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I'm more confused by his insistence that there are a lot of women being hunted within his administration

 

Agree with the spirit of this, but Paul Ryan is the wrong example. He's shown himself to be a complete fraud over the last six months. That's the good thing about all of this. We're seeing people's true colors. It's guys like Romney, McCain and -- who knew -- Lindsey Graham who have shown themselves to be men of (relative) principle through all of this. Dems need to be careful about turning this whole thing into Trump vs the World. They can't allow all of the spineless pols who've enabled him to tiptoe away from him now that shit is hitting the fan. The country needs a Republican party where guys like Romney are leading it. The worst thing that could happen is Trump leaves and the whole country breathes a sigh of relief and assumes its troubles are over. That's how Ted Cruz becomes president.

 

Fox and friends don't stir shit up in other parts of the world. US intelligence agencies do. No president ever said the media should be splintered in a thousand pieces and scattered to the winds. But JFK said that about the CIA.

This country pees its pants whenever it sees Cyrillic letters. Russophobia the likes we haven't seen in 60 years.

Russia does not like regime changes in the Middle East turning stable --- albeit authoritarian --- nations into terrorist-filled ones. We do. We need to change our interests.

There are more NATO military in Ukraine than Russians. If Russia wanted Ukraine it would have it by sundown.

I have an idea. Let the Kremlin engineer a pro-Russia coup in, say, Mexico, install a Russian puppet as president, and we'll see how long it takes for U.S. troops to "invade" Mexico. I put the over/under at 30 seconds.

 

You are Her.

 

Well that's one way to guarantee the democrats gain an upper hand

 

To follow up, my sense of politics is that the vast majority of candidates who've entered the arena over the last 15 years fit into one of two categories. They're either insurgents who get their power from populist vigor, or they're mercenaries who get their power from special interest dollars. Neither camp has the luxury of employing the sort of steady, objective, macroscopic point of view that a functional government requires. Neither camp has the ability to consider two imperfect options and make an honest, utilitarian decision. Our politics have become a binary struggle between two opposable forces strong enough to demolish any unrelated resistance in their paths. There is a coalition of capitalists that funds its mouthpieces, and there is the reaction to that in the form of populist discontent. Question is, is there still a place for the classic sober, dutiful, aristocratic public servant whose honest desire is to make the decisions he/she believes to be optimal for the country as a whole?

 

True statement. First time in history that a Witch was caught during a Witch Hunt. How great is that?

 

Who do you have in mind in recalling these so-called halcyon days? Because none of the presidents in my 40-plus years truly gave a shit about the country "as a whole." They cared about their base and would reach across the aisle only when it was politically expedient. Besides an "aristocratic public servant"? That smacks of paternalism. Ask mitt Romney what he truly thinks of 47 percent of the country. Actually don't bother, he already inadvertently copped to it.

The extremism from both sides is alarming. Unfortunately these days you don't get elected by promising to be a great compromiser.

 

Yes. They're the first ones laughed out of the primaries.

 

How Much More Absurdity Can You Handle?

There's a great unfolding treason now—not just the precise constitutionally defined treason, but a general betrayal of reason, of self-government, of honesty and of high office. They are now committing treason against themselves, grim betrayal winding around itself in coils ever tightening until there is nothing but the foul exhaling of the final breath of things that once belonged to better people than them.
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That Pierce fella has a way with words. He's also preeminently astute.

 

How long before Trump denies he even knows Junior?