Trump makes Bond villains look good by comparison.

  • Zeppo
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    1 year ago

    Deplorable is pretty good. One of the most annoying things was the cretins who didn’t really know what deplorable meant, just they figured out it was meant to be bad, and started calling themselves “proud deplorable!” and so on.

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      1 year ago

      It wasn’t good, no. Using an uncommon word like that made it easier for them to rebrand it than just speaking plainly would have.

      Besides, “half of his supporters are a basket of deplorables” is a horribly inelegant sentence and she’d been in politics more than long enough to know that the right wing echochamber would remove the “half of” part from the collective consciousness and inflate their own numbers to make people believe she was talking about half of the population rather than 9%.

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        1 year ago

        I mean it’s accurate. I do agree that her saying that wasn’t a savvy move.