Yes, v much that. Also often same people trying to minimize concern about him by superficial comparison to other politicians and simply overlooking some of the worst things Trump has said.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 22 July 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
Complacency -- so bold and iconoclastic.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 22 July 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
most of the comments on that post are even stupider than the original post. i don't know why so many "radicals" are inclined to sneer at ppl who are quite rightly afraid of the possibility of someone as evil and empty-headed as donald trump becoming president, to the point where they're ready to find positive things lurking in trump's speeches (if you ignore all the racism and misogyny and lying), but i find it genuinely appalling and despicable, to the point where i doubt i'll ever take any of these writers seriously again
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 22 July 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
crooked timber comments are so bad
― Mordy, Tuesday, June 28, 2016 10:05 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark
― Mordy, Friday, 22 July 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
like what is robin even trying to accomplish by arguing that reagan in 1980 was just as bad as trump today? i hold no brief for reagan but reagan's cold war belligerence was not remotely in the same category as trump's most deranged proposals.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 22 July 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
The only thing I agree with Donald Trump on is that is daughter is hot.
― frogbs, Friday, 22 July 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/doug.henwood/posts/10153760830506475?pnref=story
one thing that gives me comfort is that if trump wins all these smug shitheads will suffer like the rest of us
― Mordy, Sunday, 24 July 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
― frogbs
like, sarah silverman hot or some lesser variety?
― big rave warrior (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 July 2016 04:03 (seven years ago) link
Henwood = awesome
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 July 2016 04:10 (seven years ago) link
Dan Savage, now there's a Clinton-cheerleading smug shithead
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 July 2016 04:11 (seven years ago) link
drudge sirens
http://fredrikdeboer.com/2016/08/18/thats-my-time/
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, July 24, 2016 4:10 AM (3 weeks ago)
doug henwood is an idiot who actually tried to make "whitewater" a thing again in his stupid anti-hillary article from harper's a while back
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 August 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link
wow
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 August 2016 00:16 (seven years ago) link
He's definitely not an idiot.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 19 August 2016 00:23 (seven years ago) link
link? not that i don't trust ya
"wow"
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 August 2016 01:20 (seven years ago) link
I just always wanted to have guts and tell the truth, and I did my best at both. I can live with that.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 August 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
http://harpers.org/archive/2014/10/stop-hillary-2/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 August 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
gimme the page, dude, i read that 20 months ago, and life is short (esp mine)
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 August 2016 01:26 (seven years ago) link
y'know, don't. I absolutely don't give a shit, all real estate is a cesspool, fuck private property.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 August 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
if you can bear to get through henwood's summary of what happened, he basically says that hillary clinton didn't do anything wrong, and then blames her for being "secretive" about it
And then there were the scandals, many of them Hillary’s. The most famous was Whitewater, a word it pains me to type. Democrats love to say that there was nothing to that scandal. While it was certainly not the diabolical conspiracy Republicans made it out to be during the fevered days of the Clinton impeachment, it was not nothing. ... But the Clintons, of course, were also investors in McDougal’s schemes. The fact that they appear to have lost money on Whitewater, and were never convicted of any criminal behavior in connection with the scandal, hardly excuses this farcical round-robin of ethical conflicts. Yet Whitewater itself is of far less interest than how Hillary handled it: with lies, half-truths, and secrecy.
But the Clintons, of course, were also investors in McDougal’s schemes. The fact that they appear to have lost money on Whitewater, and were never convicted of any criminal behavior in connection with the scandal, hardly excuses this farcical round-robin of ethical conflicts. Yet Whitewater itself is of far less interest than how Hillary handled it: with lies, half-truths, and secrecy.
http://harpers.org/archive/2014/10/stop-hillary-2/7/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 August 2016 01:37 (seven years ago) link
What an outrage, that cur Henwood.
You can hear the Clintons' presentational gears grinding like Meryl Streep's in midperformance, always.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 August 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
Bill's a better actor than RoboStreep, give him that
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 August 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link
I don't think "ethical conflicts" = "didn't do anything wrong"
I have next to no memory of the entire Whitewater affair! i have exit velocity, launch angle and other recent baseball metrics to store in this noggin, not to mention Robin Wood's critique of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot as a queer text.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 August 2016 01:51 (seven years ago) link
Bubba's hyperventilating at BLM was more like Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night
i read LGM every day but i could do without ever reading them on anything except current electoral politics and labor history ever again
case in point: erik loomis's occasional posts about a famous writer he's never read, but has opinions about:
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/11/erik-visits-american-grave-part-360
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link