Can anyone tell me what DeSantis, utterly devoid of a personality, without even a scintilla of charisma, lacking any rationale for his campaign beyond constantly repeating the word “woke,” was doing running for president even as a Republican? He appears to have wasted more money faster than any candidate from either party in history.
Yes, she most certainly did. Casey DeSantis thinks that by trying to imitate Jackie she will somehow accrue class. Later for that. What a stupid woman.
I think Melaria's take on it is life is all a fashion shoot. I missed whatever she chose for her (also purportedly fashionable) mother's funeral. Her F.L. photos are as burned into memory for being twisted as Jackie's are for class..
I live in DeSantistan, the Summer of Ron's monstrous demise was a blessing to Florida Dems, oh have we rejoiced!!! He is the epitome of a famous insult...an empty car pulled up to the curb, Ron DeSantis got out. A local joke last year followed his attack on drag shows...he immediately became Rhonda Santis! Sadly, he will infect the local scene again, and, provide material for the wags.
Yes, in other words, Linds, a thoroughly unlikable person. Of course Trump is unlikable too - revolting actually, and yet just as with DeSantis they attract supporters. Hard to fathom. There has to be serious psychological issues with the kind of people who whoop and holler and cheer them on. Either that or they are under a kind of hypnotic spell.
There’s a certain credulous, malleable, insecure, not-very-smart chunk of humanity (homo “sapiens”) that is attracted to someone like Dump and craves what they believe (oh so wrongly)is a “strong leader.” Look at Germany in the 1930s.
es, I think that's it, Arthur, f th same exact elements that cause some people to join cults, perhaps looking for a father figure too that will take care of all their problems and make them feel safe and secure from all those bad people out there. As you say, not too bright overall, gullible, easily influenced, prone to believing every word their guru says no matter how improbable, like the whole world is conspiring against you, falsifying poll results, etc., but I will save you and make everything okay again.
Exactly. The benighted souls who followed Jim Jones and David Koresh and Charles Manson. There are many others, no two exactly the same, but all possess a toxic power of persuasion that infects certain gullible, fearful, resentful people. And don’t bother talking sense to the latter type. I’ve tried, and they just dig their heels in. They wrap the bullshit and false promises of the cult leader around them like a security blanket and won’t let go. (Religion works the same way, IMHO.) They want quick, easy answers to their problems and fears, and clever demagogues —Trump is a perfect example—understand and exploit this.
He’ll never debate. Why should he? He’s preening in the catbird’s seat right now. He will win in NH, so he’s got the nomination locked up… he thinks. He probably knows that they (the moderators and organizers) will be tougher on him after he stalked behind Hillary in 2016. He gets by on bullshit and innuendo and interrupting and obfuscation, which his brain-dead worshippers lap up. He knows virtually nothing and might actually be asked a hard question in a debate. He can spout his verbal crap ad nauseam, freely, 24/7, with no restrictions. So I’d be gobsmacked if he agreed to a debate.
Great summation, Arthur. One example I saw the other day on TV was a woman who had spent time behind bars for J6 and she was as defiant as ever, even still believing all of Trump's BS about the election. Trump had to know a certain percentage of any population is going to fall in this category. I even know a lawyer I used to have coffee with and he believed it all too. He insisted that mainstream media and every liberal organization including the entire Democratic party was in a big conspiracy together to rig the election and spread disinformation, so it's not just uneducated people that get caught up in this altered reality.
Yup. Sad. I’ve terminated two longstanding friendships over their stunning acceptance, nay embrace, of that sort of harebrained crap. Both are college grads. One is also a lawyer. Stunning.
Mass psychosis and the utter ignorance and bigotry of too many members of the American public. "Nobody ever went broke ujnderestimating the American public."
(1) Mainly young men who fall for the ultra-libertarian egocentric selfish line that runs all through it and (2) Men "stuck" at an adolescent stage of psychological development - my training is in philosophy and law but I'll venture a bit further on the "pop psychology" road - (3) Ayn Rand provides a "one size fits all" club membership in adolescent rebellion against parental and school authority, too, something that can be vitally valuable when deployed to actually learn via intense critical scrutiny of comfortable myths, inane but widely accepted dogmas of all kinds, so it is double-edged, but for the AR cult, the critical thinking is almost never turned for a moment on Rand's assumptions, sweeping generalities asserted with little or no evidence, demonizing the Left tout court so that the most harmlessly benign urges to better the commons are conflated with Stalinism - "What's next after our city council votes to fix up Martin Luther King Park with a new playground slide, show trials for the dissenters on the council and expulsion for not being woke enough! That's what! And another thing" blah blah blah.
