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I am reminded of people I have known over the years--for some reason they tend to be colleagues--who knife you in the front or back and then don't understand why you possibly could have any feelings against them.

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Yeah, we've all known them. I have the stitches to prove that from Hollyweird.

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Well, I believe it was Fred Allen who said the most important thing about sincerity in Hollywood is learning to fake it.

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True dat!

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I know what you MEAN.

MY thing is that I've continued to fall for the bullshit line, which is whatever comes before the knifing.

what's especially weird about watching the whole Repug Party Dissolution is the contrast between the success of their long game (the once being played since, at the earliest, 1932), which was accomplished with a certain amount of "dignity" and "process" vs. the utter chaos of what happens when all that evil discipline pays off and what you're left with is a bunch of pathetic babies whose only skill (or training) has been in kicking in the next kid's elaborate block construction because none of them can get one block to balance on another one.

it's not pretty, even if the schadenfreude is EXQUISITE. they proceeded, step by obvious step, to cut their own throats in full public view, with plenty of relevant second-guessing by observers; it should have been taken a little more seriously.

and they expected the Democrats to bail them out? for what?? for, like, 43 DAYS??

so, yeah...fuck them.

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Ralph Nader, who once was a true public servant and then ... anyway, he said he once asked his father why republicans hated their side and he replied that they hated how we bailed them out each time they screwed up. I guarantee someone with The Times or The Post or both who covers politics will claim Democrats weren't bipartisan enough. Sigh.

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The only question being when. I give them 20 hours. From now.

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According to the news today, Trump ran away and got on his airplane and split for Florida. Now that he can't say outrageous shit to the reporters to dominate the news coverage, which he uses for fund raising, he has no reason to be there. It was always just him campaigning.

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he jumped on that plane not long after complaining bitterly that he'd rather be in Iowa or New Hampshire, but HAD to be here (when he didn't).

at this point, I maintain that he's certifiable.

it'll be interesting when he starts to break his gag orders, which he will.

and wow...I just saw that he's been thrown off the Forbes list.

uh-oh.

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Couldn't happen to a more deserving shithead.

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Sure hated it when RalphтАЩs ego got in the way of his good sense. His dad knew of what he spoke. People used to know that, and Ronnie/Rupert came along and made Schitt smell like roses.

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I second that...

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