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“The Widow” Versus the Dolt-in-Chief

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It’s not going to get any better. He’s only going to get worse, and so is the news out of Niger.

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  3. 3.

    rikyrah

    Trump kills Obama rule aimed at protecting independent farmers from big food companies
    10/24/17 06:00 AM EDT

    The Trump administration is rescinding an Obama-era rule that would have made it easier for independent farmers to bring lawsuits against big food companies they raise chicken and other livestock for.

    The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyard Administration last week withdrew an interim final rule a day before it was set to take effect. The rule aimed to make it easier for farmers to bring companies like Tyson Foods, Pilgrim Pride and Perdue to court over what they say are unfair, deceptive and retaliatory practices.

  4. 4.

    Jeffro

    Man, Corker is banging on the Mango Menace and HARD, too. He’s even ‘recanting’ his support for Trumpov publicly. There’s only so many fingers you can put in the dike before it goes, GOP…

  7. 7.

    Major Major Major Major

    I bet if you asked her, she would say she is not strong. What she is, is brave. She gets up & keeps going because he deserves justice.

    She might not call herself brave either. She’s just doing what she knows she has to do.

  8. 8.

    geg6

    Myeshia Johnson is a very brave and outstanding young woman, exactly as her husband was. Anyone who watched her GMA interview could see that. Her beautiful smile when her soon-to-be-born daughter came up and when George S. mentioned how they met when they were six. You could see that she and her husband were in a real love affair. That disgusting pig squatting in the WH is going to attack her. I honestly think his evil minion Kelly is going to also. They are inhuman.

  9. 9.

    JMG

    There are a lot of Americans who would much prefer it if POC were not allowed to serve in the armed forces. Not a majority, but it’s a lot. Attacking Johnson will please them.

  10. 10.

    Marcion

    *needs 3 Senators to pass tax deal

    *pisses off McCain, Corker, third Senator to be named later

    ARRRRT OFFFF THEEE DEAAALLLL

  13. 13.

    schrodingers_cat

    @JMG: T’s DoD has stopped Green Card holders from enlisting. Adam thinks it is Steven Miller’s strategy. Its funny how these brave manly generals get rolled by that skinny Nazi geek all the fucking time.

  14. 14.

    Ohio Mom

    The thing is, the list of people Trump has insulted is very long. Mrs. Johnson could have lots of company, if any of the others had shown any gumption. We can hope though that there will be others in the future to follow her lead.

  16. 16.

    Big Ole Hound

    Trump just claimed he is winning the “war on widows”. This could be his absolute downfall since gold star families and veterans are his base. C’mon Donald piss this group off and you’re done.

  17. 17.

    Chris

    @geg6:

    That disgusting pig squatting in the WH is going to attack her. I honestly think his evil minion Kelly is going to also. They are inhuman.

    “Well, you know, she’s an Army wife. Not a soldier. One of those gold-digging welfare queens, living high off of her husband’s hard-earned paycheck.”

  19. 19.

    Hunter Gathers

    @Jeffro: Corker is going to do jack shit. He’s going to run his mouth, vote for tax cuts and make concern face until he leaves next year. That’s what passes for White Courage these days. All talk, no action.

  20. 20.

    Aimai

    Trump voters are already primed to understand trump as the victim of a money hungry democratic race hustler. The right wing commentary about this situation bears no resemblance to any reality we know. motherhood, apple pie, and widowhood are all Raced, classed, and understood differently whe applied to women snd soldiers of color.

  21. 21.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    He keeps saying they had a “nice conversation”. About her husband being killed in a hostile firefight. Yesterday he went on some second-tier RW radio show and said “I was so nice….”.

  22. 22.

    A Ghost To Most

    That’s what passes for White Courage these days. All talk, no action.

    Not all of us. Most, but not all. The question is, what are you willing to do to preserve American democracy? That is an unpopular question these days.

  23. 23.

    germy

    If Corker was up for re-election he’d be keeping his mouth shut. Guys like him are terrified of The Base. [cue spooky music]

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    Also, reminder:

    FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.
    The Vanguard
    Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, filmmaker Ava DuVernay and author-activist Janet Mock see their basic assumptions about their families challenged, placing their ancestors-of all colors-into the greater context of black history.

