Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (115206)	3/23/2019 10:56:55 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 358093

I >>Bullshit is, by definition, untrue. Bullshit, in this context, doesn’t imply untruth. It may be truth but unserious. The term is more accurately defined as nonsense. Like, “I grab 'em by the Pussy.” Untrue claim but not an “assault” which numerous major news organizations accused him of. Bullshitting also encompasses comments like, “Lock her up.” Or, “Russia, if you’ve got the emails...” These are not literal statements. They are not lies. They are bullshit. Nonsense. This is the meaning of bullshit, in context, and generally understood wherever I’ve been. My dad commonly used the word 40 years ago in connection with one of my friends. “He's a bullshitter.” That didn’t mean liar, it meant he talks bullshit or speaks nonsense. You see it as a character flaw perhaps. But it is because you are an extremely serious person. (My bullshitter friend is one of the most extreme Dems you’d ever meet, and he doesn’t bullshit much anymore). It is a term with multiple implications.

To: Lane3 who wrote (115206)	3/23/2019 10:59:03 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358093

When you are reduced to arguing semantics, you have lost. I think where i-node is trying to go with this is equating Trump with the guy who self-aggrandizes and exaggerates pretty much everything he says. You know it, he knows it, and everything is fine. He is harmless as long as you know. Unless that guy has authority over you, that is. And that is an important distinction that renders Trump distinctly non-harmless. We saw something similar with Dubya. When he conflated 9/11 and Iraq, it got chalked up by many as he just got bad intel and had nothing to do with wanting a war for whatever reason. Or a whole host of things. He had a coat of teflon until Katrina. Because he was a guy you wanted to have a beer with. My attitude was different. He was our governor. My impression of him was the frat brother who screwed your girlfriend when she was drunk and boasted about it to the rest of your frat brothers about how he did you a favor because she had to have been a slut... Grinning the whole time.