Mr. Kimmel’s remarks were inappropriate and deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country. We believe broadcasters have a responsibility to educate and elevate respectful, constructive dialogue in our communities.
Sinclair vice chairman Jason Smith
What did Kimmel say that would cause Sinclair to choke on its knotted knickers like a common masochist in a bondage parlor? It must have been something pretty terrible. You know, something heinous like Kirk had wanted to prosecute doctors Nuremberg-style — like they were real Nazis who committed atrocities on real live human beings — for delivering medical care to their patients or that Kirk had said freedom of religion doesn’t extended past Christianity or that Kirk had said women were second class citizens. Oh wait, that can’t be it, since Kirk actually said all of those this:
We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.
Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.
America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.
A thread in his own words by Leia the SWPrincess
Sinclair’s sanctimonious statements, Trump’s and his vast horde of useful idiots’ accusations, and all the performative pearl clutching at ABC and Disney are so much gaslighting.
What did Jimmy Kimmel actually say to deserve immediate cancellation?
Um… What? Kimmel barely even references Kirk’s murder other than to orient his remarks about Trump’s and Maga’s reaction to it. So, what was insensitive and inappropriate about it? For the life of me, I can’t find anything.
Some of us think that telling the truth, especially in this age of super sized gaslighting, is important, respectful, educative, and constructive. The truth, no matter how painful to some people, does lead to dialogue in our communities.
That’s the gaslighting part. The Orange Caricature and his ghastly minions don’t want you to know what Kimmel actually said. They want you to accept their lies as truth. That’s the gaslighting part. The part where you dismiss reality in favor of their pipe dream, where you depart reality and are flying solo across the universe navigating by their deceptions.
Don’t let them gaslight you or anyone else, quote Jimmy Kimmel. #QuoteKimmel. Let the world know the hatchet job that MAGA is taking to a popular cultural figure.
When there’s been a significant event that the far right is promoting an entirely false narrative about, we’ve responded with a post headed by Don’t Let Them Gaslight You moniker. These posts offer factual information to contradict the blatant lies being the far right is pushing. Knowing the truth is one of the few ways to counteract gaslighting. But it takes being focused on the truth. You can’t dilute that message by discussing other issues.
While there is a lot going on with Jimmy Kimmel’s cancelling than the MAGA crowd are letting on that needs to be known, this post is going to focus only on countering the gaslighting. Luckily, there are people far better and with bigger platforms than The Psy telling that tale t. Jen Psaki did a good job of walking through the sewage lines interconnecting the FCC, Nexstar, Sinclair, their respective ownerships, mergers, and Trump. It’s well worth your eleven minutes plus buffering to give it a listen. For a briefer run down, there is People’s article on Nexstar wanting an apology and sizeable donation to Toilet Paper USA, er, TPUSA, Kirk’s organization that his avenging widow will make the platform from which she’ll exact her revenge from.
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Most in my circle were not Kirk fans. Some of the things he has said take this country back 70 years and that just isn’t compatible with most of the world. Kimmel was utilizing his first amendment rights just like all the MAGAs in the GOP on FoxNews and what they have said is significantly worse. It’s disgusting we have to endure this orange dude.
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I like to think that we don’t have to endure Trump, that there are things that we can all do to stymie his authoritarian efforts. The Disney cancellations restoring Kimmel to the airwaves is a great example of how we can affect the course the country is taking.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Goebbels would be proud…..this whole thing is just more red meat for the mindless….Kimmel said nothing and now he is the scapegoat for all that hurt the dipshit’s feelings.
Did you happen see this story….
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5514132-trump-administration-autism-announcement/
Can’t wait for the stupidity that will pour from that mouth…..chuq
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I hope all is well with you… or as well as it can be. The Tylenol announcement was stupid, but it seemed to get buried under the deluge of exceptional stupidity from that week. I hope that it won’t have much of an effect on the world.
