By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
A wonderful work for a Sunday morning. One of my favorite pieces by one of my favorite composers. Enjoy the music and enjoy the day.
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User Tip: I enjoy playing Jace’s Sunday treats in the background as I read through the thread. — Craig
tony & xr, thanks for linking Trump & Putin. Yes, It’s Really a Thing and here’s some more in similar vein from newsweek‘s “Does Donald Trump Have a Subversive Partnership With Vladimir Putin’s Propaganda Machine?”
The opponent wields a “firehose of falsehood” with “a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions.” He “entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience” with exaggerations and unfounded rumors. His technique is entirely new, confounding decades of conventional wisdom that says effective political messages should stay close to the truth.
Donald Trump? No, Vladimir Putin, who has piloted “a remarkable evolution in Russia’s approach to propaganda,” according to a new study from RAND, a think tank based in Santa Monica, California, which has been supplying the Pentagon and CIA with ideas since 1948. Despite ignoring past principles of propaganda, RAND says, Putin has “enjoyed some success” in his main goal: undermining Western unity, and specifically its military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO.
from cnn: Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren continued their ongoing Twitter feud Saturday in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s decision to tap Tim Kaine as her running mate…..
“Pocahontas wanted V.P. slot so badly but wasn’t chosen because she has done nothing in the Senate. Also, Crooked Hillary hates her,” he tweeted.
“I’m right where I want to be, @realDonaldTrump: Calling you out & holding you responsible for your reckless vision for America,” she tweeted.
She didn’t address Trump’s suggestion that Clinton “hates her.”
Warren, a favorite among progressives, was considered a possible but unlikely choice for the VP slot. So far, she has notably abstained from weighing in on Kaine, despite several other Clinton VP contenders — including New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack — praising her choice.
Orlando sentinel:
In a fiery speech before the National Council of La Raza conference in Orlando Saturday, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren repeatedly struck at Donald Trump while stressing economic issues important to Hispanics.
“We believe that diversity has made this country strong,” Warren said at the national conference of the largest Hispanic advocacy organization at the Orange County Convention Center. “And racism, sexism, homophobia, hatred, injustice and bigotry have no place here.”
[….]
“Hillary Clinton must be the next President of the United States, and Tim Kaine must be the next Vice President of the United States,” Warren said. “Not ‘can’, not ‘should’, we must make them.”
[….]
“I have a few things to say that will not fit into 140 characters on Twitter,” she said, calling Trump “a weak, thin-skinned man”, “small, insecure, money-grubbing” and “A man who will never be president of the United States.”
She contrasted an Hispanic man from Nevada, who testified in a Senate hearing on the 2008 mortgage crisis and “struggled not to cry” about telling his daughters they would lose their home, with Trump, who “was excited for the real estate market to crash. … He was drooling over the idea of a housing meltdown, because it meant he could buy up more properties on the cheap.”
“What kind of a man does that?” she asked.
Jace,
Thank you for bringing us beauty each week.
During these weeks of Political brouhaha, love this quote about Wendell Willkie, spoken after he had left the Democratic Party to take a run for the Republican Presidential nomination: “It’s all right if the town whore joins the church, but they don’t let her lead the choir the first night.”
Craig, are you able to skype or call Toby? For years, I have talked to the family cats and dogs on the phone, left messages for them on the old answering machine. My doggie heart aches for you and science has confirmed what we have already known, dogs do emotionally communicate with us…even long distance, I believe.
SJWNY,
Oh that one is so applicable to so many this year.
Jace…enjoying the cool air? We are in the middle of a terrible heat wave, I feel like I live in Phoenix!
The left handed teapot is a mirror image the right tea party. Obstructionists…if they really wanted to push their agenda? Work with the dems, but instead it is going to be a fight…a block to really get something done for our future. For me? I really like the freedom of normalcy and the crazies are really wearing on me…might be the heat. I still have the heebie-jeebies from the RNC fear fest in Cleveland.
just to let you know, notwithstanding its 2 senators myrtle and rant, ky politics isn’t all bad. from today’s courier-journal re dem. convention:
Kentucky’s delegation will have nine African Americans; two Latinos; one Native American; one Asian American; five members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community; and 12 people with various disabilities, said Daniel Lowry, a spokesman for the Kentucky Democratic Party.
