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In a folder labeled "Deflections."

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It's always Infrastructure Week.

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But at leadt he will waste time tweeting about ted cruzs father. Busy hands are happy hands.

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Thank you.

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It's public theater. Grandstanding bitch-slapping.

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It's not from shame. When the narcicist's bubble collapses, they can no longer maintain the illusion that they are perfect. The collapse causes the cognitive dissonance they've built up over a lifetime overwhelms them, it's mentally painful and traumatic, and to escape it they kill themselves. It's not shame, it's pain that drives them.

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Possibly true.

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The Admiral who oversaw the mission to get Bin Laden just poked his finger in Trump's eye.

https://www.washingtonpost....

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Is it infrastructure week yet?

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"When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, "

Well there's your problem right there, mister. A real president doesn't give White House jobs to crazed, crying lowlifes (lowlives?). If that's how an actual president perceived someone requesting a job of him, he'd behave like a grownup human man and say No. If he decided after the fact that he had hired a crazed, crying lowlife, he'd probably be deeply embarrassed and not announce it over twitter.

In either case, one would hope that a real grownup human man president would take responsibility for their actions.

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Agreed. Her sadistic soft spot for Janine is heartbreaking on multiple levels. I like to think that Ann Dowd and fellow character actress Margo Martindale get together regularly for a few sazeracs.

As for SJ, the fact that they make she and Fred younger - and hotter - initially gave me pause. Then I realized that that means SJ is old enough to understand that the "ceremony" is monthly ritualized rape, but too young to have built up any foolproof emotional defenses. Chilling.

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For the record. The actress who plays Aunt Lydia is a reasonably attractive middle aged woman. The character she plays is a craven, humanity destroying, woman hating bitch. Comparisons of SHS to Aunt Lydia are not meant to imply that she is physically unattractive, but that she has the soul of a shriveled dismembered testicle and she gets that smokey eye using burned facts.

SHS, however, is also woefully unattractive.

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I hope I made it

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I read that sentence and instantly copied it for posterity.

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You know how we've all said before that Trump is a champ at projecting and accusing people of things he's clearly guilty of?

No erratic! No erratic! YOU'RE the erratic, John Brennan!

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