Writes Maureen Dowd, in "Natalie’s Magnificent Obsession" (NYT gift link).
"Obsession" is the title of a current movie that is, as Dowd tells us, "about a man who wishes for more adoration from a young woman, who falls under his spell and maniacally provides it."
I haven't seen it. And I haven't seen "Magnificent Obsession," but I know it's a 1954 movie starring Ronald Reagan's first wife:
ADDED: After reading Dowd's column, I scribbled this at Grok, writing quickly, without the intention of sharing it, but I'm sharing it:
I'm interested in they way many women in the workplace are competitive with other women in a way that's actually sexist — judging that other women are getting more than they deserve because of their looks and/or imagining that sexual things are going on. They're actually impeding the progress of women... or are they trying to help some subset of women by pulling particular women down? (I'm thinking about the reaction to Natalie Harp.)
And then I connected the Natalie Harp foofaraw to this passage from "President Kennedy: Profile of Power" (commission earned) that my son Chris — reader of presidential biographies — had just texted to me last night. We join the Cuban Missile Crisis in progress.
The line that felt relevant to this post: "You are allowed to bring one secretary."
It feels so "Dr. Strangelove"...
"The women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.”
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It's nice to have sincere friends and colleagues -- someone you can depend on.
Sounds like Nikki's boyfriend better just make the best of things.
Dowd is a bitter, spiteful spinster, and she can get bent.
Democrats see woman only as sex objects for men. They couldn't possibly be competent at their job.
The Brits call Mid August to mid September the Silly Season because there is no news worth printing. This year, Jon “PeeWee” Ossoff earns a special award for vicious vapidity. What small people Ossoff and Dowd are!
Jealousy is not a good look, Maureen.
Somehow the Commies believe if they keep Harping on this story it will hurt Trump. They’re delusional.
And all these deranged Trump haters are not “obsessed”? Please.
There is a letter she wrote to Trump that expresses the adoration I'd imagine Trump wishes he had from... practically everybody. Then again, who wouldn't wish such a thing for themselves? Trump just has the audacity of saying it/intimating it/insinuating it... out loud.
Daily Beast : "Natalie Harp’s intimate letters to Donald Trump are being revealed in full for the first time—showing her spilling her heart and saying she is “unworthy” of him."
“You are all that matters to me,” Harp writes to Trump, “I don’t want to ever let you down.”
Dowd, “ The daughter of a devoutly Christian real estate broker who died by suicide during the pandemic…”
If true, why is that in this opinion piece? To slime a hardworking government employee who is helping the President.
Dowd, a psycho who has never been married, is implying that this young woman sees Trump as her deceased father. Disgusting.
The Left has fabricated a sexual relationship between Harp and the President. No Russia hoax so they have to make up the Natalie hoax.
The reference to the movie “Obsession” is appropriate. The Left and the Press are obsessed with “getting” Trump. Every day it is a parade of stories attacking Trump. Personal attacks. Lies. Fantasies. One hour it is the ballroom. The next hour it is the war in Iran. Turn on NPR, CNN or MS Now and I can guarantee you that 80% of each broadcast day is anti-Trump crap.
This is just another example of why TDS is the most serious mental health problem in America today. Also another example of why America hates the Fake News.
And never forget that the Dems cooked up criminal charges against Trump and tried to jail him. Donald Trump is the toughest guy in the world and he’s our President. He fights for us. That’s why the Left is obsessed with destroying him.
I think it's pretty clear who has the real obsession here.
Maginficent Obession was a great looking movie. Technicolor is fantastic. But the story was hard to get through. Hudson is a mere gardener, in love with well to do middle-aged Wyman. All her snooty friends and family tell her to break off the relationship, but she has a fever and the only cure is Rock Hudson.
IRC, Hudson is supposed to a manual laborer, but he quotes thoreau, and looks well in a Tux, and can hold his own at the Cocktail party.
He's a sort of 50s version of Meade.
