Neext Week's Newsweek Cover - Insane in the Membrane

[iluvtennis]

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[Achilleaze]

1. The Republican draft dodger in chief has the way

Of making people sad

[alittlelark]

2. To Newsweek I say.....

[Scurrilous]

3. K&R

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. I read an article elsewhere by Charles Sykes

I appreciate that he admits that Trump is evidence of the deep moral rot in the Republican party BUT he is still a Reagan worshipping Republican. I'll pass.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-sykes-talk-radio-2017-story.html

[SergeStorms]

6. Reagan......

was just another symptom of the deep moral rot within the Republican party. It started with Richard Nixon, but Reagan took it to an exponentially worse area. He had the most indicted and convicted administration in U.S. history, and he started the great U.S. deficit buildup. Yeah, there's so much for which to thank the Reagan administration. Anyone who would worship Reagan is morally bankrupt, or clinically insane.

[groundloop]

9. And never forget that Reagan was the first to use foreign meddling to influence an election....

by negotiating with Iran about the timing of the hostage release.

[shanny]

18. No, that was Nixon.

He assured the Vietnamese they could get a better peace deal with him in charge, thereby sabotaging Johnson's París peace talks.

So not only evil but a murderer as well.

[Big_K]

23. You beat me to it

This is covered in an upcoming episode of Ken Burns' The Vietnam War on PBS.

[shanny]

24. good to know--50 years after,

someone finally says it to a mass audience

[NewJeffCT]

35. Republicans have been getting away with this shit for far too long

Nixon, Reagan, W and now Trump - and, they seem to get dumber and less competent each time out.

What does that say about Democrats when we keep letting them get away with it?

[shanny]

43. That is my question as well.

I think we have been back on our heels and playing defense since our leaders were murdered in the 60s. And I remember (somewhere?) reading a theory regarding big money donors, who like that status quo: they back strong Republicans and weak Democrats. When I see what they manage to accomplish while in office, as opposed to what we do, it seems true.

[RVN VET71]

47. Spot on!

I hadn't thought about it that way, but that's right. Nixon was a wretched, flawed, but highly intelligent person. Reagan was OK in his younger years but began leaning rightward and ultimately fell full fascist into national politics, GWB was probably less dull-witted than he let on, but, despite what Molly Ivins said about him "pretending" dull-wittedness, was dumb as a rock (just seems less dumb when compared to Greg Abbott, the current governor of poor, suffering Texas), but Trump absolutely beats all. Failed at the casino business because he never tried to learn how it worked; casino business! where people literally come into your establishment to give you their money. After Trump, my God, what can the GOP have in store for the national scene next?

[maddiemom]

59. Well, this week's TIME claims the DEOCRATIC party is destroyed, as well.

Maybe we could start all over?

[erronis]

46. Really? "false-flags" or other ruses have been pulled by every leader since the beginning of time

I know this is "un" DemocraticUnderground type of talk and will probably earn me a black mark again.

Lots of other US presidents/administrations have lied to the public to be able to engage in hostile actions. I would guess that feints such as Stalin/Roosevelt/Churchill before the Cold War or the Gulf of Tonkin or the Horse in Troyes. I think that every species (plant/animal) acts like it is cozying up to someone as they are about to take offensive action. Just sayin that bashing only 'uglicans makes us all look uneducated.

[shanny]

51. I am well aware of false flags

(of which you gave no examples) and ruses and lies throughout history...but I don't recall any instances, other than those cited, where candidates for our highest office have conspired with foreign governments--even adversaries!--for domestic advantage.

If you are know of more, please share. I like learning.

[Hamlette]

10. My bitch with Reagan was his anti intellectualism/anti education

He destroyed the best education system in the USwhen he was governor of CA and he was worse as President. The only good thing he did was turn my dad into a democrat. My dad was sick at heart at Reagan and his people talking about "limited nuclear war". My dad was military and firmly believed nukes were to be use as a deterrent. Freaked him out.

[SergeStorms]

19. One more moral iniquity....

He started the "Union Busting" extravaganza by firing the Air Traffic Controllers. Union jobs in the U.S. have been in decline ever since. There are just so many reasons to loathe that son-of-a-bitch. I've always wanted to visit his grave-site so i could urinate all over it.

