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Jon Cooper @joncoopertweets wrote: WATCH: Former Trump DHS official @MilesTaylorUSA explains how he literally had to write highly classified national security memos at a first grade reading level so Trump could understand them. Incredible, but sadly not surprising.

Rolodex wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:14 pm If he thinks he has Presidential blanket immunity for anything he did while president, then he ought to be shouting from the rooftops that people need to leave Biden alone - everything he does is perfectly legal and fine since he's the president - and we all know they have complete immunity. Right?

tek wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:19 pm He's showing up in court for free publicity before Iowa.
IMHO.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:19 pm From the all publicity is good publicity department, we bring you this week's New Yorker cover.

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:31 pm I think it’s time for me to reread It Can't happen Here.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:21 pm To me the question isn't the leader willing to do anything. There's always that guy. It's the thousands (or millions) who go along with it and even facilitate it. What is wrong with all of them?

Rolodex wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:14 pm If he thinks he has Presidential blanket immunity for anything he did while president, then he ought to be shouting from the rooftops that people need to leave Biden alone - everything he does is perfectly legal and fine since he's the president - and we all know they have complete immunity. Right?

Rolodex wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:10 pm

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:19 pm From the all publicity is good publicity department, we bring you this week's New Yorker cover.

I'm currently reading a book by Erik Larson called In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin. [He wrote Devil in the White City for which he's probably best known - a murder at the world's fair in Chicago] This book tell of events in Berlin (and Germany in general) during 1933 and a few years after, concentrating on the American ambassador to Germany, William Dodd. He was an academic with connections which is how he ended up as an ambassador from without the ranks of government or foreign service ranks (he'd lived in Germany and gone to school there. His debutante-ish daughter Martha is a feature in the book as well.

They were both writers, so there is a pretty good record of their experiences and thoughts from that time. So many parallels to today it's chilling - no one thinks Hitler is as crazy as he seems; President Hindenburg and the others will hold him in check, etc. In 1934, when Hitler sends his SS to kill/quash the SA (the much-hated and violent Brown Shirts), the populace is mostly placated and glad he did it. Even though Jews were terribly persecuted - they were being banned from jobs, etc at this time, only about 1/20th of them left the country.

Anyway, all that to say - that magazine cover called that book to my mind. All there in plain sight and it's so bizarre and yet gradual, it's impossible to believe. During the 2020 election when he said "we'll see" or something about not leaving office if he lost, I thought it was just his bloviating and big talk. Others said, no, he means it and I just couldn't wrap my mind around that, even though his disorders had been out there on display for all those years. And should have seen it since I had a parent much like him.

Highly recommend this book if you are interested in Germany prior to WW2 or even Germany's invasion of Sudentenland or Poland or how the administration viewed Hitler/Germany during this time period.

https://eriklarsonbooks.com/book/in-the ... of-beasts/

Author of Trump’s FRAUDULENT Evidence Finally OUTED

MeidasTouch
9 Jan 2024

New reporting has “outed” Trump MAGA political consultant Liz Harrington as the likely author of Trump’s phony 32-page fabricated voter fraud report that his lawyers cited in their legal brief filed with the DC Court of Appeals in advance of this week’s oral argument on whether Trump is immune from prosecution. Michael Popok of Legal AF analyzes what preparing and submitting phony evidence to a federal appellate court means for Trump’s lawyers and Trump.

Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by American author Stephen King. It is the 58th book published by King, and it is his 48th novel. The novel focuses on a small Maine town, and tells an intricate, multi-character, alternating perspective story of how the town's inhabitants contend with the calamity of being suddenly cut off from the outside world by an impassable, invisible glass dome-like barrier that seemingly falls out of the sky, transforming the community into a domed city.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:15 pm This is what I thought about when he started talking about the dome.

Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by American author Stephen King.

Was that before or after Springfield got stuck under a dome in The Simpsons?

Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:23 pm

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:15 pm This is what I thought about when he started talking about the dome.

Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by American author Stephen King.

Was that before or after Springfield got stuck under a dome in The Simpsons?

For those unaware, in the 2007 The Simpsons Movie, Springfield is placed under a large dome by the EPA for violating pollution laws.

Stephen King himself claims that he had the idea well before that movie came out, and I’m also fairly positive that he was probably writing the book itself for years, it just happened to be published in 2009.

Another interesting possibility I read somewhere is the fact that SK plays (played?) music with Matt Groening, so it’s possible some concepts were discussed and both kinda went with the dome idea? The Simpsons Movie is much more about the Simpsons themselves being outside the dome, trying to save Springfield, whereas the book is mostly focused on the struggles inside the dome, so there’s really no plot overlaps or similarities other than the “dome placed over small town” concept.

Anyway, I watched The Simpsons Movie last night for the first time since it came out, and of course immediately thought of SK, because when I first saw that movie, the book didn’t exist yet.