How about "No Lying Week," but if that's too much of stretch, just try it for a couple of days. A couple of hours?
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Brilliant stuff.
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Has anyone told Lara Trump, animal rights activist, that her husband is out shooting large animals on the side? Just wondering. Maybe they don't talk.
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POTUS Competency Week.
I'm waiting, but not holding my breath.
I'm waiting, but not holding my breath.
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Really looking forward to "throw your criminally insane President and his family in prison " week.
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You gotta admit the guy has a sense of timing! There is no situation that DJT can't make worse. In his blissful ignorance Trump barely registers any realization of what he's said or what is going on (hence his sitcom worthy bloopers)...except, when he's intentionally attacking, defending, or bamboozling. The problem is you don't know when which is whether. This administration is a caricature of a presidential administration. The contradictions and "fake news" coming out of this group should render any of their promotions or pronouncements meaningless. Hopefully, joyless General Kelly will curtail the theme week hoopla, because less Trump, is more.
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How about fixer-upper week at the White House, since it's such a dump according to Trump. Would make for a good HGTV special.
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Firing Jared and Ivanka will raise Trump's popularity by 20 points
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What about a Hideous Vulgarian Week? Then we could all talk about Fat Donny all week because he would have to be the hands down winner, for sure.
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I'm conflicted on the lack of a White House pet. On the one hand, I have great reservations about putting any living part of the creation at the mercy of this President. On the other hand, I so wish Gail had the opportunity to chronicle, as she surely would, the sufferings of whatever poor creature might become the Donald's pet. And I'm betting the results would be even funnier than her laconic reminders of the rooftop journey of Seamus Romney.
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How about Impeachment week?
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just like my 6 yr old daughter's summer camp. . . this week is railroad week, next week is sea creatures. ..
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Gail, I read and enjoy your every word. BUT, you have a super easy job...calling out the grifter and his kin/associates. A job that could be done with crayons.
NOW, what do we do? Jerry Brown and Warren Buffet have the largest state and largest $, but the GOP has all three branches and is appointing Federal Judges at an alarming rate!
How do we stop this fiasco? Mocking it is not enough! Though, POWER TO THE PRESS!
NOW, what do we do? Jerry Brown and Warren Buffet have the largest state and largest $, but the GOP has all three branches and is appointing Federal Judges at an alarming rate!
How do we stop this fiasco? Mocking it is not enough! Though, POWER TO THE PRESS!
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The Trump Administration is rapidly coming upon its most wonderful week of all -- Irrelevant Week. The whole thing is a giant hot air balloon so detached from any connection to Planet Earth that it is headed for outer space, beyond even faint echoes of communications with real human beings and real human issues.
I'm looking forward to the moment all television and news coverage ceases as the thing nears the sun. Fortunately for all aboard, no one will notice.
I'm looking forward to the moment all television and news coverage ceases as the thing nears the sun. Fortunately for all aboard, no one will notice.
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in absence of another theme from the president let's make this a leak week, always so much fun.
transcripts from calls to foreign leaders were leaked recently. our of that came this:
Lindsay Walters, the White House deputy press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One as Mr. Trump flew to an event in West Virginia. “It prevents the president from being able to do, you know, what he does best and negotiate with foreign leaders.”
if that is so, we hope that the president had another day job, and that he is not quitting it. because as a negotiator he sure has little talent.
transcripts from calls to foreign leaders were leaked recently. our of that came this:
Lindsay Walters, the White House deputy press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One as Mr. Trump flew to an event in West Virginia. “It prevents the president from being able to do, you know, what he does best and negotiate with foreign leaders.”
if that is so, we hope that the president had another day job, and that he is not quitting it. because as a negotiator he sure has little talent.
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So police brutality is advocated by the president most likely to be the first one removed from the White House in handcuffs. If he thinks the White House is a dump, wait until he tries jail.
You can't make this stuff up.
You can't make this stuff up.
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Embolden bigots week?
Everybody in Trump's circle lawyer-up week?
Dunning-Kruger effect week?
Whine on twitter week?
Spread alarmist lies about crime rates to scare ignorant, racist, white people week?
Display a bizarre HRC and Obama fixation week?
A truly, deeply, tragically pathetic man. It's honestly hard to laugh sometimes, but I think it might work to take him down more effectively than anger (at least online).
Everybody in Trump's circle lawyer-up week?
Dunning-Kruger effect week?
Whine on twitter week?
Spread alarmist lies about crime rates to scare ignorant, racist, white people week?
Display a bizarre HRC and Obama fixation week?
A truly, deeply, tragically pathetic man. It's honestly hard to laugh sometimes, but I think it might work to take him down more effectively than anger (at least online).
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"When Your President Is Weak" Week?
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Gail, as funny and cute as your article maybe I got something serious to share. And if you and your colleagues are up to it you can investigate.
Just today, 8/3/2017, I came out of a store in Richardson, TX, and as I am getting into my car a young boy, , about nine or ten, hits my side mirror with his palm deliberately. Thankfully it did not break. He also walked on with his face ahead like he did nothing. It happened quickly and I was too shocked to say something. His younger brother turned back and sneered...a boy of just five or six.
I am a woman of color, not Black. I wonder if these kids pick up violent and/or racist behaviors very young and act it out in devious ways, while their parents pretend to be clueless, or are actually clueless, much more so now than before? Are the parents and their kids feeling empowered by crude rude Conservatives on radio, TV and in politics?
And then an hour later when I parked in front of a laundry facility to pick up my dry cleaning there was a guy who looked like he was itching for a fight. I protected myself by sort of running back into the dry cleaners. He had four kids in tow and yet spent more time over me parking in front of the dry cleaners...which the owner himself told me was okay. People keep telling me that since Trump's elections these sort of things have become too common. in the South. True?
Who is investigating?
Just today, 8/3/2017, I came out of a store in Richardson, TX, and as I am getting into my car a young boy, , about nine or ten, hits my side mirror with his palm deliberately. Thankfully it did not break. He also walked on with his face ahead like he did nothing. It happened quickly and I was too shocked to say something. His younger brother turned back and sneered...a boy of just five or six.
I am a woman of color, not Black. I wonder if these kids pick up violent and/or racist behaviors very young and act it out in devious ways, while their parents pretend to be clueless, or are actually clueless, much more so now than before? Are the parents and their kids feeling empowered by crude rude Conservatives on radio, TV and in politics?
And then an hour later when I parked in front of a laundry facility to pick up my dry cleaning there was a guy who looked like he was itching for a fight. I protected myself by sort of running back into the dry cleaners. He had four kids in tow and yet spent more time over me parking in front of the dry cleaners...which the owner himself told me was okay. People keep telling me that since Trump's elections these sort of things have become too common. in the South. True?
Who is investigating?
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Eric Trump 'trophy hunts' big game in Africa. And his wife is an animal rights activist? How do these people live with themselves.
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Only important weeks for DJT & Co. are the Nielsen sweeps. Next period is from October 26 - November 22, 2017. Watch, look and listen.
This is gonna be huuuuuge!
This is gonna be huuuuuge!
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Hooray for Kelly. He's almost finished with National Bring Your President to Work Week.
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Stop Trying to Repeal Obamacare Week (STROW)?
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'Clean up the swamp' week.
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Every week is a Lack of Credibility Week.
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Do NOT let that man near a pet, for God's sake!
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How about Twitter Saves the World Week, celebrated by the world when Twitter closes the fake "news" account, @realDonaldTrump?
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Gail's readers are having a lot of fun nominating amusing names of weeks. While we're at it, I suggest "Impeachment Week."
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Here's a thought.
How about letting trump cut the grass and hiring the ten year old to sit in the oval office.
How about letting trump cut the grass and hiring the ten year old to sit in the oval office.
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" Custom-fitted, Canvas Dinner Jacket Week". Look it up, kids.
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I feel slightly sorry for the sad sacks who voted for Trump-nation. They are so duped that they don't have a clue that Donny boy looks down on them like the Queen of Mean did (Leona H. as in "only the little people pay taxes). Leona would be so proud of la Donald. She'd probably be thick with him & wish he was her son. Sorry folks, I have no respect for the man & cannot find 1 redeeming quality about him or his spawn. It really is pathetic that there are goodly number of folks who just do not get it, Donald is all about Donald & his empire & his power & his money ad nauseum. Donald is not a Christian, his god is Donald Trump and he worships at the temple & altar of Donald J. Trump. I wish daily that this is only a very, very bad dream and I will wake up to find it is just that.
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I'll join in! I suggest "Trump Indictment Week" followed by "Trump Impeachment Week"!
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How about a "Shut Down Trump's Twitter Account" Week?
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The daughter-in-law is an animal rights activist? So what does she think of plans to put Trump's wall through a wildlife preserve?
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As usual Rick Perry has it backward. He should have said "You put the demand out there and the supply will follow. Henry Ford proved that more than 100 years ago when couldn't sell his Model T's. He recognized that the supply was there, but the demand was lacking. So he tripled his workers' wages, and the Model T's started selling like hot cakes in spite of the worst sales slogan ever: "You can have any color you want as long as it's black."
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The embarrassing boy scout speech was not made to thousands, but tens of thousands, over 40,000 people. The audience was mostly young people. It was a non-voluntary audience that Trump treated like a partisan voluntary political rally.
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I suggest "Grand JUry Week". It could include an excitement-filled contest to see how many Trump insiders get indicted. The star, of course, would the Donald himself repeating his signature line "You're pardoned!"
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I’m for Leak Week, 52 times a year (or until there’s no Trump in the “dump”).
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How about a week without lies week. It would be interesting to watch trump's head explode or see him with a muzzle. Perhaps they might take away his twitter account for that week
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I have concluded the whole Trump family is tone deaf. Trump has assembled an administration of tone deaf individuals. How else to explain the missteps and deliberately crafted mistakes? The whole bunch of them are playing from the wrong page and don't notice it themselves.
Every week, something happens in this administration. Every week, some comedian points out "you can't make this stuff up" about the nut fest going on.
Gail, keep up the good work. I depend on you to make me smile.
Every week, something happens in this administration. Every week, some comedian points out "you can't make this stuff up" about the nut fest going on.
Gail, keep up the good work. I depend on you to make me smile.
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I can't wait to celebrate Trump Family Indictment Week.
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Some additional nominees for future celebratory weeks:
Media Appreciation Week--celebrated in the bushes outside the White House, on a moonless night. By invitation only. No notebooks, cameras, recording devices or reporters allowed.
Confidence in Appointees Week--All appointees enjoying the full confidence of the President are invited, assuming they haven't already been fired.
Trump Team Lawyer Recognition Week--This event will be held in the Kennedy Center
to accommodate all the honorees.
Firing Robert Mueller Celebration Week--oops. This event has been cancelled due to lack of conflicting interests.
James Comey Comes Out of Retirement Week--oops. Wrong memo.
White House Denigration Week--Guests will be issued blindfolds and a free comprehensive lobotomy to avoid any inconvenient reminders of the beauty or historical significance of this dump.
Trump Family Reunion Week--Location to be determined, as we don't yet know where the newly empaneled Grand Jury will be sequestered.
Media Appreciation Week--celebrated in the bushes outside the White House, on a moonless night. By invitation only. No notebooks, cameras, recording devices or reporters allowed.
Confidence in Appointees Week--All appointees enjoying the full confidence of the President are invited, assuming they haven't already been fired.
Trump Team Lawyer Recognition Week--This event will be held in the Kennedy Center
to accommodate all the honorees.
Firing Robert Mueller Celebration Week--oops. This event has been cancelled due to lack of conflicting interests.
James Comey Comes Out of Retirement Week--oops. Wrong memo.
White House Denigration Week--Guests will be issued blindfolds and a free comprehensive lobotomy to avoid any inconvenient reminders of the beauty or historical significance of this dump.
Trump Family Reunion Week--Location to be determined, as we don't yet know where the newly empaneled Grand Jury will be sequestered.
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We have a theme week now: Grand Jury Week.
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Gail, I believe you'll soon get your wish. Let me suggest a few;
Grand Jury Week-- I think it's coming up fairly soon.
Subpoena Week-- So many brought in to tell various stories, under oath.
New Attorney General Week-- this one temporarily on hold.
Mueller's Report Week-- the world will literally stop when this week comes.
I believe there are many important Weeks to look forward to.
Grand Jury Week-- I think it's coming up fairly soon.
Subpoena Week-- So many brought in to tell various stories, under oath.
New Attorney General Week-- this one temporarily on hold.
Mueller's Report Week-- the world will literally stop when this week comes.
I believe there are many important Weeks to look forward to.
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Gail, once again you have managed to bring out the best in your commenting readers - a very creative lot. If we had two or more names per week, we could get them all in. How about a calendar from now to November?
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The US is in the grip of a fairy tale. Hint, the emperor is naked.
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I was reading the transcripts of Trump’s calls with the Mexican and Australian Leaders and it jumps out at you what a whiny little crybaby he is. With that in mind I suggest we have "Whiny Crybaby Week" in honor of the president.
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Anyone who calls the White House a dump is incredibly disrespectful, ignorant and entitled. To inhabit the WH is a privilege of the first order. If Trump doesn't like it--and with all of the accompanying perks--he's more than welcome to resign and scurry back to Trump Tower and not on the taxpayers' expense!
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Sadly, as an ex-president, Trump and his family will be entitled to Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives. It's a cross eyed bear.
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No, ten years.
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Pink slip week for Trump and his family.
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"One week until the inauguration of a new president week."
Please. Please. Please.
Please. Please. Please.
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The Trump family has an 'animal rights' activist? Does she arrange funerals for the animals that the Trump sons kill?
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Lara Trump is an animal rights activist?! Are you serious? Does she not know what her husband does for fun?
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It's because it's really "Animals (Have No) Rights" activism.
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Dear President Trump, Congratulations for becoming the POTUS ! You're a great man, a great leader, a great global business builder and one of the most charismatic and honest people Ive ever seen. The constraints placed on you by the "office" are overly constricting and do not allow you to fully MAGA. It seems to be a poor fit, no one wins, no one loses, just a poor fit. Allow the American people, the people that love and believe in you, to be your shepard, your guide into a journey where the light that emulates from your presence be captured and delivered from a position of utter freedom. You are in control, the American People need your guidance, allows us, not Congress, not the DOJ, to be the shepards at your feet as the waters separate and you cross into that space of freedom - into the privacy and unbridled world of Trump Tower - your golden home of peace and serenity - into the light. Allow it to happen and you will flourish knowing you can answer to a higher authority and will only then be in a position to MAGA. Time is of the essence, move with steadfast speed and agility as the light that shines may dim. Your servants - the American People.
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Do you think Trump will buy your eloquent letter urging him to return to the freedom of his private gilded billionaire life, foregoing the uncomfortable restrictions of public presidential life?
I don't but it was a brilliant attempt.
No matter how much he complains, we are going to have to drag him out feet first, as he clutches desparately at those tatty White House rugs, carpeting, and drapery. Sad.
I don't but it was a brilliant attempt.
No matter how much he complains, we are going to have to drag him out feet first, as he clutches desparately at those tatty White House rugs, carpeting, and drapery. Sad.
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Hope this is sarcasm!
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Don't forget Emoluments Confessions Week. And, I am NOT a Liar Week.
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I'd love a "No Tweet Week" when everyone, including the president, turned off their cell phones and stayed off Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc., and did something constructive. Read a book? Discuss the afterlife? Take the kids to the museum? Walk the dog? My parents were born before television and the internet and did just fine without our modern day devices. They wrote me letters. We spoke over the phone. I visited them often and we sat on the porch, combing burrs out of the dog's mane and watching the sun set. Maybe Trump could read us the Sunday funnies over the radio. That might be just his speed. Or not.
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Any time soon, the Beginning of End Week.
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How about "Release Your Tax Returns" week?
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I am looking forward to Trump Impeachment Week.
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How about 181 Weeks to Go Week?
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I eagerly await IMPEACHMENT WEEK.
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" ... Trump and Rick Perry went around vowing to make the nation 'energy dominant,' ... 'Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand,' Perry said during a coal mining promotion. 'You put the supply out there and the demand will follow' ” Ah, yes, the man who comes to mind when you say "The Smartest Guys In The Room". Or maybe Enron, "arguably the most shocking example of modern corporate corruption."
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How about I'm tired of the trumps' week?
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A week without Trumps, is a good START.
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Self-promotion without substance is common, with everyone who is famous in any way having a brand and followers. But this particular incompetent, ignorant, angry narcissist has nothing else to offer, what with being incoherent and free of normal personal restraint. Never has anyone with so little of value to say and tweet been so busy proving that psychologically impaired individuals simply don't make good presidents. A fake president makes every week special, but not in a good way.
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President Trump's supporters are lining up at a rally in West Virginia and the crowds just keep growing. They do not care about the Russian collusion delusion or the Boy Scouts speech he made to thousands. They care about job creation and having a weekly paycheck to feed their families. These are the concerns that matter to them and the rest of the U.S. They are anxious to hear the president speak about the state of the country and the economy. These people voted for Mr. Trump and approve so far with his results.
Jim Justice, the Governor of West Virginia, just switched his allegiance to the Republican Party. He did not support the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton. He wants to go with the winners. Smart choice.
Jim Justice, the Governor of West Virginia, just switched his allegiance to the Republican Party. He did not support the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton. He wants to go with the winners. Smart choice.
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You state " These are the concerns that matter to them and the rest of the U.S."
but I'm not so sure about that. Look at Trump's performance polls and you'll see that the majority of the country doesn't think his p.r. stints are that impressive. And what has he actually done for the working poor and unemployed? Tried to take away their health insurance?
Yes, hard core republicans voted or him and approve of him, but please don't lie, like Trump does, and suggest that they are the majority of the voters or the public.
but I'm not so sure about that. Look at Trump's performance polls and you'll see that the majority of the country doesn't think his p.r. stints are that impressive. And what has he actually done for the working poor and unemployed? Tried to take away their health insurance?
Yes, hard core republicans voted or him and approve of him, but please don't lie, like Trump does, and suggest that they are the majority of the voters or the public.
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Grand jury impaneled today. Smart action.
There is hope for those of us who value democracy.
There is hope for those of us who value democracy.
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@WMK: Maybe they should care about Russian collusion and the fact that Trump is mentally ill. Having said that, what has he done to make the country better or to create jobs? He only wants more wealth for the already wealthy, what on earth would make anyone approve of what he's done with his time in office, especially people who are having a hard time? A rotten and corrupt administration!
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Sadly, we would not be able to sustain newspapers without political figures to discuss.
Last year I noted that we had not had a Hilary-free day since about February 2015 and I was in Hilary-fatigue mode which has eased up considerably lately.
I think we're stuck with the current administration, it seems to me that the next thing to do is take a more lighthearted approach. Do your best, please.
Last year I noted that we had not had a Hilary-free day since about February 2015 and I was in Hilary-fatigue mode which has eased up considerably lately.
I think we're stuck with the current administration, it seems to me that the next thing to do is take a more lighthearted approach. Do your best, please.
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Perhaps a contest called "Guess Who Said This Lie" in which the reader can pick a contestant starting with our "president".
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This is certainly well-trod ground, but one of the funnier efforts.
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I'll be happy when we can say - A Four Year Term Without Trumps..."
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Or maybe:"The End of the President Because of Impeachment" Week.
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"A Four Year Term Without Trumps..."
If you get inoculated, you could go a lifetime, with no chance of Autism.
Get your shots, kids!
If you get inoculated, you could go a lifetime, with no chance of Autism.
Get your shots, kids!
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Lara Trump is an animal rights activist ?! I hope she starts with her hubby Eric and bro in law Donny Jr. , the big game hunters who posed with the carcasses of wild animals they had killed on safari. Almost everything about these people is is ironic in a nauseating way.
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You beat me to it. I agree, the Junior Trump's are not exactly saintly in their love for living animals.
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On the bright side, he has no pet to strap to the roof of the car.
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reply to Debbie:
Frankly (never thought I'd think this let alone say it), I would "hugely" prefer the dog strapped to the roof of the car person than Mr. Orangeman, who currently occupies the White House (dump).
Mitt has a huge sense of decency, extensive experience as a public servant AND as head of a government. Yup, LDS and all, he'd be 110% preferable, IMO.
Frankly (never thought I'd think this let alone say it), I would "hugely" prefer the dog strapped to the roof of the car person than Mr. Orangeman, who currently occupies the White House (dump).
Mitt has a huge sense of decency, extensive experience as a public servant AND as head of a government. Yup, LDS and all, he'd be 110% preferable, IMO.
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Called the White House "a real dump?" Impeach, impeach, before he turns his decorator loose. Gaaah!
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Make America Trump Free. ALL of them.
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When you put it like that Gail, it sounds bad. Perhaps we need a Presidential History week where we all read about US Presidents who have actually governed. With a purpose. And a modicum of integrity. He makes Harding and Jackson look good.
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"He makes Harding and Jackson look good."
Bush! You forgot W!!
Bush! You forgot W!!
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Well, Trump has said he admires Old Hickory. So, I thought it fitting to provide our incumbent "president" with a nickname-Old Bone Spurs.
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Thank you, Gail, for giving me a moment to laugh through the misery of the Trump administration!
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“I bet you haven’t heard about all the accomplishments the president had this week because there’s so much fake news out there,” Lara Trump told her audience.
Alright, alright — enough already. Please stop with this "fake news" trope. It's getting old. It's getting tired. It's whiney. It's — not to put too fine a point open it — fake.
Dow passes 20K. Not fake. Quinnipiac University poll puts Trumps unpopularity at over 60%. Fake. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says unemployment is down to 4.4%. Not fake. U.S. Army spends over ten times as much on Viagra than it ever would on transgender service members. Fake.
Do you see a pattern here? And are you as sick of it as I am?
My nausea at this administration's mendacious dissembling. Not fake.
Alright, alright — enough already. Please stop with this "fake news" trope. It's getting old. It's getting tired. It's whiney. It's — not to put too fine a point open it — fake.
Dow passes 20K. Not fake. Quinnipiac University poll puts Trumps unpopularity at over 60%. Fake. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says unemployment is down to 4.4%. Not fake. U.S. Army spends over ten times as much on Viagra than it ever would on transgender service members. Fake.
