By: Ten Bears
EYeah ~ we went into this with three strikes against him: his part in the end of the northwest timber industry, blocking the discharge of a bad educational investment afterward and then taking the last...
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In reply to Ten Bears. Ten Bears: I hope you caught my additional comment at the end of Kevin’s remarks.
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I was just reading in the Globe that we Americans prize authenticity. That explains both Biden & Trump, perhaps. The Globe op-ed brings up the current importance of Reality TV. Trump was a big part...
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In reply to Fred C. Dobbs. The last two paragraphs above are from the Globe piece. So is this… Reality television was one culprit. Thirty years ago, MTV initiated a social experimentto see what happens...
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In reply to Fred C. Dobbs. How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success The NYer – December 27, 2018 With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a...
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I choose to think that George Bush Jr paved the way for Donald Trump. Mainly with his classic line ‘Fool me once… Um, err… Can’t git fooled agin!’ (It’s supposed to be ‘Shame on me!’ But he went on to...
View ArticleBy: Fred C. Dobbs
In reply to Fred C. Dobbs. “Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me!” as the saying goes. Can’t Get Fooled Again. (George Bush, channeling The Who!) “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is a song by...
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In reply to Fred C. Dobbs. You’re right, except for one thing: he was never ‘elected’ in the first place Couldn’t be ‘re’-elected … and there’s still questions at that
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In reply to Ten Bears. Even if you claim it was the Supreme Court that did the voting, Bush was elected. But if they had left things alone, it we still elected Bush. Only if Gore had requested a full...
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In reply to Ten Bears. There’s a pretty good chance the next president isn’t going to be ‘elected’ either, because of how the Electoral College works. Until it’s fixed, we have to pretend that this is...
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In reply to Arne. Yeah, it’s moot in the generally accepted vernacular; it is what it is, what’s done is done, no point in rehashing it. To Fred’s point, I lump it all into together: Bush/Cheney...
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In reply to Fred C. Dobbs. There was a time when the best/only way for Dems to get a president elected was to nominate a southerner. No luck with northerners. The GOP figured out how to deal with that,...
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In reply to Arne. The most I’ve ever seen about who ‘would’ have won Florida was not that Gore got more votes, but that a whole lot of Palm Beach county voters were confused by their ballot design and...
View ArticleBy: Fraud Guy
I think I lack for enough RAM to handle all the input. I keep trying to get OEM for this, and am being told that they no longer make it.
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