There are some really interesting libertarian thinkers, like Murray Rothbard, whose book on libertarian strains in the American Revolution's precursors and development is worth study, but he makes serious historical arguments with empirical data. Rarely get any of that from Ayn Rand or her devoted followers, or when you do, it's tendentious tripe all too often.
First cup of coffee and my move-out for maybe 12 days in a hotel is tomorrow, while they renovate this apt., yowza!!!
Thanks, new windows alone in the Minnesota roller coaster climate is big, new carpeting, kitchen cabinets, the works, this apt has its own moderately sizeable storage area with
five sturdy shelves, also another area with similar shelves in a hallway, it's all of three blocks
to the Mississippi River "St. Anthony Main / Riverplace" and Stone Arch Bridge across into
downtown, two blocks to a Tibetan-Nepali-India restaurant, one block to El Diablo Music
(guitars! amps! strings! etc.) one block to Lunds & Byerly's grocery with a huge deli and in-store
butcher (I am practically vegetarian but even so - also tons of fresh seafood & fish), the usual
coffee shops, Brueggers, Conga Latin Bistro, Ground Zero nightclub, what was once named by
Esquire as "the greatest bar in the country," Nye's Polonaise Room,* then featuring "The World's
Most Dangerous Polka Band," but that got sold and isn't the same as when long-time GF and I had are first "date" there years ago, sadly.
That requires a link, as I spend twenty minutes wallowing in nostalgia before I call her!
Following a four-month search, this is the one. (But don't go--you'll just ruin it.)
By Chris Jones Published: Sep 30, 2006
THE BEST BAR IN AMERICA isn't Irish. It isn't in a strip mall. It isn't the sort of place that charges an outrageous cover for people to stand around in black light pushing back shooters out of test tubes. It isn't a fight club or a meat market. There is no snobbery, and there is no tonic-water drinking. There are gimlets and manhattans, bottles of Zywiec, and a first-rate pissoir.
The best bar in America occupies a corner where the path to righteousness and the road to perdition run parallel, east to west, perpendicular to the muddy river that cuts this country in two, north to south. The best bar in America has occupied this physical and spiritual intersection since 1950. The best bar in America lies across the Mississippi from downtown Minneapolis over a bridge named for Father Louis Hennepin, and it has a sign on its yellow-brick exterior that points the way to Our Lady of Lourdes, cast in the red-neon glow of another that reads LIQUORS. The best bar in America also saw one of its doormen murdered last summer.
The best bar in America is Nye's Polonaise.
More accurately, it is the two best bars in America--Nye's Bar, known as the "Old Side" to its ancient staff and unshifting regulars, and the upscale bordello kitsch of the Polonaise Room--connected through their shared fire wall by a pair of swinging doors. When it comes right down to it, you're either Nye's or you're Polonaise, making this place a kind of crossroads inside and out.
On this summer night, it feels as if all that ties the two halves together is their shared floral carpet and their nearly pitch-blackness. Nye's has the only window in the entire complex, but it has turned opaque with time and pierogi smoke. Apart from a few stained-glass lanterns and a small TV with the Twins game on, the only light that penetrates this joint's darkest corners comes from the accordion display over those swinging doors.
Everybody says that stepping into Nye's Polonaise is like stepping back in time, and, for once, it's true--to a time before even electricity.
MINNEAPOLIS IS A CITY built on its institutions--the falls at Minnehaha, the Institute of Arts, Kirby Puckett, and Fran Tarkenton--but the best and sturdiest of them hang out here, wrapped in the darkness and surroundings that have remained perfectly preserved since the 1960s. The walls are paneled, the tables are Formica, and there are people who have worked at Nye's for forty years. Their stories are each the same: One otherwise unexceptional day, they ducked in from the street, waited for their eyes to adjust, and never found reason to head back out into the sun.