When Donald J. Trump is the first thing you think about when you wake up in the morning; remains top of mind all day, influencing everything you do, say, and write; and is the last thing you think about before you collapse into fitful dreams of him – is there a word to describe that condition?
“The senator was lambasting the commander in chief for his erratic, pathetic handling of the Iran war….”
VDH has the full explanation. Trump is destroying Iran’s economy. The blockade is working. Iran is debanked. Army is quitting. Iran is losing $500m per day.
Before October, we will launch devastating strikes. Another layer of leadership taken out. We hit a few power plants and bridges. And the people will rise up with the weapons we have smuggled in. We win. Dems and NYT hardest hit. GOP holds the House. No impeachment.
'...Natalie Harp’s intimate letters to Donald Trump...'
...'The Daily Beast is publishing them amid swirling questions over the national security implications of 35-year-old Harp's status as 80-year-old Trump's most significant gatekeeper, even being used as a conduit to the president by foreign leaders. David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Barack Obama....'
...'The two letters were handed to author and Inside Trump's Head host Michael Wolff ...'
Has anybody read the 'intimate' letters yet? Michael Wolff, eh? David Axelrod, eh? John Osshoff, eh? Why what a remarkable theme, the friends and allies of Donald Trump, one after another, all coincidentally appearing in this lurid tale. And such unimpeachable witnesses, too.
Not so lurid if you just read the alleged letters, quoted without evidence, though.
Natalie Harp's relationship with the president symbolizes a broader sycophancy around him. Idiocracy at its best.
This is the story of the narcissist and his co-dependent: one demands constant loyalty, praise and validation; the other supplies it, excuses every excess, absorbs every humiliation.
Good for Ossoff calling out the madness.
CFP tells us Jon Ossoff will be the Democratic candidate for President 2028. This was a misstep and the mean girls in the press are covering for him.
Natalie, you’re the best. Keep on keeping on.
Lefty women are generally old or ugly, and often both. The ones that aren’t, are stupid and utterly incompetent, and except for Ocasio-Cortez and Harris they are well aware of that fact.
Combine their hatred of pretty, competent women with their TDS, and we have the Natalie Harp story, which is the sequel to the George H. W. Bush - Jennifer Fitzgerald^ story. In both cases the “proof” of the affair is that there is no proof. If you were a honest, decent person, Althouse, you’d feel filthy just for touching this story.
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* Not to be confused with Gennifer Flowers, who really did have an affair — with Bill Clinton.
"All her snooty friends and family tell her to break off the relationship, but she has a fever and the only cure is Rock Hudson."
It's so not puzzling! It's Rock Hudson. Just look at him.
"Obsession." Ha!
The projection is pretty blatant ere.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
Natalie Harp's relationship with the president symbolizes a broader sycophancy around him. Idiocracy at its best.
A woman does her job well and has a good relationship with her boss.
Dumb piece of shit makes up fever dreams to denigrate her.
Democrats are misogynistic pieces of shit that vote vote known rapists like Bill Clinton and Joe Biden.
There's no truth to the rumor that Dowd and Trump had a torrid affair which ended badly, that Trump broke Dowd's heart, and crushed her, that she was never the same, that she's still obsessed and feels an eye-bleeding hatred for any woman that attracts Trump's attention for any reason and that she's become a journalistic bunny boiler.
Democrats prefer women like Kamala Harris that suck c*** to get ahead.
Dumb college educated women are a tribe. They hate women that have actual talent and can stand on their own two feet.
All this time obsessing about Trump detracts from time that they could be thinking about the Roman Empire. Such a tragic waste of time.
What would Bill Clinton do?
She seems to have Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Trump's senior aides are not there to tell him what he needs to hear. They're there to soothe his sensitive narcissistic personality; to tell him what he wants to hear. Over and over again.
“Devout Christians” think that the Jesus who gave the Sermon on the Mount, took all back by appearing to some rando who never met him, in a dream.
You read about this guy’s dream, the slaughter, the apocalypse, and you can see why people who believe it didn’t mind the genocide. Ya gotta break some eggs in bring back Jesus!
