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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 06:42 AM Nov 2018

"Mr. President, please stop winning so much!" And he has. The only promise kept in 72 years. MAGA!

I know that with the daily "Shit Show in a Dumpster Fire," it's easy to get down, but listen to Uncle Miles for a second.

The "Blue Wave" literally manifested into a BLUE WAVE. It wasn't all talk, it wasn't Fitzmas, it was a BLUE WAVE.

Trump had THREE decisions against him this week by judges he appointed (the Acosta thing being one of those decisions).

He blew that trip to Paris, bigly.

He blew off Arlington, and because he knew the press said he did it because he didn't want to get his hair wet, he did a "damage control" interview and said that he'd just gotten back and had to "return some phone calls," and that since he went to one event in Paris, he thought it was "enough."

People are dying, people are missing, homes are destroyed in California, and he alternates between saying it was caused by poor management and not raking leaves, and having his drones post "We love you California" tweets.

He felt "cuckolded" because Melania demanded the firing of Mira Ricardel in a very public manner, before "consulting" him and asking for his opinion, and that's one of the softest spots on his soft white underbelly. A woman "undermining" his authority? Why, Shirley...you jest. And that woman was his "I don't really care, do U" wife? SHOCKING!

January will be here before you know it. The new Sheriffs will be in town.

Ever read the Tao?

I have the Stephen Mitchell translation, considered one of the best, and one of the life-changing excerpts I read back in college was:

"If you want to shrink something, you must first let it expand."

Since the midterms, Trump's been expanding. And every time he does, it shrinks him a little more.

It's a new dawn, friends. Don't let the daily headlines get you down. Better days are coming.



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"Mr. President, please stop winning so much!" And he has. The only promise kept in 72 years. MAGA! (Original Post) Miles Archer Nov 2018 OP
Is the Tao you're talking about the Tao Te Ching? calimary Nov 2018 #1
Yes...this edition. Miles Archer Nov 2018 #6
Never give the hillbillys the satisfaction of thinking they control you Maxheader Nov 2018 #2
Trump was almost right. Maybe he was even trying to be honest with us. irresistable Nov 2018 #3
Thank you, Miles saidsimplesimon Nov 2018 #4
I agree with everything you said. lancelyons Nov 2018 #5
He'd have to insult them, personally Miles Archer Nov 2018 #7
+1, Good percentage of support is their need to be correct about Trump even faced with evidence that uponit7771 Nov 2018 #12
That's Jack Schitt. erlewyne Nov 2018 #8
What should he be doing about California? oberliner Nov 2018 #9
Send the money and aid we are owed and keep his fat mouth shut. Hekate Nov 2018 #10
Has he blocked the money and aid? oberliner Nov 2018 #11
His very first public reaction was to blame CA for poor forest management & threaten... Hekate Nov 2018 #13

calimary

(81,238 posts)
1. Is the Tao you're talking about the Tao Te Ching?
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 07:52 AM
Nov 2018

We studied it in karate class. MOST interesting wisdom.

 

irresistable

(989 posts)
3. Trump was almost right. Maybe he was even trying to be honest with us.
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 08:35 AM
Nov 2018

It could be that he simply doesn't realize that it is spelled "whining", not "winning".

But, now that he is definitely losing...look for even more whining.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
4. Thank you, Miles
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 09:07 AM
Nov 2018
Ever read the Tao?

I have the Stephen Mitchell translation, considered one of the best, and one of the life-changing excerpts I read back in college was:

"If you want to shrink something, you must first let it expand."

Since the midterms, Trump's been expanding. And every time he does, it shrinks him a little more.

It's a new dawn, friends. Don't let the daily headlines get you down. Better days are coming.
 

lancelyons

(988 posts)
5. I agree with everything you said.
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 09:36 AM
Nov 2018

What however blows my mind is how folks on the right (Like my father and others) think all of those things are lies or somehow justifies all of them with What if and what about... Why cant they see when ABC News, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, AP, Reuters, New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, theHill, etc, etc, etc all same the same things and report it the same. Instead they want to claim that they are all fake Liberal msm rags without ever being able to prove anything with a valid source of their own.

What the hell has become of these people and how do you drag them back?

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
7. He'd have to insult them, personally
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 10:27 AM
Nov 2018

Although I'm not 100% convinced, because so far his "I could shoot someone on the street and get away with it" remark has become reality.

Take a look at farmers...he has screwed them over again and again and again, but I've posted articles here that quote farmers saying "I'm hurting, but I still believe in him."

That's the kind of addiction that requires professional intervention.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
12. +1, Good percentage of support is their need to be correct about Trump even faced with evidence that
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 09:03 AM
Nov 2018

... told them Red Don was a really bad person.

The other percentage is he has never betrayed their fight against the threat of the others (aka brown people) and continues to antagonize the enemy at minimum.

If Red Don were to show some consistent empathy towards non whites he'd lose a good trough of them in a split second.

Hekate

(90,674 posts)
10. Send the money and aid we are owed and keep his fat mouth shut.
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 04:45 AM
Nov 2018

Considering we are a "donor state" when it comes to federal taxes, it is the least he could do.

How's that?

Hekate

(90,674 posts)
13. His very first public reaction was to blame CA for poor forest management & threaten...
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 11:53 AM
Nov 2018

..."no more billions of dollars" if we didn't learn how to prevent fires.

In other words, his first tweet meant: Your fault. Not sending money. Too bad, so sad, wouldn't wanta be ya.

You can read the entrails and tell me if he really means to do anything meaningful.







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