  24. 24.

    MattF

    @LAO: Trump is entirely indifferent to whether what he says is true or false. It just depends, for him, on whether it has the desired effect on his specific enemies and his specific friends. The only downside is that Trump’s most ardent defenders can’t predict where he’ll come down on any policy issue until they’ve Heard their Master’s Voice. Kind of humiliating, I’d guess– but that’s the point.

  25. 25.

    Brachiator

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    I’m amazed he hasn’t begun whining and lying about Johnson already.

    It’s already started. Trump has claimed that she is lying about their conversation, that she misrepresented “the facts.”

    Chief of Staff Kelly indirectly attacked her by implying that “sacred” war widows should just STFU and stoically, quietly, endure while the mens speak for them and take care of them.

    Trump supporters are gearing up the racist attacks. They just can’t help themselves.

  28. 28.

    Matt McIrvin

    @JMG:

    There are a lot of Americans who would much prefer it if POC were not allowed to serve in the armed forces.

    They’ll change their tune if it’s a big war. Again.

  30. 30.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The utter scum of the right are attacking this grieving widow because OTHERS have put together gofundme projects to provide for her kids.

    Racist shit needs to be deported to Russia.

  34. 34.

    SFAW

    @Big Ole Hound:

    C’mon Donald piss this group off and you’re done.

    New to this country, are you? Or have you just awakened from a long sleep/coma?

    Or are you under the impression that wither (A) his base would abandon him or (B) Ryan, McConnell, et al., would take action against him?

  38. 38.

    JMG

    The problem isn’t Trump’s voters, it’s ours. Until they start showing up at every election, Republicans are going to run the country. It’s quite possible race baiting will win the GOP the Va. governorship because Dems will fail to show up at the polls.

  40. 40.

    Barbara

    In this, I really wish Trump would shut up and the military would be more forthcoming about what actually happened (they might not know yet). If Trump were on a soccer team he would definitely have the all-time record for own goals. Nothing about this incident would have escalated if he hadn’t tried to use a question about the incident and resulting deaths of U.S. servicemen as a chance to piss on Obama and prior presidents.

  41. 41.

    SFAW

    @Matt McIrvin:

    They’ll change their tune if it’s a big war. Again.

    Not to worry — Lying Littledick is working hard (so to speak) to ensure that the Next Big War will be short, with lots of BIG explosions. No need to call up troops.

  44. 44.

    gene108

    @Marcion:

    *needs 3 Senators to pass tax deal

    *pisses off McCain, Corker, third Senator to be named later

    ARRRRT OFFFF THEEE DEAAALLLL

    Tax cuts for the rich transcend petty squabbles. Trump could castrate Corker on national T.V., with a rusty knife, and Corker would still vote for the tax cuts.

    Tax cuts for the rich is the sole reason the Republican Party exists and is supported, financially, to the extent that it is.

  45. 45.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @Jeffro: Speaking of books, you’ve got an email from maybe last week.
    Last week’s Borowitz Report:

    WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Former President Barack Obama has started calling every person in America to offer consolation about Donald Trump being President, Obama has confirmed.
    “It’s something I meant to do right after the Inauguration,” Obama said, during a brief break from the phone calls. “I feel terrible that I didn’t get to it sooner.”
    The former President said that, although the phone calls are a small gesture, he felt that he had to do whatever he could to extend his sympathy about Trump being President.
    “There’s a lot of pain out there that a phone call from me can never fix,” he said. “Still, I want people to know that I care.”
    Carol Foyler, who has been grieving since Trump was elected, last November, said that receiving a call from Obama on Monday “meant a lot.”
    “The fact that he took the time to call me, when he had three hundred million more people left to call, is something I’ll never forget,” she said.

  46. 46.

    MattF

    @Barbara: It could be important to understand what actually happened with that. Unfortunately, an actual, fact-based study of what happened would instantly become ‘fake news’, and therefore taboo to any Republican legislator.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    She’s classier than I am. When they asked if there was anything she wanted to say to Trump, I shouted a hearty FUCK YOU! at my screen. She said something like “I don’t have nothing to say to him”. So classy, so dismissive of the Dumpster, and a much better fuck you to him than my literal FUCK YOU was.

