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new George Will column
Jun 1, 2020, 9:18 PM
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This unraveling presidency began with the Crybaby-in-Chief banging his spoon on his highchair tray to protest a photograph — a photograph — showing that his inauguration crowd the day before had been smaller than the one four years previous. Since then, this weak person’s idea of a strong person, this chest-pounding advertisement of his own gnawing insecurities, this low-rent Lear raging on his Twitter-heath has proven that the phrase malignant buffoon is not an oxymoron.
Presidents, exploiting modern communications technologies and abetted today by journalists preening as the “resistance” — like members of the French Resistance 1940-1944, minus the bravery — can set the tone of American society, which is regrettably soft wax on which presidents leave their marks. The president’s provocations — his coarsening of public discourse that lowers the threshold for acting out by people as mentally crippled as he — do not excuse the violent few. They must be punished. He must be removed.
Social causation is difficult to demonstrate, particularly between one person’s words and other persons’ deeds. However: The person voters hired in 2016 to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed” stood on July 28, 2017, in front of uniformed police and urged them “please don’t be too nice” when handling suspected offenders. His hope was fulfilled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds on Minneapolis pavement.
What Daniel Patrick Moynihan termed “defining deviancy down” now defines American politics. In 2016, voters were presented an unprecedentedly unpalatable choice: Never had both major parties offered nominees with higher disapproval than approval numbers. Voters chose what they wagered would be the lesser blight. Now, however, they have watched him govern for 40 months and more than 40 percent — slightly less than the percentage that voted for him — approve of his sordid conduct.
Presidents seeking reelection bask in chants of “Four more years!” This year, however, most Americans — perhaps because they are, as the president predicted, weary from all the winning — might flinch: Four more years of this? The taste of ashes, metaphorical and now literal, dampens enthusiasm.
The nation’s downward spiral into acrimony and sporadic anarchy has had many causes much larger than the small man who is the great exacerbator of them. Most of the causes predate his presidency, and most will survive its January terminus. The measures necessary for restoration of national equilibrium are many and will be protracted far beyond his removal. One such measure must be the removal of those in Congress who, unlike the sycophantic mediocrities who cosset him in the White House, will not disappear “magically,” as Eric Trump said the coronavirus would. Voters must dispatch his congressional enablers, especially the senators who still gambol around his ankles with a canine hunger for petting.
In life’s unforgiving arithmetic, we are the sum of our choices. Congressional Republicans have made theirs for more than 1,200 days. We cannot know all the measures necessary to restore the nation’s domestic health and international standing, but we know the first step: Senate Republicans must be routed, as condign punishment for their Vichyite collaboration, leaving the Republican remnant to wonder: Was it sensible to sacrifice dignity, such as it ever was, and to shed principles, if convictions so easily jettisoned could be dignified as principles, for .?.?. what? Praying people should pray, and all others should hope: May I never crave anything as much as these people crave membership in the world’s most risible deliberative body.
A political party’s primary function is to bestow its imprimatur on candidates, thereby proclaiming: This is who we are. In 2016, the Republican Party gave its principal nomination to a vulgarian and then toiled to elect him. And to stock Congress with invertebrates whose unswerving abjectness has enabled his institutional vandalism, who have voiced no serious objections to his Niagara of lies, and whom T.S. Eliot anticipated:
We are the hollow men .?.?.
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
or rats’ feet over broken glass .?.?.
Those who think our unhinged president’s recent mania about a murder two decades ago that never happened represents his moral nadir have missed the lesson of his life: There is no such thing as rock bottom. So, assume that the worst is yet to come. Which implicates national security: Abroad, anti-Americanism sleeps lightly when it sleeps at all, and it is wide-awake as decent people judge our nation’s health by the character of those to whom power is entrusted. Watching, too, are indecent people in Beijing and Moscow.
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Do you have something from Bill Kristol too?***
Jun 1, 2020, 9:21 PM
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No, I don't like him or care what he has to say***
Jun 1, 2020, 9:23 PM
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Re: Do you have something from Bill Kristol too?***
Jun 2, 2020, 12:24 AM
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You dodge and shift and ignore the points that shine a light on your mental hero. You will not see truth because you are afraid to look, afraid you can't hate libs and afraid that you made a mistake by supporting this cancer of a President. One cannot love America and it's constitution and also support Trump. Our country is ravaged because of him. It's been a snowball building since Jan when he was trying to convince us that the virus was no big deal. You're a smart man, open your eyes. Read what George Will wrote.
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Re: Do you have something from Bill Kristol too?***
Jun 2, 2020, 12:30 AM
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Re: Do you have something from Bill Kristol too?***
Jun 2, 2020, 10:40 AM
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"Your side." You're still doing it.
