If the worst happens, he'll still have only four years (yes, they'll be very long years), but it's just possible that (a) the US (and the rest of the world) may survive those years, or (b) he'll DIE sooner rather than later...
It's more like he's hoping to announce a vaccine before November, regardless of whether one has been proven to be both safe and effective, and expects the FDA to contradict him.
Why not? It worked (more or less) for his good friend Putin.
Presumably The Mad God-King expects people to fall down and worship Him (more than they do already), should a vaccine miraculously appear at His command?
A safe and effective vaccine would be a Good Thing all round, of course, but how will He explain it away if it doesn't appear by the end of the year, or earlier?
Oh, silly me - it'll be the fault of the Spawn of Satan Joe Biden...
Isn't it time for the Evil Alien Overlords to realise they've got it wrong, and that their Mad God-King needs to be beamed back up to the Mother Ship?
Against a backdrop of a global pandemic, heightened racial tensions, and widespread unemployment, Donald Trump framed his Democratic rival Joe Biden as the real danger to the country’s safety and economic welfare in his address to the Republican convention on Thursday.
He’s projecting. Will it work? Who knows?
It's pretty clear that the Republican strategy is to argue that none of this would have happened if Donald Trump was president. Yes, it's a patently ridiculous argument but it's all they have right now.
I have sworn off criticizing people who have had face lifts, botox, plastic surgery etc. But the RNC has bought out the bastard in me (never far from the surface, just like Bad Boris on Dead Ringers). So, the Trumps and others speaking at the Convention really bought this song to mind. Yes, I posted this elsewhere, but here is far more appropriate.
"It is what it is." When I heard Trump say these words in that extraordinary interview I thought they were his own words. Since then I've come across them in a couple of novels. Does anyone know what the emotional resonance was before Trump used them?
...though that article is not particularly exhaustive, I think.
Our late Churchwarden - a philosophical soul - used it from time to time, when other church members got a bit hot under the collar about some (relatively) trivial matter.
It means "we're stuck with it and can't really do much to change it, so we might as well get on with living around it" (whatever negative thing "it" is). So this is a sensible thing to say about COVID if one is a private citizen and has already taken all available sensible precautions, but NOT sensible if you're the bloody president of the United States and can't bring yourself to wear a fucking mask, let alone listen to the doctors and provide a smidgen of leadership in the RIGHT direction. Ahem. Let me wipe the spittle off my screen...
If the worst happens, he'll still have only four years (yes, they'll be very long years), but it's just possible that (a) the US (and the rest of the world) may survive those years, or (b) he'll DIE sooner rather than later...
The Germans got rid of Hitler after twelve LONG years and a lot of pain all around ...
If the worst happens, he'll still have only four years (yes, they'll be very long years), but it's just possible that (a) the US (and the rest of the world) may survive those years, or (b) he'll DIE sooner rather than later...
The Germans got rid of Hitler after twelve LONG years and a lot of pain all around ...
And a good deal of help from the combined armies of many nations.
If the worst happens, he'll still have only four years (yes, they'll be very long years), but it's just possible that (a) the US (and the rest of the world) may survive those years, or (b) he'll DIE sooner rather than later...
The Germans got rid of Hitler after twelve LONG years and a lot of pain all around ...
And a good deal of help from the combined armies of many nations.
Everybody wrestles with incipient fascism all the time. It's always under the surface, waiting for the wrong leader to summon it like a foul necromancer.
Everybody wrestles with incipient fascism all the time. It's always under the surface, waiting for the wrong leader to summon it like a foul necromancer.
Undoubtedly there are similar novels/films, but "necromancer" immediately called Krabat to mind. (Original is German. One English translation bore the title The Satanic Mill, a later one as Krabat). A Young Adult novel set in the Thirty Years War, involving a secret society, black magic, etc., Krabat is an allegory of fascism.
The Germans got rid of Hitler after twelve LONG years and a lot of pain all around ...
That's one way of looking at it. Another is that the Germans fought tooth and nail to preserve their fascist state, resorting to child soldiers at the end in a desperate last attempt to keep Hitler in power.
Everybody wrestles with incipient fascism all the time. It's always under the surface, waiting for the wrong leader to summon it like a foul necromancer.
The Germans got rid of Hitler after twelve LONG years and a lot of pain all around ...
That's one way of looking at it. Another is that the Germans fought tooth and nail to preserve their fascist state, resorting to child soldiers at the end in a desperate last attempt to keep Hitler in power.
There were Germans who resisted ... There was an assassination attempt, e.g. ...
There were Germans who resisted ... There was an assassination attempt, e.g. ...
Sure, but for every Claus von Stauffenberg there were dozens of Alfred Jodls or Hermann Görings and for every Sophie Scholl there were hundreds of Traudl Junges. That's why there were twelve hundred Jews on Schindler's list and six million on Hitler's list.
Saying "the Germans got rid of Hitler" makes it sound like he was overthrown by his own people, like the Russians got rid of the Czar or the Iranians got rid of the Shah.