Do you see a pattern here? And are you as sick of it as I am?
My nausea at this administration's mendacious dissembling. Not fake.
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There are so many weeks worth naming in this zombie administration! Am praying for a week of impeachment, and a week of ousting our 45th Prez and all of his enablers. A Four Stooges Week for Trump's daughters-in-law and their hubbies! And a False-Eyelashes week for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the President's Press Secretary, a loyal pie-face. When are we going to run out of Trump "weeks", Gail? The basket of frightening deplorables ruling our country from OUR White House is beyond bearing!
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Well, there ya go, then, a "Trump Zombie Week". And... and... we could stage it in Pittsburgh, near where the great cult movie, "The Night of the Living Dead" was filimed. Trump himself would just love it. And those zombies are real Americans... well, AFAIK.
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:-) Those False-Eyelashes are just too much!
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What is Sarah H. S. telling her little pre-schoolers about lying?
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Now Trump has his own Fake News Network run by a member of Clan Trump who should have had the sense to keep her head down in the trenches or Swamp Trump. SNL and comedians everywhere will have All Fake News, All The Time for priming the pump. This is going to be fun for everyone except the already overworked and overburdened purveyors of truth, or fact checkers out there.
Trump never had a pet because it would take attention away from him, plain and simple. He also has limited emotional capacity for people, flora or fauna, other than himself, of course.
Trump never had a pet because it would take attention away from him, plain and simple. He also has limited emotional capacity for people, flora or fauna, other than himself, of course.
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Not only would a pet take attention away from Trump, but it would also sniff him out for the angry fake he is. A dog's nose and tail do not lie!
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How about Hypocrisy Week, Treason Week or the one I'm really waiting for, Impeachment Week.
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Yes, the lies are brazen, big and small, and come out like water out of a fire hose, yet there's something more that I find almost equally disturbing.
I've just read the transcripts of his conversations with the president and prime minister (?) of Mexico and Australia resp. I've also read the transcripts of several of his interviews. There is something very, very wrong with this man's mind. The narcissism, the pettiness, vindictiveness and always, is glaring. He can not see anything above or beyond himself. He's the center of his own universe.
It's hard enough to listen to him - I can't stomach it anymore. But the picture that emerges upon reading his words, clearly indicates either mental illness or dementia. He seems to have no concept of truth as most understand it. He lies not only to us and himself, but to our allies who are now dismissing him. Crises are brewing all around - we are in uncharted, dangerous waters.
I've just read the transcripts of his conversations with the president and prime minister (?) of Mexico and Australia resp. I've also read the transcripts of several of his interviews. There is something very, very wrong with this man's mind. The narcissism, the pettiness, vindictiveness and always, is glaring. He can not see anything above or beyond himself. He's the center of his own universe.
It's hard enough to listen to him - I can't stomach it anymore. But the picture that emerges upon reading his words, clearly indicates either mental illness or dementia. He seems to have no concept of truth as most understand it. He lies not only to us and himself, but to our allies who are now dismissing him. Crises are brewing all around - we are in uncharted, dangerous waters.
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How about the 2016 Election is Invalid week. Even if these marvelous 'weeks' of 'winning with Trump' are cut short due to the POTUS being impeached and removed and/or jailed, if that is possible, we are still stuck with Pence, who would far prefer theocracy over democracy, and has no demonstrable accomplishments to point to other than he can, unlike Trump, speak in complete sentences. Odious as that is, at least I think P would think a little harder before throwing a nuke at someone than the clearly deranged T.
There will be no week in the future where all these 'weeks of winning' will not be hurting the US. And, so maybe that makes this "Wonder if the US will survive" week.
There will be no week in the future where all these 'weeks of winning' will not be hurting the US. And, so maybe that makes this "Wonder if the US will survive" week.
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Gail---
How about an Evolution 101 course and Pence cannot go near the white house until he takes the course. If he denies evolution,
he goes back to oblivion.
How about an Evolution 101 course and Pence cannot go near the white house until he takes the course. If he denies evolution,
he goes back to oblivion.
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The lies are coming so frequently now it's hard to keep up. And so many are over inconsequential or easily refutable falsehoods, it's hard to imagine a point when we'll be asked to believe something important.
The Head of the Boy Scouts called to say his was the greatest speech ever (he didn't).
Sanders says Trump was joking about wanting the police to be rougher during arrests (he wasn't)
Trump crying fake news regarding his line about the White House being a dump (not according to 8 witnesses)
Trump saying he spoke to Putin during dinner about, you'll never what....Adpotions! (not believable by any measure of standard of reality)
The list goes on and on...
This administration is bankrupting itself morally. We deserve better leadership. Get these corrupt and incompetent hucksters out of the White House asap while we are still dealing with unacceptable but small lies.
The Head of the Boy Scouts called to say his was the greatest speech ever (he didn't).
Sanders says Trump was joking about wanting the police to be rougher during arrests (he wasn't)
Trump crying fake news regarding his line about the White House being a dump (not according to 8 witnesses)
Trump saying he spoke to Putin during dinner about, you'll never what....Adpotions! (not believable by any measure of standard of reality)
The list goes on and on...
This administration is bankrupting itself morally. We deserve better leadership. Get these corrupt and incompetent hucksters out of the White House asap while we are still dealing with unacceptable but small lies.
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"we deserve better leadership..." Really? then why did we vote for this guy? Hard to rationalize that we didn't get the person we deserve, since we voted for him.
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HRC won the popular vote and it is possible without the local and Russian hacking- that she actually won the Electoral college. There were many problems in Wisconsin and other states.
Pence could be linked to lying about Russian contacts re: Flynn----We should have a new election--
Pence could be linked to lying about Russian contacts re: Flynn----We should have a new election--
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reply to DavidB:
Maybe you voted for him. I certainly didn't. Nor many millions of others. Problem is we have to suffer.
Maybe you voted for him. I certainly didn't. Nor many millions of others. Problem is we have to suffer.
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What frightened me most this week were the high ranking cop applauding Trump's call to rough up suspects.
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Please don't imply that Trump and James K. Polk have anything in common, not even about pets. Sure Polk, like most of his 19th century southern counterparts, was on the wrong side of slavery. But he was perhaps the hardest working president in history. Humorless, focused, he said he'd serve for one term, laid out a clear set of goals, accomplished those goals, came back to Nashville and promptly died, a victim of a cholera epidemic.
Polk is among the most underrated presidents.
Trump will find himself rated exactly right...at the bottom.
Polk is among the most underrated presidents.
Trump will find himself rated exactly right...at the bottom.
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Not week or do I mean no tweek?
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“You put the supply out there and the demand will follow.”
Apparently Rick Perry understands even less about economics that he does about the environment. Demand doesn't follow supply. Supply follows demand.
Apparently Rick Perry understands even less about economics that he does about the environment. Demand doesn't follow supply. Supply follows demand.
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Thanks for mentioning this! Obviously, Mr. Perry is also a Wharton School graduate.
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I think he received a D in Econ at Texas A and M.
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"supply follows demand," IF you're educated and have some common sense.
Apparently half the country or more don't measure up to this.
Apparently half the country or more don't measure up to this.
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Haven't you noticed? Every one of Trump's "weeks" is designed not to solve the targeted problem, but to find a way to move a wagonload of taxpayers' money into a few super-wealthy pockets, including, of course, his own. Infrastructure is simple: Build/fix bridges, roads, commuter rails, freight carriers, power generation & distribution, data access, etc. IOW, things that allow businesses and communities to grow and develop. Trump's answer? Grow the businesses by feeding them the money to build infrastructure without giving them standards and rules to do so.
Trump's Health Care? Cut a trillion in taxes for the super rich and pay for it by cutting Medicaid payments to the needy.
See the pattern? NOTHING is about getting stuff done, so he's gotten nothing done. Even the Keystone Pipeline may never be built because oil prices are so low they don't justify it!
Trump's set more records for failure than any President since the mid-19th Century!
Trump's Health Care? Cut a trillion in taxes for the super rich and pay for it by cutting Medicaid payments to the needy.
See the pattern? NOTHING is about getting stuff done, so he's gotten nothing done. Even the Keystone Pipeline may never be built because oil prices are so low they don't justify it!
Trump's set more records for failure than any President since the mid-19th Century!
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The liar-in-chief is the embodiment of Captain Peter 'Wrongway' Peachfuzz, the incompetent and unqualified sailor, who nonetheless, went on to be a ship captain. 'Wrongway' held a special place on the Rockey and Bullwinkle Show.
Captain Wrongway had a chest of medals given to him by enemy forces. Oh, the parallels are such a fit! I invite you to find him on YouTube or revisit your old DVDs of the R&B Show. There were episodes with plots involving the Supreme Court, poisonous gas, Wall Street, and more. See for yourself. The absurd parallels make for a great coping device in these turgid days.
In parting, his staff aboard ship created a fake room (perfect in this case, for a fake president) in which he could be directed and locked, so as to prevent future disasters. Now there is a real remedy to consider!
Captain Wrongway had a chest of medals given to him by enemy forces. Oh, the parallels are such a fit! I invite you to find him on YouTube or revisit your old DVDs of the R&B Show. There were episodes with plots involving the Supreme Court, poisonous gas, Wall Street, and more. See for yourself. The absurd parallels make for a great coping device in these turgid days.
In parting, his staff aboard ship created a fake room (perfect in this case, for a fake president) in which he could be directed and locked, so as to prevent future disasters. Now there is a real remedy to consider!
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I would like to see a week in which the White House does something that will make all Americans lives better. If they can't do that, perhaps they should all go golfing and let compassionate, skilled people run the White House.
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I'd be happy if they all just took a week off and disappeared to Camp David or somewhere. Really. It's exhausting. I just want my country back.
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How about a tech free week? That would give Gen. Kelly a way to take Trump's phone away from him so he couldn't post ridiculous tweets for a week.
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Trump and his enablers are among the cruelest people in the world.
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Unfortunately, there is a lot of competition for that distinction, but certainly the Trump Administration and the GOP enablers are the meanest bunch I ever witnessed--and that includes the McCarthy era.
Based on outright lies and character assassination, I thought nothing could ever be as vicious as the McCarthy years, but I was wrong. At least during the heyday of the McCarthy congressional witch hunts, Eisenhower was our president, a voice of reason, and a moderate Republican who really cared what happened to this country.
Based on outright lies and character assassination, I thought nothing could ever be as vicious as the McCarthy years, but I was wrong. At least during the heyday of the McCarthy congressional witch hunts, Eisenhower was our president, a voice of reason, and a moderate Republican who really cared what happened to this country.
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Wonderful post, PB. There would be no place for Ike in today's so-called Republican party. In fact, since he was registered in neither party, *both* parties wanted him to run on their tickets.
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They appear to celebrate Nepotism Week on a regular basis.
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How about "You can't make this stuff up" week? It could be a month long.
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A week without Trumps....is like a week without sea lampreys.
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Historians of even the near future will be baffled at this society's stupidity in putting these cartoon characters anywhere near the center of power.
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We think HRC actually won if the time were taken to evaluate the hacking in electoral states. We Republicans voted for her.
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I wonder what animal rights activist Lara Trump thinks of her husband's big game hunting expeditions?
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Gosh, I thought Jeff Sessions was Trump's pet. Funny how a small infraction makes you fall out of favor but at least he didn't forget to feed him.
I think a week without would make me happiest:
A week without any Trump family member excuses
A week without a fake news crisis
A week without tweets
A week without the President in his golf gear
A week without the first lady.
Oh wait, most weeks are like that.
And my favorite week: how about a week without walking back lies.
I think a week without would make me happiest:
A week without any Trump family member excuses
A week without a fake news crisis
A week without tweets
A week without the President in his golf gear
A week without the first lady.
Oh wait, most weeks are like that.
And my favorite week: how about a week without walking back lies.
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In order to have a week without walking back lies, it would mean the liar-in-chief would have to not tell any lies.
He lies for a living. He will not stop. He needs to be called out for each and every one. And the GOP and his spokespeople own him and co-own every one of his lies if they continue to (a) remain silent, or (b) make excuses/covers for him. All who defend him and his lying will go down the toilet with him. Stand by for the giant flush.
He lies for a living. He will not stop. He needs to be called out for each and every one. And the GOP and his spokespeople own him and co-own every one of his lies if they continue to (a) remain silent, or (b) make excuses/covers for him. All who defend him and his lying will go down the toilet with him. Stand by for the giant flush.
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I am looking forward to impeachment week, which I expect to occur sometime this year.
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Please don't let Trump have a pet! Animals deserve better than that!
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Lilybramble, I think the same thing! He would ignore the poor pet, at the very least, and abuse it, and yell at it, at the very worst. I am sure that he would LIE to it! But, the one redeeming thought is that there is an entire staff of people in the White House that WOULD look after the pet...and one hopes they would keep him as far from the poor animal as possible. Someone that narcissistic, entitled, and arrogant cannot take care of a pet! This entire family should not have pets; I just cannot see any of them investing the time, the effort, the devotion, and the love to care for a pet. They are too interested in money, power, looking perfect and fancy, money, power, and keeping their mansions perfect and fancy, (Architectural Digest could come calling at any moment!) and money and power. Did I say MONEY AND POWER? NO PETS!
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How about "To Tell the Truth" Week? Then we could have 7 days of blissful silence from the White House.
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Impeachment Appreciation Week
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I would like...
"Observe the Constitution Week" Nowhere does the Constitution give the president the power to decide what is or what is not news.
"Time to Shut-up Week" A week without tweets, speeches or public appearances.
"Honor everyone in America who is not a billionaire Week" Trump might not know anyone in this category, but surely he can hire someone to find them.
"Crashed Legislation Week" This will memorialize failed efforts destroy the legacy of Obama.
"Lost Health Insurance Week" similar to the above, but will be aimed at those who lose insurance because of Trump's stated desire to see Obamacare fail.
"Nobody Fired at the White House Week." Self explanatory.
"Divest Conflicting Business Engagements Week" Trump finally decides being president is more important than renting his name to other businesses.
"Resignation of the President Week" Will give Trump the opportunity to consider whether he wants to continue this circus or return to his more fun activities in civilian life.
"Observe the Constitution Week" Nowhere does the Constitution give the president the power to decide what is or what is not news.
"Time to Shut-up Week" A week without tweets, speeches or public appearances.
"Honor everyone in America who is not a billionaire Week" Trump might not know anyone in this category, but surely he can hire someone to find them.
"Crashed Legislation Week" This will memorialize failed efforts destroy the legacy of Obama.
"Lost Health Insurance Week" similar to the above, but will be aimed at those who lose insurance because of Trump's stated desire to see Obamacare fail.
"Nobody Fired at the White House Week." Self explanatory.
"Divest Conflicting Business Engagements Week" Trump finally decides being president is more important than renting his name to other businesses.
"Resignation of the President Week" Will give Trump the opportunity to consider whether he wants to continue this circus or return to his more fun activities in civilian life.
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How about "Tax Return Disclosure week". Since filers are supposed to keep their most current 7 years of returns he can release one per day.
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Your suggestions here demonstrate brilliance. Thank you for this list.
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Thank you, Kathryn in Omaha. I live much closer to the chaos in the White House so I am very much in need of the relief all citizens need right now.
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You make my week. I can't wait for your column. I vote for Gail Collins Week!
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“You put the supply out there and the demand will follow.” Wow! Thank you Rick! Which cowboy boot do you have that phrase emblazoned on? Did you see "Field of Dreams", by the way?
With drugs, the supply will continue to flourish as long as the demand remains. This reduction of complicated problems without easy answers to pithy wisdom is truly of the ad absurdum variety. Just say no, Rick!
I am so confused. Why am I still trying to understand the high sophistry of the article by Milton Friedman: "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits"?
I wish someone would make America less confusing again.
Gotta go now - I am trying to finish "The Secret" as part of my summer Make Me Smart by Reading Tweets, Facebook Posts, and Self Help Monoliths.
With drugs, the supply will continue to flourish as long as the demand remains. This reduction of complicated problems without easy answers to pithy wisdom is truly of the ad absurdum variety. Just say no, Rick!
I am so confused. Why am I still trying to understand the high sophistry of the article by Milton Friedman: "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits"?
I wish someone would make America less confusing again.
Gotta go now - I am trying to finish "The Secret" as part of my summer Make Me Smart by Reading Tweets, Facebook Posts, and Self Help Monoliths.
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Gail, you are the best! Please no dogs or cats for Trump. That would be animal cruelty.
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Scorpion, maybe?
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A nematode would be fun.
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How about a fish tank? Better to start off with pets who don't need any emotional support, kindess or empathy whatsoever.
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Ya think it is beginning to seem as if it's easier to get a job as a President of the US than an UBER driver? The background checks that an UBER driver has to go thru has eliminated the pool But what- no background checks for Trump--collusion with the Russians, No tax document, to name a couple. All we had to go on was Page 6? Oh well, must have been fake news?
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Tiny Hands are the Devil's Playground Week?
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Thank you. We need humor to balance out the pain, fear, and embarrassment.
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From Mr. Trump's tweets today bashing the U.S. Congress in favor of Russia, clearly Gen. Kelly has forfeited his honor for no good reason. He can't contain the White House; he can't stop Mr. Trump from talking treason by tweet. The leaks continue. No honorable military man, active duty or retired, would take a job with this White House. Next, Kelly will be repeating Trump's lies in public, no matter how demeaning, to prove his loyalty to his boss over country.
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Remember he told DT he could use his sword on the press
loud enough for us to hear?
loud enough for us to hear?
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Is American Dream week real? I must have missed the announcement. They probably will go away, since the sheer hypocrisy of each may be tough for even his supporters to swallow.
Glad you noted the dump of a White House. It doesn't matter how he describes it, he would never like it because it's not about HIM; it's about American history and actual statesmen who served. Besides doesn't his business make money when he stays at his golf course?
Glad you noted the dump of a White House. It doesn't matter how he describes it, he would never like it because it's not about HIM; it's about American history and actual statesmen who served. Besides doesn't his business make money when he stays at his golf course?
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Unfortunately many of his supporters seem immune to hypocrisy.
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It's back to West Virginia for another campaign rally. "Coal!" Trump will exhort the angry all-white crowd. "Coal will make America great again! A lump of coal in every stocking!" Then Trump will pay young Frank from Virginia in coal for mowing the immense White House lawns. "Be glad you got paid something," they'll tell young Frank, "Most of Trump's contractors never get paid at all!"
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Unless I am very mistaken, the very sober-faced young lady in uniform with lanyards always follows the president around carrying "the football," a briefcase with the launch codes for U.S. ballistic missiles with hydrogen bomb warheads. The crew-cut guy in the foreground is a navy (possibly a marine) officer armed with a 9 mm pistol who is ordered to execute her is she hesitates in her orders.
Everyone else in the room is having a good time.
And the band played on.
Everyone else in the room is having a good time.
And the band played on.
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Interesting, but not funny; scary.
Donald Trump: The Last Buffoon
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Very good, Reality Chex! Let us hope and pray that he is the last one.
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I hope he doesn't get a pet. I know a bit off topic but you did mention it...
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"All this could change in a wink of a Week."
This line stopped me up short...great satire AND wonderful wordplay. Thanks, as always!
This line stopped me up short...great satire AND wonderful wordplay. Thanks, as always!
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All of these great Weeks are a real hoot. But, as I've said before, the guy does control thousands of thermonuclear weapons.
But wait, there's more! Elsewhere in this newspaper I have read that the guy's appointments to lifetime federal judgeships are moving along swiftly. So if we live, it will be in a world regulated by his standards.
Sorry to spoil a really amusing column.
But wait, there's more! Elsewhere in this newspaper I have read that the guy's appointments to lifetime federal judgeships are moving along swiftly. So if we live, it will be in a world regulated by his standards.
Sorry to spoil a really amusing column.
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Honestly, humor is all you have sometimes. I'm also hoping that if enough of his supporters realize that he is an absolute laughingstock they might re-think their life choices. Long shot I know...
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How about "TRUTH WEEK" or "ONLY A JOKE WEEK"
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I think we could combine "TRUTH WEEK" and "ONLY A JOKE WEEK" to save room for all the wonderful ideas that have been contributed.
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Approve visas for Russians to work at Mar a Lago week.
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'One of my favorite Weeks was Energy Week, when Trump and Rick Perry went around vowing to make the nation “energy dominant,” a concept so much more manly than energy independent. But still educational. “Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand,” Perry said during a coal mining promotion. “You put the supply out there and the demand will follow.”'
Here's our Energy Secretary providing a perfect (and glib) example of his party's fundamental misreading of basic economics; supply and demand, which is a mechanism by which goods or services in a given market find their correct price point. Supply always follows demand to make sure that a the correct price is arrived at. This ignorance is of a piece with all the distorted economic policies the GOP has been promoting, with zero success, since the elections of 1980. Reference, most recently, the disastrous implementation of the supply-side program in Kansas. Taxpayers will paying for that mistake for decades. Maybe Gov. Brownback can move on to be our next Treasury Secretary.
Hey! How did we end up with such a nitwit for Energy Secretary? Oh, yeah... President Nitwit.
Here's our Energy Secretary providing a perfect (and glib) example of his party's fundamental misreading of basic economics; supply and demand, which is a mechanism by which goods or services in a given market find their correct price point. Supply always follows demand to make sure that a the correct price is arrived at. This ignorance is of a piece with all the distorted economic policies the GOP has been promoting, with zero success, since the elections of 1980. Reference, most recently, the disastrous implementation of the supply-side program in Kansas. Taxpayers will paying for that mistake for decades. Maybe Gov. Brownback can move on to be our next Treasury Secretary.
Hey! How did we end up with such a nitwit for Energy Secretary? Oh, yeah... President Nitwit.
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What, you never herd of the "Field of Dreams" school of economic theory?
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Regarding Boy Scouts and White House Be Kind to Animals Week, see story in Newsweek in which there were allegations that Sarah Huckabee Sander's brother was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998.
http://www.newsweek.com/sons-past-could-come-back-bite-huckabee-94351
http://www.newsweek.com/sons-past-could-come-back-bite-huckabee-94351
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Thanks for sharing link.
