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Old 10-15-2018, 03:21 PM
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Charles Pierce - "...and the audience of equally vicious buffoons..."

Esquire - This Vicious Buffoon Is a Vessel for All the Worst Elements of the American Condition

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And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.

The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.
Charles P. Pierce gives us the most accurate description of the Trump base to date...the audience of equally vicious buffoons.
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Old 10-15-2018, 06:04 PM
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"We have had good presidents and bad—a Buchanan is followed by a Lincoln who is followed by an Andrew Johnson, and so forth. But we never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We have had presidents who have been the worthy targets of scalding scorn, but James Callender went after giants. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.

Watch him make fun of the woman again. Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut the fuck up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him again, behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now." Esquire

https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...exual-assault/

Mr. Pierce pretty much nails it. It seems like we're living in the end times so bleakly and cynically described by H.L. Mencken.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken


Call me naïve but I have to believe we will survive the era of Trump, it's going to take an enormous amount of work and a huge investment in education going forward.

In the meantime, I'm waiting to see what happens in the upcoming elections before despairing completely of the American experiment. s/?
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Old 10-16-2018, 06:18 PM
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Call me naïve but I have to believe we will survive the era of Trump, it's going to take an enormous amount of work and a huge investment in education going forward.
Well...I dont know about that Bob. I believe the problem is less Donald Trump than a country half full of assholes who support DonaldnTrump.
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Old 10-16-2018, 10:47 PM
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It is perplexing to read so many supporters of the Clintons ravaging Trump.

The Clintons are the forerunners of Trump.

The Clintons are the windows through which Trump climb.

I imagine Trump saying to himself before he made his run: Well Clinton did it, I can too.
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Old 10-19-2018, 04:50 PM
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It is perplexing to read so many supporters of the Clintons ravaging Trump.

The Clintons are the forerunners of Trump.

The Clintons are the windows through which Trump climb.

I imagine Trump saying to himself before he made his run: Well Clinton did it, I can too.
There is no comparing anybody in this country to the deranged malignant narcissist current occupant of the oval office.

Comparing either of the Clinton's to Donald Trump is as utterly moronic as anything I've heard in a long, long fucking time.
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"We have had good presidents and bad—a Buchanan is followed by a Lincoln who is followed by an Andrew Johnson, and so forth. But we never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We have had presidents who have been the worthy targets of scalding scorn, but James Callender went after giants. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.

Watch him make fun of the woman again. Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut the fuck up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him again, behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now." Esquire

https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...exual-assault/

Mr. Pierce pretty much nails it. It seems like we're living in the end times so bleakly and cynically described by H.L. Mencken.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken


Call me naïve but I have to believe we will survive the era of Trump, it's going to take an enormous amount of work and a huge investment in education going forward.

In the meantime, I'm waiting to see what happens in the upcoming elections before despairing completely of the American experiment. s/?
I believe we will survive all of this but, it must get far worse before the watershed occurs. Therefore, the pigs will win in November and the atrocious behavior will continue to grow more tragic, absurd and bizarre. Sorry, Bob.
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Old 10-25-2018, 08:03 AM
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I believe we will survive all of this but, it must get far worse before the watershed occurs. Therefore, the pigs will win in November and the atrocious behavior will continue to grow more tragic, absurd and bizarre. Sorry, Bob.
Don't know how old you are, Dave...but me and the blonde have maybe, hopefully, 15 good years left. And if your prediction is at all accurate, it's already past the time to take advantage of her dual citizen status and pick a decent country in the EU, in which to comfortably ride it out. A country where half the residents don't approve of the performance of a sociopathic criminal fascist chief executive, who's primary goal in life is identifying the next person he can fuck over. And with Trump's latest approval ratings, walking down the street knowing that only half the people passing by are decent human beings...well, it's no way to live.

Scandinavia is cold, but so is Chicago...so we've been thinking Denmark. Where the majority seems to have the right idea about what is actually a nice non-destructive quality of life. Although she has almost 50 first cousins all over Ireland, so that might be the better choice.

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Old 10-15-2018, 10:30 PM
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Yessir.

Pops served in the 10th Armored Division under Patton, Bronze Star. He fought racists his whole life. Though he missed President Obama's tenure, I'm kind of glad he's gone. The era of Trump would've given him a stroke.
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