  48. 48.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @MattF: That, but I think is also Trump idea of interaction is boasting about himself while making vague promises to anyone near him that he thinks can help him and vague threats to those who he think won’t. Ironically most of his lies are about himself like with Johnson’s widow and Trump having a “nice conversation” (and WTF, who has a “nice conversation” with someone who’se spouse just died?)

  49. 49.

    SFAW

    @schrodingers_cat:

    My prediction, Kelly is going to come out and attack Sgt Johnson, impugning his bravery.

    Two weeks ago, I would have suggested you ease up on the Kelly hatred. (Yes, I know why you do, and don’t blame you, but the spillover is sometimes an issue [for me]). But since his recent comments, I’m a convert.

    One has to marvel — but not in a good way — at how Lying Littledick manages to find so many seriously-defective persons to be in his maladministration.

  51. 51.

    schrodingers_cat

    @SFAW: I don’t hate Kelly, I just don’t see him through rose tinted glasses.

    ETA: No one would be more happy than me to be proven wrong about the generals in T’s administration. That they really turn out to be the saviors they were heralded to be.

  53. 53.

    MattF

    @schrodingers_cat: You can see where Kelly is getting his information, and that’s not an encouraging sign. Anyone who actually believes anything Trump says at this point has a serious problem.

  54. 54.

    Chris

    @gene108:

    Tax cuts for the rich is the sole reason the Republican Party exists and is supported, financially, to the extent that it is.

    And deregulation. The sole reasons the Republican Party exists and is supported financially to the extent that it is are tax cuts and deregulation… and corporate welfare… AMONG the reasons the Republican Party exists and is as well supported as… I’ll come in again.

  55. 55.

    Boatboy_srq

    I’m waiting for some Reichwingnut to dis Johnson as a “single mother” because having 2 kids and no husband is so wrong.

  57. 57.

    Kay

    This is for Melania:

    Signs a Child is Bullying Others
    Kids may be bullying others if they:
    Get into physical or verbal fights
    Have friends who bully others
    Are increasingly aggressive
    Get sent to the principal’s office or to detention frequently
    Have unexplained extra money or new belongings
    Blame others for their problems
    Don’t accept responsibility for their actions
    Are competitive and worry about their reputation or popularity

    Donald Trump exhibits every single warning sign except “get sent to the principal’s office”

  58. 58.

    Snarki, child of Loki

    @schrodingers_cat: It is going to be our eternal shame that this person was elected to represent all of us.

    Yes, “ours”. Because the f’n morons that voted for him have no shame.

    Never had it, never will. May they DIAF.

  62. 62.

    Brachiator

    @schrodingers_cat:

    I don’t hate Kelly, I just don’t see him through rose tinted glasses.

    I hate Kelly. Hell, I will hate him for you.

    @SFAW:

    One has to marvel — but not in a good way — at how Lying Littledick manages to find so many seriously-defective persons to be in his maladministration.

    Trump appeals to the worst of us. The charge of “Deplorables” was actually too mild.

    Worse, Trump demands that all his people not only stroke his ego, but also serve as his willing attack dogs. This is the price of loyalty.

    Also, with Kelly, schrodingers_cat’s pointed out that he was a zealous and cruel enforcer of Trump’s immigration policy. I don’t know if it got good nationwide coverage, but here in California there were many stories about people being deported who were quiet and law-abiding, but who had committed minor violations years ago, or who were captured and deported while going to attend immigration hearings that were supposed to help them.

    But a lot of white people could easily look the other way while this stuff was happening and be distracted by Kelly’s medals and tough demeanor.

  63. 63.

    jonas

    @schrodingers_cat:

    T’s DoD has stopped Green Card holders from enlisting

    My understanding is not that they’ve been banned, but that they now have a much longer wait period before their citizenship application can be expedited. It’s now six months, whereas it used to be immediately upon entering the service. I can’t see how the DOD can be happy about this. The expedited citizenship process was a big draw for this recruitment pool and they’ve just made their job a lot harder. Getting qualified individuals to enlist is not easy and recruiters need every little carrot they can get. But Trump would rather shit on immigrants than broaden the pool of potential recruits. Great C-in-C you’ve got there, folks.