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Balance now the US federal budgets and the world economy based on the free trade will collapse within a decade!
Don’t balance the federal budgets and America will go bankrupt within a decade!
It’s basically lose-lose situation!
The only solution is to print $20 trillion, pay off the national debt and use the next decade to restructure the economy and place it on the stable foundations.
Please, don’t claim later (like it happened a decade ago) that nobody could have predicted and prevented the Great Recession.
I warned about it a dozen years ago but nobody listened!
Actually, nobody wanted to publish an op-ed trying to warn the public!
Don’t balance the federal budgets and America will go bankrupt within a decade!
It’s basically lose-lose situation!
The only solution is to print $20 trillion, pay off the national debt and use the next decade to restructure the economy and place it on the stable foundations.
Please, don’t claim later (like it happened a decade ago) that nobody could have predicted and prevented the Great Recession.
I warned about it a dozen years ago but nobody listened!
Actually, nobody wanted to publish an op-ed trying to warn the public!
Where did you get this notion from? As a percentage of GDP, we had a much larger public debt after WWII. Who did we owe? Ourselves. And it was mostly repaid until Reagan began using our treasury it as an ATM for tax breaks for the wealthy and increased defense spending.
Even today the majority of our public debt is owed to ourselves. The idea that we are owned by China is nonsense. We could pay off the amount we owe the Chinese easily, but it would take discipline and someone with the courage to suggest that we need to increase revenues to keep pace with spending. Spending is not necessarily out of control. We have a party governing us that is forcefully ignoring balancing the budget (by failing to consider increases to the revenue side of the ledger when needed) just to prove their own ideology.
Even today the majority of our public debt is owed to ourselves. The idea that we are owned by China is nonsense. We could pay off the amount we owe the Chinese easily, but it would take discipline and someone with the courage to suggest that we need to increase revenues to keep pace with spending. Spending is not necessarily out of control. We have a party governing us that is forcefully ignoring balancing the budget (by failing to consider increases to the revenue side of the ledger when needed) just to prove their own ideology.
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If the ten year old is hired to mow the White House lawn he will never collect his pay.
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Religion: Donald meets Evangelicals week. The sheep are shorn. Of Cash.
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Cash, votes, AND self-respect.
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This is Pushing Back HARD on Trump/Bannon New Modern Reality.
Mrs Lara Trump, you may be a truly wonderful person, especially since you push for animal rights, that's how I can admire your good intentions. However, this quote that I read whereby you further promote the "Fake News Is Just Against Me" virus concocted by your father-in-law to infect his base and blind them to his lies and addict them to prostrating loyalty - I cannot abide.
Thus, you may imagine the public's credibility score of a loyal daughter-in-law's version of the truth on the family-run "Fake News is Just Against Me" Trump/Bannon Network. Credibility: ZERO
Mrs Lara Trump, you may be a truly wonderful person, especially since you push for animal rights, that's how I can admire your good intentions. However, this quote that I read whereby you further promote the "Fake News Is Just Against Me" virus concocted by your father-in-law to infect his base and blind them to his lies and addict them to prostrating loyalty - I cannot abide.
Thus, you may imagine the public's credibility score of a loyal daughter-in-law's version of the truth on the family-run "Fake News is Just Against Me" Trump/Bannon Network. Credibility: ZERO
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How about "Govern America Week?" It would be good to have at least one week when this is observed.
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Make Trump a deal--if he resigns, we will give him a 10-year contract on a TV show, "Keeping Up with The Trumps," just like the Kardashians and the Cosby Show. He can play as a presidential family, and script as he pleases.
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When this nightmare reality show finally ends, I hope I never hear the name Trump again!
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How about a "Treason Week" repeated until impeachment.
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What do you suppose Jared and Ivanka are doing in the back row during cabinet meetings? What are they doing there... apart from providing cover for Donald --
and denying his blunders?
and denying his blunders?
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You can only imagine what they are doing in the back row. Whatever it is that they are doing in the back row, I bet that it is not in the best interests of The United States of America, and they have no business being there.
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" Hair" week. Only the very experienced and chemically proficient,
Need apply.
Need apply.
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chemically dependent, too!
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Mowing the lawn! The American dream!!!!
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Actually, the new American Dream is to have soooo much property, that someone else (minorities, often) is hired to mow. There are a few neighbors who mow their own lawn (me, with hand mower; next door neighbor with riding mower) on mostly half acre lots, but it's mainly others who come with noisy mowers and string trimmers, and then disappear.
As far as President Trump, he doesn't even walk while golfing. He caused an uproar when he was photographed driving his cart on a green, a distinct penalty to one who does not own the club.
As far as President Trump, he doesn't even walk while golfing. He caused an uproar when he was photographed driving his cart on a green, a distinct penalty to one who does not own the club.
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You forgot leaf blowers. I hate those things. Several of my neighbors have landscape people come almost every week, year round and they use leaf blowers in spite of there being very few leaves on the ground in August. Noise pollution and air pollution.
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Gee, I thought this was going to be about how to have "A Week Without Trumps." Man, wouldn't that be the best?
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most weeks will be "leave town to hold a campaign rally instead of doing my job" weeks.
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Here's another idea that I believe many Americans of diverse political persuasions could get behind: "Spring The Donald Free from that DC Dump" week.
The nation would cheer!
The nation would cheer!
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John, I just heard that DT has renamed the Whitehouse the Trump Dump.
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I vote for national evangelicals week. On the two Sundays bracketing the week Trump could deliver a streaming sermon - a celebration of his TREMENDOUS accomplishments - to all evangelical churches (that choose to participate). Eighty-five percent of the congregation will flock to the front to bow before the great man and eat their little cracker and drink their little juice, as the other fifteen percent blush, weep, and pray in the pews.
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How about "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make thee whole".
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They don't call the Trumps America's worst family for nothing!
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Gail? How about, "no, your granny can't immigrate week", or, "We just keep losing week".
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Another idea--presidential exchange week. We exchange with France and then hold Macron hostage until 2020.
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I am waiting for Tell the Truth Week.
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better yet: "Truth or Consequences Week"
(Odd that the WaPost did an analysis of Trump's travels in his first half-year and he's been west of the Mississippi for a total of 20 minutes in that time -somewhere under the St.Louis Arch.)
(Odd that the WaPost did an analysis of Trump's travels in his first half-year and he's been west of the Mississippi for a total of 20 minutes in that time -somewhere under the St.Louis Arch.)
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Don't hold your breath....
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Mueller Week.
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Perhaps "Honesty at a WH Press Conference Week?" Maybe not - it might result in Sara Huckabee Sanders falling victim to PTSD. I think, at this point, most of us would settle for " Only One Lie a Day Week" or, even better, "Trump Resignation Week", sponsored by Robert Mueller.
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They're getting all confused. The letter from the kid wanting to mow the WH lawn was for "Bring Back Child Labor Week."
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May I suggest the president adopt the "I'm going to resign." week? I'd happily mow his lawn if he would consider it. Or, failing that, how about " thin- skinned, stupid or ignorant week? The possibilities are endless for the current Administration. This is something we can believe in.
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I propose an American Journalistic Heroes Week, honoring the journalists and media personnel who must attend the Huckaninnie Hootenanny press briefings. To listen to the drivel the podium-clutcher-in-residence that week spouts, must require the patience of Job as well as a cast iron stomach.
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Maybe the Trumps are gathered in one place to make that difficult end of presidency decision. The only right thing to do is pull the plug now. The patient is brain dead. The tweets, lies and gropes are just involuntary reflex movements. Now it is just how to split up the e/state without incurring death taxes.
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"The patient is brain dead." But the Republicans will return him to Marred old Lago in Florida so the governor and the family can make a case for heroic medical measures to keep him breathing until the state is flooded by the Chinese Hoax as the sea level rises. After all, brain death didn't keep them from electing him
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the President is going to arrange for some 10 year old to mow his lawn?
My money says he's thinking of all that grass on all those Golf Courses.
My money says he's thinking of all that grass on all those Golf Courses.
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What do you think those 76 visas are for?
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Big risk for the kid! Trump will probably stiff him!
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Gail, get with the program. This is Change is Good Week.
Trump, the great executive, has now lost a chief of staff, a deputy chief of staff, a national security adviser, a communications director and a press secretary in six months. Losing one or two of these people might possibly be a misfortune, but losing all five does look a bit like carelessness, if not total incompetence.
But looks can be deceiving. It may look like carelessness or worse, but it's actually a sign of Trump's deep foresight and meticulous planning, because Change is Good. See?
Trump, the great executive, has now lost a chief of staff, a deputy chief of staff, a national security adviser, a communications director and a press secretary in six months. Losing one or two of these people might possibly be a misfortune, but losing all five does look a bit like carelessness, if not total incompetence.
But looks can be deceiving. It may look like carelessness or worse, but it's actually a sign of Trump's deep foresight and meticulous planning, because Change is Good. See?
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Gail-
Bravo!
Your observations, cleverly delivered with humor, are just the tonic we readers need as we plow through the otherwise daily teeth-grinding revelations.
Thank you!
Bravo!
Your observations, cleverly delivered with humor, are just the tonic we readers need as we plow through the otherwise daily teeth-grinding revelations.
Thank you!
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"What about a Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Week?" How about "take your daughters and sons to work every day" week? Or maybe just nepotism week for short? A celebration of family businesses, to put a nice little spin on it. And #45 could propose a new great, great program to hunt down and deport all illegal immigrant parents of children born in America (except for those working at Mar-a-Lago). Then soon we could have "immigrant orphan" week.
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Mad Magazine did a recent cover on ' take your child to work week' featuring the Trump family. A hoot. DJT
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Orange jumpsuits and handcuffs Week. For ALL of them.
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Soon at your nearest theater (the White House press briefing): "Presidential Impeachment Week" or "Presidential Resignation Week".
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Lara is an animal rights activist? Oh please...how about those photos of the Trumps brothers shooting animals on safari?
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What a hoot.
We're visiting Canada right now. When we crossed the border, the official in the booth asked us if we were carrying any firearms. My husband replied that we were one of the apparently few Americans that didn't own a gun.
The border patrol officer exclaimed, "We really thank you for that!"
It is so good to be gone if for only temporarily. We feel like liberated people even though we keep up with our national soap opera.
We're visiting Canada right now. When we crossed the border, the official in the booth asked us if we were carrying any firearms. My husband replied that we were one of the apparently few Americans that didn't own a gun.
The border patrol officer exclaimed, "We really thank you for that!"
It is so good to be gone if for only temporarily. We feel like liberated people even though we keep up with our national soap opera.
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If I make it back to Toronto this year, I think I'll stay.
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Lara Trump should talk to her husband about killing endangered species if she truly cares about animal rights! We have all seen the photos of the brothers with their African kills--shameful!
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Scary thought: what if the real reason that DJT went after the Presidency, and brought most of his family with him to the Washington, DC area, is that he knew he was going downhill, and the only way to get his family into a bomb shelter was to have them protected by the WH. Call it "Disaster Week,"
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He does have pets, but they are people. And like a four-year-old with Easter chicks, he tires of them quickly.
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Oh Lord! Gail Collins on a bad day is hilarious and on a good day....I'm still laughing.
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Would "Be Kind To Animals Week" involve pledging not to kill any more endangered animals? No more photos of Trumps posing with dead leopards or elephants they just killed, just for fun?
If so, I'm in.
If so, I'm in.
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Russia week! Gotta have it.
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I'm looking forward to the Trump gang leaves Washington week!
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No more "weeks?" Thank goodness. I don't think I can take any more of that laughable, phony nonsense. Oh! Maybe we could have "Honesty Week?" Maybe not.
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How about a "Put 10 Year Old Kids To Work Week" kicked off by a photo op with The Don mowing the WH lawn beside his 10 year old admirer? Sarah Huckabee will fill us in on all the details. To be overshadowed, of course, by a tweet by The Don about the nasty Congress who just can't appreciate just how stupendous he is how he will impose a 50% tariff on China, his former BFF. Ah, The Art Of The Deal.
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Given his fondness for big trucks, fire trucks, and golf carts, it would have to be a riding lawn mower, though.
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In the future, we will look back on Trump's weeks...Family Week, Chocolate Cake week, Mohawks week, Boy Scouts Week, Dinner with Putin Week, Kid's Meet the Russians Week, "You're Fired" Weeks, Rallies for 2020 Weeks, Don't Protect the Prisoners Week, Ban the Muslims Week, Mar-A-Lago WeekS! I guess Trump thought that keeping the press busy was a jobs effort.
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How about a stop the nonsense week. How about a getting rid of the garbage week and fire Steve Bannon, Kelly Ann Conway, and Stephen Miller. How about a week where the president and his cohorts are for something positive instead of being against everything that is right week. How about a transparency week where Trump finally releases his tax returns. And finally, I can't wait for impeachment week.
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Lara Trump's new role reminds me we haven't had nepotism week yet. I'm sure it's just an oversight.
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There is always National Gaslighting Day, or maybe it should be Year.
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" The Next Wife" Week. Eastern Europeans, only.
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Someone else is president week. Please.
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What is the major difference between Donald Trump and all other US politicians?
The latter are allegedly holding much higher moral ground!
When the Kremlin and their business partners offer some assistance to the former, they are doing it to undermine our democracy, gain the favorable treatment and receive the preferential legislation from him.
When the global corporations provide the two major political parties with the billions dollars of campaign donations, they are doing it out of love for our democracy and electoral process (just to reduce the cost to the American taxpayers) because everybody knows our politicians are like the rock - unbreakable, untouchable, unswayable and incorruptible!
Happy the Fools Day!
The latter are allegedly holding much higher moral ground!
When the Kremlin and their business partners offer some assistance to the former, they are doing it to undermine our democracy, gain the favorable treatment and receive the preferential legislation from him.
When the global corporations provide the two major political parties with the billions dollars of campaign donations, they are doing it out of love for our democracy and electoral process (just to reduce the cost to the American taxpayers) because everybody knows our politicians are like the rock - unbreakable, untouchable, unswayable and incorruptible!
Happy the Fools Day!
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One of the frustrating things about Trump is he moves the ball horizontally, not vertically. He never gains forward ground in governing, but simply deflects and evade, shifting from side to side by changing headlines using twitter's half-life, than affirming, revising, and finally denying any culpability in actions he initiated. Or he diminishes their value while blaming the media.
To trap Trump, it is important to make horizontal comparisons. Between affirmative action and transgender military service, between his executive orders and demand for absolute control of foreign policy, between leaks and his own broadcasts, between all of his victim-and-blame schemes, esp. the ones that include him.
The common thread throughout is make-believe. It is constructed from lies that exacerbate conflict. He fights with friends and foes alike. He constructs his own circular firing squads and blames those his favorite scapegoats or those he cannot eliminate.
He cannot not govern! He is trapped because he cannot change his model. His thinking, behavior and actions are unable to achieve the competence required. He is stymied by a sense of good and evil that doesn't exist for him.
He only knows how to take, never able to give. Every one of his policies involves taking! Giving anything, even greater freedom, feels like losing and he becomes recalcitrant and angry.
To trap Trump, it is important to make horizontal comparisons. Between affirmative action and transgender military service, between his executive orders and demand for absolute control of foreign policy, between leaks and his own broadcasts, between all of his victim-and-blame schemes, esp. the ones that include him.
The common thread throughout is make-believe. It is constructed from lies that exacerbate conflict. He fights with friends and foes alike. He constructs his own circular firing squads and blames those his favorite scapegoats or those he cannot eliminate.
He cannot not govern! He is trapped because he cannot change his model. His thinking, behavior and actions are unable to achieve the competence required. He is stymied by a sense of good and evil that doesn't exist for him.
He only knows how to take, never able to give. Every one of his policies involves taking! Giving anything, even greater freedom, feels like losing and he becomes recalcitrant and angry.
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Declaring all of these special "weeks" of course represents a "weak" attempt to make it look like the buffoon tycoon is accomplishing something. You'd have thought by now the PR geniuses at the "dump" where Trump presides would've given up on the special-weeks idea by now. But it merely adds to the long list of bad ideas we've been treated to since inauguration day.
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what about those truly touching letters from young boys that hucksterbee has been foisting on us?
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Perhaps it should be spelled "Weaks" ?
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You're great, Gail, a needed breath of fresh air and many chuckles a couple times a week.
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How about a No Articles About Trump Week? Just think of all the paper and ink the Times could save.
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How about malignant, mendacious, misogynist week?
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Wait. Lara Trump, Eric's wife, is an animal rights activist?
When did that happen? Before or after her husband's trophy-hunting jaunts to Africa?
When did that happen? Before or after her husband's trophy-hunting jaunts to Africa?
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How about " Who's the Biggest Liar?" Week. Oh, wait. That's perpetual.
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How about a "Dump the President Week"? It could be quite popular.
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That Rick Perry quote... he is truly the dumbest man in politics.
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“Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand,” Perry said during a coal mining promotion. “You put the supply out there and the demand will follow.”
This is actually a different principle we should call the Field of Dreams Law: If you build it, they will come. It worked great in the movie, because the movie was a fantasy. In real life, not so much.
Rick Perry's stupidity would be irrelevant, except that he is nominally in charge of our nuclear arsenal. The real problem is that when it comes time to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Trump to be mentally disabled, it's the Cabinet that makes the decision. Will idiots like Perry have the wit to know what to do?
This is actually a different principle we should call the Field of Dreams Law: If you build it, they will come. It worked great in the movie, because the movie was a fantasy. In real life, not so much.
Rick Perry's stupidity would be irrelevant, except that he is nominally in charge of our nuclear arsenal. The real problem is that when it comes time to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Trump to be mentally disabled, it's the Cabinet that makes the decision. Will idiots like Perry have the wit to know what to do?
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Now that the Mooch is gone, it might be safe for the WH staff to take part in a "Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Week." But keep your daughters out of the Oval Office.
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Don't be surprised if Trump proposes "Leak Weak." He wouldn't be inviting more revelations about his misdeeds but rather just hearkening back to fun times in a Russian hotel room.
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(I could suggest that my misspelling of "Week" was an unconscious metaphor for incontinence or incapacity but i think it's just a typo!)
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I'm thinking of Licky Weaks. A Spoonerism, or Everyone Eat Ice Cream?
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I propose Delusion Week.
During this week we could "celebrate" Trump's imaginary friends who phone the White House pretending to be People from the Boy Scouts or Mexico, congratulating him on his lies.
We could also celebrate his Delusions of the largest crowd ever to witness his sinauguration (sic!). Pretty much everything he says is delusional. I use that word because he seems unable to recognize and disconnect his fantasies and imaginary accolades from reality. A reality that is growing more and more depressing, depending on your perspective.
The Polls, for example.
The FBI investigation by the headed by Mueller and a dedicated team of outstanding experts.
Revelations of lies and probable crimes, suggesting a familial conspiracy by Trump and the Trumplings, along with their Enablers.
The Congress, which appears headed in bipartisan ways, counter to wishes and delusions of the White House.
The polls cheer me greatly! Gail cheers me greatly.
An eviction at the White House would cheer me greatly.
During this week we could "celebrate" Trump's imaginary friends who phone the White House pretending to be People from the Boy Scouts or Mexico, congratulating him on his lies.
We could also celebrate his Delusions of the largest crowd ever to witness his sinauguration (sic!). Pretty much everything he says is delusional. I use that word because he seems unable to recognize and disconnect his fantasies and imaginary accolades from reality. A reality that is growing more and more depressing, depending on your perspective.
The Polls, for example.
The FBI investigation by the headed by Mueller and a dedicated team of outstanding experts.
Revelations of lies and probable crimes, suggesting a familial conspiracy by Trump and the Trumplings, along with their Enablers.
The Congress, which appears headed in bipartisan ways, counter to wishes and delusions of the White House.
The polls cheer me greatly! Gail cheers me greatly.
An eviction at the White House would cheer me greatly.
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Russian Money Laundering Week?
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How about Legislation week, where Congress passes legislation..oh wait. maybe that is not a good idea!
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So how about a performance review for Trump and the Republicans who were so eager to win and sweep the 2016 election but then have no idea how to govern and get things done.
However, the fact that our Presidential Apprentice, his Amateur Hour staff, and Republican swamp characters from Fox's Gotham are not getting anything accomplished on their their destructive to-do list is fine with me.
This is simply Act I introducing us to the grandiose, incompetent Trump and family ties, and the cast of GOP political swamp characters up to no good on an hourly basis. Give 'em enough rope....
I am waiting for Act II, when Robert Mueller and his team of crackerjack lawyers take over the Trump Show.
However, the fact that our Presidential Apprentice, his Amateur Hour staff, and Republican swamp characters from Fox's Gotham are not getting anything accomplished on their their destructive to-do list is fine with me.
This is simply Act I introducing us to the grandiose, incompetent Trump and family ties, and the cast of GOP political swamp characters up to no good on an hourly basis. Give 'em enough rope....
I am waiting for Act II, when Robert Mueller and his team of crackerjack lawyers take over the Trump Show.
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Gail:
I read your headline "A Week Without Trumps..." and I thought, "Oh. What a blessed thing to contemplate. A week without drama/trauma. No in-your-face insults. A week of quiet without the Sturm und Drang of Kellyanne, Sarah, da Mooch, Stephen Miller, Jared, Ivanka, little Donny... and NO LYING."
Oh. What a treat to comprehend.
I'd even welcome yet one more story about poor Seamus the dog. That's it! Seamus Week! C'mon, Gail!
I read your headline "A Week Without Trumps..." and I thought, "Oh. What a blessed thing to contemplate. A week without drama/trauma. No in-your-face insults. A week of quiet without the Sturm und Drang of Kellyanne, Sarah, da Mooch, Stephen Miller, Jared, Ivanka, little Donny... and NO LYING."
Oh. What a treat to comprehend.
I'd even welcome yet one more story about poor Seamus the dog. That's it! Seamus Week! C'mon, Gail!
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"This is the first president since James K. Polk who does not have a pet. All this could change in a wink of a Week."
I believe a Times correction is warranted. Trumpicus actually has two pets in the White House: his two Stooge Poodles - Jared and Ivanka.