Can we all see how starved the Dems are for oppo material? A very attractive aide to the President works hard and commits herself fully to the agenda of this very fallible person, and it's some kind of "stop the presses" moment?Lefty women have to crush righty women, because if they can't, we all see that the Dems don't own the true XXers. Ditto lefty black people and righty black people.
White men have it relatively easy. We just get to despise the political party that wants to destroy us. Easy peasy.
“ Peachy+2 said...
Fuck Maureen Dowd”
How do you do that and keep your self respect?
“You are all that matters to me,” Harp writes to Trump, “I don’t want to ever let you down.”
I found it. Trump is like JFK? 👈🏽 Althouse blog link
You know how I found it? I asked Google's ai.
My point is there have been other presidents who have had the kind of admiring loyalty expressed by Miss Harp. Nothing new to see here.
I don't care what people think. That's how it works.
So according to Dowd, boy likes girl, wants her to like him. Girl likes him. This means he messed with her (no doubt otherwise rational) mind.
Does no one believe women have agency anymore?
Islam's Big Mo:
According to the primary Islamic sources (Hadith collections like Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, and traditional biographies such as Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah), Muhammad married Aisha when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was nine. He also owned, bought and sold slaves.
J.D. Vance vs. Jon Ossoff in 2028. You heard it here first.
Or wildly premature prediction. Either way, I’m claiming it now.
RCOcean is confusing "Magnificent Obsession" with "All That Heaven Allows." Both star Hudson and Wyman, and both are directed by Douglas Sirk, but "Magnificent Obsession" is very much the weirder of the two. Hudson is a careless playboy who inadvertently causes Wyman to go blind (some car accident, IIRC). He turns his back on his wayward past and becomes a surgeon with the goal of curing Wyman's blindness. In case there's any doubt, he succeeds!
The film uses Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" to underscore Rock's redemption.
F MoDo & the media also falls under: We don't hate the Soviet democratic media enough.
I know people who worship Obama. Obama can do not wrong. He was and remains a sentient being.. worshiped like a god.
I guess it's cheaper to film in the dark.
Women can be so cruel to each other. Dowd is jealous that Harp has someone and something to believe in.
Nikki would do anything for her President. Unlike Monica Lewinski.
Bob Boyd at 9:11 wins the internet today.
Natalie is not a RAAT. How does that make you feel? Don't hold back.
"To slime a hardworking government employee who is helping the President."
Isn't the raison d'etre of the current administration, and most of MAGA to slime hardworking government employees.
They hate women that have actual talent and can stand on their own two feet.
Can you describe what "actual talent" Natalie Harp posesses?
I'd have more respect for Trump if he was getting into that strange. It's likely that Trump is intentionally leaking these rumors to make him seem insatiably virile vibrant and vigorous.
Vavava voooooom
"Before October, we will launch devastating strikes. Another layer of leadership taken out. We hit a few power plants and bridges. And the people will rise up with the weapons we have smuggled in. We win. Dems and NYT hardest hit. GOP holds the House. No impeachment."
Didn't you learn anything from your "the war will be over by April 1" prediction?
IEE: “J.D. Vance vs. Jon Ossoff in 2028. You heard it here first.
Or wildly premature prediction. Either way, I’m claiming it now.”
How are you claiming it when I mentioned (8:49) CFP talked about it days ago - and it’s not original with Kane either.
"The Left has fabricated a sexual relationship between Harp and the President."
No it hasn't. That is a creation of the right. The left has pointed out a weird relationship, your side interpreted weird as sexual.
I assume that most of the Trump haters out here, like me, assume that Donald can't get his weird little mushroom dick up anymore, even if he wanted to.
Harp is Trump's bodyguard.
Former Senator Sinema could not be reached for comment.
Wait. I know why I was going with "refreshing". It is refreshing to have a a sex scandal (even though nobody is alleging anything of the kind, here) Weren't we on the verge of having a funeral for sex? People going sexless? and what not.
