Past as SO TIRESOME and TEDIOUS prologue…especially for those of us boomers and Gen Xers reading the papers AND gossip rags (and yes New Yorkers and Jerseyites, you’re all special cuz vicinity, we know 🤣) back in the ‘80s and ‘90s who knew a certain scumbag from Queens was in fact a scumbag. Such a shocking revelation.
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Continued, one more.
Tired nostalgia-as-refresher cuz what’s obvious yet different, then and now?
He hadn’t yet been president, with all of the advantages the position holds…and/or held/might hold again for him.
You know, like not being able to prosecute a sitting president and our tax dollars — to say nothing of emoluments — flowing into his “businesses.” Again.
@InUnfunky How dumb is TFG? He's so dumb he ran for president, won, impeached twice, lost, under indictment, owes millions in judgments, is a global laughing stock and could have kept grifting and money laundering for his Russian pals.
This is why he was scouted by the KGB in ‘87.
@InUnfunky Yep. The paper trail runs long. The FBI, DOJ et.al. KNEW he was a Russian asset yet did NOTHING to prevent his from being a presidential candidate!
So much for “voters as last resort.”
Hopefully we don’t get a re-boot.
I blame Mark Burnett (and Les Moonves).
@InUnfunky Yep. Americans find politics 'boring' so producers put on clowns for clown shows and disguise them as 'news' programs.
The KGB concluded that Trump was too sketchy to be useful to them, and there's nothing in the Constitution saying "Russian assets" can't run for President.
How would they have "prevented" him?
People need to stop searching under the sofa cushions for magical solutions from the past century to keep Trump off the ballot here in 2024.
It's feckless, it's not happening.
I've been saying for months, barring someone dropping dead, it's going to be either Trump or Biden come Election Day.
This "ACTUALLY, he's not even ALLOWED to run!" stuff is kind of ridiculous at this point. He's running. He's got the nomination. That train's left the station.
Are you somehow implying that trump has been a lying POS grifter his entire life??? 😀
@tgraph52 Defamation!! 😁 @InUnfunky
As much as I can't stand Phish, being a band based in the dark arts of mathemetics, I hope they sue the fuck out of NPR.
It's just lazy BS being presented as journalism.
Touchheads is a new one to me...
Touchhead: (N) A person -- usually Gen X -- who only "discovered" the Grateful Dead once "In The Dark" was released and "Touch Of Grey" hit MTV and AOR. A perjorative coined by some old school Deadheads.
I am a Touchhead! In my defense, I had no older siblings and none of the parents (step or no) were Dead fans. Similarly, I only got into Zappa's music when the video for "You Are What You Is" was featured during a "Beavis And Butthead" episode, circa '93.
Funny cuz true.
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As much as I loved SF music in the 60s I didn't pay attention to the Dead until college. They were coming to Mpls in 1971 for a concert and someone said we should go. I said play me something and the LP at the time was Workingman's Dead... WTF... That's country??!!??
The concert was life changing for me and I was learning the bass a month later. I quit following them much in about 1980.
Now it's 70 yr olds playing 50 yr old songs for 30 yr olds... They should just let that shit go
"I would say the record speaks fer itself, yer honner." 🤓
"I wasn't representing anybody but myself" pretty much sums up both his business and political agendas.
@InUnfunky
Yeah, I'm convinced 
's real estate empire and casino were always about laundering Russian mob/FSB money.
Rudy's job was to take out the Sicilian Mafia to clear the field for the Russian mob/FSB
Putin's real genius was realizing that dark money PAC's provided a way to buy a political party.
With the Rs doing his bidding, Putin has the US in check
Vote for Biden
AND
Be ready to take to the streets to non-violently resist the coup
@InUnfunky As I said to a friend yesterday (about the Truth Social claim he has $500m when he told the court he did not), "It's like he's been grifting so long it's replaced any human there was once was. There is no man. There is only The Grift."
Pretty sure that was done by Fred Sr. when D was a child.
@InUnfunky Based on what I read in his niece's memoir, I'd agree. Fred Sr. hollowed the human right out of him.
Now that you mention it...I pre-ordered Mary's book, got it, and read it in one day. Was disappointed cuz was expecting more psych eval, less fam stuff. I donated it to the local hospice thrift store.
@InUnfunky Maybe we'll get the psych eval in the new one she's writing
But hey — per RS via WaPo from ‘16 (cuz the “Truth Social”/SPAC bullshit) let’s take a walk down memory lane. And remember that more than a few R voters are fully aware of Trump’s cheating and chiseling and scamming but “that’s what ya gotta do.”