This reminds me of a piece Diane Sawyer did for a David Letterman special a long time ago called, "A Crowd to Call My Own."
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—They’re eating their fellow travelers?
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Outsourcing the claque?
In the latest season of Mozart in the Jungle, the opera singer Allessandra is bedeviled by a local group of Venetian extortionists who threaten to boo loudly at her recital if they are not paid off.
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You mean Trump forgot to tell her about that?
She really should get used to the idea of receiving his special packages from South America.
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And the trumpitistas are all too willing to argue that “special snowflakes” somehow deserve to be royally screwed.
On that point:
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The crazy thing is that it’s usually the far right that has this weird fetish over the conspiracy theory that there are paid “tragedy actors” when the evil Obummer Govt. faked things like Sandy Hook (amirite?).
I’m getting so tired of the predictability of the far right. I mean, work for years in Congress against the rights of the LGBT crowd, only to be found out to have a “wide stance” in an airport bathroom… Claim massive voter fraud, then work in a very open fashion to disenfranchise minorities. Claim the left wing is hiring actors for political purposes, then calque-ing… It’s almost as if their outcry is against the things they’d do, not what their opponents are actually doing!
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Where do you get the impression that Putin doesn’t have the same narcissistic man-child’s personal insecurity? All the evidence suggests that Vlad is just as desperate.
The only difference is that Putin can actually handle the job of the brutal ratfucking kind of civil servant of the old KGB, much like Hitler could excel (by surviving) under fire running messages around the front and learning all the buttons to push for German vets of ww1.
H. Resident Rump is pure celebrity boss, taking advantage of the training we Usians get in: 1. knowing our bosses expect us to lick their asses and 2. knowing that those who chose to be semi-consensual asslickers can only get a sense of their dignity back by being bigots.
But the Rump is useless at real work. Pence would be a trooper, though, so it’s maybe the first time Rump’s had someone breathing down his neck that should legit make him shit his shorts.
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Projection underlies authoritarian conspiracy theories. Want to know what the lunatics are planning to do? Look at the insane shit they make a show of being afraid of.
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Oh No!
FEMA Death camps!
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I assume the corporate death panels will be back, too.
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Maybe… if you’d never watched a press conference before and somehow thought that cheering was a thing that the press ever did at such events.
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Maddow suggests otherwise:
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Just like he swore he wasn’t coming for social security and Medicare.
Just like he swore he’d release his tax returns.
Just like he swore he had large beautiful hands.
Guy swears a lot for a Preznit.
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I imagine Trump would use them at home, only to bin them when the batteries get low and they slow clap sarcastically at him getting naked.
At least he’d save money because they would be manufactured as smaller hands so he feels normal.
I’m done.
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I really don’t think Putin cared whether Clinton liked him or not. When she was Secretary of State she (accurately) questioned the legitimacy of his election results and later (properly) called for sanctions over Ukraine, which fouled up his plans to retain power and keep his money rolling in. It was a political grudge, not a personal one.
I doubt he cared much that the protestors didn’t like him, either. Apparently, Surkov funded some of them as part of his FUD campaign. It’s all about power and money to Putin, so whether he gets them through love or fear or both is irrelevant.
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Not that I don’t believe you, but given that I’m not a native Russian speaker it’s harder to see what you’re pointing out–what things stand out in that regard?
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