Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

Second rate reporter says what?

So many bastards, so little time.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When we show up, we win.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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I heard this clip on the late local news, and went looking for the context. Apparently the President-Asterisk attempted to turn the Coast Guard commencement into another campaign rally… or just a very public self-pity party. It’s not like the graduates are free to throw things at their putative CinC…

THANKS, REPUBLICANS!

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  1. 1.

    Emerald

    Hillary Clinton. Trashed for 600 days straight by the entire media and the Republicans and the Leftier than thous, and she was completely innocent of all of it.

    And probably the most qualified candidate ever to run for president.

    Sheesh.

  2. 2.

    JGabriel

    BBC News:

    Donald Trump says: “No politician in history… has been treated worse or more unfairly

    Nice to see Trump finally cop to his behavior towards Clinton during the elec… What? Whaddaya mean, no?

    He’s talking about himself?

    Jeepers, the projection is strong in this one.

  4. 4.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    @Emerald: No “probably” about it, and it isn’t close.

    I still find myself half-hoping for a way for her to end up as president after all this. One possibility would be for Dems to appoint her Speaker after the 2018 elections (there’s nothing saying a Speaker has to be a member of Congress), and then President* Dunning-Kruger and Pence both get successfully impeached after the full details of Russia-a-Lago come out. At this rate, though, I’m not sure that timetable is realistic. Given the pace of the news over the past few weeks, I’ll honestly be somewhat surprised if Cheeto Benito, Pence, or Ryan are still in office in November 2018.

  5. 5.

    terben

    How long before he goes full Riff Raff? ‘They didn’t like me!…They never liked me!’

  6. 6.

    Viva BrisVegas

    “No politician in history… has been treated worse or more unfairly”

    Charles Sumner comes to mind.

    Although if Trump really wants to make his claim true, I’m not sure it can be arranged while he has Secret Service protection.

  7. 7.

    Emerald

    @(((CassandraLeo))):

    My fantasy scenario is that Pence, Ryan and McConnell all get caught up in Russiagate, we take the House in 2018 and Pelosi becomes Speaker again, then President. She appoints Hillary Veep and then Pelosi resigns and Hillary gets what she FUCKING EARNED.

    The upside is that Dems would control the House, so the Rethugs couldn’t spend all their time “investigating” her.

    The downside is that I don’t think the nation could survive if it takes that long.

  8. 8.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    osh Marshall‏Verified account @ joshtpm 4h4 hours ago
    Reportedly the counsels office has had to caution Trump abt contacting Flynn. Im sure he’s heeded the advice.

    was just reading yesterday, an anonymous staffer complaining that they have no way of knowing who he calls when he goes up to the residence

  14. 14.

    mai naem mobile

    I don’t understand why the GOP needed Russian money for their campaigns if there was money beyond Donnie’s real estate loans. They had all this money coming in from the hedgefunders and the Adelsons. Also, I wonder if Mitch McConnells wife’s family is involved in money laundering or something . Mitch has some real dirty laundry he’s hiding.

  16. 16.

    amk

    @mai naem mobile: During the primaries, lot of allegations around mcturtle and his corrupt wife involving millions around some shipping contracts. Nothing ever came off it and of course, the rednecks reelected him.

  17. 17.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    En route to SYD from LAX, in steerage. Happily, the next seat is unoccupied.

  19. 19.

    Joyce H

    “No politician in history… has been treated worse or more unfairly”

    But the thing that really disturbed me, and someone watch the video to see if I’m correct. When I’d first read the quote, I just naturally assumed that he’d gone off-script, because let’s face it, he ALWAYS goes off-script and that’s what gets him into trouble every time. But as I watch the video, it seems to me that he’s reading that off the ‘prompter – which means it was in the actual text. Which means the White House staff who prepared this speech for him also sees this as a reasonable thing to say.

  22. 22.