Sweet Lou Snider was thirty-one years old when she first sat behind the piano in the Polonaise Room; she's seventy-one today. Every Friday and Saturday night, as regular as rain, pint-size Lou boosts herself up onto her bench, a smoke-stained oil portrait of Chopin staring over her shoulder, and begins banging out songs precisely at the stroke of nine. Lou will take requests. She will also sing for you, but if you would like to sing, that would be just fine, too. It doesn't take long for a chorus to surround her--including warbling, bickering twin brothers Dan and Dean Oberpriller, one singing high, one singing low--passing around the microphone and rounds of drinks, belting out "When I Fall in Love." Although she is too modest to announce the truth herself, Lou is believed to have thousands of songs ready to dance from her fingers, and she smiles warmly at just about every request, as though she hasn't already played "Unforgettable" eight million times, and wouldn't that be nice? (You might want to reconsider asking for "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," however. It's kind of a long story.)
Because they believe it's 'intellectual' to read it although I tried once and gave up because the woman confused communism with being a human being. Total dreck.
I've never figured out what "objectivism" was supposed to be except a code word for selfishness at the expense of others. A made up word meaning nothing, she conned a lot of people just like Trump does.
the serious psychological issue is just that the rabid horde simply hates what ronny and donny hate. they whoop and holler like casting aspirants for deliverance because they think those two are just like them but are seated in high places. with real plumbing, even gold toilets.
All I can say, Leigh, is that there's an awful lot of gullible people in thus country and their votes for Trump and others like him in the Red states could bring an end to this great democratic experiment before it is 300 years old. .Every single Democrat must vote. What is worrying is the election deniers who have been elected to office and have control over polling stations what they might try to do like void certain votes; remove people from voting rolls on some flimsy excuse. R They are so totally without ethics that they won't hesitate to do what they accuse the Democrats of doing. .
Right on the nose! If he could have run a "remote" campaign...he would have done much better. As soon as folks got a sample of his awkward ways, he became toast. DeSantis is quite simply very uncomfortable around people that he has to "make nice" to...and it really shows. His foolish decision to lurch to the right, with his anti-woke silliness and book banning, isn't even popular in Floriduh--let alone the rest of the country.
I dunno. Positioning himself for 2028? He clearly listens to the wife, Casey, who alienated everyone and made all the wrong calls. The upside is that for his remaining three years as Governor he will be the next thing to a gelding because the R. legislators are trying to clean up being pushed into all kinds of anti-woke legislation. Having shown what a lame candidate he is, I don't think 2028 will work out for him. Lovely, though, that he's made so many enemies. One can hope that in four years the MAGA crackpots will have sobered up and decided to be Republicans again. Anyway, ding dong.
See, Casey reminds me of Marie Osmond, in her looks. She is another one who exudes “fakeness” with that standard pageant smile and perfect little body. You just know that she’s a bitch.
Yes, it's a useful lesson for all of us to realize a woman can be astoundingly beautiful AND intelligent as hell AND a "real mensch" for lack of any better term, but it also works the other way: looks overly, meticulously well-dressed and conventionally attractive, but is vapid and even vile. Sadly something really went wrong but it requires maybe years of competent therapy (?) with a willing, cooperating patient, to revive the spark of compassionate humanity all but extinguished.
A kind of obstinate, grasping, penny-pinching "Mrs. Ebenezer Scrooge, widower of the late and not lamented Mr. Scrooge"! only decked out in what she thinks are flattering fashions, I dunno, barely paid any attention to his wife, in fact.
"One can hope that in four years the MAGA crackpots will have sobered up and decided to be Republicans again." Using AI, put my face into the woman's at Katz's deli, and change the dialogue to, "I'll have what she's smoking." Looking down the screen, I think Janice Stearns is on target, if his wife Casey's ambition factor still burns bright. And looking down a bit further, Marlene Lerner-Bigley attests to Casey's greatest asset ("perfect little body"). In the phrase popularized by comedian Mike Myers ("Wayne's World"), now picked up by bureaucrats at the end of the fiscal year, Casey DeSantis better "Use it or lose it."
Not exclusively feminist. Judson Poets Theater doted on Gertrude. Al Carmines channeled her. Marva Abraham (hope I got that right), Deborah Lee and I played her "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters" in a show Michael Smith directed at the Sullivan Street Theater as a benefit for Caffe Cino, then as a JPT production. If you look hard enough you can even see photographic proof.
That sounds right. Back in the 60s, she, and so many others to keep up with also. I was deeply involved with the Feminist Art Movement wih Judy Chicago and quite a few serious folks. So many great and seldom acknowledged 19th and early 20th century women were constantly being discussed, evaluated and read deeply. After all this time a lot blends together.