I believe a Times correction is warranted. Trumpicus actually has two pets in the White House: his two Stooge Poodles - Jared and Ivanka.
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How about a "Shut-up" and "Twit-free" week? How about a "Stupidity-free" week? I can go on and on, I would really like "I am resigning the POTUS" week.
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How about "We finally got an efficient businessman in the White House" week, now that the Government is running smoothly. I mean businessmen have to be efficient or the free market competition will crush them. Right?
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All we need is one Week to supersede all these silly Weeks: that would be Lying Week.
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We can always celebrate "The Summer of Lies Week". And the summer is only half over. America is being made greater already.
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Lara Trump is an animal rights activist? Fits right in with Melania as an anti- cyber bullying advocate.
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“You put the supply out there and the demand will follow.” ~Rick Perry
That's a new one.
That's a new one.
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Lara is an animal rights activist? Guess she never saw the pic of her hubby and brother-in-law holding big game trophies and elephant tails.. What animals is she talking about - designer poodles? When will this Shakespearian comedy end?
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I've always wanted to go to Norway. Sign me up.
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Lara Trump is an animal rights activist married to a well know killer of exotic animals. Well done.
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Lara will now become fodder for late night comedy, and I don't think she'll like it.
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What about kicking your sons and daughters out of the workplace? That sits better for me.
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New Broom Week? Donnie on Vacation Week 1 & 2?
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an animal activist ??? Loves all animals except big cats and elephants !!!!!
Eeeeks ! None of the family has any sense of shame
Eeeeks ! None of the family has any sense of shame
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How about Symptoms of Dementia week? During which the president makes odd statements that make no sense then everyone around him scrambles to explain what he just said or deny he meant what he just said. While we're at it, Narcissistic Personality disorder Week, during which the president gives the greatest speeches to the biggest crowds! Oh if only these occurrences just lasted a week.
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If America were the true democracy, we would ban any political campaign donations as long as the federal and all the state budgets are unbalanced.
If there were any federal or state debt, all the campaign donations should be confiscated and directed toward the emergency needs!
If we cannot afford to pay for our own official spending, then we cannot afford to make the political contributions either!
For our Supreme Court Justices to discriminate and judge what bills could be paid and what bills shouldn’t be paid is unconstitutional and undemocratic…
If there were any federal or state debt, all the campaign donations should be confiscated and directed toward the emergency needs!
If we cannot afford to pay for our own official spending, then we cannot afford to make the political contributions either!
For our Supreme Court Justices to discriminate and judge what bills could be paid and what bills shouldn’t be paid is unconstitutional and undemocratic…
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You can tell a lot about an executive by the kind of people he/she hires.
The job of Press Secretary for the President is important, described as:
"the primary responsibility is to act as spokesperson for the executive branch of the United States government administration, especially with regard to the President, senior executives, and policies."
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has quite a job on her hands translating and explaining Trump to the professional White House press corps.
Now that Spicer and The Mooch have melted, Huckabee is up at bat, and I wondered about her credentials, because the White House corps are a tough and often cynical bunch.
Huckabee graduated from Ouchita Baptist University, a Christian Liberal Arts college in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and she managed and worked on her father's political campaigns. She and her husband have a political consulting firm.
Compare with Obama's Press Secretaries:
Robert Gibbs: majored in political science, graduated from NC State, and worked on the political campaigns of Senator Obama, Fritz Hollings, Debbie Stabenow, and John Kerry.
Jay Carney: majored in Russian and European studies, graduated from Yale University, and worked as a journalist for Time, the Miami Herald, etc.
Josh Earnest: majored in political science and policy studies, graduated from Rice University, and worked for Mayor Bloomberg's campaign and other campaigns.
It's called professionalism, and Trump doesn't have a clue and doesn't want to
The job of Press Secretary for the President is important, described as:
"the primary responsibility is to act as spokesperson for the executive branch of the United States government administration, especially with regard to the President, senior executives, and policies."
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has quite a job on her hands translating and explaining Trump to the professional White House press corps.
Now that Spicer and The Mooch have melted, Huckabee is up at bat, and I wondered about her credentials, because the White House corps are a tough and often cynical bunch.
Huckabee graduated from Ouchita Baptist University, a Christian Liberal Arts college in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and she managed and worked on her father's political campaigns. She and her husband have a political consulting firm.
Compare with Obama's Press Secretaries:
Robert Gibbs: majored in political science, graduated from NC State, and worked on the political campaigns of Senator Obama, Fritz Hollings, Debbie Stabenow, and John Kerry.
Jay Carney: majored in Russian and European studies, graduated from Yale University, and worked as a journalist for Time, the Miami Herald, etc.
Josh Earnest: majored in political science and policy studies, graduated from Rice University, and worked for Mayor Bloomberg's campaign and other campaigns.
It's called professionalism, and Trump doesn't have a clue and doesn't want to
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Trump will soon be busy celebrating mental health week...as soon as the weasels on his staff let him out of the straitjacket.
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EVERY TRUMP WEEK IS, TO QUOTE QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND, AN "ANNUS HORRIBILIS."
This week was quite horrible.
The Donald, quite terrible,
Should be now expendable,
His party upendable.
His lies are so risible.
His hands quite invisible.
His ego inflatable
Is all too pin-prickable.
His Id is unmappable
But tragically flappable.
With Id ever flappable
And bearing unaffable
He’s quite dreadly laughable.
Commander-in-chief-able?
Now that's unbeliefable!
Don's far too deplorable
But so dictatorable.
This week was quite horrible.
The Donald, quite terrible,
Should be now expendable,
His party upendable.
His lies are so risible.
His hands quite invisible.
His ego inflatable
Is all too pin-prickable.
His Id is unmappable
But tragically flappable.
With Id ever flappable
And bearing unaffable
He’s quite dreadly laughable.
Commander-in-chief-able?
Now that's unbeliefable!
Don's far too deplorable
But so dictatorable.
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Congratulations to the readers! While Gail's column was hilarious and right on--as usual--some of the best, funniest and most cogent comments came from the readers. Keep up the good work! My vote is for "Impeach Week!" Soon?
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Weeks? Good god! It's just an endless flood self-adoring idiocy.
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
Macbeth
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
Macbeth
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Courtesy of our friends at the U.N. and the World Health Organization, this week (August 1-7) is World Breastfeeding Week.
So much nicer than anything from the White House.
http://www.who.int/life-course/news/events/2017-breastfeeding-week/en/
So much nicer than anything from the White House.
http://www.who.int/life-course/news/events/2017-breastfeeding-week/en/
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Ah gee, I fervently hope Trump doesn't get wind of World Breastfeeding Week.
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How about Dump the White House Week, err... Dump WHO is in the White House Week.
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Yes, I loved that letter from '10 yr old mower Frank' that Huckabee read. That could be part of 'distraction week' or more correctly, 'distraction presidency'. Rome burns while Nero fiddles. Sure, play some tunes about a sweet boy who wants to mow the lawn surrounding 'the dump' we place our presidents in. The fact is, not even a reasonably bright 10 yr old boy scout could be fooled by a president who has got a 5 yr old's mentality - my apologies to 5 yr olds. Trump's is a grasping and dangerous administration. But on top of that, they insult the intelligence of our citizenry by trotting out such insipid stories as that of patriotic Frank whose dream it is to mow Uncle Donny's lawn.
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Is there an opportunity to shoehorn a Joe Lieberman week into the busy schedule? Or a Newt Gingrich one for that matter.
She forgot all about traitor week.
Trump Traitor Trash does Occupy White House
Trump Traitor Trash does Occupy White House
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Lara Trump...another clueless wonder. An animal rights activist? Is that why husband Eric Trump is such an avid hunter? The whole group are morons....
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“Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand,” Perry said during a coal mining promotion. “You put the supply out there and the demand will follow.”
This is just one of the morons we have running our country...into the ground.
This is just one of the morons we have running our country...into the ground.
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Ok, I think I've figured it out: we are in some kind of cartoon opposite world where up is down and fools are sage leaders. My clue was Rick Perry saying "you put the supply out there and the demand will follow" - opposite, as anyone who thinks to put a pile of horse poop out there and get it sold might tell you...then Ivanka mis-attributed to Einstein the saying "when the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts". There's some good science there- NOT....or opposite.
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Qusay's wife being an animal rights advocate is almost as ironic as Melania focusing on internet bullying.
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Superb observation.
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Can't get a week but how about three Trump-free days. The next time he visiits Mar-A-Lago get two professionals to Baker Act him. Hundreds, if not thousands of Psychiatrists and Psychologists have labeled Trump as mentally ill. Let's get him tested by doing this and get 72 hours of sanity in the process.
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The New York Times should clean house and rid its Op Ed page of Collins' slanted, biased, uninformative columns.
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You have a choice. So do we.
The Times provides that choice.
The Times provides that choice.
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Slanted towards comedy, biased towards America, and uninformative to the willfully ignorant. I'm down with it.
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Don't like it? Don't read it. Lots of us like it. Poor you.
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Take A Bolshevik To Work Week.
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What about Vacation Weeks? This Friday, Trump is scheduled to take two weeks off to vacation at his Bedminster golf resort. Wouldn't it be nice if that caught us all a two-week break? But I think he'll find some way to stay in touch.
The Constant Weader at http://RealityChex.com
The Constant Weader at http://RealityChex.com
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Would you prefer Pence every week? Christian Sharia law? Theocracy forever?
Brace yourselves. Get down on your knees & kiss this earth goodbye.
Unless you resist + vote progressive in '18 & '20. Then maybe there's a chance yet, gerrymandering & voter suppression notwithstanding.
Brace yourselves. Get down on your knees & kiss this earth goodbye.
Unless you resist + vote progressive in '18 & '20. Then maybe there's a chance yet, gerrymandering & voter suppression notwithstanding.
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I'm looking forward to "White House Inventory Week," when the miserable grifters are out, and the GSO starts counting the silver and other priceless items that might have made their way into the pockets of family members who know their true value. Granted, the items aren't as tacky as trump would like, but they are historical government property.
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Bread and Circus !
Just who are they kidding ? Clearly these themes resemble some lame campaign launched by a Madison Avenue Ad firm of the 1960's,like in those Doris Day/Rock Hudson films. The most insulting had to be the "Made-in-America" fiasco. Don the con posing behind the wheel of a semi trailer or with a baseball bat while daughter dearest has her bogus designs produced in China,Vietnam and Indonesia.Even his nasty red MAMGA caps are made off shore!
Hoe about either a "No Tweet" or "tell the Truth" week instead.
Just who are they kidding ? Clearly these themes resemble some lame campaign launched by a Madison Avenue Ad firm of the 1960's,like in those Doris Day/Rock Hudson films. The most insulting had to be the "Made-in-America" fiasco. Don the con posing behind the wheel of a semi trailer or with a baseball bat while daughter dearest has her bogus designs produced in China,Vietnam and Indonesia.Even his nasty red MAMGA caps are made off shore!
Hoe about either a "No Tweet" or "tell the Truth" week instead.
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Gail, thank you.
As I read, I heard myself chuckle. You can make miserable unfunny disgusting things funny.
However, when I got to, "And then, of course, there was Made in America Week, which Trump observed by requesting visas to hire foreign workers for Mar-a-Lago." I heard myself say outloud, "God, how I hate this man."
As I read, I heard myself chuckle. You can make miserable unfunny disgusting things funny.
However, when I got to, "And then, of course, there was Made in America Week, which Trump observed by requesting visas to hire foreign workers for Mar-a-Lago." I heard myself say outloud, "God, how I hate this man."
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I wonder if Lara Trump became an animal rights activist before or after Eric slaughtered a handful of animals during his mighty Zimbabwe safari with his idiot brother.
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Thank you, Ms. Collins, for somehow managing to make me smile. Given the State of the Nation, and the mental instability of our chief executive (who is privy to the infamous nuclear codes... or "nuke-you-lar" codes, in Bushspeak), that's little shy of miraculous. We need you now more than ever.
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The president once had a pet,
Of the kitten of a woman he'd just met.
He just reached out and snatched it,
His small hand, he attached it.
The victim will never forget it.
Of the kitten of a woman he'd just met.
He just reached out and snatched it,
His small hand, he attached it.
The victim will never forget it.
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How about REE(a)L WEE(a)K...a tribute to this presidency
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Eric and Lara Trump are taking their dogs aboard our Air Force One and inside our White House for 'Take A Doggy Dump Week'.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are engaged in 'Prince Jared and Princess Ivanka House of Trump Week'.
Donald Junior and Vanessa Trump are engaged in "Tarzan and Jane Week'.
Donald Senior and Melania Trump are engaged in "Siberian President Third Lady Reality TV Week'.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are engaged in 'Prince Jared and Princess Ivanka House of Trump Week'.
Donald Junior and Vanessa Trump are engaged in "Tarzan and Jane Week'.
Donald Senior and Melania Trump are engaged in "Siberian President Third Lady Reality TV Week'.
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If the aspiring WH lawnmower's name was Paco, why should his American Dream be any different?
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I suggest "Telling the Truth" week. But someone would have to duct tape the mouth of the man in the Oval Office.
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I want "Quiet Week" Ssssh
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How about Boy Scout week? Trump gave them an inane political speech bragging about his big win and criticizing Obama and Clinton and called the government a sewer. Then he apparently imagined that the Scout leader told him that was the greatest speech ever given to the Scouts. Actually, what happened was that the Scout leader apologized for the speech. This guy is certifiable.
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Governor Huckabee's daughter is skilled in her fidelity to denying the stench of nepotism at the rotten core of our new Trumpmerica.
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Gail you make light of very serious occurrences. Still don't think that's a good thing, it makes that traitor more human.
PROSECUTE RUSSIAGATE!
PROSECUTE RUSSIAGATE!
I've always thought of animal-rights people as a cut above the average shmoe.
Now we learn that Trump* et al has destroyed even this trivial shibboleth.
Now we learn that Trump* et al has destroyed even this trivial shibboleth.
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Do you think that Ms. Sanders believes the nonsense she spouts, covering Trumps backside
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What can you say about a Presidency so adrift that the President has to deny that he called the people's house a dump? He did!
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This really was funny. Trump, who can’t stand children, is letting a child mow the White House lawn? I’m sure he’ll arrange to be off golfing somewhere so he doesn’t have to make eye contact with the little guy.
When you’re milking a doomed presidency weeks become critically important. The assorted Trumps have to suck up every penny they can before the well runs dry. Ivanka’s “brand” has been pushed to the limit. We’ve heard all about the grapes and hotels and books and ties and beauty products and golf courses and enough Chinese-made apparel of every type to make your head spin. They’ve got to reap it in, every one of them, before the party ends and they have to go back to borrowing from the Russians.
So let’s make No More Trump Week a national holiday. On second thought, enough Trumps. I’ll pray for a day of thanks, just one special day, in honor of Robert Mueller.
When you’re milking a doomed presidency weeks become critically important. The assorted Trumps have to suck up every penny they can before the well runs dry. Ivanka’s “brand” has been pushed to the limit. We’ve heard all about the grapes and hotels and books and ties and beauty products and golf courses and enough Chinese-made apparel of every type to make your head spin. They’ve got to reap it in, every one of them, before the party ends and they have to go back to borrowing from the Russians.
So let’s make No More Trump Week a national holiday. On second thought, enough Trumps. I’ll pray for a day of thanks, just one special day, in honor of Robert Mueller.
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Hey, this is the week Amy McGrath's campaign ad came out. McCain, Murphy, Alexander and Murray working together on health care. Senators Collins getting flowers from a grateful yeomanry. Generals on Trump like a Jack Russell on a rat, or a lamprey on a... lamprey. This may be the beginning of hope week.
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What about the Boy Scout speech, his statement was disputed by a Boy Scout's spokesman.
Obviously the Boy Scout leader lied, because tRump does not lie. How do we know that,? Because he told us so.
Obviously the Boy Scout leader lied, because tRump does not lie. How do we know that,? Because he told us so.
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Any US corporation doing a business abroad should be banned from making any campaign donations!
Why?
They have the conflict of interests!
On one hand they want the best for America.
On the other hand they want the best for their business. That might be diametrically opposite to the US national interests!
As the US citizens they want our federal government to be solvent and financially stable.
As the business owners they might want the slashed federal corporate taxes, the unfunded and unbalanced federal budgets, the colossal national debt and the free trade to maximize their profits, to minimize their labor cost and to gain the access to the global markets.
Let’s never forget that the special corporate priorities are NEVER identical to the national interests!
Why?
They have the conflict of interests!
On one hand they want the best for America.
On the other hand they want the best for their business. That might be diametrically opposite to the US national interests!
As the US citizens they want our federal government to be solvent and financially stable.
As the business owners they might want the slashed federal corporate taxes, the unfunded and unbalanced federal budgets, the colossal national debt and the free trade to maximize their profits, to minimize their labor cost and to gain the access to the global markets.
Let’s never forget that the special corporate priorities are NEVER identical to the national interests!
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I'm surprised that Gail didn't make the obvious connection with TV schedules: for Trump everything boils down to another episode of The Apprenctice, hence each "Week" in his mind constitutes another episode in the TV show that he pretends to be starring in now.
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We haven't had a National Make Fun of the Handicapped Week yet. We haven't had a Let's Get Rid of Bedbugs week. We haven't had an Honest Day's Work week. We have had a National We Hate Immigrants week, a We Didn't Do That week, and every week has been Let's Lie to the Public Week. We can't have a National Competent at Work Week because Trump and the GOP aren't.
All fun aside however, it's frightening to realize that all this administration has been good for is disrupting things and not in good ways. We have entire departments that are at less than half staff, a president and vice president who are more interested in their popularity than in serving the entire country. We may have started 2017 as the United States of America but I don't know if we're going to end that way because there appears to be no unity or loyalty on the part of our elected officials to we, the people. Perhaps we'll wind up with another country called District of Columbia-stan and all our so-called representatives will build a wall around themselves so we can get on with improving the country. The way they've led us we'd be better off without any of them.
All fun aside however, it's frightening to realize that all this administration has been good for is disrupting things and not in good ways. We have entire departments that are at less than half staff, a president and vice president who are more interested in their popularity than in serving the entire country. We may have started 2017 as the United States of America but I don't know if we're going to end that way because there appears to be no unity or loyalty on the part of our elected officials to we, the people. Perhaps we'll wind up with another country called District of Columbia-stan and all our so-called representatives will build a wall around themselves so we can get on with improving the country. The way they've led us we'd be better off without any of them.
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How about "Dog And Pony Show Week?"
Oh, wait a minute. That's every week.
Oh, wait a minute. That's every week.
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I'd love a "Week of silence" from the WH or a "Trump fake news week".
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How about a "Let's All Pretend That Trump Is No Longer the President Week", Gail? In observance of same, no reporters would show up at the White House, particularly in the company of useless head-briefer Slippery Sanders, and collectively decamp for a well-earned bacchanal in Cancun. Instead of you know who insufferably beamed into their first homes daily, Americans are treated to an uplifting expose of learned, articulate French President Macron, and his "shapely", classy wife. A Ken Burn's engaging documentary on the rich history of the People's House, the "dump", could run. The diversionary opportunities are endless. A Trump-less week could reduce our national blood pressure by millions of units and, like those recent ghost phone calls by the Prez, we can all pretend, if only for seven days, that the 25th Amendment has worked its magic!
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There is one good part about the constant stream of Trump garbage and that is that there's a sizable number of people like myself that will vote him out of office for not other reason than to make sure we don't have to put up with Trump saturated news every day, regardless of what he may accomplish during the rest of his term.
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Clearly dedicating a whole week's time on any one issue exhausted our leader's attention span.
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DJ's inability to communicate, hire good people, tell the truth, work with others; etc. Is actually bringing me comfort of late. He'll never be able to get anything done and with his vicious agenda that's a good thing.
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How about a No Tweet Week?
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How about fired/resigned employee-of -the-week week? Or should that be a semi-weekly event?
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The one White House Week I DON'T want to see is: White House Pardon Week.
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I think there must have been a "Fantasy Phone Call Week" that wasn't announced to the public!
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As far as pets go, I was told last night by a very reliable source, and actually that reminded me that over the years many, many people have told me this and it was on the news, plus I received a call once from a dear friend, now in Russia, who used to work in New York across the street from Fred Trump and family that he had been talking to a former nanny, recently released from a private medical facility after treatment for unspecified accidental injuries received when rescuing a small animal which had somehow become trapped in little Donnie's bedroom, resulting in traumatization of either the nanny, the animal, little Donnie, or some combination of the three, but since then, animals have been considered a non-starter in Trump households, but there is often cake.
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Beautiful cake, of course.
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Beautiful, unpresidented, devil's food cake.
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...A Week Without the Trumps? Gosh, we can only hope, can't we?
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No pet? What about Stephen Miller.....
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The interference and meddling into our democracy and electoral system by the foreigners started dramatically earlier than the Kremlin support for the Trump campaign.
Any foreign government and a global corporation providing the favors to the US elected officials and their family members are doing it to gain the access and bribe our politicians in order to receive the preferential treatment in return.
One of the most notorious examples how to accomplish this objective was the Clinton Foundation also known as “The Clinton Global Initiative”…
Otherwise, why would any foreign dignitary or the multinational corporation donate many millions of dollars to their private charity if they could be generous toward their domestic humanitarian organizations?
Aren’t there hungry individuals all over the world?
Every single cent the global corporations and multinational businesses donate to our political parties is an attempt to corrupt our democracy and bribe the elected officials.
That’s why we have the chronic budget deficits, the colossal national debt and the free trade regime that syphoned off 70,000 American companies abroad over the last 16 years.
The problem is that the Supreme Court Justices are not able to make distinction between the bribery, an act of treason, and subtle attack on our economic foundations from the freedom of speech.
For those Justices, all the speeches are created equal…
Not really! Some of them are patriotic, some of them extremely treacherous…
Any foreign government and a global corporation providing the favors to the US elected officials and their family members are doing it to gain the access and bribe our politicians in order to receive the preferential treatment in return.
One of the most notorious examples how to accomplish this objective was the Clinton Foundation also known as “The Clinton Global Initiative”…
Otherwise, why would any foreign dignitary or the multinational corporation donate many millions of dollars to their private charity if they could be generous toward their domestic humanitarian organizations?
