“Is this to be an empathy test?”
“We call it Voigt-Kampff for short.”
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Well, if it’s an empathy test, clearly … would not pass it.
He probably also knows that they can get a hell of a lot accomplished/do a hell of a lot of damage while the matter winds its ways through the courts, they fire the independent counsel(s), etc.
I’ll grant that the man is no idiot, nor an ignoramus.
Yeah “protect people” thats good. That will play well.
Guy’s still using “frankly” as his go-to intensifier. I remember him getting teased for that twenty years ago.
Like when the Taliban made Hindus wear badges.
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It’s the only rally/political movement/letter-writing campaign in which I’ve ever participated that actually produced a result. I can now buy alcohol on Sundays. Granted, it was all probably economic, but don’t take away my dreams.
*edited to include more of original post. “Piss me off” could refer to so many, many things on this thread.
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So, I have a friend who met Newt and wife on a cruise. She – who I trust, who holds similar beliefs as I, and who is not an idiot – enjoyed his company (please throw no stones). She and I have spent the subsequent three years since her encounter (I’m talking nauseating dissection) vainly trying to reconcile how one could stomach, much less enjoy, a person so vile. My usual retort in our discussions is that “Ted Bundy was charming too” but that’s reductive because rarely is evil so sociopathically black and white. I’m reduced myself to child-like questions: How does he sleep at night? I don’t know, I just don’t know, and that’s what keeps me up at night.
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You’re going to have to narrow it down…
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Well, three years, so whoever that was? Maybe buxom blonde from the left three. Or two. I don’t know!
I get rather annoyed at things like the accounts of how RBG was chummy with Scalia outside the courtroom.
That’s fine if you view law and politics as a sport; fierce competitors on the field, share a beer after the game.
But, for the rest of us, it isn’t a game. Scalia’s bastardry had real and horrific consequences for GLBT people, poor people, people of colour, etc.
A witty and charming monster is still a monster.
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I agree. Monstrous. And jeezus, I sound like an idiot and child here, but I want to know why, how it’s possible, and what any of us would do in my friend’s place. It’s such a rarity, to be confronted with what we think is evil. What would any of us do?
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I did not know about that. But yes sounds similar.
I assumed he’s a big Smiths fan.
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I didn’t realize, you liked such bloody awful poetry.
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Much like adding “one nation under god” caught all the hidden godless commies when they said the pledge of allegiance or touched US currency, asking suspected bad guys if they are, or plan to be, bad guys will surely be just as effective.
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