Actually, I think he means it. He's always stated that he's a Democrat but
like Obama, he has always maintained that we can have dialogue and
compromise. All of the skits that were on the program, were illustrative of
his patriotism, belief in American exceptionalism, and the ability to get
along with people who have very right wing views. After all, that's what he
was selling, the wonderfulness of mid America. It's interesting because he
also loved Manhattan, particularly sophisticated Manhattan, and liked to
talk about when he wrote for The New Yorker. The New Yorker represents to
many people, the epitome of intellectual sophistication. It is, I suppose,
the magazine of the liberal elite. And it's always carried short stories
which he has always written.
Miriam
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Either this is one sick joke, or he has retired his brain, too.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/26/17, M Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
He's got to be kidding!and his Nimrods.
Miriam
Keillor writes: "How long will Senate Republicans wait until a few of
them stand up to the man?"
President Donald Trump celebrates after his speech during the
presidential inauguration. (photo: Saul Loeb/AP)
Help Us, GOP. You're Our Only Hope.
By Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post
25 January 17
What we know so far is that the man is who he is. There is no larger,
finer man inside him trying to get out. Everyone who is paying
attention knows this. Flags flying at the Capitol, the U.S. Marine
Band, gray eminences in black coats, and He Who Is Smarter Than Those
With Intelligence delivers 16 minutes of hooey and horse hockey about
corrupt politicians betraying the people, and American carnage, and
patriotism healing our division, though the division is mainly about
Himself and though love of country does not necessarily make people
stupid.
There might as well have been a 14-year-old boy at the lectern saying
that he is in possession of the Golden Goblet that will drive the
Gimlets from Fredonia and preserve the Sacred Marmite of Lord Numbskull
The next day he motored out to the CIA and stood before the memorialelected him.
wall honoring heroes who gave their lives in anonymity and he bitched
about his newspaper coverage. The next day he boasted that his
inauguration's TV ratings were higher than those in 2013. The day
after that, he told the congressional leadership that he lost the
popular vote because millions of illegal votes were cast, which
everyone in the room knew was a bald-faced lie, except perhaps
Himself. The man is clueless, tightly locked inside his own small
bubble. A sizable minority of Americans, longing for greatness or
wanting to smack down an ambitious woman and to show those people in
the hellhole coastal cities what the real America is all about, has
To him, this minority is a mass movement such as the world has never seen.stupid.
God have mercy.
"American carnage," my Aunt Sally: The correct term is "American
capitalism." Jobs are lost to automation, innovation, obsolescence,
the moving finger of fate. The carriage industry was devastated by the
automobile, and the men who made surreys and broughams and hansoms had
to learn something new; the Pullman porter union was hit hard by the
advent of air travel, and the porters sent their sons to college; the
newspaper business was hit hard by Craigslist. Too bad for us. I know
gifted men who were successful graphic designers until computers came
along and younger people with computer skills took their place and
those gifted men had to do something else. T-shirts are made in Asian
countries because Americans don't want to pay $20 for one. Coal yields
to natural gas as renewable energy marches forward. Who doesn't get
this? The idea that the government is obligated to create a good
living for you is one the Republican Party has fought since Adam was
in the third grade. It's the party of personal responsibility. But
there he is, promising to make the bluebirds sing. As if.
Everyone knows that the man is a fabulator, oblivious, trapped in his
own terrible needs. Republican, Democrat, libertarian, socialist,
white supremacist or sebaceous cyst - everyone knows it. It is up to
Republicans to save the country from this man. They elected him, and
it is their duty to tie a rope around his ankle. They formed a solid
bloc against President Obama and held their ranks, and now, for
revenge, they will go after health insurance subsidies for people of
limited means, which is one of the cruelest things they can possibly
do. Dishwashers and cleaning ladies need heart surgery, too - hospital
emergency rooms already see streams of sick people, uninsured, poor or
unable to deal with the paperwork, coming in for ordinary care, and
when upward of 30 million are left high and dry, people will suffer
horribly. "Nobody is going to be dying on the streets," Trump said.
No, they're going to die at home in their bedrooms.
The question is: How cynical are we willing to be and for how long?
