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Subject: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Mr Red Date: 12 Jan 17 - 12:21 PM Wiki on USA President's nicknames Old Hickory, the Accidentalist, Ten-Cent Jimmy etc I wonder, with the current crop of lurid news: What will be the nickname that sticks going forward from next week? |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: bobad Date: 12 Jan 17 - 12:27 PM I've been calling him President Pussy Grabber, others haven't been so kind. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: gillymor Date: 12 Jan 17 - 12:32 PM I'm torn between "The Orange Buffoon" and "The Groper in Chief". |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Mr Red Date: 12 Jan 17 - 12:42 PM LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 12 Jan 17 - 12:47 PM My daughter calls him the "Pussy Grabber in Chief". I've abbreviated it to "PGIC". (No disrespect toward Pacific Gateway International College intended.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Mr Red Date: 12 Jan 17 - 12:51 PM Putin's Puppet ? Moscow Marrauder Looking at all the nicknames they may not refer to actual events, just the whiff of scandal and there is a lot of nose holding right now! |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: gnu Date: 12 Jan 17 - 02:37 PM Instead of POTUS, BLOTUS... Biggest Liar Of The United States. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Teribus Date: 12 Jan 17 - 02:39 PM Seems a bit premature seeing as the man most are talking about hasn't been sworn into office - apart from which the subject of the thread seems awfully puerile, having said that I am sure the man will do something to earn himself a "Presidential nickname" during his term of office - Note that "Term" singular. By the way what was Obama's? "Apparently we can't"? I know that Joe Biden's was Joe "Wrong again" Biden. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: gillymor Date: 12 Jan 17 - 03:34 PM "BLOTUS", LOL! "The Bloviating Bigot" might serve as well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Jan 17 - 03:49 PM Hmmmm. Teribus thinks it's too early for us to give Trump a nickname. Is he talking about the same Trump who had a denigrating nickname for every opponent in the election? Let's see how many we can come up with: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/crooked-hillary-marco-donald-trumps-nicknames/story?id=39035114 https://www.bustle.com/articles/160378-donald-trumps-nicknames-for-everybody-he-dislikes-ranked-on-a-scale-he-would-understand http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/donald-trump-political-nicknames-history-politics-us-213973 Hey, did he have nicknames for Rick Perry or Ben Carson, or was their lack of a nickname an indication that they were predestined for the Cabinet? Now he can call them "Mr. Secretary." -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Thompson Date: 12 Jan 17 - 04:49 PM Could I suggest some sinister music? Don Don Donnnnn! |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Teribus Date: 12 Jan 17 - 06:33 PM Joe Offer - 12 Jan 17 - 03:49 PM "Hmmmm. Teribus thinks it's too early for us to give Trump a nickname" Title of the thread is what Joe? BS: Presidential nickname isn't it? I am sure Donald Trump already has loads of nicknames some of them going back to childhood, but none of them Presidential and you cannot really have a Presidential nickname until After you become President. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Jan 17 - 06:40 PM Yep, I think we need to be ready for the bastard, Teribus. He certainly didn't give half-respect to anybody else. I keep thinking Asshole-in-Chief, but that's a bit puerile. I don't want to stoop to his level. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: michaelr Date: 12 Jan 17 - 06:59 PM I'll never call him anything but Assclown. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 12 Jan 17 - 07:06 PM I agree with Teribus. Any nickname given Trump at this time would only reflect on his past as a philanderer, a perpetrator of sexual assault, a tax cheat, a business cheat, a liar, a con-man, and a megalomaniac. We should wait until we see what sort of really nasty shit he's able to get up to once the powers of the US Presidency are bestowed upon him. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Steve Shaw Date: 12 Jan 17 - 08:29 PM I can't be the only person who thinks the election of this complete twat is just about the most unfunny thing that's happened to the planet for at least 80 years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Tattie Bogle Date: 12 Jan 17 - 08:50 PM Nellie....as in the one who trundled off to the White House ....Trump, Trump, Trump! |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Jack Campin Date: 12 Jan 17 - 09:14 PM The really, really nasty pieces of murderous shit don't get nicknames. Instead, they become nicknames themselves - "little Hitler", "Napoleon of the borough council". In 100 years people will probably be calling Hitler a "Trump wannabe". |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: gillymor Date: 12 Jan 17 - 09:15 PM Some wag came up with "Super Callous Fragile Ego Extra Braggadocius". |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Jan 17 - 10:52 PM Something with a nod to Senator Joe McCarthy - they share paranoid views of the world. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Big Al Whittle Date: 12 Jan 17 - 11:17 PM its a bit like Thatcher... on one hand, you feel sorry for the people who are about to get it in the goolies from a real stinker. on the other hand....you've got to face facts. a lot of people voted for this character, and the other side were too selfish and mouthy to unite and deprive him of victory. if you won't face up to the way the political system works - your country will pay the price. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Jan 17 - 11:49 PM True, Al. Maybe the Democrats should have gone all the way and nominated Elizabeth Warren, a female candidate of true wisdom and integrity. I like Bernie, but I don't see the wisdom and inspiration in him, that I see in Elizabeth Warren. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Big Al Whittle Date: 13 Jan 17 - 01:47 AM no Joe...even from this distance, its been really obvious for about a year that the stark choice was the Republican Party or Hillary. its been like watching the shark in jaws moving in on a gang of swimmers with their legs flip flopping haplessly, inexpertly below the waterline. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Mr Red Date: 13 Jan 17 - 03:18 AM Rutherford B. Hayes - Rutherfraud or His Fraudulency The American public can be unforgiving - the name that sticks will be super-sticky. It may only sum up one side of a president's character, but it will be the most revealing. As an American comedian remarked on a British radio show - Trump will: "Make America Grope Again" - so maybe that aspect will settle the nickname that sticks. Hey! You are stuck with him for now, and powerless to sway his hand, ridiculing him is poor recompense but it is free. If you thought we were being too disrespectful - I entreat you to peruse William Hogarth & his political cartoons! PS - like Nellie & Groper in Chief |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: akenaton Date: 13 Jan 17 - 04:14 AM Sorry folks, I think this thread is very childish, not to say lacking in respect for a huge number of your fellow citizens. The tone and language is presented as comedy, but it is obviously vitriolic hatred based on he fact that the Democratic establishment and their world view has been rejected in the 2016 election. You may say that the result was close, but in all honesty, had the direction of the Democratic establishment allied to almost all of the media been acceptable to the electorate, Mrs Clinton would surely have been elected in a landslide. The world is changing and the old template of neoliberalism and social "liberalism" is being rejected all over the Western world. Getting back to this particular thread, the hatred is palpable yet you have been telling us for years that hatred is confined to the political right. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Kenny B (inactive) Date: 13 Jan 17 - 04:35 AM I think DT's is sufficient , I have seen enough of Delirium Tremens ( apologies to Christy Moore) from the outside to recognise the symptoms. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: gillymor Date: 13 Jan 17 - 05:19 AM Regarding Joe McCarthy, "The Orange Scare". |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Stu Date: 13 Jan 17 - 05:29 AM Hey alt-righters moaning about us thinking of names for your hero: get over it (as you are so fond of saying). The Golden Showers One Trumpski The Equivocator Putin's Pocket Puppet Andy Small |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: DMcG Date: 13 Jan 17 - 05:31 AM In a sense, I agree with Teribus: it is the actions during the presidency that will decide the name. Those in the UK with good memories will recall that Steve Bell in the Guardian characterised Tony Blair as Bambi at the start. On the other hand Donald Trump is a far better known figure than Tony Blair was, so it seems unlikely the defining actions will be very different from what has gone before. I was taken with a previous President being known as "The Last Cocked Hat." I'd be tempted to take to wearing a tricorn just to be "The New Cocked Hat". |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: akenaton Date: 13 Jan 17 - 11:27 AM Alt -righters Stu......"You don't know me". I am a socialist and a social conservative. My views on the economy are vastly different to those on the right......but socially we have much common ground. As a socialist I am pleased to see the political establishment being dismantled, the soft "liberal" left have been completely ineffective in standing up to the corporatists......their consciences being salved by the gift of social non-issues like homosexual "marriage" T |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: gillymor Date: 14 Jan 17 - 07:33 AM "Cheater of the Free World" |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Stu Date: 14 Jan 17 - 08:25 AM "I am a socialist" With respect Ake, I see nothing in your posts that makes me think you are a socialist. ..."in standing up to the corporatists" You do know who Trump is, right? He's an uber capitalist of the worst possible sort, a petulant and sociopathic free-marketeer of the worst stripe, just like his mate Farage. No socialist would support these people, they represent the polar opposite of everything people who care about an equitable and compassionate society stand for. Trump means "fart" in English English. Nuff said. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: akenaton Date: 14 Jan 17 - 10:33 AM So you support globalisation Stu? I here President Elect Trump saying that he will put "blue collar America back to work", the only way that can be achieved is by stopping the movement of investment to China and India......All of the developed Western economies are going to have to take this path. Leaving the people made redundant by globalisation to rot is not an option, they are already showing their teeth as demonstrated by the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump. As a socialist, I take the long view...there is no alternative, the established order, the alliance of the globalists, "liberals" and the media must be shattered before any systemic change is possible. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: gillymor Date: 14 Jan 17 - 11:56 AM "I here (sic) President Elect Trump saying that he will put "blue collar America back to work" Then he can stiff 'em as was his practice in the private sector. A real socialist, that one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: akenaton Date: 14 Jan 17 - 12:23 PM I didn't SAY President Trump was a socialist. Try to put a bit of effort into comprehension and try to ignore typos, we all make them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: gillymor Date: 14 Jan 17 - 12:28 PM Anyone who thinks Herr Trump is going to look out for working class people when he's spent his entire working life shafting them, business partners and enrollees at his bogus university is living in a fantasy world. Look it up. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: akenaton Date: 14 Jan 17 - 12:35 PM Mr Trump is pretty unimportant, its the smashing of the establishment and the phoney two party system that really matters. Most people thought that the "liberal" establishment, media and corporate capitalism could not be challenged, the last election has shown them that they really have a voice if they stay united. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Jan 17 - 06:42 PM I think this thread is very childish, not to say lacking in respect for a huge number of your fellow citizens. Ake, if you don't like the topic you can go away. You're not contributing to the content of the thread, you're trying to change the subject to you or to what you think. We don't care about your Scottish opinion of an American topic. You don't understand the discussion and you're not helping it advance. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Jan 17 - 06:46 PM In movies where a fictional American is a character the film Secret Service have called his code name as "Eagle One." In view of the recent dossier pee revelations, perhaps the Secret Service could simply call Trump "Number One." |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: gillymor Date: 15 Jan 17 - 06:06 AM Good one, Acme but I'll always think of him as a "Number 2". "The Angry Creamsicle" |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Teribus Date: 15 Jan 17 - 07:08 AM As a complete and utter outsider the last US Presidential Election was astonishing as far as the rest of the world goes. Your election process seems to us to be overly prolonged and in this instance from the long list of candidates your two-party system threw up the two candidates that were both loathed. Now having said that and as one person who believed that Trump's run for President was a joke that was intended to fail, I cannot help but agree with Akenaton that his election was a rebellion by the American voter. On what Trump has said most consistently during the campaign and during the election we have this: It is time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. That is why I am proposing a package of ethics reforms to make our government honest once again. First: I am going to institute a 5-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government after they leave government service. Second: I am going to ask Congress to institute its own 5-year ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and their staffs. Third: I am going to expand the definition of lobbyist so we close all the loopholes that former government officials use by labelling themselves consultants and advisors when we all know they are lobbyists. Fourth: I am going to issue a lifetime ban against senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government. Fifth: I am going to ask Congress to pass a campaign finance reform that prevents registered foreign lobbyists from raising money in American elections. Can't see anything wrong with any of that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Stu Date: 15 Jan 17 - 07:26 AM I typed out a reply that either disappeared into the ether or was deleted (I suspect the former, there was nothing rude or controversial in it), but suffice to say I don't think the answer to the issues for the workers of the rust belt or Grimsby lies with the ultra-free market economics of the alt-right. We need to educate our workers to compete with the far east and we need to encourage science and education to innovate and develop the new technologies that will drive us forward in the future. As Brexit and Trump are both fundamentally anti-science in their approach they will hold us back in the long run. Re-opening mines, foundries and out of date production lines will to help these communities spring back to life, they need more long-term and creative solutions to their problems, not a return to the 1970's. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Steve Shaw Date: 15 Jan 17 - 07:31 AM Would you support a ban on the pro-Israel lobby buying off politicians too? What about the gun lobby? That would constitute two giant steps in making the US more democratic. I won't be holding my breath. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Iains Date: 15 Jan 17 - 09:09 AM I do not see how a Presidential nickname can be given until the man has established some sort of track record as President. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 15 Jan 17 - 09:19 AM Yes, the moniker by which Mr. Trump will be known to future generations will depend on his actions as President. Whether he is to be known as "The First President to Be Successfully Impeached" or "The Second President to Resign From Office" is entirely up to him. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Steve Shaw Date: 15 Jan 17 - 10:18 AM The Last President. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Stu Date: 15 Jan 17 - 10:23 AM It's the nickname elect. |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Jan 17 - 11:39 AM The Cheetos Man brings his fluffy orange demeanor to mind, but I imagine the company that owns the product name would have to place lots of reminders in writer's journals that it is a brand name. (Like the old line of "Kleenex is a facial tissue - so use facial tissue, not the name of our product when you refer the the paper hankie that leaves lint in your dryer when you leave one in your pocket"). |
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: akenaton Date: 15 Jan 17 - 02:34 PM Just a question to the mods, is it only unflattering or downright insulting nicknames which are permitted on this thread? If so would you please correct the heading accordingly? in this part of the world everyone has nicknames, very rarely are they abusive.
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Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions From: Nigel Parsons Date: 15 Jan 17 - 03:05 PM At the risk of offending, maybe he should be remembered as: "The peoples choice", direct the blame where it belongs. And before anyone points out that the majority of Americans did not vote for him, the people (via their elected officials) have not done anything to change the electoral processes which gave him the job. |
