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Karen Williams's avatar

What crossed my mind in reading this piece was the bonds that have been frayed by Trump. In was a recent podcast with Adam Kinzinger, he said that his copilot (I might have position name wrong, but his partner), who's MAGA, after Adam's vote to impeach, refuses to have anything to do with him. As Rick Wilson's book title says: Everything Trump Touches Dies. It's the opposite of the Midas touch; ironic, isn't it, for the man who has gilted everything?

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TCinLA's avatar

I have a few good friends I am no longer in communication with because it turned out they wee MAGAts. I ask myself how I missed seeing that in them. It makes me think of the scene in Cabaret where Michael York's character, Brian Roberts, meets with his good German friend Maximilian von Heune, and Max shows up in his full SS regalia, which leaves Brian speechless.

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Karen Williams's avatar

It's all so heartbreaking 💔. People are vulnerable to propaganda, and unfortunately Trump/Bannon/ Steven Miller are experts at manipulation. I had a dear friend for 20+ years who remarried and went way down the Trump rabbit hole 4 years ago. Boggled my mind...

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JDinTX's avatar

Had one too only it was her husband of 20 years who insisted on the Rupert rabbit hole. Learned working at jr high that smart can be spectacularly warped in some areas, or be subject to warping.

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JDinTX's avatar

Some left me speechless too, people I had respected, and thought were kind, empathetic and, well, normal. Some had a warped view of patriotism, worshipped a warped Jesus, or had racist tendencies that I had missed.

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JDinTX's avatar

There was a meme going around when I was on "X" that called chump King Midas in reverse. It came from a Soprano show about Tony S talking to his therapist. I'm just King Midas in reverse, everything I touch dies. True for Tony and chump.

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David Levine's avatar

that title was a compromise because ordinarily, you don't want "four letter words" in a title aimed at best-seller-dom. the actual phrase is, of course, "everything he touches turns to shit."

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JDinTX's avatar

Thank you

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