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34. Who knew it would be so easy

Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:39 AM

Jan 2019

I always thought that to be a successful con artist, you had to have tremendous skill and charisma, like Harold Hill in The Music Man or Bill Starbuck in The Rainmaker. Oh no, a gross inarticulate old man with no single redeeming quality can win over these pathetic losers apparently by appealing to their hate.

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Have you ever watched a movie and know that the villain is going down [View all] malaise Jan 2019 OP

'total and complete humiliation', and exposure, and 'con 'education', is empedocles Jan 2019 #1

I lose a lot of sleep wondering how this happened! democratisphere Jan 2019 #2

That has ALWAYS been Scarsdale Jan 2019 #3

That is exactly why I can not sleep! democratisphere Jan 2019 #5

+1 2naSalit Jan 2019 #9

"come close to destroying this country"? HipChick Jan 2019 #33

I think the USA needs a Truth and Reconciliation Committee malaise Jan 2019 #4

Sure is treason! democratisphere Jan 2019 #6

What will help keep it from happening again Mr.Bill Jan 2019 #22

THIS. Nothing else but hard time will stop this sort of shit. That's the only thing they are Nay Jan 2019 #41

I want to see Botany Jan 2019 #7

Great post malaise Jan 2019 #8

Fox empire must be dissolved...nt 2naSalit Jan 2019 #10

This subject has not come up but Timmygoat Jan 2019 #14

He's so filthy... 2naSalit Jan 2019 #15

And never forget that Manafort, a Russian Agent picked Pence to be V.P.. Botany Jan 2019 #19

That's a good list - for openers. empedocles Jan 2019 #12

That would be justice! democratisphere Jan 2019 #13

YES! Add the NRA/Russia collusion fully exposed to weaken the death lobby hold on Congress. FailureToCommunicate Jan 2019 #18

This is how I feel too. llmart Jan 2019 #20

McConnell was told about Russia's interference in our elections and choose to hide it well ... Botany Jan 2019 #21

Never forget that McCarthy told a group of ReTHUGs that malaise Jan 2019 #24

From the New Yorker .... Ryan, "This is how we know we're a real family here." Botany Jan 2019 #25

A fugging mob family malaise Jan 2019 #27

Bingo! c-rational Jan 2019 #26

Yes! Dem_4_Life Jan 2019 #48

+1 dalton99a Jan 2019 #50

Great post! duforsure Jan 2019 #11

+1 2naSalit Jan 2019 #16

Not Gitmo unless you can guarantee a Cat5 hurricane malaise Jan 2019 #17

This whole experience IS like a movie. mwb970 Jan 2019 #23

I'm still waiting for bush/cheney to go down scarytomcat Jan 2019 #28

And the day he said PatSeg Jan 2019 #29

He is the emperor of malaise Jan 2019 #31

Who knew it would be so easy PatSeg Jan 2019 #34

It's all about the money. If Trump hadn't gotten millions of dollars from daddy, he'd be Nay Jan 2019 #42

Yes PatSeg Jan 2019 #49

Like with people, movies have a few basic pattern traits. Once you know them, you know the ending. TheBlackAdder Jan 2019 #30

He has three basic traits malaise Jan 2019 #32

His weird rage, where he has to be angry implies Borderline Personality Disorder, it encompasses all TheBlackAdder Jan 2019 #36

Borderline? malaise Jan 2019 #37

Yeah, he's way past borderline. nt Nay Jan 2019 #43

Probably over the top, but edhopper Jan 2019 #35

I'd love to watch him jump from his malaise Jan 2019 #38

When I am watching a movie like that coeur_de_lion Jan 2019 #39

ROFL malaise Jan 2019 #40

Good to laugh coeur_de_lion Jan 2019 #54

"Fast forward broken" -- true. For two years, I've felt like I've been crawling over broken glass. Nay Jan 2019 #47

Maybe not broken glass coeur_de_lion Jan 2019 #55

ITMFA and investigate the gutless GOP Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #44

They made this movie way too long. Time to wrap it up. Claritie Pixie Jan 2019 #45

Agree n/t malaise Jan 2019 #51

Like an episode of Columbo. We're in on the perps deed, watching detective get the goods on him. nt Cognitive_Resonance Jan 2019 #46

I want to see them take him away malaise Jan 2019 #52

Funny tweet underpants Jan 2019 #53

And that was two years ago malaise Jan 2019 #56