Place holder? Part of a strategy? Told to sit down and shut up? Also possibly. Any chance in hell to begin with? Hell no. But that hasn’t stopped anyone before, so...? My guess is his wife wanted this more than he did.
The question is will Haley also capitulate and leave the deteriorating and demented creamsicle from hell as the only candidate. NH will tell I guess.
Do you think someone with legs not mired in treason step forward? Romney?
No Romney is hated more the MAGA crowd than Biden. (He didn’t take back the White House from Mr. Obama.) I’ll let you read between the lines to understand why that was an issue.
I think that because he won by such a large margin in Florida, people assumed there was something more there. That provided some unearned momentum until he went campaigning nationally and people saw the truth. This emperor has no clothes!
He won in Florida because Florida is full of floridiots, racists, fascists, and white nationalists. It truly is the penis of America. If only we could cut it off and let it float away.
His ego and popularity was stoked by the old Republican snowbirds and retirees who live in Florida. Once he left home he found that no one cared or liked him and his woke rants. He also hangs on to Gov. Abbott’s coattails because Abbott is popular for reasons that escape me.
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Discuss? hmmm.... Can't offer much insight. Delusional. Mentally limited, with unlimited ego. After Citizen's United, there are no brakes left to keep out the crazies.
Reminds me of Rudy Giuliani's presidential run in money spent per vote and running because they were certain their press clippings and media fanfolk would put them over the top. DeSantis is rooting and tooting for Haley to drop out after New Hampshire as is Trump.
Of course didn't think that wish through. With no candidate to run against he can't use the primary season as an excuse for Court delays. Hello, Judge Cannon.
Looked at Drumpf (No experience. No knowledge of history. No policy. No bipartisanship. Just a huge mouth, ego and attitude) and thought - Hey! Anybody can do this!
Trump might choose him just to have the pleasure of tormenting him constantly. On the other hand, Trump is probably thinking of Alina - so pretty, so respectful and big tatas, too.
I agree that he has zero charisma and is so ill at ease in public that he has always creeped me out.I cannot see how he can make any inroads in public life no matter what his party is.Glad he is theirs.Ugh.
Arrogance, stupidity, a bloated ego, and a wife who resembles Lady Macbeth and has ambitions.
You're referring to her aspirations to be Evita, I think.
A cross between Evita Peron and Eva Braun, wearing Jackie Kennedy's gloves. What a nightmare.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had class.
Yes, she most certainly did. Casey DeSantis thinks that by trying to imitate Jackie she will somehow accrue class. Later for that. What a stupid woman.
Not unlike Melania tried in vain to do. You've either got it or you ain't!!
melanomas last act as first lady was to steal the rec room curtains to make her departure dress.
I think Melaria's take on it is life is all a fashion shoot. I missed whatever she chose for her (also purportedly fashionable) mother's funeral. Her F.L. photos are as burned into memory for being twisted as Jackie's are for class..
I live in DeSantistan, the Summer of Ron's monstrous demise was a blessing to Florida Dems, oh have we rejoiced!!! He is the epitome of a famous insult...an empty car pulled up to the curb, Ron DeSantis got out. A local joke last year followed his attack on drag shows...he immediately became Rhonda Santis! Sadly, he will infect the local scene again, and, provide material for the wags.
Yes, in other words, Linds, a thoroughly unlikable person. Of course Trump is unlikable too - revolting actually, and yet just as with DeSantis they attract supporters. Hard to fathom. There has to be serious psychological issues with the kind of people who whoop and holler and cheer them on. Either that or they are under a kind of hypnotic spell.
There’s a certain credulous, malleable, insecure, not-very-smart chunk of humanity (homo “sapiens”) that is attracted to someone like Dump and craves what they believe (oh so wrongly)is a “strong leader.” Look at Germany in the 1930s.
es, I think that's it, Arthur, f th same exact elements that cause some people to join cults, perhaps looking for a father figure too that will take care of all their problems and make them feel safe and secure from all those bad people out there. As you say, not too bright overall, gullible, easily influenced, prone to believing every word their guru says no matter how improbable, like the whole world is conspiring against you, falsifying poll results, etc., but I will save you and make everything okay again.
