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[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

Philidelphia Senator Daylin Leach (D), in response to Trump's threat to "destroy" a (the?) senator's career, called Trump a "fascist, loofa-faced shit-gibbon."

Beyond a doubt, never in American history has a white president been so insulted. What will those democrats stoop to next?

That made me crack up. Tell it like it is, comrade!

[Loud Whispers]

I hear Betsy DeVos is saying that bears in school could protect students from guns. Or something like that. Makes sense to me.

The right to armored bears is very important.

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[martinuzz]

So Trump made a bad slip considering mingling business interests with his presidency, when he critisized clothing retailer Nordstrom for their descision to discontinue his daughter Ivanka's clothing brand.
He Tweeted on both his personal as well as his presidential account "My daughter has been treated so unfairly by Nordstrom. She is a fantastic person - always fighting for me to do the right thing. Terrible!"

Directly after his Tweets, Nordstrom stocks dropped, only to recover, and become the best performing stock on Wall Street.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/trump-haalt-uit-naar-warenhuis-om-schrappen-kledinglijn-ivanka~a4459841/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/business/ivanka-trump-nordstrom-tj-maxx.html

[Reelya]

The Nordstrom company said the decision was made based on business factors (sales slump) and not politics. Nordstrom is what's called a "Fast Fashion" outlet - they change their line up rapidly, so it's natural that designer brands are a revolving door. Trump overstep conflict of interest but he also fails to understand the fashion industry. Probably not a surprise that Ivanka Trump sales are dropping.

[EnigmaticHat]

Every time I start to think that the problem with Trump is that his supporters are disconnected from his actual actions, I check out /r/asktrumpsupporters.

That subreddit is so... odd.  Both sides are acting under this fake veil of ignorance about recent events.

Also Trump supporters are apparently called "Nimble Navigators" and I have no idea what that means, especially since non-supporters and undecided have very simple terms for themselves.

[Starver]

Appatently this is the(/a) explanation...

[EnigmaticHat]

So its meaningless then?  Its just a cool sounding phrase from a music video, that Trump supporters adopted.

[itisnotlogical]

It sounds like a Scholastic VHS series distributed to schools to explain to kids how to use the Internet safely and responsibly.

"Alright Nimble Navigators, now click on your address bar. Good job! You'll be navigating on the Web in no time!"

[Reelya]

They would have said the full "world wide web" back then however.

I even saw a movie from the early days of the web, where a supposed "expert" gave an address and actually said "world wide web dot ...". I kid you not. Way to sound hip to the groovy jive the kid's speak.

[Loud Whispers]

So its meaningless then?  Its just a cool sounding phrase from a music video, that Trump supporters adopted.

It's just a meme. You know those MLG youtube compilations with quickscoping, dewritos, cancer and airhorns? Some peep made a whole series of that on Trump that became very popular in his campaign towards becoming POTUS, and the intro was narrated by one of those narrators for NatGeo describing the hunting method of a centipede. Part of the description involved describing how despite its impressive length the centipede is a nimble navigator, and the name stuck

So basically it's covered in about 5 layers of irony, so if you don't get it, don't feel bad - there is no hidden meaning underneath, it is meaningless.

[wierd]

Dont be ridiculous !

The  Nimble Navigators are a secret society that have dedicated themselves to being disciples of the Artful Dodger himself, The eponymous D. Trump!

Just look at how he repeatedly sidestepped dangerous lines of questioning during the campaign, while saying NOTHING!

(LOL)

[Starver]

They would have said the full "world wide web" back then however.

I even saw a movie from the early days of the web, where a supposed "expert" gave an address and actually said "world wide web dot ...". I kid you not. Way to sound hip to the groovy jive the kid's speak.

"World Wide Web" is three syllables (possibly four, with some accents¹). "Dubya dubya dubya" is six or nine (depending on local stresses, even without RP enunciated "double-you").  And as well as shorter, also easier to be more intelligable with the "longhand" words...


¹ As some like Norn Aresh render "film" as "fill-um", there's also possibly "wor-uld" (esp. in parts of Tyneside), give or take.

[Loud Whispers]

double u double u double u

[muldrake]

The Nordstrom company said the decision was made based on business factors (sales slump) and not politics. Nordstrom is what's called a "Fast Fashion" outlet - they change their line up rapidly, so it's natural that designer brands are a revolving door. Trump overstep conflict of interest but he also fails to understand the fashion industry. Probably not a surprise that Ivanka Trump sales are dropping.

It's also pretty openly corrupt to exploit the office of President so brazenly for profit.  It's the kind of thing you expect from a kleptocratic failed state.

[Flying Dice]

In other news, the Trumpet fucked a duck with his "hey team let's quickly decide on something that a President would take lengthy consultation sessions with experts for", a member of Seal Team 6 died, a bunch of Yemeni civilians died, and now Yemen nixed us running counter-terrorism ops in their territory.