Baltimore Sun: Trump ‘A Jerk, A Clod, A Dolt, A Schmuck’ For Mocking Murder Rate | Talking Points Memo

The Baltimore Sun editorial board again laid into President Donald Trump on Friday for turning the homicide rate in Baltimore into a campaign rally punchline.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1240137

Don’t hold back Baltimore Sun. :smile:

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To paraphrase the quote apocryphally attributed to Mr Clemens, Baltimore Sun has digital barrels of ink. Donald’s going to look stupid getting into a pissing match with them.

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The Sun could work on its alliteration a bit, but overall, I’d give 'em a 9.5 out of 10.

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We’re going to need Achilles to clean out the White House. It’s that bad.

It is completely invested,er, infested with vermin.

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Yes, they misspelled “worthless motherfucking criminal asshole” but they did well otherwise. I agree with your rating.

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The analogy breaks down. In this day and age, tR☭mp also has barrels of ‘digital ink’. He also has hordes of flying monkeys to use that ‘ink’. His nazis can drown out a single newspaper unless everybody else piles on.

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“Jerk, clod, dolt, schmuck…”

They left out money-laundering, fascist and punk…

for starters.

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I think you meant Hercules, whose fifth task was to clean the Augean Stables in one day. Whoever it is, he’s gonna need a lot of Clorox and a sturdy hazmat suit.

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a jerk, a clod, a dolt, a schmuck.

A+ (although I’m disappointed to find that it’s not a palindrome).

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Trump continues his overtly racist attacks while the last black Republican in the House announces his resignation and two out of thirteen women have also announced their’s, signifying he’s learned nothing and cares not a whit.

The Republican Party is basically a white male Party of grievances at this point. That’s really all they are; completely lacking a positive vision for America going forward (billionaires notwithstanding). Everything is doom and gloom with them.

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Everyone needs to see Comrade Trump. It’s fantastic!

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I agree – except that “grievance” includes the possibility that a complaint is legitimate.

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The vulgarity of the man is monumental.

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May I add; dick, pos…!

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However, Mr. Clemens underestimated the weight and cost of electrons to produce said “digital ink”…

I await the the day any company can’t afford “digital ink”.

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“is the behavior of a jerk, a clod, a dolt, a schmuck.”

… A flibbertijibbet! A will-o’-the wisp! A clown!

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On another thread, I listed just a few of our accomplishments in the last 2 weeks alone:

(1) Passing the 50% mark on House Dem support for Impeachment
(2) Rick Gates
(3) Mueller
(4) Derailing Ratcliffe

And Trump’s job (which he has done extremely well) is to generate rage, anger, deflections, lies…slowing down (our) momentum as only HE can. The idea is to project strength, nastiness and power…and for someone who is an abject coward, Trump is lucky to have such talented enablers

Why don’t we concentrate on what WE do and let Trump be Trump.

He will anyway

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If they’d just added “a punk” they would have had perfect iambic pentameter.

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You tell him, Baltimore. I tip my hat. And bow.

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