The ability of Trump and the GOP to control and direct the narrative. I’m listening to past episodes of “Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me” the weekly NPR news quiz show. I think I’m all the way back to the summer of 20203. It really is sobering to hear the news from Biden’s accomplishments and achievements. It’s unbelievable that things went against him the way they did. Unbelievable being the operative term. (From a previous comment to someone else)
Trump is literally rewriting history. The corporatists are just going along with it unless they get so much financial push back — see the Disney cancellations — that they can’t.
The problem is that it is all reactive. Undoing the damage done by the shutdown and subsequent layoffs is going to be next to impossible and is just one example. That we, as a country, were unwilling to stop this madman is so disheartening.
Huzzah!
Jack
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I hope is well with you and the move…..hope thin gs get to normal.
Jack ‘exceptional stupidity’ says it all…..and it seems to get worse every week.
I saw this story and wanted to pass it on….https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15125697/Why-autism-rates-US-high-Experts-explain-whats-driving-crisis.html
chuq
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Howdy Chuq!
In many ways I think stupidity is being generous. These people are either wilfully stupid or cynically self serving. From Trumpet to every elected or appointed Republican, they are concerned only about their own personal needs and furthering their personal interests at the expense of the rest of us. They are putting on a master class in cognitive dissonance and cynical corruption.
The problem is that they’re convinced that the world will continue as it is.
Blog On, Sibling!
Jack
PS Things are settling down, but much more time consuming than I thought possible.
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That says it all….it is never about the country only their pathetic little wants. chuq
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I saw one report (now I can’t find it) that said that before the Kirk comments, Kimmel talked for several minutes about the Epstein situation. IDK whether that is accurate, but if it is, then they would seize on the Kirk thing to avoid saying the “E” word.
Kimmel was calling out the gaslighting. Such a horribly rude thing to do on TV.
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That’s the astonishing thing. Kimmel wasn’t talking directly about Kirk, yet so many people were willing to accept Trump’s narrative that he was and that “punishing” him was the appropriate response.
Fortunately, his unhingedness is becoming so obvious that it cannot be ignored any longer after his “speech” to our generals and admirals. The silence was brilliant, though.
Huzzah!
Jack
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The silence of the generals was more than brilliant, it was the only possible response consistent with their oath and honor, and drew the contrast so clearly between their self discipline and the self indulgence of Pete and Donald. That it left the Orange One actually begging for applause (the monkey on his back) was the icing on the cake.
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That was the best part of the whole thing, watching Trump struggle with the absolute adulation from his generals. He went through all of his usual machinations and ended where he always does, threatening their continued existence if he doesn’t get what he wants. It was one of the few sources of hope that I saw last week.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Trump’s deflation in that silence, his speaking like a sleep walker, said so clearly what he is about and always has been, a vampire feeding on adulation and pain, the cheers and fears he can arouse.
I was also struck by Pete H. and his cinematic vision of the “warrior” military, where everybody looks like a comic book hero.
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These guys are nothing but a caricature of real life, which works fine for movies, TV shows, and novels, but isn’t going to work for governing. I understand that there is a bit of a crisis brewing in DoD re Hegseth’s mental health and ability to lead the department. We’ll see if that gets anywhere. The country’s psychiatrists have called for RFK to be removed. Ex-DoJ officials are raising the alarm about how badly that department has gone off the rails. And the science community has been up in arms over funding or research.
Maybe those things will have an effect. Maybe.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Yesterday, I heard an interview of the Insurance Commissioner of North Dakota saying that all 50 State Insurance Commissioners, Democrats and Republicans are united against the medical insurance cuts of the BBB, predicting disaster and chaos, hospitals closing, medical providers leaving, and people dying, mostly in Red states. The are trying to get the Republicans to listen. The message is to not “negotiate”, just cancel the cuts.
Then, on FB, there was a post from AOC describing her attempt to talk privately with a Republican MOC about the consequences for his constituents (He has 2 rural hospitals in his district likely to close.). His response was, “I don’t believe any of that.”