In all, Kentucky will have 55 pledged delegates to the convention; 28 of them will go to Clinton and 27 to Sanders, of Vermont, who lost to Clinton here by just 1,911 votes.
The state also will have five unpledged superdelegates. Two of Kentucky’s superdelegates – Charlotte Lundergan and Yarmuth – have said they plan to vote for Clinton at the convention. The state’s other three superdelegates won’t say how they will vote until the convention….
Exactly half of the 60 voting delegates are men and half are women.
“I still have the heebie-jeebies from the RNC fear fest in Cleveland”
bw, so it seems from today’s cartoon does doonesbury
from cnn:
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager is alleging that Russian hackers are leaking Democratic National Committee emails critical of Bernie Sanders in an effort to help Donald Trump win the election in November.
It comes on the heels of “changes to the Republican platform to make it more pro-Russian,” Robby Mook told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” Sunday.
“I don’t think it’s coincidental that these emails were released on the eve of our convention here, and I think that’s disturbing,” he said.
The DNC has previously had its files hacked by an individual named “Guccifer 2.0” that may have had ties to the Russians.
Hackers stole opposition research on Donald Trump from the DNC’s servers in mid-June. Two separate Russian intelligence-linked cyberattack groups were both in the DNC’s networks.
Bernie today on cnn “State of the Union,”
“The focus, though, that I am going to go forward on right now is to make sure that Donald Trump — perhaps the worst Republican candidate in the history of this country; somebody that by temperament, somebody that by ideology, must not be president of the United States — I am going to do everything I can to defeat him, to elect Hillary Clinton, and to keep focusing, keep focusing, on the real issues facing the American people,” Sanders said.
I boycott kaspersky, russian vodka, russian furs, russian caviar, and anything else that is trumpish.
xrep…might as well include eastern European woman, slovenian designers and anything Ukraine that has been touched by Manafort. The goodfellas strong arm.
Craig…going to delete my population post which is awaiting moderation…I think it has too many links. Whoops.
BW,
Yes enjoying the cool air. In AZ I would get up in the morning and put on shorts and take my coffee outdoors. Do the same thing here only now I put on a robe. Sending cool thoughts your way.
I’m warming up to Kaine, but I still think the reds are going to hammer at “gifts and corruption”. I also want to see him get tougher on Wall Street, particularly the stock, bond, and mortgage derivatives, and the undisclosed use of the media to bring about speculative stampedes.
sjwny,
You’re most welcome. You’ve no idea how much I enjoy doing it.
Great Jeff Greenfield quote this morning about Fox & Friends:
Always said about those folk that if they had two brain cells in the same head, they would rattle when they walked.
Jamie,
After the week that was the GOP convention, I thought today’s selection was a much needed moment of purity, beauty and universality.
A chance to clear the air of all the ugliness and ignorance that we have witnessed.
I love sharing the morning glory with you, Jace.
Ms Wino, Thanks for reminding me to boycott Eastern European women – like Slovenian – and men. HAHAHAHA
They are much more likely to be putin’s honeypots than, say, the Zunis, Gullahs, or Amish are.
Btw, Sweetie would be very disappointed in me were I to start tarting myself. And, I wouldn’t feel to good about myself, either.
Jace
Love your Sunday moments of beauty. It is the one time of the week, I’m sure to get enough time to listen to long form musical compositions. Your contributions are definitely appreciated.
By the way, I always wear a slicker and rubber gloves lest I come into contact with anything touched by manafort. Is he registered as an agent of a foreign dictator, or is he vulnerable to detention in Florence ?
Tail of two cats (one cat only has a half tail now). Last night, in spite of no chance of storms, a thunderstorm moved in. We were near the center as seen from the down drafts, the up drafts and the lightening bouncing around outside. Sailing cat is asleep in her cat tower. Stubby cat is laying at the door watching whatever. I heard thunder and the the winds came in. Almost immediately things turn heavy. Lightening lighting up the room with very close thunder. Stubby shot out of the room and under the bed. Sailor sleeping away as the lightening and thunder are very close. Then a blinding slash with immediate “CRACK”. Sailor stretches out a leg then sits up. Now the show she likes was here. She thinks thunderstorms are theater just for her. Fireworks are so cool, she will stretch out on the deck railing listening and watching. I don’t know what she would think of if a gun went off next to her, but everything considered, she would probably pull the trigger to hear more. Stubby showed up several hours later and huddled next to me the rest of the night.