  64. 64.

    gene108

    @schrodingers_cat:

    They successfully engaged in character assassination against Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown.

    There’s no reason to stop themselves just because the target, this time, is a pregnant widow and mother of two.

    She’s black and she’s uppity. She needs to know her place.

  67. 67.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Speaking of old, entitled, white, male and stupid; So Bill “I-EMAIL-GAy-PORN” O’Rielly is upset at God himself over O’Rielly 32 million settlement for sending his own lawyer gay porn. At first blush O’Rielly must think that gay porn is to women what lesbian porn is to men Maybe, but the “mad at God” does give me pause; Does Bill want to tell us something? I mean we all know O’Rielly is a c*ck sucker so it would no surprise and there is nothing wrong with being gay (there is something very wrong with being a douchy tool, but not being gay)

  69. 69.

    rikyrah

    @Brachiator:

    Also, with Kelly, schrodingers_cat’s pointed out that he was a zealous and cruel enforcer of Trump’s immigration policy. I don’t know if it got good nationwide coverage, but here in California there were many stories about people being deported who were quiet and law-abiding, but who had committed minor violations years ago, or who were captured and deported while going to attend immigration hearings that were supposed to help them.

    Don’t forget…that he saw NOTHING WRONG with a policy that would separate parents and children in custody.

  70. 70.

    Redshift

    @Chris:

    “Well, you know, she’s an Army wife. Not a soldier. One of those gold-digging welfare queens, living high off of her husband’s hard-earned paycheck.”

    Wingnuts area already braying that the GoFundMe is her making big bucks off her husband’s death.

    Impossible to parody.

  74. 74.

    gene108

    @Redshift:

    Wingnuts area already braying that the GoFundMe is her making big bucks off her husband’s death.

    Impossible to parody.

    Wingnuts gave George Zimmerman hundreds of thousands of dollars for his legal defense.

    They need to recheck their priorities.

  75. 75.

    Mike in NC

    Had this widow been a young blonde woman, perhaps living in a small town in Texas, both Trump and Pence would have wasted no time in swooping down in a motorcade to perform an ostentatious display of fake empathy, complete with hugging small children in the crowd and handing out MAGA caps.

    But instead Trump will continue to demean her and those around her. Has Mrs. Johnson gotten any death threats in recent days?

  76. 76.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Devin Nunes launching an investigation into “Obama-Clinton” uranium deal. They’d be only slightly less subtle if they called it “The Committee To Help Donald J Trump, The Greatest President The Wolrd Has Even Known, Protect America Committee To Protect America”

  80. 80.

    MCA1

    @Jeffro: I tend to agree. On some level the fact that it took him becoming a lame duck to find the courage to start mouthing off is immaterial; the fact is, a sitting, generally well-respected, pretty mild-mannered Senator from a blood red state is absolutely slagging the president, from his own party, on pretty much a daily basis.

    Can you imagine the scandal if Christopher Dodd had been popping off about Obama never “rising to the occasion of being President” in 2009? I’d be happier if Corker started to actively sabotage Drumpf’s agenda as un-American or whatever he wants to call it, and start calling on his fellow R’s to do the same and we got open internecine warfare, of course. But for the time being, I’ll take this. I mean, he savaged Trump this morning.

  81. 81.

    Barbara

    @gene108: Right, just like Patricia Smith (who spoke at the RNC regarding the death of her son at Benghazi) has nothing to say anymore about the safety of American troops abroad.

  84. 84.

    schrodingers_cat

    @jonas: They have been stopped from enlisting in the Reserves according WashPost. USCIS is also gumming up the works for others whose i-140s have already been approved. Its is a concerted strategy from preventing or at least slowing down people from becoming permanent residents.

  85. 85.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Mike in NC:

    Had this widow been a young blonde woman, perhaps living in a small town in Texas, both Trump and Pence would have wasted no time in swooping down in a motorcade to perform an ostentatious display of fake empathy, complete with hugging small children in the crowd and handing out MAGA caps.

    He’ll probably send the widow an autographed county by county 2016 election result map.

