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October 10, 2016

Maybe it was all that Jameson's

but I spent the entire debate laughing my ass off. Between the crude attempt to rattle our Hillary by seating Bill's ex-girlfriends up front--a move probably orchestrated by uber-feminist Roger Ailes--(that was a joke, for the h-i) and his moving into her camera frame whenever she spoke, using his obese bulk threateningly (the women here know this move all too well, the invasion of personal space), Donald Trump looked and sounded like that kid in second grade with untreated ADHD.

October 9, 2016

Donald Trump's latest tweet

contains a link to a Breitbart video of Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey talking about HRC's guilt in Bill's sexual assaults. I clicked on it eagerly, having spent the better part of a week trying to find out what Hillary is supposed to have done to these women ("Gennifer Flowers is a second-rate cabaret singer" is the worst I could find). Here's the url: goo.gl/TlTtXI.

Watching that video made me crazy. One of the women--I think it was Broaddrick--said Hillary had threatened her, but the interviewer did not ask for details, so I don't know if the threat consisted of "if I ever get my hands on that woman I'll ..." or if Hillary tried to hire a hit man. Paula Jones said she was "terrified" of Hillary, but no reason was given. All three complained that she had referred to them (in public? I'm not aware of it) as "sluts," "bimbos" etc., but as far as I could tell there was nothing more serious and my god who could blame her?

Then they started in on her as "enabler." I still don't know what they meant by that. I suspect they think she should have left Bill. Paula Jones said that Hillary should have come to them and asked for their side of the story--that's when I snorted so hard green tea came out my nose--and the other two concurred.

The final part was their asserting that they were not involved in "flings" or "affairs," that they all had been sexually assaulted, and Broaddrick raped, by Bill Clinton, and if Hillary becomes President, well, uh, watch out.

October 3, 2016

Just became a star member and need some help

How do I include my own avatar picture?
TIA

October 3, 2016

A lot of people don't know this

but in casinos, the odds are stacked in favor of the house. A casino license is almost literally a license to print money. In the 1990s, casinos in Atlantic City were booming, rolling in dough. How dumb do you have to be to lose money if you own the casino? Plus if you refuse to pay the contractors who created the casinos--think of the benefit to your bottom line there.

I think the big mystery about Trump's tax return is how in the hell he managed to lose so much money--how he managed to lose any money at all.

October 3, 2016

Why are we not challenging

every assertion that Donald Trump is a genius for his understanding and manipulation of the tax code--at the same time assuring us that we are too fucking dumb to understand its complexities? Trump isn't the genius here--his accountants are.

I like to imagine Don and Marla hunched over the kitchen table going through a shoebox of receipts, with a TI calculator at hand, stopping only now and then to kick the puppies.

October 2, 2016

virus?

I stupidly clicked on a banner that said I had two messages. I am fairly new here and thought this was how messages were sent. I now--on my other computer--have a page telling me I have some kind of fatal error, asking me to enter a username and password, not for DU but (I presume) for my computer itself. I ran my anti-virus scan, and it found nothing. I tried turning the machine off and on, no good. I'll get the tech guy tomorrow to fix this for me, but I thought I should mention this in case a warning is justified.

October 2, 2016

With all their money

wouldn't you think the Trumps would've had Ivanka's buck teeth fixed?

That was my bad self.
What I really wanted to say is that I don't think the new Trump ad featuring his gorgeous daughter is going to win him any votes and may in fact turn off a lot of women who might otherwise be considering voting for him. I'm a regular old middle-class housewife, and I think she's absolutely beautiful, but:

She talks in this snooty upper-class accent

Every time she says "my father" or "I'm an entrepreneur" you don't think of someone who has succeeded despite the obstacles women face in the business world, you think of a spoiled rich girl, apple of her father's eye, who is set for life simply because of the accident of her birth--and her children and their children will be set for life if the estate tax is abolished

She is beautiful in a cool, graceful way (after giving birth to three children!) that most of us can only dream of attaining, and so we (I) hate her in spite of myself.

October 2, 2016

This is driving me crazy

Given that Donald Trump can legally pay no federal income taxes because of the way the tax code is structured, and given that this is only what a smart businessman would do, how come the centerpiece of every fucking Republican platform is a plank *lowering* the tax rate for the wealthiest citizens? If they're already paying fucking NOTHING, why and how do they want to pay less? Are we supposed to write them a check or something?

September 1, 2016

I would have thought that asking if anyone had an email address

for the Illuminati or the Trilateral Commission would have hinted, at least, that I was trying to be funny.

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