I accidentally caught part of one of the political shows this morning as a talking head moran stated she considered HRC and Trump equivalent and both trying to be elected to gut the Constitution. She plans to not vote for either one. Idiots like that should not be on any program. Quite disgusting and I will have to avoid being upset for the rest of the day. Maybe another cup of coffee will take care of that.
Manafort is a graduate of “What’s a matta U?” Really, his response about the convention of lies…”forgetta ’bout it.”
trump on ailes
“I can tell you that some of the women that are complaining, I know how much he’s helped them. And even recently,” the Republican presidential nominee told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd. “And when they write books that are fairly recently released, and they say wonderful things about him. And now all of a sudden they’re saying these horrible things about him.”
Trump continued, “It’s very sad. Because he’s a very good person. I’ve always found him to be just a very, very good person. And by the way, a very, very talented person. Look what he’s done. So I feel very badly.”
This from the VERY law and order candidate!
trump lies again. Pretty bimbos made ailes’ fortune, rather than vice versa.
The deadbeat’s description of ailes looks like a description of cosby from two years ago. I hope that the lawsuits clean out all of ailes’ treasures. He’d make a really great pauper.
there is no Trump bounce despite the lies of John Dick erson
Who paid whom how much to get the Russian ban from the Olympics lifted?
2016- year of the s___ shows (as is TV programs)
To be fair, GoT rocked.
My current favorite rumor Roger Ailes is coming in to manage the Trump campaign….I cannot stop laughng
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/read-extraordinary-gop-resignation-letter
Interesting read here. Very well written letter. Wonder how many republicans feel this way?
While waiting for the mud slinging to begin, I looked-up the largest cities in the US…I always feel demographics should play a part in a open election…at least I can hope for the results to reflect the changing US population. Philly is fifth.
From Wikipedia:
Rank
City
State
Population[3]
Notes
1
New York
New York
8,175,133
2
Los Angeles
California
3,792,621
3
Chicago
Illinois
2,695,598
4
Houston
Texas
2,099,451
First (and to date, only) city in Texas to surpass 2 million.
5
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
1,526,006
First population gain since 1950.
6
Phoenix
Arizona
1,445,632
7
San Antonio
Texas
1,327,407
San Antonio’s rapid growth causes it to overtake Dallas as Texas’ second-largest city.
8
San Diego
California
1,307,402
9
Dallas
Texas
1,197,816
10
San Jose
California
945,942
First appearance in top 10.
Blonde, didn’t know you had one held. Restored just above here, interesting stats (didn’t know San Jose had moved to top 10).
HOUSEKEEPING: I have now disabled the filter that holds comments for number of links, too many of you getting caught by it. Hoping we have enough spam protection without it.
This filter might still flag comments with a lot of pasted-in code from web sites, which is why I usually paste first into my plain text Notepad, copy that, and then paste into comment field.
As always, if anyone has a comment held please let me know: help@craigcrawford.com
roger ailes could bring his 30-something gals, wearing tight, low cut, Serbian designer dresses, over to the trump campaign. That would brighten up the deadbeat’s scary man cave.
Bink
Spot on.. Game of Thrones was EXCELLENT this year.. My favorite scenes were when the zealot hater religious nuts got blown up. Ah, a good series..
“Clinton-Kaine: the safe choice” isn’t a bad message in a race with Donald Trump
By Ezra Klein
Democratic party chair to lose convention role in wake of e-mail leak
I won’t be feeling sorry for her, considering the blatantly biased shop she ran. Also shows: don’t always expect a reward when doing the Clintons a favor, there’s no loyalty returned if it’s inconvenient for them.
ny times: Michael R. Bloomberg, who bypassed his own run for the presidency this election cycle, will endorse Hillary Clinton in a prime-time address at the Democratic convention
“considering the blatantly biased shop she ran…..don’t always expect a reward….”
boss, so no way Hillary comes out of this without criticism is there? if she rewards wrong doing she’s bad. if she drops her from speechmaking at request of Bernie, she’s bad. Bernie wanted the congress lady fired so not letting her speak and be the object of jeering booing ridicule (a la cruz embarrassing the party on nat’l tv) seems to be the lesser more humane punishment.