Make America Have Sex Again.
The "war" has been over since well before April 1st.
We are just letting Iran take the blame for giving us control over the straight of Hormuz.
It is a joke that you idiots call this a "war." This is pure mercantilism.
FF: This is what Ossoff said “he wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie”
You can claim innocence but the lefties in the press knew exactly what he meant.
"...an eye-bleeding hatred for any woman that attracts Trump's attention for any reason and that she's become a journalistic bunny boiler." --Bob Bunny Boyd 👆🏽
That's gold Jerry.
"We are just letting Iran take the blame for giving us control over the straight of Hormuz."
So we control the straight [sic]* of Hormuz? Wish I lived on the same planet as you, then again maybe not.
* I normally wouldn't throw a [sic] in, but apparently you don't know the correct spelling of "strait" as you have used "straight" several times.
"You can claim innocence but the lefties in the press knew exactly what he meant."
Not my fault your mind is in the gutter.
“he wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie”
If he had said "fuck", "sleep with", "get blowjobs from" or even "snuggle", you might have a point. But since when does "travel" imply sex?
The left lie constantly about Trump. Fabrications galore.
The democrat party is a corruption ring.
Most of the democrat party localist cult base - dim-witted lie buyers, liars and fuckheads.
The ethics of the handmade tale is that cisgender men and cisgender women cannot be friends, let alone coworkers. The male and female sexes are bloc acts. Models of Automaton Intelligence. Diversity writ large.
The not so novel green deal? Maybe, baby, a fetus... uh, feature of the binary relationship between the sexes imagined in RAAT philosophy.
Sleepy Joe was so out of it, autopen was getting more action than Slick Willy and Camelot combined.
That's your scandal right there.
The internet informs me that "Dowd draws a parallel to the 1954 film Magnificent Obsession, which tells the story of a man who wishes for more adoration from a young woman who then manically fulfills it."
The citation is to Althouse, so make of that what you will.
Another comment rejected by the Times: Really? “… jumping into the trunk of an SUV?” Like many people I’ve owned a number of SUVs none of which had a trunk, nor have I seen an SUV with a trunk. I suppose if what passes for news is incessant demeaning of Trump and his associates, even the impossible or improbable will suffice.
“Not my fault your mind is in the gutter”
You’ll have to aim that comment at your lefty buddies.
If you really think about it, the left and the left wing nutso media are more obsessed with Trump than anybody else on earth. No matter WHAT happens, they always have to put Trump into the conversation, because they never think about anything else BUT Trump. It gets old....but they keep it up. Just look at the resident lefties here.
Dave Begley said...
Dowd, “ The daughter of a devoutly Christian real estate broker who died by suicide during the pandemic ...
I'd have expected Begley to know that suicides are notches for the Power Wielding Democrats as successful mission accomplished.
Interesting that Maureen and those other NYT journos, Maggie and Michelle, lack the self awareness to notice their own pathological, not-so-magnificent obsession with Trump now well into its eleventh year. Absent their obsession this Natalie stuff doesn’t even reach the level of tabloid junk.
"impeding the progress of women" ought to consider "the feminization of everything" to see if it's the progress wanted.
Achilles mews: "𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘶𝘻."
Trump’s economic challenge: $40T debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel. His agenda is under strain as the Iran war pushes up prices and the U.S. finances worsen.
Trump’s critics used to be accused of suffering from Trump derangement syndrome when they suggested that a decision-making style based on vanity, vengeance, vibes and self-dealing would end in disaster.
So it was Tump supporters who were the ones suffering from TDS all along; accusing others of the same is what psychologists call "projection"...
Maybe Maureen Dowd can write an article about how nuts Rosie O'Donnell and her obsession with Trump is. Even when she left the country, she missed him so much she talked about him everyday, and hurried as fast as she could to get back here to luxuriate in her obsession that is making the crazy woke left love her all over again.
