Some More News: What the Media Gets Wrong About Donald Trump’s Wall [VIDEO]

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In this week’s episode of Some More News, we break down the media’s inability to effectively cover the wall, which Donald Trump is obsessed with for definitely non-sexual reasons.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:11:10pm

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:16:24pm

Like 5 times today.

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:18:30pm

re: #2 GlutenFreeJesus

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Like 5 times today.

Even more fun when you can’t see it (i.e. hooking up cords behind your PC). “It won’t go in, must be the wrong side. *turns the cord* IT STILL WON’T GO IN!”

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Chrysicat  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:19:57pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:21:11pm

re: #4 Chrysicat

Heh. Twitter will far outlast gab.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:22:26pm

re: #3 Targetpractice

Even more fun when you can’t see it (i.e. hooking up cords behind your PC). “It won’t go in, must be the wrong side. *turns the cord* IT STILL WON’T GO IN!”

Apple at least was always “seam up or facing you” up till a certain point, then they abruptly switched. It’s as annoying as trying to remember “Ford—turn the key the wrong way, except for a while they were normal, now they’re backwards again”.

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Belafon  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:23:21pm

re: #4 Chrysicat

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Chrysicat  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:26:56pm

re: #6 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Apple at least was always “seam up or facing you” up till a certain point, then they abruptly switched. It’s as annoying as trying to remember “Ford—turn the key the wrong way, except for a while they were normal, now they’re backwards again”.

I thought that Ford had symmetrical keys for at least the final 20 years before ignitions went NFC-with-pushbutton; pretty sure GM was the one that still had uni-directional keys into the early 2Ks?

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:29:36pm

re: #6 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Apple at least was always “seam up or facing you” up till a certain point, then they abruptly switched. It’s as annoying as trying to remember “Ford—turn the key the wrong way, except for a while they were normal, now they’re backwards again”.

My last 2 Fords were pushbutton ignition (fob in pocket) and now the gearshift is pushbuttons on the dashboard.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:29:36pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:31:49pm

re: #8 Chrysicat

I thought that Ford had symmetrical keys for at least the final 20 years before ignitions went NFC-with-pushbutton; pretty sure GM was the one that still had uni-directional keys into the early 2Ks?

Yeah, because GM uses the trunk key in the doors (?!) I’m talking about turning the key clockwise to unlock the driver’s door (opposite on the other side) and counterclockwise to lock—the opposite of every other lock in the world. Sometime in the late 80s into the 90s they went to the normal way, but now they’re back.

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MsJ  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:33:05pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:33:16pm

re: #10 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

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“IT COSTS A LOT TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:36:36pm
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:37:45pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:37:56pm

re: #9 The Vicious Babushka

My last 2 Fords were pushbutton ignition (fob in pocket) and now the gearshift is pushbuttons on the dashboard.

Heh, what is old is new again.

I had a 1962 Plymouth Belvedere with the push-button transmission selection in the dashboard to the left of the steering wheel.

My first car I bought off a guy that was one year ahead of me in high school. That was my learner car as far as banging on it with wrenches, screwdrivers, brazing tanks, hammers and money. Never really had it finished right. Sold it off second year of college.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:40:27pm

re: #16 ObserverArt

Heh, what is old is new again.

I had a 1962 Plymouth Belvedere with the push-button transmission selection in the dashboard to the left of the steering wheel.

My first car I bought off a guy that one year ahead of me in high school. That was my learner car as far as banging on it with wrenches, screwdrivers, brazing tanks, hammers and money. Never really had it finished right. Sold it off second year of college.

