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Remember blogger Dan Drezner

artappraiser — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 02:54:01 +0000

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Remember blogger Dan Drezner from the Bush years, the hawk that lefties loved to hate?:

Weakest. Commander in Chief. Ever.

Trump likes to say that he's strong on the military. But he's weak. So weak.

By Dan Drezner @ WashingtonPost.com Perspective section, Aug. 15

okay Politico is on it

artappraiser — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 01:40:22 +0000

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okay, was fun, but I see Politico is on it without having to trigger Godwin's Law, got Jeff Greenfield to write:

When Aides Worry Their President Is Unhinged

It's happened before, and it stayed secret for years. Here's what went down.

August 15, 2017

his is reminiscent

jollyroger — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:48:25 +0000

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this is reminiscent

WaPo is promoting a Marc

artappraiser — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:35:49 +0000

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WaPo is promoting a Marc Fisher article which touts "basic truths" about Trump Trump reminded everyone: He doesn’t like to be told what to say. Doh

Seems like he is totally

artappraiser — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:18:36 +0000

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Seems like he is totally completely outta control on this, obsessed with making the "all sides" point for some reason:

My head is spinning,’ one White House aide says after the president also pins blame on the ‘alt-left.’

from Trump blows up damage control as he blames ‘both sides’ for Charlottesville

@ Politico.com, Updated 08/15/2017 07:18 PM EDT

Article makes very clear that he is doing a "fuck you" to his staff. And that it's been while Ivanka and Jared have been out on a trip.

Edit to add: Almost like a terrible two's tempter tantrum...scary...here's where I am almost tempted to venture into Godwin's Law territory, this is reminiscent of classic parodies of the most famous Nazi...insistence on "I know best" with no sense to it at all...

Thanks for this, will save

artappraiser — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:06:16 +0000

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Thanks for this, will save the link to listen to once I get the @!#$&damn smart phone situation sorted out

My NPR station carries an

A Guy Called LULU — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:56:19 +0000

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My NPR station carries an excellent locally produced interview program, "Radio West", and yesterday's program was an interview with Green about his book. Much more of the strangely fascinating story than the review tells and right from the author so his own nuanced opinions from his own observations make it well worth a listen.

We're all trying to figure

ocean-kat — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 05:09:07 +0000

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We're all trying to figure out what's up with Trump. I can come up with a half dozen possible theories. But as I watched some of the old videos you linked I began to think of this article.

In a new documentary unveiled this week at Michael Moore’s film festival, one filmmaker takes aim at the “vast right-wing conspiracy” Hillary once put on blast. The Brainwashing Of My Dad also warns of how generations of Americans have been tricked into an angry cult-like devotion to a new conservative lord and savior: Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

Her case study? Her own dad.

Jen Senko first noticed the change in her father sometime during the 1980s when he picked her up from the bus station for a visit home. On the road they passed a Hooters. That’s when the once-gentle Kennedy Democrat and family man started railing against the “feminazis” for protesting the chicken ’n’ cleavage-slingin’ chain.

“I said, ‘Maybe the feminists have a point,’” Senko recalls in her feature-length documentary The Brainwashing Of My Dad, an attempt to understand how the evolution of right-wing media transformed her loving parent into a hostile and isolated fanatic.

His reaction was shocking and extreme, wildly out of character. “He was so mad he threatened to pull the car over and let me hitchhike home,” she says.

He's been all over the map politically but he never had much intellectual depth. Maybe he's just one more victim of fox news lies and propaganda turned into the angry ranting idiot we see today. I don't endorse that theory, I'm just putting it out there as one of the possible explanations.

Here's a stunning

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 04:26:06 +0000

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Here's a stunning interpretation:

Fox News Host: Trump Is ‘All Too Happy To Reap The Benefits’ Of Racism

Eboni K. Williams slammed the president for his “cowardly and dangerous” initial response to the deadly clashes in Charlottesville.

By Hayley Miller @ Huffington Post, Aug. 14

Starting to seem like so much

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:40:55 +0000

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Starting to seem like so much clueless cynicism to me. Similar to the embracing the birther thing. He thinks dissing them too much will hurt him. And seems to have zero insight on how hated Neo-Nazi symbolism is in this country. Really starting to seem like Bannon and "alt right", before "alt right" had a name, became a sort of Svengali to him. Convinced him of what "the people" want to hear. And he spun it from there in his campaign, altered it. (But a reminder: still not enough to win a majority!) See "The Making of The Tabloid Presidency"--the "Devil's Bargain" book review I just posted.

Edit to add: looking at these old videos with his comments on Reform party news, where he dissed David Duke and praised and worked with Jesse Jackson, is a strange experience, you see where he gets a kind of populism and where he doesn't. So strange.