AMERICA HELD HOSTAGE BY trump/ THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY MEN'S SOULS

[Vautrin]

And then Ford went and pardoned the head crook.

That didn't work out too well for Jerry. 

[NipkowDisc]

And then Ford went and pardoned the head crook.

That didn't work out too well for Jerry. 

I think ford felt pity for him. he was a broken man.

[Vautrin]

I think ford felt pity for him. he was a broken man.

Yeah, he was a "broken man" for a few months, then he

was back again as a self-appointed foreign policy guru.

[Dargo]

The funniest thing to me about the whole Carter issue was that when he was running for office, the republicans made a HUGE deal out of his "D.C. inexperience".  "He's never held an office HIGHER than GOVERNOR of a STATE! " they cried.  "HOW can we expect him to know how to handle the affairs of an ENTIRE NATION?"  they exclamed.  And what Ford was saying.

 

So, WHO did the republicans choose to oppose him come the NEXT election?

 

Why, former GOVERNOR Ronald Reagan!  Somehow, HE had more "D.C.experience" than former GOVERNOR Jimmy Carter.

 

Go figure. 

 

 

Sepiatone

 

Yeah, and now the REALLY "funny" thing is that 36 YEARS later the Republican Party would nominate a certain television reality show host of a man-child possessing absolutely NO experience in governance.

 

And thus of course, another case of "the outsider" catching the imagination of the public.

 

(...well, "catching the imagination" of "a certain segment" of the public, anyway...Yeeeeeah, "a certain segment", and I'll just leave it at that for now)

Edited June 23, 2017 by Dargo

[Princess of Tap]

Day 154

 

 

 

" Nixon is a shifty-eyed **** liar."

 

"He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. "

 

 

Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States

 

 

Source: Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman by Merle Miller, 1974

[Dargo]

Day 154

 

 

 

" Nixon is a shifty-eyed **** liar."

 

"He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."

 

 

Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States

 

 

Source: Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman by Merle Miller, 1974

 

Hmmmm...kind'a makes ya wonder what Harry S. Truman would've said about Donald J. Trump, doesn't it.

 

(...MY guess, and knowing how Harry could be rather "colorful" with his language on occasion, would be that it would have included a mention of some other body part other than the mouth)

[Princess of Tap]

Day 154

 

 

 

" Nixon is a shifty-eyed **** liar."

 

"He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. "

 

 

Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States

 

 

Source: Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman by Merle Miller, 1974

[Princess of Tap]

Day 155

 

 

" Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed;

Everything else is public relations. "

 

 

" The further a society drifts from truth

The more it will hate those who speak it. "

 

 

 

George Orwell, The Writer of Down and Out in Paris and London & 1984.

[Princess of Tap]

Day 156

 

 

" The president (Trump) has proven that there is nothing that he will not lie about. "

 

 

 

-- Lawrence O'Donnell: Cable Political Analyst, Emmy Award-Winning TV Producer, Philanthropist

 

Source: MSNBC, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, June 22, 2017

[Princess of Tap]

Day 157

 

 

 

" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. "

 

 

 

" The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. "

 

 

 

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, 1933-1945

[NipkowDisc]

Day 157

 

 

 

" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. "

 

 

 

" The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. "

 

 

 

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, 1933-1945

commandment ten:  "do not covet anything that is thy neighbor's."

 

[LawrenceA]

commandment ten:  "do not covet anything that is thy neighbor's."

 

Aren't you the one who keeps belly-aching over other people's houses?

[Vautrin]

"Oh well, this is a can of worms as you know a lot of this stuff that went

on. And the people who worked this way are awfully embarrassed. But 

the way you have handed all this seems to me has been very skillful

putting your fingers in the leaks that have sprung here and sprung

there. The Grand Jury is dismissed now?"

 

Richard (Tricky Dicky) Nixon to John Dean September 15, 1972.

[Princess of Tap]

Day 155

 

 

" Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed;

Everything else is public relations. "

 

 

" The further a society drifts from truth

The more it will hate those who speak it. "

 

 

 

George Orwell, The Writer of Down and Out in Paris and London & 1984.

[Princess of Tap]

Day 156

 

 

" The president (Trump) has proven that there is nothing that he will not lie about. "

 

 

 

-- Lawrence O'Donnell: Cable Political Analyst, Emmy Award-Winning TV Producer, Philanthropist

 

Source: MSNBC, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, June 22, 2017

[Princess of Tap]

Day 157

 

 

 

" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. "

 

 

 

" The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. "

 

 

 

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, 1933-1945

[Princess of Tap]

158

 

 

 

" One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government."-- Donald Trump

 

 

 

" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "-- Plato

[Princess of Tap]

Day 159

 

 

 

" A fool and his money are soon elected. "

 

 

" I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. "

 

" There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. "

 

 

 

-- Will Rogers, American Humorist and Social Commentator

[Princess of Tap]

Day 160

 

 

 

" Too often the great decisions are often originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them

 

 

That whatever of Special Value Women Have To Offer is shunted aside without expression. "

 

 

 

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, American Humanitarian and Diplomat

[Sepiatone]

"Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling—
Look out how you use proud words."

                                                       ----

                                                               

                                                                Carl Sandburg

[Princess of Tap]

Day 160

 

 

 

" Too often the great decisions are often originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them

 

 

That whatever of Special Value Women Have To Offer is shunted aside without expression. "

 

 

 

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, American Humanitarian and Diplomat

[Princess of Tap]

Day 161

 

 

 

" Great Minds Discuss Ideas;

 

Average Minds discuss events;

 

 

 

small minds discuss people. "

 

 

 

 

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, American Humanitarian and Diplomat

[Dargo]

" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "-- Plato

 

This reminds me of a line I once heard with a similar thought...

 

"A man unconcerned with politics, is like a drowning man unconcerned with water."

 

(...just wish I knew who said it...anybody know?)

[Princess of Tap]

158

 

 

 

" One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government."-- Donald Trump

 

 

 

" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "-- Plato

[Princess of Tap]

Day 159

 

 

 

" A fool and his money are soon elected. "

 

 

" I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. "

 

" There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. "

 

 

 

-- Will Rogers, American Humorist and Social Commentator