Advice Goddess Free Swim
Sorry to do one of these today, but I'm wiped out.
You pick the topics.
P.S. One link per comment or my spam filter will eat your post.
Advice Goddess Free Swim
Sorry to do one of these today, but I'm wiped out.
You pick the topics.
P.S. One link per comment or my spam filter will eat your post.
Thing is, I can totally understand voting for Trump as a protest maneuver.
...Not personally, of course. But at the polling place that Tuesday afternoon, I remember standing in line and thinking it would be a kick if Hillary lost, though that seemed deeply improbable.
Voters have entirely righteous resentments at the way our culture has been composed for the benefit of the gifted and the fortunate, so one can imagine putting some Trumpian figure into the Executive branch just as an expression of annoyance.
But the personal admiration of him is unfathomable, both before the election and after. The shock of Raddy's sincere, sixth-grader's adoration for the guy in summer 2015 was a stunning revelation. That so many have felt compelled to double down on their votes by describing trust and faith in that clown to represent their interests is flatly incomprehensible. It's Donald Trump.
Hillary lost, but that's not enough for some Trumpsters... Their resentments continue. They want her to keep losing that same election every hour of every day, as if the point hadn't been made, or as if hurting her personal feelings would somehow diminish her wretchedness, or would weaken the army of villainous figures from her milieu.
These resentments are not adult energies. They are not rational. Their expression doesn't bring clarity to those Trump opponents who might best have been humbled.
The personal admiration for this pathetic figure cripples & starves the genuinely revolutionary message from the election of 2016.
Crid at September 16, 2017 5:46 AM
Hiya Crid *gives friendly wave*,
can't speak for the Mighty American Electorate, just me. I thought he'd make a pretty bad president. That's why I voted for him. I was confident that Hillary would Get Stuff Done, and I would end up paying for it. So I voted for him, because he might be ineffective.
There was nothing else I could do that would slow down the Washington legislative machine, at least nothing that was not a felony. He seemed to have no knowledge or experience in running a governmental type operation, all his knowledge and habits seemed to be business owner oriented, which works fine if you own something and can fire anybody anytime, not so much when other people have power too.
Now I just sit and laugh when he posts a quick ten second tweet and it makes headlines all across the country. I don't know why they take him seriously. I don't care what he says, I don't care what he does, what I care about is that anything he stumbles into gets tied up in knots, and that was the best I could hope for, at least for this go round.
kenmce at September 16, 2017 6:27 AM
https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/love-first-amendment-boobs/
I R A Darth Aggie at September 16, 2017 7:17 AM
Talking about boobs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnQpDWwEg9Y
This will never, ever, and forever happen in movies anymore
Sixclaws at September 16, 2017 8:44 AM
http://www.stationgossip.com/2017/02/amish-mugshots.html
Sixclaws at September 16, 2017 8:50 AM
Maxine Waters takes to Twitter, surprises no one.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at September 16, 2017 8:53 AM
More good news, especially for Amy:
'How do we survive?': fearful Californians prepare for nuclear attack
mpetrie98 at September 16, 2017 8:54 AM
https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/taking-pee-out-physics-how-boys-are-getting-a-leg
Sixclaws at September 16, 2017 9:24 AM
"The shock of Raddy's sincere, sixth-grader's adoration for the guy in summer 2015 was a stunning revelation."
Annnnd once more you reveal that the only words you think worthy are your own.
My points:
• Billionaire probably has a secure phone, and if the State Department cleared it, we wouldn't know. We don't even have the right to know. Protests to the contrary are simply bashing.
• Keeping billions means the person is in a different class than I, which I do not know about aside from the observations of an outsider; observation supported by my admission that I do not know the businesses of many other people even as I have observed part of what they do.
• He is not Hillary (hack, spit, see recent news that she still blames everyone else for losing).
But you're shocked. Shocked! Stunned!
I worked in a megayacht yard in Miami years ago. I saw enough close up to realize the difference between those who handle millions and those who handle thousands... among people in different professions. Sorry, your astonishment is not a sign that you know the seriously monied. Our difference here is that I know I don't.
You predicted the election's outcome, didncha?
Oh.
Okay. Stand over there with the horrified. I'm sure it's much better over there.
Radwaste at September 16, 2017 10:00 AM
I tend to put the line somewhere between $100k and $1M Rad. But it has to be their own money. When it is 'the company's' money people behave differently. And if it is mommy and daddy's money it doesn't count either.
That is a nice theory Sixclaws, but I don't know of a single physicist who ever played 'peeball'. Maybe it is a regional thing?
Ben at September 16, 2017 10:54 AM
But the personal admiration of him is unfathomable, both before the election and after.