    Elizabelle

    Out late eating; missed the whole special prosecutor appointed breaking news. Went to sleep feeling hopeful; waking up more hopeful still. Events on the move, and potential to snowball on the Republicans. Amusing about the McCarthy remarks caught on tape, with Ryan reminding everyone to keep quiet. A family indeed.

    We are so lucky — knock on wood — that the only real crises Trump has faced so far have been of his own making.

  25. 25.

    Elizabelle

    @Baud: Yes. Martinis and headshaking in the Clinton and Obama households yesterday.

    I hope the fucking press wakes up too. People falling all over the WaPost — rightfully — and chortling how good the NY Times is too. Uh, no.

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    Chris Cornell of Soundgarden dead at age 52. He just put out a new album this year; liked the single. It roared.

    Sudden and unexpected, in Detroit. No cause yet.

    AP via NY Times:

    DETROIT — The musician Chris Cornell, who gained fame as the lead singer of the bands Soundgarden and, later, Audioslave, has died at 52.

    Mr. Cornell died Wednesday night in Detroit, The Associated Press reported, citing a statement from his representative, Brian Bumbery.

    The death was “sudden and unexpected,” Mr. Bumbery said, adding that Mr. Cornell’s wife and other family members were shocked by the news. The statement said the family would work closely with the medical examiner to determine the cause of death.

  27. 27.

    Elizabelle

    It appears public sentiment has been harder on a comedian — late night host Jimmy Fallon — than on our media finest.

    Maybe because comedians have more of a rep for truthtelling to power.

    I do not weep for young Fallon. Although he’s somewhat a victim of NBC’s strategy to normalize Trump, its reality TV star.I don’t have that much sympathy for Fallon, nice guy as he seems to be. His problem is that NBC corporate was normalizing Trump, furiously. Trump was a network star (The Apprentice), and ratings gold. You saw Trump on NBC properties a lot — Joe and Mika of Morning Joe, anybody? For Trump, any exposure was good news. Whoa is us.

    NY Times: Jimmy Fallon Was on Top of the World. Then Came Trump.

    Like NBC isn’t making bank off SNL. And like its executives aren’t panting for tax cuts. Mr. Trump been berry, berry good to NBC. Let’s not pretend otherwise, shall we, Mrs. Greenspan?

  28. 28.

    Betty Cracker

    Damn it! Just read that Chris Cornell of Soundgarden died. He was 52. No word on cause of death yet.

    Just a couple of days ago, my daughter kept sending me photos from her road trip using some annoying, fun-house face-distorting photo app, and I told her to stop because it was giving me flashbacks to Soundgarden’s creepy AF “Black Hole Sun” video. Then I made her watch it because she didn’t know what the hell I was talking about, and she agreed: creepy AF!

    Rest in peace, Mr. Cornell.

  30. 30.

    Baud

    @Betty Cracker: Yep. Colbert and Rachel are finally ratings gold because they go after Trump, so MSNBC decides to … hire more conservatives. smh

  34. 34.

    Betty Cracker

    @Elizabelle: I’ll have to check out his newer stuff. Was a big fan back in the day.

    @Baud: I tried to watch Greta the other day when some Trump scandal was breaking (can’t remember which — so many!), and she’s just unwatchable.

    @Morzer: Kander is wonderful on Twitter.

    @Patricia Kayden: I wonder if maybe the lawyers had a talk with him, perhaps created a storybook illustrated with a lot of orange jumpsuits? ?

  36. 36.

    Betty Cracker

    @Patricia Kayden: Also, maybe he’s outsourcing: Trump’s idiot son, Junior, inadvertently confirmed that Trump did tell Comey to lay off Flynn the other day on Twitter. And when a reporter noted that, Junior back-tracked in a most moronic fashion. The stupid and rotten apples didn’t fall very far from the nasty, brainless tree in the Trump orchard!

  37. 37.

    Aleta

    Saturday 13 October 1660
    To my Lord’s in the morning, where I met with Captain Cuttance, but my Lord not being up I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at which there was great shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that he was sure to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge them that now had judged him; and that his wife do expect his coming again.

    Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall, and to see the first blood shed in revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross. From thence to my Lord’s, and took Captain Cuttance and Mr. Sheply to the Sun Tavern, and did give them some oysters. After that I went by water home, where I was angry with my wife for her things lying about, and in my passion kicked the little fine basket, which I bought her in Holland, and broke it, which troubled me after I had done it.

    Within all the afternoon setting up shelves in my study. At night to bed.

    Samuel Pepys, Diary

  38. 38.

    Keith P.

    @Betty Cracker: Goddamn, that one hits HARD. He was easily one of my favorite singers. Their last album kicked ass for it being an old band coming back. Gonna play Superunknown and Down on the Upside nonstop for the rest of the week, methinks.

    EDIT: Duhhh, I’ll also be listening to Temple of the Dog, as that is sadly appropriate.

  42. 42.

    Morzer

    @JWR:

    I think Donnie’s consideration of the Liebertross is an excellent sign. He turns all that he touches to dung – bigly. The fecal synergy between them ought to be memorable in the extreme.

  43. 43.

    Elizabelle

    AP via NY Times links: they’re adding to their Chris Cornell story. Includes link to Black Hole Sun.

    Mr. Cornell was scheduled to appear at a concert on Friday in Columbus, Ohio. He posted a message on Twitter just a few hours before his death was reported, writing, “#Detroit finally back to Rock City!!!”

    With his powerful voice and nearly four-octave vocal range, Cornell was one of the leading voices of the 1990s grunge movement as the frontman of Soundgarden, one of the most popular and successful bands to emerge from the Seattle music scene, joining the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains.

    Soundgarden was formed in 1984 by Mr. Cornell, the guitarist Kim Thayil and the bassist Hiro Yamamoto. The group’s third studio album, “Badmotorfinger,” in 1991 spawned the singles “Jesus Christ Pose,” “Rusty Cage” and “Outshined,” which received regular play on alternative rock radio stations.

    Mr. Cornell also collaborated with members of what would become Pearl Jam to form Temple of the Dog, which produced a self-titled album in 1991 in tribute to a friend, Andrew Wood, the former frontman for Mother Love Bone.

    Three years later, Soundgarden broke through on mainstream radio with the album “Superunknown,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Record in 1995. It included the hit singles “Spoonman,” “Fell on Black Days,” “Black Hole Sun,” “My Wave” and “The Day I Tried to Live.”

    Soundgarden broke up in 1997 after tensions in the band, and Mr. Cornell pursued a solo career. In 2001, he joined Audioslave, which included former members of Rage Against the Machine.

    Audioslave disbanded in 2007, but Cornell and Soundgarden reunited in 2012 and released a sixth studio album, “King Animal,” in 2012.

    Mr. Cornell became involved in philanthropy and started the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation to support children facing homelessness, poverty, abuse and neglect.

  44. 44.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Betty Cracker: That idiot Trump family just can’t stop blabbing on itself. They’ve lived such a charmed life that they haven’t figured out that you can’t run your mouth without consequences.

  46. 46.

    Betty Cracker

    @JWR: You mean FBI director. Lieberman would be an improvement over Sessions as AG. But then again, so would a calcified wombat turd.

    It’s just unfair that a mewling, sanctimonious piece of shit like Lieberman should have so many political comebacks. Haven’t we all suffered enough? Just when you think he’s gone for good, motherfucker rises up again like a nuclear cockroach.

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

    Lieberman and Giuliani, in a car going over a cliff. You can only save one ….

    Uh, no.

  49. 49.

    Elizabelle

    Rolling Stone does not have anything about Chris Cornell death up. But does have this link to an oral history of Temple of the Dog.

