Sen. Jeff Flake(y), who is unelectable in the Great State of Arizona (quit race, anemic polls) was caught (purposely) on “mike” saying bad things about your favorite President. He’ll be a NO on tax cuts because his political career anyway is “toast.”The funniest thing about it to me is Trump calling himself "your favorite President." It's absolutely accurate, because he is our only President. I mean, you might try to write a screwball comedy — in the manner of "My Favorite Wife" — where some strange occurrence causes there to be 2 Presidents, but even if you think Hillary was cheated out of the presidency, there's no way she is the President. And if you try to say, but my favorite President is Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt, I'm going to say it depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.
There's also some rock solid content. Flake has decided not to expose himself to an actual election process in Arizona, where a GOP incumbent should be able to win, and instead — with no judgment of the electorate to worry about — he's just speaking out against Trump. Flake's speaking has struck me as vain and attention-seeking, and the love he's getting from liberals would never translate into support in an actual political contest.
The "(purposely)" is funny, because who doesn't believe that Flake meant for his remark to be heard? Making it seem secret was a way to amplify it. That was my opinion and my favorite President agreed. Good. I also like that he used the "mike" spelling and not "mic." (Maybe Laurence Tribe will apply his massive brain to the question whether "mike" is a "distinctly Jewish" spelling.)
"Toast" is funny because "toast" popped up in Flake's open mike remark "If we become the party of Roy Moore and Donald Trump, we are toast." So Trump is just flipping the insult back. Reminds me of "Puppet? No Puppet. You’re the Puppet" at that debate with Hillary:
It is childish, but Trump doesn't have time for longer statements.
And on a deeper, emotional level, "toast" is a warm, delicious word. Toast! We're toast! I love toast! Mmmm, toast! A toast to toast!
But what I really came here to opine about is the name-calling: Flake(y). Should a President be sticking names on everyone? I don't know but Trump doesn't do it to everyone. Only to those who hit him with a low blow. It is undignified, and I prefer the idea of going high when they go low, but that's not Trump. That's not what our favorite President does. (That's the name he's gotten me to start using for him. It's sticky.)
So let's move on to the question whether Flake(y) is a good name for Jeff Flake. "Flake" was already a funny name — already connoting flakiness — and Flake has lived and achieved with it. How can you make it more of an insult by adding "y"? Is it worse to be "flaky" than to be a "flake"? I think it's worse to be a flake, since it suggests it's the entirety of what you are as opposed to merely one of your attributes. (Reading the definition of "flaky/flakey" in the OED, I see that President Reagan called Qaddafi "flaky.")
But when I think about "Flakey," my first association is Flakey Foont!
Do you know what I'm talking about? Are you not up on Mr. Natural comics?
Mr. Natural has strange, magical powers and possesses cosmic insight; but he is also moody, cynical, self-pitying, and suffers from various strange sexual obsessions. He is endlessly being accosted by would-be disciples seeking the truth (among them such long-running Crumb characters as Flakey Foont and Shuman the Human). He typically regards them with amused condescension and a certain grudging affection, although his patience often wears thin and he takes sadistic pleasure in making them feel like idiots. While he is typically very cool and in control, he sometimes ends up in humiliating predicaments like languishing for years in a mental institution.The really weird thing is thinking of Trump as Mr. Natural!
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Ritmo you are a nasty child. I wonder that McDonalds will still keep creeps like you on the job,
"Maybe Inga really is this dumb, and not just playing dumb."
She is obviously dumb and has to rely on lefty speaking points. That's fine.
My issue is that she has claimed credit for being a widow to an MD and working as a psych nurse. Psych nurses are some of the dumbest of the dumb. They cannot figure out anything on their own, but will give great BJs to those who can.
I have been there.
Get a grip, Michael K. Or better yet, ask one of your Republican grab-ass aficionados to do it for you. You are losing whatever handle you could have ever claimed to have over yourself.