I would think Mr. Conspriacy theory would like the Clinton’s campaign complaint that the Russians released the emails because they are biggly
with Trump
I’m with Pat on this one. The culprit would be covered with rotten veg and eggs by the end of her speech. This is more humane.
I think that it would be good to having a couple of surrogates, preferably experts on intelligence, talk about the email hack and russians (aka putin) backing trump with both money and dirty tricks.
The russkies dump money into the trump businesses as investments, while trump syphons the out for his campaign. In other words, the ‘trump empire’ is a money laundering scheme that allows a malign foreign power to illegally participate in our presidential campaign.
Tony,
The crowning of Euron and Pycelle’s termination were my fav’s
Xrep going full Petyr Baelish…
Ok, I’ll stop.
I’ll try, at least.
It’s hot here today 103/120 heat index. Did the lawn late in the morning followed by spraying round-up around the kerb-lines of most of the houses within walking distance. Fortunately I ran out of spray in the 2.5 gallon sprayer that I had. Otherwise I would probably have been a heat casualty. The yard looks good and the neighborhood will look nicer in a few days. Where was Trump when I needed him?
maybe DWS should make a taped apology saying she was sorry the Democratic Party was trying to help the only Dem in the race
from cnn:
Both critics and supporters within the DNC are demanding Wasserman Schultz issue a statement to deal with the many issues raised by the release of a trove of DNC emails by Wikileaks that appeared to show the party favoring Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the primary process.
In a meeting Sunday that was described as at times contentious, Wasserman Schultz said she wanted the statement issued in the name of Amy Dacey, the DNC’s CEO.
“We said no,” said a veteran party activist involved in the discussions. “She needs to own this.”
Separately, a Democratic operative said Hispanic leaders close to Clinton and her high command were discussing Housing Secretary Julian Castro as a possible successor to Wasserman Schultz at the DNC helm.
Party officials decided Saturday that Wasserman Schultz will not have a major speaking role or preside over daily convention proceedings this week.
The DNC Rules Committee has named Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, as permanent chair of the convention, according to a DNC source. She will gavel each session to order and will gavel each session closed.
“She’s been quarantined,” another top Democrat said of Wasserman Schultz, following a meeting Saturday night.
David Axelrod, a former top adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and a CNN senior political commentator, said Wasserman Schultz should resign.
“I would ask her to step aside. I would ask her to step aside because she’s a distraction in a week that is Hillary Clinton’s week,” Axelrod told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”
One close Clinton ally said the hope is that Wasserman Schultz would get the message and leave her position before the convention kicks off Monday. “But she is stubborn,” the Clinton ally said.
craig, as for your “when doing the Clintons a favor, there’s no loyalty returned if it’s inconvenient for them” what do you make of what happened here according to cnn link above: The issue surfaced on Saturday at Clinton’s first campaign event with Tim Kaine as her running mate, when a protester was escorted out of Florida International University in Miami. The protester shouted “DNC leaks” soon after Clinton thanked Wasserman Schultz for her leadership at the DNC. [this indicates a show of loyalty at a rather inconvenient time imo]
Make no mistake about it PatD, Debbie’s offense as the Clinton camp sees it isn’t that she did a bad thing that helped them, for they directed the whole thing, its that she got caught — so under the bus she goes.
Bernie threw her under the bus by way of extortion…. a do it or else kinda thing.
Craig
We all know that in your mind, Hillary is always guilty of something. The fact that she has a reputation among friends of absolute loyalty and that this would not apply to anyone else in similar circumstances is totally beside the point. The last name is Clinton so there must be an underlying, nefarious plot in motion.
Right now, there is an election to be won. To get bogged down in some kind of internecine food fight would be a waste of energy. Even Bernie is keeping relatively quiet on the subject. He’s said his say. W-S will do the expedient and disappear quietly to concentrate on her own election. General squabbling to resume some time after Nov 8.
