Amen, General Sternwood. Let’s not forget that the 2000 presidential election was pretty well decided before it ever got to the Supreme Court, thanks to James Baker, Karl Rove, the Brooks Brothers riot, and a hundred paid journalists writing columns calling for a Republican outcome.
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A Time cover with Miller and Kelly on is right about now would do wonders.
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I do not believe magazines are allowed to show infected penises on their covers.
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Well, the other alternative is to get them invited to a slew of talk news programs (as the real deciders) but that would run into the same broadcast decency issues.
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The “fake news” thing has been rolling around in my head all day…
Then it hit me… right between the eyes… everything I know is wrong…
These guys were 35-40 years ahead of their time.
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“Covfefe’s for closers…”
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“Hello Seeker”!!
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This whole mess belies Trump’s claim to be the great deal maker. From his ghost-written best seller:
“You can’t con people, at least not for long,” Trump writes. “You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you can’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.”
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Man, oh man, do the gods hate you people.
“The only President of the United States who was never President of the United States” (see my post above.)
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And no doubt …everything I know is wrong.
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Welp, Miller can be fired in a New York minute and Graham cannot…so there’s that
One of these 3 people is Stephen Miller. My vote is the guy in the middle (shudder)
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Yes, that is the thesis of this piece by Hunter @ DailyKos: Weak, ignorant and uninterested: Federal shutdown shows Trump isn’t in charge of his own White House
In either case, it is this seemingly intractable Trump weakness that poses the danger of a long, potentially very long, shutdown. Even at this point, neither McConnell or Schumer can negotiate with Trump or confine him to a stable, readily identifiable position; the hardline positions of his anti-immigrant staff members are so untenable to both Democrats and Republican moderates, however, as to be a non-starter. We are stuck, because Donald Trump cannot control the demands of his own staff. And we’ll be stuck until Trump’s own staff either successfully sidelines him from the negotiations entirely, thus enabling a consistent (if hardline) position inside the White House, or Trump becomes so enraged by negative news coverage of his dealmaking failures that he sidelines his staff.
The war to fund the government isn’t going on in the House or in the Senate, but between Trump and his own advisers. And it may last a while.
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Oh, I dunno about that. I’ve found beagles to be rather smart.
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The shutdown is a gift from the dad to the idiot kids Eric and Don Jr.
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FIFY
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I think it was mostly tongue-in-cheek mixed w a bit of opportunism. What I remember most was she seemed legitimately contemptuous of Vitter. About policy-no idea.
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Easily smarter than that supposed “stable genius” we have heard about recently. I see nothing stable about him these past few days nor is he showing any smarts. And Red Tick Coon Hounds are pretty darn smart too (see my avatar).
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Well this is Groundhog Day, and I for one can’t get used to it.
I wonder how long the All Great and Powerful Wall St. (ers) will be willing to go along with this crap?
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All trump would need to do is get Miller and Kelly in the office and tell them to STFU or pack up their desks and find alternate employment. Then call Schumer, Ryan, and McConnell on a conference call and say “Here’s my list, waddya think?”
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Or maybe this woman (I just can’t get enough of her!):
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