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Then it's "a bit, a bit. Like

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 05:44:00 +0000

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Then it's "a bit, a bit. He helped a bit. Like any good father". Straight "she turned me into a newt stuff, except it don't get better.

What's a Putin?

President don't know nothing

artappraiser — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 05:13:45 +0000

In reply to Fake Seth Rich: lawsuit posits White House/Fox collusion

President don't know nothing bout birthin' no story ~ paraphrasing Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Aug. 1 (Politico)

Leningrad Cowboys???

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 23:07:37 +0000

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Leningrad Cowboys???

I've not read it but heard of

artappraiser — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 22:40:42 +0000

In reply to I'm more partial to a horse

I've not read it but heard of it, just looked at the Wikipedia entry, sure sounds like some imagery could fit our Donald....already fits our Clint Eastwood.

Also definitely sounds like the kind of thing Europeans go crazy over, the bizarre "America" of the wide open west that they find intriguing. Ala movies Paris, Texas or Baghdad Cafe or Brokeback Mountain (you could bring in your manly men thing here)....Then there's all things Larry Clarke (bring in your pedophilia thing here)....Then there's the other angle of northern Europeans adoring all things Native American western mythos and ethos (cowboys pretty cool, too) since the 19th century....

Back to 'merca (could bring in Geo. Bush here clearing brush on the ranch to clear his head)--what really amazes me is that a whole bunch of great art somehow fitting the ethos of the wild open lands of western America came out of Black Mountain College in: Asheville, North Carolina! And that emigres from Europe were also attracted there for precisely that.

As a Russian immigrant comic used to say: What a country! ?

You know what it makes me think: Trump could only happen here. As much as some of us would like to make the comparison to tin pot dictators, Nazi populism, etc. etc. etc. This is not that, this is special yet once again. Our imagination and our nightmares, they are different. We have developed a national culture different from all the others, crazy as it may be.

You don’t have to believe

artappraiser — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 22:11:28 +0000

In reply to Fake Seth Rich: lawsuit posits White House/Fox collusion

You don’t have to believe everything in that Seth Rich lawsuit. What’s been confirmed is bad enough.

by Margaret Sullavan, media columnist @ WaPo, Aug. 1

I'm more partial to a horse

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 21:06:37 +0000

In reply to Reminds me of philosopher

I'm more partial to a horse named Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Reminds me of philosopher

artappraiser — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 20:46:06 +0000

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Reminds me of philosopher Strauss (from Bush years discussions of Neocons), his interpretation of Nieztsche, my underlining of Wikipedia excerpt:

Heidegger, in Strauss' view, sanitized and politicized Nietzsche, whereas Nietzsche believed "our own principles, including the belief in progress, will become as unconvincing and alien as all earlier principles (essences) had shown themselves to be" and "the only way out seems to be...that one voluntarily choose life-giving delusion instead of deadly truth, that one fabricate a myth".[14] Heidegger believed that the tragic nihilism of Nietzsche was a "myth" guided by a defective Western conception of Being that Heidegger traced to Plato. In his published correspondence with Alexandre Kojève, Strauss wrote that Hegel was correct when he postulated that an end of history implies an end to philosophy as understood by classical political philosophy.[15]

It becomes crystal clear that

artappraiser — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:25:18 +0000

In reply to Fake Seth Rich: lawsuit posits White House/Fox collusion

It becomes crystal clear that Trump's "fake news" mantra is all projection, like so many other things he criticizes.

Especially if one combines this with his great penchant to do his own P.R. previous to being in politics. Because he considers himself an expert at P.R., he thinks all the world is P.R. and nothing is real.

Side thought also comes to mind: no one can ever be good enough for him for the communications job because he thinks he can do this the best: make-the-right-fake-news-and-then-it-will-become-reality. This is also why he fights the big media so hard, because he thinks of it as their version of reality and he knows that if you don't keep countering them, they will win. (It's also the professional sports coach mantra, the stuff of pep rallies, not to mention the whole think positive thing when you've got cancer: believe hard enough and it will become true.)

Seth Rich story to distract

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:15:19 +0000

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Seth Rich story to distract from Russiagate?

Wow. According to a new lawsuit, Fox News worked w/ a wealthy Trump supporter to create a fake story about Seth Rich https://t.co/AGyQyZZfkI
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) August 1, 2017