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I didn’t watch. I didn’t read. I knew no hope was there.

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Yeah, me neither. Why bother? To paraphrase Mary McCarthy discussing Lillian Hellman, everything he says is a lie, including “the” and “and”.

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I had to chuckle because I immediately thought of how James Austin Johnson, on SNL, never uses articles like "the". Just "We are looking at climate. We are looking at cyber."

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Ditto on watching. Did read. No hope

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Same.

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Same.

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Yep. Slate.com had an article entitled "You Can't Look Away Any Longer", or words to that effect. My response: "Hah. Watch me."

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He is just a graceless, classless bully. And, of course one of the first things he did was to pardon the Jan 6 insurrectionists who attacked members of the police.

And still, people cheered for this guy?

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Gene, my main reason for subscribing was so that that you would screen that kind of filth on my behalf. Thank you for your service.

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Happy do oblige. It is awful to be me.

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Re: poll, need an option: Did not watch/listen/read.

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I didn’t watch but I did read. It’s worse than I imagined, way worse. Our country is a an absolute embarrassment and disgrace, thanks to the Republican Party.

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Another reason to mourn, your fellow Bronxite and Pulitzer (Polk and Oscar) winner Jules Feiffer has died at 95. No doubt he would have remarked, "It took long enough!" Fortunately, the wonderful, voluminous work of this multitalented cartoonist, illustrator, author, playwright and screenwriter will live on. Met him on a number of occasions and he was as sharp and as funny as the real Gene Weingarten is said to be when suddenly awakened. Didn't know much about mid-century clocks however.

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This is sad. "The Phantom Tollbooth" and Feiffer's artwork for it made an indelible impression on me.

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Turns out Feiffer was Juster's housemate which led to him illustrating the book and further led to Chuck Jones's wonderful feature length animation adaptation. Certainly a primer for would-be Wordies, with its puns and wordplay.Jones's Oscar winning short, "The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics," was also based on the Juster book of the same name.

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Gosh!

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Could not stand to watch him or hear his voice, so read his speech after the fact, which is not a word to be associated with his speech.

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There is no more rule of law. What is to prevent someone from burning our house down since they know our political standing and not get arrested? I am more terrified than I’ve ever been in my life. We are midway through the process to move to Portugal. Was going to wait a year or so for retirement but we’re moving up the timeline. American is gone. There’s also no way they will leave power in 4 years. It’s over.

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Trump does not have the law, the Constitution or even the public on his side. Just a house of cards. he is the one that should be afraid. All his delusions will be tested.

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Lone Skum gave a Nazi salute. Hell has arrived.

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I didn’t watch but read in WaPo that Trump thanked God for saving him. Dear Lederhosen could have at least put his hand on the Bible in return. It’s possible another, more malignant being could have saved him. Elon salutes you DJT, in his own unique style.

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My Buckeyes and Cavaliers won yesterday which eased some of the pain. But I did test positive for Covid (first time).

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Relax, Linda, re Covid. I've got a hand and a foot in the grave, and I pulled through with nary a problem. Do NOT relax, v. Trump.

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One last thing: if cryptic currency goes as I expect and he drives the price way up so they buy in very high and they lose all their money, they will likely be long term enemies. He might drag most of them down. If... (What do I know?)

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All "bubbles" do burst.

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I went to lunch yesterday with a fellow Loser. We purposely chose the area in the restaurant with no TVs. Went home and sat on my patio to watch the birds and enjoy the last decent day before snow descends on the southeast. That said, the post inauguration activities kept creeping into my little bubble thanks to my house's pretty decent WiFi signal. It's going to be a loooong ride to 2028.

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Keep your eye on the balll. IMHO the worst thing he did yesterday was attempt to destroy the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.

The second worst was withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement.

YMMV, but I say Trump’s venality ain’t even close to those.

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As a retired Fed, I am concerned about the Schedule F debacle as well as various other threats to reduce overall compensation packages for extent civil civil servants, particularly for my still working former colleagues. The forced resignations of many senior career officers at State likely just a foreshadowing of what is to come for the entire federal workforce.

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We have laws and a divided Congress. Do not give it up now.

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I don’t know how I forgot the WHO withdrawal. That’s terrible too

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Yes that is bad too, and I can see why you would think it’s worse.

We each have our own badness meters

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I didn't mean to rank the gutting of the federal work force above or below your concerns, it's just that I had personal experience with the 1st Trump era and agree this one will be worse. Pulling out of the World Health Organization also gives me pause, in addition to birthright citizen ship and the Paris accords. Well heck, I might as just well say that most of Trump, Project 2025 and the billionaires' shadow government is going to suck.

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I said no because i didn’t listen to one single syllable of it.

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Trevor Irvin has a great Substack post today.

It will bring a smile to the faces of anyone who grew up reading Mad Magazine.

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