Happy holidays to all. Been in Disney World. Fun with family. More motion sick on rides than usual. I think from all the floaters in my right eye from the partially detached retina.
I never came up with something I felt ok saying to my sister.... but a great time with my bro and 11 other relatives.
That is so funny, my first thought when my eyes landed on that photo was that it was Amy Klobuchar ?
Agree with your comments on the Evangelical movement. I have been telling my Evangelical friends for several years that they have lost the moral high ground and, if Trump goes away, they are also in the wilderness and have made themselves irrelevant. They have debased their beliefs to such an extent under Trump that they have lost their credibility. I remember a bible story from my younger church going days (Unitarian now but raised in a Congregational church) about Satin taking Jesus to a mountain top and showing him all of the kingdoms of the world and telling him it would all be his if he just knelt down to him. Jesus turned him down but Evangelicals replied, "Where do I sign?".
@Paul W, it is so nice to hear from you!
If you haven't seen Doonesbury today, it is about DT and it is good.
https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-incompetent-lazy-nazi-government-clown-show-opinion-1408136
This is a good read on Hitler. It sounds like T also.
Wow. That is an uncanny description of Trump if you dont already know its Hitler theyre talking about.
@jessi1978 -- Interesting he was lazy and incompetent.
A New Yorker book review of How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter listed some behaviors that many famous dictators, including Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and the smaller "tin-pot" dictators, had in common:
1. The dictator, usually a man, rises to power because a powerful group finds his policies fitting for their needs but the group mistakenly thinks they can control him.
2. The dictator gains control, not with charm, but intimidation, and not persuasion, but fear.
3. He (he's usually a man) tends to be good at one thing and this causes others to overestimate his abilities. I have a friend who thinks Trump is a hard worker because he only needs a few hours of sleep.
4. After they manage to make it to the top, there is an increasingly frantic purging. He gets rid of all in his circle except the sycophants.
5. Then comes the isolation of the dictator within his palace—increasingly friendless and paranoid.
6. Finally, after all the death and brutality imposed, the dictator’s power, and often his life, ends with remarkable suddenness.