I love Michael Avenatti.

GOOD!!! Keep asking those questions. Louder and more frequently.

Thank you, Atman!

Every little thing. It all adds up.

Stinks up the joint so bad even his compadres don't wanna show up.

Like all of us, she'll get the face she deserves.

Scowling, lots of frown lines. She’ll wear her meanness and haughtiness and deceit right on her face for the rest of her life.

EXCELLENT.

I believe this account. Our deterioration as a nation is proceeding apace.

“You’re seeing the fruits of this angry rhetoric.” So says NY Governor Cuomo just now, being interviewed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about the horrifying and deeply disturbing domestic terrorism that played out today.

And that is very sadly true. This monster has connected with the monsters within all of us. Some people have little bitty monsters that can be easily suppressed and driven away. Others have boiling, roiling acres of Hell inside, in some cases mere microns below the surface, that are finally being allowed to explode out into the open. They’re tired of being told “that’s not nice” or “be polite!” or “ keep that nasty stuff to yourself” or “if you can’t say anything nice about somebody else, don’t say anything at all”.

Maybe it all started at three years old - hatred and resentment toward Mom when she told you you had to eat those vegetables or you couldn’t hit your sister or you weren’t allowed outside to play til you cleaned up your room. Are these yesterday’s two-year-olds, stomping their little feet and bellowing “nobody is the boss of ME!” except that they’re grown up now and they can drive drunk if they want and load up on all the guns they can eat, or hang that hate rag up in public and heckle black people just trying to mind their own business, and regard every woman they see as a c-word who’s theirs to molest or rape or otherwise degrade.

One thing trump has definitely done is to validate the demons within, and give license to unleash those demons in all the rest of us. It’s not only okay to have those feelings and opinions. You’re allowed, even encouraged, to let your inner monster out to run wild, and run amok all over everyone else. Don’t keep those monsters stifled and corked up anymore. Be out ‘n’ proud of it ALL.

On edit - it just struck me that this is prowhat they mean about “freedom.” They AND their “worse, baser ‘angels’” have been unleashed. Now they’re “free” to be total unrestrained ASSHOLES. Must feel just great to be “liberated” like that, ‘eh? You don’t have to be considerate of anybody else, especially those you oppose or don’t like. Now they have permission and validation from trump. HE’S the one who make it okay to let their demons out into the open.

No wonder they damn near worship him.

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I find Andrea so unwatchable that many times I just have to leave the room or tune out. Good time to walk the dog. You get HONEST shit that way.

Welcome PeeJ52!

No. Not for a second! And remember how he promised to cover the legal fees of any nogoodniks in the audience, if they beat somebody up and got sued for it? Remember that miserable convention crowd egged on by Michael Flynn "lock her up! Yeah! LOCK her up!" Fuck him! Now HE'S the one about to be locked up! I wonder when trump's turn will come?

It just struck me: Maybe trump will get away with it in this life, in one way or other. But look how Adolf Hitler "got away with it". Hitler is, and will remain, the number-one villain in every 20th Century history book in existence, and a center of gravity in the What-Can-Go-Wrong category, for as long as American history is studied. The very sound of his name strikes revulsion in the ears of the listener. The Hitler reference is as damnable as it's possible to be, outside of Lucifer himself. But I think it's not beyond the realm of possibility that trump will be his ignominious equal in this century.

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That's not a bad ticket!