Exactly. The benighted souls who followed Jim Jones and David Koresh and Charles Manson. There are many others, no two exactly the same, but all possess a toxic power of persuasion that infects certain gullible, fearful, resentful people. And don’t bother talking sense to the latter type. I’ve tried, and they just dig their heels in. They wrap the bullshit and false promises of the cult leader around them like a security blanket and won’t let go. (Religion works the same way, IMHO.) They want quick, easy answers to their problems and fears, and clever demagogues —Trump is a perfect example—understand and exploit this.
If you are a racist, Trump 's your boy. He proved that with his birth certificate lie in 2011...74,000,000 followers voted for him later, scary times.
After his recent mental issues spouted forth, hope he agrees to debate! You could Pay Per View that potential disaster.
He’ll never debate. Why should he? He’s preening in the catbird’s seat right now. He will win in NH, so he’s got the nomination locked up… he thinks. He probably knows that they (the moderators and organizers) will be tougher on him after he stalked behind Hillary in 2016. He gets by on bullshit and innuendo and interrupting and obfuscation, which his brain-dead worshippers lap up. He knows virtually nothing and might actually be asked a hard question in a debate. He can spout his verbal crap ad nauseam, freely, 24/7, with no restrictions. So I’d be gobsmacked if he agreed to a debate.
Great summation, Arthur. One example I saw the other day on TV was a woman who had spent time behind bars for J6 and she was as defiant as ever, even still believing all of Trump's BS about the election. Trump had to know a certain percentage of any population is going to fall in this category. I even know a lawyer I used to have coffee with and he believed it all too. He insisted that mainstream media and every liberal organization including the entire Democratic party was in a big conspiracy together to rig the election and spread disinformation, so it's not just uneducated people that get caught up in this altered reality.
Yup. Sad. I’ve terminated two longstanding friendships over their stunning acceptance, nay embrace, of that sort of harebrained crap. Both are college grads. One is also a lawyer. Stunning.
Mass psychosis and the utter ignorance and bigotry of too many members of the American public. "Nobody ever went broke ujnderestimating the American public."
yes, LF.
was it barnum or bailey who said theres a sucker born every minute.
apropos considering we're talking about political clowns and circus, no?
P.T. Barnum.
thanx
Attributed to P. T. Barnum. I’ve often said he was almost right, he just got the interval wrong.
Love the H L Mencken quote!
I actually accidentally abbreviated it. It should read: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
Why do simpletons like Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" & "Atlas Shrugged", or "I"?
(1) Mainly young men who fall for the ultra-libertarian egocentric selfish line that runs all through it and (2) Men "stuck" at an adolescent stage of psychological development - my training is in philosophy and law but I'll venture a bit further on the "pop psychology" road - (3) Ayn Rand provides a "one size fits all" club membership in adolescent rebellion against parental and school authority, too, something that can be vitally valuable when deployed to actually learn via intense critical scrutiny of comfortable myths, inane but widely accepted dogmas of all kinds, so it is double-edged, but for the AR cult, the critical thinking is almost never turned for a moment on Rand's assumptions, sweeping generalities asserted with little or no evidence, demonizing the Left tout court so that the most harmlessly benign urges to better the commons are conflated with Stalinism - "What's next after our city council votes to fix up Martin Luther King Park with a new playground slide, show trials for the dissenters on the council and expulsion for not being woke enough! That's what! And another thing" blah blah blah.
There are some really interesting libertarian thinkers, like Murray Rothbard, whose book on libertarian strains in the American Revolution's precursors and development is worth study, but he makes serious historical arguments with empirical data. Rarely get any of that from Ayn Rand or her devoted followers, or when you do, it's tendentious tripe all too often.
First cup of coffee and my move-out for maybe 12 days in a hotel is tomorrow, while they renovate this apt., yowza!!!
Hope the renovation goes well with the results you want!!!
Thanks, new windows alone in the Minnesota roller coaster climate is big, new carpeting, kitchen cabinets, the works, this apt has its own moderately sizeable storage area with
five sturdy shelves, also another area with similar shelves in a hallway, it's all of three blocks
to the Mississippi River "St. Anthony Main / Riverplace" and Stone Arch Bridge across into
downtown, two blocks to a Tibetan-Nepali-India restaurant, one block to El Diablo Music
(guitars! amps! strings! etc.) one block to Lunds & Byerly's grocery with a huge deli and in-store
butcher (I am practically vegetarian but even so - also tons of fresh seafood & fish), the usual
coffee shops, Brueggers, Conga Latin Bistro, Ground Zero nightclub, what was once named by
Esquire as "the greatest bar in the country," Nye's Polonaise Room,* then featuring "The World's
Most Dangerous Polka Band," but that got sold and isn't the same as when long-time GF and I had are first "date" there years ago, sadly.
