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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 01:07 PM Oct 2018

I'm legitimately puzzled by the Right's argument that it couldn't have been one of their own....

...who sent the bomb because it was sloppily constructed and the package contained misspellings.

So....their argument is that if someone on the Right actually did send the bomb, it would have been better built and more functional?

Eh?

They are aware that they worship at the altar of a man who--as of today--was incapable of spelling the word "changed" correctly?

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I'm legitimately puzzled by the Right's argument that it couldn't have been one of their own.... (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2018 OP
Hey moran, we spel the goodest! AJT Oct 2018 #1
We got branes! amb123 Oct 2018 #8
I believe you meant "We GOTS branes". AJT Oct 2018 #9
They have the best wurds lame54 Oct 2018 #19
It's a distraction vlyons Oct 2018 #2
Their penchant for misspelling is cause for "emergy" legislation to improve education - n/t lapfog_1 Oct 2018 #3
They are delusional. A lot of Trumpers consider themselves to be Alpha Males and Queen Bees, jpljr77 Oct 2018 #4
As a therapist, I think you are right. We don't really have a diagnosis for this now large group of kerry-is-my-prez Oct 2018 #11
I'm just pissed off. sarah FAILIN Oct 2018 #5
Who has made that argument? oberliner Oct 2018 #6
Do you have social media at all? Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2018 #7
Yeah but I haven't seen that oberliner Oct 2018 #10
Straight from the Fox's mouth: Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2018 #17
Scott Adams (Dilbert), for one. displacedtexan Oct 2018 #14
Is he disappointed that they didn't? Proud Liberal Dem Oct 2018 #15
He mentioned the spelling? oberliner Oct 2018 #16
Understand that the right wing holds everyone to a higher standard than they hold themselves to. LanternWaste Oct 2018 #12
Why- they are never responsible for anything malaise Oct 2018 #13
Never forget the Russian stooge LOVES the "poorly educated".. AZ8theist Oct 2018 #18

jpljr77

(1,004 posts)
4. They are delusional. A lot of Trumpers consider themselves to be Alpha Males and Queen Bees,
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 01:19 PM
Oct 2018

so everything they do is perfect, without flaw. Just like their president.

It's actually quite fascinating. I have a cousin who is on food stamps and gets other gov't assistance and she thinks that she and her husband are highly successful 1%ers because they have bought into the Trump fiction.

I'm telling you, this era is going to be the most fertile ground for psychology research in perhaps all of American history.

kerry-is-my-prez

(8,133 posts)
11. As a therapist, I think you are right. We don't really have a diagnosis for this now large group of
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 01:59 PM
Oct 2018

"sick" individuals. Some can fall partly into different personality disorders: delusional, paranoid, narcissistic, sociopathic, borderline, histrionic. To be honest, they don't really go into this area much in school. We sort of glazed over these disorders and really didn't study the cause or a "cure" for them or a treatment for it. Most of us run the other way when we hear the term "borderline" or "narcissistic" because they usually cause a lot of chaos and there is no type of therapy that works well with them. To some extent, they are viewed by most of as sort of "incurable." As far as dangerous sociopaths and narcissists go, we pretty much say throw them in prison and keep them there and that is no curing them.

sarah FAILIN

(2,857 posts)
5. I'm just pissed off.
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 01:19 PM
Oct 2018

All the assholes I know are saying it is a dem plot because we are losing so bad. I have to work with them, but I don't have to be friendly anymore.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
7. Do you have social media at all?
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 01:23 PM
Oct 2018

It's the number one default argument I've seen.

Apparently it couldn't have been a conservative because the bomb didn't go off and the package had all sorts of misspellings on it.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
10. Yeah but I haven't seen that
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 01:29 PM
Oct 2018

I've seen them say that it's a leftist or its a hoax but nothing about spelling errors.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
17. Straight from the Fox's mouth:
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 03:27 PM
Oct 2018



Fox News?Verified account @FoxNews · 20h20 hours ago

Jim Fitzgerald: "The linguist in me noticed that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the last name, is spelled missing a C...That wasn't an honest mistake. If he had this much anger and vitriol against these people, you'd think he would know how to spell those names. " #TheStory

4:15 PM - 24 Oct 2018


displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
14. Scott Adams (Dilbert), for one.
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 02:32 PM
Oct 2018

He tweeted that the bombs would've worked, had they been built by a Republican.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
12. Understand that the right wing holds everyone to a higher standard than they hold themselves to.
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 02:07 PM
Oct 2018

Once that concept is realized, it becomes the Rosetta Stone for translating almost everything they say and do.

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