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Jun 17, 2022Liked by Susan Campbell

Like those timid souls who hated Ali until it became unpopular. “Oh!” they now declare,,

“I admired him way back when”.

Bulls..t !

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Exactly.

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Jun 17, 2022Liked by Susan Campbell

I couldn't agree more if I had a dump truck.

Though I confess to having read great quantities of these things from libraries, thus creating secondary demand. Including the ones by GOP establishment figures who decided Trump was too much.* Nowadays, though, they're coming out so fast I'm not troubling to keep up. (I am waiting to read Kellyanne Conway's redolent slag pit, though, in expectation of it being extremely characteristic.

The current slew is peculiarly offensive, with advance publicity suggesting that their name authors** are chuffing themselves on their virtue in having secretly disapproved of the administration they supported.

Say, did you look at Donald Trump's picture book? It was so weird, and showcased things like TFG's ignorance of when presidential terms start, as well as his characteristic pettiness. So much was so bizarre that I photographed a bunch of pages, as Trophies of Weirdness.

* From these, I learned that Republicans think that everyone agrees that they are The Sane and Responsible Ones. Useful to know, and I hope to re-elevate my jaw within a couple of decades.

** Christ knows how many ghostwriters were involved.

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I missed the picture book, on purpose. I cannot bring myself to witness any more of Kellyanne's crap. I just can't.

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I feel you. I'm just rubbernecking. Because I'm bad.

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Jun 17, 2022Liked by Susan Campbell

Paraphrasing Frank Zappa:

There ‘s the man who ran the country,

There’s the men/women who claim they think.

They’re all made out of plastic,

When they melt, they start to stink

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Excellent addition, Paul.

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Jun 17, 2022Liked by Susan Campbell

It’s nice to know my adolescence wasn’t wasted.

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It was not -- at least, not entirely.

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But that so rarely works out, that they actually sell books. And that makes me happy -- though they DO still seem to command inordinately large advances...

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