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My husband showed me an

CVille Dem — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:58:12 +0000

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My husband showed me an article about some lab that cloned a human and a pig. My response:

So what? We already have one in the Whit House.

I had a different but similar

artappraiser — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:37:53 +0000

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I had a different but similar creep out. I had the inaugural ball coverage on in the background while working on stuff (I wanted to see the dresses, so sue me, wimmins have to keep up on that stuff, it's like football with guys) and I did pay attention to at the close ups of them dancing, and it was the first example I ever saw where a guy publicly dancing with his wife for all the world to see clearly signaled: I don't love this gal, she's just another piece of property arm candy that I can do what I want with.

On Pussy Riot, yeah I checked out what they been up to, in detail, went to the website, watched the vids. I was very hopeful and ended up disappointed. It'sunderstandable because of what they've been through, but I thought it too over the top on the fascism equivalence to be of help here, Putin thugs = Trump, mho, too strident for this country's culture, just not going to work except maybe on pre-teens.

Thanks Emma and Arta. Yeah, I

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:35:36 +0000

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Thanks Emma and Arta. Yeah, I have gone back a ways in the archives too. Posts are far between but always worth watching for, IMO.

Watching him leave his wife

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:53:00 +0000

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Watching him leave his wife behind when going to greet the Obamas rather floored me - I knew he was a pig, but somehow I thought he had a bit of regard for family.

I guess I wasn't the only one who noticed.

Critical is to start

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 12:50:18 +0000

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Critical is to start realizing this is not accidental, and that it's *NOT HURTING TWUMP*.

I see a lot of stories talking about his meltdown, the 25th Amendment, and what not. He's doing "excellent", in his usual parlance. I bet the public and media adapt much more than he ever will. He loves making opponents mad - it's about the only measure of his effectiveness. Aside from some high profile attempts to address his campaign promises - valid or invalid - though we're seeing that he seems to be much more serious about them than some believed.

Another good one,

EmmaZahn — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:41:45 +0000

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Another good one, artappraiser. Scariest part:

He wants to delegitimize all sources of information outside of himself. If anybody contradicts him, including the mainstream media, he has to destroy their credibility so that he can argue he's being unfairly attacked.

This is how he operates, how he deals with the media. The normal rules are always difficult for him. If he's going to head to head with somebody on the basis of rational, fact-based argument, that's a lot harder than complaining about being attacked and then saying you're hitting back 10 times harder because you're not going to take it.

Good reading there, Lulu. I

EmmaZahn — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:39:18 +0000

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Good reading there, Lulu. I spent most of last night on that site. :)

Glad you liked it, Michael.

EmmaZahn — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:35:57 +0000

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Glad you liked it, Michael.

More evidence of the troll

artappraiser — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 08:45:25 +0000

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More evidence of the troll thing from a Trump biographer if anyone needs it.

This is a great piece Lulu.

artappraiser — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 07:56:45 +0000

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This is a great piece Lulu. Along with the one posted by Emma, hit me like a ton of bricks. Made me realize: we've all got to stop feeding the troll. And that includes MSM like the NY Times. Except to ridicule, and better to leave that to the comedians and pop culture and support them in it.

Take what Paul Ryan and Congress is doing seriously.Don't take what the White House is doing seriously, they intend to keep spinning distractions to feed their troll boss' narcissism disorder needs, riling everyone up with a culture war horse race that he doesn't want to end.

We'd all be better off to shut off not just Trump spin, but reaction to Trump spin, including That by MSNBC, CNN and Fox News, Politico and TPM et. al., and listen to Bloomberg News and CNBC and read WSJ, until they stop feeding the troll Trump. Business people won't waste time on sideshows by trolls, they demand news about things that actually affect things. If Trump does something that is actually going to affect something, it will be covered on the business news.

Edit to add favorite quote:

The dream of the White House briefing room and the Presidential press conference is that accountability can be transacted in dramatic and televisable moments: the perfect question that puts the President or his designate on the spot, and lets the public see — as if in a flash — who they are led by. This was always an illusion. Crumbling for decades, it has become comically unsustainable under Trump.

Why is everyone still falling for getting all riled up by war room spin in this day and age? Just refuse to feed it.