covfefe
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@wharrgarbl said in Trump bites:
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Did this really need another thread?
I... suppose this one isn't in the garage...
Which means... We somehow have to avoid trolling about Trump?
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Obviously he was writing 'coverage' when the stroke hit. Luckily the result of most strokes are speech impediments, reduced vocabulary, dementia and such, so no real change.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in covfefe:
Did this really need another thread?
I... suppose this one isn't in the garage...
Which means... We somehow have to avoid trolling about Trump?People outside the garage may want some covfefe too.
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And because TeeSpring cannot into onebox:
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@wharrgarbl said in covfefe:
@wharrgarbl said in Trump bites:
Go home grandma, you're not drunk yet.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in covfefe:
Which means... We somehow have to avoid trolling about Trump?
Does mocking Trump count as trolling, or is it just the expected normal thing to do?
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@anonymous234 It's expected for people to do it to make themselves feel better living in a world they don't comprehend.
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@anonymous234 said in covfefe:
Does mocking
Trumpa politician count as trolling, or is it just the expected normal thing to do?It's the normal thing to do.
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@boomzilla Trump is funny no matter your political beliefs
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@wharrgarbl said in covfefe:
@boomzilla Trump is funny no matter your political beliefs
So I'm told. Honestly, I just had enough.
I'd say I can't wait for the next USian presidential elections, but that's a different brand of crazy altogether.
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@anonymous234 said in covfefe:
@boomzilla said in covfefe:
living in a world they don't comprehend
Went a bit smug there.
Yes, you did.
@wharrgarbl said in covfefe:
@boomzilla Trump is funny no matter your political beliefs
Sure, and I've made my own jokes and laughed at a lot of others. But we're relying on a typo to do far too much work here and it kind of says more about the people making the "jokes" than the target at this point.
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@boomzilla Credit where it's due though, Trump doesn't seem to mind the joke:
Edit: I don't actually follow Prez Fart; that image is from the BBC
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Spicer continuing to show his unrivalled skill at digging holes anybody else would have started trying to climb out of hours ago
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@RaceProUK said in covfefe:
Trump doesn't seem to mind the joke
Sounds like he's maturing in office a bit. Or the tinfoil hatters are right and it was deliberate.
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@boomzilla said in covfefe:
Or the tinfoil hatters are right and it was deliberate
A coded message for Russia?
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@boomzilla said in covfefe:
Or the tinfoil hatters are right and it was deliberate
A coded message for Russia?
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
covfefe.
It's actually really obvious that that's a swypo of "cover". Or maybe "coverage".
Obviously because his tiny hands have problems with the keyboard.
He forgot to turn off Russian mode, no doubt.
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@boomzilla if you don't like the covfefe, just drink water
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@wharrgarbl My cofveve is just fine, thank you.
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@wharrgarbl said in covfefe:
@boomzilla if you don't like the covfefe, just drink water
Or maybe have a cup of twea
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@RaceProUK said in covfefe:
Or maybe have a cup of twea
I was craving some sweet twea this weekend when I was out working on the yard.
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That bqhatevwr guy was an amateur
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@boomzilla said in covfefe:
people [...] in a world they don't comprehend.
So, like everybody.
Filed under: still haven't got that quantum gravity thing down.
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@cvi Pretty much.
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@RaceProUK How I read your post:
Teespring said:
Covfefe killed Harambe
@RaceProUK's signature said:
And then the murders began.
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The real story behind "Covfefe"
In an undisclosed room of the White House:
Ah ha ha! I have taken The Twitter Phone out from under the watchful eye of the intern they appointed to keep watch over it! Now to make tweeting great again!
D...e...s...p...o... ...i...t...e...Elsewhere in the White House:
Have you seen The Twitter Phone? I swear it was right here, and then I heard a strange sound and turned round for just a second, and the phone was gone...
Oh no! The President must have gotten access to the phone! Quickly, we must save the world!Back in the undisclosed room:
"Despite the constant negative press cov---"
Unhand that phone! It's for your own good!
struggle ensues
...fefeSend
more struggle
sound of shattered glass
Well, at least The Twitter Phone can no longer be used by anyone, the world is safe for a while
Uh, who lost control of The Twitter Phone, there's a new post up and it's gonna go viral in a hurry...
What do you mean? Oh, damn it. We need the account recovery process, and STAT! And someone fire the phone intern!
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Finally, a legit use for ! :D
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@wharrgarbl Yes thank you, the meme based on a typo that came and went in less than 4 hour and yet somehow still refuses to die entirely.
Hahaha! The POTUS made a typo! Therefore we should make fun of that and ignore every other grossly-incompetent thing he's done that could truly harm the US and its interests! Hahaha! Twitter is so fun!
I have to say though the favorite was the guy I follow on Twitter who a couple weeks ago was decrying Trump for deleting tweets when they should have been public record (which is to be fair a genuine point), but after this one was posted was screaming, "why hasn't Trump deleted this tweet yet!" without, apparently, being able to identify his own hypocrisy.
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@blakeyrat Nah, that's not the point. The humor comes from Trump's joke about it, and then Spicer's claim that Trump did it on purpose. The humor is in how obviously the administration is trying to gaslight.
Nobody would have cared about a typo if he just owned up to it. Seriously, he makes typos all the time.
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The humor is in how obviously the administration is trying to gaslight.
