Yet another God awful comment from Trump and his administration remains silent or enables by rationalizing his behavior?
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And the world gives a collective sigh!
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He’s still pissed that Princess Diana saw him for the creepy, egotistical pervert that he is and rejected his advances. Her kids hate him because of it.
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Oh dear Theresa , you are no longer his Best Girl Friend .
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Good.
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Paging Robert Mueller. Paging Robert Mueller
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The many coats of that weird orange “tan” deflect knowledge, truth and common sense.
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I am thinking John Kelly has quietly given up and slipped off into the shadows? Trump’s dementia seems particularly exacerbated recently. Apparently he is watching and listening to things that are much worse than FOX news now. I am guessing that the reality in the White House is much worse than it appears, and it appears to be pretty damned awful. There have been a lot of hints coming out to indicate he is rapidly becoming completely divorced from reality.
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Yes, yesterday was a WTF day.
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So if I’m reading all the analysis of the videos correctly, none of the action in the videos happened in England. So Britain First was promoting videos in which two of them show people being violent towards other people and the third a man smashes a symbol, but none of these happened in England. Trump’s response to PM May’s statement is to tell her to clear her own country of violence that didn’t happen in her country? When will Trump clean up the violence in our country?
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The GOP is SO proud of Trump, boldly standing up and putting a woman in her place.
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Collectively the Trump cabinet is guilty of behaving like someone who lets someone else drive staggeringly drunk - with a car full of children - on a crowded interstate - at rush hour.
Eventually something hideously massively deadly is going to happen - and the cabinet is going to swear that they never had a clue.
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And the reality that Trump had a tenuous hold on before was one of his own making and not what is really happening in the world.
After reading about O’Keefe’s talk and his denial of responsibility for his group’s actions I have to wonder why O’Keefe isn’t in the WH?
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With apologies to Martin Julius Esslin:
[Trumpian narratives] flout all the standards by which [politics] has been judged for many centuries; they must therefore appear as a provocation to people who have come into [civic culture] expecting to find what they would recognize as a well-made [conversation]. A well-made [conversation] is expected to present characters that are well-observed and convincingly motivated: [Trumpian narratives] often contain hardly any recognizable human beings and present completely unmotivated actions. A well-made [conversation] is expected to entertain [with] witty and logically built-up dialogue: in [Trumpian narratives] dialogue seems to have degenerated into meaningless babble. A well-made [conversation] is expected to have a beginning, a middle, and a neatly tied-up ending: [Trumpian narratives] often start at an arbitrary point and seem to end just as arbitrarily. By all the traditional standards of critical appreciation of [politics], these [conversations] are not only abominably bad, they do not even deserve the name [politics].
And yet, strangely enough, [they] have worked, they have had an effect, they have exercised a fascination of their own in [our politics].
For “drama,” “the theater,” and “play” in Martin’s original, I substituted, respectively, “politics,” “civic culture,” and “conversation.”
Ultimately, however, my analogy fails because “theater of the absurd” was not malevolent whereas “Trumpian narratives” are nothing but.
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And if he eventually does get one - no golden carriage ride for him. No parade with cheering people for him. If he’s lucky he would avoid a shoe incident from the crowd.
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All May needs to do to focus on terrorism in the UK is to add T rump to the no-fly list. Many problems solved.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhh…diplomacy at it’s finest. Of course, she’s only a woman…
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Would buy into the idea that some play book is being followed - but can not accept that Trump is single-handedly taking in this and other strategic concepts - processing the critical elements - evaluating - translating into the current American context - with an understanding of what what will touch the “hot buttons” - Trump just ain’t that smart … think about it - - Trump has a daily dumbster load of content that he pushes out to the world - via Twitter and the general media - as a benchmark - Kimmel, Fallon, Cobert, Conan have a huge staff of writers to put out roughly similar volumes of material … would not be at all shocked to learn that there has been a propaganda staff of 6 with a couple of strategy coordinators - and would not be shocked if some have extensive threads of experience that connect to some of Putin’s brain trust.
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Looks certain they will elect Roy Moore at this point, but there is hope that Republican Lee Busby will garner a significant write-in wave to split the Repub ticket, or Murkowski it Alaskan style.
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