Discussion: ‘What Did He Do Now?’ Ryan’s Private Exasperation And Pride In Time Of Trump

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You’re as guilty as Dotard, Lyin’ Ryan…

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Despite the back patting, the last frantic year and a half seems to have taken a toll on the speaker’s psyche.

The poor baby. Certainly, he has suffered more than, say, people seeking asylum who have had their infants taken from them.

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“I deal with conflict constantly,” he said. “I have, strangely, developed a great new respect for temperament,” adding that he “personally liked” President Barack Obama and appreciated his calm, stoic demeanor.

Die young, Ryan. The younger, the better. If the idea of this nation survives it will be no thanks to you.

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Another GOP stabled genius heard from…

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A moral coward of the highest order, and he’s “proud” of it.

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“I’m very comfortable with the decisions I’ve made,” he told the New York Times Magazine. “I would make them again, do it again the same way.”

So you are confirming that you are a horrible person. Good to get that on the record.

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I can look myself in the mirror at the end of the day and say I avoided that tragedy, I avoided that tragedy, I avoided that tragedy

Um, Paul, you’re actually looking at a piece of charcoal.

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I can look myself in the mirror at the end of the day and say I avoided that tragedy, I avoided that tragedy, I avoided that tragedy
BULL SHIT

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Thank goodness Paul is comfortable.

Now I can sleep nights.

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“I can look myself in the mirror at the end of the day and say I avoided that tragedy, I avoided that tragedy, I avoided that tragedy,” Ryan said. “I advanced this goal, I advanced this goal, I advanced this goal.”

Repeating things three times in the mirror trying to convince yourself never works.

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C’mon, give Paulie a break! It’s so easy to mix up avoided and facilitated.

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No empathy for an immoral coward. Ryan could have ended the attack on our democracy and didn’t. History will not serve him well.

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The pissing match doesn’t work.

He would know this, how? Certainly not through his own personal experience.

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They do love to jack with social security. My suggestion, take out a child equity loan. If they default, the state can take the child. The state has experience with that now and we have a ton of facilities in distant places to put them. In fact, the state can hold them for a period of time so the parents can attempt to pay back and receive the child. If not, then it goes on the floor right next to the second hand guitars and cheap watches.

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When Obama was in office, did he ever have to avoid criticism out of the fear that it would “boomerang” and send him into a destructive spiral? Did he ever look in the mirror at the end of the day and say “I avoided that tragedy…that tragedy…that tragedy”? Did he ever have to contemplate the things that he (and we) have to contemplate every day? Did he ever look at his staff and say “What did he do now?”
No? Then possibly this power grab isn’t worth it in the long run. Sure, you can bankrupt the country in order to enrich the .05%, you can pack the courts with people who interpret the constitution to mean anything that the right wants it to say, you can destroy the environment, and you can imprison innocent children in violation of international law. But what do you gain when you gain the whole world and lose your soul? Especially when you have destroyed the world in the process?

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Guess the idea of growing a spine and affirmatively standing up to the asshole never occurred to him.

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Paul Ryan is lucky, in a year or two, no one will remember him…

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all undergirded by his conviction that without his presence, things would be much worse.

You’re on fire today, Kate.

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Not only does Ryan see himself as adeptly avoiding poking the bear, he also credits himself with quieting some of Trump’s worst demons.

you enabled him, Paulie.

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