That requires a link, as I spend twenty minutes wallowing in nostalgia before I call her!
https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/bars/reviews/a255/esq1006bestbars-147/
The Best Bar in America
Following a four-month search, this is the one. (But don't go--you'll just ruin it.)
By Chris Jones Published: Sep 30, 2006
THE BEST BAR IN AMERICA isn't Irish. It isn't in a strip mall. It isn't the sort of place that charges an outrageous cover for people to stand around in black light pushing back shooters out of test tubes. It isn't a fight club or a meat market. There is no snobbery, and there is no tonic-water drinking. There are gimlets and manhattans, bottles of Zywiec, and a first-rate pissoir.
The best bar in America occupies a corner where the path to righteousness and the road to perdition run parallel, east to west, perpendicular to the muddy river that cuts this country in two, north to south. The best bar in America has occupied this physical and spiritual intersection since 1950. The best bar in America lies across the Mississippi from downtown Minneapolis over a bridge named for Father Louis Hennepin, and it has a sign on its yellow-brick exterior that points the way to Our Lady of Lourdes, cast in the red-neon glow of another that reads LIQUORS. The best bar in America also saw one of its doormen murdered last summer.
The best bar in America is Nye's Polonaise.
More accurately, it is the two best bars in America--Nye's Bar, known as the "Old Side" to its ancient staff and unshifting regulars, and the upscale bordello kitsch of the Polonaise Room--connected through their shared fire wall by a pair of swinging doors. When it comes right down to it, you're either Nye's or you're Polonaise, making this place a kind of crossroads inside and out.
On this summer night, it feels as if all that ties the two halves together is their shared floral carpet and their nearly pitch-blackness. Nye's has the only window in the entire complex, but it has turned opaque with time and pierogi smoke. Apart from a few stained-glass lanterns and a small TV with the Twins game on, the only light that penetrates this joint's darkest corners comes from the accordion display over those swinging doors.
Everybody says that stepping into Nye's Polonaise is like stepping back in time, and, for once, it's true--to a time before even electricity.
MINNEAPOLIS IS A CITY built on its institutions--the falls at Minnehaha, the Institute of Arts, Kirby Puckett, and Fran Tarkenton--but the best and sturdiest of them hang out here, wrapped in the darkness and surroundings that have remained perfectly preserved since the 1960s. The walls are paneled, the tables are Formica, and there are people who have worked at Nye's for forty years. Their stories are each the same: One otherwise unexceptional day, they ducked in from the street, waited for their eyes to adjust, and never found reason to head back out into the sun.
Sweet Lou Snider was thirty-one years old when she first sat behind the piano in the Polonaise Room; she's seventy-one today. Every Friday and Saturday night, as regular as rain, pint-size Lou boosts herself up onto her bench, a smoke-stained oil portrait of Chopin staring over her shoulder, and begins banging out songs precisely at the stroke of nine. Lou will take requests. She will also sing for you, but if you would like to sing, that would be just fine, too. It doesn't take long for a chorus to surround her--including warbling, bickering twin brothers Dan and Dean Oberpriller, one singing high, one singing low--passing around the microphone and rounds of drinks, belting out "When I Fall in Love." Although she is too modest to announce the truth herself, Lou is believed to have thousands of songs ready to dance from her fingers, and she smiles warmly at just about every request, as though she hasn't already played "Unforgettable" eight million times, and wouldn't that be nice? (You might want to reconsider asking for "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," however. It's kind of a long story.)
****** The review continues...
Because they believe it's 'intellectual' to read it although I tried once and gave up because the woman confused communism with being a human being. Total dreck.
Which is highly ironic because she was born in Russia before the Revolution and grew up during it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
I've never figured out what "objectivism" was supposed to be except a code word for selfishness at the expense of others. A made up word meaning nothing, she conned a lot of people just like Trump does.
As Richard says below, arrested development. It’s what I’ve thought for some time. Ego above all, but an embryonic version.
Forgot to say comment right on target.
RE,
the serious psychological issue is just that the rabid horde simply hates what ronny and donny hate. they whoop and holler like casting aspirants for deliverance because they think those two are just like them but are seated in high places. with real plumbing, even gold toilets.
Shared paranoid disorder
Trump says he is like them...they buy it. His biggest lie.
