Jersey Girl wrote:When I read that and the rest of the comments in the article, my question was different than yours. I felt jettisoned into bizarro land and the question was "Who is trying to silence whom?"
I had already passed that point two years ago. It’s SOP that folks in Trumpland want to play the victim card while engaging in egregious behavior towards others (“... he hit my fist with his face! I’m being oppressed!”). The entire ‘Trump movement’ if you will, is built around this sort of victimhood. It has been their main play since Day 1. And it’s perpetuated by folks who should know better, but apparently enjoy placing blame for their problems on everyone else who isn’t the cause of their perceived woes.
MeDotOrg wrote:The weird thing about Stephen Miller is he looks like Central Casting sent:
✔30ish ✔Male ✔Robotic ✔True Believer
You don't even have to listen to the words he says, he could be raising money for the Red Cross and he would still creep me out. There is a dead-eyed fanaticism about the man. He looks like Pee Wee Herman's evil twin.
Pee Wee Goebbels
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people, Jeremy.- Super Hans
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.- H. L. Mencken
to thise who have paid some attention, this is one of Trump's go to negotiation/business tactics. Its old school, but he's an old guy and it is still an effective tactic. If it ain't broke, why fix it? How have so many in the hair-fire brigade not put down Twitter yet?
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
I've seen the Trump admin described many times as "malice tempered by incompetence." The idea that has consumed me is whether Trump being a total buffoon is part of the secret sauce to his relative success or if you could have a Trump who knows what he is doing exploit the same faults in the system. Trump being a clown seems to be disarming for some of what he gets away with in relative terms, but he's also showing how the guardrails are down. He should've been impeached by now, and it's not going to happen.
So what if there was a Trump who was actually a good politician? I don't know, but the prospect of a a smarter Trump, like a President Tom Cotton, is very concerning. Given the overall state of the Republican party, we're not very far from becoming another Hungary or Poland.
Seemed like a good time to reiterate this comment.
