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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 01:41 PM Jan 2018

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Bill Kristol

@BillKristol
Three more years of reports from Mar-a-Lago of the indulged wealthy enjoying their unmerited sense of entitlement and their undeserved feeling of superiority will lead me fully to embrace my inner George Orwell, and if not then democratic socialism, at least the inheritance tax.


7:05 AM - Jan 20, 2018
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Rich people are like everybody else, some are nice and some are assholes. Trump attracts the latter.
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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
2. The biggest difference
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:15 PM
Jan 2018

The biggest difference between a poor asshole and a rich one is the latter is more likely to get away with being one.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
3. All of those rich assholes in one place?
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:26 PM
Jan 2018

Makes a nice target. Too bad there would be too much collateral damage.

cos dem

(903 posts)
6. I really fear for the future of our country...
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 03:44 PM
Jan 2018

...if they're not even making the slightest attempt to hide it anymore. We are now a kleptocratic oligarchy.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
7. My wife used to put on fundraisers for the B&G Club.
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:00 PM
Jan 2018

She met MANY of the rich and powerful from both the S FL area, and from around the US. Many of them were surprisingly nice and down-to-earth.

She also met Bill O'Reilly.

Volaris

(10,273 posts)
9. Oh ONLY 3 more, Billy?
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:18 PM
Jan 2018

If you and yours had been so reflective on the power of greed oh say three years AGO, we wouldn't ALL have to endure your Frankenstein burning down the Village.

Let this be the lesson...Republicans don't give a damn about the rest of the country until what they fuck up effects THEIR America (in this case, Billys ability to claim to be a Republican with a straight face and not get laughed at). But now that it DOES its OMG 'let justice be done tho the heavens fall'.
I suppose I'll have to make due with his temporary enlightenment. But mark my words it IS temporary, because as soon as another Romney comes along, or a Pence or a Cruz, the blinders will be back on again and the darkness will return, and he can say yeah, well, it least it isn't Trump.
Fuck that. When he's ready to embrace universal health care and a sane and Just tax code, I'll consider his redemption permanent. Until then he can fuck off.
He helped BUILD this house.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
12. We need the Bill Kristols of this world, and I don't give a damn about his past...
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:58 PM
Jan 2018

...not now. Wallowing in the sins of the Dubya Administration is something the country cannot afford right now. We need everybody we can get, very much including sane conservatives with remnants of a conscience. When the emergency is over, and "normal" politics returns--admittedly, a big "when"--then we can go back to mutual recriminations...

Cha

(297,446 posts)
14. I agree.. I was more interested
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 03:22 AM
Jan 2018

in his tweet than Pirro making an ass out of herself.

Has she seen the health report on maralago

Broken staircases and spoiled food: Florida health inspectors failed Trumps Mar-a-Lago

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210105365

It actually is a shithole gratis of the shithole who owns it and toadies like her.



https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10124966

JI7

(89,259 posts)
15. agree, we aren't electing him for political office or anything. it's about welcoming ALL anti Trump
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 03:28 AM
Jan 2018

voices.

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