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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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I haven't had the occasion to watch and study a narcissist in action until now. I have, however, watched alcoholics. It is amazing how they both find incredible ways and crazy stories to rationalize things, to calm the cognitive dissonance when situations go awry. The Politico editor chose the right photo illustration, gets the scenario when this rationalization goes on, it's this self-satisfied look that says: I figured it out now, why this happened, it explains everything. When other people hear it and think: that's crazy, that makes no sense, they just ignore or dismiss those people because not to do so would mean the cognitive dissonance would come back.
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 1:14pm
Twitter users pointing out the cognitive dissonance on leaks, i.e., you can't have your cake and eat it, too, Donald-who-love-wikileaks:
http://elitedaily.com/news/politics/twitter-trolls-trump-maralago-leak-excuse/1790787/
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 1:21pm
Seems he can take a leak but not give one. Wonder if he's ever heard of our surveillance program.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 1:41pm
Or even watched a spy movie? Seriously, I'm wondering now.
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 1:55pm
wikipedia describes a few business successes of EliteDaily and also some criticisms of that site.
Here is an opinion about good leaks versus bad leaks. It is from a site that has been sharply criticized too but that I find at least somewhat more substantial.
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 2:46pm
Lulu, I assure you I am not going to become a regular reader of "Elite Daily". I saw no harm, though, in using their excellent compilation of what some people are posting on Twitter. Zero risk of "fake news" or even gossip in that, because: the reader can easily click through to Twitter itself.
And if your problem is that someone over 7 years old believes everything they read on Twitter as THE TRUTH, well then god help them, because no one else can. It is merely a method of communication.
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 2:55pm
lol, this was offered on top the side panel of YouTube suggested links when I went to fetch a Trump "I love wikileaks" video clip: Donald Trump's former butler: 'He loves mirrors'
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 3:23pm
And Narcissus is turned to a flower...
Careful, Dorian....
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 4:07pm
You might find this interesting. Beauty and the Beast: Donald Trump as the Interior Decorator in Chief
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 4:32pm
Poor Donald, he's an upholstery queen trapped inside Fred's manly world and expectations. Out of the closet, Trumpette - save your aesthetic soul. All this posing with women, just one more beard that never quite does the trick. But the marble...
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 5:24pm
thanks for that, I appreciate any selected quotes from Art of The Deal as I always refused to look at the whole thing.
My reaction as someone in the art business and as a citizen of NYC: the horror! That the interior of Trump tower was that carefully selected, that what it looks like was actually considered not just a success but perfection. Because I am an appraiser, normally I try to appreciate all tastes without much judgment, even like with, for example: Hummel figurines. I try to understand what the collectors see in them, to look at what they see as finer points.
But his interpretation of what that marble should look like is like: beyond the pale. It is so quirky to see what he sees as a feature and not a bug in marble that it is like: insane. There may actually be something wrong with his optic nerve or something, I what I am saying. In that what pleases him would please hardly anyone else...
What he said about this, it goes way beyond the dictator aesthetic that is usually joked about as to his tastes. It's just plain weird.
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 5:56pm
At this point I am wondering what it will take for Congress to start talking, if privately, about The Succession Clause in Article II specifies that in the case of a president’s “inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office,” his powers devolve to the vice president. The framers left it to Congress to work out further details (quote from this googled piece)
I would hope that the Pudzner thing has emboldened a few more on the fence Congressional GOP to start doing by their conscience, as part of the reason it happened is that it became clear that not enough GOP Senate votes were forthcoming in favor and those Senators have not been shot or anything like that....
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 5:59pm
[...]is that it became clear that not enough GOP Senate votes were forthcoming in favor and those Senators have not been shot or anything like that....
Unless you were kidding and I missed it (been known to happen), how bizarre is it that a sentence ending like that has to actually be considered?
by barefooted on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 6:21pm
well I was being sarcastic towards the lily-livered, but who knows maybe they are lily-livered because of something they know that I don't.
Heck, NCD has planted some pretty crazy images in my own brain about Bannon rising from a trench with a grin and a grenade, maybe those who have like visited the Trump oval office have reason be ascared?.
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 6:53pm
!! (Rising from a trench with a grin and a grenade? There's a lyric for ya!)
by barefooted on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 7:10pm
some more GOP senators at least talking about growing a spine, according to WaPo Feb. 15
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 5:58am
and George Will is nudging them:
Congress can take back power from the president. Here’s how.@ WaPo Feb. 15
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 6:03am
Frum @ The Atlantic, Feb. 15
What Happens Next Is Up to Republicans
If they don’t act decisively now, when will they?
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 6:14am
Frum was fired from a couple of conservative groups for saying things like this. No one in the republican party stood up for him when he was called a RINO. He's pretty much been kicked out of the republican party. There may be other sane republicans who agree with him in silence but does he have any influence? If he has some influence do any of them have the courage to stand up to the base? I guess we'll see.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 6:29am
yeah I know. but I think he's still not considered a "libtard", so there's that. I guess I like to read what he has to say because he understands how some of them think...
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 7:34am
I like to read him too. I disagree with almost all his policy positions but he makes arguments. He's someone we could debate with. I wish we had a conservative like him here but all we ever get is someone like Limbaugh or Hannity.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 7:44am
Say what?
Former Trump adviser Roger Stone calls for investigation of alleged Russia links
By Pilkington @ The Guardian, Feb. 15
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 6:21am
He fell out with Jared, I believe,and being an A-level bullshitter, probably thinks it's better to cast about his innocence, perhaps presuming the investigation will never head that close to him. Who knows, he's a snake and an asshole, such as with his CUNT t-shirts et al. I hope he gets 3 or 4 decades of what's coming to him.
Updated to add: I didn't realize he'd gotten in a pissing match with Citizens United over the original name behind C*U*N*T. He really is one.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 7:18am
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 6:47am