Did you EVER have a sense of humor? "Nasty?" Geezus. You are something else. You must have been a real treat in the operating theater. Have a glass of wine, put on your slippers, curl up in a ball with your latest WWII novella and FOX blaring in the background and relax for a fucking change. I will keep commenting and your umbrage at that won't change a thing. No one cares about your feelings, Loser. (Big guy!)
Trump tweets, and the caravan moves on.
Hey everyone!
Michael K was offended!
Oh, no! The sky is falling.
Let's all try to have more respect for Mr. Michael K's very important, very adult, and very easily hurt feelings.
He's like a whole university campus of PC, all unto himself. His world is really that big.
You just don't know and respect how big, wonderful and diverse all his amazing feelings are. If only we could all be Michael K.
Michael K reminds me of the Jennifer Grey character when Jeannie Bueller goes into the principal's office and Edie McClure asks her, "Now who's bothering you today?"
“They cannot figure out anything on their own, but will give great BJs to those who can.
I have been there.”
Psycho. You are no psychologist. Now it’s very clear. You are a fraud. No real psychologist would be more obsessed by anonymous commenters on blogs than their patients would be. Not only are you a fraud, you’re a swine.
I know we tend to stray into personal back and forth, but let's take a breath and pull back, and address the primary issue.
The mother of all sexual harassment/sexual misconduct claims was against Bill Clinton, circa 1996.
In fact, the Arkansas State Trooper story was in 1992, but was widely dismissed as a right-wing conspiracy. But then came Paula Jones, and then Lewinsky. Adultery (with Gennifer Flowers) was admitted, but the rest was denied, and fought.
Question: Did Bill Clinton, generally abuse women or not? And, at the time, was it proper for the Democrat establishment to fight the charges, rather than criticize Bill Clinton?
The times they-are-a-changin'. Can't be groping titty or grabbin' ass anymore. Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Al Franken, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Glenn Thrush, Russell Simmons, Brett Ratner, James Toback, Yes, Roy Moore, and several more shoes to drop.
Michael K reminds me of the Jennifer Grey character when Jeannie Bueller goes into the principal's office and Edie McClure asks her, "Now who's bothering you today?"
That's funny.....Chuckles reminds me of her when she's talking to Charlie Sheen in the police station.
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“They cannot figure out anything on their own, but will give great BJs to those who can.
I have been there.”
Psycho. You are no psychologist. Now it’s very clear. You are a fraud.
Inga disputes claim psych nurses give great blow jobs. What then? Average BJs? Mediocre BJs?
https://youtu.be/H19uKs99vIw
"Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Al Franken, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Glenn Thrush, Russell Simmons, Brett Ratner, James Toback"
Any of those that *isn't* a well known leftist or liberal?
I'm glad you didn't list Jeremy Piven. Guy immediately asked for a lie detector and passed it with flying colors. I know they're not 100% reliable or anything, but the speed in which he volunteered for it speaks as much as the result does. He starred in PCU which is one of the most merciless mockeries of the Left that ever came out of Hollywood, and I'm betting this is delayed and opportunistic revenge.
Roy Moore and Bill O'Reilly on our side... any others?
In fact, the Arkansas State Trooper story was in 1992, but was widely dismissed as a right-wing conspiracy. But then came Paula Jones, and then Lewinsky. Adultery (with Gennifer Flowers) was admitted, but the rest was denied, and fought.
At least two of these three examples involved no misconduct or harassment whatsoever. Hello?
Are you a vindictive ex-lover of Clinton's or something, Bay Area Guy? Usually that's the sort of profile of someone who confuses misconduct with merely being a disappointed/jilted lover.
(And actually, I never really considered O'Reilly on our side, or liked him much. He was as wrong on as many issues as he was right, in my book, but 50% right blows 90% of the rest of the media out of the water.)
At least two of these three examples involved no misconduct or harassment whatsoever. Hello?
It's called a "power imbalance", and that alone is considered misconduct. You might want to ask the partisan side you slavishly support about it. They made them rules.