In the language of my people: “a slush box”.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:40:31pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:44:34pm

re: #18 Scottish Dragon

If “all lives matter” and the @GOP is really “pro-life” why do they shamelessly preside over a suicide epidemic amongst *their* White voters fueled by *their* fiscal malfeasance, fuckery of Obamacare and collusion with Big Pharma/Alcohol and the gun lobby? 🤷🏾‍♀️

Trump voters still support Trump and Republicans — the voters are fine with being treated this way as long as minorities are treated worse. They also are very gullible and believe the conspiracy theories promoted by QAnon, InfoWars, and Fox.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:44:39pm
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darthstar  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:46:17pm

Personal shit under the fold…

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ObserverArt  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:49:43pm

re: #21 darthstar

Personal shit under the fold…

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Welcome to the New Economy.

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darthstar  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:50:59pm

re: #22 ObserverArt

Welcome to the New Economy.

Yeah. I’ll spend a little time looking for the perfect job, but will jump on a decent contract gig in the interim.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:51:36pm

re: #21 darthstar

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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:52:36pm

Lre: #14 Scottish Dragon

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He can’t seriously be that stupid can he?

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:52:55pm

If you haven’t yet seen it:
Game of Thrones Season 8 trailer

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MsJ  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:53:14pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:53:54pm

re: #27 MsJ

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She did nothing to deserve one.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:54:21pm

re: #25 HappyWarrior

L

He can’t seriously be that stupid can he?

He can’t not be.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:55:08pm

re: #26 Hecuba’s daughter

Anyone have any predictions for who end up on the iron throne? Given GRRM and the show’s love of twists, I just can’t bring myself to believe it will be one of the obvious suspects.

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teleskiguy  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:55:46pm

Fuckin’ nutty. No way in hell this would be condoned in the states.

Instagram

Quand les #SoulFlyers inaugurent leur piste à @laclusazskiresort ! 🚀
🙋‍♂️ @fredfugen & @vincereffet

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ObserverArt  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:56:58pm

Trumps all over The White House is more infestation than nepotism.

I’m sure we are all surprised by this new revelation. It is so early 2016.

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:57:36pm

re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter

They also believe in the concept of American-style capitalism being the exploiters vs. the exploited and that one day, if they just work hard enough, they too will be one of the exploiters.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:59:05pm

re: #29 GlutenFreeJesus

He can’t not be.

He’s such a lying hack.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 5:59:53pm

re: #32 ObserverArt

Trumps all over The White House is more infestation than nepotism.

I’m sure we are all surprised by this new revelation. It is so early 2016.

Shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who actually pays attention.

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teleskiguy  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:00:07pm

Big avalanches continue to bury highways in the mountains of Colorado

Disney March 5, 2019

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:00:25pm

re: #30 Whack-A-Mole

Anyone have any predictions for who end up on the iron throne? Given GRRM and the show’s love of twists, I just can’t bring myself to believe it will be one of the obvious suspects.

First of all — who is going to survive the battle with the Night King and his zombie army?
I am 100% sure that Dany will make it and, years ago, supposedly GRRM’s wife made him promise that Arya would survive— but the others?? Of course, Cersei won’t be at the battle so she will meet her fate later on.

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danarchy  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:10:02pm

re: #25 HappyWarrior

L

He can’t seriously be that stupid can he?

The actual quote was:

After the children graduated from college, I figured it was time for me to move to Florida.’

Blanca said it was a no-brainer, adding: ‘I was paying $10,000 a year in real estate taxes up north. I’m paying $600 a year in Florida. It’s stress-free down here.’

It was from an interview she did with the Daily Mail. If it was anyone but Charlie Kirk I would assume it was just a typo.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:12:24pm

It’s true, it’s true.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:13:18pm

re: #38 danarchy

The actual quote was:

It was from an interview she did with the Daily Mail. If it was anyone but Charlie Kirk I would assume it was just a typo.

90 grand yeah. God he’s such a pathetic hack. There are other things too. I believe her grandparents are in PR. Much easier to get to PR from FLA.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:14:03pm

re: #39 DodgerFan1988

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It’s true, it’s true.

Ben Shapiro hung out with Bannon and Milo. He doesn’t have any moral authority at all on Antisemitism.