Some people do have to learn the hard way.
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It is a disaster in the making. I don’t know how successful anyone who is serious about governance and their positions like your insurance commissioners can do to stop it. Maybe as we slip deeper into misery and we see the rights and privileges of good rural middle class Christian white people slip away, we might could then see someone in the Republican Party to actually stand against Trump, but don’t hold your breath. I don’t think that is going to happen.
I do think that Americans, especially in the bigger cities and towns, will show up and push back both at organized protests and in harassing ICE and the National Guard. The question is, what will Americans do when the guard and military begins killing and injuring people like they did in Chicago the other day. With the Texas guard adding a bit of fuel to the fire, I wonder if Chicago will be the flashpoint instead of Portland. What’d clear is that the admin is a reaction looking for, hoping for a trigger.
18 October may become a more important day if things keep escalating.
Blog On, Sibling!
Jack
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There does seem to be a hardening of resistance to the incitement and brutality, and violations of several Amendments by ICE, and the introduction of the military where no violent insurrection or rioting is actually happening among local and state elected officials and some of the judiciary. In fact, enough of that for The Orange Felon to call for the arrest of the Governor of Illinois and the Mayor of Chicago.
I saw a comment from a French activist saying that the Americans are making a mistake with our occasional, scheduled protest rallies, when the thing that works is for people to be out in the street every night in very large numbers. I recall that that is how the Iranians did with their pot banging protests.
Chicago may well be a flash point, but it may come in the form of a fight between the Chicago PD and ICE and/or Federal Marshalls trying to arrest the Mayor. So far, the protesting civilians all over have managed to maintain the peaceful and nonviolent position, but a lot of folks in Chicago would be cheering on their cops in that situation.
I don’t think the GOP will change their position on the insurance issues until their constituents are actually suffering the consequences and are seriously talking about primary challengers.
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I’ve heard Ezra Levin on one of the MSNBC shows talking about the No Kings protests on 18 October. There may be a widespread massive protest. I’m feeling hopeful and excited. There are signs that we’re moving towards insurrection act oppression, so we’ll see how well the machine of oppression that Trump has set up works.
I think we’re heading to a show down, though.
Huzzah!
Jack
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There may be a showdown when Trump tells the regular military to fire on civilians (He’s spoken that way before.). The general commanding the Oregon NG has already said that if his troops are sent to Portland they will be there to protect protesters. His Governor backs him up.
We will see.
Trump is as full of himself as he ever has been after declaring “peace forever” in the Middle East. If he is going to fatally overreach, this could be the time. But, Bebe is obviously looking for a way to get out of the Gaza deal and back to the war. That falling apart would be a serious distraction for Donald.
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Both Hamas and Netanyahu get too much out of their endless conflict to ever make a lasting peace. Many American politicians — Cuomo, for one — need that conflict to further their own political ambitions, too. Since Trump is only cosplaying diplomacy and can’t see further than the end of his nose, that the forever peace will immediately fall apart is a given. Also, it’s the Middle East and the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
When it comes to open conflict between ICE and local or state police, we’re going to be on some very slippery ground. If it ever comes to a Texas Guard unit, for example, squaring off against an Illinois unit called up by the governor, we’re going to be on some very thin ice. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail before anything like that happens, but the risk of it happening is high.
Huzzah!
Jack
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The so called “Gaza War” is not about Hamas or October 7th, or hostages living or dead. It’s all the same war, with hot and less hot periods since 1948, and it is about the land, all the land from the river to the sea, with the added element of the Palestinians and other Arabs seeing the Westernized Jewish refugees as a colonial force, not returning natives.
If only the Brits and French had not put the West Bank in Jordan in 1919 and labeled it Judea, which would have been historically accurate, some of this might have been avoided, or mitigated. But then, they also could have drawn in Kurdistan and saved some trouble too.
