Monday Open Thread

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1. East Coast media description of Trump's visit to Colorado …

   Will Bunch/Philadelphia Inquirer:

   America’s choice: Do voters want to live in reality, or a dangerous dream world?

   Donald Trump's Aurora rally about an invented gang takeover epitomized a campaign based on fantastical lies and true believers.

   Trump had come to cattle country to spread pure manure. It was telling that he stayed in the cloistered bubble of the resort and went nowhere near the apartment complexes he claimed are occupied by violent Venezuelan gangs — since they aren’t. “He is — and other political figures — are treating them like political pawns, which they are not,” a local housing advocate, V Reeves, told a local TV station. “They are real people with real needs.” Aurora GOP officials joined the police chief in attacking the premise of Trump’s rally, saying in an official statement, “It is tragic that select individuals and entities have mischaracterized our city” — where major crimes have fallen by 17%, year to date.

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   1. Meanwhile in Monte Vista…I'm covinced the wheels on MAGA's Cult bus no longer go round and round. 
       

      Speaking of buses, are there still cult members stuck in the California desert because their Lord and Savior wouldn't pay the bus company invoice? 
       

      

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2. It appears that both Senator Michael Bennet and Representative Diana DeGette have come out against Proposition 131; ranked choice voting. 

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   1. If I'm not mistaken, that is the position of both Colorado GOP and Democratic parties.  Basically, the thinking is it weakens both party's power to select candidates, and of course, it is a prelude to Kent Thiry buying elections, either for himself, or his pet causes.

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      1. That aspect does give me pause. I am a fan of ranked choice voting, but suspicious when wealthy people are pushing something. Is ranked choice a problem in our current unregulated campaign finance environment?

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3. Trump's ghostwriter of his "Art of the Deal" says the biopic "The Apprentice" captures Trump's emotional pathology very accurately.

   Watching “The Apprentice” crystallized two big lessons that I learned from Mr. Trump 30 years ago and that I’ve seen play out in his life ever since with more and more extreme consequences. The first lesson is that a lack of conscience can be a huge advantage when it comes to accruing power, attention and wealth in a society where most other human beings abide by a social contract. The second lesson is that nothing we get for ourselves from the outside world can ever adequately substitute for what we’re missing on the inside.

   “The Apprentice” tells Mr. Trump’s story through the lens of the two men who most influenced him: his father, Fred, and Roy Cohn, his longtime lawyer and one of the most notorious and disgraced fixers of the 20th century. What they had in common, and passed on to Donald in spades, was their shamelessness when it came to winning and dominating others, whatever that took. The end always justified the means.

   His conclusion is that Donald Trump is a psychopath, and his symptoms are only getting worse

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