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gocart mozart  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:14:59pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:16:34pm

re: #42 gocart mozart

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Your father was an advocate for Jim Crow and later Apartheid. You’re a moron even for a Falwell spawn.

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ObserverArt  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:16:36pm

re: #40 HappyWarrior

90 grand yeah. God he’s such a pathetic hack. There are other things too. I believe her grandparents are in PR. Much easier to get to PR from FLA.

She sure gets attacked a lot for a freshman House Rep that her detractors think is a lightweight.

They doth protest too much, methinks.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:19:20pm

re: #44 ObserverArt

She sure gets attacked a lot for a freshman House Rep that her detractors think is a lightweight.

They doth protest too much, methinks.

Charlie has a hard time with facts. It’s why he runs this scam and why he wasn’t appointed to West Point like he thought was his god given right as a conservative white male.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:20:08pm

re: #37 Hecuba’s daughter

Going to put this in spoilers for anyone who hasn’t watched the show or has no interest.

Click to Reveal

I think most of the major characters will survive the fight with the Night King, just so they’re alive to wrap up the human wars. Betting on a lot of supporting character deaths though.

I do think Arya is going to survive it all. My guess is she ends up going back to become a Faceless Man renouncing her old life completely and really becoming no one.

Dany I’m not so sure on. I can’t point out any single reason why not, but I just don’t have a good feeling for her survival. Jon Snow’s either. Maybe it’s just that the show has got me expecting the unexpected with regards to the character’s survival.

I’d love to see Tyrion on throne but, given his history and notoriety, doubt that will ever happen.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:24:39pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:28:03pm

re: #47 The Vicious Babushka

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Trump is pretty much a monarchist.

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:28:56pm

re: #47 The Vicious Babushka

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Again, Donny never does the dirty work himself, he makes it clear what he wants to happen and his underlings make it happen without there being explicit orders. It’s why he couldn’t understand Comey and had to outright demand a pledge of loyalty to him, because he kept saying what he’d “like” to happen and Comey wasn’t followed the orders implied in the message.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:29:26pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:31:24pm

re: #50 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

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So not only are we where we were before Hanoi, we’re rapidly backsliding to where we were before Singapore.

“The Dealmaker President,” ladies and gents.//////

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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:34:35pm

re: #50 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

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Kim laughs at Trump’s pathetic naïveté.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:34:56pm

re: #11 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Yeah, because GM uses the trunk key in the doors (?!) I’m talking about turning the key clockwise to unlock the driver’s door (opposite on the other side) and counterclockwise to lock—the opposite of every other lock in the world. Sometime in the late 80s into the 90s they went to the normal way, but now they’re back.

Chrysler left handed lug nuts.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:35:05pm

re: #48 HappyWarrior

Trump is pretty much a monarchist.

WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TROUBLESOME JOURNALIST?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:36:06pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:36:14pm

re: #54 The Vicious Babushka

WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TROUBLESOME JOURNALIST?

Good reference. I was baptized at a church named after Becket and I’m reading about the Plantanglets now.

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mmmirele  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:39:05pm

Blergh-personal.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:39:07pm

re: #53 Eventual Carrion

Chrysler left handed lug nuts.

Buick left-handed on the left, right-handed on the right. Actually a good idea, but easy to forget….

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:39:17pm

Knowing Kim and the penchant lately of foreign leaders to pants Donny on the world stage at the least opportune times, would it surprise anybody that he resumes testing missiles and bombs before next November?

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sagehen  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:39:32pm

re: #14 Scottish Dragon

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Yeah; her property tax was $10K in NYC and only $600 in FL.

Probably because (as the article in the comments notes) her FL house cost 87K. In Manhattan, that’s the price of two parking spaces. No apartment attached, just the parking spaces.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:40:16pm

He’s going back to the slammer.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:40:19pm

re: #51 Targetpractice

So not only are we where we were before Hanoi, we’re rapidly backsliding to where we were before Singapore.