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Re: new George Will column
Jun 1, 2020, 9:27 PM
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Sounds like he’s ticking off the right people.
When the flak is thick it means you are over the target.
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Entrenched LONG time conservative... T-Rump's flanks
Jun 1, 2020, 9:31 PM
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are being circled...
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Hemorrhaging***
Jun 1, 2020, 9:33 PM
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Probably has hemorrhoids too. Pretty unhealthy eater***
Jun 1, 2020, 9:34 PM
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And thus the juge flanks... T-Rump be rumpin'...***
Jun 1, 2020, 9:42 PM
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Sounds like you lefties are in for another November surprise
Jun 1, 2020, 9:44 PM
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letdown. I guess it will be another great night of watching Biden supporters crying and playing the blame game.
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With 40 million unemployed
Jun 1, 2020, 9:55 PM
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this race is already over.
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Re: With 40 million unemployed
Jun 1, 2020, 10:06 PM
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Re: With 40 million unemployed
Jun 2, 2020, 12:58 AM
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If the unemployment doesn’t sink him, the over 100,000 Americans he murdered with his own (tiny) bloody hands will.
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Re: Sounds like you lefties are in for another November surprise
Jun 2, 2020, 12:39 AM
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letdown. I guess it will be another great night of watching Biden supporters crying and playing the blame game.
Look out the window ######## or turn on the tv. Our country is crumbling, 41 million unemployed, riots in the streets and a virus that is still killing people. All because this preening fool didn't take the virus seriously because he was afraid it would affect the economy and his chances at reelection. Our country is eating itself and Trump says nothing to the country, he doesn't address the nation. He hides in the White House because he doesn't know how to govern. All he knows is polls and photo ops.
Our nation is bleeding like nothing you've seen in your life. And you and your ilk care only for the extraction of 'liberal tears'. What a joke.
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Did she talk with the stage manager...?***
Jun 1, 2020, 9:44 PM
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Re: new George Will column
Jun 1, 2020, 9:38 PM
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LOL,,Will hangs out with Lindsey Graham and other RINO Cucks. ZERO FG
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Re: new George Will column
Jun 1, 2020, 9:48 PM
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He’s always wrong but he loves baseball so I have soft spot in my heart for his misguided soul.
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Re: new George Will column
Jun 1, 2020, 9:59 PM
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I get that, but he is part of the DC corruption crew.
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What do you thinks going on in the White House...?
Jun 1, 2020, 10:46 PM
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"DC corruption crew" has been replaced with the T-Rump Family Enterprises...
You feel good about that?
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Maybe so, now... Just goes to show how far the Pubs
Jun 1, 2020, 9:48 PM
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have devolved under T-Rump, even Graham. Will isn't 'gamboling' for reelection.
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Latest poll has Harrison up on Graham, so perhaps a RINO
Jun 1, 2020, 10:01 PM
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is going down hard in November. Wouldn't that be funny.
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I too suspect he goes down hard.***
Jun 2, 2020, 8:45 AM
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George Will calling for the disemboweling of the Republican
Jun 1, 2020, 9:59 PM
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Party in the next election is not something I thought I would see in my day. It appears he will get his wish.
My favorite part was when he said "...the lesson of Trump's life? There is no such thing as rock bottom. ...the worst is yet to come."
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"It appears he will get his wish."
Jun 1, 2020, 10:04 PM
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She led in the polls.
Jun 1, 2020, 11:15 PM
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“Why am I not up by 50 points?!?!”
There was no way she could lose.
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Re: new George Will column
Jun 2, 2020, 3:28 PM
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Bow tie wearing, DC insider RINO acolyte-name recogn & reputation earned by ingratiating himself w/ the print media covering Capitol Hill. Advanced to conservative shill & left wing cuck for CBS medpro Sunday Morning. Later sold to detritus sewer MSNBC-(reportedly F Will was sold for 1/2 carton Chesterfield nonfiltered cigs)
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Re: new George Will column
Jun 2, 2020, 3:48 PM
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Bow tie wearing, DC insider RINO acolyte-name recogn & reputation earned by ingratiating himself w/ the print media covering Capitol Hill. Advanced to conservative shill & left wing cuck for CBS medpro Sunday Morning. Later sold to detritus sewer MSNBC-(reportedly F Will was sold for 1/2 carton Chesterfield nonfiltered cigs)
Does anyone here speak derp? I can't quite decipher this.
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It helps to throw in a wad of red man and read it out
Jun 2, 2020, 5:11 PM
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loud while doing a Carl Childers impression.
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