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“Everybody feels oppressed

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 07:08:23 +0000

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“Everybody feels oppressed during a Wagner performance. That is part of the appeal.”
― Richard Taruskin, The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays

next up, we're gonna best the North Koreans on those card-flipping extravaganzas.

The parade's been a real big hit on Twitter already, I noticed while over there.

I like this one, not the least of which it reminds me of Shriner's parades with the clown costumes:

Everyone in the armed forces should claim they have bone spurs and do the parade riding golf carts. https://t.co/7Z5RfRx2bi
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) February 7, 2018

AA, Trump should have it at

NCD — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 06:33:39 +0000

In reply to NCD, looks like Trump's

AA, Trump should have it at night on the D.C. mall. They could use spotlights from The Apprentice like this rally....in France....? It would be the biggest huuooge....!

NCD, looks like Trump's

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 06:05:51 +0000

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NCD, looks like Trump's decided which way to go, classy, we're gonna go bigly classy like the Franch, learned something from this presidential gig, there's more to this spectacular thing than Wrestlemania and beauty pageants, crowd's gonna be major yuge, big ratings

Inspired by French military display, Trump has the Pentagon planning a large-scale parade in Washington

At a meeting last month between President Trump and top military officials, “The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France,” one official said. “This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.”

By Greg Jaffe and Philip Rucker

@ Axios.com Sunday: There's

artappraiser — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 03:57:47 +0000

In reply to Decent People Don't March With Nazis. Decent People Can't Work in the Trump White House

@ Axios.com Sunday: There's lots of punditry about why people like Gary Cohn, Rex Tillerson, Dina Powell, Steve Mnuchin and many others don't quit the Trump White House in protest over Charlottesville. but they give summary and a link to the most trusted and combine it with original reporting compiled from their leakers.

oceankat, it's right here,

artappraiser — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:26:35 +0000

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oceankat, it's right here, basically the whole shebang we are talking about:

CEOs to move their White House talks underground

Still eager to work on tax reform, infrastructure and health care, business leaders will focus on Trump aides and agency officials.

@ Politico.com, 08/17/2017 06:45 PM

This would have happened either way; I heard Trumka say on TV last night that his "board" never even met once. It was actually a no brainer for the corporate CEO's as they realized Trump himself is not affecting anything real, it's either executive branch people or Congress they have to lobby.

I think that really is our

artappraiser — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:36:21 +0000

In reply to I just read a lot mostly

I think that really is our situation in general, and my interaction with you helped me get there more quickly!

Side note: that's why I have become addicted to his place. It wouldn't happen with a bigger place but one does have to have a variety of of high quality voices for it to happen, people willing to challenge analysis without wasting time on lecturing one another or preaching.

the ISIS car would always

artappraiser — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:07:10 +0000

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the ISIS car would always lose, unless it was going against the Liberal Limo Car,

lol! The ISIS car would need to win a small percent of the time, less TrumpGaming.com have no odds for people to bet on.

But more seriously what our terribly black humor is playing up is that his whole shtick draws all the extremists like ISIS, white nationalists, armageddonists like flies precisely because he loves to speak their good vs. evil language. He was very drawn to professional wrestling precisely because saw it's demagogic capabilities.I think of the biographical articles that mention his love of big spectacles, inherited from his mother. I even think of how he was drawn to handling the problem of the Syrian use of nerve gas because they killed "little babies, little innocent babies." It's the simplistic "good vs. evil" picture.

And he is a true troll, he loves roiling people's emotions more than anything else. Feeding him is the real Faustian danger. But what else can one do when he has the presidential pulpit? I am starting to come around to a realization that some of the GOP congress is doing mealy mouthed public denunciations because they don't want to get drawn into his trolling, they want to ignore him and get on with their own program. That is where liberals should be worried at the same time they drawn into his trolling and his choice of topics for the public water cooler.

I just read a lot mostly

ocean-kat — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 07:17:10 +0000

In reply to So of who's really running

I just read a lot mostly because my job leaves me with lots of free time with little to do but read. I closely follow most of the stories in the news but I haven't really studied all the details of government. I don't even know what every one of the committees do. Dangerous things could come from surprising places.

Like you I'm most worried about Sessions. He has so much power that he can wield indiscriminately. Pruit at the EPA is dangerous though slightly less so as he's a bit constrained by the rule making process. I'm also worried about Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC, who is a stanch foe of net neutrality.

It's not just the WH. Congress could do a lot of damage if they ignore Trump and get their shit together. Trump will sign anything that comes to his desk. He wouldn't understand it and he doesn't care. All he cares about is a win. If congress sent him a blank stack of paper with a cover page saying Tax Reform he'd sign and call it a win. A great unprecedented win. If congress sent him a Pink Floyd album he'd sign it and claim it fulfilled his promise to build The Wall. If congress remains in republican hands after the 2018 election and the senate ends the filibuster they could do a lot of damage until 2020.

Many sides, many sides on

NCD — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 02:50:39 +0000

In reply to Some of your ideas are quite

Many sides, many sides on which way he could go.

Of course, the ISIS car would always lose, unless it was going against the Liberal Limo Car, the Hillary or Mueller Car, or the Diet Drinker Coke Car.

Some of your ideas are quite

artappraiser — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 02:44:01 +0000

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Some of your ideas are quite good (especially like pig blood bullets company) but sorry, I still like mine best: terror car crash spectacular promoter:

because

It clearly fits his talents and past predilections, he'd be great at it, he'd put on a far better shew than anything that smart cookie Kim Jong Un can do
It will keep all the culture warriors and armageddonists busy going to the contests and they'll have no time for political involvement > see Juvenal ...bread and circuses....
easy funding > betcha all kinds of big shots like Putin and King Salman be interested in getting involved