All I can say, Leigh, is that there's an awful lot of gullible people in thus country and their votes for Trump and others like him in the Red states could bring an end to this great democratic experiment before it is 300 years old. .Every single Democrat must vote. What is worrying is the election deniers who have been elected to office and have control over polling stations what they might try to do like void certain votes; remove people from voting rolls on some flimsy excuse. R They are so totally without ethics that they won't hesitate to do what they accuse the Democrats of doing. .
Right on the nose! If he could have run a "remote" campaign...he would have done much better. As soon as folks got a sample of his awkward ways, he became toast. DeSantis is quite simply very uncomfortable around people that he has to "make nice" to...and it really shows. His foolish decision to lurch to the right, with his anti-woke silliness and book banning, isn't even popular in Floriduh--let alone the rest of the country.
He's a nasty little shit. Everyone who had to deal with him earlier in his life hates his guts.
Your comment gave me a laugh--thanks for the chuckle!
You said it. In a nutshell.
I dunno. Positioning himself for 2028? He clearly listens to the wife, Casey, who alienated everyone and made all the wrong calls. The upside is that for his remaining three years as Governor he will be the next thing to a gelding because the R. legislators are trying to clean up being pushed into all kinds of anti-woke legislation. Having shown what a lame candidate he is, I don't think 2028 will work out for him. Lovely, though, that he's made so many enemies. One can hope that in four years the MAGA crackpots will have sobered up and decided to be Republicans again. Anyway, ding dong.
A gelding who can perform at Disney World with Mickey Mouse. What a joke. I’m sure Bob Eger would accommodate.
Talk about burning your bridges!!!
Next stop, Divorce Court?
I doubt it.
Nah... she'll probably have an unfortunate accident.
See, Casey reminds me of Marie Osmond, in her looks. She is another one who exudes “fakeness” with that standard pageant smile and perfect little body. You just know that she’s a bitch.
Yes, it's a useful lesson for all of us to realize a woman can be astoundingly beautiful AND intelligent as hell AND a "real mensch" for lack of any better term, but it also works the other way: looks overly, meticulously well-dressed and conventionally attractive, but is vapid and even vile. Sadly something really went wrong but it requires maybe years of competent therapy (?) with a willing, cooperating patient, to revive the spark of compassionate humanity all but extinguished.
A kind of obstinate, grasping, penny-pinching "Mrs. Ebenezer Scrooge, widower of the late and not lamented Mr. Scrooge"! only decked out in what she thinks are flattering fashions, I dunno, barely paid any attention to his wife, in fact.
aiming, as usual, for eloquence and brevity, I'd say "fuck him."
"One can hope that in four years the MAGA crackpots will have sobered up and decided to be Republicans again." Using AI, put my face into the woman's at Katz's deli, and change the dialogue to, "I'll have what she's smoking." Looking down the screen, I think Janice Stearns is on target, if his wife Casey's ambition factor still burns bright. And looking down a bit further, Marlene Lerner-Bigley attests to Casey's greatest asset ("perfect little body"). In the phrase popularized by comedian Mike Myers ("Wayne's World"), now picked up by bureaucrats at the end of the fiscal year, Casey DeSantis better "Use it or lose it."
He thought Trump would be convicted before the Convention and Trumps people would turn to him as the second most rabid hater in the pack
That makes sense to me.
Not bad, only thing that explains how he extorted millions for bupkis.
He is so devoid of human attributes so has to constantly stroke his own fragile ego to justify his existence. There is no there there.
Gertrude Stein, avowed lesbian, patron of the arts and cunning linguist!
Lol. I see what you did there. ;-)
She wrote pretty well too, and a very big deal to the Feminist Art Movement of the 60s and 70s. "no there there" hers ? I can't remember.
Not exclusively feminist. Judson Poets Theater doted on Gertrude. Al Carmines channeled her. Marva Abraham (hope I got that right), Deborah Lee and I played her "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters" in a show Michael Smith directed at the Sullivan Street Theater as a benefit for Caffe Cino, then as a JPT production. If you look hard enough you can even see photographic proof.
"No there there" was hers for sure, but there's dispute over whether she was referring to her childhood home in Oakland, CA, or maybe Oakland itself.
That sounds right. Back in the 60s, she, and so many others to keep up with also. I was deeply involved with the Feminist Art Movement wih Judy Chicago and quite a few serious folks. So many great and seldom acknowledged 19th and early 20th century women were constantly being discussed, evaluated and read deeply. After all this time a lot blends together.
