Re: Orange Duce
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 11:33 am
No doubt Trump will be putting out a line of Trump Band-Aids this week. $50 a box.
I'll add my two cents.....njbill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 11:13 am That’s called something entirely different.
Trump doesn’t have cancer. He doesn’t have a fatal, or even a debilitating, disease. A week out, and all he needs is a regular Band-Aid.
He got very very lucky. Those (I’m not saying you) who claim God intervened are disgusting. Why didn’t God intervene to save that poor guy who got killed?
It revolves around never letting a good crisis go to waste. The symbolism isn't hard to understand it is an ever present reminder that the secret service failed in their primary mission. That equates to failure on the part of the federal government and the expectation is that will translate to votes.njbill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 12:48 pm Not to get too personal, but did you wear a bandage in support of your father?
My daughter had brain surgery when she was much younger. If I had gotten all bandaged up, I can say with almost 100% certainty she would’ve been completely weirded and grossed out by that.
What the people at the convention did seemed very weird to me. Seemed like trying to curry favor with the cult leader.
You have every right to have your own views about religion and God. I don’t think God had anything to do with the events of last Saturday, positively or negatively.
https://www.threads.net/@america.is.not ... z3FBm8UnRwnjbill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 12:48 pm Not to get too personal, but did you wear a bandage in support of your father?
My daughter had brain surgery when she was much younger. If I had gotten all bandaged up, I can say with almost 100% certainty she would’ve been completely weirded and grossed out by that.
What the people at the convention did seemed very weird to me. Seemed like trying to curry favor with the cult leader.
You have every right to have your own views about religion and God. I don’t think God had anything to do with the events of last Saturday, positively or negatively.
Just a silly reply. I get to talk and interact with my Father, as did you with your daughter, to convey those feelings and caring etc......people can not do that all the time.njbill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 12:48 pm Not to get too personal, but did you wear a bandage in support of your father?
My daughter had brain surgery when she was much younger. If I had gotten all bandaged up, I can say with almost 100% certainty she would’ve been completely weirded and grossed out by that.
What the people at the convention did seemed very weird to me. Seemed like trying to curry favor with the cult leader.
You have every right to have your own views about religion and God. I don’t think God had anything to do with the events of last Saturday, positively or negatively.
I don’t know why you called my response silly. I was responding to your comment about people who shave their heads when loved ones lose their hair due to cancer treatment. Obviously those people could express their love and caring directly just as you could to your father or I could to my daughter.youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 3:03 pmJust a silly reply. I get to talk and interact with my Father, as did you with your daughter, to convey those feelings and caring etc......people can not do that all the time.njbill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 12:48 pm Not to get too personal, but did you wear a bandage in support of your father?
My daughter had brain surgery when she was much younger. If I had gotten all bandaged up, I can say with almost 100% certainty she would’ve been completely weirded and grossed out by that.
What the people at the convention did seemed very weird to me. Seemed like trying to curry favor with the cult leader.
You have every right to have your own views about religion and God. I don’t think God had anything to do with the events of last Saturday, positively or negatively.
Fair enough, but you asked questions which I believe I could answer with discretion.
Acquiescence to their incipient senescence?NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 3:15 pm So when friends and family wear diapers in support of their loved ones... what is that called?
Apologies, Bill.njbill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 3:35 pmI don’t know why you called my response silly. I was responding to your comment about people who shave their heads when loved ones lose their hair due to cancer treatment. Obviously those people could express their love and caring directly just as you could to your father or I could to my daughter.youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 3:03 pmJust a silly reply. I get to talk and interact with my Father, as did you with your daughter, to convey those feelings and caring etc......people can not do that all the time.njbill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 12:48 pm Not to get too personal, but did you wear a bandage in support of your father?
My daughter had brain surgery when she was much younger. If I had gotten all bandaged up, I can say with almost 100% certainty she would’ve been completely weirded and grossed out by that.
What the people at the convention did seemed very weird to me. Seemed like trying to curry favor with the cult leader.
You have every right to have your own views about religion and God. I don’t think God had anything to do with the events of last Saturday, positively or negatively.
Fair enough, but you asked questions which I believe I could answer with discretion.
Come on son. These are people who feel detached form the world and other issues and desperately want to be part of something no matter what that thing/group/tirbe/movement iscradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 1:14 pmIt revolves around never letting a good crisis go to waste. The symbolism isn't hard to understand it is an ever present reminder that the secret service failed in their primary mission. That equates to failure on the part of the federal government and the expectation is that will translate to votes.njbill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 12:48 pm Not to get too personal, but did you wear a bandage in support of your father?
My daughter had brain surgery when she was much younger. If I had gotten all bandaged up, I can say with almost 100% certainty she would’ve been completely weirded and grossed out by that.
What the people at the convention did seemed very weird to me. Seemed like trying to curry favor with the cult leader.
You have every right to have your own views about religion and God. I don’t think God had anything to do with the events of last Saturday, positively or negatively.
Does this sound familiar? Those who don't consider the past are destined to repeat it, I guess.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024 ... ook-reviewRyback shows how major players thought they could find some ulterior advantage in managing him.
Each was sure that, after the passing of a brief storm cloud, so obviously overloaded that it had to expend itself, they would emerge in possession of power.
The corporate bosses thought that, if you looked past the strutting and the performative antisemitism, you had someone who would protect your money.
Communist ideologues thought that, if you peered deeply enough into the strutting and the performative antisemitism, you could spy the pattern of a popular revolution.
The decent right thought that he was too obviously deranged to remain in power long, and the decent left, tempered by earlier fights against different enemies, thought that, if they forcibly stuck to the rule of law, then the law would somehow by itself entrap a lawless leader.
In a now familiar paradox, the rational forces stuck to magical thinking, while the irrational ones were more logical, parsing the brute equations of power. And so the storm never passed. In a way, it still has not.
Yes, good article, and the parallels between then and now of normalization and acquiescence and subordination are very real, and apparent if you have your eyes open.3rdPersonPlural wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 7:55 pm I'm reading an article from the March 25 edition of the New Yorker that has ended up on my bedside table. It is entitled "The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers.
The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it. By Adam Gopnik
The media lords thought that they could control him; political schemers thought that they could outwit him. The mainstream left had become a gerontocracy. And all of them failed to recognize his immunity to shame.
Does this sound familiar? Those who don't consider the past are destined to repeat it, I guess.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024 ... ook-reviewRyback shows how major players thought they could find some ulterior advantage in managing him.
Each was sure that, after the passing of a brief storm cloud, so obviously overloaded that it had to expend itself, they would emerge in possession of power.
The corporate bosses thought that, if you looked past the strutting and the performative antisemitism, you had someone who would protect your money.
Communist ideologues thought that, if you peered deeply enough into the strutting and the performative antisemitism, you could spy the pattern of a popular revolution.
The decent right thought that he was too obviously deranged to remain in power long, and the decent left, tempered by earlier fights against different enemies, thought that, if they forcibly stuck to the rule of law, then the law would somehow by itself entrap a lawless leader.
In a now familiar paradox, the rational forces stuck to magical thinking, while the irrational ones were more logical, parsing the brute equations of power. And so the storm never passed. In a way, it still has not.