Discussion: Trump Unsurprised By Barbara Bush's 'Nasty' Jabs: 'Look What I Did To Her Sons'

Nothing to prove you’re a Real Manly Man like picking a fight with a 90-something year-old woman.

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Nothing to prove you’re a Real Manly Man like picking a fight with a 90-something year-old woman.

who is dead, too…

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What about people who enable Trump…

People like Panda Barr.

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Classy as ever, Mr. President, classy as ever.

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Can bitching and moaning at the White House Presidential portraits be very far behind?

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In so many ways the Bushes (among many others) took the GOP in a direction that led to Trump, Willie Horton, using effeminate mockery to further delegitimize Dukakis, and the Iran-Contra pardons being well-known examples. So in a way they should neither be shocked nor upset. But even they could probably never have expected this to be the ultimate fruits of their efforts to corrupt and abuse our political system.

In a way it’s almost poetic justice, the “nicer” Dons being given the bum’s rush by the “ugly” Don they delegated all their dirty work to (a similar thing actually happened when Gotti ousted all the older Dons). I’m talking about the tea party they unleashed to destroy Obama, and their tacit acceptance of Trump as one of its leaders a la his birtherism–and more broadly their embrace of the politics of personal destruction. The GOP created this monster, but we’re the ones who’ll end up dealing with it and cleaning up its mess. The cycle repeats.

P.S. Note to Pelosi, Obama and other “nice” Dems: This is why you should have more aggressively gone after Bush II when you had the chance, instead of “healing”. You don’t accomodate yourself to evil, you kill it.

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So many ways and so many people. There were off ramps at so many junctures which were not taken. Generationally, the early Boomers bear a great deal of responsibility…people in their 40s and 50s when those off ramps were bottled up.

I am a part of that age cohort and I would give us an F.

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And, by extension, those who inadvertently enabled him, like, oh, the Bushes?

There is a direct line from Willie Horton and the Iran-Contra pardons to Trump.

He is the price they must pay for their past sins and shortcuts.

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And aside, but why was this image made and disseminated? To young boys, it’s an invitation to copycat.

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“History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

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I am going to be a one-note-Tony about one William P. Barr probably for the remainder of the year. It takes a special person to bury a comprehensive Report of a 22-month-long Investigation.

It also takes a special group of people to roll over and take it.

We are NOT that…but we have to encourage those in the trenches.

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The negativity coming from both sides of the grave in the Republican Party is breathtaking. Has there ever been so much self-loathing and guilt among those of the corrupt Conservative Movement? Don’t tell the world everything is OK when it’s obvious none of you can stand each other and anything else in this life or the next.

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Perhaps, like Sam Ervin, he’s smarter than he seems. But right now he comes across as being in way over his head and likely starting to think about an exit strategy for himself (which the mild equivocation in his “exoneration” summary might have been the seed for).

Of course, he’s Robert Jackson compared to Rudiani, and Trump had better do all he can to hold onto him and avoid having to let the Crypt Keeper out of his coffin during the day. He at least SEEMS reasonable.

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tune into the infinite my child, and be rested

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Conservatism died as a mainstream construct in the GOP years ago. They are racist reactionaries laced with a malignant version of populism with a chaser of resentment…

Ironically, they need less motivation to “come out”** and vote…or maybe it’s NOT ironic, given how they actually feel about political participation (as compared to Democrats and Democratic-leaning people).

** People keep asking our voters to “come out” (as though it’s a double date).Voting is a right which must be used

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When is his face finally going to melt off his skull? I’m waiting for that.

He is a rotten, horrible monster. Not human at all. You can’t listen to the ugly things he says and not be disturbed on some level. I take solice in what I believe to be true- every day is a miserable, torturous day for Blobbo. The job is eating him alive because he is unfit.

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the ticket prices are high, the seats are uncomfortable (except in first class), they charge you for water and the pilot is a raving incompetant - the fasten you seatbelts sign has been left on.

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I actually thought that Mueller was going to bust Giuliani…Shows what I know…

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Hey, I’m actually in an airport right now, and that is EXACTLY how it feels!

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