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Is... is this the kid from the 80s Care Bears movie, all growed up?

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All the repetition in the post made me feel like maybe I need antipsychotic meds. Is it an issue with the site not recognizing edits?

Anyway, the effect is suited to the particular discussion but I hope this is a one-off.

Cheers.

PS: Oddly, the repetition issues are only here, the text in the email is fine.

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He's a good boy. He just got caught up with the wrong crowd.

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That's always happening to the czar vis-a-vis his ministers as well.

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There's a recurring theme throughout English/British history of The King finding himself Beset by Evil Counsellors.

The King had enormous political power and was considered to have been directly appointed by God Himself. It was taboo, and at some periods literal treason, to criticise him*.

But the nobility had enormous financial and military power, and sometimes the King pissed them off. Going after the King himself was virtually unthinkable, an absolute last resort to get what they want.

So instead they targeted his Evils Counsellors. The King was a great and noble ruler! He loved his people and toiled ceaselessly for their benefit! BUT he had somehow become Surrounded with Evil Counsellors, wicked men who gave him Bad Advice and Led Him Astray. All would be well if only he would dispense with the Evil Counsellors and return to the wise, benevolent barons who loved him. And some hapless Favourite would get his head chopped off, the barons would settle, and the King would continue on his merry way.

Nice to see the old traditions kept up.

There was a literal treason charge, "Imagining the death of the King".

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This was the idea of protesters gathering at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg on Bloody Sunday in 1905. They still got shot.

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Well yes, COMMON protesters would be shot. The only people who got to bitch about "Evil Counsellors" were the nobility.

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All this recalls to mind Lord Rochester's quatrain concerning Charles II:

"We have a pretty, witty king,

Whose word no man relies on,

He never said a foolish thing,

And never did a wise one."

To which the Merry Monarch responded that his words were his own, but his actions were those of his ministers. Of course, with Trump, his words are gibberish and his actions calamitous.

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Is this real, or just a quote from "The First Churchills," because that is where I heard that originally myself.

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I read it on Wikipedia, the bio page for John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. It's consistent with everything I've read about the Restoration and the fun that was had. See also: Catherine Sedley.

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You have to admit, he is good at the Trumpian doublespeak. Bet he got an extra juice box and string cheese after his appearances on Sunday.

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OT, but "string cheese" only has one relevant word in its name. It ain't "cheese."

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Ta, Evan.

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“They desperately need to argue that poor Trump was too helpless and stupid and led astray by bad influence lawyers to bear any culpability for this.“

Yes! This is the person I want to control the most powerful country in the world! Someone “too helpless and stupid” to tell his “bad influence lawyers” to fuck off! JHFC!

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I wouldn't put it past Pence to be in the tank for Trump. It gets him back into Trump's good graces and a VP slot again. Then when Trump dies, Pence is pres. Only chance he's got.

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Pence can suck on that tailpipe all he wants, but DJT will never accept Pence as his running mate again.

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Oh, agreed; but Pence is a buffoon.

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At first I read his name as "Jesse Banal." It just fits! So I think I'll call him that from now on.

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"Penile" could work, tumescent little feller.

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"chipmunk-cheeked boy," he looks more like an AI version of Barney Rubble.

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"Yeah, Nixon-up his cheeks a bit..."

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Another upside to this defense is that Trump is asserting that he is even dumber than Pence, and Pence sets the dumb bar very low.

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The header picture pf him is really unfortunate. 🤪

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Failed ambulance chasers come from under the barrel. Kinda makes you wonder why there are so many jokes about lawyers.

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From this guy's legal corp website:

"When he’s not working, Jesse’s pastimes include flying — he is an avid private pilot – sailing and scuba diving, especially shark diving."

Shark diving. Now there's a fun hobby that will prepare a person to represent Trump & Co.

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Did he have an AI write his bio?

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Hopefully. It will add more humor to (the gang that couldn't shoot straight) in the end. Or, chances are, he'll be about as (un)qualified as all the rest of em!

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“The problem is that Binnall isn't a terrific First Amendment lawyer. Or any other kind of lawyer”

We all trust Liz on THIS one. What a wanker, but ... he DID collect $1 million from the dumbasses at the RNC, so not too stupid.

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