Oct 282017
It’s that time of week again, and I’m happy to share four fine video clips from Bill’s show last night. Enjoy!!
Dang Bill! Who would have thought that Daddy Bush is a perv! Had it been Dubya, I would not be surprised.
Does anyone think I’m too politically correct, too nice to deplorable Nazi Republican Koch suckers?
As a young anti-Vietnam activist, I blinded myself to LBJ’s Great Society. Now I see him through more mature eyes. Were it not for the war, he would be remembered as one of our great Presidents. I used to own the same bong.
Fetish Patriotism is a good term for goose-stepping Republican anti-Constitutional Fascism.
I think he had a good week.
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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Thanks for Bill.Really enjoyed seeing Joy B, and Woody.
Bill – There are two schools of thoughts on Daddy Bush. I am firmly in the school of thought that this behavior (twice that I heard – oh, three times now?) is dementia-related. I think he had impulse control once. Now he doesn’t. Of course, having been married for 33 years (and counting) to a man with head injuries, I may have a different view of how impulse control interacts with other brain functions than most people.
Joy – Is F. Scott Fitzgerald spinning in his grave yet? Well – I think we can become more effective, but I absolutely do not believe becoming ugly is the answer. I think we need to become less expository and more narrative. Or, translated, we need to communicate by telling stories. Seriously. (Parenthetically, I think I can explain why sexual assaulters are all married. Guys who will screw any female thing that breathes inevitably run up against a person, or a circumstance, that pushes them into a marriage. Usually this happens more than once. Then, regardless how good or bad the sex is at home, they simply move on.)
LBJ – Yes, he was a complicated man. I came to him via his Great Society. Then I learned more and more how difficult it was to take those principled stands. Now I am facing his flaws. I could have forgiven him easily for being wrong. Forgiving him for knowing better and keeoing on anyway is MUCH harder. Needy – yes. If one watches Ken Burns “The Vietnam War”, one can hear and feel that every time there is a tape of him on the phone. But Johnson was “down home,” not just vulgar. Going back to the Burns movie, it’s brought out that at one point, meeting with Vietnamese leaders, he talked about wanting results by using the phrase “possum hides on the wall,” I think it was. Some of them are STILL wondering what he meant, I think.
New Rules – Yes. The people griping about the Constitution are also the ones who understand it the least. And hats – remember Bella Abzug? I don’t remember anyone giving her this kind of grief over hats. Rep. Wilson is psying tribute to her grandmother with hers. “It stars with goose bumps, but it ends with goose steps.” What a great line!
A 93-year old in a wheelchair groping females after telling the same terribly bad joke first: dementia was the first thing that came too my mind too, Joanne. And dementia can really change a person’s personality, sometimes shockingly so. Loss of impulse control is one feature often observed, but the “new” personality may also never have been there. The damage some forms of dementia can do to the brain can be very devastating and (life) changing.
Actually LBJ could be quite crude. If you ever get the chance get a copy of Quotations from Chairman LBJ. Back on the day, I loved it.
Bad Boy: Watershed year? I hope so, because if this does not do it, what will it take…tRump and Kim-Il battling it out in public with dueling dicks?
Beyhar: Mark Halperin and frotteurism at ABC?
Harrelson: The 2 sides of LBJ.
Fetish Patriotism: “It starts with goos bumps, but it ends with goose steps.” So well put! I used to get videos of armed forces things from a very conservative not-quite-cousin, until I once asked him about his time in the service…which he never had.
It’s Sunday afternoon here, the perfect time to enjoy some time with Bill Maher. Thanks for posting, TomCat.
Thanks all. Hugs!