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It’s hard to see how any of this ends other than the Palestinians lose and are pushed into permanent refugee and second class stateless citizen status. Like the Kurds, Uighurs, Rohingya, and Tibetans and others have been. Now that the Arab oil states have accepted Israel and in league against Iran, It’s over for the Palestinians. They can snipe from the sidelines but they will end up with less and less. While we’ve been focused on Gaza, West Bank settlers have been moving on Palestinian communities. I’ll be very surprised if Trump doesn’t move to create luxury developments in Gaza.
Huzzah!
Jack
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It is hard to see an other outcome, whether quick or slow, unless Bebe simply declares the cease fire over and goes back to even more intense attack, and in doing so crushes Trump’s hope of winning the prize, causing him to turn and join the rest of the world in taking effective action to stop it, including driving the settlers back to Israel. That would take outside military action and presence for at least two generations to raise a generation of both sides who see the two state outcome as normal. This is extremely low probability. Climate change finally driving everybody out of the territory is probably more likely.
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Howdy Bob!
I read a story today in which the Israeli Defense Minister said now that they have the hostages back, it was time to send the military back into Gaza to finish the job. It’s not like the military ever left Gaza. I’m sure he meant that it was time to return the number of daily deaths of Palestinian civilians to the pre ceasefire level.
Another momentous and doleful event that we have had the dubious honor of living to see is for the Palestinians to join that long list of ethnicities that the world has turned their backs on so that a stronger more important power can have their way with them and take the natural resources that were once theirs.
It once was a matter of principle that the Arab States would defend the Palestinians, now it is not in their economic best interests to do so.
Huzzah!
Jack
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That Defense Minister has been absolutely clear all along that the goal is “all the land from the river to the sea” as quickly as possible, and that “the so called Palestinians” a born terrorists and vermin. He is one of the ones that stands threatening to break the coalition is Bebe actually agrees to any deal that gets them any functional self government. So, Bebe is (like Putin) playing Trump for time and lying his face off about any deal. Once he gets all the hostages, living and dead, back, the deal is dead, and the Hamas guys know it, the Arabs know it, everybody knows it but DJT,
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Trump may know it, too, but he may not care as long as he gets his piece price and development deal.
That Netanyahu is playing him as openly and completely as Putin is is clear to everyone but Trump, though. Trump is just so easily manipulated and bought.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Pretty much everybody has figured it out. In any negotiation with Trump, especially about trade, as long as he can claim a win, however small it may actually be, you can pick his pocket clean. Flattery and kowtow will get you what you want.
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Howdy Bob!
Once those farms are bought by corporate America, there is no getting them back, either. Trump oversaw a spate of farm foreclosures during the first go round with him, so I don’t know why farmers are surprised now that he’s forcing them into bankruptcy again. Trump’s latest affront to farmers is importing Argentinian beef because
Argentina has paid Trump off and America’s farmers haven’t.
We all knew this is exactly what Trump would be doing if elected, so why anyone voted or him, I don’t know. If you couldn’t bring yourself to vote for Harris, why vote at all? Or why not vote third party? It doesn’t make sense.
Do you think Harris’ book is worth reading? I read Clinton’s. I thought it was helpful. Usually those kinds of books are spinning everything so heavily in the author’s favor that they can be pretty useless. The pre and post election books that politicians write aren’t worth a damn in my experience, so I generally don’t buy them.
Huzzah!
Jack
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I haven’t checked out Harris’ book. I tend to share your opinion of such works.
The transfer of wealth from the common folk to the oligarchs has been the plan all along. They want to rule over a world of tenants, if not slaves.
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I am shocked by how completely Republicans have bought into the fascist authoritarian oligarchy. The Supreme Court Justices are the most shocking of all. It’s like Roberts, Thomas, and Alito were Jim Crow sleeper agents and the other three are plants.