There were Germans who resisted ... There was an assassination attempt, e.g. ...
Sure, but for every Claus von Stauffenberg there were dozens of Alfred Jodls or Hermann Görings and for every Sophie Scholl there were hundreds of Traudl Junges. That's why there were twelve hundred Jews on Schindler's list and six million on Hitler's list.
Saying "the Germans got rid of Hitler" makes it sound like he was overthrown by his own people, like the Russians got rid of the Czar or the Iranians got rid of the Shah.
I just hope that The Republicans will throw Trump under his own golf cart in November ...
In today's America, neither are there very many of William Barr or KellyAnne Conway, but there are MILLIONS of ordinary citizens who support The Emperor 100% ...
In today's America, neither are there very many of William Barr or KellyAnne Conway, but there are MILLIONS of ordinary citizens who support The Emperor 100% ...
In today's America, neither are there very many of William Barr or KellyAnne Conway, but there are MILLIONS of ordinary citizens who support The Emperor 100% ...
What shocks me is that many of his supporters are Christians. To me they seem more right-wing than Christian.
What shocks me is that many of his supporters are Christians. To me they seem more right-wing than Christian.
A lot of them are the same Christians (or their descendants) who participated in Massive Resistance back during the Civil Rights era. It's not exactly a mystery why Trump's message of ethno-nationalism appeals to them.
What shocks me is that many of his supporters are Christians. To me they seem more right-wing than Christian.
A lot of them are the same Christians (or their descendants) who participated in Massive Resistance back during the Civil Rights era. It's not exactly a mystery why Trump's message of ethno-nationalism appeals to them.
But they believe they are Christians, and not dabbling. So really tricky to change them. It reminds me of a joke I heard from Dave Allen, but I believe he acquired from the US south, not the UK Northern Ireland, as it works better with a black man being turned away from a church. And he prays, "Lord, help me get in to worship you," and God's voice comes down from a cloud "I can't help you, I've been trying to get in there for 20 years."
Who the heck do they think they are? Who elected them to cast nasturtiums on other people's legal arrangements and hold themselves free to commit crimes without facing the consequences?
AIUI, the US gov't avoided signing up for the ICC, on the grounds that enemies would use it against us. Well, some probably would, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't join.
AIUI, the US gov't avoided signing up for the ICC, on the grounds that enemies would use it against us. Well, some probably would, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't join.
"The Empire" doesn't willingly submit to supervision by/jurisdiction of Vassal States ...
Someone will write a Netflix series about someone who tracks down American war criminal soldiers and leaders, kidnaps them like Eichmann and they get executed at the end of each series or season of episodes.
Am I the only American citizen left who still cannot fathom (A) how this lickspittle egomanical harebrained rattleskulled gonad-driven IQ-deficient self-deluded walking talking billfold got elected and (B) why no one has managed to even wound him yet and (C) how, in this land of milk and honey and bullets and pistols and bombs and poisons and rifles and machine guns and seriously looney fanatics, he has survived nearly 3 years of (chokes) service?
Ousting a sitting president is tricky, intricate, and difficult--particularly if you do it legally and non-violently.
*Clarification*: I'm NOT suggesting illegal and/or violent action. I'm FOR legal and nonviolent action.
I do worry, a little, that someone out there won't/can't be quite so patient. And not just about T. Biden, too. And others. People are so extremely stressed, for all sorts of reasons, and are doing all sorts of negative and stupid things they might not normally do--or even think of. And if they do something bad about the candidates, they'd wreck their own lives and those of the people around them; wreck the country even further, which we really don't need; and the resulting chaos might just wreck the world.
Am I the only American citizen left who still cannot fathom (A) how this lickspittle egomanical harebrained rattleskulled gonad-driven IQ-deficient self-deluded walking talking billfold got elected and (B) why no one has managed to even wound him yet and (C) how, in this land of milk and honey and bullets and pistols and bombs and poisons and rifles and machine guns and seriously looney fanatics, he has survived nearly 3 years of (chokes) service?
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He has been filmed telling his supporters to vote twice - is this not a violation of his oath to protect the constitution ?
Of course it is. He seems to be able to say anything or do anything.
Who would stop him? The attorney general, William Barr, supposedly the most senior law enforcement officer in the land, this week refused to say whether voting twice was against the law. tRump’s enablers have come this far. Why would they change course now?
I wonder what this bodes for future presidencies? He will be gone one day, but what of the precedents he’s setting?
I wonder what this bodes for future presidencies? He will be gone one day, but what of the precedents he’s setting?
Ha ha! You're such a kidder, @Boogie! The precedents have been in place for years (decades!) before Trump took office and will continue afterward. Any president with an 'R' after his name will be granted almost dictatorial powers and anyone who objects will be labeled as hating America, apple pie, and baby Jesus. (See the Trump, Bush Jr., Bush Sr., and Reagan administrations.)
As soon as someone with a 'D' after their name gets sworn in as president Constitutional limits and Congressional oversight come roaring back faster than you can say "checks and balances". (Refer to the Clinton and Obama administrations for examples of how Republicans believe that any Democratic president is inherently illegitimate.)