Aren’t there hungry individuals all over the world?
Every single cent the global corporations and multinational businesses donate to our political parties is an attempt to corrupt our democracy and bribe the elected officials.
That’s why we have the chronic budget deficits, the colossal national debt and the free trade regime that syphoned off 70,000 American companies abroad over the last 16 years.
The problem is that the Supreme Court Justices are not able to make distinction between the bribery, an act of treason, and subtle attack on our economic foundations from the freedom of speech.
For those Justices, all the speeches are created equal…
Not really! Some of them are patriotic, some of them extremely treacherous…
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Kenan,
Not sure if these are sole causes of debt and free trade.
The current debt -- is complex issue resulting from tax cuts, war spending, and a depressed economy.
Free trade is based on the offshoring of businesses helped by everything from containerized shipping and telecommunications. The various American trade agreements both worked and didn't work: they did result in cheaper consumer goods, but the follow up -- creating jobs and new industries for displaced workers -- didn't occur.
This, is course, is a simplification, and others would point to other causes of the deficit and trade imbalances. The point is that these problems are complex and therefore require considered, thoughtful responses that do not lend themselves to the platitudes or invective of a campaign slogan.
And that, along with the credulity of many voters, is why we are in the state we are in.
Not sure if these are sole causes of debt and free trade.
The current debt -- is complex issue resulting from tax cuts, war spending, and a depressed economy.
Free trade is based on the offshoring of businesses helped by everything from containerized shipping and telecommunications. The various American trade agreements both worked and didn't work: they did result in cheaper consumer goods, but the follow up -- creating jobs and new industries for displaced workers -- didn't occur.
This, is course, is a simplification, and others would point to other causes of the deficit and trade imbalances. The point is that these problems are complex and therefore require considered, thoughtful responses that do not lend themselves to the platitudes or invective of a campaign slogan.
And that, along with the credulity of many voters, is why we are in the state we are in.
David,
I guarantee you with 100% certainty those issues are not complex at all.
Balance the federal budget and the free trade system will collapse within the single decade!
If you don't trust me, just add up all our US trade deficits over the last 15 years, increase them for the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and you will be right there at $15 trillion, the exact amount that our national debt increased over the same period…
We have to run the chronic budget deficits to cover up the enormous loses to the US economy stemming from the free trade.
Nobody else in this world can do it!
I guarantee you with 100% certainty those issues are not complex at all.
Balance the federal budget and the free trade system will collapse within the single decade!
If you don't trust me, just add up all our US trade deficits over the last 15 years, increase them for the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and you will be right there at $15 trillion, the exact amount that our national debt increased over the same period…
We have to run the chronic budget deficits to cover up the enormous loses to the US economy stemming from the free trade.
Nobody else in this world can do it!
How about "Presidential JOKE Week?"
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Or Joke President Week.
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An animal rights activist married to the brothers who slaughter majestic, magnificent, and sometimes endangered animals and then gleefully pose for pictures with their tragic dead victims?
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Laura Trump is an animals rights activist and her husband enjoys killing large endangered species? Such an interesting family.
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How about "Honest Elections Week," which could feature a TV (and live-streamed) Special in which programmers from voting machine corporations like Dominion Voting, ES&S, and Command Central demonstrate how to program the vote counting computers to alter the outcome of an election? They could even have a Survivor-like competition to see who could shift the most votes with the smallest coding footprint in the shortest amount of time!
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In this administration it's always Support a Malevolent Lunatic Week. And every day of every week our kitty-grabber-in-chief finds a new and outrageous way of celebrating it.
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How about a "Remind Me What Week Last Week Was" week.
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How about "Tell the Truth Week," for which Kelly stuffs Trump's mouth full of cotton and bandages his thumbs.
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Can't wait for the Impeached Week party the nation will have!
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Actually, Donald was thinking of getting TWO cats, and tying their tails together, and throwing them over a clothesline, and dousing them with lighter fluid, and setting them on fire. Now THAT's celebrating White House Be Kind to Animals Week, at Donald's house!
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Lara who? Not another one.
An animal right activist, she is?
And her little husband boy-son of the Grifter, Eric, goes around the world shooting animals?
Is she nuttier than the rest of the family?
An animal right activist, she is?
And her little husband boy-son of the Grifter, Eric, goes around the world shooting animals?
Is she nuttier than the rest of the family?
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Alas, it is increasingly difficult to determine who is the nuttiest in the Trump family. Only young Barron, who has been shielded from the spotlight except to trail mournfully after his mannequin mother and flatulent father in various public ceremonies, has been denied the opportunity to make a complete fool of himself. But he's 13 now, and by the end of his (alleged) father's first term, he will be 16, an age when boys have a tendency to do 'interesting things.' He may yet prove to be a special needs child - as many suspect he is - and be embraced by the nation as someone to be loved and rescued from the insanity he was born into. A compassionate nation can only hope he doesn't go down with the rest of them.
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Well, no nuttier than Mrs. So-Called president, who declared her "cause" as First Lady would be a fight against "cyber-bullying."
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Gail Collins is the doyenne of irony. It's always an anticipated qpleasure to read who she has "ironically outed"
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We need more of Gail Collins. Daily if possible. The NYT might consider it an act of mercy for its readers to help us remain sane.
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Wait, wait...
Suggesting:
"Weak Passing Laws Week"
"Week of Truths" (hold off for 3 1/2 years please)
"Week of NYC Condo Sales"
"Week of Russian Nesting Dolls Week"
"Best Lie This Week"
and, finally, "White House Perp Walk Week"
Suggesting:
"Weak Passing Laws Week"
"Week of Truths" (hold off for 3 1/2 years please)
"Week of NYC Condo Sales"
"Week of Russian Nesting Dolls Week"
"Best Lie This Week"
and, finally, "White House Perp Walk Week"
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How's about Don't Tread on Me Week. Don't tread on my Constitution. Don't tread on gun control. Don't tread on the environment. Don't tread on public education. Don't tread on the truth. Don't tread on civil rights. And DON'T TREAD ON HEALTH CARE! AND, DON'T TREAD ON FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS!
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Prune--Hear, hear! Best comment of the article!
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America the sitcom week because this administration has clearly jumped the shark.
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Looking forward to Russia week. The administration will trumpet all things Russian with festive golden showers representing the riches from our 49th state.
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You forgot "Maid in America" week in honor of Trump's mother who came to America as an immigrant from Scotland with no skills.
How about "Laid in America" week in honor of Trump's past boasting that when you are a star, they let you do it.
How about a "Gainsaid" in America week in honor of all the times Trump has denied doing something underhanded he did or outrageous that he said?
Or "Waylaid" in America in honor of the immigration busting mentality of Whites Only Need Apply mentality?
Or "Parlayed in America" in honor of the Trump family's hopes and dreams for increasing the bottom line in transactional relationships at home and abroad?
Or "Mislaid in America" to account for the once requisite virtues of dignity, humility and probity we all hoped and dreamed for in a president.
How about "Laid in America" week in honor of Trump's past boasting that when you are a star, they let you do it.
How about a "Gainsaid" in America week in honor of all the times Trump has denied doing something underhanded he did or outrageous that he said?
Or "Waylaid" in America in honor of the immigration busting mentality of Whites Only Need Apply mentality?
Or "Parlayed in America" in honor of the Trump family's hopes and dreams for increasing the bottom line in transactional relationships at home and abroad?
Or "Mislaid in America" to account for the once requisite virtues of dignity, humility and probity we all hoped and dreamed for in a president.
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Gail,
When are we going to have Fashion Week where Melania and Ivanka can show and tell us about their awesome fashion taste? How they master copying designers merchandise, repacked it in China in sweat shops, then have WalMart imported To USA.Helping all 99%ers of us enjoy their style.
When are we going to have Fashion Week where Melania and Ivanka can show and tell us about their awesome fashion taste? How they master copying designers merchandise, repacked it in China in sweat shops, then have WalMart imported To USA.Helping all 99%ers of us enjoy their style.
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All the fashionistas and -istos out there are eagerly awaiting Ivanka's soon-to-be-released Fall line up of Empty Suits.
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It's spelled "weak", Gail, not "week".
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Lock 'im up week.
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It Was All A Bad a Dream Week.
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Yes, I dream that I will wake up, Bobby will be singing in the shower and America will be great again, more or less as it was about eight or nine months ago.
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When you sincerely believe that you just spoke to the head of the Boy Scouts and the President of Mexico on the telephone and you didn't, it's called being delusional.
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Indeed. this guy could make a bedbug -- as in 'crazy as a bed bug' -- look sane.
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I suspect, unfortunately, there will be a Pardons Week - including the Prez himself.
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Speaking of irony, given that her husband finds killing animals a form of entertainment, Lara Trump’s animal rights advocacy seems about on par with Melania’s anti-cyberbullying campaign.
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Oh, come on, Gail, you should have figured how this Weeks business works by now. This week is Trump Week, wherein we celebrate our Dear Leader. Or, rather, he celebrates himself, with aid of his sycophant corps.
Of course, last week was Trump Week too. And next week is Trump Week! And we can look forward to lots and lots of Trump Weeks, all week, every week, into the far-flung oppressive future as well.
I suppose one can look on the bright side: you don't need to keep track of what Week it is any more; you always know whose Week it's going to be.
Of course, last week was Trump Week too. And next week is Trump Week! And we can look forward to lots and lots of Trump Weeks, all week, every week, into the far-flung oppressive future as well.
I suppose one can look on the bright side: you don't need to keep track of what Week it is any more; you always know whose Week it's going to be.
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Throw the bums out Week. Every week- until they're all gone.
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Trump: I dunno about this "Weeks" idea. Sounds lame.
Preibus: All the classy mattress stores are doing it. Every week, a different theme and a new set of lies...er, I mean, promises.
Trump: Explain what's in this for me?
Preibus: During Infrastructure Week, you can pretend to drive a great big truck! Vroom-vroom!
Trump: I'm in.
Preibus: All the classy mattress stores are doing it. Every week, a different theme and a new set of lies...er, I mean, promises.
Trump: Explain what's in this for me?
Preibus: During Infrastructure Week, you can pretend to drive a great big truck! Vroom-vroom!
Trump: I'm in.
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I must take issue with the statement that Mr. Trump doesn't have a pet. If you paid attention, Ms. Collins, you'd see that he's surrounded by lapdogs every day.
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Thank you all for your responses...I have laughed at them as much as at Gail's column... What a lovely way to start the day. All are on point.
If you just can't believe what the President has done....never fear! You can simply wait till the Press Secretary--Sarah Chucklebee Slanders--explains that he actually didn't do it.
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When is the NYTimes going to bait Trump into firing Sessions?
When is my team going to start playing the game?
When is my team going to start playing the game?
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I hear there's a rumor going 'round (I just started it)
that Melania and Sarah Huckleberry Sanders have a 'thing' going. (Pass it on.)
that Melania and Sarah Huckleberry Sanders have a 'thing' going. (Pass it on.)
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Covfefe week?
Then whatever crazy stuff happening during that week would fit (for the first time maybe).
Then whatever crazy stuff happening during that week would fit (for the first time maybe).
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I'd support a "25th Amendment Week," but not a "Pet Week."
Don't encourage sociopaths to interact with animals.
Don't encourage sociopaths to interact with animals.
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How about a 'Fake News" week, in which Trump says that everybody knows that Americans never stepped on the moon and it was done by Hollywood to distract us while they were admitting illegal Muslims from Mexico to kill the American Dream.
Trump will also visit a children's hospital and tell the kids with cancer that he got a call from George Washington himself who told him he's the greatest president after him. Ms. Huckabee Sanders will later say that the President was talking about a dream Steve Bannon told him he had.
Trump will also visit a children's hospital and tell the kids with cancer that he got a call from George Washington himself who told him he's the greatest president after him. Ms. Huckabee Sanders will later say that the President was talking about a dream Steve Bannon told him he had.
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What about "Hate Week," Well, don't bother, looks like that is a weekly event and not even special with this administration any more.
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3 Weeks we will never see:
1. "Trump's Book Club Week" where the President can talk about the books that have taught and inspired him the most.
2. "Organ Donor Week" where the President can highlight the importance of organ donations by looking for a Heart for Mitch McConnell and a Spine for Paul Ryan.
3. "Celebrate the First Amendment Week" where we highlight the roll of a free and independent Press with selected readings. Trump would not want to miss Charles Blow day.
1. "Trump's Book Club Week" where the President can talk about the books that have taught and inspired him the most.
2. "Organ Donor Week" where the President can highlight the importance of organ donations by looking for a Heart for Mitch McConnell and a Spine for Paul Ryan.
3. "Celebrate the First Amendment Week" where we highlight the roll of a free and independent Press with selected readings. Trump would not want to miss Charles Blow day.
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This makes me miss Tom Lehrer. He could have roasted the Trumps to a cinder in an adaptation of National Brotherhood Week.
Then, he would get sued.
Then, he would get sued.
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How dumb are the Trumps? Enough to believe they actually could accept and excel at the White House as consultants to the president of the United States, aka Big Daddy. Now, tell me that isn't the most stupid things you've ever heard?
DD
Manhattan
DD
Manhattan
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Gail Collins; You are the best at putting a smile on our faces during times like this. We should suggest a few more "weeks" for Trumpf. How about "Fake News Week"? Or "Crunch-time Week" i.e., the week when Mueller releases the results of his investigation, followed by "Plea or Not to Plea Week," Or "Pardon Week," better known as "Get Out of Jail Free Week." Just saying . . .
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Is this National Shoot Yourself In The Foot Week, or National Put Your Foot In Your Mouth Week? When is National Combover Week? Take A Russian To Lunch Week? I certainly enjoyed Hire Then Fire Week!
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Better pity that human creature in the WH spitting out high galloping words.
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Quite the "little economics lesson" from Perry. So at least now we know one of the sources of the problem(s)....
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The Trumps could combine Be Kind to Animals Week and Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Week and even create a family Fun Week by going hunting big game together and having their pictures taken with their kills.
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Wait. Lara Trump, wife of slayer of animals Eric Trump, is an animal rights activist?
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Something about this picture is very troublesome. Trump giving the Hitler greetings while two young ladies smiling at him with admiration and a young lady-in-uniform looking embarrassed, wishing she was at the beach some place.
Anything touched by Trump always is 100% out of sink.
Anything touched by Trump always is 100% out of sink.
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"...Trump always is 100% out of sink."
Possibly a mere spelling error, but actually a hilarious take on DJT, the reverse Midas.
Possibly a mere spelling error, but actually a hilarious take on DJT, the reverse Midas.
I haven't been paying attention.
Did I miss Impeachment Week?
What was the highlight?
Congress passing a bill making sure that Trump wouldn't be able to give Putin everything he demanded at those "adoption" meetings?
I'm hoping for a "Twit of the Week" announcement from Twitter.
Did I miss Impeachment Week?
What was the highlight?
Congress passing a bill making sure that Trump wouldn't be able to give Putin everything he demanded at those "adoption" meetings?
I'm hoping for a "Twit of the Week" announcement from Twitter.
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TRUMP'S WEEKS ARE GARGOYLE-ICIOUS!
Trump the quite crazed gargoyle,
Down from his Tower came
His public to despoil
And yuuge crowds to inflame.
Since descent so tragic
For one and all of us,
Donald works his magic
He mocks, tweets—does cuss,
And angrily explodes,
Besmirching those around.
Hence such dark heavy loads
We sane to bear are bound!
Trump the quite crazed gargoyle,
Before his crowds does prate.
He sells his crude snake oil.
It's quite a concentrate:
Just stir and mix with hate,
Then quickly drink right down.
His dupes all think it's great!
They'd give to Trump a crown,
If crown they could bestow.
Since such is not the case,
By votes they've brought us low.
The nation they've disgraced.
Trump the quite crazed gargoyle,
Down from his Tower came
His public to despoil
And yuuge crowds to inflame.
Since descent so tragic
For one and all of us,
Donald works his magic
He mocks, tweets—does cuss,
And angrily explodes,
Besmirching those around.
Hence such dark heavy loads
We sane to bear are bound!
Trump the quite crazed gargoyle,
Before his crowds does prate.
He sells his crude snake oil.
It's quite a concentrate:
Just stir and mix with hate,
Then quickly drink right down.
His dupes all think it's great!
They'd give to Trump a crown,
If crown they could bestow.
Since such is not the case,
By votes they've brought us low.
The nation they've disgraced.
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Andrew G. Bjelland, Sr.
Please copyright this great poem. I've been thinking of tunes to go with it.
You have to laugh to keep from crying.
FPD
Please copyright this great poem. I've been thinking of tunes to go with it.
You have to laugh to keep from crying.
FPD
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I thought it might be singable to "Puff the Magic Dragon."
How about a The People Weigh in Week with weeks of their own...
Shore Up a Weak President Week
Celebrate Dictators Week (a different dictator for each day)
Ruin America Week
Conservatives Against Trump Week (emerging, stay tuned--not sure yet if this one will catch fire...though there are presently a few sparks as Trump's numbers drop even lower)
Make America Weak Again Week
Citizen's United Against Trump Week
The possibilities are endless...everyone weigh in with a week of your own! (a little levity is always nice in the face of the grave danger we are facing with this five alarm fire presidency).
Shore Up a Weak President Week
Celebrate Dictators Week (a different dictator for each day)
Ruin America Week
Conservatives Against Trump Week (emerging, stay tuned--not sure yet if this one will catch fire...though there are presently a few sparks as Trump's numbers drop even lower)
Make America Weak Again Week
Citizen's United Against Trump Week
The possibilities are endless...everyone weigh in with a week of your own! (a little levity is always nice in the face of the grave danger we are facing with this five alarm fire presidency).
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Every week is Amnesia week in this WH
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The following is the capstone of "Trump Resignation Week":
"To end my beloved GOP's and the nation's disarray--the GOP's great. And the nation! Isn't it just great? Even in disarray--which it is! And you're great, too--and to spare the nation further dysfunction--dysfunction, who needs it? Just like bankruptcy--best avoid it--unless you can turn a buck on it--and you can, like me! Isn't this opportunity the greatest?--and to insure that I'll devote a yuuge amount of quality time--and my time don't come cheap--to my adored and adoring family--aren't they adorable? And great? Just greatly adorable, like me!--I'm resigning from the presidency--ending my quest--and I have been the greatest--the absolute greatest--president ever--that's right, resigning--withdrawing my brand—a brand that don't come cheap! Many are disappointed--I know, I know. Just get over it! Trust me--I know you do--love and trust!--this decision guarantees the greatest outcome--yuuge outcome--for everyone concerned--already America is great again! "Mission accomplished"! Already everything is great again!--be even greater--the greatest--gotta get back to my day job--to my full time promotion of me--me, my brand, my products. This has all been yuugely great--but now's time to make the Trump fortune the greatest--which it is! You've been just great--all of you--everyone who loves me--and you know I do--is the greatest! Always stick with a winner! I always do!"
"To end my beloved GOP's and the nation's disarray--the GOP's great. And the nation! Isn't it just great? Even in disarray--which it is! And you're great, too--and to spare the nation further dysfunction--dysfunction, who needs it? Just like bankruptcy--best avoid it--unless you can turn a buck on it--and you can, like me! Isn't this opportunity the greatest?--and to insure that I'll devote a yuuge amount of quality time--and my time don't come cheap--to my adored and adoring family--aren't they adorable? And great? Just greatly adorable, like me!--I'm resigning from the presidency--ending my quest--and I have been the greatest--the absolute greatest--president ever--that's right, resigning--withdrawing my brand—a brand that don't come cheap! Many are disappointed--I know, I know. Just get over it! Trust me--I know you do--love and trust!--this decision guarantees the greatest outcome--yuuge outcome--for everyone concerned--already America is great again! "Mission accomplished"! Already everything is great again!--be even greater--the greatest--gotta get back to my day job--to my full time promotion of me--me, my brand, my products. This has all been yuugely great--but now's time to make the Trump fortune the greatest--which it is! You've been just great--all of you--everyone who loves me--and you know I do--is the greatest! Always stick with a winner! I always do!"
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You could have avoided complete sentences as Trump does. You're too educated for him!!
One day when this is all over, I will credit you, Gail, with helping save a shred of my sanity while living through it.
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One thing is consistent week after week: Things Trump dictates tend to blow up in his face. That's good, no Gail?
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Ah, think of a week without t-rump and his mob. Then it could be a whole month. Then wrap it up with all of them gone permanently. Wouldn't it be wonderful...
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How about getting rid of Trump Week? Lara trump is an 'animal right's activist' like Princess Ivanka is a 'woman's right's activist' or Melania Trump is 'fighting against bullies'. The manchild Trump is the biggest bully in America so good luck with that. How about 'Sending Home Jared and Ivanka Week' or 'Coughing Up Your Tax Returns Week'? Maybe Gen. Flynn will bring order but I doubt it. The Emir and his court of sycophants have been ruling their little kingdom too long and don't want to change.
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How about Mutually Assured Destruction Week, Bring your blackmailer to WH week so that he can have Vlad to lunch, Gropers anonymous week so that Billy Bush can come out of hiding, Hate on your Allies week to alienate the EU even further, to name a few?
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Dear Sarah Huckabee Saunders, Sanders, Whatever,
I am a 10-year-old Boy Scout earning my image consultant badge.
My greatest dream is to give the President a fearsome Ninja look to go with his totally fearsome deeds--you know a ponytail on the top of his head, black tights, a black mask over his mouth, and black split-toed booties. The Kabuki Theatre in my hometown will guide my hand to make him totally Awesome! Fearsome! The Greatest Ninja in the White House!
I am a 10-year-old Boy Scout earning my image consultant badge.
My greatest dream is to give the President a fearsome Ninja look to go with his totally fearsome deeds--you know a ponytail on the top of his head, black tights, a black mask over his mouth, and black split-toed booties. The Kabuki Theatre in my hometown will guide my hand to make him totally Awesome! Fearsome! The Greatest Ninja in the White House!
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What about "Tell the Worst Whopper Week" or "Invent the Best Conspiracy Myth Week" and don't forget "Fire a Bunch of Loons From the White House Week?"