“The Dealmaker President,” ladies and gents.//////

We’re even worse off since Trump cancelled War Exercises.

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:41:19pm

re: #62 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

We’re even worse off since Trump cancelled War Exercises.

Ayep. He’s done nothing but give away leverage and received nothing in return but empty promises from Kim and perhaps a reach-around in Singapore.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:41:20pm

re: #60 sagehen

Yeah; her property tax was $10K in NYC and only $600 in FL.

Probably because (as the article in the comments notes) her FL house cost 87K. In Manhattan, that’s the price of two parking spaces. No apartment attached, just the parking spaces.

Where TF can you get a house in Florida for 87K? Is it like in the middle of a swamp?

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:42:07pm

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

He’s going back to the slammer.

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Considering the whining by him and other Trump compatriots about the costs of their legal battles with Mueller, perhaps he’s trying to get jailed to save on living expenses.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:42:42pm

re: #62 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

We’re even worse off since Trump cancelled War Exercises.

Yeah but Trump got to meet who he wishes his son was like.//

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:43:49pm
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sagehen  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:44:26pm

re: #30 Whack-A-Mole

Anyone have any predictions for who end up on the iron throne? Given GRRM and the show’s love of twists, I just can’t bring myself to believe it will be one of the obvious suspects.

I’m betting on Jon Snow, or his & Danaerys’ child.

Because the title of the series is “Song of Ice and Fire.” The Starks are ice, the Targaryens are fire.

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:47:00pm

re: #67 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

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Somehow, I don’t think the Russians have the same problem…

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KGxvi  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:47:14pm

re: #30 Whack-A-Mole

Anyone have any predictions for who end up on the iron throne? Given GRRM and the show’s love of twists, I just can’t bring myself to believe it will be one of the obvious suspects.

Martin apparently said years ago that the end would be “bittersweet.” I could see something like the child of Jon and Danaerys being named king but Tyrion serving as regent, because all the other major players are dead.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:52:23pm

re: #46 Whack-A-Mole

Going to put this in spoilers for anyone who hasn’t watched the show or has no interest.

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My additional comments — which I am concealing for the same reason as you…

Click to Reveal

I am confident that Dany is going to have a child — so unless the show covers at least 9 months, she will have to survive. My confidence is based on the book prophecies because our dear showrunners butchered them all. But she may die in childbirth.

As to Arya, I hope she ends up with Gendry; it doesn’t seem to me that her fate is to become no one. Certainly possible that as the last surviving Baratheon, Gendry could assume the throne if he’s legitimized.

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retired cynic  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:52:24pm

re: #48 HappyWarrior

Trump is pretty much a monarchist.

Only if he gets to be the king.

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John Vreeland  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:52:32pm
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MsJ  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:55:00pm

Womp womp.

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KGxvi  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:56:45pm

re: #71 Hecuba’s daughter

My additional comments — which I am concealing for the same reason as you…

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Related thoughts before the fold.

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I really hope Martin is able to finish the books. Because every time the show runners have strayed from the plot of the books, it has gone badly. And there’s so many more interesting things in the books, like the entire Dorne arch.

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John Vreeland  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:57:29pm

re: #2 GlutenFreeJesus

This is evidence that USB connectors actually exist in 4-dimensional space. Can’t find that in the spec, so it might be unintentional.

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Weaselone  Mar 5, 2019 • 6:58:48pm

re: #67 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

I’m sort of curious about this as several Western European countries have defense budgets on par with Russia’s. Germany would probably have better than even odds of kicking the shit out of them in a conventional war.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:04:04pm

re: #70 KGxvi

re: #71 Hecuba’s daughter

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I really think that Jon or Dany is going to end up having to kill the other. There’s the whole prophecy of Lightbringer/Azor Ahai that’s hanging out there as well as the prophecy of Dany’s third betrayal (this time for love I think?) Plus I’m not sure Dany is going to react very well to finding out there’s another Targaryen out there (arguably with a stronger claim to the throne than her). She’s already shown she can be pretty ruthless, enough that it even makes someone like Tyrion uneasy.