Help me out here. I thought the definition of "gaslight" was trying to trick someone into thinking they're crazy, the word coming from the play/movie where that happens.
Are you saying that Sean Spicer is trying to make us believe that Trump is crazy? Or... Trump wants people to think he's crazy?
Because those insane conspiracy theories make you sound crazier than anything in that tweet or press conference.
Nobody would have cared about a typo if he just owned up to it.
He did own up to it. That's what the joke, the one you mention here:
The humor comes from Trump's joke about it,
was exactly.
If I'm talking to some people about a breakfast order and I mistakenly say something like "flancrakes", when the pancakes are delivered I might have a little gag and says something like, "haha, well these pancakes are good but flancrakes would have been better." That's exactly the kind of thing Trump did, and an appropriate response to something like this.
There's so many hundreds of LEGIT things to criticize Trump about, and people are going on and on about a fucking typo.
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The humor is in how obviously the administration is trying to gaslight.
Which is a long winded way to say: there is no humor.
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@blakeyrat said in covfefe:
Help me out here. I thought the definition of "gaslight" was trying to trick someone into thinking they're crazy, the word coming from the play/movie where that happens.
Yes, specifically by changing things around behind their back and/or otherwise denying (demonstrable) reality.
Trump arguably owned up with that ridiculous "joke" (if it was even that?), and then his toady pretended it never happened, said that the right people know what 'covfefe' means, pretended Trump said it on purpose, etc. Spicer didn't sound like he was in on any jokes.
You're right, this isn't the right thing to focus on. It's just a bit of light entertainment.
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Yes, specifically by changing things around behind their back and/or otherwise denying (demonstrable) reality.
So you're proposing that Sean Spicer is trying to convince... who?... that they're crazy? Literally the entire populace of the US?
I'm still lost, because if I'm reading you literally, you're insane.
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It's propaganda/psyops. Nothing insane about it. Indeed, it's been going on since before the election. That's why there are "paid trolls" out there. To distort your perception of reality. To make the conspiracy theories seem credible. To make news seem like fake news. To create anxiety.
Etc.I'm still lost, because if I'm reading you literally, you're insane.
Naive.
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To make the conspiracy theories seem credible.
So they're working with Maddow now? I'm not understanding how this all works.
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Let's actually stop and parse what Sean Spicer said, shall we?
Asked about the meaning behind the president's cryptic tweet at Wednesday's press briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer said, "The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant."
"The president ... know[s] exactly what he meant."
Well, obviously. He knows what he originally meant to tweet.
"...and a small group of people know..."
So apparently Trump isn't the only one who knows what he intended to tweet. The simplest explanation for this is that Trump has told a few people what he meant to type. This is not an unbelievable claim.
Finally, observe that he ducked the question. When asked if there was some meaning behind the tweet, he simply responded that its meaning was known to Trump and to whoever Trump presumably told, but clearly they're not telling us. (It'd probably just spoil the inadvertent joke if they did tell now. The resulting hubbub over his typo'd tweet has far exceeded the comedic value of what was probably just a sharp jab at some negative news coverage.)
This is only my theory on what happened, but it's a simpler and more reasonable theory which matches perfectly with what little facts we have. There is simply no evidence to support the conspiracy theory of "it was a secret code, which Trump and a small group of privileged other people are in on". Occam's razor applies.
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@blakeyrat said in covfefe:
So you're proposing that Sean Spicer is trying to convince... who?... that they're crazy? Literally the entire populace of the US?
I think after watching a fair amount of his briefings, you begin to observe a reality-distortion field that would put Jobs in awe.
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@anotherusername said in covfefe:
So apparently Trump isn't the only one who knows what he intended to tweet. The simplest explanation for this is that Trump has told a few people what he meant to type. This is not an unbelievable claim.
He probably told a binder full of women. Wait, wrong unfunny meme.
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It's propaganda/psyops.
Is it.
Nothing insane about it.
No, I'm saying there's something insane about you. You're creating conspiracy theories out of whole cloth.
That's why there are "paid trolls" out there. To distort your perception of reality. To make the conspiracy theories seem credible.
Oh, so you're getting paid to give us this conspiracy theory? Why didn't you just say so.
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@boomzilla said in covfefe:
@anotherusername said in covfefe:
So apparently Trump isn't the only one who knows what he intended to tweet. The simplest explanation for this is that Trump has told a few people what he meant to type. This is not an unbelievable claim.
He probably told a binder full of women. Wait, wrong unfunny meme.
Hillary appeared to think she knew what it meant, but I can't imagine her being in Trump's binder full of women...
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The humor comes from Trump's joke about it, and then Spicer's claim that Trump did it on purpose.
IMO the humor comes from people trying to decypher it without realizing it was just a typo. Accepting it was a typo kills the joke.
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Why do people keep saying its a typo? Submitting a post without intent and after some unrelated symbols ("fefe") appeared at the end is not a typo - it's some kind of physical or medical accident or incident.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis first time I saw it I thought it was some acronym
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in covfefe:
Submitting a post without intent and after some unrelated symbols ("fefe") appeared at the end is not a typo - it's some kind of physical or medical accident or incident.
Oh bullshit, I've posted worse text than that and I was merely drunk.
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@blakeyrat Being drunk is one example of a physical or medical incident.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis If you're Mormon maybe.
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It's not the most interesting one, no.
it's a speculatable possibility.