Because I’ve watched The American President 700 times and listened to all the looney left wing philosophies embedded in it, I can tell you that fictional President Andrew Shepherd and his advisors talk about "proportionate" in planning a strike on, if I remember correctly, Libya. PP doesn’t know this word, high falutin’ language doesn’t come naturally to him, but it does to Andrew Sorkin.
Yeah, but he really did it for the people.
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The dreaded Double Secret Sanctions. So horrible that the White House dare not explain. Just trust them…
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I think that’s his new word. He’s used it several times now…thinks it makes him seem Ike he has an actual vocabulary.
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Calling Dr. Borenstein.
I do sometimes say bless your heart to someone who’s done a good thing for me. It doesn’t seem to offend probably we’re on the looney left coast and may not be aware of Southern eccentricities. Not just Blackburn, but most of them
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Or, it makes him seem like Ike, Supreme Commander of the Army in charge of the Normandy invasion, in his own fevered imagination.
Yes, it is.
“Cocked and Loaded” is the title of a Gay Porn flick. Haha! The things I learn from watching Bill Maher!
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Not voting for Democrats, particularly in critical Midwest states gave us T-dump Adams Family nightmare weaponized by Russia, supported blindly by evangelical leader submission where fixers and blackmail replace their god. Starring and pimped by GOP cabal Moneyball old white men benefactors who never left power.
Every corrupt box checked. Audacious, this new reality we have—birthed every morning by 240 characters. Who knew it would be so bad?
The world. The Nation. Everyone. Especially Democrats.
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“Mr. President? Vladimir here. Call off that goddam strike in the next five minutes or I release the hotel tapes. Got it?”
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You can get off your inane Dem bashing stat. The entire Congress composed of two parties one of which is asleep at the wheel and will stay that way should be consulted for advice and consent on how to conduct foreign policy by the Executive Branch and that’s not happening.
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Ooooh, I like it.
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“Donnie’s golden shine has faded to a dull gray.”
but the magas are still buying fool’s gold in quantity.
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I saw what you did there.
Absolutely. Although I think he probably sees himself as the heroic and tough guys Patton and MacArthur…both focused on their own cults of fame and hero worship. Ike didn’t see himself as master of the universe…although he was pretty much leader of the free world for awhile
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What’s critical in talking Southern is to string together multiple idioms, some standard some shocking. For example, Willie Nelson has a line in the Electric Cowboy about what he plans to do after work: “I’m gonna get me a bottle of tequila and find me one of them Keno girls that can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch and just kinda kick back.”
If only because Donald got TWO SCOOPS of ice cream and Xi only got one.
I think that time has come and gone. I thought that maybe one of them would have that moment of understanding, but nah, they are just as perverse as he is.
Unless the family goes broke.Then it is every man for himself.
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“rump simply found out his name would be attached to the strike with no way to blame someone.”
Trump’s Nuclear Folly has a ring to it.
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I’ve done just enough but not a lot of reading about both Patton and MacArthur to agree that they were very flawed egomaniacs. Ike on the other hand, I’ve read, regarded the troops who landed on Normandy beaches as his sons whom he was sending off to die. Years later he was still to able cry at the memory of what happened that day. It was also this innate kindness that made him a shoo in for the presidency. He also disliked and distrusted Nixon immensely so more props to him.
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As much as I love Redford and Fonda, there was not nearly enough Willie in that film.
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