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How mentally deficient do you have to be to talk to little kids like that?
 
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the meeting between Trump and Obama at the White House, and here’s the thing.

Obama used to be a law professor. This is key.

Law school is so, so different from college.

In college, everyone expects there to be a “syllabus day,” kind of a grace period where they can show up and get the lay of the land, figure out the bare minimum that they can get away with, the TA gives everyone their office hours, there’s an introductory lecture, and everybody leaves a few minutes early to go take a nap or something. You do the bullshit assignments, you say something in class now and then to get your participation check mark, and figure out how badly you can do on the final and still pass.

But see, in law school, all the methodologies you’ve spent the last 17 years operating under go out the window. Day one of law school is you being thrown into the deep end of the pool—you’ve had a homework assignment for two weeks now, and it’s to read the first 200 pages of your casebook. And now it’s you and the teacher (who is usually as smug as Alex Trebek) gauging and assessing what you managed to absorb while you skimmed through all those pages of reading so you could hurry up and get to the other 150 pages of reading for your next period class, in front of 50 people who are all smarter than you. And if you fuck up, or you didn’t do the reading, you are at the mercies of not just the professor, but the silent satisfied judgment of your peers.

Law school is hard, and it will make you feel stupid and tongue-tied and like you don’t know anything and can’t form an argument—because you don’t, and you can’t. Everybody there has had a 4.0 since birth. Everybody there was the smartest kid in their class, and you’re all rabidly competing for a sliver of a chance at something down the road. It’s petty, and savage, fiercely entrenched in a culture of formalities and ceremony, and exactly like Washington DC.

Yesterday when I was driving home, the NPR reporter talking about the Oval Office meeting mentioned that Trump had thought it was going to be a “getting to know you” type meeting, but that he was surprised when Obama stretched their talk out to 90 minutes before sending him along to the Capitol building where he met with congressional leaders for more lengthy meetings and stuff he didn’t want to do.

And he hasn’t even gotten to the actual job yet.

So think about that as we go into this.

Trump walked into the Oval Office like a two-pump-chump freshman thinking it was syllabus day, and what he got was the first day of law school, and he hadn’t done the reading like everyone else had, and Professor Obama decided to put him in the hot seat.

This was Obama’s chance for the most perfect revenge that would never be picked up on as revenge at all. He was gracious, polite—everything he needed to be for a peaceful transition and a good review from the press. And that would continue when the doors were closed, because that’s the key. Not a Come to Jesus meeting, oh no. If Obama were smart—and he is very smart—he would have treated Trump like an equal, and brought the discussion to a level that assumes far more of Trump than anyone has so far. Assumes that he’s an adult who’s been paying attention. Statistics, esoteric minutiae about the executive branch procedure, economic growth numbers, labor figures, domestic policies, countries Trump has never even heard of, shit that would never in a million years have been in Trump’s campaign soundbites or digestible summaries.

No way to escape. No aides to remember any of it for him. Just the two of them.

Because that’s what would strike a precise chill into Trump. The thundering realization that he’s woefully unprepared for the hard, boring, thankless reality of this, and Obama’s version of a smooth transition won’t and shouldn’t include remedial civics.

That’s what I saw when they shook hands and Trump stared at the floor instead of looking back into Obama’s face. He’s just figured out how little he knows about any of this.

And that should give you a small glow of satisfaction, because after those meetings, Trump definitely has the 1L Terror Shits. In January, the night sweats and insomnia will show up, but for these first few weeks—nothing but diarrhea and self-doubt.
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Lats of Peace said:
He's been an actor his entire life. Acting and the arts in general are pretty faggy pursuits. That's my explanation anyway.
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And the most successful/trendy ones are so used to being pampered and worshiped that they simply can't comprehend that others may see things in a different way, and they can't stand being disagreed to or having their wishes defied. In other words, they are overaged millennials.
 
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Venus said:
Anyone turning on CBC right now?

"Rise of white supremacist, rape apologist and alt right wing" was dropped in a single sentence.

I can't make this shit up
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Haha is anyone but Clinton supporters even doing anything right now? I see reports of racist graffiti a couple of times a day but it's always worded in a way that hits every strawman talking point and wouldn't make sense from the perspective of an actual racist.
 
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Dorsia.Reservation said:
How mentally deficient do you have to be to talk to little kids like that?
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They're trolling. And it's beautiful.


Thing about Total Biscuit: Brits always go on and on and on about the NHS ("it's the envy of the world!") and how the best care is totally free for everyone, take that you regressive old United States. And then he gets sick, moves to the US and claims a lot of incredibly expensive treatment he isn't entitled to and hasn't fully paid for.

Oh, I can guess: There's some treatment offered in the US he can't get in the UK. That's because care that is "totally free for everyone" has to be a little picky about what care it offers. (Another reason not everyone was thrilled about what O'care might do to our system).

I know, I know...if it were me and my life, I'd do everything I had to to stay alive, but you'd think he could be a little more grateful and a little less bitter and ugly about it.
 
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testaclesemaximus said:
Haha is anyone but Clinton supporters even doing anything right now? I see reports of racist graffiti a couple of times a day but it's always worded in a way that hits every strawman talking point and wouldn't make sense from the perspective of an actual racist.
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The Clinton supporters are "peacefully protesting", and there's a bunch that plan to "peacefully protest" in Toronto.

Good thing the Toronto Police got tipped off~
 
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Venus said:
Anyone turning on CBC right now?

"Rise of white supremacist, rape apologist and alt right wing" was dropped in a single sentence.

I can't make this shit up
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I wonder how many of the hate crimes they're trumpeting now will turn out to be false? Honestly anymore I assume any hate crime is false until it's been investigated and the perpetrators charged.
 
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testaclesemaximus said:
Haha is anyone but Clinton supporters even doing anything right now? I see reports of racist graffiti a couple of times a day but it's always worded in a way that hits every strawman talking point and wouldn't make sense from the perspective of an actual racist.
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Also the mass increase in racist graffiti strangely seems only to happen in places like Portland and LA instead of places like rural Alabama where you might expect it.
 
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neverendingmidi said:
I wonder how many of the hate crimes they're trumpeting now will turn out to be false? Honestly anymore I assume any hate crime is false until it's been investigated and the perpetrators charged.
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I saw that one story about the Muslim girl who claimed someone put a swastika graffiti on her dorm door... in a high traffic area where somehow, no one saw anyone putting it on
 
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