  87. 87.

    sherparick

    @Brachiator: It should be remembered how this all got started. At a press conference a reporter asked Trump a question about why and the White House had not made a statement about the 4 soldiers killed in Niger over a week earlier. Instead of just fending it off with a statement like “waiting for initial DOD report on the incident, and do want to express our sorrow and heartache of the families who have lost these heroes” Instead, ignoring the actual point of the question, Trump decides he has to show what a great guy he is, particularly compared to the swarthy guy who held the office before him: “I felt very, very badly about that,” Trump said during a press availability in the Rose Garden. “I always feel badly. It is the toughest calls I have to make are the calls where this happens, soldiers are killed.”
    “He then claimed that other commanders in chief hadn’t reached out to families of Americans killed in action, indicating he’d been told as much by the generals who serve in his administration.” http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/politics/trump-niger-green-berets/index.html

    God, this guy is such a nightmare.

    “All I can do is ask my generals,” Trump said. “Other presidents did not call, they would write letters, and some presidents didn’t do anything.” What a bleeping idiot and the idiots who elected him.

  88. 88.

    Chet Murthy

    @Snarki, child of Loki: Not mine. Not my fucking shame. Fuck that. That’s on all those fuckin’ racist misogynist white-boy stoop-shouldered redneck shelf-eyebrowed Neanderthals from West Bumfuck TX. Fuck ’em all.

  91. 91.

    Wayne

    On a facebook page of one of my relatives who is way RRRR (lives in Texas, has no job, lives off the gov’t, but hates all gov’t) they were discussing the interview with Myeshia Johnson.
    I saw the interview and I questioned whether I had seen a different one than they were commenting on. It was amazing how they twisted everything. It eventually devolved into an affimative action issue in that La David was given what he got because of his race, that Myeshia should be ashamed of what she was saying, etc. etc.
    Appalling.

  92. 92.

    Barbara

    @sherparick: Like I said, he is a walking own goal factory. I don’t know that many narcissists or just haven’t been close enough to deduce the trait, but I worked with a woman who was narcissistic about her looks and personal appearance. She wore a different outfit every day and she was perpetually broke. She interpreted every statement about her attire, even neutral ones, as a compliment. “Where did you buy that outfit” was interpreted as “You look great in that outfit!” All the time. Trump hears every question about anything as a challenge to his image and he responds by defending himself in kind even when nearly anyone else who heard that question would have immediately come up with a suitable statement of condolence plus boilerplate of waiting for more information before saying anything definitive in public.

  93. 93.

    Barbara

    @Wayne: With people like that I feel like there are two options: avoid entirely or never pass up the opportunity to point out that they are a burden to taxpayers and that they would probably be living in a hole in the ground if it weren’t for the government.

  94. 94.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Wayne: Kelly greased the wheels for that to happen by depicting Congresswoman Wilson as a money-hungry showboat and thereby setting up the narrative that Trump was being slagged by race hustlers, which could then be expanded to taint the actions of a black war widow with a nonstandard first name. About the next word out of the mouths of the Trumplings on social media was “Sharpton.” Kelly didn’t have to go down that road, but he did, because he is contemptible. The other Republican who had a penchant for such stunts and got away with it for years was Rudy Giuliani.

  95. 95.

    Brachiator

    @rikyrah:

    Don’t forget…that he [Kelly] saw NOTHING WRONG with a policy that would separate parents and children in custody.

    Yep. Kelly has always been a piece of work. It’s all out there for everyone to see now.

  96. 96.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Barbara: Remember Sarah Palin interpreting “what newspapers do you read?” as “aren’t you too stupid to know what’s happening in the continental US?” and first stammering some weird lie on the spur of the moment (“any of them, all of them”) and then, when that lie was mocked, airing grievances about how she was being treated so unfairly? Trump is just like that all the time.

  97. 97.

    Brachiator

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    Read Free Republic on Johnson. It’s more vile than usual.

    Wow. That’s just sad. Predictable, but sad.

    @FlipYrWhig:

    Kelly greased the wheels for that to happen by depicting Congresswoman Wilson as a money-hungry showboat and thereby setting up the narrative that Trump was being slagged by race hustlers, which could then be expanded to taint the actions of a black war widow with a nonstandard first name. About the next word out of the mouths of the Trumplings on social media was “Sharpton.” Kelly didn’t have to go down that road, but he did, because he is contemptible.