How long will Senate Republicans wait until a few of them stand up to
the man?
Greatness is in the eye of the beholder. American self-respect is what
is at stake here, ladies and gentlemen. The only good things to come
out of that inauguration were the marches all over the country the day
after, millions of people taking to the streets of their own free
will, most of them women, packed in tight, lots of pink hats, lots of
signage, earnest, vulgar, witty, a few brilliant ("Take your broken
heart and make it art"), and all of it rather civil and good-humored.
That's the great America I grew up in. It's still here.
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Help Us, GOP. You're Our Only Hope.
By Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post
25 January 17
hat we know so far is that the man is who he is. There is no larger,
finer man inside him trying to get out. Everyone who is paying
attention knows this. Flags flying at the Capitol, the U.S. Marine
Band, gray eminences in black coats, and He Who Is Smarter Than Those
With Intelligence delivers 16 minutes of hooey and horse hockey about
corrupt politicians betraying the people, and American carnage, and
patriotism healing our division, though the division is mainly about
Himself and though love of country does not necessarily make people
There might as well have been a 14-year-old boy at the lectern sayingand his Nimrods.
that he is in possession of the Golden Goblet that will drive the
Gimlets from Fredonia and preserve the Sacred Marmite of Lord Numbskull
The next day he motored out to the CIA and stood before the memorialelected him.
wall honoring heroes who gave their lives in anonymity and he bitched
about his newspaper coverage. The next day he boasted that his
inauguration's TV ratings were higher than those in 2013. The day
after that, he told the congressional leadership that he lost the
popular vote because millions of illegal votes were cast, which
everyone in the room knew was a bald-faced lie, except perhaps
Himself. The man is clueless, tightly locked inside his own small
bubble. A sizable minority of Americans, longing for greatness or
wanting to smack down an ambitious woman and to show those people in
the hellhole coastal cities what the real America is all about, has
To him, this minority is a mass movement such as the world has never seen.
God have mercy.
"American carnage," my Aunt Sally: The correct term is "American
capitalism." Jobs are lost to automation, innovation, obsolescence,
the moving finger of fate. The carriage industry was devastated by the
automobile, and the men who made surreys and broughams and hansoms had
to learn something new; the Pullman porter union was hit hard by the
advent of air travel, and the porters sent their sons to college; the
newspaper business was hit hard by Craigslist. Too bad for us. I know
gifted men who were successful graphic designers until computers came
along and younger people with computer skills took their place and
those gifted men had to do something else. T-shirts are made in Asian
countries because Americans don't want to pay $20 for one. Coal yields
to natural gas as renewable energy marches forward. Who doesn't get
this? The idea that the government is obligated to create a good
living for you is one the Republican Party has fought since Adam was
in the third grade. It's the party of personal responsibility. But
there he is, promising to make the bluebirds sing. As if.
Everyone knows that the man is a fabulator, oblivious, trapped in his
own terrible needs. Republican, Democrat, libertarian, socialist,
white supremacist or sebaceous cyst - everyone knows it. It is up to
Republicans to save the country from this man. They elected him, and
it is their duty to tie a rope around his ankle. They formed a solid
bloc against President Obama and held their ranks, and now, for
revenge, they will go after health insurance subsidies for people of
limited means, which is one of the cruelest things they can possibly
do. Dishwashers and cleaning ladies need heart surgery, too - hospital
emergency rooms already see streams of sick people, uninsured, poor or
unable to deal with the paperwork, coming in for ordinary care, and
when upward of 30 million are left high and dry, people will suffer
horribly. "Nobody is going to be dying on the streets," Trump said.
No, they're going to die at home in their bedrooms.
The question is: How cynical are we willing to be and for how long?
How long will Senate Republicans wait until a few of them stand up to
the man?
Greatness is in the eye of the beholder. American self-respect is what
is at stake here, ladies and gentlemen. The only good things to come
out of that inauguration were the marches all over the country the day
after, millions of people taking to the streets of their own free
will, most of them women, packed in tight, lots of pink hats, lots of
signage, earnest, vulgar, witty, a few brilliant ("Take your broken
heart and make it art"), and all of it rather civil and good-humored.
That's the great America I grew up in. It's still here.
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