Ah…I can be a bit thick at times! 
On the other hand, we both arrived similar Feel-lines? How Purfect!
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In what I think is a preview of the sort of dynamic we’re going to see for the next few years, Pence responded to Trump’s thin-skinned whiny tirade by saying that, in reality, it was a “real joy to be there” and that he told his kids at the show that the booing was “what freedom sounds like”. He stated that he wasn’t at all offended by what was said and that it’s a “great, great show”.
I’m seeing four years of Bad Cop on Twitter followed by Good Cop in the press.
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Almost at the point where I want to say “Does any of it even matter anymore???” I need a pick me up.
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And that he was an immigrant, no doubt.
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IMO, all of this silliness is a ploy to push the $25M settlement of the Trump University lawsuit on Friday off the front pages, and out of the public eye. Keep an eye out for future Friday news dumps followed by infantile temper tantrums about other random topics to distract the public.
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On the one hand it’s nice that there is at least a “good cop” to balance things out but on the other hand, given his record, especially on LGBT issues, it’s a sign to me of how far things have sunk that the better person is Mike Pence.
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Honestly, I don’t think Trump is smart or disciplined enough to have some sort of 11-dimensional chess strategy behind this. The problem is that he and his cohorts are so stupefyingly awful at such a consistently deafening volume that their bullshit is swamping anyone’s ability to cover it all effectively. Had Pence gone to see Hamilton on Tuesday, Trump would have spent all day Wednesday whining about it, and some other additional controversy (maybe another cabinet appointment; or the kerfuffle about his conflicts-of-interest in India, China, etc.) would have come up by Friday to overwhelm coverage of his fraud settlement.
I mean, I guess you could consider “being an unendingly atrocious human being” a strategy to distract from all the other times you’ve been an unendingly atrocious human being, but if your goal is to downplay your failings, it seems like a losing one.
Besides, even in these smaller “distractions”, there are terrifying implications for the next 4 years: Trump flatly lied about what happened, falsely accused the show’s cast of insulting his running mate, and then demanded an apology from them for (politely!) speaking their mind in what is honestly one of the most personifiable examples of petitioning the government for a redress of grievances that I can think of. And in two months, he’ll have control of the government.
What first amendment?
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I’d buy that if he hadn’t literally called attention to it a few days later by tweeting out that he settled that case.
Don’t give these guys too much credit.
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This one, it’s just in front of the Second, yo.
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Another good one I heard today at the office:
Trump wants to build a fourth wall, and have the Brechtians pay for it.
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the @FLOTUS ones have 8 years of posts to be “inspired by”
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Pence isn’t a “good cop”, though? They’re both extremely bad news covering the breadth of the worst of the GOP.
I wouldn’t expect a better fate for the nation when Trump finally takes too many bumps off his kitchen table.
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Followed by Make America Good Cop Again 2024
Trump was the guy beating them up and getting his dad to bail him out because he owns the local dealership.
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