Palin with a penis…
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Well, so we’re told.
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On the contrary, it will be seen as a positive by Trump followers. The important thing is to be strong, which means saying strong-sounding things. Knowing stuff confuses you and make you weak.
I don’t always love George Lakoff but he does have a point about right-wing political beliefs and authoritarian child-raising attitudes. To them, delving into the details of nuclear policy and geopolitical strategies is like a father who listens to his son’s excuses about why he took the car last night. That’s Obama–the pussy intellectual. The proper response is to close one’s ears to this nonsense and say something strong: “Shut up! You git in your room right now and then I’m comin’ up to beat your ass.” Now that’s a man talking!
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Perfect. Trump takes to Twitter in a frenzy of resentment, Trumpistas froth with rage at the Black Man and are further whipped-up to contest GOP convention, wedge driven deeper b/w Trump nihilists and Cruz religious fanatics. All to the good. Galaxy-level trolling from POTUS.
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In the grand political scheme of the season?
Possibly the scariest thing to exit his pie-hole yet.
jw1
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I hate typos too. 
jw1
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OT but you remember that scene in “Witness” where Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis dance to this? Best evocation I know of the moment when you know that a person you really, really go for likes you back.
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“Even those countries that are used to a carnival atmosphere in their own politics want sobriety and clarity when it comes to U.S. elections because they understand that the president of the United States needs to know what’s going on around the world,” Mr. Obama said.
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Does being covered in NYT count for coverage
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And then your father walks in and ruins it all. Yeah, I remember that.
Still OT…kinda. But this has got to be my favorite Sam Cooke single by far. An anthem for the Civil Rights Movement of the 60’s that still holds up to this day…
What a beautiful work of artistic expression.
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Trump applies his in-depth knowledge of NY protection rackets to foreign policy:
“Hey, South Korea, nice little county you got there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.”
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A tiny penis is still a penis…
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The president isn’t the only world leader unnerved by Trump’s suggestion
Dear Ms. Kirkland,
unnerve [uhn-nurv]
verb (used with object), unnerved, unnerving.
- to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upset: Fear unnerved him.
Please commit this to memory. Otherwise, write it down and keep it somewhere where you know where to find it.
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A fine story, Ms. Kirkland, but South Korea and Japan are not in “Southeast Asia.”
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Well, that’s Peter Weir. He can set up a scene to have this conflicting tensions that create emotional rip currents so you see the scene once in the theater and remember it for decades exactly as it was. And just now it occurred to me that yeah, they’re dancing, because people who like each other might well dance, but they’re also circling each other, with the camera circling them to emphasize that, because they know the thing can’t work. Visual metaphors, maaaaan. Well, anyway I’m a huge fan of his.
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Bo knows…
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Sam Cooke is amazing.
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The president knows where they are, however, and he described the alliance with Japan and South Korea as
“one of the cornerstones of our presence in the Asia-Pacific region” — one that was paid for with the sacrifices of American soldiers during World War II, one that has expanded American influence and commerce and one that “has underwritten the peace and prosperity of that region.”
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Incredulous? Perhaps. Concerned? Maybe. Gob-smacked? A possibility. “Unnerved?” GTFOH
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The upcoming Peter Weir tab must include Picnic at Hanging Rock.
@magical_panda
Smells like Maureen Dowd entered the room.
@thunderclapnewman
That’s right, it’s what you want it to be.
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