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Showing Original Post only (View all)Agreeing with Bill Kristol is not good for my mental well being, but... [View all]
... he is not wrong...
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Im struck by Trumpworlds obsession with the whistleblower. Exposing him wouldnt help Trumps case a bit. But its clear that outing him would be really satisfying psychologically to Trumpsters. One forgets how central to Trumpism are petty vindictiveness and cowardly bullying.
Exactly this.
Buckle said, in his dogmatic way: Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.
Heh. Lowest class indeed...
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Agreeing with Bill Kristol is not good for my mental well being, but... [View all]
Soph0571
Nov 2019
OP
Bill is the proverbial stopped clock. - Right twice a day. Wrong the rest of the time.
yellowcanine
Nov 2019
#18
The lesson here of course is to ignore the broken clock and what it is telling you
pecosbob
Nov 2019
#19
Outing the whistleblower would be payback. Doesn't matter that it doesn't help 45. nt
eppur_se_muova
Nov 2019
#20