re: #15 Shiplord Kirel

I wouldn’t put anything past Trump and his gang at this point. You can include Cruz too.

Btw, I was an eyewitness to the ‘68 Democratic Convention riots in Chicago. My mother was a delegate and the folks took me along in the hope that I would see the populist process in all its glory. I saw a lot but it was scarcely glorious. In the convention hall, the establishment shut down dissidents, beat up reporters, and muscled Hubert Humphrey into the nomination. Outside, Mayor Daley’s police goons launched an epic pogrom against anti-war demonstrators. I can still smell the tear gas. The experience had a lot to do with my decades-long defection to the Republicans, the sainted memory of my great-uncle Sam Rayburn notwithstanding. I actually remember thinking, “Well, Uncle Sam, sir, if you could see this, you might turn Republican too.” My recovery started at the time of the Clinton impeachment, which I thought was a farce, and accelerated when the Bush/Cheney invasion failed to turn up any WMD in Iraq.

I wasn’t there but I watched it on TV, on “Beat The Press” and “Mace The Nation”