I first read her right after Ferguson, and she is the kind of journalist we need right now. Whip smart and with empathy for human beings. I need to make some time to read that.
6 Likes
Pretty much every adult member of my partnerās family has expressed a similar statement about her father, but possibly for a different reason. Weāre all pretty sure he would have been a supporter of Occupant Trump. He actually was a fairly decent person, but he was so enthralled with the GOP that, although he might have hesitated a bit, he would still have fully swallowed the Kool-Aid and jumped in with both feet. He would have privately grumbled about what was happening, but heād still publicly support it and justify it as much as he could.
(No shock to reveal that he ran for Illinois Attorney General under the Republican banner, huh?)
2 Likes
She also hasnāt been disappeared yet. When do we expect journos to get the chop in the timetable of horror?
Itās only a five minute read.
3 Likes
I know that now, 
Not sure this is satireā¦ 
10 Likes
This isnāt. The problem with accepting illegal favors from the Russians is that they can use them to undermine you later.
7 Likes
You were saying?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/10/west-virginia-journalist-arrested-after-asking-hhs-secretary-tom-price-a-question/
4 Likes
I hope this turns up some good evidence.
8 Likes
One possible thing Trump didnāt think of is that the lower-downs in the Bureau would react in a āYeah, heās an incompetent bastard, but heās our incompetent bastard.ā way.
It would be the best-case scenario for the country. Throw in some judges pissed off at the disrespect thrown at them and warrants might not be hard to obtain.
Unfortunately, I am not a person of great faith. And the evidence shows that dictators get away with this shit more often than not.
9 Likes
I just needed some positive news.
2 Likes
Wouldnāt Toronto do? Or Dublin?
1 Like
This is complete rubbish. Itās Mother Russia.
If you think thatās warm and cuddly remember what cats under stress do to kittens.
2 Likes
17 Likes
Thatās pretty much the read I had on it.
7 Likes
This kind of stuff makes me wonder if heās even in the mental condition to survive a full term. If heās lashing out like Hitler in his bunker not four months into office, whatās he going to be like a couple years from now? Holding office means having his incompetence on display, being exposed to relentless public criticismāa narcissistās worst nightmare.
How many times can he do something like this before 1.) the endless distractions make him a liability to his party or 2.) he eventually miscalculates by crossing the wrong a red line or 3.) nature, stress and McDonaldās food run their course?
8 Likes
Iāve been saying the stress of being president is obviously affecting him. The only time he is coherent anymore is when he is at one of his rallies, but that behavior is what he truly loves. His staff is already talking over him in interviews, and I suspect that he will do less one-on-one communication with the press.
3 Likes
Actually Hitler started lashing out well before 1945, purging as much of the officer class as he could. He wanted people who wouldnāt oppose him. Once he had a reliable supply of toadies, he rewarded them with estates in East Prussia in the hope that this would ensure their loyalty when he attacked the Soviet Union. Even very intelligent people like von Guderian fell for this.
On that basis, Trump will commit suicide in the wreckage of Washington somewhere around the middle of his second term.
4 Likes
I donāt know. This looks less like a skillful political machination than a temper tantrum.
1 Like
If you read the accounts, Hitler seemed to alternate between the two. The fact that getting rid of the opposition advanced his plans seems in some cases to have been almost coincidental. What is clear is that his courtiers constantly suggested getting rid of various people, and that sometimes he seems to have done so in a temper fit.
But, being somewhat sarcastic, there is another similarity between the two. Hitlerās aim was, in effect, to be a property developer. Itās just that the property he wanted to develop was Eastern Europe and Russia. His most popular courtier was his architect, Speer. Trump wants to get stuff and put his name on it. Is this just a common mindset of demagogic dictators with NPD?
7 Likes
