be put in a cauldron of lead and usurer's grease, amongst a whole million of cutpurses, and there boil like a gammon of bacon that will never be enough.

The Two Noble Kinsmen


#war
#savior
#FriendofPipple

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Obama's Legacy is Trump.
And dead cops.

"One guy lays the pipe, the other guy smokes it"--Clint Eastwood

Hmmmm, you may well be right.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

That's a significant facet of this problem.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

When I heard the comments yesterday I knew that he would respond.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

In my eyes, this is the crux of the problem, and it's a fair criticism:

Donald Trump is not the first evil president. He's also not the first idiot president. He's on the Mount Rushmore of both (without even having taken office), but those individual characteristics or terms don't define him as being demonstrably different than any other president who has ever held office.

What differentiates him from every other person to hold the office is that he is both an idiot and immoral and - and this is the key point - he has clearly lived his entire life in a protected bubble that didn't allow others to point out his stupidity, his ignorance, or his lack of morals to him. And it has resulted in a lack of self-awareness that would be bizarre for even a Boy Scout Troop leader, let alone the leader of the free world.

Let's take our last few presidents and examine them (WHILE GOVERNING - NOT WHILE CAMPAIGNING).

Reagan - certainly ideologically bent but also a hero of the Right because he knew himself, he understood people, and he actually managed to come off as calm and collected to even those who were his detractors.

H.W. - a traditionalist who was, by all accounts, a good guy who respected the office and respected those with opposing points of view. Even if you hold the view of some of the most liberal individuals alive, they almost all acknowledge that he was a professional pragmatist who would take the high road.

Clinton - probably the slimiest executive we've had (personally) of the last few decades. He still understood the importance of leadership and professionalism from a public perspective. He was a lawyer through and through, and he certainly didn't exude morality, but he was smart as a whip and knew how public perception is just as important as individual morality. A Rhodes scholar, btw.

GW - a goof who did decades-worth of damage to the U.S. He probably matches Trump on the ignorance front, but he was, by all accounts, a well-meaning individual. I don't believe that GW did anything intentionally to hurt the United States or to thumb his nose at a civil rights leader (nor do I believe he would). He at least understood the importance of the office.

Barack - a very intelligent Academic who also happens to be a well-intentioned and intelligent person, by all accounts. Very self-aware... and a guy who should be commended TREMENDOUSLY for his ability to remain presidential while taking on attacks about his race, his birth certificate, his background (accusations of being a radical Muslim), and his levity.

Trump - Dumb. Willfully ignorant. Corrupt. A pathological liar who is so blatant with it that people don't even give a shit anymore. He has no idea why it's a bad idea to respond to/attack a civil rights leader even if that leader initiated the conflict. He responds to everything because he has absolutely zero self-awareness and zero interest in ever gaining any. There is no doubt that he has people coaching him to have a little respect for the office and stop insulting civil rights leaders, union leaders, foreign leaders, or anyone who disagrees with him.

Trump is different than all leaders who have led during modern times because he is a combination of immoral, ignorant, stupid, AND (and this is the important one) lacking any semblance of self-awareness. We have had dumb. We have had immoral. We have had ignorant. We haven't had anyone who lacks self-awareness on his level due to the fact that they grew up as a sheltered New York "mover and shaker" solely because of their name and who they are friends with. I literally hope he dies soon, and I would be happy to see even that sycophant Mike Pence take over. Donald Trump is scum, and the fact that he ever set foot on this Earth - let alone won the U.S. presidency - has left this planet worse off than it would have been had he never existed.

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Trump is the only one without political experience. Yes, there is a bit of playing politics in business, but when you hold the upper hand, you can semi do whatever you want. If a deal falls through because they don't want to have to deal with you, there's 5 more waiting behind that one. I'm interested to see how long it takes Trump to catch on to how politics are done... I know some people like Trump because they think he will challenge all of the traditional politics, but I don't see that happening. There are too many people and too much money interested in keeping the status quo.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

So we can agree Trump and Lewis are both in the wrong here, right?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Sure... and you can go die in a grease fire.

