President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

For YF, it would be one Democrat, one beer.

 

That's the worst George Thorogood song.

 

Did he not celebrate the House passing their bill at the White House with House members? Before you ask: Here's the link.

House passes Obamacare repeal and replace bill

Now, back to my point: He's more content bashing other people's plans than introducing his own ideas, if he has any. He's the guy who likes to call the sportstalk shows and criticize every move the coaches made in the game, which is easy to do when you already know the results. It's a different issue to put your own neck on the line.

 

It's an uncomfortable mediocrity but I persevere

 

He's probably right about the Dems focus on Russia, but by what definition is Chris Murphy a rising star?

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), one of the party’s rising stars, said Democrats have been distracted by the investigation in Trump’s alleged ties to Russia and need to focus more on making a concrete impact on voters' lives.

 

Look, maaaaaaaaaaaaan.

 

She howlin' about the front rent, she be lucky to get the back rent. She ain't gettin' none of it.

 

Lawd, she was lovey dovey.

 

As an aside ... George Thorogood's cousin was the accountant at the last publisher JR worked for. A dweebier sight you have never seen.

 

Haha. Republicans are so dumb, they don't know the plot of Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar.

Meanwhile, New Yorker writer takes interest in provocative suggestion in poem:

Parker says that many early readers of Poem No. 44, addressed to a young man who has killed himself rather than face a life of “disgrace and scorn,” would have known that it referred to the well-publicized case of Henry Maclean, a young soldier who shot himself in a London hotel, apparently out of homosexual shame. And he makes the provocative suggestion—which could equally well be applied to other Housman poems, including the strange one that recommends plucking out your eye and cutting off your hand or foot if it offends you—that not every line need be taken at face value and the whole thing might be meant angrily or ironically:

Oh you had forethought, you could reason,
And saw your road and where it led,
And early wise and brave in season
Put the pistol to your head.

How A. E. Housman Invented Englishness

 

In DC that's applied to anybody in office younger than 50.

 

Rainy vacation day means letting teen Dixiehack burn up his gift card at Barnes & Noble. And what do my eyes behold?



Happy summer solstice YF!