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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOverheard today:
On MSNBC, talking about the markets diving and wondering what it's going to take to provide assurance says, "What's it going to take? What do they want to hear from Trump concerning the coronavirus?"
And someone walking by responds, "They want to hear that he's got it."
hlthe2b
(102,236 posts)It is reflexive for me to be ashamed of thinking that, given how I was raised, but...
sdfernando
(4,933 posts)but I have no shame wishing that orange lardass would get it and suffer horribly before meeting the grim reaper...no shame at all!
Ligyron
(7,631 posts)Tell ya what I'll think it twice ... once more for you too.
Warpy
(111,254 posts)It has to happen to him in order to be real.
Then he looks around for someone to blame.
kiri
(794 posts)this quotation actually comes from Clarence Darrow, the lawyer of Scopes Trial fame. Here's a fuller version of the quote, which appears in Darrow's 1932 work The Story of My Life:
"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."
This has often been attributed to Mark Twain.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/mark-twain-didnt-say-thing-about-obituaries/350238/
It's the thought that counts!
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Finally got what was due him
PatrickforO
(14,571 posts)at least a million Americans. Literally.
Their blood will be on his hands.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)leftieNanner
(15,084 posts)I'm so glad Trumpy gave that Oval Office Address last night!
When I first read your post, I thought that last line meant that he "got it" - as in - he understood. Then I read it again and I "GOT IT"!!
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)I read it the same way too. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
AllyCat
(16,183 posts)Response to Baitball Blogger (Original post)
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IggleDuer
(964 posts)Cheyne-Stokes respiration.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)relayerbob
(6,544 posts)I want him to have his ass handed to him in November on a golden Trump Tower platter with 50 states autographing the "Don't let the door hit you on the way out the door and into the New York State Penal system" card
Lonestarblue
(9,981 posts)Trump needs to be gone NOW. He just makes things worse every day.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)No easy escape routes that can turn him into anything more than the common thug that he is.
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)The Brazilian guy, posted here earlier
DeminPennswoods
(15,285 posts)At some point - I predict in the very near term - it will occur to him that this virus is threatening his very own political survival. This is when the smart career civil servants or even GOP establishmentarians like a Nikki Haley can reach in and grab the reins by presenting Trump with a way out.
marieo1
(1,402 posts)He never has 'had it' for the citizens of this country. He is a zero.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)I just want Pence gone too when the creature leaves.
SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)I know I'd feel a lot better about everything if he kicked the proverbial bucket.
rurallib
(62,411 posts)EndlessWire
(6,522 posts)Then he will have to explain why he isn't self quarantining. And he wants to campaign.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Response to Baitball Blogger (Original post)
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central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)At the end of the movie, El CID has been killed in battle but his generals tie him to his horse so he can ride out of the gates leading his army into battle one more time and strike fear into the enemy.
McTurtle would have him stuffed and propped up in the Oval Office so he could still lead
flotsam
(3,268 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)PatrickforO
(14,571 posts)I don't think there's a one of us who has not.