It would be nice to see Gendry take the throne but I can’t see Arya ruling alongside him. Even the lesser trappings of nobility at Winterfell sat uneasily with her; I can’t see her ever willingly wearing a crown. That’s why I see the Faceless Men as the “happiest” ending for her.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:06:37pm

re: #75 KGxvi

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I agree. I’d love to see him finish the books because they’re so much richer than the show by itself but I’m doubting it more every day. Time and age are really working against him and having the show spoil a lot of the surprises he was planning has to be a hit to his motivation level.

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KGxvi  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:06:56pm

re: #77 Weaselone

I’m sort of curious about this as several Western European countries have defense budgets on par with Russia’s. Germany would probably have better than even odds of kicking the shit out of them in a conventional war.

Russia’s defense spending is fourth in the world (behind the US, China, and the Saudis). They also have over a million active duty military personnel with another 2.5 million in the reserves. That makes them the fifth largest military in the world, behind China, India, the US, and North Korea. For comparison’s sake - Germany, France, and the UK have somewhere around 600,000 active duty personnel.

Now, whether Russia is actually interested in a 20th century style land war in Europe is another question. They seem to be more than willing to fuck with everybody via cyber-warfare. And the damage they could do by fucking with the European central banking system is major.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:13:26pm

Yup

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MsJ  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:14:08pm

Ailes is dead. Stone about to go to prison. Trump scared shitless.

I’m feeling better.

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:16:00pm

re: #82 MsJ

Ailes is dead. Stone about to go to prison. Trump scared shitless.

I’m feeling better.

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The GOP made so much noise last week about how they totally disbelieved Cohen about Donny not believing he was going to win and just seeing the election as a means to enrich his “brand,” yet we hear more and more about things like this that make no sense if the candidate believed he had a real chance of winning.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:17:15pm

re: #79 Whack-A-Mole

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re: #75 KGxvi

Related thoughts before the fold.

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My feeling on this…

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I read years ago that GRRM said that when he knew how a book was going to end, he lost interest. He may have lost interest in this project but it may also be that there are too many threads to pull together in only 2 books. I love the published chapters from Winds of Winter but it’s very unlikely he can produce a satisfactory end. Too many additional characters — too many other subplots — and a huge divergence between the show and book story lines.

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teleskiguy  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:19:28pm

I can’t stop watching this. Absolutely mesmerizing, weird, excessive.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:21:10pm

re: #85 teleskiguy

I can’t stop watching this. Absolutely mesmerizing, weird, excessive.

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Ewww gross.

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teleskiguy  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:21:54pm

re: #21 darthstar

VGUJHZWE9ZR/3EWyj+ClS92gdH59ROuY

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teleskiguy  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:22:22pm

re: #86 The Vicious Babushka

Ewww gross.

INORITE?!?

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KGxvi  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:22:22pm

Another random thought on the show rather than the books:

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I forgot that Cersei in her usual shortsightedness hired the Golden Company (that’s apparently who is on the Greyjoy ships in the new trailer). The Golden Company was founded by a Targaryen bastard. In the books, I think they come to Westeros behind a kid claiming to be Aegon Targaryen who was allegedly killed by the Mountain at the end of Robert’s Rebellion. I really hope this ends with Cersei getting double crossed by the sellswords because their allegiance ends up being to the dragons and not the lions.

