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TCinLA's avatar

Don't worry, Barry, everybody thought he was a fucking joke. We read your piece back then and said "yeah... that's right..."

As Charlie Sykes put it Monday, "Remember, clowns with flamethrowers still have flamethrowers. And they're still clowns, so laugh at them. It's the one thing they can't stand."

Recall that the only American movie Hitler ever got totally enraged over, to the point he had his agents talk to the America First traitors they controlled, to get them to go after Charlie Chaplin for having made "The Great Dictator," which is still the most insightful movie ever made about the psyche of these guys - it explains Trump perfectly.

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Barry Friedman's avatar

And of nothing else -- and there may be nothing else -- we can swap such jokes when we're all sent to a re-education camp

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William Bouxsein's avatar

Barry, while I hope your life is long and happy, allow me to say that "Trump tried to have him fired" should be the first line of your obituary.

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Barry Friedman's avatar

It wouldn't be a bad epitaph, you're right about that

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Kent Anderson's avatar

I remember that week. I remember me writing, "he goes away and leaves YOU in charge?"

"But, her emails."

"Lets go Brandon."

"But, her laugh."

Thanks for that, Barry. You're counting the days, aren't you?

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Barry Friedman's avatar

You have no idea

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Barbara Lippert's avatar

Always prescient!

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Barry Friedman's avatar

. . . except not at all.

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Edward Kazala's avatar

It's what everyone thought, right up until he got the nomination.

No way that clown gets nominated by the GOP. The party leaders will figure out a way to stop, because Hillary will win in a landslide against him.

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GL Dryfoos's avatar

uhhh… mmm uh, yeah… I mean, y’know…

Aww… fk it. Never mind. Forget I said anything.

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Barry Friedman's avatar

I hear you. And well put.

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wlipman@comcast.net's avatar

"I told Orville, I told Wilbur, and I'm telling you: the thing will never get off the ground."

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Barry Friedman's avatar

Love this.

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Terry Moran's avatar

Well, that didn’t age well. Except the parts that did.

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Jack Mahoney's avatar

He is the new Messiah, which makes me wonder how much the evangelists cleaned up the old Messiah's bio.

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Edward Kazala's avatar

Hoo, boy. That was a lovely trip down memory lane, to a much simpler time, when Steve King was the worst the GOP could throw up.

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

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Barry Friedman's avatar

It's mostly them. Yeah, I know, we're all in this together. That still pisses me off sometimes.

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Edward Kazala's avatar

True. But I have relatives (by both blood and marriage) who are on his side, so I have to include them, as much as I'd like to ignore it.

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June Butler's avatar

Will we still all be in this together when you're in Portugal?

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Barry Friedman's avatar

Yeah. There will be a time delay , though

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June Butler's avatar

That's not quite what I meant. It's complicated. Later.

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Robert Tetrault's avatar

I must have blinked back then. A good one, Barry. However, getting an irate call then is different now, innit?

Difficult to enjoy the popcorn when the outcome is so pervasive.

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Palma E. Pustilnik's avatar

All I can do is say, again, we are soooooo fucked.

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Paul Cari's avatar

"On taxing Chinese goods: "Listen you mother fuckers we're going to tax you 25 percent."

Wow. I think you have some drops of Nostradamus blood in your ancestry.

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