    Which toured, apparently, for the first time, in 2016. Rolling Stone, from September 2016:

    There’s no saga in rock history quite like that of Temple of the Dog. The Seattle supergroup featuring Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron along with future members of Pearl Jam came together for just a few weeks in late 1990 to record a tribute album to late Mother Love Bone frontman Andy Wood, though nobody paid much attention until a couple years later when grunge exploded on the charts. Temple of the Dog never got the chance to play any of their songs on the road, but that will change in November when they finally tour to support a new deluxe edition of the album. We spoke to Chris Cornell, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament about the band’s long and complex history.

    I always heard OF Temple, and Mother Love Bone, as grunge pioneers, but never listened to their music. Might still sound fresh. Will give it a spin. (And there’s an anachronism. Sigh.)

  51. 51.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Divf:

    I’ve been flying since 11 am or so EDT on 5/17. I had a clusterfuck of fiascos on AA and scheduling that originated with a mechanical cancellation in Louisville, a reroute to Chicago (being given a connection that would be impossible, as it would be underway toward LAXan hour prior to arrival at ORD). Ran from the very end of one concourse to the end of another concourse at ORD to make a potential connection at a gate with a snippy agent. Flight to LAX was longer than normal due to headwinds and turbulence avoidance – about 4.5 hrs. I ended up in LAX with a 5 hour layover and a United Club pass, which wasn’t bad. Got on this one 11 pm pdt on 5/17.

    Anyway, I got no idea what day or time it is back in the eastern time zone, my body is swelling, and my guts are roiling.

  53. 53.

    Elizabelle

    WaPost writer Travis Andrews on Chris Cornell:

    ….Alongside bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, which Cornell founded in 1984, was one of the seminal bands of the grunge rock movement that began in Seattle and ushered in a new era of rock music. Soundgarden was particularly important to this movement for being one of the first grunge rock bands to sign with a major label.

    As grunge became increasingly mainstream, Soundgarden’s reach grew. Its 1994 record “Superunknown” topped the Billboard 200 charts, and its 1996 follow-up “Down on the Upside” peaked at number 2. The band went on hiatus in 1997, though most rock fans assumed the group had broken up.

    “Every time I did an interview, I was asked, ‘Is Soundgarden ever going to get back together? Will the band ever do anything again?’” Cornell told Gibson.com in 2011.

    Indeed, it would. The band returned at the end of 2012 with the well-received “King Animal.” Its fans were still around and hungry for new music, it seemed, as the album peaked at number 5 on the Hot 200.

    While Soundgarden was on its hiatus, Cornell founded the so-called supergroup Audioslave with Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk, three members of Rage Against the Machine. That band eventually broke up but reunited in Jan. 2017 to play a concert at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles in protest of President Trump.

    He also spent time in rehab for “various things,” but “mainly for drinking,” he told Spin.

    “In my early twenties, I was actually worse. I could drink a lot, and I tended to have violent outbursts. I mean, I’m Irish: If I could get the cap off something, I would drink it,” he told the magazine.

  54. 54.

    mai naem mobile

    Not that I give a shit about Lieberpricks reputation but I find it hard to believe that he would go near the Trumpster Fire. I wonder if it’s just to get his name out there. Also, isn’t Lieberdick pretty old for a pretty stressful job.

  56. 56.

    Keith P.

    @Elizabelle: I was and still am really in to the 90s Seattle scene (and associated acts). IMO, Soundgarden was in the big 3, with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Superunknown is a nearly perfect album…Temple of the Dog is real, real good and historically important for who all was in it (it was Eddie Vedder’s audition). Mother Love Bone (their lead singer was the reason for Temple of the Dog) had a good album, too, but sounded real different from what became the Seattle sound….their album could easily pass for a Blind Melon album (not from Seattle, but I group them with all the others and tend to listen to them together).
    I’m so-so on Alice in Chains but think that Screaming Trees, like Blind Melon, are criminally underrated.
    So again, this Chris Cornell death is hitting me hard…these bands were my main musical interest for almost 20 years, and Soundgarden was like my #2 or 3 (I like them much more than Nirvana)

  57. 57.

    Elizabelle

    @Keith P.: Ah, my condolences. Good music scene. This makes Cobain, Layne Staley and Chris Cornell all gone real early.