I agree, but then anyone who said the same about all the liberals and democrats and civil rights leaders fawning over the man and giving him NAACP awards was considered a racist right up until he ran as a republican candidate
They want [Clinton] to keep losing that same election every hour of every day, as if the point hadn't been made, or as if hurting her personal feelings would somehow diminish her wretchedness, or would weaken the army of villainous figures from her milieu.
Sorry no, it is not Trump supporters keeping her in the news, it is Clinton herself - one of those morons who expressed personal admiration of Trump for years, right up until around 2014
lujlp at September 16, 2017 12:36 PM
Here you go Ben, Sixclaws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzCV475ADaQ
lujlp at September 16, 2017 12:40 PM
I'm with luj here. Neither Trump nor his supporters wrote What Happened and went on a nationwide tour to promote it, including a smarmy softball interview by Jane Pauley. This is all Hillary.
Now some, okay, many, Trump voters have said, "at least he's not Hillary" as a means of justifying their vote. And that has some merit, despite his rollercoaster performance in the office thus far.
The narcissistic self-pity evident in What Happened does not show evidence that Hillary would have performed well as president. It does not show an incisive and analytical mind that can cope with complex problems.
Her inability to relate to voters and post-election blamestorming do not instill confidence that, had she gained the reins of power, she'd have wielded them wisely.
She complains in What Happened that Bernie Sanders drained momentum from her campaign during the primaries. Yet, somehow, Trump was able to face down nine challengers and the Republican party establishment and still stage an energetic campaign. One challenger was all it took to derail her campaign. And that's despite the vote-rigging support of the DNC.
Hold on, it was the "silly" mistake with the e-mail server and James Comey that cost her the election. Really? Well, James Comey was not the one sending classified e-mails to his maid to print out for him. Nor was his top aide using her porn-surfing pervert husband's laptop to read classified e-mails.
No, wait, it was the Electoral College that cost her the election. Despite the fact that the institution has been electing presidents since 1788, somehow she was unable to navigate its complexities.
Trump is not Hillary. For that, we can all be grateful. Whether his victory in 2016 means we dodged a bullet or stepped in front of one remains to be seen. Strap in, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Kinda reminds me of a scene from The Duchess and the DIrtwater Fox where the stagecoach is barreling down a hill without the horses or a driver. Inside, George Segal's Charlie Molloy turns to Goldie Hawn's Amanda Quaid and says, "It's a little bumpy but we're making good time." Just before before the stagecoach runs over a cliff.
Trump could also take a lesson from Charlie, "Taking the money was a cinch. It's keeping it that's getting to be a pain in the ass!"
That I'll agree with. The hubbub and circus surrounding Trump is obscuring the message the voters sent to the political establishment in 2016.
Neither Trump nor Hillary are savvy enough to read the message in full, although he is doing a better job of it than she is And the two major political parties have no interest in reading it.
Aldous Huxley was right, The meaningless and trivial have come to dominate our cultural and political discourse.
Conan the Grammarian at September 16, 2017 2:20 PM
This dad's wife and kids all pitched in to buy him Enchroma glasses for his birthday, so he could see color for the first time in his life.
https://twitter.com/ClassicDadMoves/status/908875667869069317
Sixclaws at September 16, 2017 2:26 PM
> • Billionaire probably has
> a secure phone, and if the
> State Department cleared it,
> we wouldn't know.
No one will ever know what you're talking about, but apparently the word "billionaire" fogs your heart with enchantment—
Crid at September 16, 2017 2:52 PM
Twitters:
Crid at September 16, 2017 2:58 PM
Twitters:
Crid at September 16, 2017 3:00 PM
Six, I went looking for an old favorite of those, but it turns out there's a bunch of them.
See also "hearing for the first time."
Crid at September 16, 2017 8:37 PM
Jesus, dood... Take the point:
> Her inability to relate to voters
> and post-election blamestorming do
> not instill confidence that, had
> she gained the reins of power,
> she'd have wielded them wisely.
Who GAF? Do you wanna go back in a time machine and kill Hitler and send Hillary to a nunnery?
Do you need an outcome that makes all other possible historical outcomes work out okay too?.. Do you need Bill Buckner to have sprained his ankle in Game 5, even though he made the error in Game 6?
This is so weird. You guys can't hear yourselves. You so badly want to teach that little hussy a lesson. Now, see, she lost the election... She will, very specifically, NOT BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. It's over, okay? RELAX.
If you're going to grind through a (nearly-erotic) obsession with the interior life of a famous but distant person, do Taylor Swift or Jennifer Lawrence.