Rim shot...oops!
Definition of a psychopath.
Place holder? Part of a strategy? Told to sit down and shut up? Also possibly. Any chance in hell to begin with? Hell no. But that hasn’t stopped anyone before, so...? My guess is his wife wanted this more than he did.
The question is will Haley also capitulate and leave the deteriorating and demented creamsicle from hell as the only candidate. NH will tell I guess.
Do you think someone with legs not mired in treason step forward? Romney?
“Demented creamsicle from hell.” Thank you Patris.
I am trying to use fewer obscenities.
Oh but the things I’m thinking....
I use 45 now on FB, algorithm skips right by at my rants.
Me too.
I wish you well in your endeavor. Maybe wait until after the election? Things will be better then.
Glad we haven't run out of orange references even after all this time!!
"Morning breath"
Recomend Mexican
Coke a Cola
I recommend Jose Mujica.
I think he’s too content in Uruguay.
Yep
No Romney is hated more the MAGA crowd than Biden. (He didn’t take back the White House from Mr. Obama.) I’ll let you read between the lines to understand why that was an issue.
Plus he wouldn’t want to associate with the 47%.
I hope New Hampshire independent voters help Haley win or come close to winning.
Yes, may sanity prevail. I fear it won’t.
NH is an interesting state. Voters have surprised in the past
I hope so. Lived there very briefly a million years ago..
We need a debate now, but, with Trump blathering like a demented uncle lately, his handlers will avoid...cowards!
May he overrule them and keep blithering!
I think that because he won by such a large margin in Florida, people assumed there was something more there. That provided some unearned momentum until he went campaigning nationally and people saw the truth. This emperor has no clothes!
Florida is where woke goes to die and Stupid comes alive.
You’ve got to copyright this
Really makes me wonder about the people of Florida.
There is a reason that some people use the spelling Floriduh.
Remember, they live in the sun all the time. Baked brains are a specialty down there..
DeSantistan has a certain charm...well hidden, though.
When the emporer wears white boots, no one notices that he's got no clothes..
He won in Florida because Florida is full of floridiots, racists, fascists, and white nationalists. It truly is the penis of America. If only we could cut it off and let it float away.
the ocean is in enough jeopardy.
Third most populist state, sad to say, has no state income tax.
His ego and popularity was stoked by the old Republican snowbirds and retirees who live in Florida. Once he left home he found that no one cared or liked him and his woke rants. He also hangs on to Gov. Abbott’s coattails because Abbott is popular for reasons that escape me.
Hates women?
How do you spell blind ego
a-m-b-I-t-I-o-n
Discuss? hmmm.... Can't offer much insight. Delusional. Mentally limited, with unlimited ego. After Citizen's United, there are no brakes left to keep out the crazies.
Reminds me of Rudy Giuliani's presidential run in money spent per vote and running because they were certain their press clippings and media fanfolk would put them over the top. DeSantis is rooting and tooting for Haley to drop out after New Hampshire as is Trump.
Of course didn't think that wish through. With no candidate to run against he can't use the primary season as an excuse for Court delays. Hello, Judge Cannon.
"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
H. L. Mencken
Looked at Drumpf (No experience. No knowledge of history. No policy. No bipartisanship. Just a huge mouth, ego and attitude) and thought - Hey! Anybody can do this!
Sorry Ron - only one cult diktator at a time.
He wants to be VP. He’ll duke it out with Stefanik. Trump and DeSantis. AKA Bevis and Butthaed.
and Tim Scott?
He’s biting someone’s jugular right now I’m guessing
Trump might choose him just to have the pleasure of tormenting him constantly. On the other hand, Trump is probably thinking of Alina - so pretty, so respectful and big tatas, too.
I live in DeSantistan, Trump will never let an eager beaver like Rhonda Santis in the White House.
I agree that he has zero charisma and is so ill at ease in public that he has always creeped me out.I cannot see how he can make any inroads in public life no matter what his party is.Glad he is theirs.Ugh.
He reminds me of a promoter for an aging, punch drunk boxer.
Yes and he is the boxer lol
He blew it 100% with his inept Summer attempt in the Mid Waste, came home whipped.
just this lololololololololololololololololololololololol............
$100 million plus, and he finished faster than any client of The Happy Hooker.