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I'm going to state it again: Trump scares me. Worse, that millions of Americans are willing to vote for such an outright fraud scares me even worse. Even the remote possibility that he could get elected office in any capacity is mind-numbingly horrifying and soul-draining I can't contemplate it. Anything, ANYTHING, but Trump.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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If you are horrified now NWP, read this and weep: “Trump has been written about a thousand ways from Sunday, but this fundamental aspect of who he is doesn’t seem to be fully understood,” Schwartz told me. “It’s implicit in a lot of what people write, but it’s never explicit—or, at least, I haven’t seen it. And that is that it’s impossible to keep him focussed on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, for more than a few minutes, and even then . . . ” Schwartz trailed off, shaking his head in amazement. He regards Trump’s inability to concentrate as alarming in a Presidential candidate. “If he had to be briefed on a crisis in the Situation Room, it’s impossible to imagine him paying attention over a long period of time,” he said.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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If you are horrified now NWP, read this and weep: “Trump has been written about a thousand ways from Sunday, but this fundamental aspect of who he is doesn’t seem to be fully understood,” Schwartz told me. “It’s implicit in a lot of what people write, but it’s never explicit—or, at least, I haven’t seen it. And that is that it’s impossible to keep him focussed on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, for more than a few minutes, and even then . . . ” Schwartz trailed off, shaking his head in amazement. He regards Trump’s inability to concentrate as alarming in a Presidential candidate. “If he had to be briefed on a crisis in the Situation Room, it’s impossible to imagine him paying attention over a long period of time,” he said. I posted this article on this very thread a few days ago.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
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Oops.
Didn’t see that. You see you live in New York and I am way out in the West Coast. It takes light quite a long while to get here.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Oops.
Didn’t see that. You see you live in New York and I am way out in the West Coast. It takes light quite a long while to get here. I know  we New Yorkers love shining a light over on the dudes out on the West Coast. 
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"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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Yet--your sun sets earlier than it does out here.
Life is full of imponderables.
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Yet--your sun sets earlier than it does out here.
Life is full of imponderables. We have our own source of light 
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
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![[Linked Image from s31.postimg.org]](https://s31.postimg.org/p1oks2dmz/IMG_2133.jpg) Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis!!
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"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
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Sic semper Tyrannus (literal, not literary). Unless I have it wrong, this translates equally (this always [with/to] tyrants), i.e., "tyrants are always this way."
This phrase has always bothered me. Your phrase is the correct one.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
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Almost: the phrase that I quoted means : "Thus death always comes to tyrants" - the more common sic semper tyrannis - famous because of the infamous J W Booth - is a simplified version of the one I posted.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
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