What I find interesting about the emails being quoted is that W-S is Jewish. None of them seem to be more than grousing between correspondents and given the dates, there is no proof of any kind that actions were taken to go with the words.
politics ain’t bean bag
looks like another puma uprising in this article from heavy titled “Bernie Supporters: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Resignation Not Enough”:
Many supporters are staging a movement they call #DemExit, where they are leaving the Democratic party by the hundreds and even thousands.
more like 10’s and hundreds and were they Dems in the first place –previously registered party members, voters, gave money, worked on Dem campaigns….
it doesn’t matter -the 10’s of hundreds were just looking for any excuse. this is a good one but get an effing life and move on
Jamie, Bernie not only had his say about her resigning but blatantly endorsed her primary opponent. guess he really meant that she should resign her congressional seat not just the dinky dnc one.
I love Katherine Graham Cracker’s Comments. No filter. Just the truth.
Patd
True. Bernie is a grouchy grudge machine and always has been. Retribution on W-S will be taken. I can only hope he will enjoy his moment in the sun enough to encourage his followers that their long range interests lie W-S has now issued this afternoon a statement that she will open & close the convention and then resign after it comes to an end. To be continued…
however, Bernie did say something nice about kaine according to usatoday:
on CNN Sunday morning, Sanders said that while he and Kaine do differ, the newly minted Democratic vice presidential candidate is “100 times better” than Trump — and that’s on his “worst, worst day.”
“Tim is an extremely bright guy, a very nice guy. Are his political views different than mine? Yes, they are. He is more conservative than I am,” Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“But compared to Donald Trump, a guy who rejects science, doesn’t even believe that climate change is real, let alone that we have to take bold action to transform our energy system, a Donald Trump who wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top two-tenths of 1%, a Donald Trump who goes around the country insulting Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women, veterans and African-Americans. Trust me, on — on his worst, worst, worst day, Tim Kaine is 100 times better than Donald Trump will ever be.”
jamie, thanks for the info. here’s what cnn has to say about it:
“Going forward, the best way for me to accomplish those goals is to step down as Party Chair at the end of this convention,” Wasserman Schultz said in her statement.
“As Party Chair, this week I will open and close the Convention and I will address our delegates about the stakes involved in this election not only for Democrats, but for all Americans,” she said. “We have planned a great and unified Convention this week and I hope and expect that the DNC team that has worked so hard to get us to this point will have the strong support of all Democrats in making sure this is the best convention we have ever had.”
Wasserman Schultz had faced intense pressure Sunday to resign her post, several Democratic leaders told CNN, urging her to quell a growing controversy threatening to disrupt Clinton’s nominating convention.
DNC Vice Chair Donna Brazile will serve as interim chair through the election, it was announced Sunday.
With the confirmation the
Soviet KGBRussian Putin (KGB) is behind the break in and release of email to support his dear friend trump we can now relax. Or rather we can hope people put only good things in email so when a nasty group decides to hack the email and release the email it is nothing but blah news.It is really looking bad for the trump. His good buddy and idol is helping him win dictatorship of the americas. We know things can get worse. I am waiting for the next boot to hit the pavement.
Holy steal the show! I remember when Paul Ryan offered to resign as co-chair if Herr trump had asked him to…and now the DNC chair is gone and Donna Brazile is on and finished with her apology tour.
As for the religion remarks, Sanders was upset at being called an atheist. I get it. Although a confirmed Lutheran as a teen, I really came to believe I was an agnostic and continued to label myself as such. Atheist seemed so harsh. However, recently I have discovered I am a sun worshiper, just without all of the bloody sacrifice. Every day is sunday to me and I have been a sun worshiper my entire life.
Sanders speaks on Monday:
https://www.demconvention.com/event-categories/july-25/
The pretend dems that are leaving the party, the bernicrumbs, those who want to break-up the 2 party system? They will be replaced by at least a million of registered republican voters who will vote for Hilltim and we will have the birth of the Clinton republicans.
They don’t call Jesus the
sunson of God for nuthin’, BW.Bloomberg at the DNC.
Bink…nothing as exciting as a solar flare or coronal mass ejection. I always worry about one on election day.
I should have waited until this evening to read that article, BW- looking at sun pictures is just making me hotter.
