Weird, Dude.
Has the world turned completely upside down?
First I hear that Trump is viciously attacking Fox News. Honey, he was so mad at them that he was about to fall out of his pants.
He went on a triple rant against Fox, comparing them to – gasp! – every other news.
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And then the next thing I read is that George Soros has teamed up with the Koch brothers to do something. I would be shocked that they could do anything, even order breakfast, together.
But, I would be wrong. They found common ground – ending endless wars. They are founding a think tank to try to come together.
As my hero, Shiela Kennedy points out …
As the Slate article notes, Trump’s foreign policy approach (which the article labels “idiosyncratic” and I would define as incompetent-fascist) has appalled everyone: “neoconservatives, liberal internationalists, anti-war leftists, libertarians, and conservative realists.” As this uncommon example of common ground illustrates, Trump has been a wake-up call in all sorts of ways.
Let’s just hope enough Americans actually wake up, and once Trump is gone, don’t just hit the snooze button.
Here’s a cheer for trying, even if it does mess with my head.
Thanks to Dennis for the heads up.
Final straw must have been the Fox News clip of World Cup fans screaming in the background “f..k Trump”.
1I love Sheila Kennedy’s blog. She help us progressives in central Indiana stay sane. Another reason I love her is that she introduced your blog to her readers. I’ve been following Juanita Jean ever since.
2I don’t think Trump wrote this. Though it’s LooneyTunes bull crap, it does have some cohesion, vocabulary above a 5th grade level, and even a bit of proper punctuation.
I think Donnie just ranted nonstop for 20 minutes or so, then instructed his Tweet Fairy to summarize and post it.
3Whew, founding a new think tank by plutogarchs. I thought it might be something with nefarious ends to the detriment of carbon based life on our rock.
As the topic here is Monster’s tweeting which is starting to sound like Hedda Hopper’s gossip columns. “A little bird told me…”
There is this re: yelling FAKE, dishonest or fabricating false facts.
Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele is the latest person to point out a mannerism he believes indicates when President Donald Trump is lying.
“America, here’s your tell. Whenever the president says, ‘I heard,’ shut it down, stop it, call it a lie and move on, because the next sentence, word, phrase out of his mouth will be a lie,” Steele told Nicolle Wallace on Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House.”
“I don’t know who all of these people talking to him, telling him this information that he’s now spewing up,” added Steele, who urged the media “don’t write that story” whenever Trump “comes out with the ‘I heard’ or ‘people say.’”
Wallace suggested that Trump’s previous references to his “friend Jimmy” were also a telltale sign. “Jimmy’s never real,” she claimed.
“Jimmy doesn’t exist,” replied Steele. “Jimmy is in his head. Jimmy is running from this eyeball to that eyeball, OK, can you understand that? Let me tell you where Jimmy plays: He’s right here,” he added, pointing between his eyes.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-lies-michael-steele-rnc_n_5d203ec0e4b0f31256841752
4Trump is attacking Brian Williams for fabricating war stories? Trump, the guy with bone spurs and multiple deferments? I guess that’s totally different as Trump fabricated fantastic, hard to believe tales of get out-of-war stories?
5Nixon had a list of people he considered enemies. It got longer and longer during Nixon’s years in the White House.
Trump . . .
The planet doesn’t produce enough paper for Trump’s enemies list.
6Another indicator that Trump is creating out of thin air: He shifts from side to side. It might look like eye contact with people around him, but I don’t think that contact goes all the way. Also, when is on a roll, he starts to get louder. He practices that down note at the end of some of his speeches in order to mime the preachers so many of his cult bow down to.
7Linda Phipps says:
Also, when is on a roll, he starts to get louder.
Yes, he learned from the best. John Belushi in Animal House:
Bluto: “Over? Did you say ‘over’? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!…”
8Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it. He’s rolling.
Hahaha some bizarro sanity in this insane world. If you read the fine print Soros and Kochs put an anti war Think Tank together for one reason, and one reason only. To save their own skins by keeping psycho Trump from blowing up the freakin world. Hahaha ya think a sadistic Malignant Narcissist with all the power in the world is going to listen to anyone??? Rapture Ready here we come!
“the foreign policy establishment is ill-equipped to interpret what was happening, particularly the foreign policy of Donald Trump”
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