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Actually, I had a fantasy

jollyroger — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 04:40:00 +0000

In reply to Keillor rules because of his

Actually, I had a fantasy that Roger Stone was recruiting ex Mossad guys to impersonate Arab terrorists in a "thawarted" assault in DC on the new hotel just around sunday or monday, but, silly me, they didn't need that!.

Which said, they are a conspiracy minded bunch with what I fear is a frankly demented nut-in-chief.

He is already tweeting that the streets are full of paid demonstrators--we are talking hundreds of thousands--of course, it's right in his wheelhouse because he kicked off the campaign with paid attendees!

And there is this: Fred died six years into his Alzheimer's diagnosis.

Keillor rules because of his

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 03:20:36 +0000

In reply to There IS one little cloud..

Keillor rules because of his satire, not his predictive power.

I am quite concerned that Trump will undermine our institutions, but I still have some faith in the Constitution. We've got a much longer history of democracy than places like Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela, where autocratic leaders have undermined democratic institutions. I also suspect that Trump lacks the charisma of folks like Putin, Erdogan, and Chavez.

I just don't see how this

jollyroger — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:48:17 +0000

In reply to Making Trump Normal (Again)

I just don't see how this goes well for the first six weeks, let alone the delicate question of the response to be expected should repudiation loom in 2020.

This is a guy who thought having our sailors flipped off merited the brandishing (at least) of deadly force.

I know what is coming the first time Al-Baghdadi does a WWF style call out (instead of a head being bashed by a chair it will be...um, never mind) in a tweet that all 14 million followers see (it has been defined as the two way vulnerability of Twitter that drives many off.)

There IS one little cloud..

jollyroger — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:10:39 +0000

In reply to Keillor rules

There IS one little cloud...The electoral framework within which Keillor posits a future comeuppance envisions an October 2020 during which a psychotic narcissistic sociopath contemplates impending defeat and acquiesces to the constitutional mandates while believing that dark and conspiratorial forces are subverting the popular will which would otherwise sweep him to a second term.

Without exposing myself to ridicule as an overly pessimistic paranoiac, I wonder if President Trump might finally be the guy who cancels the election (I admit to having thought the same possible for Nixon and Bush II).

I'm just gonna port this and

jollyroger — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:58:41 +0000

In reply to That's Stone Cold's music!

I'm just gonna port this and delete

Parenthetically, I put to you the following, from what is actually a totally uninformed position vis-a-vis the WWF, save only that my nephew is a lifelong WWF fan,

(and, to my shame, a Trump voter, albeit I hasten to add,an innocent one cuz he votes in NJ)

Anyway:

May we perhaps take some comfort(or not...) in the proposition that 90% of the posturing is understood (and intended to be understood) as "puffery" (cf. Trump Steaks, etc) and any disparagement inflicted is no bar to being on a tag team (eg, Chris Christie)next week, BECAUSE IT'S ALL SCRIPTED AND MEANT TO BE UNDERSTOOD AS SCRIPTED?

Thus no real insult has been delivered to the seeming victim. (cf shaving Vince) And each despised primary opponent becomes an esteemed and hard fighting (almost) equal as soon as he rolls over and presents his throat. (The HRC comments in his victory speech were paradigmatic.

Add to this the retroactive editing that Burnett brought to Survivor and it's demon child, The Apprentice, with the wrinkle that whereas Survivor was edited and the games fixed to please the viewers, the outcomes in The Apprentice were rigged (pace, Deadbeat Donald...) to please Trump.

Bottom line, Strawberry Fields Forever.

Except that he has segued to a sequence where he is in a reality show where none of the other wrestlers are in on the secret and he doesn't have the power to retroactively edit how the "tests" come out.

So whereas on one hand, I raise the possibility that he is not as totally deranged by end stage Munchausen Testosterone Poisoning Syndrome as would have appeared, (a plus) but the indications (and implications) of a profoundly defective epistemology are terrifying.

The delusional issues worry me...

ETA: also, how could he think that Serge Kovalaski was "in on the joke"...and I'm pretty sure you can't go back and edit the outcome of a 3am nuclear strike.

This is very bad.

Oh, and Pence vows that Oral

CVille Dem — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:38:20 +0000

In reply to Big Pharma and private

Oh, and Pence vows that Oral Contracdeptives will no longer be covered by insurance. I guess the fact that abortions decreased on Obamas watch is less important that Pence's perceived "christian" views on what should be lawful. He promises that any law that doesn't strike him as christian will go.

Yes America will be great again -- a great big steaming pile of religious pap.

Keillor rules

Michael Wolraich — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:23:40 +0000

In reply to Garrison Keillor

Keillor rules

That's Stone Cold's music!

Michael Maiello — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:34:41 +0000

In reply to This will never be normal.

That's Stone Cold's music!

This will never be normal.

barefooted — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:29:06 +0000

In reply to Making Trump Normal (Again)

This will never be normal.

During Obama's inauguration

Oxy Mora — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:32:18 +0000

In reply to Making Trump Normal (Again)

During Obama's inauguration key Republicans met and agreed to never give him an inch.

Fuck Trump.