Rise, meditate, yoga, wheatgrass juice, then bad puns, a light breakfast, and day of pretending not to be crazy.
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That’s it, aim high.
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Exactly correct and the curious thing was that after making the corpse, they then shackled themselves to it.
How did they think it would smell sweeter in time?
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A fetid, bloated, stinking, orange corpse.
“I’m not dead yet !”
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They figured they could control him, while getting what they wanted. They were half-right - they’ve gotten some great, whopping tax giveaways and a lot of damaging deregulation.
But the other half, not so much. Cf., the German industrialists in the early 1930’s.
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“Could Trump face a primary election challenge from within his own party? He doesn’t seem concerned”
Tricky question. I still believe its unlikely he will still be in the WH, which will make the decision moot.
But I am very confident, regardless of who is in the WH, there WILL be a republican primary, and I consider the likely outcome to be someone not in the WH wins it.
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I also think the GOP has more and more counted on being in position to hide problems. Used craftily, power lets you change rules and avoid responsibility. They’ve enjoyed the spoils of that for a long time.
But it’s a slippery slope from gerrymandering to election fraud, and from Mitch McConnell refusing to give Garland a hearing, to Donald Trump saying it’s not illegal if you are the President, and behaving accordingly.
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Remember when all the pundits were looking for the dotard to “pivot” into a more presidential person? Hasn’t happened and the investigations are closing in making the man even less presidential. The office of POTUS has become nothing more than an ongoing freak show and it will get worse not better as Mueller reveals more.
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The big question is what the Russians want in 2020. Are they happy with Individual-1? He certainly is causing chaos and division but he still hasn’t been able to lift sanctions. If he’s not forced out, he’ll will be fighting to stay in office to stay out of prison. So Vlad would have even more leverage, if that’s possible.
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I was just reading this.
They’ll cut him loose here sooner rather than later. He’s one man vs the whole GOP.
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How do they cut him loose, though?
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Ask Flake.
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They’ll stop protecting him.
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…which tends to bring on the common political infection known as HUBRIS, that blinds its victims to the onset of harsh political reality. They are basking in the orange glow of their pyrrhic 2016 victory, our struggling billionaires got their tax cut, and they really don’t care about anything else.
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In some ways, the primary would be the best way to get rid of him. The GOP would rather the Dems take him out, I’m sure. But it would be great if they’d clean up their own mess, for once, and pay the political price for making the mess AND for neutering the hero of the fascist wing of their party.
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that would be perpetual political obscurity… something Republicans in California already admit to.
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The next republican Presidential primary may be inhabited by more than one former never-Trumper. If one of them beats Trump, they become the defacto leader of the entire party, and more than a few of them are willing to own that title in lieu of an actual presidential win.
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And New York. Let’s hope it spreads and meets in the middle.
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Careful with the NY republicans, though, if there was ever an illegitimate majority willing to cheat, there it is, only New Jersey R’s are dirtier… well, but, then there’s Missouri Republicans… oh, I forgot Illinois Republicans… oh wait, what about Wisconsin republicans… do we see a pattern here?
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