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PCIntern's Journal
October 13, 2016

This is what I tell people who tell me that they hate Trump...BUT...

don't know if they can vote for Hillary:

I say: "You're on an airline flight. The flight attendant approaches you and says 'Good evening. For dinner we have two choices: shit mixed with shards of broken glass and we also have chicken.' The Question Is: do you ask how the chicken is prepared?"

After they laugh, they almost all say: I see what you're saying.

October 12, 2016

The media and the populace are not up to the task...

Many many years ago one of the early criticisms of Sesame Street by those in early childhood education and development was that although the content of the program was excellent, it conditioned children to have relatively short attention spans. Trump and his fascist-studying minions have perfected the art of altering the landscape every forty-five minutes it seems and have overwhelmed the system with multiple scandals and what would normally have been interpreted as missteps which would have invariably proved fatal to candidates even four years ago. It is a form of Gish Gallop in extremis and although Trump has probably lost this election, it will be a tactic which will be utilized in the future by these strategists who represent what would have been otherwise unelectable candidates in the past.

The people cannot manage this: it is cognitive overload, something we endure during disasters involving the loss of many lives, or even how we view a serial killer who has committed so many heinous acts that his celebrity status eclipses the individual horror of his deeds. The RWers have been fine-tuning this tactic for years and we are witnessing the rollout and sacrifice of their boy Trump, all the while refining the technique for further use in the future and for political races which do not have the shrewd operators on the other side to blunt the attacks,

I believe we have entered a new phase of Orwellian Manipulation. One of which Orwell himself may not have been able to conceive.

October 10, 2016

Rethug euphemisms: furniture shopping, Appalachian Trail,

Wide stance...

Any others

October 10, 2016

Kelliann Conway needed orthognathic surgery

Just saying.

As an aside the special prosecutor part is going to be the big takeaway

October 10, 2016

Rudy on Tweety is out of his mind.

He is in full decompensating mode.

October 9, 2016

Trump is thinking of Godfather 2

Michael brings the brother of the witness Pantangeli into the Senate hearing and it rattles the witness and he can't testify out of fear.

October 9, 2016

You're all gonna love this one.

I was just informed thstTrump has a big surprise for us tonight. The hot mic portion within the bus was faked by the Clinton campaign and he's going to present the proof of that tonight!!!

Honest to G-d. Just got this on a FB group.

On edit: of course it's bullshit.

October 9, 2016

How much money and assets will they offer him to

drop out?

Art of the Deal, right? What's it worth to them? $300 million? Less? More?

October 8, 2016

Like the OJ trial, like the Gore/Bush Recount, like Watergate,

like Iran-contra, Like the JFK assassination, Like the RFK assassination, this Trumpian Nightmare could not be scripted by anyone in Hollywood or the various writing colonies in the USA.

Remarkable.

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