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Trump Drives His Lawyers Crazy Again by Admitting on Twitter He Lied About Russian Business Interests

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The Ghost of a Flea11/30/2018 2:56:40 pm PST

re: #243 TedStriker

She is conservative Republicans’ worst nightmare writ large: she’s a very public reminder of the browning of America and that old white guys running the country are still on-track to become an endangered species..

We’re at a place similar to when the Soviet leadership was all doddering old men terrified of everything—each other, because they were all Stalin Pals, the rest of the world, because things weren’t going according to dogma—and there was a lot of talk about whether they’d set fire to the Cold War just because they couldn’t imagine a world in which (1) they had to concede they were wrong, (2) someone younger replaced them and made different choices.

That’s the background to which Gorbachev was reacting when he opened talks with Reagan.