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:23:27pm

Just a little beach photo break…

Sunset Glistening
Fishing Buddies
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Weaselone  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:24:00pm

re: #80 KGxvi

They spend 63.1 billion vs. 56.1 for the UK vs. 53.4 billion for France and 45.7 billion for Germany. Also, I don’t think that absolute troop numbers are a good measure of military strength.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:25:49pm

re: #84 Hecuba’s daughter

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I think you’re right. With all of the characters and subplots of the books that the show hasn’t touched, there’s probably too much there to wrap up satisfactorily in two books and with all the side projects that seem to have piqued GRRM’s interests more than main ASOIAF series, I think the end of the show is probably as close to resolution as we’re likely to ever get.

lol maybe that’s the “bittersweet” ending he was referring to…

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:33:20pm

White House stenographer trying to keep “SHE’S RUNNING!” hopes alive for her fellow stenographers:

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:33:33pm

re: #89 KGxvi

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It wouldn’t surprise me if she was betrayed by them or Euron himself (wasn’t Daario, Dany’s lover, one of the Second Sons?). But going back to prophecies again, Cersei is fated to be killed by one of her brothers (her “little brother”, if the Valyrian translation isn’t a headfake).

Then again, maybe GRRM was going to subvert the prophecy trope by having all of them meaningless and letting the characters all forge their own destinies.

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Belafon  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:37:19pm

re: #93 Targetpractice

White House stenographer trying to keep “SHE’S RUNNING!” hopes alive for her fellow stenographers:

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:38:03pm

re: #68 sagehen

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Jon is both Stark and Targaryen, Ice and Fire in one. From one perpsective, the “Song of Ice and Fire” could actually just refer to Lyanna and Rhaegar whose falling in love and running off together actually kicked off the whole chain of events.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:43:17pm

re: #89 KGxvi

Another random thought on the show rather than the books:

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There is a completely different theory about the books and the Golden Company. The Golden Company is not loyal to the legitimate Targaryens but descendants of the bastard lines — and that’s who fAegon actually is. In any case the story in the books has become so complicated, it’s difficult to see how it can be handled. At least the show confirms that the wall is coming down — but it won’t be dragon in the books that bring it down. Oh wait, it won’t be anything because the books are never coming out.

I really want to read the book resolution but, alas, I have lost all hope. Instead we have the much simpler and very different TV story completing the saga. The first year was very faithful to the original but that was it.

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jaunte  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:44:03pm

re: #67 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

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Amory Blaine  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:47:26pm

I hope Reek takes it all!

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:48:39pm

re: #97 Hecuba’s daughter

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Yeah, sad as it is, I think the show is the best ending we’re likely to get.

Still though, that should be enjoyable for what it is.

All in all, it’s looking like a pretty good spring for entertainment. Captain Marvel, GoT, Avengers, and just simply the end of winter (I am so over and done with it by this point).

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Weaselone  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:49:39pm

re: #93 Targetpractice

White House stenographer trying to keep “SHE’S RUNNING!” hopes alive for her fellow stenographers:

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This really is a special kind of stupid. While I might believe that Hillary is a bit pissed at say her treatment vs. Biden or Kerry’s, it asinine to think there wouldn’t be more signs that she was considering a run. If she was actually considering another run, does anyone really think she wouldn’t have a campaign apparatus up and running already? She wouldn’t just wait on a Mueller report of unknown arrival date before deciding and putting things in.place for another go at the Presidency.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:52:22pm

re: #94 Whack-A-Mole

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If the books were ever completed, I believe all the prophecies and visions would come true — but are designed to be misinterpreted by both the characters and readers.

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teleskiguy  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:52:42pm

There’s a tweet for everything. EVERYTHING! E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:54:12pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

There’s a tweet for everything. EVERYTHING! E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!

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To be fair — did Trump ever run on transparency? He ran on draining the swamp.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:57:53pm

re: #104 Hecuba’s daughter

To be fair — did Trump ever run on transparency? He ran on draining the swamp.

He just left unsaid that he was going to be draining it into his own bank accounts.

