I dunno man, pigeons can be pretty damn intelligent.
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Its really hard to come up with an insult for Trump that isnt disparaging to what's being compared to.
This right here, is the insult you were looking for.
The answers for this kind of fucked up lay in paradoxes.
For example:
If Trump was just 10% better, he would seem far worse.
What do I mean? Every single day is some new shit we need to digest, yet we hadn't even spent the time to fully digest the last ridiculous shit he said. If we actually had time to process everything then he would appear far worse.
I recently saw a pigeon doing its mating ritual trying to attract another pigeon in my yard. That other pigeon had been dead for over a week! That didn't stop the mating attempt. This is also how I picture trump.
Except Trump wouldn't bother with mating rituals.
Yeah, people say when you’re famous they just let you do it.
He'd just grab it by the cloaca.
all the progeny of walter, one supposed
I'm pretty sure you could drop a phone-less trump less than even 100m from his home without him being able to find his way back
That’s an insult to pigeons.
Is this a tariff?
Is that tariff in this room with us?
You can train a pigeon to shit in the toilet, and they will panic when its inaccessible before giving up and pooping as close as possible
Well that's just cruel.
What you do if put in a similar situation? Would it be any different?
I can open the door and I leave it open for the pigeon who free roams the house, but grandma keeps closing it then complaining about shit in front of the door...
No no, if you were the pigeon. Lock out of the bathroom and nowhere to go. That corner by the door looks pretty enticing when you are getting ready to shit yourself.
oh well yeah if I was a pigeon I'd have no choice. judging by the size of the nug, she tries to hold it in pretty long before giving it up. sometimes I open the door and she rushes in out of nowhere, stands above the toilet and looks down before backing in and dropping bombs like hiroshima
If Europe backs down every time, Trump will never stop turning the chessboard upside down.
One would think these world leaders had already learned this from their mothers and fathers about bullies. I guess not. When the money is threatened, what little backbone they have just slides right down out of their buttholes.
Yeah, pull a China and say, we're immediately on putting a 1000% tariffs on any American products. This will functionally stop any trade between our nations. Trump can retailiate with a higher one, but it would just be pointless dick waving. We're fine with waiting until an intelligent and capable person is able to negotiate a trade deal with the EU on behalf of the USA.
No, just put a large import tax on their services, and watch European ones proliferate. If ads are 50% more expensive on google and Facebook, the ROI is terrible and nobody used them. Advertisers will choose European alternatives instead, channelling money back to journalism and European search alternatives. Now is the ideal time as Google is becoming worse for search.
This wasn’t invented for Trump. It’s been used to describe debating creationists for the past 20 years, but (edit: I suspect) has its origins in a Seseme Street skit.
Notes -
Not to be be confused with "Playing Checkers With Pigeons" appearing in a Sesame Street sketch from 1978.[1]
I mean the article doesn't claim it was. I thought this was a pretty common saying.
A pigeon is strictly better than Trump because they don't destroy the environment, societal and scientific progress, or other people. Now that I've thought about it 1 second more, it's not even a fair comparison. Because Trump existing means active harm and destruction in many areas.
TACO drumpf
Always disrespecting the pigeons smh
Wish I could find that video clip I saw the other day of a girl losing a game of tic tac toe to a pigeon at some kind of park.
A pigeon that can send B-2s ...
I wonder how a stone could work.