This is very likely the first time I come across the word **foofaraw** in this blog. To me it's worthy of note because I'm very fond of foofaraw.
Foofaraw, faraw
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Foofaraw, faraw
What will be, will be
"Maybe Maureen Dowd can write an article about how nuts Rosie O'Donnell and her obsession with Trump is. "
Or maybe an article Trump and his obsession with Rosie O'Donnell. He is after all, President, and she is a C-list celebrity.
Freder: “I assume that most of the Trump haters out here, like me, assume that Donald can't get his weird little mushroom dick up anymore, even if he wanted to.” You may also assume that the normals here are not surprised to learn that you Trump haters spend time thinking about Trump’s “weird little mushroom dick.”
Peachy+2 said...
Fuck Maureen Dowd ....
Dowd wishing it soooo much.., thank you peachy
Gratitude is a gender difference? Respect. Loyalty, too? Not in my world.
Natalie Harp was dying of bone cancer. Trump’s Right to Try initiative saved her life. Of course she’s going to adore the man that saved her. And of course he’s going to be proud to have saved her. Context matters. Ossified is an ass.
Ossof, not ossified, lol. Is that you, Freud?
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
Achilles mews: "𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘶𝘻."
Trump’s economic challenge: $40T debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel. His agenda is under strain as the Iran war pushes up prices and the U.S. finances worsen.
Diesel and mortgages were more expensive under Biden.
Trump is growing the economy at a faster rate than Biden did.
But you think you can care about these issues now with a surface level analysis because you are a stupid idiot that does what the NYT tells him to do.
And when a Democrat is president you will just shut up and do what you are told because that is how stupid you are. You are a dumb sheep like all other democrat voters.
"They're actually impeding the progress of women..."
Yes, there are actually people who do not approach life as if it were a movie about the power of sisterhood.
So, the left is trying to drive this woman to suicide. Pathetic, but not surprising.
Freder Frederson said...
"We are just letting Iran take the blame for giving us control over the straight of Hormuz."
So we control the straight [sic]* of Hormuz? Wish I lived on the same planet as you, then again maybe not.
It isn't my fault you are too stupid to gather your own information and to see what is happening in other countries.
* I normally wouldn't throw a [sic] in, but apparently you don't know the correct spelling of "strait" as you have used "straight" several times.
Speech to text hasn't caught up on some things yet.
Nobody cares except dumb people like you who have no arguments or ability to think for yourself. You are too dumb to discuss the issue which is why you haven't made a single cogent argument yet.
For MoDo. A little reminder of her sycophant celebrity club
If Harp truly feels that Trump saved her life, that already explains why she’s so devoted. Dowd’s and many others’ romantic comments seem unnecessary.
The irony is that Harp’s belief appears to be mistaken. She’s said that the treatment that helped her was an FDA-approved drug used in a way that doctors could already do. That’s something that didn’t need Trump’s 2018 Right to Try Act.
When Clinton was schtupping an intern we were told to Move On, but this shit gets nonstop coverage. Jesus.
Help me understand, Maureen. A thrice-married, puffy-orange playboy is twice elected president despite grabbing random women by the pussy and banging a porn star before paying her off, and now you expect Americans to care about the throbbing scandal of . . . Trump having an attractive secretary who’s devoted to him?
The whole affair is so quaintly and charmingly 1962 that I suspect Trump leaked it all and is cackling at how it’s played out.
Freder Frederson said...
“he wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie”
If he had said "fuck", "sleep with", "get blowjobs from" or even "snuggle", you might have a point. But since when does "travel" imply sex?
Then what are you even complaining about?
That someone who owes her life to a Trump policy likes the person who implemented that policy and wants to be a part of that administration?
This just demonstrates how dishonest and terrible people like Freder are. He cannot be honest about anything. He can't even call a woman an adultering slut properly.
He is a misogynistic piece of shit that thinks any woman who does not vote the way he thinks they should is a bad person for reasons he wont even honestly take credit for.
