Monkeyboy wrote:great line I read somewhere a few days ago (don't recall where) is that we are all half-boiled frogs.

I think that's pretty accurate. Trump just hinted about changing our system of government to a dictatorship and it's hardly news at all. And his own party encourages it.

jerseyhoya wrote:I can't pretend that I follow Italian politics closely, but their election yesterday seems to have resulted in quite a shitshow

4 Takeaways From a ‘Throw the Bums Out’ Italian Election

Not at all clear how they're going to be able to form a government

smitty wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:I can't pretend that I follow Italian politics closely, but their election yesterday seems to have resulted in quite a shitshow

4 Takeaways From a ‘Throw the Bums Out’ Italian Election

Not at all clear how they're going to be able to form a government

When I lived in Italy, their politics were a mess. Kept changing governments and stuff.

Monkeyboy wrote:great line I read somewhere a few days ago (don't recall where) is that we are all half-boiled frogs.

I think that's pretty accurate. Trump just hinted about changing our system of government to a dictatorship and it's hardly news at all. And his own party encourages it.

Mr. Cohen said he missed two deadlines earlier that month to make the $130,000 payment to Ms. Clifford because he couldn’t reach Mr. Trump in the hectic final days of the presidential campaign, the person said.

Ms. Clifford was owed the money in return for signing an agreement that bars her from discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump in 2006, people familiar with the matter said.

After Mr. Trump’s victory, Mr. Cohen complained to friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment to Ms. Clifford, the people said.

First Republic and the Treasury Department declined to comment. Asked for comment, Mr. Cohen offered a two-word emailed statement: “Fake News.”

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TenuredVulture wrote:Why isn't the teacher's strike in WVA getting more play? It's in its 8th day, and I think this is huge. I guess the elites who run Fox/NPR/NYTimes are scared.

TenuredVulture wrote:Why isn't the teacher's strike in WVA getting more play? It's in its 8th day, and I think this is huge. I guess the elites who run Fox/NPR/NYTimes are scared.

Trump’s remarks were a bit all over the place, but he did manage to land some funny jokes. Even at his own expense. “My staff was concerned that I couldn’t do self-deprecating humor,” Trump said. “And I told them not to worry, nobody does self-deprecating humor better than I do.” He also included Sen. Orrin Hatch on a joke that was really about him. “Orrin said that ‘Donald Trump is the best at self-deprecation in the history of America. Better than Washington and better than Lincoln’,” Trump said in a clear reference to how he had said Hatch called him the best president in history, which the senator denies.

pacino wrote:Sam Nunberg is losing his mind