Civil disobedience are going to have to ratchet up and really grind the country to a halt. It’d going to be lit, as the kids say.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Jack, they really ARE Jim Crow sleeper agents.
The Republicans didn’t buy into the oligarchy, they were bought by it. The Democrat neo-libs have been occasional temp workers.
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What’s the meme? Putin saying, I bought one Republican and got the whole party for free? That sounds about right.
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And that won’t change unless Trump gets frustrated enough with Putin sweet talking him and then not negotiating to stop taking his phone calls. But, as we have long known, the guy just doesn’t learn.
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Here’s this week’s edition of the Highlands Newspaper (1 of 2 weeklies in town). Note the article, “A Tale of Two Rallies”. I was at the larger one. https://www.highlandsinfo.com/PDFs/25oct23.pdf
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First of all, Bob, I LOVE small town newspapers, especially in our time of disappearing local news broadcasts. You are fortunate to have two. And, second, I love the difference in size between the two rallies. Small town Republican precincts turned out. We’re going to need much much more of that in the next calendar year.
Jack
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I was thinking about the tourists driving along Main Street and noticing the difference between the two crowds. It would sure look like one side is winning, motivated, and growing. People tend to follow perceived momentum.
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And if flattery doesn’t get you what you want, you can always buy him.
Jack
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Indeed!
I had a thought about that ballroom he’s building, well two thoughts, actually. One is that he does not plan on leaving the White House except feet first, term limits and elections not withstanding. Then I realized that he is not able to consider his own mortality, and that the world will eventually go on without him. Otherwise, he would not be building a ballroom. He would be building his tomb on a grand and gaudy scale to rival the Pyramids.
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Howdy Bob!
Trump’s narcissism has convinced him that God will make an exception for him and not call him home like all of us other regular mortals. But, he does have plans for an Arc de Triumph or Arc de Trump as many are calling it. It is clear that not only Trump but all of the Congressional leadership believe that they have the elections rigged. They aren’t not afraid of losing in 2026. They think they are beyond accountability by the electorate. Without a boundary, Trump will just keep going.
Huzzah!
Jack
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There is no limit to what Trump will spend on self aggrandizement if he can get his hands on it.
I’m not sure some of the GOP MOCs are quite that confident, else they wouldn’t’ be pushing so hard to Gerrymander even more. There is some fear there. So far, the only one talking publicly about it is MTG, but then she’s always been inclined to say the quiet part out loud.
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I don’t know, Bob. I think gerrymandering is part of the plan. It has been since Gingrich.
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Quite so, but there is a chance (small?) that this mid decade blatant, out loud drive to steal every possible seat will piss off enough people to make an effective backlash.
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That’s the prayer, isn’t it? From gerrymandering majorities to destroying the East Wing, from murdering folks at sea to soaring health insurance premiums and not funding SNAP, perhaps Trump is overreaching. Perhaps we’ll have a year of civil disobedience and disorder. And, we’ll take our democracy back once and for all.
Jack
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As angry and motivated as those who’ve known all along that Trump and the gang would be and are a disaster, the rage of the loyal, brainwashed cult member who finally realizes they’ve been betrayed and made fools of is a different beast. We are beginning to hear it growling, for example, in MTG’s attack on the GOP leadership.
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The Republicans are holding Americans hostage. They are telling Democrats that we will allow SNAP and other benefits to lapse and ACA premiums to sky rocket unless you agree to our terms to reopen the government and then we’ll negotiate these other items. They are hoping that the pain and suffering that will result once all those benefits lapse and costs increase will cause Democrats to capitulate. It is a classic hostage taking scenario.
However they are untrustworthy. You cannot believe that they will negotiate at all much less in good faith.
Essentially, Republicans are following the Ted Cruz shutdown playbook. Win by not negotiating. Essentially, they’ve withdrawn from the democratic compact, which is to negotiate with the opposition party on big issues, especially when the chambers are so evenly divided.