    Kelly was also a liar.

    A top talk show radio host out here in Southern California got caught up in Kelly’s BS and called Congresswoman Wilson a grandstanding whore. He was forced to apologize on air and lamely claimed that he meant to only call her a “media whore.” He also got so caught up in Kelly’s talk about how the military honor the dead that he was able to shift all his attention from the woman who lost her husband to that ramrod representative of all that is white and right about America, General Kelly.

  98. 98.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    Yes, but I’m waiting for the Republican outrage. Why hasn’t Donald Trump referred to the Niger attacks as terrorism? We know that all good GOPis are supposed to do so, if there’s even a hint of the possibility.

  99. 99.

    Brachiator

    @sherparick:

    It should be remembered how this all got started. At a press conference a reporter asked Trump a question about why and the White House had not made a statement about the 4 soldiers killed in Niger over a week earlier. Instead of just fending it off with a statement like “waiting for initial DOD report on the incident, and do want to express our sorrow and heartache of the families who have lost these heroes” Instead, ignoring the actual point of the question, Trump decides he has to show what a great guy he is, particularly compared to the swarthy guy who held the office before him

    This is the pattern. Trump always has to make it about himself, and how he is the greatest president ever. Then the lies and the disparagement of Obama and previous presidents.

    Finally, Trump cannot admit fault or error, even over minor matters. Instead of saying, “I apologize if my words were clumsy and insufficient,” he has to mobilize his staff, the entire Republican Party, and his supporters in an effort to crush Congresswoman Wilson, the soldier’s widow, and anyone else who has the nerve to defy him simply by denying his perfection.

    Trump imagines himself to be the God Emperor of America. This will not turn out well unless he is impeached or removed because he is unfit for the office.

  100. 100.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Kelly has been a deplorable for years. He actively fought against opening infantry combat roles to women since 2013 with the lamest of excuses. And sexist assholes ate it up.

  101. 101.

    Barbara

    @FlipYrWhig: Kelly did what Clarence Thomas did. He made undeserved claims for himself based on the suffering of other people in a group that he was nominally part of. In Thomas’ case, the damaging myths about predatory Black men, in Kelly’s case, the mantle of dignity surrounding military personnel killed in action.

  103. 103.

    J R in WV

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    I was proud to see that by $10 and $20 donations, the Sgt. Johnson scholarship fund is already around three quarters of a million bucks. The goal is $1,000,000 and they’re closing in.

  105. 105.

    Chris

    @FlipYrWhig:

    Remember Sarah Palin interpreting “what newspapers do you read?” as “aren’t you too stupid to know what’s happening in the continental US?” and first stammering some weird lie on the spur of the moment (“any of them, all of them”) and then, when that lie was mocked, airing grievances about how she was being treated so unfairly?

    A lot of conservatives have a reflexive, super-defensive, inferiority complex where even innocuous questions will instantly be interpreted as you the latte-sipping sushi-eating Volvo-driving liberal elitist condescending to them, because that’s just how you people are. A lot of the media, and society in general, mentality of “both sides do it, but liberals are worse”/”Shape Of Earth: Views Differ” is rooted in the need to tiptoe around their precious feelings in order to avoid triggering that reflex. It never works, because as a blogger I like pointed out halfway through the 2008 election:

    “Democrats can avoid saying that the red states are inferior to the blue ones as much as they like. But the red staters will continue to hear it. They’ll hear it because the voices inside their heads are saying it. And those voices are correct.”

    The fact that Trump and Palin both have that massive insecurity and lash out because of it all the time is a huge part of what makes conservative voters relate to them and like them.

  106. 106.

    Miss Bianca

    @schrodingers_cat: you know, right now I can’t imagine *any* of Donald Trump’s hires being worth a damn when it comes to actually protecting civil liberties or promoting anything like an actual foreign or domestic policy. I was hoping that “the generals”, much as I deplored their presence in the Administration, were at least sane and fair-minded enough to prevent actual disaster. Now I feel no basis for even such a forlorn hope. Trash has attracted trash.

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