  58. 58.

    Keith P.

    @Keith P.: I’ve even got the original Chris Cornell/RATM demos (“Civilian”)…I had them on CD before most people I knew even knew Cornell had done vocals for some tracks (it later got bogged down by another Civilian band, then they had issues negotiating with Cornell’s mgr – his wife, IIRC – and then he took forever trying to get the vocals right on what was the Audioslave debut. The Civilian versions were better IMO.

  61. 61.

    Keith P.

    @Elizabelle: And Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon). I “discovered” them only a couple of years ago, when I found their albums on an old hard drive. I’d only ever hard ‘No Rain” and “Galaxie”….the album “No Rain” is from was real, real good, sounding just like Mother Love Bone’s next album. Then I listened to “Soup” (the Galaxie album) and was almost sad that I’d gone this long never hearing an album that good. It’s one of the very rare albums that I consider perfect. It’s just crazy-good without a bad track.

  65. 65.

    JWR

    @Betty Cracker:

    @JWR: You mean FBI director.

    You’re right. All this stuff about who’s running, or going to be running what, (not to mention the time of night), has me all discombobulated. Thanks for the correction. ;-)

  66. 66.

    Elizabelle

    I’m gonna guess Trump does not get an FBI Director through. I think the Democrats are gonna slow everything way down. No hurry to enshrine a ten-year appointment. Lots of career folks, deputies, who can take up the slack.

  68. 68.

    hoodie

    Perhaps because i have a college-age kid, this CG Academy speech thing really touched a nerve. Imagine you’re a parent of one of these coasties and you hear this shit on a what is supposed to be one of the proudest moments of your life. We’ve been so inured to Trump we’ve become blasé about how crazy he is. What kind of raving lunatic gives a speech like that to college grads? The guy is completely nuts.

  69. 69.

    Elizabelle

    @hoodie: It was thoroughly inappropriate.

    Thinking the Coast Guard is less inundated by Trump supporters, but who knows. They do believe in time and tides, and science …

  70. 70.

    Betty Cracker

    @hoodie: Yep. Just stunningly inappropriate to subject grads and proud parents to that self-pitying tirade. Trump is an absolute horror of a human being in every way, and the US will forever bear the shame of it all.

  71. 71.

    amk

    @hoodie: The narcissistic pos thought the crowd came for him instead of for their kids. The obsessions with crowd size, stupid teevee ratings and coverage of himself on cable noise are disgusting.

  73. 73.

    Elizabelle

    Thinking on the overseas trip: it would seem to be that one part of “the art of the deal” is that your negotiating partner(s) think you will remain in power for a few months, and will have the ability to carry out your part of whatever “agreements.” Trump is a dead man walking, and bloviating.

    I wonder if he’ll pick up on his hosts’ caution and noncommittal responses on some points, and if it will enrage him even further.

  74. 74.

    GxB

    @Elizabelle: Holy shit! Unlike the past few musical celebrity deaths, this one is unexpected. He was pretty dark, but mostly clean as I recall. Drag.

  76. 76.

    Janelle

    @(((CassandraLeo))): Exactly who are the 15+ magical Republicans in the U.S. Senate who will vote with all of the Democrats for removal? It takes 67 senators to actually remove an impeached president from office.

  77. 77.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @hoodie:

    Should have been a super proud moment for the coasties. Every other president has managed to make the day special for service academy grads – Generic statements about achievement, shared goals, hard work, the value of service – concepts that Twitler knows nothing about.

    So he talked about the one thing he likes to talk about – him. Twitler wrecked their graduation.

  78. 78.

    Central Planning

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I’ve made that flight, but in business class. We left around the same time, landed early morning Australia time. That landing was the smoothest one I’ve ever had – I couldn’t even tell we touched down.