It's one of the traits I dislike about myself, but I do hold a grudge!

[CrispyQ]

28. Reagan convinced a lot of people who'd voted democratic before, to vote repub.

I remember saying to friends, "I can't believe you're voting for a republican." "It's time the country was run like a business," they would say. When it comes to framing, that was possibly one of the GOPs best ones! Run govt like a biz. And people swallowed it, hook, line & sinker.

[Whiskeytide]

40. Reagan also went mainstream with the ...

... meme that government was bad and could not be trusted. He made it fashionable to hate government. The 9 most terrifying words quote - "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" - has been spewed back at me by many a republican.

[CrispyQ]

41. I still can't believe people vote for candidates who openly say they hate government.

You wouldn't hire the person who told you they hate your company & want to destroy it.

[Whiskeytide]

42. One of my favorite lines ...

... when discussing politics with a conservative - along with hiring a baby sitter who is inclined to drown the baby in a bathtub. They never really have a response to that.

[Alice11111]

53. They still do. Romney. GWB & his baseball bus. DT

Yet, look what happens to public necessities when they are run like businesses: the prison system, education, healthcare. The money is skimmed for 3rd party profit, with every motive to undercut the system for more profit.
I'm not antibusiness. I have one, but certain rights and services can only be run competently and with equlity if they are non profit.That's Eco 101, even in HS.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

48. Well, you gotta keep 'em Dumb, Dogmatised and Delirious, ya know! n/t

[Motley13]

44. and the repugs think he is their hero, not Lincoln, probably our # 1 prez

who would be turning over in his grave, realizing what his party has become

[certainot]

52. sykes is a talk radio blowhard who lied repeatedly and constantly for the GOP

the first gov walker emails showed he was coordinating his WIS talk radio show with walker and his staff.

the guy's trying to extricate himself from being part of turning the party of lincoln into the party of limbaugh and destroying american democracy while making a bucks selling books but was selling global warming denial, deregulating media and money in politics, helping piutin the last decade, making excuses for mike brown and trayvon martin's killers, egging on the cops to break up anti walker, ferguson, and OWS protests, lying about hillary, taking down acorn and selling voter suppression, - the whole range of RW bullshit.

if he is going to try to extricate himself without giving major credit to rw talk radio his writing has to be taken very lightly.

most political analysis these day stupidly ignores talk radio but it really is inexcusable if it's from a guy from the indusry.

[rlegro]

57. And Charlie had a whole lot more to do with furthering the direction of the GOP

He and his squawktalk buddies all over the country were reading Republican blast-fax talking points every day they were broadcasting, attacking with gusto anything not Republican. Sykes used to give rather large amounts of air time to a little-known, back bench, right-wing GOP state Assemblyman. That man eventually rose to become governor of Wisconsin, which he is busy dismantling a billion dollars at a time. No amount of apology or thumbsucking can erase the Sykes role in making that happen.

[Johnyawl]

5. What principles have the republicans abandoned?

They only have one core principle, and Bill Clinton articulated that very well at the end of "The Hunting of the President": "The core principle of the republican party is that wealth and power belong in the hands of the few." - WJC

[dchill]

11. There is that.

Principles are for losers.

[dalton99a]

7. They own the mentally deranged dotard

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[zentrum]

8. This is too good to be true.

Is it?

[C_U_L8R]

12. Crazy insane, got no brain!

[ailsagirl]

13. I will always love Newsweek for being open & fearlessly honest about chump-in-chief!!!!!

[kimbutgar]

14. No this must be a joke

A major established publication thinks out Lou's our scrotus is insane is.......fricking insane and true....boobles my brain.

[Lordquinton]

15. Can they stop putting him on the cover?

They share responsibility for him being there. Maybe if they didn't crown him man of the year...

[Grammy23]

16. Long before the convention and way before the election....

People who knew tRump for what he is were speaking out. It was not a closely guarded secret thst he was a con and seriously flawed. Anyone who ever did business with him knew. But the Republicans had an agenda they wanted to work. They jumped aboard the tRump train, I am sure thinking they could outfox him. Use him and then abandon him. Take advantage of his naïveté when it came to Washington. Little did they know his massive ego had an agenda, too. So it has turned out to be a nightmare for all concerned.