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teleskiguy  Mar 5, 2019 • 7:58:04pm

re: #104 Hecuba’s daughter

To be fair — did Trump ever run on transparency? He ran on draining the swamp.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:01:25pm

Self Darwinization:

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gocart mozart  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:04:41pm
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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:05:03pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:06:32pm
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Pawn of the Oppressor  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:08:03pm

re: #85 teleskiguy

I can’t stop watching this. Absolutely mesmerizing, weird, excessive.

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I don’t even smoke, and I think lighting a cigarette with a flaming finger is f*cking amazing.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:13:08pm

re: #60 sagehen

Where I live in Texas, the property tax rate is 2.49%, so a house just over 400K is going to hit 10K in property taxes.

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Belafon  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:16:17pm
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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:16:36pm

re: #112 Ace Rothstein

One of the oldest arguments I have had here is proposition 13 for family (not commercial property) houses staying intact. Had that out with Obdi and others. The wife will inherit a house we could not otherwise keep. Because real estate is out of hand here.

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Belafon  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:17:51pm

Yes, she’s been asked:

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: We’ve (AOC and Sanders) been in active conversation. I’ve been speaking with him and several other of the 2020 candidates, and I think that they have really understood and respected the fact that I think that I want to wait until we get a little bit closer. I think we need to have a conversation as a party, and I think that endorsing very earlier in this race prevents us from having that kind of conversation. People will say, ‘Oh, she’s just supporting so-and-so, that’s why she’s saying that.’ And I think it’s, you know, we have to have real conversations about income inequality, about criminal justice, about immigration, about the environment.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:25:18pm

re: #85 teleskiguy

I can’t stop watching this. Absolutely mesmerizing, weird, excessive.

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“I don’t always drink like a boss, but when I do…”

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gwangung  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:26:41pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:28:24pm

re: #115 Belafon

Yes, she’s been asked:

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Of course she’s been asked. Bernie would be a fool if he didn’t ask. Anyhow I gotta give her props for waiting.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:31:12pm

Insurance fraud?

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:33:09pm

re: #119 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

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Insurance fraud?

Well, if you go along with the idea that he’s over/undervalued his property holdings to get the most favorable outcomes, it’s not a stretch to think he’d do the same to fuck with insurance payments/claims on them.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:34:28pm

re: #120 Targetpractice

He’s claimed FEMA funds for invisible damage.

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wrenchwench  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:36:46pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:38:58pm

I know a lot of folks want nothing less than to see Cheeto Benito behind bars for the rest of his days, but I think I’d be willing to settle for his being reduced to total destitution. His entire “brand” hollowed out, all his remaining assets liquidated to pay all his legal fees, any rights he has ownership of auctioned off for what little they’ll bring, and even seeing the golden “TRUMP” signs melted down. Forced to spend the rest of his days in a retirement home, ranting at orderlies for not giving him an extra pudding at dinner time.

“DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!”
“Yeah, I do! That’s why I’m doing everything I can just short of being fired to fuck with you!”

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HappyWarrior  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:40:31pm

re: #122 wrenchwench

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Awesome.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:41:05pm

re: #123 Targetpractice

First, I want that fucker out of the White House.

We’ll deal with happens to him after when we get there.

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:43:15pm

re: #125 Eclectic Cyborg

First, I want that fucker out of the White House.

We’ll deal with happens to him after when we get there.

Agreed, I want him gone in the worst way. I remain convinced that he’s gonna call it quits before next November, trying to go out a “winner” when in reality he’s making a backroom deal to get immunity for his kids from federal charges.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:44:37pm

re: #126 Targetpractice

I don’t think he’d do that. I really honestly believe that, given his level of narcissism, there’s not enough room in his heart for any real empathy or worry for his children.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:45:52pm

Insomnia

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teleskiguy  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:47:34pm

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William Lewis  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:48:33pm

re: #123 Targetpractice

I want to see him strapped down to the same gurney they used for Tim McVeigh at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:49:50pm

re: #127 Whack-A-Mole

I don’t think he’d do that. I really honestly believe that, given his level of narcissism, there’s not enough room in his heart for any real empathy or worry for his children.

