This Trump / Russia thing

[Jog On]

Consider yourself corrected.

HTH

Oh thanks! - where did the term snowflake come from then? I only started hearing it after the US election to refer to people refusing to accept the outcome.

[Lance]

I believe (and correct me if I'm wrong) that the term 'snowflake' was created to describe people refusing to accept the outcome of this election.

They can investigate all they like - not costing me anything. Especially now he's gone full neocon and lied about 'draining the swamp'. I still don't think there is much to find but yeah - let them carry on. Kick him out - replace him with someone like John McCain. Things won't change except for the fact that the balance of power is changing and they don't seem to be able to do much about it.

Snowflake as an insult predates the election.

[Lance]

Oh thanks! - where did the term snowflake come from then? I only started hearing it after the US election to refer to people refusing to accept the outcome.

The 90s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene...ke?wprov=sfti1

Look I’ve googled it for you. That makes you a snowflake as well.

[BlasterBates]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snowflake

someone hypersensitive to insult or offense

[Jog On]

Snowflake as an insult predates the election.

True (just looked it up), although I never heard it until the Trump election when it went mainstream (as far as I could see).

The distinction I was making is that calling Trump a snowflake is a bit upside down - he can be called many things but the 'snowflakes' are all firmly in the Hillary camp as it is used to describe people refusing to accept the outcome of an election because they don't like the result.

[Jog On]

The 90s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene...ke?wprov=sfti1

Look I’ve googled it for you. That makes you a snowflake as well.

I'm not of that generation and I accept the outcome of democratic votes even when I don't like the result. Is that snowflake?

[northernladyuk]

True (just looked it up), although I never heard it until the Trump election when it went mainstream (as far as I could see).

The distinction I was making is that calling Trump a snowflake is a bit upside down - he can be called many things but the 'snowflakes' are all firmly in the Hillary camp as it is used to describe people refusing to accept the outcome of an election because they don't like the result.

Don't you think Trump overreacts to a slight and behaves like a big baby?

[NickFitz]

Because Vlad has videos of Russian whores pissing on a naked Donald. That’s real power.

Nope - well, he might, but that’s not what is alleged in the dossier.

What the dossier says is that Vlad has videos of Donald paying Russian whores to piss on a bed while he watched. And why did the Donald want to watch that? Because Obama had once slept in the same bed.

Frankly, that’s even weirder than a liking for watersports

[northernladyuk]

Don't you think Trump overreacts to a slight and behaves like a big baby?

No politician in history — and I say this with great surety — has been treated worse or more unfairly.

[Lance]

Making sure what doesn't happen again? She lost because she was an absolutely horrendous candidate and her opponents had an incredible amount of dirty laundry and they used it all to it's maximum effectiveness. She lost because of Wikileaks, Comey, Podesta and the utter corruption of he family's foundation - oh and that email server thing as well.

Even with the entire establishment and MSM behind her she still lost - and not to a better candidate - to Donald Trump (!) - she still lost to him. That takes some doing...

yes the Russian's bought some social media ads and published all the Wikileaks as they came out but the idea that they hacked/stole/influenced the election is peak snowflake.

The fact that the establishment attempted to force their candidate into the White house and the American people rejected that - even if it meant having Trump instead is a sign of the times.

Making sure that external illegal influences to the election don’t happen again.
But of course being thoroughly disliked like she was can’t be fixed. That’s a different problem.