[Andrew Szilvasy]

Originally Posted by Kevin Rainbow

Hopefully he will pardon Edward Snowden.

Something we agree on. Let's hope, if he does this, it's not just Snowden, but also Reality Winner.

[Quincy Lehr]

I do love some cringelib xenophobia!

Originally Posted by Roger Slater

Or maybe he'll just move to Russia to be near him and escape prosecution?

[Julie Steiner]

Originally Posted by Quincy Lehr

I do love some cringelib xenophobia!

Do you find that "cringelib" is more effective than "libtard" for persuading people to consider the merits of a different point of view?

And is it inherently xenophobic to mistrust the purity of Putin's motives for sheltering Snowden? Or to think that Trump's exceedingly obsequious attitude toward Putin might indicate large favors owed or sought--possibly including a safe haven from prosecution, like that provided to Snowden?

[Jim Moonan]

A few more errant thoughts about what's in store for DT as he enters his future:

• Divorce
• A stream of tell-all books
• A movie that will break box office records (Winners, Losers and Liars)
• He will host a TV show called "Conspiracy"
• Age disgracefully
• Crumbling business empire (fingers crossed on this one)
• Re-marriage
• Health problems
• A blockbuster autobiography (Who doesn't like to watch a train wreck?)
• A blockbuster unauthorized biography
• Tragedy
• Oblivion (In the end, we all fall down)

24 hours
1,440 minutes
86,400 seconds...
86,399... 86,398... 86,397...
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[Roger Slater]

Originally Posted by Quincy Lehr

I do love some cringelib xenophobia!

And I do love how you always have a hip vocabulary word so you can sound cooler than everyone else instead of just talking like a real person. Oh, and I also love how you seem to have absolutely no ear for humor or sarcasm.

Though I admit it wasn't a great line, surely a cringehip guy like yourself can see that a president who has never had a bad word to say about Russia, and who only the other day incited a violent insurrection in an attempt to pull off a coup in the United States and illegally install himself as president based on a Big Lie, might warrant the indignity of a wisecrack?

[Jim Moonan]

And yes, what Roger and Julie said.

[Quincy Lehr]

Opposing Snowden's pardon is inherently authoritarian, and opposing it based on his seeking asylum where available is xenophobic.

[Matt Q]

I'm not following Quincy. What has what you just said got to do with what Roger said?

[Julie Steiner]

Has anyone here opposed a pardon for Snowden?

I think that if Trump does pardon Snowden, it will be for some thoroughly shallow reason like Trump's wanting to piss off people like Mitch McConnell and William Barr, who both told him not to.

I guess a pardon's a pardon, but I think it becomes a lot less meaningful a gesture against government overreach when the main statement seems to be Trump's loose translation of "L'état, c'est moi."

[Roger Slater]

Originally Posted by Quincy Lehr

Opposing Snowden's pardon is inherently authoritarian, and opposing it based on his seeking asylum where available is xenophobic.

I don't recall saying that, Quincy, nor can I make sense out of your cringedumb suggestion that having something negative to say about the Russian government is xenophobic. And I said absolutely nothing about Snowden's pardon. You are cringecraycray if you think I did.

(But you're right about one thing. It's fun making up words, and the "cringe" prefix is a lot more fun than your usual f-bombs).