Now THAT is a presidential look! If there is one thing Donald Trump has always felt very comfortable commenting on, it is how women look. It is perhaps one of his favorite things to chat about. From running pageants, to commenting on how his toddler daughter's tits will look when she hits puberty, to calling women "dogs" and "pigs" -- he is never at a loss for words when it comes to this ever-so-relevant topic!
I've got a "Socks-ish" cat who tries to turn herself inside out if I even try to put a collar on her. The idea of getting her into a harness is, well, just beyond the beyond of possibility!
Before this sort of mindless misogyny grows wings, Hillary had better come up with a credible - and hopefully dismissive - response to the phone smashing, hard drive bleaching business. Am genuinely concerned that the vitriolic voters Trump draws could eventually outnumber the Hill crowd, whose support is tepid due to her own inexplicable lapses. Whatever shall she say to defuse (or at least deflect) the relentless, insidious drip-drip-drip of negative innuendo
Wonkettes and other like-minded folk are doing their darnedest to keep Trump's smarmy baby paws off the nuclear football. It would be helpful if the candidate gave us ammo other than diss, which only seems to embolden the freak and broaden his witless base.
I read something the other day in a book written in 1983 (my birth year, yay!) which wouldn't have jumped out at me even one year ago. But now I have to share it with someone, and this seems like the right place:
"I met the newly appointed chancellor at that time (I never saw him in person again). Adolf Hitler received a small group of foreign journalists, four or five of us, in the foyer of the Kroll Opera House, during a parliamentary meeting, among incongruous gilded furniture and red velvet draperies. The Reichstag had been destroyed by a famous fire and the deputies were sitting for the time being in the stalls and boxes of the theater. None of us, of course, could foresee that day how Hitler would end, where he would drag the world, our countries, and each of us, and how many million deaths he would cause. To me, then, he merely looked like an improbably funny burlesque character, a sinister clown, with his bang plastered diagonally across his forehead (he probably thought it gave him a Napoleonic air), a more preposterous and ridiculous man even than Mussolini and surely less human. Definitely, I thought, the new Reichskanzler did not have to be taken seriously. He did not look like the portraits of one of the great characters of history, not like Bismarck, Cavour, Gladstone, Clemenceau, or Wilson, men who had led their countries sometimes in the wrong direction but always with gravity and prudence and authority. He was, I concluded, too improbable to last; there was nothing to worry about. He would vanish shortly, as quickly as he had appeared from nowhere, dragged back behind the wings by the hook of history. His ideas were so outlandish, his programs so absurd, primitive, and barbaric, so unsuited for the twentieth century, that I believed he would not have the slightest chance to implement them, no more of a chance than Mussolini's operatic attempt to reconstruct the Roman Empire."
Also, she's not someone most people want to hang out with. Because the mark of a good leader is that they're someone you want to party with.
As much as I disagree with many of Angela Merkel's policies, I consider her a decent leader. But it's hard to elect an introverted Chemist in extroverted anti-intellectual America. Hillary's probably as close as we can get - she plays the game, but she's not a natural at schmoozing and somehow people think that means she can't do the job? I don't know what they think, really.
What kind of ammo would be effective? Actual ideas on how to run the country are obviously pointless. What would work and how much of our souls would we have to sell to use it?
At this point, I don't think there's anything we can justify doing that would get Trump's base. They are overtly racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and just full of anger and hate. We can't afford to provide a personal therapist for every trump supporter. So the best strategy is keeping the spotlight on this hatred emanating from his camp so that the people who don't pay much attention but do show up to vote realize how revolting he and his supporters are.
In my opinion, she's provided a perfectly decent response. The people obsessed with the email thing are, in my mind, much like those obsessed with Obama's birth certificate - no matter what she says, they think there's something there. There's not. She answered and dismissed and anything more would be fueling these idiots.
My brother told me once that he didn't think Hillary looked "presidential" and when I pressed him for why, he pretty much danced around the fact that it was because she isn't a man.
It's pretty sad to watch my brother slowly succumb to reddit's influence.
Semi-OT: Wil Wheaton on "The Only Problem With The Clinton Foundation Scandal Is That It's Happening To Trump"https://medium.com/@wilw/th...
