Progressive Discussion - Friday 5-26-17

Good morning! Linda, I love your posts of Andy Borowitz's writing. He is so funny, and so pointedly accurate. Surely don't envy you that wind, however.

I agree with Linda's post from last night that Tweety will throw Jared under the bus. He may try to protect him up to a point for Ivanka's sake, but the minute Tweety starts to feel threatened, under the bus Jared will go and Tweety won't even given him a glance. He has no loyalty to anyone but himself when it comes down to it. He'd throw Ivanka under the bus too if it helped him.

He is such a terrible embarrassment to the US in front of the world with his ridiculous hand shake battles of strength and pushing people out of his way. Then when he opens his mouth it is even worse!

Everyday I wake up thinking "wonder what new revelation comes today," and it is getting to the point that it is not even just one revelation per day but multiple revelations.

The guy getting elected in Montana who body slammed the reporter is just one more example of how Tweety has poisoned the minds of people about the press until they don't even see this as something outlandish but consider it normal behavior. That's absolutely appalling that as a nation we have sunk this low! Sure the press can sometimes be obnoxious in shouting their questions, etc, but without the press to keep us informed where would we be? Exactly where Tweety wants us to be--an ignorant bunch of sheep just following along down his path while never asking any questions. It's time these imbeciles who blindly follow wake up from their trance and try to let an actual independent thought come into their heads.

Making scones,tea,lemonade and inviting you all over to watch the wild life, and listen to the birds singing. The wicker chairs are out, the hammock is up and for the more energetic of the group I will set up badminton and croquet set. Wear pearls to clutch, I will wear my new ball gown of course.

Anne, love your invite & keep your eye to the sky, cause this wind may just blow me right into that hammock...😉

These "politicians" that hate the press are usually the first ones pushing there way forward to find a reporter to bash President Obama, Hilary & Democrats...This Montana Thug is a Trump wanna be & nothing more. We'll see how far that & his conduct carry him in Congress.

Joyce, I sure hope Mom & Dad are settled back into their routine again & Dad is feeling better everyday. Will you be playing with Grandkids this weekend?

Ok, better go outside ( UGH) & take a walk around to see how the flowers are fairing in this wind. I think they are hanging on by every root they possess.

Just listened to Hillary give the Commencement speech at Wellsley. She was at her best, I think. It was a terrific speech, I thought. I really like her humor & the way she delivers it. I didn't always agree with her or sometimes even like her very much at times, & thought she showed poor judgement in different matters. I was a Bernie supporter in the beginning, but for all that, she has more common sense, decency, compassion, etc than JA will ever ever even hope to have. She would have had the respect of world leaders at NATO this week &. also shown respect back. So different than JA. I wonder tho, if she had won, would we be bogged down in different investigations from GOP still trying to pin something, anything on her just because she is Hilary. Sometimes I think, as much as I hate what is going on now with JA, maybe we needed this time to reflect on what we are losing because of JA & it will be a wake up call. But then I see the deplorables oozing out of their dark ugly holes & I fear we won't be able to plug that ugly hole ever again. Guess if we each do our part to restore decency in our own corner of the world & just hope it will be enough to bring back some sanity, common sense & decency to politics. Probably hoping for too much here...SIGH!

This is totally irrelevant and unimportant, and not even a criticism but more of a curiosity question. Melania was pretty flawless in her dress throughout this trip. She looked elegant and poised. But when I saw this picture it just struck me as odd. She looks beautiful as always, but wonder why she is so "over dressed" compared to all the other spouses/partners in the picture?

www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/world/luxembourg-prime-minister-husband-gauthier-destenay-trnd/index.html

Yes, she does look overdressed. I hadn't seen that pic before. I'm sure her mission on this trip is solely to make JA look good by outshining the other spouses.

I saw the French Prez video too & had to keep replaying it over & over because it was so darn funny. Actually in all the videos the body language & eye rolls tell you exactly what most think of JA in Chief. The one of him shoving aside a Prime Minister to get to the front is unbelievable....well, him doing something like that, isn't. AND what's with that terrible handshake of his. Good grief! I loved what J K Rowling tweeted about him after he shoved the Prime Minister out of the way...she called him a tiny tiny tiny little man....LOL