In other news, Trump declares an emergency to sell arms to KSA.
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Theyâre bumpkins. Theyâre the crowd that yells âburn the witch.â Theyâre the same ones as those that gleefully attended lynchings.
Theyâre the ones whose expertise is blaming others for their own shortcomings. And so stupid that they believe their âleadersâ are trying to help them and not grift them.
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Marcy Wheeler lays everything out in this post.
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Exactly. Because Medusa is actually a victim herself (albeit with a head of serpents that turns people to stone), the sculpture is about a sort of justified revenge.
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Yep!
thus proving the ancient greeks had access to shampoo and blow dryers - or perseus did anyway - maybe shampoo was what promethius was really being punished for
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Zombie Fourth Estate canât wait to be manipulated by Barr with salacious out-of-context cherry-picked declassified info.
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Thatâs one variation of a whole collection of myths about Medusa, the Gorgon. In fact, that mostly came from Ovid - nothing wrong with that, itâs just a single source.
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If the republicans cared about this country, he wouldnât be president by now.
You want stupid? 16 of them couldnât figure out a way to prevent him from winning the nomination.
Theyâd never before run up against a mob boss and his little mobbies.
They spoke up against him before, oh yes. For example:
But now, blackmailed and/or complicit, they sit like statues as he attempts to send us back to the dark ages.
I hope Graham is right for once.
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What are the other ones?
Thatâs perfect metaphor! Thanks for that. Apart from the accent, Lloyd Bridges is practically doing a Seb Gorka portrayal right there.
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Donât worry. The republicans will send a strongly-worded letter.
And then go back in their offices and lock the door.
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Are you saying that Prometheus stole the gift of hair styling equipment from the gods, and offered it to mankind? What a bargain! 
(To be clear: I would have nothing against that; a whole lot better than that sh*tty movie by Ridley Scott in 2012)
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Bingo.
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If youâd said this first I might have agreed with some of it and strongly disagreed with the rest. But this isnât what you said. You said âthe media will knowingly go along for the ride.â I continue to be too sick and tired of this bullshit to even want to try to go down the line bing bing bing of the major stories all the outlets you mention have broken, the strongly skeptical responses, the serious work done. You relegate that to âpocketsâ that of course hardly matter at all. And people here repeat it and amplify it and Jesus fucking Christ when youâre in a war you have to know who your goddamn allies are. Do you have special sources of information to make you the knowing, perspicacious person you are? Do you? Or does every fucking thing you know come straight from the media you casually denounced as traitors on your first go? Donât tell me to get real, pal. Get real yourself. I myself know that Trump is a professional money launderer exclusively because of media reports from a variety of sources. Get real yourself.
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Medusa was a formidable foe, since her hideous appearance was able to
render any onlooker into stone. In some variations of the myth, Medusa
was born a monster like her sisters, described as girded with serpents, vibrating tongues, gnashing their teeth, having wings, brazen claws, and enormous teeth. In later myths (mainly in Ovid) Medusa was the only Gorgon to possess snake locks, because they were a punishment from Athena.
Accordingly, Ovid relates that the once beautiful mortal was punished
by Athena with a hideous appearance and loathsome snakes for hair for
having been raped in Athenaâs temple by Poseidon.
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I like the spirit on this board.
Trump always leads with his chin and this is supposed to make everything go away.
It will not.
His mental state is such that he will have to be watched more closely than usual.
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For McConnell Trump is a useful idiot in order to stack the courts with wingers. His brow never furrows. McConnell is an evil person. The rest of them though are sheep while talking stink behind Trumpâs back. Every single member of the Republican Senate knows Trump is mobbed up but will do nada. Cowards all.
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WTF is that? Looks like Dirk Diggler doing mythology porn to try to break into the R-rated market.
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To be fair, she did turn him into a NewtâŚ
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