Just listened to an interview with this author on Deadline White House on MSNBC, it was just a bit unsettling. I’ve been trying to put this all out of mind for mental health, so I hadn’t realized all about Trump’s campaign launch rally in Waco and how Bannon is calling MAGA the Trump Davidians.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/ ... ump-speech
Another book worth borrowing from the library, maybe.
Come Retribution
Come Retribution
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Re: Come Retribution
Not sure I'd ever believe anything from ol' Mr. "Flood the Zone With Shit".
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
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Re: Come Retribution
While I could believe Bannon would know (or found out and used the term) "come Retribution" to hearken back to confederate code words, I'm not even sure Trump could name the sides in the Civil War, let alone would know an obscure term not agreed to by many historians as being tied to an assassination conspiracy (at lest directly).
Re: Come Retribution
Sure Trump is dumb as the day is long, I'll grant you that. But he's angry and mean and surrounded by angry and mean and much smarter authoritarian minded people, who know how to manipulate all the angry, mean and just misguided people who follow Trump.Big RR wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 6:43 pmWhile I could believe Bannon would know (or found out and used the term) "come Retribution" to hearken back to confederate code words, I'm not even sure Trump could name the sides in the Civil War, let alone would know an obscure term not agreed to by many historians as being tied to an assassination conspiracy (at lest directly).
We are so far from out of the woods yet.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
Re: Come Retribution
Agreed; and he is a big enough of a jerk to be a puppet for those people who can't/don't speak for themselves. But he is a puppet who has a following and is still a concern.