The real problem with Democrat men being Misogynistic pieces of shit is that Democrat women live down to their standards for women.
They are just a morally degenerate tribe of people acting on animal instincts.
I’ve used foofaraw a few times over the years, maybe 10 times as you can see at this link
https://althouse.blogspot.com/search?q=foofaraw
I used it for eating the dogs, for Sydney Sweeney‘s jeans, for the “million little pieces“ controversy…
The etymology includes the Spanish word fanfarrón, which seems closely related to the English word fanfare.
"It's so not puzzling! It's Rock Hudson. Just look at him."
Yes but he's a Gardener. Its simply not done my dear.
Achilles doubles down on stupidity: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 "𝘸𝘢𝘳" 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘈𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘭 1𝘴𝘵
Scott Bessent’s running battle with the bond market is starting to look like Trump’s war in Iran — started by his own hand with an incoherent set of objectives, an underestimated opponent and an implausible path to victory. And like the conflict in the Middle East, we are all going to suffer its effects.
A sticker for the car windshield that will make other cars get out of the way.
Flawless plan.
No truth to the rumor that Dowd has a rotting wedding cake on her dining room table.
Let's not have a brouhaha about foofaraw; there's enough rodomontade around here already.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
Achilles doubles down on stupidity: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 "𝘸𝘢𝘳" 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘈𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘭 1𝘴𝘵
Scott Bessent’s running battle with the bond market is starting to look like Trump’s war in Iran — started by his own hand with an incoherent set of objectives, an underestimated opponent and an implausible path to victory. And like the conflict in the Middle East, we are all going to suffer its effects.
Americans are flourishing under its affects.
Capital is flooding into the US.
Native born Americans are getting millions of jobs. The economy and job numbers are growing despite cuts in government employment and millions of foreign born people losing their jobs.
Gas prices are still lower than they were under Biden despite Trump completely resetting the Post WWII economic order.
The only reason you find it incoherent is because you are stupid.
“ It is Trump distilled to his essence..."
Wow, what a great tag line for a new product in the Trump Store. Whiskey? Cologne?
“ But since when does "travel" imply sex?”
In the prior sentence Ossof says Trump doesn’t want to do his job. So, Osoff implied Trump travelled for the purpose of being with Harp instead of doing his job.
Magnificent Obsession is a movie where Rock Hudson is a rich playboy who widows and blinds a woman and becomes a doctor to cure her. The gardener story is All That Heaven Allows. It’s important to keep your weeper movies with Rock Hudson straight.
Much as you can’t cheat an honest man, you can’t shame a shameless man.
Even when Howard’s mind is in the gutter
It’d take a miracle to make his putter flutter.
Achilles (10:51 AM) wrote, "Trump is growing the economy at a faster rate than Biden did."
No. In real terms, the U.S. economy grew 7.7% during Trump's first term, 13.4% during Biden's term, and 2.9% in Trump's second term to date, a rate that extended to a full term would be a bit under 8%. Trump's first term looks worse than it otherwise would have and Biden's term looks better than it otherwise would have because of the Wuhan coronavirus. But Trump was in charge when the outbreak occurred and his decisions were partly responsible for the sharp drop in economic activity that resulted.
The data are here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1
Achilles, you have a habit of polluting the comment section with easily refuted falsehoods. It marks you as an ill-informed blowhard.
Inflation soured a lot of people on Biden. So did the fact that job growth came in government and among the foreign-born and stagnated for the rest of the country. I don't wish for a return of the Biden-era.
"It’s important to keep your weeper movies with Rock Hudson straight."
As Rock did on screen, if not in his off-screen life.
There are things wrong with Trump 2.0.
Mo Dowd is still at Trump Hatred 1.0 and irrelevant.
Supposedly the ONE secretary that each could take with them would be needed to type documents/memos, answer calls, and keep track of appointments.
A secretary is not a toy,
My boy.
Today, they would just bring their laptops and cells phones.