With the Republicans you can bet if it is not a lie it is a deliberate diversion. Trump probably has a pillow with that axiom embroidered it.
With the Republicans you can bet if it is not a lie it is a deliberate diversion. Trump probably has a pillow with that axiom embroidered it.
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Could we please have "Ignore Trump Entirely Week"? If the White House won't declare it I'm doing it anyway. My stomach needs a rest from all the acid.
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Whatever happened to '' Release your tax returns ! '' week ?
I mention that in conjunction with your gist of a column Gail. There have been so many shiny objects in between then and now, that the press has fallen for. Six months have flown by with all of us lurching from one week of ( failure ) to the next. Its hard to keep up, which I think is the point of the whole exercise by this administration.
I look forward to '' Freedom from Tyranny week ''
( it's next year coinciding with the midterms )
I mention that in conjunction with your gist of a column Gail. There have been so many shiny objects in between then and now, that the press has fallen for. Six months have flown by with all of us lurching from one week of ( failure ) to the next. Its hard to keep up, which I think is the point of the whole exercise by this administration.
I look forward to '' Freedom from Tyranny week ''
( it's next year coinciding with the midterms )
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In all of these weak "week events", does anyone else see a trend? Here's Donnie and one of the kiddies going somewhere for something, there's Donnie and another of the wee ones going somewhere else, and over there...well, I think you get it. These 'color the calendar' events seem to serve two purposes: 1)help Donnie know where he is in the great astrological scheme of things; and 2)get him out on free trips, with one of the clan of course, that we pay for so that he doesn't have to sit in that old "dump" and actually do something constructive like...oh, I don't know...maybe fill cabinet and agency appointments? But these events round out his week in between golfing adventures, so I guess there's a purpose after all. And, perhaps it's best he's not trying to buckle down and "do something" anyway...that's always a recipe for disaster.
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after the 2018 election I am looking forward to Perp Walk Week, each day a new Perp is led out of the WH in cuffs pass the honor guards
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Just like the Pride Week so popular at high schools, specials weeks are lip service to the ideals ignored the other fifty-one weeks. The Trump administration has done what few others are able to accomplish by imbuing each special week with a special irony during that period of focus as Gail Collins has pointed out for us. Perhaps we could have a "Week without Irony" for a change of pace. I wonder what Bannon would come up for that.
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Always enjoy your columns, Gail! Pardon my descent into the dismal science - but Rick Perry was rapping on Say's Law. Jean-Baptiste Say died in 1832, and again during the Reagan era, when it was proved beyond a reasonable doubt that no, supply does not create its own demand - except at yard sales. Nevertheless, Say's Law has a Fatal Attraction for some politicians, especially those who would like to believe that The Bad Santa will revive demand for coal, and make many coal miners happy that they voted for Republicans.
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How about John Kelly declaring a ban on swearing and cursing and vulgarity in the Marine Corp Week? But, the one that worries me in the Mushroom Cloud week.
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I read Trump's approval was dipped to 37% while Trump's disapproval is now at. 57.5% a difference of 20.5% points.
Bush's approval was slightly over 50% when 9/11 happened and within a day approval shot up over 30% points and disapproval dropped from 38.7% to under 10%. A mushroom is a 9/11 on steroids.
When Trump'a approval goes below 35% I would start seriously worrying.
Bush's approval was slightly over 50% when 9/11 happened and within a day approval shot up over 30% points and disapproval dropped from 38.7% to under 10%. A mushroom is a 9/11 on steroids.
When Trump'a approval goes below 35% I would start seriously worrying.
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Every week is Emigration Week since Trump took office.
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Let me know when it's Impeachment Week.
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"Also, to be fair, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a letter from a 10-year-old boy from Virginia who wants to mow the White House lawn. And that’s going to happen. “It’s our responsibility to keep the American dream alive for kids like Frank,” she told the media."
Next up: "Make Child Labor Great Again Week."
Watch as Ivanka hires ten year olds to stitch her shoes, dresses and handbags, and Eric and Junior Don hire ten year olds to stuff and mount the endangered animals they shoot on canned "hunts." Isn't Bannon that age?
Next up: "Make Child Labor Great Again Week."
Watch as Ivanka hires ten year olds to stitch her shoes, dresses and handbags, and Eric and Junior Don hire ten year olds to stuff and mount the endangered animals they shoot on canned "hunts." Isn't Bannon that age?
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We don't need no more special "Weeks" when every day with Trump is "Opposite Day", a la Sponge Bob!
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I just commented re Opposite Day only to discover you marked it first!
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Gail , you do your best to spread some humor to cover up the bad smell of this presidency . Valiant work ; we sorely need it . However sometimes the smell is so bad , so putrid it's hard to laugh amidst all the wretching . Hardly a day passes that the American public and the world is not morally and ethically assaulted by the news of the doings of this Clown (Pretender) that occupies the White House . Republicans , get your act together , evaluate carefully your unfettered support for this criminal and many of his cohorts . And refuse to support all that he does to destroy our Constitution . He shared classified information with the Russians . . . right in the Oval Office ! Wasn't that enough to bring him up for impeachment ? How much more must our country endure before you people see the light and think beyond the fear that The donald will hurt you if you speak the truth . You are all in office to serve the American people , not to protect a foolish , bumbling and evil man .
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Humanizes, Mac? Rather have something that Sanitizes.
How about a Mr. Clean week?
How about a Mr. Clean week?
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So Lara is an "animal rights activist" and her husband spends his time killing off endangered species. Kind of like a Dem/Rep couple who cancel each other out at the ballot box, but much more directly cruel and final.
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"This is the first president since James K. Polk who does not have a pet. All this could change in a wink of a Week."
Oh, no. I hope you are not suggesting he get a pet. There are people in this world who shouldn't even be allowed to own a pet rock. The current White House is lousy with them.
Oh, no. I hope you are not suggesting he get a pet. There are people in this world who shouldn't even be allowed to own a pet rock. The current White House is lousy with them.
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Thank you, and agree completely. Things are bad enough. Please, no animal sacrifices.
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How about a "Truth Week"? Ha ha, sometimes I crack myself up.
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I passed over that. "Stupid!" and kept scrolling down and found myself laughing.
How about the American press corps week, with the Donald proclaiming that they are his best buds.
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If I only had a week to live I'd want to spend it with Donald Trump (because it'd feel like a year).
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Wait a minute? Lara is an animal rights advocate? What about Eric and the elephant tail (as opposed to tale)? Has she reformed him? Will there be a Week?
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Only one week really matters--The Week After He is Gone.
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Maureen Dowd wrote "President Trump's Really Weak Week."
With Trump, every week is Weak Week.
With Trump, every week is Weak Week.
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I'm really worried about you, Gail. What are you going to do when there's a sane person in the White House? Trump's making your job much too easy!
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Joe Wilson, a representative from South Carolina, shouted "You lie!" at President Obama during a joint session of congress, and nothing happened to him as a result. Now, Republicans call real news "fake news" with impunity. How far will this go before before this behavior has negative consequences?
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"Until now we have known Lara (Trump) as an animal rights activist."
If this is true, she must have some interesting conversations with her brother-in-law Don Jr.
If this is true, she must have some interesting conversations with her brother-in-law Don Jr.
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How about a "NO TWEET WEEK."
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How about Tell The Truth Week
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How about National Competence Week? Trump family members parade around the White House while walking and chewing gum at the same time. If they leave the White House grounds, Boy Scouts can help them cross the street.
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Every week between now and November 2020 let's call We Can't Wait to Get Rid of Trump Week
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Every week for the Trump administration is "Lying Week."
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Yet another Trump (Lara) headlining the circus?
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This is insanity!
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Unless you affirmatively support animal cruelty -- which I doubt -- I'll thank you to never again suggest that President Trump acquire a pet.
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Well said. Absolutely
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While this op-ed seems to prove that Gail is running out of material to write about, I must chime in on the ridiculous phony outrage over Trump's comment about not worrying about protecting the heads of dangerous criminals being put into the back of a police cruiser. Anyone against Trump will always choose to take him literally even though that comment was so typically intended in "classic Trump-speak" to take another shot at the excesses of political correctness and not as encouragement to engage in police brutality. Not only did I instinctively immediately laugh out loud when I first heard it, a rarity for me, I have to admit that it was wishful thinking, especially for murderers and rapists. Anyone that would deny this simply isn't being honest with themselves. That said, I try to be fair in my assessments. Trump has indeed made many comments that were outrageous and offensive, but isn't about time the press learned to recognize or became willing to acknowledge the difference between truly offensive comments and "Trump-speak"?
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How do we know when it's "trump-speak" coming out of the president's mouth, and when it's a "joke" and when it's something else? Can't we count on the president, commander-in-chief, etc. to be serious in public?
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No, they shouldn't. Trump-speak IS truly outrageous, offensive comments.
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Classic Trump-speak is either inanities, drivel, or lies. There is no other explanation. Parsing his stupidity in an exercise in futility. When Obama said you could keep your doctor, he meant if you had a plan that met minimum standards you would not lose that plan. Yet Obama never got a do-over. Every opponent of the ACA still yells about this huge "lie" told by Obama. Why do those same hypocrites now want to give DJT every consideration when he speaks, tweets, or otherwise spews his hate and lies? Because conservative partisanship is stronger that conservative citizenship, and evangelical politics is stronger than Christian values. So the MSM has got it about right - Trump-speak and truly offensive comments are the same thing.
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Let's not forget Kick Grandma Out Of The Nursing Home Week. Unfortunately there have been several of those. There will be more if we are not vigilant.
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Does anyone believe that "10 year old boy who wants to mow the White House lawn" actually exists? Perhaps he is the same one who made those prank calls impersonating the Mexican President and the head of the Boy Scout organization? Sessions should launch an immediate investigation to uncover the scoundrel and bring him to justice.
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Snide, superficial, partisan.
The column, or the president?
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Truthful, intelligent, funny.
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How about a TELL THE TRUTH week?
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How about "Impeachment week"?
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Ms. Collins missed the most important theme week,the one that the media has called the worst for the Trump administration. Perhaps, It was overlooked because it coincided with Heroes week, it was called Arrogance and Ignorance week. When Trump,pulled out all the stops, and gave us Mooch ( albeit briefly), badgered his Attorney General nonstop, gave a rousing campaign rally speech to the Boy Scouts of America, and then "joked" about the merits of police brutality to a gathering of law enforcement officials. It was a week that left us all exhausted.
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You said a mouthful! One does wonder how he will Trump that (but he seems to be able to make things worse on a regular basis).
Sadly, I'm pretty sure that John Kelly, if he manages to impose some discipline, will make things worse by making Trump more effective.
Sadly, I'm pretty sure that John Kelly, if he manages to impose some discipline, will make things worse by making Trump more effective.
How about DEBTORS' PRISON WEEK ?
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Could we have Substitute President Week? Month? Year?
I'm looking forward to Ethics Week.
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How 'bout "No Tweet Week" where the POTUS gives Americans and his thumbs a well deserved break.
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"Be kind to Animals Week" -- Come on Gail. When are you going to get over the fact that Romney lost the 2012 election and you couldn't write 4 years of columns about travelling around the country with Seamus strapped to the roof...
I would suggest we have a "Leak Week" (alternate names: "Take a Peek Week" or "The Truth We Seek Week"), where all of the unhappy White House staffers and other officials just leak and leak to their heart's content, finally giving us some insights into Trump, his mental health, and the true reasons for his bromance with Putin.
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Alice in Wonderland week where the Mad Hatter has replaced the Queen of Hearts.Where is Lewis Caroll now that we need him . Or Will Rodgers.
How about Early Retirement Week celebrating those that have the good sense of knowing when to leave. Or US Constitution Week where the powers of the congress are appropriately applied to lying, sniveling office holders.
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Stranger than fiction..but harder to stomach.
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I'm waiting for Perp Walk Week.
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Yes — Orange Jumpsuit Week.
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Dear Lara Trump,
You were so much better off just not speaking! Please return to your many millions of dollars residences and let us think about what you might be doing.
Remember the old adage: "TIS BETTER TO BE THOUGHT A FOOL THAN TO OPEN'S ONE'S MOUTH AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT".
You were so much better off just not speaking! Please return to your many millions of dollars residences and let us think about what you might be doing.
Remember the old adage: "TIS BETTER TO BE THOUGHT A FOOL THAN TO OPEN'S ONE'S MOUTH AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT".
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How about a Dog Days of Summer Week Without Trump?
Or a Week Without Any Trump Tweets, which would be blissful. Maybe Melania could proclaim this and John Kelly could enforce it.
And why are the weekends left out of the Trump messaging? I would love to see a Weekend Without Golf. Wouldn't that be grand? It would message that Trump is SO busy with being president that he didn't have time to golf (unlike a former president). And I wouldn't stop with just one weekend, lets go ahead and make it a whole Month of Weekends Without Golf. That would be glorious and would give the President more time to dictate memos and sign those diktats he loves so much.
Or a Week Without Any Trump Tweets, which would be blissful. Maybe Melania could proclaim this and John Kelly could enforce it.
And why are the weekends left out of the Trump messaging? I would love to see a Weekend Without Golf. Wouldn't that be grand? It would message that Trump is SO busy with being president that he didn't have time to golf (unlike a former president). And I wouldn't stop with just one weekend, lets go ahead and make it a whole Month of Weekends Without Golf. That would be glorious and would give the President more time to dictate memos and sign those diktats he loves so much.
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Sadly, Gail Collins's light touch, while still endearing, fails to alleviate the years of kleptocrats, ignorant, otherblamers, and hypocrites ahead of us. Even if Trump finally busts the bank of tolerance for his cheating, lies, and endangering behaviors, we're stuck with even greater hypocrite Pence (at least Trump doesn't pretend to be holier than thou), Ryan (who wants to cut off the benefits he received that got him where he is because Jesus told him to hurt people), and the whole boiling of succession (see Wikipedia for detail).
Returning us to the 19th century, with billionaires taking pennies from the poor, poisoning our earth, air, and water, underpaying their slaves, suppressing our votes ... that's quite a goal.
Dogged endurance and admiration for those with the courage (amazing hero Mazie Hirono with late stage cancer who took a back seat because there was a man in the room) doesn't spare me my fears for the future, not only of my country but of the world. It's mindboggling that we can be this stupid and this inhumane.
I'm all out of laughs today. We humans are at our best working together to solve problems, and Trump hates that. And anyone who thinks John Kelly is going to make things better should take a closer look. If he gets Trump's ducks in a row, things will get worse.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/evaluating-john-kellys-record-at...
Returning us to the 19th century, with billionaires taking pennies from the poor, poisoning our earth, air, and water, underpaying their slaves, suppressing our votes ... that's quite a goal.
Dogged endurance and admiration for those with the courage (amazing hero Mazie Hirono with late stage cancer who took a back seat because there was a man in the room) doesn't spare me my fears for the future, not only of my country but of the world. It's mindboggling that we can be this stupid and this inhumane.
I'm all out of laughs today. We humans are at our best working together to solve problems, and Trump hates that. And anyone who thinks John Kelly is going to make things better should take a closer look. If he gets Trump's ducks in a row, things will get worse.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/evaluating-john-kellys-record-at...
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SA,
He fancied himself on Rushmore. Says he was 'joking' but we've heard that one before.
I think he should be there. That way, in 20 years we can have an answer to Sam Bee's question; What will be the theme of our very own 'never again' memorial? We can make Trump's image the centerpiece.
He fancied himself on Rushmore. Says he was 'joking' but we've heard that one before.
I think he should be there. That way, in 20 years we can have an answer to Sam Bee's question; What will be the theme of our very own 'never again' memorial? We can make Trump's image the centerpiece.
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Helpful link. No wonder Trump says Kelly is a "star". Mind you, Trump praises all his people; even when he fires them they are "good guys".
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Very confused about last week...were they celebrating small businesses or pencil skirts with very long slits up the back? It was very difficult to ascertain from the coverage.
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Remember the SNL episode when Tina Fey as Sara Palin was just quoting her verbatim and it was hilarious and better than what any comedy writer could have ever come up with? I think we have reached the same point but this time the whole skit and script is already done.
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Ms. Collins doesn't let the occasion pass to point out the cardboard compartment features of the continuing saga of White House agendas. Indeed, it reminds me of the mindless advertising of TV commercials wherein everything is packaged for immediate consumption absent of anything amounting to reasoning.
Indeed, Ms. Collin's contribution today reminds me of my delight I enjoyed watching the satire in the show, That Was The Week That Was back in the 60s.
Indeed, Ms. Collin's contribution today reminds me of my delight I enjoyed watching the satire in the show, That Was The Week That Was back in the 60s.
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I am caught up with the description of the 10 year old boy who wanted to mow the lawn at the White House. I think this is a wonderful idea. It supports Trump's new idea of upping the "standards" for green card eligibility; we could have children fill those unattractive jobs that immigrant green card holders currently do. We could have "Do Away With Child Labor Laws" week. Children could mow the lawn at Mar-a-Lago and all of the Trump golf courses. Cities, which are stretched for money could pay slave wages for child labor. The possibilities are endless.
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Trump is running his administration like an all you can eat buffet ---we have all eaten at one--you take a little of that, some of this, and a lot of something else. When you get home, you can't remember what you eat, but, whatever it was, it definitely was an experience you do not want to repeat.
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Just what to expect from a president who thinks of us as viewers. Each week, we’ve got drama, deception, complex plots, deep back stories (those Russians, Bannon). Trump knows one thing about Americans, that entertainment is considered engagement.
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I'm sure many of you will join me in saying: Trump may NOT have a dog.
Animal lovers hear enough heart-rending stories. We don't need the trauma of imagining some eager, loving creature being brought out for a photo op, petted gingerly if at all, and relegated to an out of the way cage till the next staged event.
Animal lovers hear enough heart-rending stories. We don't need the trauma of imagining some eager, loving creature being brought out for a photo op, petted gingerly if at all, and relegated to an out of the way cage till the next staged event.
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Trump has (and has had) plenty of pets already and shows an unusual affinity for snakes. Steven Miller's dead-eyed, serial killer in-the-making visage is particularly disturbing. The reptile exhibit also includes Gorka and Bannon. Pompeo seems to have escaped the White House grounds, but there are occasional sightings around D.C.
Trump also has a particularly loyal dog named Jeff Sessions who he mercilessly abuses at when he wants to let off some steam.
On top of all of this, he keeps a entire flock of colorful parrots, his favorites being Hannity, Conway and Huckabee Sanders. Spicer eventually hobbled off with a broken wing and Trump's new daddy made him give up Scaramucci (who still squawks out sound bites).
Trump's got plenty of pets and he's not lacking for lackeys.
Trump also has a particularly loyal dog named Jeff Sessions who he mercilessly abuses at when he wants to let off some steam.
On top of all of this, he keeps a entire flock of colorful parrots, his favorites being Hannity, Conway and Huckabee Sanders. Spicer eventually hobbled off with a broken wing and Trump's new daddy made him give up Scaramucci (who still squawks out sound bites).
Trump's got plenty of pets and he's not lacking for lackeys.
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Perhaps this was the plan all along. That trump would be so disruptive, operating way out of the box, that he would shake the whole country up. He has succeeded not only here but also abroad. Everywhere we go he is the topic of conversation. Whether people are bashing him or complaining about his style, they are talking about him and the things he is exposing. It's like he is holding a two sided mirror one side for himself (to admire and comb hair with flourish) the other for our lawmakers and the rest of us.
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"We still haven’t heard what the next Week is supposed to be." Maybe "Russian History Week." Shouldn't we all be learning more about the culture and history of Mother Russia? Taking classes to learn to speak and write Russian? In the fine print of the new green card immigration proposal, does it say only English speaking (and in a footnote Russian speaking) immigrants need apply?
As the unmemorable theme Weeks have gone by the only thing memorable is Trump's admiration and love of Putin and the ongoing drip, drip of Trump's connections with the Kremlin.
I would like to see, "Trump Reveal Your Tax Return Week." Followed by "Mueller indicts Trump Week!"
As the unmemorable theme Weeks have gone by the only thing memorable is Trump's admiration and love of Putin and the ongoing drip, drip of Trump's connections with the Kremlin.
I would like to see, "Trump Reveal Your Tax Return Week." Followed by "Mueller indicts Trump Week!"
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There should be a "Hire Your Daughters and Sons and Sons-in-Law Week" Ms. Collins.
I thought President Trump wasn't the brightest bulb, but the depths of the stupidity are breathtaking even for him. It's fascinating how his stupidity seems to be contagious? Maybe we should have "Stupidity Week" to celebrate?
In a mere 6 months, here are some of the things we've learned:
Healthcare is hard.
Afghanistan is like renovating the 21 Club in New York, according to Trump.
The state department has turned down $80million for propaganda to fight Isis and Russian fake news from Congress because Trump and Tillerson don't want to offend Russia.
Trump loves signing things, except for his only legislative accomplishment, which is the sanctions bill against the Russians and which he signed in secret.
There are 5.7 million job openings, jobless claims are at a record low, but Trump has decided to go after legal immigration.
Rick Perry is as stupid as Trump. Well, we probably knew that.
To think, we're only 12.5% of the way into Trump's presidency.
I thought President Trump wasn't the brightest bulb, but the depths of the stupidity are breathtaking even for him. It's fascinating how his stupidity seems to be contagious? Maybe we should have "Stupidity Week" to celebrate?
In a mere 6 months, here are some of the things we've learned:
Healthcare is hard.
Afghanistan is like renovating the 21 Club in New York, according to Trump.
The state department has turned down $80million for propaganda to fight Isis and Russian fake news from Congress because Trump and Tillerson don't want to offend Russia.
Trump loves signing things, except for his only legislative accomplishment, which is the sanctions bill against the Russians and which he signed in secret.
There are 5.7 million job openings, jobless claims are at a record low, but Trump has decided to go after legal immigration.
Rick Perry is as stupid as Trump. Well, we probably knew that.
To think, we're only 12.5% of the way into Trump's presidency.