Ivanka, perhaps. But Uday, Qusay, or Jared? Nah, he’ll readily sacrifice them. But if he can work a deal that removes pressure on them to testify against him, then that would be totally par for the course.

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wrenchwench  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:50:58pm

re: #127 Whack-A-Mole

I don’t think he’d do that. I really honestly believe that, given his level of narcissism, there’s not enough room in his heart for any real empathy or worry for his children.

Took the words right out of my head, and turned them into pixels.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:54:07pm

re: #131 Targetpractice

Ivanka, perhaps. But Uday, Qusay, or Jared? Nah, he’ll readily sacrifice them. But if he can work a deal that removes pressure on them to testify against him, then that would be totally par for the course.

Yeah, I think he’d throw any of them under the bus to protect himself, including Ivanka.

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Targetpractice  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:55:26pm

re: #128 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

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Insomnia

“Obstruction of justice” is a crime, Hans. As is bank fraud, insurance fraud, & tax fraud. And those are just the tip of this shit-flavored iceberg.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 5, 2019 • 8:56:06pm

re: #133 Whack-A-Mole

Yeah, I think he’d throw any of them under the bus to protect himself, including Ivanka.

I find it difficult that he would throw Ivanka under the bus — anyone else, yes — including his grandchildren, but it just seems that she might be the exception.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 5, 2019 • 9:02:06pm

re: #128 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

..Hans Von Spakovsky…

Insomnia

A member of the Heritage Foundation. None of these RW organizations are capable of thoughtful examination of issues. They are there to promote a damaging ideology and harmful policies designed to keep conservatives in power in perpetuity.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 5, 2019 • 9:05:43pm

re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter

Everything relationship that I’ve seen in his life, be it personal, professional, political, has been completely transactional - it’s based on what he perceives he can get out the relationship to his benefit. If the cost to himself outweighed the benefit, I think he’d cut her loose. Just like his wives, I don’t think there’s really much more to his connection to her than seeing her as an asset to be traded upon. In her case, I think she’s an ego boost - he’s the father of this beautiful successful businesswoman and therefore a reflection and enhancement of his own brilliance and success.

Maybe there are some genuine feelings of affection for her. I just don’t know if his level of narcissism would allow him to tarnish his own self-story of success and achievement to save anyone.

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uriel  Mar 5, 2019 • 10:39:16pm

re: #133 Whack-A-Mole

Yeah, I think he’d throw any of them under the bus to protect himself, including Ivanka.

Well, to be fair, I think Ivanka would be the very last.

And his voice would be heavy with the approximation of something resembling regret that, while mostly arising put of self-pity and a sense of anger at how his weaknesses have been exposed, would at least pretend to sincerity in an effort to feed the paradoxical needs of his rampant narcissism- to appear to have some sort of affection for someone, anyone, for the sake of show, while also needing to protect himself by not caring about anyone at all unless their name is David Dennison .

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 6, 2019 • 3:50:45am

re: #97 Hecuba’s daughter

I gave up on the books because (as noted above) the introduction of so many new characters and plot lines. Half-way through book four (Daenyrs in the desert and eating newborn puppies was a momentum killer) I had made the comment to friends that there is no way to tie everything up without killing off 95% of the characters.

More importantly to your point, there are no books coming out that will do anything helpful to resolve the story (without killing 95% of the known world) that would be satisfactory.

Let the dead trees saga die. Tie up the electron based one and do something else; which he is doing. As Shropshire noted, Robert Jordan is a bad model to follow. First the extended bad bad writin after a great start, then the dying part with an incomplete series. With the Wheel of a Time, Brandon Sanderson did a great job in finishing up the writing. Too good with following Jordan’s writing style and following his notes. I hated those three volumes that should have been one.


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