Thanks for correcting me chub. I got obsession mixed up with All That Heaven Allows (1955). As a favor to someone else, I watched all these Sirk-Hudson soaps. And got them mixed up. The only one I liked was "Written on the Wind". Probably because it had Robert Stack and Bacall in it.
Obsession was remade in 2002. And i have no intention of watching it.
Rock Hudon, IMO, found his true calling as a Rom-com star. He's just OK as a leading man and he got to show some acting chops in "Seconds".
When Hudson's career was on the downslide and he was looking for work, John Wayne gave him a role.
Let's have no more rowdydow. Understand? No more!
It's always funny to read/hear a leftist accusing US of being obsessed with Trump.
“No truth to the rumor that Dowd has a rotting wedding cake on her dining room table”
That made me laugh out loud. They must be selling out of those cakes on Etsy.
The conservative class's anger at Ossoff but not Max Miller is telling.
*No it hasn't. That is a creation of the right. The left has pointed out a weird relationship, your side interpreted weird as sexual.*
Oh, go fuck yourself, Freder. We all know EXACTLY what Ossoff was doing when he brought it up.
Democrats need their own Natalie Harp.
Q: Who has taken more balls to the chin?
A. Yogi Berra
B. IEE™
C. Pete Rose
D. Rock Hudson
Maureen Dowd? Still? What's next? HL Mencken to attack Trump in an NYT op ed?
“Democrats need their own Natalie Harp.”
Going to be hard to do. While MAGA babes are often hot, leftist women tend to be the opposite. Weird hair, weird. Tats. Often somewhere from overweight through obese.
How much of the Biden era growth was just a natural recovery after the economic shutdown in 2020? How much inflation was Biden's overstimulation of the economy responsible for?
“The etymology includes the Spanish word fanfarrón, which seems closely related to the English word fanfare.“
That’s right. fanfarrón is a polite way of saying brownnose.
Just sort of makes wonder what sort of sluts rich and Fredo married.
“Democrats need their own Natalie Harp.“
Who wants to harp about AOC? or Gavin Newsom? or Cory Booker? or Pete Buttigieg? My goodness gracious.
Thanks for the search code tip. Btw. When ai fails, and it will, this will be very useful.
There is a lot about Trump to be attracted to, especially if you want great things for this nation, and even some women want that.
Ossoff/Buttigieg's campaign slogan: "What, Me Worry?"
Kurt Schuler said...
Achilles (10:51 AM) wrote, "Trump is growing the economy at a faster rate than Biden did."
No. In real terms, the U.S. economy grew 7.7% during Trump's first term, 13.4% during Biden's term, and 2.9% in Trump's second term to date, a rate that extended to a full term would be a bit under 8%. Trump's first term looks worse than it otherwise would have and Biden's term looks better than it otherwise would have because of the Wuhan coronavirus. But Trump was in charge when the outbreak occurred and his decisions were partly responsible for the sharp drop in economic activity that resulted.
The data are here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1
Achilles, you have a habit of polluting the comment section with easily refuted falsehoods. It marks you as an ill-informed blowhard.
LOL you are claiming a growth rate of 13+% for Joe Biden.
This is how stupid you have to be to be a democrat.
Lazarus said...
How much of the Biden era growth was just a natural recovery after the economic shutdown in 2020? How much inflation was Biden's overstimulation of the economy responsible for?
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
People like "Kurt Schuler" rely on survey data.
Maureen Dowd makes me think of of Rita Skeeter from Harry Potter.
I don't have a favorite Rock Hudson weeper movie, but my favorite Rock Hudson dripper movie is Ice Station Zebra.
What a total crap fest of a post from our Constitutional Law Professor, Ret'd. Maybe there was a similar media pile on for Obama's aide (side piece?), Reggie Love, who went "everywhere" with him. I remember there were several "right wing" sights brought it up but all was quickly memory holed.
BTW, as everyone posting (Anne)/commenting here should realize the "letter" was because DJT got her into an experimental drug test program which saved her life.
Sounds like something a divorcee would say about the ex's younger partner.
