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Does being Han Solo not get him more votes?

…but seriously this is going to happen a lot more often, as a generation who has grown up with filming themselves doing any and everything as the norm (and then probably uploading it to youtube) gets into politics. We’re gonna have to decide if footage of teenagers goofing off, has any bearing on an adults ability to govern. The GOP clearly think it does.

Oh and pro tip for the Democrats for a return advert… you might want to point out that what an immature teenager was caught doing on film, is slightly less important than what a grown 59 year old man who wanted to President was caught saying about women.

Warbler said:

Yeah, somehow this always seemed more right for the Oval office to me.(by right I mean as opposed to wrong, and not as in right wing)

IMHO this was the best ever Oval Office carpet but sadly it was destroyed in a fire soon after…

TV’s Frink said:

“It didn’t feel like a very glamorous evening. I’ve been to the Oscars. There was something very special missing”

Jeez. His narcissism knows no limits.

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moviefreakedmind said:

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Ryan McAvoy said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I do begrudge people expecting everyone else to fall in line with their choices

To be clear… “people” weren’t involved in making “everyone” do what they said. ONE person highlighted ONE t-shirt to the boss of ONE company. The boss agreed it was offensive.

The little picture of text heavily implied that everyone should fall in line with the person who wrote it.

I just don’t get why your right to offend someone is more important to you than the fact that you might be offending someone.

Well nobody has a right in the United States to not get offended, but everyone has a right to offend somebody because we have freedom of speech.

TV’s Frink said:

There’s a difference between the need to protect offensive speech and the need to use offensive speech just to prove that you can.

But I’m not proving that I can. Maybe I want to choose something randomly with a nursery rhyme.

You want the right to use offensive speech. You have that right. But you don’t want others to be able to criticize you for it.

Absobloodyexactly.

moviefreakedmind said:

I do begrudge people expecting everyone else to fall in line with their choices

To be clear… “people” weren’t involved in making “everyone” do what they said. ONE person highlighted ONE t-shirt to the boss of ONE company. The boss agreed it was offensive.

SilverWook said:

Shouldn’t people be equally offended by a character in The Walking Dead using the rhyme as a catchphrase, as he gleefully kills people with a barbwire encrusted baseball bat though?

No, one is fiction, one is real life.

I wouldn’t be offended if an actor dressed up as a Nazi for a film role of playing a Nazi, but if he wore the uniform to the Oscars I might be (Don’t get any ideas Mel Gibson! LOL)

DominicCobb said:

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Handman said:

DominicCobb said:
You can’t just call everyone doing things you don’t like “political correctness.”

Right, just like how you dismiss everyone acting on what they believe to be politically correct as not being “political correctness”.

Sorry, I’ve just been trying to look at the topic through the prism of a set definition of the term. Other people (on both sides) love to twist the concept. This frustrates me, but I guess I can’t really do anything about it.

But you’ve never explained how anyone is twisting the concept. The reason PC can and does go too far is because it’s so broad.

I guess I just expect people to act within reason. “Eenie meenie miney mo” is an extremely common phrase that nowadays has essentially no racist component to it. Most people don’t know the history of it and most of those that do surely understand it’s use now. There’s no reasonable reason to think that it’s offense.

In isolation that is 100% true but isn’t the phrase when coupled with a blood-stained baseball bat covered in barbed wire a tiny bit questionable and threatening?

moviefreakedmind said:

Jeebus said:

Another case of political correctness going too far.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/style/primark-pulls-racist-the-walking-dead-t-shirt-from-stores/ar-AAnaXiW

That sickens me. If someone is offended, then they shouldn’t buy the shirt. Them being offended by something innocuous is their problem.

One customer writes letter to boss of company to point out offensive T-shirt. Boss looks into the t-shirt for them. Agrees it’s offensive. Removes t-shirt

(Much later people on the internet get all het up about it being “PC gone mad!!!”)

Strange thing to be sickened by? I’m usually more offended by companies ignoring complaints from their customers.

Alden Ehrenreich, yay obviously. Great actor for the Coens, Chan-wook Park, Coppola, Woody Allen etc but Emilia Clarke? Hmmm, she managed the rare feat of actually being worse than Jai Courtney in ‘Terminator Genisys’. If she happily phones-it-in for one popular Sci-Fi franchise, why not another.

It probably won’t be… but I’d love if this was a kinda buddy-caper movie with Lando.

SilverWook said:

Only us poor taxpayers are footing the bill for his ego stroking now.

If he holds a sympathy rally every time he f**ks up, then prepare for the whole US to switch to a 90% rally-based Economy over the next 4 years.

^ Well said.

“Make America Great Again”. Trump is making that phrase more true by the day LOL.

DominicCobb said:

Also this was a fun thing that happened:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/donald-trump-news-conference-anti-semitism/index.html

In that article they say Trump said:

“you heard the Prime Minister, you heard Benjamin Netanyahu”

…but if you watch the Press Conference, Trump actually said:

“you heard the Prime Minister, you heard… errr… Betinyahu”

If the President can’t remember the name of the Israeli PM a day after meeting him, during a question about antisemitism, don’t help him by correcting his error.

CNN with their FAKE NEWS again. SAD.

blah blah.

Whoa that press conference… words cannot… I’ve never seen a politician of any stripe give that level of sustained rambling incoherent crazy.

In other news:

Forgive this European if he misunderstands the US Presidential election setup but…

Isn’t the “less populated States and rural areas” argument only a thing if the popular vote had gone against them all the time without the EC system?

The reverse is true…

In the last 100 years the popular vote has given the same result as the college in all but two extremely controversial occasions (Bush in 2000 & Trump in 2016). The idea that there would never be a Republican President again with the Popular vote is nonsense and the opposite of the reality. So why not go with the popular vote?

Situation 1: The US President uses a military weapon like say, “a Nuclear weapon” on the Russians but the National Security Adviser secretly telephones Moscow to tell them how to neutralise the weapon… then lies about it. That’s treason right?

Situation 2: The US President uses a political weapon like say, “Sanctions” on the Russians but the National Security Adviser secretly telephones Moscow to tell them he will neutralise the sanctions… then lies about it. Is that treason too?

(Partly joking)

^ The lady to Trump’s right. Who claps like that? It’s always amazing to me when grown people can’t clap like adults (Probably bad parenting LOL) but this is a new level. Unless she is using some form of secret sarcastic clap, in which case it’s awesome.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

I agree with Trump on this one:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-israel-settlement-growth-not-good-peace-104054406.html

Of course, he had previously berated Obama for saying the same thing. But I’m glad he’s considering a more nuanced approach.

Yeah but Trump just repeats whatever ideas the last person he spoke to suggested. He is scheduled to meet Netanyahu in 3-days, at which point he’ll no doubt have a different opinion.

TV’s Frink said:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/830483672096768001?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

Not to mention he’s using the Presidency to promote his own club.

Sougouk said:

Let’s make ROTJ great again!

Harmy already did.

Jetrell Fo said:

False Equivalence™

Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

Reminds me of how Trump and Hillary were supposedly basically the same. Um, no, they’re two very different things.

They’re both clowns, that makes them the same in my book.

False Equivalence™

^^ I think he forgot to end it by chanting “It is by will alone I set my mind in motion”.

Illinois Nazi Jeff Sessions…

…and Attorney General Henry Gibson…

moviefreakedmind said:

both the far-left and the far-right are every bit as despicable as they claim each other are.

False Equivalence™