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Trump Needs a New Hobby
President Trump (how strange it still is to type that) is an avid golfer, which does seem fitting as practically every president in the last 30 years has also been a golfer. Of course we beat constantly on Obama for golfing, and GW Bush was mocked for the same, even though he soon stopped as he felt it dishonorable for president at war taking leisure on the greens (not that the media gave him one iota of credit for this).
Clinton had a rumored reputation of being a horrible cheater on the fairways (no surprise as he was a cheater in other matters too), and now The Donald is taking media flak for golfing. Apparently one of the latest attacks has been on his committing the faux pas of driving his cart on the greens.
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/877880160242028550
Whatever. My rare golf games usually involve watching the other sort of embarrassing faux pas – that of inebriated relatives hitting on the girls driving the mobile refreshment carts, or losing an entire box of balls on the front 9 to water hazards and swimming pools (sidebar: who would want a house built right next to fairway?). But golf is respectable. Golf is intellectual. Golf is…. presidential! This is why I say President Trump needs to find a new hobby. He should take up shooting. I’d settle for trap or skeet shooting, I mean he doesn’t need to go full Ted Nugent and use a full-auto (legally registered) M-16 and nail wild boars from a chopper (and I don’t think he could pull it off anyway) but he should have a more… well… Red-State hobby than golf, and that should be shooting. It would also one-up Vlad the Putin.
Vlad is a Judo champ. Vlad likes to ride horses while bare-chested. These are sooo European. They’re cultured. They’re refined. But Trump with a gun would be Indiana Jones in the Cairo market, tired, ticked off, and just ready to shoot the show off. What could be more red-blooded American than Trump maybe trying his hand at an IDPA match? Or bagging turkeys? John Kerry tried that one and he just didn’t look the part, but Trump could look the part. Well, assuming he doesn’t insist on gold-plating his Mossberg, which I suppose I shouldn’t put past him.
Still, I confidently predict that if Trump takes up shooting, and ditches the golf, he’d already have a lock on 2020. It’s Red-State to the core, it would give him solid ground for tweeting nasty things about New York gun laws, and dang it but it’s just a lot more fun! So President Trump, I implore you, sir, to throw your custom clubs in the closet, grab your MAGA hat and gold-rimmed sunglasses, and join us at the range. It’s the best.
And we won’t mind if you start tweeting unbelievable hunting stories, it’s just part of the game.
Heh. Top men designed this weapon. Top men.
My gosh, who put this pic together? Someone on acid? This is amazing. I want one to put next to my Bass-O-Matic.
I’m particularly fond of the suppressor on the bayonet, so that I don’t have to hear the enemy screaming.
See, that’s what I was thinking.
Quilting. He should take up quilting. Or needlepoint.
Then to prove just how adept he’s become, all future tweets must be posted as screenshots . . . of needlepoint.
I’m liking it. He could then sell those needlepoint examples for charity.
If it works for GWB and his paintings…
Gary Johnson has many character flaws. Boasting about his moral failings is not among them. (Nor are habitual lying and drug addiction.) I was proud to support Mr. Johnson in the election, but he’s not the President and, in marked contrast to the Trump supporters, I have never closed my eyes to his shortcomings.
I didn’t insult you at all. If you can identify a CoC violation that I committed, I will happily refrain from doing so in the future. I think insulting members and threatening to suspend them because they make truthful, if inconvenient, statements of fact is incredibly bad form. And I think you are letting your pro-Trump leanings affect your role as a “moderator.”
This is an ad-hominem attack on me personally over a humor piece.
And here you are reading in motivations. I shall file this with all of the complaints I receive from pro-Trump members about how I am obviously biased against Trump.
It is not an ad hominem attack. I was just expressing a hope. Like when the President expressed his “hope” that Comey could let Flynn off the hook.
Don’t know what Trump supporters are saying about you being anti-Trump, but I do know that you are a member of a pro-Trump group on Ricochet. Kind of undermines your claim of neutrality on the subject.
And there goes the thread. . ..
It is. Now do kindly refrain from commenting here.
Needs more cowbell.
I’ve seen those and they are, well… let’s just say I don’t think we should be citing them as examples to follow.
It is not, by any definition of the term, an ad hominem attack. You have no business telling members not to comment on your own posts.
Ooh! Ooh! Can I do it?
Don’t comment further on this post or any of his posts.
Or would you prefer a lawyer do this? We have several around here.
I shall go on record, once again, as stating that nothing in the terms of my moderator “contract,” in which, as you all know, I receive premium compensation for the service I render, states that I have to check my opinions at the door.
Amazingly, I think it’s possible to encourage, and display, civility in conversation while still having strongly held views on issues. Most of the folk, the very great majority of folk, on this site do it quite well, every day. It’s not even something I have to “hope” for. They just do.
I said, most.
So it’s okay for you to say whatever you want on one member’s posts (i.e. comments that they do not feel are conducive to good discussion), but it’s not okay for them to reply to you in ways you dislike (i.e. by asking you to not comment)?
Thanks quite the double standard.
Not a double standard at all. I’m not a moderator threatening to suspend members for CoC-compliant posts.
Moderators have no suspensory powers. Once there was a member who asked another member to not post on his/her posts. The commenter has complied. It’s not that hard.
Can we get back to hobbies? Hmm? How about this: IF your candidate was the president what hobby would you think he/she should take up?
Tabletop wargaming— all matters political, judicial, and diplomatic are to be settled with cold, hard, plastic dice. Honorable mention for Magic: The Gathering.
In “House of Cards” President Underwood paints civil war figurines and makes battle reconstructions but I think it would be truly epic if we had a President who was into Warhammer and invited his gaming group over to the White House. Then just for kicks he could invite over a couple of Senators and watch the nerds hand them their behinds.
A tabletop wargamer giving props to Magic? You, as they say, are doin’ it wrong.
Jinx!
I long ago made peace with the fact that all the local game shops cater to M:tG vs. tabletop or traditional RPGs… It’s sad, many of them have no stock or very limited stack of things like DnD rule and splat books, and no space to play anything other than card games.
To be fair, that’s what all the players want to play too. Most of the people I know who play Magic you have to work to get them to play any other game at all.
Strategy?
Technique?
Simulated combat?
Judo!
Then he could have a bout with Putin.
Only a small portion of the EverTrumps can be said to have closed their eyes to President Trump’s personal character flaws or immoralities.
The rest of us Trump Supporters, including nearly all the ReluctantTrumps, figure that these are widely known, were brushed aside by American voters in large numbers, and are simply given information.
We grow weary of the daily tiresome reminders of stuff we have known for a year or two.