None of my sources report any contact with Mitch McConnell, except for Natalie Harp, who says that in a recent two hour call, the Kentucky senator assured her that Trump totally wants to marry her but is playing hard to get.
Why's IEE complaining about 40 T debt and also high bond yields <> doesn't one begat th'other
Yes, they’re related, but “one begets the other” is an oversimplification. High debt can push yields higher, while higher yields make servicing that debt more expensive, creating a nasty feedback loop. But yields also reflect inflation expectations, Fed policy, economic growth, Treasury supply and investor demand. So there’s nothing contradictory about worrying about both—the concern is the interaction between them. You’re welcome.
Trump: tariffs don’t raise prices
MAGA: yeah! tariffs don’t raise prices, dumb libs
Trump: I’m going to suspend tariffs on imported beef to lower prices
MAGA: suspending tariffs will lower prices, dumb libs
And three years from now, what will we be hearing about this? What deceits will what Dems be acknowledging? What will they be saying that "Everybody knew?" Everybody knew Maureen Dowd was fighting to keep her increasingly irrelevant column by sounding more and more like People magazine?
I'll stick with this one: "Obsession is a 1976 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold and John Lithgow"
Better story, better acting. No Dowd.
If only Trump had not fucked other women while married to Melania, this whole Natalia story might have meant something. But now that Donald is past the age of fucking anything but our economy, it is time to put this story to rest.
Achilles claims "Capital is flooding into the US."
What a load of bullshit. Of course he doesnt provide multiple sources to back up this wild claim.
In fact, when faced with data contradicting his growth claims, he provided nothing but an insult in response. Complete and utter lies from Achilles as usual.
Libs live in a fantasy world where they make up their own facts and are rightfully ignored. As you would a four year old telling you about the dragon in the backyard.
The facts: “Trump’s Economic Challenge: $40tn Debt, 6.7% Mortgages and $5 Diesel.” - Financial Times. 33 percent job approval.
“None of my sources report any contact with Mitch McConnell, except for Natalie Harp, who says that in a recent two hour call, the Kentucky senator assured her that Trump totally wants to marry her but is playing hard to get.”
The issue, of course, is control of the Senate (which the Dems stole in 2020 with the election cheating they did to put Biden in office - netting them probably 6 seats). With a Rep Governor, he would have done the honorable thing and resigned. But he’s alive, and not in a coma, and using the Joe Biden precedent, can’t be removed - though his Dem Governor is sure trying.
Interestingly though, Sen Fetterman seems to be the opposite case. He had a major stroke, was mostly written off, then recovered. Much to the dismay of his fellow Dems, as he continues to move right as he does.
Achilles (6:25 PM): I clearly stated the growth numbers as being totals over four-year presidential terms, not annual rates. The rate for Biden, whether expressed as a four-year totals or as an annual average, is considerably higher than it is for Trump. I voted for Trump, but the facts are the facts.
This sure READS like a strange obsession:
**Freder Frederson said...
"The Left has fabricated a sexual relationship between Harp and the President."
No it hasn't. That is a creation of the right. The left has pointed out a weird relationship, your side interpreted weird as sexual.
8/22/26, 9:52 AM
Freder Frederson said...
I assume that most of the Trump haters out here, like me, assume that Donald can't get his weird little mushroom dick up anymore, even if he wanted to.
8/22/26, 9:53 AM**
Dude you think about Trump’s penis too much and you never learned to read for comprehension. The NYT had the first breathless and salacious take expanding on Ossof’s jerky aside the NEXT day in order to prime its readers who, like Freder, can’t wait to hear more about Trump’s dick.
FF and MoDo. Two scorned obsessives.
Manufacturing is making capital investments which are not short term but are already contributing to the growing boom in the US economy. No nothing Mark can shit on it but the facts speak for themselves. More direct investment by Americans and foreign companies breaking ground on huge projects. If you are still unaware then you should read actual corporate reports instead of second hand corporate media lies.
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