It was hilarious how you attributed it to "Americans" though.
And Lewinsky didn't involve any misconduct, eh? The perjury, the subjourning to commit perjury, the having the government get her a job in the private sector, all above board and on the straight and narrow, yes sir!
It's called a "power imbalance", and that alone is considered misconduct
President Clinton himself signed into being the law that made what he did with Lewinsky de jure sexual harassment.
To be fair, the EPA (or the laws which it initially administered) did do quite a lot of good early on. LA smog has been mostly tamed, coal-furnace scrubbers work rather well at reasonable cost, and there have been vast improvements in water quality in most places .
The problem is not that this all was not worth doing, but that they never thought to stop. The cost (to the "polluter" and the economy in general) of the next increment increases asymptotically. And the enforcement regime became, as usual, a justification of itself without regard to performance.
Flake should run for President, he’d get lots of independent and even some Democratic votes. Trump would be toast. Flake wouldn’t be running in just a red state like Arizona, his appeal is much greater nation wide among independents and centrist Democrats. If Democrats don’t come up with a kick ass nominee and Flake would run, he’d win over Trump.
It's called a "power imbalance", and that alone is considered misconduct.
What cuntery. Are you some kind of matchmaker-tyrant who declares that the only permissible sexual unions are those that take place between two people of precisely the same station? I guess there go all the Cinderella stories. Keep the classes pure! Just like we Republicans also hope to keep the races pure! Whatever.
"Are you a vindictive ex-lover of Clinton's or something, Bay Area Guy?"
Heh - yes I am, you brilliant sleuth!
But, I was drunk at the time, and don't remember the incident, and plan on coming out as a gay commenter.
Hey, it worked for Kevin Spacey.
"Are you some kind of matchmaker-tyrant who declares that the only permissible sexual unions are those that take place between two people of precisely the same station?"
I believe, if we checked with the dogmatic authorities at your local university, that they would require such a condition before approving of a marriage. That is, if they are willing to approve of any heterosexual marriage at all.
Ritmo is still showing why a literacy, if not intelligence, test should be administered before allowing a child access to a keyboard.
If I'm a child, Michael K., then why are you the one acting all butthurt?
Don't you think we all see your butthurt?
I mean, it's like we seriously see signs of strain and wear and tear and fissures and aneurysms around the open butthole that is your avatar and everything it posts.
Why do you not know this after all these years?
Ritmo gets crazier all the time. I swing by from time to time to see if he has been committed yet.
No, you swing by because you like to complain. And because you labor on the misapprehension that there's such a thing as a Bitch of the Year Award that you could win. If only. You'd certainly be in the running.
Is Ritmo still allowed out with the adults ?
To be perfectly frank, even though I didn't vote for him, Trump _IS_ "my favorite President", going back to Reagan. If the election were today, this time I WOULD vote for Trump, and have zero embarrassment abut that.
Unknown: "Flake should run for President,.."
Of course! Then he too could momentarily be deemed the "New Leader Of The Free World" by Inga!
If course, that hasn't exactly worked out for Ingas other chosen "New Leaders Of The Free World", Macron, Merkel and May.
Oh yeah, the nut job also at one time called Trudeau the "New Leader Of The Free World"!
Always entertaining.
By next month Inga will Officially Not Remember Any Of Them. They too, as with all things, will simply become another mythical right wing conspiracy.
Your nursing home care aide is doing some great work with you I see, Michael K.! Congratulations!
Next week you'll be back to solid foods.
TTR: "Next week you'll be back to solid foods."
I have fond memories of lime and tangerine jello with loads of shredded celery and carrots and one "bad" experience with strawberry jello with radishes. I still don't understand that one.
"Flake has decided not to expose himself to an actual election process in Arizona"
Exposing yourself gets you in a lot of trouble these days.
"That's the name he's gotten me to start using for him. It's sticky."
Stuck on Trump.
What, no discursis from the (unlinkable) OED about flaky/flakey as spelling/usage ... ?
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