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user-inactivated  ·  3236 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Make up a quote and attribute it to someone.

    good use of the word "jingoistic,"

TNG taught me that. It's a good word. It expresses the idea perfectly.

    Yes, he's really such a douchebag

Jesus. I feel sorry for the American electorate if some of those people really believe his words: they're getting brainwashed by a simple solution when a more effective one is simultaniously harder to accept. "We have a problem. You see, we have a problem. Yeah, we have a problem", referring to the US Muslim immigrants after what happened in Paris. Yeah, you do, people: the hatemongers and the hatred and the fear they propagate.