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28% of Americans...why are we always talking about THE BASE? (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Dec 2018 OP
Maybe since they are the ones he aims to please. BigmanPigman Dec 2018 #1
''Base suggests a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency'' Donkees Dec 2018 #2
Thanks for the honest number. Wellstone ruled Dec 2018 #3
They give him what he craves..adoration. so he gives them Demovictory9 Dec 2018 #4
We could refer to them with my preferred term Cirque du So-What Dec 2018 #5
Not "the" base. They are base. It works! see, I am getting this new way of speaking! NRaleighLiberal Dec 2018 #6
The tyranny of a two-party primary system n/t Azathoth Dec 2018 #7

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
1. Maybe since they are the ones he aims to please.
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 05:13 PM
Dec 2018

We can forecast how he will act if we think that pleasing them is his goal.

Donkees

(31,074 posts)
2. ''Base suggests a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency''
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 05:14 PM
Dec 2018
Base suggests a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency: "that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble" (Edmund Burke). Something low violates standards of morality, ethics, or propriety: low cunning; a low trick.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/base
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Thanks for the honest number.
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 05:14 PM
Dec 2018

Try to read the Polling methodology used when polls hit. The base points are so friggin bogus. And that is why Nate Silver dismisses most polls.

Demovictory9

(32,320 posts)
4. They give him what he craves..adoration. so he gives them
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 05:15 PM
Dec 2018

What they want..racially charged rhetoric and action

NRaleighLiberal

(59,940 posts)
6. Not "the" base. They are base. It works! see, I am getting this new way of speaking!
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 05:20 PM
Dec 2018

Must now go and let dog in.

Someone is calling me on telephone.

Things just get more loony every day!

Most now go and consult moose and squirrel!

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