I've got a "Socks-ish" cat who tries to turn herself inside out if I even try to put a collar on her. The idea of getting her into a harness is, well, just beyond the beyond of possibility!
Before this sort of mindless misogyny grows wings, Hillary had better come up with a credible - and hopefully dismissive - response to the phone smashing, hard drive bleaching business. Am genuinely concerned that the vitriolic voters Trump draws could eventually outnumber the Hill crowd, whose support is tepid due to her own inexplicable lapses. Whatever shall she say to defuse (or at least deflect) the relentless, insidious drip-drip-drip of negative innuendo
Kidney stones?
Wonkettes and other like-minded folk are doing their darnedest to keep Trump's smarmy baby paws off the nuclear football. It would be helpful if the candidate gave us ammo other than diss, which only seems to embolden the freak and broaden his witless base.
I read something the other day in a book written in 1983 (my birth year, yay!) which wouldn't have jumped out at me even one year ago. But now I have to share it with someone, and this seems like the right place:
"I met the newly appointed chancellor at that time (I never saw him in person again). Adolf Hitler received a small group of foreign journalists, four or five of us, in the foyer of the Kroll Opera House, during a parliamentary meeting, among incongruous gilded furniture and red velvet draperies. The Reichstag had been destroyed by a famous fire and the deputies were sitting for the time being in the stalls and boxes of the theater. None of us, of course, could foresee that day how Hitler would end, where he would drag the world, our countries, and each of us, and how many million deaths he would cause. To me, then, he merely looked like an improbably funny burlesque character, a sinister clown, with his bang plastered diagonally across his forehead (he probably thought it gave him a Napoleonic air), a more preposterous and ridiculous man even than Mussolini and surely less human. Definitely, I thought, the new Reichskanzler did not have to be taken seriously. He did not look like the portraits of one of the great characters of history, not like Bismarck, Cavour, Gladstone, Clemenceau, or Wilson, men who had led their countries sometimes in the wrong direction but always with gravity and prudence and authority. He was, I concluded, too improbable to last; there was nothing to worry about. He would vanish shortly, as quickly as he had appeared from nowhere, dragged back behind the wings by the hook of history. His ideas were so outlandish, his programs so absurd, primitive, and barbaric, so unsuited for the twentieth century, that I believed he would not have the slightest chance to implement them, no more of a chance than Mussolini's operatic attempt to reconstruct the Roman Empire."
- Luigi Barzini, "The Europeans"
Also, she's not someone most people want to hang out with. Because the mark of a good leader is that they're someone you want to party with.
As much as I disagree with many of Angela Merkel's policies, I consider her a decent leader. But it's hard to elect an introverted Chemist in extroverted anti-intellectual America. Hillary's probably as close as we can get - she plays the game, but she's not a natural at schmoozing and somehow people think that means she can't do the job? I don't know what they think, really.
What kind of ammo would be effective? Actual ideas on how to run the country are obviously pointless. What would work and how much of our souls would we have to sell to use it?
At this point, I don't think there's anything we can justify doing that would get Trump's base. They are overtly racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and just full of anger and hate. We can't afford to provide a personal therapist for every trump supporter. So the best strategy is keeping the spotlight on this hatred emanating from his camp so that the people who don't pay much attention but do show up to vote realize how revolting he and his supporters are.
In my opinion, she's provided a perfectly decent response. The people obsessed with the email thing are, in my mind, much like those obsessed with Obama's birth certificate - no matter what she says, they think there's something there. There's not. She answered and dismissed and anything more would be fueling these idiots.
My brother told me once that he didn't think Hillary looked "presidential" and when I pressed him for why, he pretty much danced around the fact that it was because she isn't a man.
It's pretty sad to watch my brother slowly succumb to reddit's influence.
Some cats honestly don't mind being on leashes. But god help you if you put a harness on a cat that doesn't want it.
Yeah it took some cajoling for Luci to sit still long enough to slip the harness over her. She ended up slipping out of it anyway.
James Madison libel?
Indeed it is my friend, indeed it is.
Get thee to a sleazy, run down salon!
I really can't understand this thinking. There are really people who can't imagine a woman as a leader?