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Trump is the master of playground tactics: "I'm rubber, you're glue." It happens over and over. The tactic is very old, and professionals like Kellyanne Conway use it all the time - tar your opponent with the brush used on you, and people will see "equivalence."
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Trump is the master of playground tactics: "I'm rubber, you're glue." It happens over and over. The tactic is very old, and professionals like Kellyanne Conway use it all the time - tar your opponent with the brush used on you, and people will see "equivalence." Seriously, when I heard that yesterday, my first thought was: What an a$$hole that guy is! 
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It's an old trick. Pick out your own weaknesses and accuse your opponent of the same thing. Hard to accuse Hillary of cheating on business dealings, so go with mental and physical health.
The only problem is that it draws attention to the topic and you may do worse in comparison. Like the mental health thingie, the credibility, the foundations, etc.
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It's an old trick. Pick out your own weaknesses and accuse your opponent of the same thing. Hard to accuse Hillary of cheating on business dealings, so go with mental and physical health.
The only problem is that it draws attention to the topic and you may do worse in comparison. Like the mental health thingie, the credibility, the foundations, etc. 'People are saying' that Trump may have the beginnings of Alzheimer's just like his dad Fred died of. I'm not saying it, other people are... 
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"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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I like that Pepe The Frog in there! There's a lot of Trump trolls on 4chan/b, etc. But then again there are African-American hate threads, gore threads, women-as-objects-suitable-for-rape threads, etc. Kind of the American id exposed.
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I'm not saying it, other people are... That's a right-wing talk show host trick. Other people can say he is a space alien: Doesn't make it so. I think Trump has always been an ahole. Nothing different now. He is 70 and his dad was not diagnosed until I think 86. And his dad was an ahole HIS whole life before that. (ie. KKK member, racial discriminator, etc.)
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I'm not saying it, other people are... That's a right-wing talk show host trick. I was imitating Don The Con. He does that all of the time. 
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So I guess those who are proud to be deplorables are: The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it. If the foo shytes...
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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I think Hillary was absolutely wrong in her "Deplorables" comment. The estimate was WAY too low...
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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