Friday Open Thread

8 thoughts on “Friday Open Thread”

1. White House comment line no longer taking comments.

   and so it goes…..

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   1. Actually, there is a way around that!    https://whitehouseinc.org/

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2. “In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. … Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”

      –Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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3. Politicians and mental health-care professionals here and around the world, across all ideologies, are starting to wonder aloud if Comrade Pee Wee is literally, clinically mentally ill/insane/psychotic.

   WE knew he was mentally ill all along; too bad it took the rest so very long to find the courage to say it. We all will suffer and be paying for this deeply narcissistic, profoundly infantile madman’s antics for years, if not decades:

   http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2017/Pres/Maps/Jan27.html#item-7

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   1. Nicely done, DP. I've had this on my FB wall since the election.

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6. Well, at least now I understand his confusion about his inauguration numbers…

   After falsely claiming that at least 1 million people attended his inauguration, Trump predicted Thursday that the anti-abortion march would draw from 300,000 to 600,000 people.

   

   

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