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| Marble bust of Emperor Gaius Caligula, with original color restored, via Wikipedia. Paul Krugman made a pretty good case yesterday that he was a better emperor than Trump. |
Maybe God sent us Donald Trump to inspire all the rest of us to be and do better— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 18, 2017
Or perhaps the Devil sent him to make us complacent because we all look so morally sound by comparison. https://t.co/NrOJYdWC59— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) August 18, 2017
I really have such a bad feeling on this aspect, that Republicans will emerged unscathed from the cataclysm, shaking with indignation when anybody suggests they had anything to do with the rise of this ill-bred person.
FIRING BANNON WON'T MAKE TRUMPSKI LESS RACIST OR SEXIST— Erica Jong (@EricaJong) August 18, 2017
But it'll make CNN tell us how presidential he is now, for the 48 hours before his next breakdown. https://t.co/X8ZOQBSaCA— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) August 18, 2017
Sure enough, it had already happened:
Oy vey. Too late. I just heard two pundits say this means this is a turning point and Trump is going to be more presidential. #shootmenow— digby (@digby56) August 18, 2017
Heading to Camp David for major meeting on National Security, the Border and the Military (which we are rapidly building to strongest ever).— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2017
Oh, I lie, you issued one of your "executive orders" telling Congress to do something. But like your tweets that makes nothing happen.— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) August 18, 2017
The eternal paradox. Trump thinks he's the Emperor and can make things happen by issuing an order or a tweet, and is endlessly frustrated and betrayed by lack of action. He's a terrible danger to the republic, mostly through the people like Pruitt and Sessions and Price and DeVos that have wormed their way into office under him, but personally completely impotent.
He thinks by saying it he did something. When he finds out nothing's happening he'll blame somebody else. #EmperorTrump— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) August 19, 2017
Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
Everybody knows this story is bogus, but not everybody realizes Pershing's success (in a job that shouldn't have been undertaken, of colonizing the Philippines) was achieved by an exactly opposite technique:
he ended the insurgency by focusing on diplomacy, autonomy for local chiefs, and legal-economic improvements https://t.co/KSPVaNocKf pic.twitter.com/gp68IjJuBA— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) August 17, 2017
The vast majority of people still enslaved in the world today (at least 30 mil) are people of color enslaved by other people of color. pic.twitter.com/quxKdHCiVu— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 17, 2017
Here's something! Oh wait... https://t.co/PNlWSYDgw6— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) August 17, 2017
Moral: .@PrisonPlanet and his like don't give a fuck about slavery, they're just looking for ways of saying brown and black people are bad.— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) August 17, 2017
Oh, and question to Radio Yerevan: Is it true that General Robert E. Lee was "against racism"?
Not clear what you mean by "against racism" but... https://t.co/LTGCvp19YA pic.twitter.com/GAup55AcNs— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) August 16, 2017
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