THIS IS NOT RIGHT (But it isn't left either)

Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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When Trump won the presidency, the screams of fear and loathing reverberated throughout the nation.His attacks on the media, and his stream of consciousness bizarre commentaries, his P.T. Barnum appeal to his supporters, and then, horror of horrors, his use of social media, especially his poison pen Twitter entries.He has said some pretty awful things. Things no politician in his right mind would ever say. He certainly isn't predictable.But what has the sheninigans of this wild man billionaire done to the country?What has happened is what the Democrats fear the most. The economy is booming, foreign policy is working better in the one year Trump has been in office, than 8 years of Obama. The Constitution is still intact and the structures of government a settling down and are beginning to to function as they should,. The Trump rhetoric may be just the wrong side of toxic but all the nuts and bolts of government remain tightly screwed in place. It looks as if society is being governed well and proper. Perhaps we need more unconventional leaders in the seats of power in Washington.


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  • Posted by 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It almost feels strange to have a President on our side. I thought it might never happen.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Absolutely no doubt. Look at how the breaking news of today, brought Kim Jong Un to the table..In any negotiation, his is the horse I'd bet on.
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  • Posted by Ed75 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Negotiation is his tool of choice in every way, and he is the puppet master
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  • Posted by 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    One of the scout leaders did a masterful rendition of "The Man with the Golden Arm " and with the final shout "You took it!" the accused jumped up fell into the campfire and got soaked with the pail of water used to keep the fire from flaring up. too high. Some day I'll write a guide on "How To Make a Memory."
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Don't fret over that for a minute. Me dino has been known to blurt out all kinds of stuff.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, I know it was a sidebar. But I hadn't thought about my Auntie for at least 50 years so I had to blurt it out.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It has a mesmerizing melody and a hypnotic background but the words are so alien to prosperity that it makes a person weary after 2 minutes.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino hates that song. Some smiling doofus on TV sang that just before midnight eastern time last New Year's Eve in NY, NY. That what's-his-name obviously had some claim to musical fame I no longer keep up with.
    Another doofus on TV sang that right after 9/11. Some doofuses are hard to Imagine--forget, I mean.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's kinda coincidental. My teenaged character learned how cook from a semi-retired gourmet chef, who works for her father, a retired French Army general and a hero of the Franco-Prussian War, even though France lost that one.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The only punishment worse would be locked in a room with John Lennon's "Imagine" playing over and over and over,
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  • Posted by 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No bait.I have struggled with that one for a long time. I tend to agree with my mother "Herbie, you know better than that."
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  • Posted by 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you spent years figuring out winning on Wall Street, you wouldn't want changes either. But, we've always known the game is fixed. You merely need to out-scam the scammers.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I call those "campfire tales. Some real, some false, and some exaggerated. They're always creepyand the ultimate goal is to scare the younger kids.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My cousin older by three years on sleepovers would tell a story about Bone Lake in Wisconsin
    In the story he told about a man who made lamp shades out of skin from little boys. I thought it was a "ghost story" . Turned out he was talking about Ed Gein the man people say was the real chainsaw massacre perp.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I started telling spooky stories to my younger brothers on car rides (you've driven from Compass Lake to Dothan and back) when my age had a single digit.
    When I was a teen all wanted to hear was car radio rock n' roll. To hell with my brothers. Buncha whining pests anyway.
    Now one became smart enough to help me do my taxes.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm thinking of red-headed sequels. She's French, it's 1914 and World War One known then as The Great War is only getting started. Her photographic memory (that includes languages) can make her a perfect spy.
    As for the prison, I don't want to see that place ever again. I came to hate it. Sticking it out bagged me the retirement I now enjoy. I freaking earned it for a fact.
    One very important thing to consider about writing straight fiction about people a century ago. You can't get sued.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Heavens , you poor soul . Us men need a Gloria Allwrong type to seek proper restitution for her ass ment. LOL
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