1/ A note on the Dingell situation.
John Dingell was politically nothing like me, or I him.
We probably didn't share a single policy issue.
We used to occasionally scrap on Twitter in good fun.
John Dingell was politically nothing like me, or I him.
We probably didn't share a single policy issue.
We used to occasionally scrap on Twitter in good fun.
2/ For a guy in his 80s when he hit Twitter, he was damn good at it, and that was for a reason. He'd been to the big show. He'd seen it all.
I know that people I admired and admire thought the world of him personally. Republicans. Democrats.
I know that people I admired and admire thought the world of him personally. Republicans. Democrats.
3/ In my long life in politics, I've always loved sitting down with anyone who knows the real, lived history of our time. I regret I never got to do that with John. I bet he had some *hella* stories.
Both parties to live too in the now and believe nothing existed before today.
Both parties to live too in the now and believe nothing existed before today.
4/ What Trump's attack betrayed, in case you missed the four obvious points of it, was as follows.
A. For Trump, the cruelty IS the message. He knew Debbie's wounds were fresh, her pain real. He's a sadist of the worst order; one who exploits the pain of the grieving.
A. For Trump, the cruelty IS the message. He knew Debbie's wounds were fresh, her pain real. He's a sadist of the worst order; one who exploits the pain of the grieving.
/5 B. He *always* projects. Trump knew in MI Dingell is *still* a beloved figure, and respected. Trump knows he'll never have that. He'll be a figure of fun, a term of insult, a sad clown womp womp laugh track.
He knows he's more likely to be "looking up" from Hell.
He knows he's more likely to be "looking up" from Hell.
/6 C. His boundless, ravenous ego is a singularity of need, an insatiable maw demanding abject loyalty when he shows even the most minimal courtesy. Everything is transactional and disproportionate. Nothing is ever enough. It's always "What have you done for me lately?" and FYPM.
/7 D. Trump exists only in Trump nation, the agitprop bubble of his media lackeys and enablers.
He plays only to the mob, the unwashed and furious masses of a cohort educated only in their grievances and the imagined slights of their betters.
He plays only to the mob, the unwashed and furious masses of a cohort educated only in their grievances and the imagined slights of their betters.
8/ I wish to the gods there was one goddamn elected Republican in the world to call out his b.s.
Just. One.
But Profiles in Cowardice is the order of the day, and it is a party not only without stalwarts but one where the collaborators with evil see themselves are heroes.
Just. One.
But Profiles in Cowardice is the order of the day, and it is a party not only without stalwarts but one where the collaborators with evil see themselves are heroes.
9/ So endeth.