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Stupid? President Trump achieved the highest elected office in the US with no prior political experience (saving only his use of campaign donations to achieve business goals) and opposition from his recent party. Mr. Trump trumped the Republican establishment right easily. Ignorant about many things yes, but stupid? Not even hardly. The GOP has been reminded not to underestimate your enemy. Get a grip! Instead of spending your time and energy with smug prattling, get a move on to limit the damage.
How about a "Great World Leaders" week. Trump can invite Putin, Duterte, Kim Jung Un, Nicolas Madero and Abdulah Aziz Al Saud. They all can than pay Tribute to other leaders no longer with us: Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong...the list is a long one.
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You forgot Egypt's el-Sisi and Turkey's Erdogan (and no doubt others).
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What about Let's Make Next Week a Weak Week Week?
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If you put the supply out there, the demand will follow? Then why aren't my commemorative plaques of the 1982 Cardboard Manufacturer's Strike selling on etsy? The supply is out there.
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This has to be the winner of Best NYT Comment Week. Thanks for the laugh, Thad.
Presidents think in long terms of accomplishing goals in months, years and even decades. We have Trump thinks in terms of weeks but has such a short attention span that he is incapable of even accomplishing the mission of a seven day theme.
His penchant for watching television has programmed him to think in terms of 30 and 60 second commercials, 5 minute news segments and 1 hour rants where he gins up his base and works them into a frenzy.
His penchant for watching television has programmed him to think in terms of 30 and 60 second commercials, 5 minute news segments and 1 hour rants where he gins up his base and works them into a frenzy.
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"His penchant for watching television"
And not just any TV!
Murdoch's FIX News is his 24/7 fixation.
They feed his sick, always hungry narcissistic ego.
And not just any TV!
Murdoch's FIX News is his 24/7 fixation.
They feed his sick, always hungry narcissistic ego.
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I don't mind the theme weeks.The one that scares me is "Let's attack North Korea week."
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I hope at least it coincides with "I am releasing my taxes week"
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Isn't that one actually called "Let's poke the hornet's nest with a stick" week?
Let's see- Do Your Job Week.
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Or, how about admit you are incapable of doing the big job you are in, but too self centered to admit you are failing, bigly Week?
After all the drama and trauma of the Trump campaign and administration, I think we're all entitled to "A Week Without Trump Week."
Imagine the joy of waking up every morning for seven consecutive days without seeing any of the Trumps or Trumpettes on the front pages of the nation's newspapers or TV shows. Pure bliss.
Imagine the joy of waking up every morning for seven consecutive days without seeing any of the Trumps or Trumpettes on the front pages of the nation's newspapers or TV shows. Pure bliss.
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But how could we enjoy it, knowing they'd be back?
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"press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a letter from a 10-year-old boy from Virginia who wants to mow the White House lawn. And that’s going to happen. “It’s our responsibility to keep the American dream alive for kids like Frank,”"
Excuse me, but unless the kid is going to use a rotary mower to cut 18 acres, you have to be 16 to operate a power mower.
https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/childlabor101_text.htm
Isn't anyone in the White House remotely conscious of this thing called Law? Or is bothering to check it some liberal egghead fetish?
Excuse me, but unless the kid is going to use a rotary mower to cut 18 acres, you have to be 16 to operate a power mower.
https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/childlabor101_text.htm
Isn't anyone in the White House remotely conscious of this thing called Law? Or is bothering to check it some liberal egghead fetish?
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Child labor week. Now there is a theme the GOP can support.
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I wish the media would stop commenting on the lack of a pet in the WH. No animal should be forced to live with Trump.
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Well, there was the horse Alibi, whom he arrogantly caused to be destroyed and then refused to pay for. People should have been warned, he likes breaking things and then rejecting them because they are broken.
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I can think of several animals we could put in the WH with Trump and that Miller thing.
Something that could take care of itself, like a grizzly bear or large tiger? Just for a visit, who knows how it would go?
I think, Gail, you must have missed the most recent White House press release about upcoming "Weeks" events. Soon to come:
"Mooch Week"-- A celebration of hair gel, brotherly love and Ryan Lizza.
"Boy Scout Week"--A celebration of loyalty to others. Hosted by Jeff Sessions, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and Chris Christie.
Military Appreciation Week--Hosted by our President himself, draft dodgers from around the country will convene to insult true military heroes like John McCain.
Incompetence Week--The White House Celebrates people who are in jobs for which they have no relevant experience. Hosted by Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, Scott Pruitt and Jared Kushner.
Neckwear Week--The president honors loud, single color ties that are long enough to cover any beer belly.
Alternative Facts Week--K.A. Conway hosts an event that may or may not occur, for hundreds of thousands of people in the Rose Garden.
Contortionist Week--Steve Bannon hosts an event celebrating the need to stay in shape and the flexibility of the human body.
"Mooch Week"-- A celebration of hair gel, brotherly love and Ryan Lizza.
"Boy Scout Week"--A celebration of loyalty to others. Hosted by Jeff Sessions, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and Chris Christie.
Military Appreciation Week--Hosted by our President himself, draft dodgers from around the country will convene to insult true military heroes like John McCain.
Incompetence Week--The White House Celebrates people who are in jobs for which they have no relevant experience. Hosted by Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, Scott Pruitt and Jared Kushner.
Neckwear Week--The president honors loud, single color ties that are long enough to cover any beer belly.
Alternative Facts Week--K.A. Conway hosts an event that may or may not occur, for hundreds of thousands of people in the Rose Garden.
Contortionist Week--Steve Bannon hosts an event celebrating the need to stay in shape and the flexibility of the human body.
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Well done!
Hey, be nice. Many fine, upstanding young American men resisted their government's attempt to force them into fighting in another country's civil war.
Totally agree. Barbyr. My objection is to the derogatory comment Trump made about McCain during the campaign, where he cracked that he liked heroes who "hadn't been captured." Moreover, Trump didn't resist the draft because of conscience or even political reasons; he invented a fake foot injury to avoid service. When asked about it during the campaign, he couldn't even remember which foot it was. Obviously, it couldn't be too serious because it hasn't impeded his ability to walk a golf course.
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That 10 year old better ask to be paid in advance.
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How about Mental Health Week? "Lie down on the golden couch, Mr. Trump."
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"Until now we have known Lara as an animal rights activist."
Yet her husband, Eric Trump, delights in joining his adult brother in hunting and killing African wildlife.
Another odd couple. Or two.
Yet her husband, Eric Trump, delights in joining his adult brother in hunting and killing African wildlife.
Another odd couple. Or two.
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Very, very ODD.
I would be in favor of Get Rid of Trump Week.
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If Lara Trump has any truck with Kelly, we'll be having Kleptocrat Week, followed by Nepotism Week, Confllct of Interest Week, the Russian Collusion Week.
Come to think of it, we really don't need her truck or not with Kelly.
We already have these Weeks, Week in, Week out.
For over six months already, with no end in sight.
Come to think of it, we really don't need her truck or not with Kelly.
We already have these Weeks, Week in, Week out.
For over six months already, with no end in sight.
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and a "Thank You Battleground States Voters" Week.
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Tar-and-Feather Them Week?
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So, Lara Trump says she supports animal rights while her husband, Eric, goes big-game hunting to bring back trophies to put on display.
You could never make all the stuff up that this one family does. Life with them is stranger than fiction.
You could never make all the stuff up that this one family does. Life with them is stranger than fiction.
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Not only stranger than fiction, more painful.
I long for "impeachment week."
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Hand it to Trump -- ever been more entertained?
Mr Bean in the White House wouldn't be better.
Mr Bean in the White House wouldn't be better.
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I personally resent Huckabee-Sanders assertion that we (the People) have no idea about all the good things the president does because of "fake news"! Why, the White House sends me a very helpful email everyday! It extols on how it is Making America Great Again by getting rid of all those pesky things like environmental protections and rule of law! Every day the president is working hard for us! Really, just read our newsletter and don't pay any attention to what you see in the Main Stream Media!
"I am working hard for you to Make America Great Again!"
[Barf]
"I am working hard for you to Make America Great Again!"
[Barf]
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Sorry, can't find any chuckles this week, Ms. Collins, and I get the feeling your heart really wasn't in it either.
Lies and lies from the Fool on the Hill, and the adult, McMaster, is telling the world that a first strike against N. Korea is all but decided upon but we're to be comforted because he and the Fool know that hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people could die but it's the cost of doing business to protect the homeland.
And Tillerson is refusing the $80 million allotted last fall for the Global Engagement Centre at the State Dept. to combat ISIS propaganda and Russian propaganda....Tillerson actually said he doesn't want to accept the money, get the Centre operational because it will make the Russians angry.
What "deep state" worth its salt would allow this madness to continue, never mind have allowed trump to be elected.
Just when you think things can't get any worse......
Lies and lies from the Fool on the Hill, and the adult, McMaster, is telling the world that a first strike against N. Korea is all but decided upon but we're to be comforted because he and the Fool know that hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people could die but it's the cost of doing business to protect the homeland.
And Tillerson is refusing the $80 million allotted last fall for the Global Engagement Centre at the State Dept. to combat ISIS propaganda and Russian propaganda....Tillerson actually said he doesn't want to accept the money, get the Centre operational because it will make the Russians angry.
What "deep state" worth its salt would allow this madness to continue, never mind have allowed trump to be elected.
Just when you think things can't get any worse......
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How about “President-For-A-Week” Week, in which a randomly-chosen American gets to sub in as the President of the United States? Then, if the person does a better job than the actual incumbent, it’s continued for the following week with a new, randomly-chosen American - and on and on until it’s considered desirable to bring said actual incumbent back.
Or how about this: “President-For-A-Week” Week, in which the president acts like a President, if only for one week?
Or how about this: “President-For-A-Week” Week, in which the president acts like a President, if only for one week?
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How can Lara Trump call herself an animal rights activist? Did Eric Trump give up trophy hunting? Geez, the disconnect with this family is astonishing.
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Everyone in that corrupt family is disgusting. The Trumps are the American Noriegas.
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When do we get impeachment and conviction week?
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I think there should be a Tap Dancing Week so Rick Perry can teach djt to dance. Silly, I know, but the way the White House is functioning is truly a joke.
And, it would be funny if only there wasn't the looming North Korea crisis or the Russia thing.
And, it would be funny if only there wasn't the looming North Korea crisis or the Russia thing.
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It just been one weak week after another. My own weakness every week since Jan. 20th has been has been that of a mesmerized bystander who cannot fully believe his eyes and ears seeing and hearing the weakness displayed by the WH each week.
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"Take out the Trash Week" which would feature the removal of some White House occupants.
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To do honor to all the "Weeks" faltering thus far, how about celebrating Trump's "Farce Week"?
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To celebrate America's reaction to Trump's first months in office, I suggest "Did you put something in my drink?" week.
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How about Impeachment Week followed by a lifetime without Trumps ...
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I'm looking forward to impeachment week.
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Be thankful Ms Dowd, he is the loosely wrapped gift that can't stop giving.
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Weak Presidency Week(s).
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I would settle for a week of celebrating Trump's final departure from the White House, which can't come soon enough.
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Much thanks, Gail, for clarifying just exactly what these "Weeks" are. I couldn't make heads or tails of where the Trump administration was going with these.
But there *are* 52 weeks in the year, A.F.A.I.K., so the Trump staff could entertain their followers with a lot of the ideas that you've mentioned here.
I'm going for Russia Week. Now, I know, I know, there seems to be some controversy with Russia, but Trump is such an "in your face" guy, he could just stage it. Kids here could volunteer to cut Putin's lawn.
Maybe, a "Show Your Taxes" week where Trump supports transparency in presidential tax reporting?
Well, all I can say is that, given Trump's "Hero's Week" I am sure glad I never became a Boy Scout. At first I thought that they were all taken in with Trump, given their glassy-eyed stares during Trump's soporific self-aggrandizement. But then I remembered what it was to be a kid (only a few, very short, years ago for me) and most of those kids were probably thinking, "What a blowhard!"
The scoutmasters became just like anyone else who links up with Trump, like, uh, for example, Reince, or Sean... or the Mooch. They merely showed up, they are tagged as Trump's biggest followers, and then they are excoriated.. How about an "Embattled Scoutmaster's Week"?
And, okay, now that we are closing in on all those weeks, Trump needs to have a "Press Secretary's Week". Kids can send in their made-up facts about this presidency.
But there *are* 52 weeks in the year, A.F.A.I.K., so the Trump staff could entertain their followers with a lot of the ideas that you've mentioned here.
I'm going for Russia Week. Now, I know, I know, there seems to be some controversy with Russia, but Trump is such an "in your face" guy, he could just stage it. Kids here could volunteer to cut Putin's lawn.
Maybe, a "Show Your Taxes" week where Trump supports transparency in presidential tax reporting?
Well, all I can say is that, given Trump's "Hero's Week" I am sure glad I never became a Boy Scout. At first I thought that they were all taken in with Trump, given their glassy-eyed stares during Trump's soporific self-aggrandizement. But then I remembered what it was to be a kid (only a few, very short, years ago for me) and most of those kids were probably thinking, "What a blowhard!"
The scoutmasters became just like anyone else who links up with Trump, like, uh, for example, Reince, or Sean... or the Mooch. They merely showed up, they are tagged as Trump's biggest followers, and then they are excoriated.. How about an "Embattled Scoutmaster's Week"?
And, okay, now that we are closing in on all those weeks, Trump needs to have a "Press Secretary's Week". Kids can send in their made-up facts about this presidency.
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Perhaps we could identify weeks from the Scout Motto:
Trustworthy Week
Loyal Week
Helpful Week
Friendly Week
Courteous Week
Kind Week
Obedient Week
Cheerful Week
Thrifty Week
Brave Week
Clean Week
Reverent Week
How do you think Trump would stack up against those?
Trustworthy Week
Loyal Week
Helpful Week
Friendly Week
Courteous Week
Kind Week
Obedient Week
Cheerful Week
Thrifty Week
Brave Week
Clean Week
Reverent Week
How do you think Trump would stack up against those?
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Somehow I don't find this Trump nonsense funny anymore. Thanks anyway, Gail.
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How about a "zero tweet" week?
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I'm with you on this, but without Trump's tweets, we wouldn't know how great "Zero Tweet Week" was.
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Lara Trump is an animal rights activist? Isn't Eric one of the Trump boys who's been caught posing with dead endangered animals that he and his brother hunted?
Maybe she just wants all cats and dogs to be able to choose the freedom to be hunted. Wild animals apparently have the freedom to choose to be hunted already.
Maybe she just wants all cats and dogs to be able to choose the freedom to be hunted. Wild animals apparently have the freedom to choose to be hunted already.
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The kid who mows the lawn will perform a greater service to the country in one afternoon than Trump and his dark cadre will no matter how long they survive their lies and mendacity.
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The kid who wants to mow the lawn probably has ties to Russians; everyone else at the White House does.
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How about weak week? Problem there is that's every week at Trump's dumpy White House.
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Why don't we have a "Trump Honesty Week". That would really be a nice change.
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It would be a really short week.
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Looking forward to Impeach Week.
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They've been misnamed. The reality is we've had 'Anti-LGBT week" and this is apparently "Racism and Xenophobia Week"
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The title of your article would be a good start. "A week without Trumps".
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One more frustrating example of how much more informative Gail's columns would be if she provided links to her entertaining and often obscure anecdotes:
And then, of course, there was Made in America Week, which Trump observed by requesting visas to hire foreign workers for Mar-a-Lago
And then, of course, there was Made in America Week, which Trump observed by requesting visas to hire foreign workers for Mar-a-Lago
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Were you born without a sense of humor, or did you lose it over time by watching Sean Hannity?
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I hadn't realized that Lara Trump was an animal rights' activist.
Perhaps she should ask her husband and brother-in-law about their various safari 'kills' and the photographs in which they are featured, surrounded by the innocent animals they killed....for sheer sport.
NOT my president
Perhaps she should ask her husband and brother-in-law about their various safari 'kills' and the photographs in which they are featured, surrounded by the innocent animals they killed....for sheer sport.
NOT my president
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Laura Trump is an animal activist!? She is aware, isn't she, that Eric and Don Jr. have done big game hunting killing endangered species such as elephants and leopards, complete with trophy photos with them mugging over their kills? Some activist.
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My guess is that this is the subtle way the wives resist their awful husbands - the irony of Lara pales in comparison to Melania's Cyber-bullying resistance mission!!!
I suggest we start looking at the wives' on-camera blinking for coded signs of "help me!"
I suggest we start looking at the wives' on-camera blinking for coded signs of "help me!"
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So, was last week weak week?
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I'm most looking forward to impeachment week.
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Indictment Week.
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When are we going to have Impeachment Week?
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Remember "Collusion Week"?
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Only one Week matters.
Election Week.
November 6, 2018.
Election Week.
November 6, 2018.
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The week when American voters lost their collective minds and brought this circus to the White House.
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Without totally disagreeing, we have to make it there first.
I'd be happy with Mueller Week.
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"You put the supply out there and the demand will follow."
Wait, that isn't how supply and demand works--there is a huge supply of dog waste, garbage, etc. and yet demand hasn't skyrocketed. Supply and demand is about pricing--if you increase the supply for coal but the demand stays constant, the price of coal goes down (which theoretically leads to a drop in supply, since it isn't profitable to market coal) and so on.
Aren't we rather concerned that the so-called party of the free market doesn't grasp basic market principles?
Wait, that isn't how supply and demand works--there is a huge supply of dog waste, garbage, etc. and yet demand hasn't skyrocketed. Supply and demand is about pricing--if you increase the supply for coal but the demand stays constant, the price of coal goes down (which theoretically leads to a drop in supply, since it isn't profitable to market coal) and so on.
Aren't we rather concerned that the so-called party of the free market doesn't grasp basic market principles?
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Well, Michael...it WAS Rick Perry.
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No mention of a "weak Pres. week" or a more general "weakness week"?
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The wife of Eric trump, seen grinning smugly as he hoists the body of a dead leopard in front of the camera, is an animal rights activist? Is there anyone in that clan who can stand for something decent that another family member doesn't represent the antithesis of?
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Grifter Appreciation Week? Oh, wait. That's EVERY week.
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Hug a dictator week?
Truth or consequences week?
Do without health care week?
Russia appreciation week?
Money laundering week?
Truth or consequences week?
Do without health care week?
Russia appreciation week?
Money laundering week?
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Resignation Week. That's all I pray for. And I'm an Atheist.
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Ms. Collins,
In the Trump White House it's called Take Your Daughters and Sons and Sons-in-law Week.
In the Trump White House it's called Take Your Daughters and Sons and Sons-in-law Week.
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How about Survivor Week? That could happen not long before the Indictment Week mentioned by other readers.
Survivor Week would feature a reality contest, to see which of the to-be indicted decide to flip and rat out the other members of Russia-Gate.
Survivor Week would feature a reality contest, to see which of the to-be indicted decide to flip and rat out the other members of Russia-Gate.
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Trump Disappearance Week. We don't see him or hear him for a glorious seven days.
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A week, a month, a year, a decade, a life time without Trump would be a world much hoped for. By tens of millions of us.
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An "Art of the Deal Week", which would include paying tribute to lobbyists, advisors and financial backers.
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Following Trump's new directives permitting only highly educated, English speaking people legal entrance to this country, I'd be terribly interested in whether Trump's visa requests were for workers that fit those same requirements.
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Not to worry, congress will never pass a bill like this -- it's just a sop for the gullible base, as usual a distraction. That's not to say that it isn't the dream of Miller, Bannon and Sessions to implement policies like these, but it won't happen.
I think the Trump administration should have "whopper of the week" theme. It might be a tie between Trump and Huckabee-Sanders but every once in awhile Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon might get to compete.
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When Stephen Miller called Jim Acosta stupid and ignorant the press corp should have left the briefing room.
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“Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand,” Perry said during a coal mining promotion. “You put the supply out there and the demand will follow.”
Oops. Build it and they will come may work for a field of dreams, but more often it results in something else.
There are a lot of problems with coal. Environment, air quality and global warming. There are no longer a lot of people working in the industry, so it's all a public relations ploy to fire up Trump supporters.
Let's have an Economic Education week and invite the President and Secretary of Energy to attend.
Oops. Build it and they will come may work for a field of dreams, but more often it results in something else.
There are a lot of problems with coal. Environment, air quality and global warming. There are no longer a lot of people working in the industry, so it's all a public relations ploy to fire up Trump supporters.
Let's have an Economic Education week and invite the President and Secretary of Energy to attend.
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That's a good suggestion. How about an Ethics Education and Practices Week, too? But if the administration skipped that workshop during the transition, I can't imagine they'd be willing to devote a whole week to it . . . especially the "practice" part.
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When I think Kelly, I think "discipline." [No sarcasm quote marks intended.]
With 40+ years of business experience, it takes discipline to properly and effectively execute a product roll-out or similar campaign. Good business people recognize discipline when they see it.
The biggest delusion among Trump supporters is that Trump is a good business leader or manager. Hah! Well, maybe Kelly will give him a few lessons and some good old Marine tough love.
With 40+ years of business experience, it takes discipline to properly and effectively execute a product roll-out or similar campaign. Good business people recognize discipline when they see it.
The biggest delusion among Trump supporters is that Trump is a good business leader or manager. Hah! Well, maybe Kelly will give him a few lessons and some good old Marine tough love.
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There is good reason military current and former should not be in charge of policy.
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There are lots of good suggestions here in the comments, my favorite is Impeachment Week. I'd also like to have a Ignore All Trumps Week and not see or hear their names or faces anywhere. I'd settle for a day.
The President of Mexico just called and told me he'd like to have a Wall Week.
The President of Mexico just called and told me he'd like to have a Wall Week.
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Trump's new chief of staff was wise to dump the Week theme, as it was too much strain on the Presidential brain to focus on a topic for seven whole days. Plus, Energy Week, Tech Week, etc. were too likely to remind voters that we have a weak President.
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"That man [John Kelly] cannot stop cleaning house."
I wish he'd start at the top. That could truly yield not just "A Week without Trumps," but weeks/months/years. Wouldn't that be just lovely? Hmmmm?
I wish he'd start at the top. That could truly yield not just "A Week without Trumps," but weeks/months/years. Wouldn't that be just lovely? Hmmmm?
