Perhaps. But how many frogs would jump out of a pot of slowly-warming water?
Convenient fascism isn’t trying to conquer America in a single bloody kristallnacht. A small number of immensely powerful and myopically self-interested folks are slowly dismantling the social constructs that keep fascism at bay.
At the end of every day millions of us do.
But what about you ? Did you kiss the ring on the AirForce 1 trip or not. In dt’s black & white world do you not fear his lust for revenge ?
Along with today’s proven Saudi atrocities and dt’s astounding lies, confidence is thin.
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Is this guy brain damaged, or is he taunting the dotard? /quote]
More like “placating” the dotard…
This one may be as good…
Fascism won’t win because it is strong, it will win if democracy is weak…
Christmas is coming early this year.
November 7 is going to have a bigly present for all of us, most of us anyway.
Then Mueller is going to throw the party we can all enjoy.
Optimism at is finest lol
Not so fast, Rod. If Mueller were to come back with “no finding” after having taken this long and after so many indictments,I think that the general public would be a little skeptical.
I believe the real issue is that impeachment will lead to nothing as, short of actual physical evidence of actual prosecutable crimes, there will never be 67 votes in the Senate to convict…perhaps not even with that proof.
However, with subpoena power and some dogged investigations it may be possible to actually expose and ultimately prosecute crimes by the Administration in general, leading to trials and convictions all around the President. Which, hopefully, would lead to removing him after 1 term and then letting loose a special prosecutor to really make him pay once he’s out of office.
A man can dream…
So what is Donald going to do. Read, er have someone read, through the reports before it’s released and then shut it all down and refuse to release the report and get Kavanaugh lead SC to approve it?
Think House investigations, subpoena power, but also expect even louder bellowing from the occupant. Sound and fury, that’s what he’s got. As to Monty Python, it’s on Netflix streaming and I catch a few episodes every night, they’re as funny as they were way back when.
For the cause.
I’ve been watching a few episodes on Netflix streaming every night, they dull the pain, but there was one the other night featuring Terry Jones (the groom) in which he was A Man With Three Buttocks and was interviewed by Idle who was trying to sneak a peek at them while Jones was seated. Very funny.
Not to mention the majority of white women, with an unflinching support of their patriarchy -
This is the alpha and omega of American politics, the fault-lines that has tribalised our democratic system.
( while the fear of the coming demographics is pushing this block, it’s preparing every other minority coalitions for the inevitable)
How long will the myriad of voting suppressions hold back the tide? It doesn’t look promising for the progressive movement in the short run.
Trump’s 24/7 toxic presidency, thats been aided and abated by MSM business model is wickedly effective…
I’m giving up for now 
Did you ever see the one with Graham Chapman as a talk-show guest with exceedingly long teeth and no self-awareness? The bit where he suavely attempts to drink a glass of water may be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
I watched them all when they were originally on in the Seventies, yeah, I’m that old, but that one doesn’t come to mind. I guess if I keep watching I’ll come across it.
But this one made me roar the other night, mainly Cleese and Idle, but Chapman comes in at 3:44 and I was screaming with laughter.
I could not locate the video, but the script will give you an inkling.
Film Director [Teeth]
(Cut to late-night line-up setting. Interviewer and interviewee.)
Padget: (Terry Jones) Martin Curry, welcome. One of the big teeth… big points that the American critics made about your latest film, ‘The Twelve Caesars’, was that it was on so all-embracing a topic. What made you undertake so enormous a tusk… task?
(We now see that his interviewee has two enormous front teeth.)
Curry: (Graham Chapman) Well I’ve always been interested in Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar right through to Vethpathian.
Padget: Who?
Curry: Vethpathian.
Padget: Ah! Vespasian.
Curry: Yes.
Padget: When I saw your film it did seem to me that you had taken a rather, umm, subbjective approach to it.
Curry: I’m sorry?
Padget: Well, I mean all your main characters had these enormous … well not enormous, these very big … well let’s have a look at a clip in which Julius Incisor … Caesar talks to his generals during the battle against Caractacus.
Curry: I don’t see that at all.
(Film: interior of a tent; generals around a table.)
Labienus: (Terry Jones, with relatively enormous front teeth) Shall I order the cavalry that they may hide themselves in the wood, O Caesar?
All: (with very large front teeth) Thus O Caesar.
Julius: (Graham Chapman, with amazingly large front teeth) Today is about to be a triumph for our native country.
(Back to interview set.)
Padget: Martin Curry, why do all your characters have these very big er … very big um … teeth?
Curry: What do you mean?
Padget: Well, I mean, er… and even in your biblical epic, ‘The Son of Man’, John the Baptist had the most enormous … dental appendages … and of course … himself had the most monumental ivories.
Curry: No, I’m afraid I don’t see that at all. (picks up glass of water but can’t get it to his mouth) Could I have a straw?
Padget: Oh, a straw, yes, yes. Well while we’re doing that perhaps we could take another look at an earlier film, ‘Trafalgar’.
(Between decks. Nelson lying among others. They all have enormous teeth.)
Nelson: (Eric Idle) Cover my coat, Mr Bush, the men must not know of this till victory is ours.
Toad: (Terry Jones) The surgeon’s coming, sir.
Nelson: No, tell the surgeon to attend the men that can be saved. He can do little for me, I fear.
Toad: Aye, aye, sir.
Nelson: Hardy! Hardy!
Hardy: (Michael Palin) Sir?
Nelson: Hardy…’ kiss… er … put your hand on my thigh.
(Back to interview set. Curry is sitting practically upside down, trying to drink water with much difficulty)
Padget: Martin Curry, thank you. Well. We asked the first-night audience what they thought of that film.
(Cut to vox pops.)
It’s very sad to realize that Chapman is dead, AIDS got him some years back, and Terry Jones is very sick but evidently still retains his sense of humor.
Jones was diagnosed as having frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a condition that affects the front and sides of the brain, where language and social control centres are based. When cells there die off, people lose their ability to communicate, and their behaviour becomes increasingly erratic and impulsive. Unlike Alzheimer’s, there is no loss of reasoning or orientation. However, planning, decision making and speech are affected, and patients often seem less caring or concerned about their family and friends.