    Once I did ORD-PEK with some coworkers. I used miles to upgrade to business class – they stayed in coach. A few hours into the flight I went down to visit them (upper deck is the best for BC on a Boeing) and they were miserable: packed shoulder to shoulder, kids screaming, hot and stuffy. I told them I would see them when we land. I went back upstairs and hung out in the galley with 5 or 6 other people and a flight attendant and drank wine and had snacks for a good 6 hours. Best trip ever. Also because we flew directly over the North Pole.

  79. 79.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Central Planning:

    I did ORD to PEK business class back in October. That was a great flight, and I loved that polar-Siberian route.

    Best one was the first class bump to Rome last spring, though – the compartment was even bigger, and there was seating for another person to eat with you.

  81. 81.

    BC in Illinois

    @hoodie:
    @Morzer:
    [ And Le Comte at #77 as well. ]

    This man has no sense of anyone else, other than himself.

    I have been to many, many graduations. My own, my children, others; high school, college, grad school; even Navy Boot Camp. I don’t remember who most of the speakers were. I don’t remember what they said.

    But I can say for sure, that not one of them ever stood in front of the graduating class and said, “Let me tell you what a bad day I’ve been having . . . .”

  82. 82.

    NorthLeft12

    @hoodie: Deadbeat Donald will use every opportunity he can get to whine and moan about how tough everything is, but he is still doing wonderfully and believes he is winning.

    I think the best thing the resistance can do is continue to mock and protest and publicly point out all of his shortcomings. He will crack.
    Man, the deplorables wanted a non-politician and they got the most un-presidential President ever.

  83. 83.

    NorthLeft12

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I wonder if any of the press would have the guts to ask Spicer whether it was appropriate for Deadbeat Donald to use his address to the Coast Guard graduates to whine about himself and not use it to inspire and congratulate these young women and men?
    Yeah, maybe in an alternate universe.

  85. 85.

    debbie

    @Emerald:

    And how many years did Trump spend trashing Obama? Trump should issue a public apology, now that he knows what it feels like.

  86. 86.

    Karen S.

    Maybe this is just another thing that Trump’s core base (not sure how many of them are among Coast Guard Academy grads ad their parents) adores him for: being aggrieved about something nearly constantly and talking about it. I’m sure Trump has felt that way since Nov. 8, 2016 because his election to the presidency has been met by almost everyone who didn’t vote for him with incredulity, anger and horror. Certainly not the respect and fealty he expects. So of course he feels like he’s being treated unfairly. What a jerk.

  87. 87.

    ET

    Jesus he needs to stop taking every single opportunity to make everything about him. This was a graduation ceremony but he is so selfish that for even this short bit of time he couldn’t leave himself out of it.

  89. 89.

    laura

    @Keith P.: Shannon, wearing nothing but a viking horned helmet, walked on stage during a Gun’s & Roses show and delivered a stack of one dozen pizzas. The rare show stopper that didn’t result in Axl pitching a hissy.
    My roadie brothers said that he was a very loveable fuckup who just couldn’t break a crushing drug habit.

  91. 91.

    Mike Toreno

    It’s a HUGE HUGE HUGE gift to this class. They are the FIRST graduating class in history who, 50 years from now, will be able to answer the question: “Do you remember your commencement speech?” with YES!

    If I would have given the speech I would have said, your ONLY responsibility is to the people serving with you and under you, and to the population you are protecting, You have obligations to follow the orders given by those above you, but all your responsibilities, all your obligations, are to those of equal or lower rank or status than you, or those whom your organization serves, and would have gone on about how the higher you go, the fewer rights you have, and the more duties you have. I would have made it heartfelt and tried to make it interesting, but it wouldn’t be so different from the typical speech.

    This was spectacular. It was like watching an unexpected volcanic eruption; like seeing a supernova; like finding a new species of hominid. They’ll NEVER forget it.

  92. 92.

    Captain C

    @Viva BrisVegas: Give him a few more weeks to insult the integrity and competence of the Secret Service, and he’ll make enemies of them too. Not that they’d actually let anything happen, but it’s harder to take a bullet for someone if that someone is loudly telling the world how horrible you are.

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