If we have to choose, I’ll be a moon worshipper. I suppose that makes me a lunatic.
Trump worshippers = Hairetics
I’m going for Dryad or Naiad myself Somewhere cool in the leafy shade or meandering stream.
Good laughs, bink, I like hairetics. Don’t piss-off the sun anymore than necessary…we need this heat wave to break.
Jamie,
Your comment to Craig was right on, I don’t think I have seen him post anything positive about Hillary. I am not sure who he supports! Good comments, hats off to Flatus, Tony, Pat, Jack, OD, Wino and the Cracker and all the others who keep me smiling. One more thing, I wasn’t crazy about Keane, thought he was dull, but after his speech and reading about his biography, I love the guy. What a team they will make.
One major blessing once this week is over: The snide Jeff Weaver will be replaced by the much more cultured and gracious Joel Benenson. Not joyful, entry of Donna Brazile. While it worked out well with the Obama presidency, still have hard feelings about the way she stabbed Clinton in the back the last time around.
You labeled yourself, bink, but you chose the lesser religion…no sun, no moonshine. At this point we will need to devise a drinking game for the convention since moonshine has been mentioned.
Mama, I’m just watching the show, have no skin in the game. Would very much welcome thread posts from Hill fans this week. Just email me for the how-to if you aren’t already a contributor: help@craigcrawford.com
Bink
and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesd…
Apollo, Olympian god of light, the sun, prophecy, healing, plague, archery, music and poetry
Craig
I think the slant is so baked in with you, that you don’t even realize you are doing it. The Hill fans just feel the nails on the blackboard when it happens. It isn’t just you except that it is just one more piece of the media pile on where you instantly know that if it were anyone else, the remark would never be made.
If both sides think you’re in the tank for the other, Boss, you’re doing something right.
Unimportant advice from a non-affiliated voter to the Democratic Nominee: Secretary Clinton, you look best in blue, especially Robin’s Egg. Periwinkle/Cornflower are good choices too. Own that color; tough sh*t, Monica. Wear the hairstyle that is parted in the middle, length stops just below the ears. No Orange, for many reasons – unless you have a puckish sense of humor, it’s not you. Jewelry = gold tones. Lipstick = rosy pink. Scarves remind me of Phyllis Schlafly & ’70s Republican women, so, No. And Good Luck because the alternative is Mr Trump. This fact is your greatest accessory. So… go out there & work it, Girl.
Boss
Submitted a short kick off article for tomorrow.
Thanks much Jamie. Let the games begin.
Here’s my current thinking: after a quarter-century living in this god-forsaken town, I would love to see it shaken to its core because all I have witnessed is nothing but establishment politicians in both parties screwing the middle class, luring them with cynical empty rhetoric at election time. And I am sick of it. Still, it thrills me to see the possibility of our first woman president.
Craig, have you considered becoming Chief Docent of the Capitol’s skeleton room?
Flatus, good idea. When I was a senate page my quiet time for lunch was deep in the basement aside Lincoln’s catafalque. Chatted with many ghosts there, learned a lot.
I always got along with dead folks.
“Here’s my current thinking: after a quarter-century living in this god-forsaken town, I would love to see it shaken to its core because all I have witnessed is nothing but establishment politicians in both parties screwing the middle class, luring them with cynical empty rhetoric at election time.”
Craig,
That’s precisely what fuels Trump supporters and probably Sanders supporters as well. Their anger is justified. That said the shaking that Donald Dumbkof is proposing is of the type that leaves everything in disarray and no good good can come of it. I’m angry too as are many of us, but I am willing to hold on a bit longer until such time as the shake up brings the cream to the top rather than the scum.
Too many people are willing to view HRC through the prism of Bill Clinton. I think that they are living proof that opposites attract. Let’s let her prove herself or prove me wrong. Either one is better than the alternative.
Jace, scum rises to the top, solidifies (its position) and becomes the upper crust.
The Clintons brown-nosed the crust all the way up, but having achieved the White House again, what more can the crust provide them ? If it looks as though the crust is impeding Ms Clinton’s efforts at shaping a more just and equitable America, I think we can count on her to toss the Long Islanders, Main Liners, Back Bayers, Basking Ridgers, Kenilworthers, and Napervillers under her buses.