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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Sat May 13, 2017, 12:14 PM May 2017

This is a clever and well written piece.

I would recognize a crisis if it were happening.

When the president seized me, stunned me with his venom and covered me with digestive fluid from his chelicerae, I was initially taken aback, but I reassured myself with this thought: President Richard Nixon never did that.

I know history.


This is clearly not the end of the world. That would be more clearly labeled and would be brought about by the other party. And the weather would be more ominous. Ravens would squawk, and the sky would turn red. It would not occur on a Tuesday when I had made other plans.

Okay, the firing of FBI Director James Comey looked bad. And when the president stunned him, pierced him with his fangs, wrapped him in a thick cocoon of impenetrable webbing and left him to hang there for days, that timing was also poor. It doesn’t seem as though it was what the FBI wanted or what the deputy attorney general wanted, either. But the American people voted for change! And the president is not Nixon. Nixon fired people on a Saturday, whereas this happened on a Tuesday.

He does not sweat and look pale on TV, which Nixon always did. Also, history plainly states that Nixon was born in 1913, one of several siblings, whereas the president was born in 1946, one of 3,000 eggs. Already we are seeing huge discrepancies! Nixon had only two legs.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/05/12/this-is-not-a-crisis-republicans-say-as-a-large-spider-slowly-devours-them/?utm_term=.315cfff22519

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This is a clever and well written piece. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 OP
Thank you DSB saidsimplesimon May 2017 #1
Romney tried to play that role when he lambasted him in his highly publicized speech DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 #2
There will be a price to pay. saidsimplesimon May 2017 #3
Clever indeed KT2000 May 2017 #4

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
1. Thank you DSB
Sat May 13, 2017, 12:19 PM
May 2017

Written By Alexandra Petri May 12, better than clever. Laughing as I type

He does not sweat and look pale on TV, which Nixon always did. Also, history plainly states that Nixon was born in 1913, one of several siblings, whereas the president was born in 1946, one of 3,000 eggs. Already we are seeing huge discrepancies! Nixon had only two legs.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
2. Romney tried to play that role when he lambasted him in his highly publicized speech
Sat May 13, 2017, 12:25 PM
May 2017

Romney tried to play the role of hero when he lambasted him in his highly publicized speech:





and then threw it all away when he compromised himself when he asked Trump for a job:







He neutered himself for nothing.
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