"Yesterday, the U.S. Army issued a stern rebuke to the Trump campaign over his visit on Monday to the Arlington National Cemetery...
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Ralph (AF4EZ) last edited by
@ralph058 The white nationalist right has made it almost impossible for people to notice and talk about this, when they flash these signs, because they immediately claim that triggered libs are reading into innocent hand gestures what's not there.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to zemsgram last edited by
@zemsgram If you can retrieve that photo, I'd like to see it. I do think one photo I saw showed at least one other person flashing a thumbs-up sign along with him.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to zemsgram last edited by
@zemsgram Yes, I do, too.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Steve Felten last edited by
@stevefelten Excllent description/analysis of this, con brio.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Cookiefiend last edited by
@LPerry2 Yes, I wonder, too. I have to say that the presence of the Utah governor both appalls and amuses me. If big-wig Mormon men want to appear any way at all, it's grave and dignified — and benign when their policies are anything but benign. Hard to appear grave and dignified when you're standing with this freak show, and I have to say, Shame on Spencer J. Cox.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Amanda Hugankiss last edited by
@AnOldGuy So it appears — so it appears he imagines this is the case, and makes it be the case.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Peter Brown last edited by
@peterbrown Yes, a very good point. Orwell had much to say on that score, didn't he?
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DEDGirlreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy my mother was a narcissist. It’s definitely selfishness to an extreme. And really drives a person crazy that the narcissist doesn’t recognize it in themselves. They can do no wrong in their own eyes. I love Mary.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Greengordon last edited by
@Greengordon I'm not sure whre the material you're quoting is coming from. I don't spot it in Mary Trump's article, and had thought you were responding to that. What I've read is that the Army employee herself decided not to press charges.
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zemsgramreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy actually it was in a link to https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/nature-is-sending-you-a-message-about. that you posted about 8 hours ago. If you look at the people in the picture most of them also have their thumbs up. I’m no good at copying links or posting pictures.
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@wdlindsy Oh look I did it! Guess I’m not as bad as I thought.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to SueDiOh last edited by
@SueDiOh When someone in any chain of command makes a complaint and then refuses to follow through with it — for whatever reason — that leaves people up the chain of command with a problem. The problem is how you can pursue a matter when the person reporting the infraction does not want to have it pursued.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Guitarsophist last edited by
@jredlund A "simulacrum of an emotion he doesn't have" is a very fine phrase here.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to zemsgram last edited by
@zemsgram Thank you! Yes, that's the one I saw. And you're right: more than one person in addition to him is flashing a thumbs-up sign. They are, of course, his followers and the ones who invited him, so they themselves weren't offended, I'm concluding, when he turned the invitation into a political stunt. I'd say they expected that and delighted in it.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to zemsgram last edited by
@zemsgram Thanks. Your copy came through. My aging eyes had trouble spotting all the other thumbs up, honestly, and I'm glad you've now pointed them out to me.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to DEDGirl last edited by
@DEDGirl You and I have that experience in common, growing up with mothers who were narcissists. I commiserate with you. Just yesterday, I told someone that my mother was the world's biggest drama queen. Her whole world was a stage and she was the only actor on it. Everyone else was stage furniture, a prop. But challenge her about the effects of her narcissism and cruelty, and you'd always, always get her retort, "I love you to death! I love you more than life itself." Narcissism = oblivion.
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DEDGirlreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy yeah. One of the last things I said to my mother was telling her she was a narcissist & she responded with, “I’m not a narcissist! TRUMP is a narcissist!!” (He was in no way part of the conversation) I could only laugh. zero self awareness, but can recognize it in others. ️
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Steve Feltenreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy The entire album could be about TFG.
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Greengordonreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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SearingTruthreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"We suddenly discovered we had already surrendered."
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