They are relying on the American people to not follow the intricacies of how the sausage is made and rely on their statements that the Democrats are to blame for the shutdown and that they are powerless. Worst case scenario for Republicans is that both parties are blamed nearly equally, which polling suggests is close to being true.
Obviously it is an effective strategy since Trump was reelected.
Huzzah!
Jack
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The word from the Rs on The Hill is that they cannot even talk about talking to the Dems without Trump’s permission. He is the one holding the nation hostage, including the incumbents of his own party who have to go home and face the wrath of voters.
THIS IS THE TRUMP SHUTDOWN, not the Republican or Democrat shutdown. And when it gets bad enough out in MAGAland, some Republicans are going to find they have to say it. MTG is very close to it already. [You know the GOP is in trouble when she sounds like the adult in the room.]
66% – 50% = 16% or, put another way, 50%+16%=66% — 16 Republican Senators and 70 Republican MOCs sufficiently pissed off is what we need along with 3.5% of We The People.
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Howdy Bob!
The shutdown is part of Trump’s retribution tour, vengeance for losing the 2020 election. He is literally punishing MAGA because they didn’t vote in sufficient numbers to elect him in 2020. The farmers and ranchers he’s throwing under the bus, though, well that’s just grift. The Argentinians are willing to pay him more and the corporations that are waiting to buy up their operations — Scott “I’m a Billionaire Soy Bean Farmer” Bessent, for example — when they go bankrupt.
No amount of pain is going to bring Trump around. His narcissistic delusion has convinced him that he is popular and what he is doing is good and right. I think he’s so far gone, it won’t be possible to bring him back
Huzzah!
Jack
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About whatever he cares about, he’s delusional. And he doesn’t give the least bit of a dam about anything else.
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Howdy Bob!
Trump is increasingly delusional. As his desperation to salve his many narcissistic wounds increases, and he grows more frantic, his departure from reality grows. That departure will only hurt us, as they already are. It will only get worse.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Dementia only goes one way.
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And in Trump’s case, that is covered up by handlers, aides, the Cabinet, the party, and the MSM.
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As it was with Reagan, but he still believed in the term limit and exited to retirement.
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Howdy Bob!
For everything he was and wasn’t, Reagan was a true democrat and not an aspiring tin horned dictator.
I’m old enough to remember — as the pundits like to say, but the kids all consider passe — Nancy Reagan’s hot mic moment, “We’re doing everything we can dear,” which tipped us all off that there was something up with Reagan’s cognitive abilities. However, Democrats had too much respect for the office and feared the damage that making an issue of it would have so soon after Watergate.
Would that today’s Republicans had as much respect for the office and those democratic ideals.
Huzzah!
Jack
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That included letting him off the hook for Iran-Contra, and allowing others to take the fall for it, but probably not the right ones (perhaps including someone just recently departed?).
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Howdy Bob!
Since Poppy pardoned his way out of the scandal, it was never properly investigated. It’d the scandal that got away because of Watergate and Reagan’s Alzheimers. All of the players in Watergate and Iran-Contra continued in the Republican Party — Robert Bork, anyone? — and they all mentored lots of the players today. The corruption of the Republican Party has only worsened and metastisized.
Huzzah!
Jack
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The course was set when Ford pardoned Nixon. That solidified the norm that prosecuting a serving or former President would be too traumatic for the country and create a tit-for-tat of the parties going after each others Presidents. And even the threatened impeachment of Nixon did leave the GOP hungering to impeach Clinton for having a blow job in the Oval Office, or anything else more felonious than a parking ticket. In the end, they have managed to prove themselves right about the tit-for-tat.
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It has signs of being an excuse to do whatever. I saw, somewhere, where it was literally called “our Reichstag fire moment”. Now that’s a TELL in bold.
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Great post Jack. Sadly, I suspect it would fail to move the conservative Republicans, who are far too wedded to the notion that criticism of their dear leader and his cohorts is sedition.
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