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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts) Thu Dec 20, 2018, 04:09 PM Dec 2018

28% of Americans...why are we always talking about THE BASE?

they are piffle compared to our numbers, and idiots on top of that...THE BASE, THE BASE... madenning..

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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

(52,468 posts)

1. Maybe since they are the ones he aims to please.

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 04:13 PM

Dec 2018

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

Donkees

(32,516 posts)

2. ''Base suggests a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency''

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 04:14 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