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He left me hanging - am I Moe

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:18:08 +0000

In reply to Gosh if that isn't that the

He left me hanging - am I Moe, Curly, or (shudders) Shemp? Woop woop woop...

Gosh if that isn't that the

artappraiser — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 02:19:16 +0000

Gosh if that isn't that the most impressive retort to (unpaid, volunteer) moderation evah. Dale Carnegie himself couldn't do better.

PP, you're a sad pompous

Peter — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 02:10:43 +0000

In reply to I'm saddened to hear that you

PP, you're a sad pompous little stooge and I was correcting Moat's misinformation so MYOB. If you are allergic to facts and reality go see a shrink.

Aren't all demagogues

artappraiser — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:16:31 +0000

In reply to Trump is a genius too. No

Aren't all demagogues "geniuses" though--usually in an idiot savant, intuitive kind of way--isn't that part of their job description? They got their pulse on the grievance, whatever it is. And they manipulate using the fear thing.

Trump is a genius too. No

moat — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:31:08 +0000

In reply to Absoutely, it's the

Trump is a genius too. No need to choose between arrogance and fear. They both undergird bad behavior.

I look at it in terms of association. WH Auden said it best:

" A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason."

from Don Juan

I'm saddened to hear that you

Peter — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:26:00 +0000

In reply to M Wheeler doesn't have to

I'm saddened to hear that you need help tying your shoes today but the effects of stage 6 TDS are profound and apparently permanent. The groupthink... [yadda yadda, Peter's vapid propaganda conspiracy talk deleted - you're not getting a platform for this bullshit on my watch - PP]

Absoutely, it's the

artappraiser — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:19:06 +0000

In reply to Bartleby never expressed a

Absoutely, it's the victimhood thing. As far as I am concerned, it's been the # 1 Trump thing all along: co-opting the oppressed message. Because for 50 years it's made their blood boil to be told that they've had preferences they've got to atone for, by stuff like supporting other tribes going to college and paying for their food stamps, saying sorry when they use the word words, even tho their grandfather came to this country with two cents in his pocket and worked hard for everything he got, yadda yadda... Finally someone figured out how to get back at "them": turn the tables and join the victim olympics. He stokes it all the time, tired of being dissed. Those are exactly the people who go to the rallies, he's their hero for supposedly thinking that up. Pitchfork Pat et. al. didn't do that, didn't do the victim thing, he did "America IS great" not "make America great again."

Is the same with current populist movements allover the world: the global liberal elite have oppressed us.

Edit to add: I was thinking of Peter Unverified alone, not the whole Trump mob. Though he obviously has "resentment" of snowflakes, he thinks he's smarter than them, not a victim of them.

Bartleby never expressed a

moat — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:32:40 +0000

In reply to I was thinking along the

Bartleby never expressed a fear of being replaced.

Josh Marshall pointed to a disturbing excerpt from Trump's rally:

"Our radical Democrat opponents are driven by hatred, prejudice and rage. They want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country as we know it."

That is what is inside of every narrative, fretting anxiously to get out.

Yeah, Friedman's good to have

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 05:43:28 +0000

In reply to In a motion filed Friday,

Yeah, Friedman's good to have on the Twitter roll - Marcy notes the Stone filing is kess a filing and more a way to reveal the contents of a doc that's sequestered. the Shanahan background seems wild too:

Seems unfair to drag the profession into this.
"I sat down with [my son] right away, and being an engineer at an aerospace company, you write down what are all of the mitigating reasons something could have happened." https://t.co/4jlApuhO5F pic.twitter.com/GG0k59IS4U
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) June 18, 2019

In a motion filed Friday,

artappraiser — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:58:00 +0000

In reply to Roger Stone's Deceitful Defense as Election Probing

Excerpt of text:

In a motion filed Friday, Roger Stone's lawyers cite a government warrant application they say mentions Stone, Ted Malloch, Jerome Corsi, and Julian Assange. It says "they speak to each other about politics, WikiLeaks and 'about phishing with John Podesta...'" pic.twitter.com/a2SuFeLHH2
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) June 18, 2019