I don’t know that it would get him there... but as campaign slogans go, he could do a hell of a lot worse...

I don’t think he’s worried about lacking dignity when he stands back up...but without the desk to hide behind if he can’t keep his shoulders over (or preferably forward of) his hips he knows the resemblance to jabba the hutt wedged upright is all the camera sees...

the author’s intent notwithstanding your version has the virtue of not being open to the ambiguity about the “P” so I have to say that’s a remarkable bit of low-key pedantry, there...& factually accurate, to boot...

naturally without his awesome powers of delegation any such venture would be doomed from the outset...

those people don’t know what they’re talking about...have you ever tried driving on glass...?

who said anything about talking to them...?

nah...even Yul Brynner’s Man in Black was more convincingly human than old penny dreadful...

another way to characterize that would be that he isn’t going to expand upon it, as he’s made perfectly clear...

if he answered legitimate questions & reserved those responses for the bullshit grandstanding bids for media-friendly soundbites we all know are going to be out in force my respect for the man would hit an all-time high...

seconded...bestseller status or otherwise the report is a slow read & the people who have so much as listened all the way to the end of the audiobook are, I’d wager, substantially outnumbered by the ones who haven’t...so even if he doesn’t offer up anything new it’ll still come as news to more people than it should...

oh, he's thought about it...

sure he's a hack but you're being too kind...he might know what he is but he doesn't understand the meaning of the term "hack" outside of the context "someone must have hacked my account"...

never ceases to amaze me the behaviour of politicians who pride themselves on their christian credentials...

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[TL;DR: I (usually) try to truncate my posts in deference to the preference for brevity kinja seems to hold dear by & large...hence the abundant ellipses...but as a fan of the long read I just wanted to say I appreciate a lot of your posts but this one in particular I think I agree with pretty much all of...

my guess is they consider themselves “a good shot” but haven’t ever shot anything while being shot at...or even at anything that could shoot back...

I hear that...personally I was hoping to go to my grave harbouring the fond illusion that full-scale global conflict was a relic of the past...

I believe that list of contacts included one of old man baby’s kids...

some folks in Germany seem to think you’re on to something...

fair enough...I didn't mean you were wrong, though...I just can't think of any republican talking points that are predicated on good faith...