Crid at September 16, 2017 8:50 PM
Jesus, dood, I wouldn't mind at all if she disappeared from view for a while, a la Nixon and re emerged later with something to say.
BUT SHE WON'T.
No one cares what she has to say, but I can't turn on the evening news without the lead story being about that stupid book - yet another reason she says she lost - or another interview. Shut up already. The only person rehashing the 2016 election is Hillary Clinton.
Conan the Grammarian at September 16, 2017 9:45 PM
You so badly want to teach that little hussy a lesson.
No we want her to shut up and stop bitching and moaning about the piss poor state of her life and whining about how none of it is her fault
We want her to leave us alone
lujlp at September 16, 2017 10:29 PM
> I wouldn't mind at all if she
> disappeared from view for a while,
> a la Nixon and re emerged later
> with something to say.
The last, last, last thing you want is for her to re-emerge as Nixon did in '68.
It ain't probable. Nixon was 55 when he eventually got the gig. Hillary will be 77 in 2024, and is unlikely to be notably appealing to the millions of new voters who will by then be paying attention... And she will have been in the public eye for more nearly 35 years. She got as far as she did last year not by gifts of rhetoric, policy or personal appeal, but by pulling the levers of political machinery and through the (now less-reliable) exploitation of identity politics.
Crid at September 17, 2017 2:31 AM
True, it ain't possible for her to run again, most likely. But she can emerge in a few years as an elder statesman. Problem is, we expect our elder statesmen to have something to say, a real contribution to make. So far, she has not given an indication of acquired wisdom or hard-earned knowledge.
And, yes, by then the machine will no longer go to bat for her. She is a machine politician, not a wise elder, no matter her pretensions to the latter.
Her political modus operandi is to divide, not unite. Yet, she denies this fact, trying to play the unifying figure. That cost her in 2008 and again in 2016. She did not take the lessons of her loss and apply them the way Nixon did his.
Nixon was incapable of being a unifying figure. He accepted that and adjusted his strategy accordingly. She still wonders why she is not beloved and bemoans her lack of universal popularity.
The same meltdown we witnessed in Nixon is taking place in Mrs. Clinton. Her meltdown won't occur in the White House as his did but, like his, it will detract from any positives we might have remembered in her (and, yes, there are a few).
Conan the Grammarian at September 17, 2017 4:32 AM
I mean, the first three decades of her fame didn't equip her with public speaking skills: Her appearance at the convention last year was a notable deflation of the energy stocked by her husband and Obama.
Crid at September 17, 2017 4:32 AM
> But she can emerge in a few
> years as an elder statesman.
Doubt she'd be interested... She wants money & victories, or at least money to buy victories. It's very hard to imagine here caring about any crisis enough to serve, or lead, a committee to investigate. Warren Christopher was a sturdy, courteous and workmanlike choice for a commission on the L.A. riots... No such gig comes to mind for Hillary (though we could use a good team to consider drainage planning in Houston).
> The same meltdown we witnessed
> in Nixon is taking place in
> Mrs. Clinton.
It's amazing how many faults in national politicians can be described as "Nixonian" (Paglia's word).
Crid at September 17, 2017 6:16 AM
"No one will ever know what you're talking about..."
You don't even know why you think the way you do, but that's OK. "No one" is incorrect, of course.
Memory. Use it.
Radwaste at September 17, 2017 9:32 AM
Nixon provides a template for political meltdown unseen in any other president or politician. He was on top of the world, having been reelected by an overwhelming majority, achieving his highest dream, national popularity and, at long last, political validation. And then it all came crashing down in a storm of hubris.
Nixon had his good points, but those are so often overshadowed by his downfall and the personal failings that led to it.
Conan the Grammarian at September 17, 2017 1:18 PM
> Memory. Use it.
You're not too hip for the room, you're incomprehensible... It's been a problem the whole time. Don't come cryin'.
Crid at September 17, 2017 2:10 PM
Conan Says:
"She complains in What Happened that Bernie Sanders drained momentum from her campaign during the primaries. Yet, somehow, Trump was able to face down nine challengers and the Republican party establishment and still stage an energetic campaign. One challenger was all it took to derail her campaign. And that's despite the vote-rigging support of the DNC."
This is completely on target.
She wasn't going to win over anyone by pointing her finger at everyone else for her loss when it has been so thoroughly demonstrated that she was given every advantage possible at the expense of her opponents in what was advertised as a "fair and impartial" primary.
Even the DNCs arguments in the recent legal challenge completely undercut any vernier that they are an organization committed to fairness.
The establishment is a disgrace and instead of learning their lessons and they are doubling down and trying to ensure next time that a populist candidate has even less of a chance of gaining momentum.
Artemis at September 18, 2017 3:44 AM
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