I'm not saying that Trump isn't more dangerous than his Republican predecessors as president. He clearly is. But if he is it's because he's just building on the groundwork that they (and their enablers) established. To borrow from Isaac Newton, if Trump has seen more venues for corruption it is by standing on the shoulders of corrupt giants.
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A safe and effective vaccine would be a Good Thing all round, of course, but how will He explain it away if it doesn't appear by the end of the year, or earlier?
Oh, silly me - it'll be the fault of the Spawn of Satan Joe Biden...
Isn't it time for the Evil Alien Overlords to realise they've got it wrong, and that their Mad God-King needs to be beamed back up to the Mother Ship?
Preferably NOT for re-programming...
It's pretty clear that the Republican strategy is to argue that none of this would have happened if Donald Trump was president. Yes, it's a patently ridiculous argument but it's all they have right now.
Hopefully, November will show otherwise.
Perhaps Air Force 1 could drop him off at Roswell, NM?
O wait...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Is_What_It_Is
...though that article is not particularly exhaustive, I think.
Our late Churchwarden - a philosophical soul - used it from time to time, when other church members got a bit hot under the collar about some (relatively) trivial matter.
The Germans got rid of Hitler after twelve LONG years and a lot of pain all around ...
And a good deal of help from the combined armies of many nations.
yeah
And so are we ... This will take more than one election ...
Undoubtedly there are similar novels/films, but "necromancer" immediately called Krabat to mind. (Original is German. One English translation bore the title The Satanic Mill, a later one as Krabat). A Young Adult novel set in the Thirty Years War, involving a secret society, black magic, etc., Krabat is an allegory of fascism.
That's one way of looking at it. Another is that the Germans fought tooth and nail to preserve their fascist state, resorting to child soldiers at the end in a desperate last attempt to keep Hitler in power.
yes
There were Germans who resisted ... There was an assassination attempt, e.g. ...
Sure, but for every Claus von Stauffenberg there were dozens of Alfred Jodls or Hermann Görings and for every Sophie Scholl there were hundreds of Traudl Junges. That's why there were twelve hundred Jews on Schindler's list and six million on Hitler's list.
Saying "the Germans got rid of Hitler" makes it sound like he was overthrown by his own people, like the Russians got rid of the Czar or the Iranians got rid of the Shah.
I just hope that The Republicans will throw Trump under his own golf cart in November ...
In today's America, neither are there very many of William Barr or KellyAnne Conway, but there are MILLIONS of ordinary citizens who support The Emperor 100% ...
This is true.
What shocks me is that many of his supporters are Christians. To me they seem more right-wing than Christian.
Ah, but they only claim to be.
They *dabble* in religion ...
A lot of them are the same Christians (or their descendants) who participated in Massive Resistance back during the Civil Rights era. It's not exactly a mystery why Trump's message of ethno-nationalism appeals to them.
And here's some top quality photoshop trolling of Trump's Christianist followers.
Yes ... If The Lord Jesus had not been Resurrected, He would be spinning in his grave ...
"The Empire" doesn't willingly submit to supervision by/jurisdiction of Vassal States ...
*Clarification*: I'm NOT suggesting illegal and/or violent action. I'm FOR legal and nonviolent action.
I do worry, a little, that someone out there won't/can't be quite so patient. And not just about T. Biden, too. And others. People are so extremely stressed, for all sorts of reasons, and are doing all sorts of negative and stupid things they might not normally do--or even think of. And if they do something bad about the candidates, they'd wreck their own lives and those of the people around them; wreck the country even further, which we really don't need; and the resulting chaos might just wreck the world.
:votive:
Be careful how you say these things ...
Of course it is. He seems to be able to say anything or do anything.
Who would stop him? The attorney general, William Barr, supposedly the most senior law enforcement officer in the land, this week refused to say whether voting twice was against the law. tRump’s enablers have come this far. Why would they change course now?
I wonder what this bodes for future presidencies? He will be gone one day, but what of the precedents he’s setting?
My ears aren't what they were but that's one hell of a dog whistle.
Ha ha! You're such a kidder, @Boogie! The precedents have been in place for years (decades!) before Trump took office and will continue afterward. Any president with an 'R' after his name will be granted almost dictatorial powers and anyone who objects will be labeled as hating America, apple pie, and baby Jesus. (See the Trump, Bush Jr., Bush Sr., and Reagan administrations.)
As soon as someone with a 'D' after their name gets sworn in as president Constitutional limits and Congressional oversight come roaring back faster than you can say "checks and balances". (Refer to the Clinton and Obama administrations for examples of how Republicans believe that any Democratic president is inherently illegitimate.)
I'm not saying that Trump isn't more dangerous than his Republican predecessors as president. He clearly is. But if he is it's because he's just building on the groundwork that they (and their enablers) established. To borrow from Isaac Newton, if Trump has seen more venues for corruption it is by standing on the shoulders of corrupt giants.