They are finding him to be just as difficult as many people warned them he would be. His dishonest ways are evident. The snarky things done during the campaign are coming back to bite many of them on their butts. Mueller could well end up catching a lot of the Republican leaders in his net.

It has been no picnic for tRump. He is finding out things are a lot harder than he imagined. Being President is not just a ceremonial job with lots of pomp, bowing and scraping to him. It actually involves work and stress. Being almost universally hated by the people he needs to work with has driven him into the Democratic camp just so he might find a win to put on the score board.

I feel no pity for any of these people. They deserve each other and as things heat up with Mueller, I am watching with glee as the various players have their asses puckered up to their esophaguses. This has the potential to make Watergate look like child's play. The hardest thing is knowing it may take much longer to put all the pieces in place to convict all of them of high crimes and misdemeanors. Just hoping the Madman in DC doesn't get us all annihilated with his bluster and braggadocio.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

45. K & R Good summary, thanks! n/t

[Grassy Knoll]

17. Yep, Cypress Hill..

"It's All About When I Go Out Drinkin' "

[SunSeeker]

26. A classic. nt

[irisblue]

55. thanks for posting this. In the early 90s I was

working full and part time and doing a class each semester. I never heard it before yesterday, and I was dancing in the kitchen to this.
rock it on

[mnhtnbb]

20. When are we going to get rid of this $hitbucket?

How long is this going to be allowed to go on?

I can only hope that Mueller is coming soon for him and Pence.

Ryan is not going to be good, but one would hope he would not push NK into shooting off
nukes.

[HAB911]

21. #DotardTrump trending bigly

[dalton99a]

22. +1

[SunSeeker]

27. LOL

[politicaljunkie41910]

33. Never thought I'd be giving Lil Kim any props but he won that round over the Dotard.

[iluvtennis]

39. LOL, Lil Kim...that's also a lady rapper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil%27_Kim

[BlancheSplanchnik]

25. Sold what soul?

They never had one. They just kept their insane minds and corrupted souls behind closed doors, like C street and big business, like Halliburton.

[Initech]

29. The GOP lost their way in the 80s.

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They had no soul to begin with. All they do is trash liberals. And what we're seeing now is 40 years of a perpetual liberal attack machine in motion, the rise of the 2017 Hitler Youth, and their embrace of hardcore racism.

[FiveGoodMen]

37. 40 years or 4 decades

[Honeycombe8]

30. Is this for real? Wow. Doesn't beat around the bush. nt

[Gothmog]

31. Great cover

[dae]

32. Or...

Dotard Donald
Donald the Dotard
The Dotard
DOTUS
45DD

[Doreen]

34. I had to laugh at that.

"Insane In The Membrane" is originally from a punk rock band called "Cypress Hill." It is vulgar like a lot of punk but there are some sentences in there that fit trump.

[WinkyDink]

36. Hard to believe this cover is real.

[WePurrsevere]

38. Amazing isnt it? Newsweek & Time have had quite a few...

Less than flattering to Trump covers lately. Here's Newsweek's archive showing this and past covers: http://www.newsweek.com/archive

Although I like to hope that their doing so is because they're trying to return to when 'journalistic integrity' actually meant something but the cynic in me is thinking it's more likely that going after Trump has been good for their bottom line.

[WinkyDink]

49. Always, the bottom line. But it's nice when that coincides with doing the right thing. :-)

[WePurrsevere]

50. That it is. I just wish...

that it had happened a whole lot more often especially during the last election.

[GreenEyedLefty]

54. Insane in the brain!

Love it.

[Nitram]

56. Why is the "membrane (besides a nice rhyme)?" Another word for brain?

[Towlie]

60. It's not another word for brain. "Insane in the membrane" makes no sense at all.

I doubt that anyone will ever see this cover actually printed on a Newsweek magazine cover.

https://www.google.com/search?q=membrane

[rlegro]

58. Actually, that should have been "... in the meme-brain." EOM