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Lara Trump is an "animal rights activist"? That's difficult to reconcile with the Trump administration's virtual declaration of war against wildlife. Trumps wants to make it easier to shoot everything from hibernating bears to wolves. Donald Trump Jr. is a well-known "big game hunter". Lara's gatherings with the other members of the Trump family must be fun events. Of course, apparently, she's decided to give up defending animals (she doesn't seem to have been particularly good at it) and gone on to defending her father-in-law by contributing to the obfuscation and lies already surrounding the White House.
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@Shaun Narine
Right up there with Melania's Anti Bullying campaign.
This trump "family" is schizophrenic. And completely transparent.
Right up there with Melania's Anti Bullying campaign.
This trump "family" is schizophrenic. And completely transparent.
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Maybe we have a little bit of passive aggressive behavior going on among the Trump wives. After all, Melania was going to champion an end to bullying. Why'd she pick THAT topic, when she's married to the Bully-in-Chief, if she wasn't trying to send a hint to her husband?
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I suggest a Week Without Tweets from Trump. A week without a Trump family member trying to defend the indefensible, Trump and his sons behaviors.
But I'm making my own week. Beginning now, A Week Without Reading Anything About Trump.
But I'm making my own week. Beginning now, A Week Without Reading Anything About Trump.
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Gail, you nailed it!
The Trump Administration can't get out of its own way. Staying on message apparently is a challenge they can't adhere to. Maybe that should be their next special week.
Good column.
The Trump Administration can't get out of its own way. Staying on message apparently is a challenge they can't adhere to. Maybe that should be their next special week.
Good column.
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DJT nixed the themes because everyone started hearing "Weak" instead of week.
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Gail, as always you have a sparkling sense of humor and offer interesting insights (unlike some of your colleagues). But a North Korea with nuclear capable ICBMs is really the only issue that matters right now. Please address this sometime in a future column.
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How about no lies week. Only kidding, that would be impossible.
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It's better to admit the plain, dumb American truth:
We are in the Moron-In-Chief Octennial, an exceptionally unique American tradition occurring every other eight years, where after a long period of Democratically-led stability, economic prosperity and progress, the highly qualified, more experienced and liberal Presidential candidate is flushed down the all-American white toilet of ignorance, spite and ill will so America's plantation-era Electoral College, Confederate sympathizers and Grand Old Plantation party can install a new village idiot to drive the nation over multiple cliffs.
It happened in 2000, when Dubya and the GOP defrauded the national vote and drove us through Millionaire Tax-Cut Heaven, Iraq, and the 2008 Great Depression - "compassion cruelty" to the American masses served on the finest 0.1% silver platter.
It happened in again in 2016, when The Party of Stupid carefully deliberated over its cast of 17 clowns before settling on the most ignorant of them, Donald Narcissus Trump, who could never see beyond the reflection in his bathroom mirror. In just six months, Snake Oil Donald has eclipsed Dubya in the subterranean Presidential IQ contest, as the ignorant masses cheer his tribal stupidity.
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron” - H L Mencken
Be still, my moronic American heart, the Trump Octennial is in full idiotic, national bloom.
We are in the Moron-In-Chief Octennial, an exceptionally unique American tradition occurring every other eight years, where after a long period of Democratically-led stability, economic prosperity and progress, the highly qualified, more experienced and liberal Presidential candidate is flushed down the all-American white toilet of ignorance, spite and ill will so America's plantation-era Electoral College, Confederate sympathizers and Grand Old Plantation party can install a new village idiot to drive the nation over multiple cliffs.
It happened in 2000, when Dubya and the GOP defrauded the national vote and drove us through Millionaire Tax-Cut Heaven, Iraq, and the 2008 Great Depression - "compassion cruelty" to the American masses served on the finest 0.1% silver platter.
It happened in again in 2016, when The Party of Stupid carefully deliberated over its cast of 17 clowns before settling on the most ignorant of them, Donald Narcissus Trump, who could never see beyond the reflection in his bathroom mirror. In just six months, Snake Oil Donald has eclipsed Dubya in the subterranean Presidential IQ contest, as the ignorant masses cheer his tribal stupidity.
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron” - H L Mencken
Be still, my moronic American heart, the Trump Octennial is in full idiotic, national bloom.
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Soc, not only are you wise, you're funny too. Be careful if a Republican offers you a drink; it may be hemlock because your responses are corrupting Republican youths - if only!
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Thanks for your brilliant comment. It's so lonely having a brain and ethics in today's world.
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I would personally like to see a "Week Without News of Donald Trump" week, wherein not a single word about 45 appears in print, internet, TV, or social media. That would drive him to distraction. Just ignore him, and maybe he'll go away.
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Not if you keep bringing him up.
Are all mega-rich people so un-self-aware as this gaggle of Trumps?
I understand not having a modicum of humility or humanity or honesty - those traits don't favor winning on the battlefield. It's their unfathomable obliviousness that's hard to believe.
It's no wonder that they embrace the myths of "fake news" and "Russian collusion", they have no connection with reality.
I understand not having a modicum of humility or humanity or honesty - those traits don't favor winning on the battlefield. It's their unfathomable obliviousness that's hard to believe.
It's no wonder that they embrace the myths of "fake news" and "Russian collusion", they have no connection with reality.
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A week without Trumps? How about years without any Trumps. That's what I'd like to see.
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I think POTUS could have the perfect week, week after week. Its called "Be Mean to Someone Week." Might as well be every week since it seems that every week he picks on some group or another. Be Mean to Poor People Week, and take away their health care while you are at it. Be Mean to Transgender People Week, and boot them out of the military. Doesn't matter whether they've been doing a good job or not.... This is the meanest administration in my 50 years living in this country. So they might as well enshrine their meanness.
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How about a "Be Kind To People Week" Trump could travel the country telling us all how kind he has been to the sick, the elderly, the Muslims, the poor and especially to his Wealthy friends. I think that would make for a great speech and the Huckabee-Sanders can explain it was a misunderstood speech
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How about a Presidential Mendacity Week? I think the nation is ready for that.
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trump would not understand the word 'mendacity' and think he would be allowed to do what he told Billy Bush he did years ago.
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Nah, mendacity is not special. We get that from this president every week.
How about a Week When the President Does Not Lie? Now that would be a really special week.
How about a Week When the President Does Not Lie? Now that would be a really special week.
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The reason Trump doesn't have a dog or a cat is because you can't lie to pets. You either feed them or they die. I'm imagining a 7-year-old Donald telling his goldfish Dorothy to stop acting like she's hungry because he already fed her, which he didn't.
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I appreciate Ms. Collins' ability to highlight ludicrous statements that got otherwise overlooked, such as Rick Perry's statement "Here's a little economics lesson: supply and demand. You put the supply out there and the demand will follow." Thanks Professor Perry, I'm sure the makers of the Edsel must have missed that day in Econ class.
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This is really funny but SAD because it's true.
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Super column Ms. Collins. What we very much need is An Administration Without Trumps. Just Dreaming.
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Gail, I'm confused. You say President Trump is the first president since James K. Polk to not have a pet. What's Sean Hannity?
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@JPM,
Spot-on
And a very very obedient pet, I have to say.
Spot-on
And a very very obedient pet, I have to say.
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Gail meant house pet, not junkyard attack dog.
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Sean wants to be Press Secretary, or maybe Communications Director; he's panting for the job.
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As we witness Rick Perry giving an economics lesson, we muse that indeed any child born in America, no matter how thick, can aspire to our nation's highest office.
And then we realize that if that thick child is born with a silver foot in his mouth, the Republicans will nominate him.
I vote for Imaginary Friends Week [TM], which can be recycled each seven days for the duration of this Presidency*. We should keep a running list of those imaginary people and groups who have gotten through the White House switchboard in order to tell the Best President Ever how wonderful he is.
During such a week, Ms. Huckabee Sanders could merely say that the phone call in question was logged, and whether the person on the other end was actually Stephen Hawking or Reince Priebus doing his best Stephen Hawking impression is unknown at this time. She could go on to praise the very notion of Imaginary Friends week, which emanated from the very large brain of the man who at this very minute is deep in discussions over the partition of Poland with Catherine of Russia and Frederick of Prussia so we can't disturb him. He's so important.
Who are your favorite Imaginary Friends? Conjure images of our President shunned at international conferences, sitting alone in his little golf cart. However, at those bleakest moments he wasn't alone; nay, the spirit of Frederick Douglass, who is doing great by the way, consoled him and praised the size of his posterior, the biggest presidential rump since Taft.
And then we realize that if that thick child is born with a silver foot in his mouth, the Republicans will nominate him.
I vote for Imaginary Friends Week [TM], which can be recycled each seven days for the duration of this Presidency*. We should keep a running list of those imaginary people and groups who have gotten through the White House switchboard in order to tell the Best President Ever how wonderful he is.
During such a week, Ms. Huckabee Sanders could merely say that the phone call in question was logged, and whether the person on the other end was actually Stephen Hawking or Reince Priebus doing his best Stephen Hawking impression is unknown at this time. She could go on to praise the very notion of Imaginary Friends week, which emanated from the very large brain of the man who at this very minute is deep in discussions over the partition of Poland with Catherine of Russia and Frederick of Prussia so we can't disturb him. He's so important.
Who are your favorite Imaginary Friends? Conjure images of our President shunned at international conferences, sitting alone in his little golf cart. However, at those bleakest moments he wasn't alone; nay, the spirit of Frederick Douglass, who is doing great by the way, consoled him and praised the size of his posterior, the biggest presidential rump since Taft.
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Glowing Orb week. Not in private and in mixed company. Scandalous.
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Surely not another 3 1/2 years of this.
Please America, the world is exhausted.
Please America, the world is exhausted.
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Of course, Trump doesn't have a pet. Pets need attention and he has none to give. Pets get attention and that would take some away from him. And how can someone married to a big game hunter knocking off beautiful and sometimes endangered animals for billionaire sport be "an animal rights activist"?
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Column is funny because, sometimes, absurd is just too much to ignore.
My favorite line: “Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand,” Perry said during a coal mining promotion. “You put the supply out there and the demand will follow.”
Standard GOP absurdity, so bad that it is funny. Laffer is complicit in destroying the 'conservative movement', a serious misnomer but we have to call it something.
My favorite line: “Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand,” Perry said during a coal mining promotion. “You put the supply out there and the demand will follow.”
Standard GOP absurdity, so bad that it is funny. Laffer is complicit in destroying the 'conservative movement', a serious misnomer but we have to call it something.
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Trump's approval rating hasn't improved since he became the most unpopular modern president at his six-month mark.
"You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all of the time." Abraham Lincoln
Stay tuned for the mid-term Congressional elections.
"You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all of the time." Abraham Lincoln
Stay tuned for the mid-term Congressional elections.
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Late in his Presidency Obama announced that he would govern by going it alone. Congress, he told us, was not cooperative and he had the power to enact major policy by himself. His immigration initiativve failed. His climate change initiative failed. His recess appointments policy failed. Those were the big ones. Generally speaking his initiatives without Congressional cooperation were a miserable failure. Obama didn't go week by week. He went policy by policy. But his results in his initiatives were as big a failure as Trump's week to week approach.
In defense of the president's Boy Scout speech, I saw a brief video of the event, and the boys in the audience were enjoying themselves immensely. This newspaper likes to knock the president for his foibles, and it does seem as though he churns out a half dozen big-time whoppers every week, but let's give credit where credit is due. Mr. Trump really knows how to work a crowd of thirteen-year-olds. If he were the President of Thirteen-Year-Olds, his approval ratings would be in the high eighties rather than the low thirties. Think about it: lewd comments, hyperbole, limited vocabulary, name-calling, short attention span, disdain for the establishment, ethnic bias, and ruthless verbal tirades--these are the distinctive traits of a good adolescent story. True, the Boy Scout leaders may not have said that the president's speech was the greatest ever, but I'm sure the boys thought it was awesome.
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More likely they were excited that a tv personality came to see them. How many 13 year-olds do you know watch the State of the Union?
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So then they need a Boy Scout merit badge for hypocrisy. The first one can be awarded to the Donald as an honorary Boy Scout!
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It's a Boy Scout Jamboree. You could march Calvin Coolidge out on the stage with a two hour speech on the dangers of ingrown toenails. The scouts would still be bouncing off the walls. Heck, you could put a block of wood on the podium and start playing "Born in the U.S.A." on repeat. The effect would be similar. That's why Trump's meandering thought-vomit is so bizarre. You have to really work to turn a Boy Scout speech into a scandal.
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"I am sorry I voted for Trump" week - with anonymous sign-up
"Russian Roulette" week D.C. Playing against Atlantic City
"Russian Roulette" week D.C. Playing against Atlantic City
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When do the Trumps go on summer vacation? I am dearly looking forward to Not a Single Trump in Sight Anywhere Week!! Seriously am developing a visceral horror of this ugly patronymic.
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“You put the supply out there and the demand will follow.”
I have two words for you Mr. Energy Secretary.
Buggy whips.
I have two words for you Mr. Energy Secretary.
Buggy whips.
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Actually getting rid of the theme of the week kick will probably help them out. This admisitraton has looked pretty silly and weak durning all of them. Usually because Trumpolini can't stay on message or throws a tweet storm that overshadows it.
Sixty/forty that Kelly is out inside of 90 days.
Sixty/forty that Kelly is out inside of 90 days.
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Every week will be "Celebrate What Putin Knows Week."
Putin, unlike Trump, listens to his intelligence officers. Consequently:
Putin knows the international reputation of the US is at an all time low.
Putin knows the US is more internally divided than at any other time in living memory. Putin knows Trump lacks all credibility.
Putin knows Trump's responses to the slightest provocation are uncensored, often vengeful and contrary to his own and America's interests. Putin knows the narcissistic Trump responds to manipulative flattery.
Putin knows that if Trump aspires to be a successful world leader, he would have to possess a coherent vision of America's objectives and in depth knowledge of the threats to our national interests. Putin knows Trump has no such vision and knowledge.
Putin knows Trump's vision is as incoherent as his use of language. Putin knows Trump’s run-on sentences, sentence fragments, repetitions of trite "pronouncements," low-level vocabulary, non-sequiturs, lack of all semblance of logic, inane tweets, etc., are emblematic of Trump's fragmented psyche.
Putin knows Trump scarcely acknowledges there is a factual world out there, inhabited by other persons, concerning which Trump should form a coherent vision, and over and against which he should reflect on the quality of his own character and comportment.
Putin knows Trump is unfit to be the president of the U.S. and leader of the West--and that GOP legislators are not going to do anything about it.
Putin, unlike Trump, listens to his intelligence officers. Consequently:
Putin knows the international reputation of the US is at an all time low.
Putin knows the US is more internally divided than at any other time in living memory. Putin knows Trump lacks all credibility.
Putin knows Trump's responses to the slightest provocation are uncensored, often vengeful and contrary to his own and America's interests. Putin knows the narcissistic Trump responds to manipulative flattery.
Putin knows that if Trump aspires to be a successful world leader, he would have to possess a coherent vision of America's objectives and in depth knowledge of the threats to our national interests. Putin knows Trump has no such vision and knowledge.
Putin knows Trump's vision is as incoherent as his use of language. Putin knows Trump’s run-on sentences, sentence fragments, repetitions of trite "pronouncements," low-level vocabulary, non-sequiturs, lack of all semblance of logic, inane tweets, etc., are emblematic of Trump's fragmented psyche.
Putin knows Trump scarcely acknowledges there is a factual world out there, inhabited by other persons, concerning which Trump should form a coherent vision, and over and against which he should reflect on the quality of his own character and comportment.
Putin knows Trump is unfit to be the president of the U.S. and leader of the West--and that GOP legislators are not going to do anything about it.
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I'm for Honor the Media week. A whole week of not complaining about how unfair the press is to Trump by anyone. A week where Donald does not complain about fake news then get caught in his own web of lies. A week where I can go to the grocery store and not see the National Enquirer at the check out stand. (especially after the head line on that fauxzine that stated "National Enquirer Under Attack").
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I fondly recall "Loyalty is a One-Way Street Week." Or was it "Loyalty is a U-Turn Week"?
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Thank you for putting a smile on my face after one of the most disasters weeks I've ever seen for a President since Watergate. Can anyone explain to Trump he is his worst enemy. Stop digging hole any deeper.
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Please don't give Donald the idea that having a pet dog or cat would make him more likable. Any pet he might have would likely die of neglect, locked in a closet in the the private quarters without food or water. Animals have a hard enough time without trying to avoid the hands of a man whose hands have been in unmentionable places. We'd have to notify the ASPCA.
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How about a "Natural Gas Week" as that seems to be the only thing Trump and the Republicans have been passing these days?
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Can we get Mental Health Evaluation Week scheduled as soon as possible?
Trump could have his exam televised.
The ratings would be huge.
Trump could have his exam televised.
The ratings would be huge.
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"One of my favorite Weeks was Energy Week, when Trump and Rick Perry went around vowing to make the nation “energy dominant,” a concept so much more manly than energy independent. But still educational. “Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand,” Perry said during a coal mining promotion. “You put the supply out there and the demand will follow.”"
Gail, your column is desparately needed humor therapy for this ongoing national train wreck. I was going to put solar panels on my roof but, dang, if they're going to double the supply of coal, I may have to get a furnace and a little steam generator. I could even wear a train conductor's suit, install a steam whistle, and toot it for the kids. I might even invite Rick Perry over and let him toot it.
Gail, your column is desparately needed humor therapy for this ongoing national train wreck. I was going to put solar panels on my roof but, dang, if they're going to double the supply of coal, I may have to get a furnace and a little steam generator. I could even wear a train conductor's suit, install a steam whistle, and toot it for the kids. I might even invite Rick Perry over and let him toot it.
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Now, you know who would have to toot it? President Big Boy. Toot-toot! All day long!! Seriously, ever see him climb into a 'big rig' (for the big boy) and spin the wheel? Toot-toot! I'm a Big Boy!
Peggy Noonan called him "...limp and blubbery". Toot-toot!
Peggy Noonan called him "...limp and blubbery". Toot-toot!
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The American voters should schedule a religious celebration in Georgia that focuses on southern drinks, that would be "Hymn Peach Mint" week.
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I think the administration is finally doing some long term planning with a month mapped out. August is Play To My Base Month. Look at what the administration, which can't get a health care or tax plan together , has focused on. It will be harder to get a green card, Affirmative Action could be scaled back, public lands will be privatized and alleged voter fraud will be investigated. With some obnoxious late night tweets, attention will be diverted from the investigation into Russian collusion. September could be Let's Pretend North Korea Isn't a Looming Threat Month.
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How about "Family Week?" Even better, why not "Family Month?" One family member of the Trump clan can be feature each week.
First, we can have Ivanka Week: this is how we create fashion and sell China using the President's influence.
Second, we can have Jared Week: this is how we clean the government of all the good, honest, hard working civilian staff.
Third, we can have Don Jr. Week: this is how we negotiate with Russians, on adoption, not of kids, but of their dictators.
Fourth, we can have POTUS Week: this is how we sell America.
Fifth, we can have Impeachment Week: Can we skip the earlier weeks and get here right away?
First, we can have Ivanka Week: this is how we create fashion and sell China using the President's influence.
Second, we can have Jared Week: this is how we clean the government of all the good, honest, hard working civilian staff.
Third, we can have Don Jr. Week: this is how we negotiate with Russians, on adoption, not of kids, but of their dictators.
Fourth, we can have POTUS Week: this is how we sell America.
Fifth, we can have Impeachment Week: Can we skip the earlier weeks and get here right away?
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Yes, Gail! American governance problems solved. POTUS fully working from a model he understands-reality t.v. Think of the comic opportunities when an adorable ten year old sits down on camera with Putin or, better yet, Kim Jong Un. (The Supreme Leader apparently thinks much like a spoiled ten year old.) Once the Ambassador starts crying, what dictator would be so heartless as to not do something to stop the tears. Like abandon nuclear missiles programs. Or offer some ice cream. How can that not be good for international relations and t.v. ratings. Two weeks later Trump's current chief of staff replaces the ambassador (or communication director or att'y gen., makes no difference) with a new one. Keeps the production interesting. We do have to draw the line on who can be an ambassador or run the Dept. of State. No puppies or kittens, no matter how adorable.
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Trump weeks, since GOP legislators are unwilling to impeach this unfit president, inevitably grow into years--and each Trump year, to borrow from Queen Elizabeth II, will be an "annus horribilis."
And each "annus" will prove more "horribilis" than its predecessor.
And each "annus" will prove more "horribilis" than its predecessor.
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Want to bet that he'll skip observing Mental Health Awareness Week, October 2-8?
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Dear Ms. Collins: it's no longer funny. This administration is a nightmare. The Trump administration is one of incubi and succubi. We're all being violated.
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If this administration were a broadway play it would be a comedy. It would be hilarious. The stupidity, hypocrisy, chicanery and sheer folly would have folks rolling in the aisles. But it is not as play. It is real. It is scary. The buffoon actually is commander in chief.
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"A Week Without Trumps" sounds like a great new reality show -- just some rotating screen savers of nature, happy people, etc. and sounds of babbling brooks, ocean waves crashing, etc.
Sign me up!
Sign me up!
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You put the supply out there and the demand will follow
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Have you heard my idea for chocolate-covered paper clips?
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Have you heard my idea for chocolate-covered paper clips?
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Here's a thought! Why not a Lie-Of-The-Week Week. A special commission could be charged with selecting the best lie from the many lies to choose from each week or, to make it simpler, just select the "Pants-On-Fire" lie each week as the winner. There almost always is one.
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I'd appreciate a "Truth Week," just for the novelty of it.
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"Tremendous" idea - but let's be realistic and start with a "Truth Day".
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On the basis that this seems to be an exercise in opposites, every week is "Truth Week".
We already have Truthiness Term.
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Trump is so good at campaigning -- and so poor at governing -- that he should consider restricting his activities to running his re-election campaign (which might come sooner than he anticipates if he's impeached -- because there's nothing to stop an impeached president from running again). Governing should then be the responsibility of a council of generals and admirals that would make decisions by unanimous vote. This would ensure that the sole function of the federal government would be national security.
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