The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    "It takes two to Tango..."Your child kidnapped? $5,000,000 Demand? Her murder threatened?

    By jollyroger on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 5:24am |

    Among the most infuriating frameworks enunciated by the wise and profound who claim time on TV is the trope that by refusing to give in to utter blackmail, Pelosi and the Dems are part of the problem.

     

    Why not just split the difference at 2,500,000, opine such termpernent.ally diverse pundits as David Brooks and Chris Wallace.

     

    The manifest stupidity and racist motivation of the demanded WALL!!! is besides the point, I guess.

     

    While you might well make a counteroffer in the interest of saving your child's life, you ought not be excoriated as a morally equivalent to the kidnappers if instead you went all Liam Neesom on them.

     

    I say, "Nancy, cut his (tiny) balls off, and wear them for a pendant".

     

    Comments

    Apropos: Shep Smith Fact-Checks Fellow Fox News Host Chris Wallace To His Face Over Shutdown


    by Michael Wolraich on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 7:29am

    Yeah, that was one of the atrocities that triggered my post.


    by jollyroger on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 7:33am

    Off topic

    Great piece on AOC at the Daily Beast

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/dear-rep-ocasio-ortiz-hang-tough-history-is-on-your-side

     


    by rmrd0000 on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 8:46am

    Would that make him "de-pendible"?


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 8:56am

    "Trump threatens to hold his breath starting Tuesday 6 am, if Pelosi doesn't give him the Wall. Guiliani and Squirrel Lady both say Trump is not kidding."


    by NCD on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 4:42pm

    I could support this plan but for two problems. First even if Trump could hold his breath until he passed out when unconscious he would start breathing and not die. Second Trump lies so often I suspect he'd only pretend to hold his breath.


    by ocean-kat on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 5:08pm

    good one!


    by artappraiser on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 7:31pm

    If he gets his way here, why wouldn’t he repeat the behavior with the debt ceiling?


    by rmrd0000 on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 4:58pm

    Why did "The Ransom of Red Chief" pop into my head all of a sudden?


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 5:16pm

    I think you have the germ of an idea there.
    Make him pay to be free of the hostages.


    by moat on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 7:29pm

    I was thinking of him as RedChief - ok, not 9 years old, but all the other traits are there.


    by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 01/20/2019 - 3:09am