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It's laughable because Obama was literally sued for being an ineligible candidate in the 2008 election by entities in North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Connecticut, New Jersey, Texas and Washington.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Ob ... litigation

And how did he handle it? With fucking class. Because Barack Obama, if nothing else, is all class.

Now we have a stand-off between a spoiled rich kid from New York and a true Civil Rights leader. And maybe the Civil Rights leader is wrong. But would anyone have given a shit if a fucking Congressman from Georgia had questioned the legitimacy of Obama's presidency? Of course not. In fact, clearly there were many who did. And - the more important question - would Obama have called the Congressman a loser who has done a terrible job for his district? Of course not because Obama is an intellectual who has these qualities we used to respect like restraint, class, intelligence, and - you know - an understanding that as president of a "beacon of freedom" like the United States, it's important not to make personal attacks on people who aren't 1/100th as powerful as you are, even if they make you mad.

When the fuck are we gonna stop making excuses for this asshole? I'm a fucking millennial... I'm not supposed to care about tradition or respect or professionalism. When? Fucking when?

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The same people making excuses for him now will likely continue to do so.

A congressman calling an elected President illegitimate and saying he doesn't accept him as President is wrong. There's no maybe about it.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

That's not the point. The point is that no one should give a fuck.

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No one should give a fuck about what?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Morgan Freeman doesn't give any fucks...

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

No doubt. He's the most powerful guy in the world. Is he really going to use Twitter to answer ever criticism? And he doesn't even do it in a reasonable way, it's more like, "I know you are but what am I?"

But the real story, once again, is being lost. Now you have Democratic leadership coming right out and saying a Trump presidency is illegitimate.

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That is definitely the wrong move. Trump won the election and for that he has a right to govern. After the election I stated how it was important to not merely be viewed simply as the opposition party. This is the sort of thing that I was referencing.

Trump will implode on his own. Allow him to try and make good on all of those campaign promises first. He can't and everyone knows it. There won't be a wall. There won't be major revisions to NAFTA. Won't be a Muslim ban. He won't be able to help the white working class either.

His Presidency will be a disaster for everyone except the very wealthy. His cabinet choices and his economic advisory choices illustrate that he is primarily interested in a return to low taxes/ big spending govt. Let him attempt to govern first. He will demonstrate just how ill equipped he is all on his own.

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That's a reasonable approach LTG. Folks will see that populism will fail, and demogogery doesn't solve problems. Paul Ryan's town hall this week was excellent for those looking for a true right of center approach. You can watch the one hour show on CNN on demand.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I am willing to bet that a large portion of Trump's Twitter audience have no idea who John Lewis is. So it's fine to pile on about the inner cities and non-action politician because it's his usual red meat.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I listened to an interview with on The Morning Shift with Austan Goolsbee and David Axelrod that was sort of a wrap-up of the Obama presidency. Sarabia asked whether these businessmen with no experience with making policy were going to be able to get anything done. Goolsbee laughed and said, "We're gonna find out." Then he went on to say that he suspects that because they have no experience, it will likely be left to Congress to make the policy and so we will probably see something like a traditional conservative Republican agenda.

The funniest thing in the interview was Axelrod dancing around the fact that, like most hetero black dudes, Obama is homophobic as fuck and was really against gay marriage. Axelrod kept saying, "It took him time to get to where he wanted to go."

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I got a funny feeling we are going to see a very public and violent assassination attempt on Trump within the first 100 days in office.
With all the crap going around from both sides ,He is not helping to calm things down by his twitter antics. I don't know what will be the catalyst for it. I think it will be linked to illegals in someway unfortunately and there is going to be a huge backlash and he is going to use that pen far more widely than he wanted too.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Listen we got through 8 years of a black guy in the big chair without a "violent assassination attempt". I think the businessman from New York will be fine.

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