Thanks for finally speaking out against the former guy who unfortunately is becoming less "former" by the day. PR genius, totally incompetent to be president. We can only hope the courts bring him to justice...because the media still worship at his feet.
Thank you. Thank you. I’m sending this on to others. I wish we could get this monster buffoon off our airways and out of our headlines. We miss you out here in Minneapolis. I was in your audiences and remain a fan who like you, age 81, will have a mitral valve replacement this December. Wish me luck!
Let’s not forget that in the Trump years Niki was joined at the hip with the ex-prez flying around with him on Air Force One until gossip of an affair put a stop to that and she suddenly was given the title of ambassador for the UN even though she had no foreign policy experience. Evidently, she wasn’t entirely happy so quit after a year or so. She probably had her eyes on a political run for office back then. Please don’t praise her too highly as she was with the previous guy never quitting when she should have. Even though she could see what he was doing to our country and to the people. She may have been critical at times but still stuck with him.
She is a republican and went along with the anti-abortion stance in South Carolina, she opposed improving voting rights and she supported Ted Cruz for president. That should say a lot about her. She once said of the previous prez in her book, “In every instance I dealt with him, he was truthful, he listened and he was great to work with. On his policy, I agree with everything that he’s done.”
Ok Garrison. It is time to get off your hind end, get some tools, and start building bridges to make sure Trump does not get elected. And this applies to the liberals and progressives too. After six years I am really surprised somebody has not taken the time to understand who votes for Trump. It’s not that complex.
I know the people that are on the verge of voting Trump into office. I live with them, work with them, and play with them. They are not stupid.
Of this group, I estimate 25% are ignorant. You want to write a group off? Ok, do it here.
Another 30% are disenfranchised. When American poverty gets addressed, these folks will stop voting against the establishment. But this is going to take 1/2 a generation to fix because this problem has been building for about 1 generation.
Now for the next group, and they are around 50%. These people live in a culture that is very different than the metropolitan culture that you love so much. I find it sad when folks from American cities go to other continents of the world to explore other cultures when they won’t take the time to get to know the other culture that exists in their own country!!!! When you take PHC on the road to small Southern towns, you START to understand this culture I am referring to. Superficially you have stated how you enjoy this culture and how they treat you well. I wish you, and others from metropolitan areas would take the time to further understand the people in this culture. You may have to accept some things which you do not understand or which you cannot rationalize. But in doing so, bridges of understanding could be built, common interests could be reinforced, and we could work together to elect a leader we all could be proud of.
Brilliant, Garrison, brilliant. Your "fable" should be printed in every newspaper in the land.
In November 2016 I wrote the following, and I'm afraid that events have borne me out.
THE CASE FOR UM
Because I have no wish to feed the President’s malignant narcissism, not to mention unintentionally advertising his brand each time I write or speak his name, I have decided to refer to him by simply the syllable UM. Those two letters stand in about the same proportion to his full name as his insecure real self must stand in proportion to his overblown ego persona. He cannot t _ _ _ _ democracy if he is after all only an um. (Capitals are optional.) I already spend more time obsessing over the acronym for The Really Ugly Man Presiding than he deserves, and I’m sure I’m not alone in this. Um will be much easier to put out of my mind, to establish um-free zones of thought. The best way to defeat um is to shrink him in our minds as small as he is inside, a colicky red-faced infant in a five-hundred-pound gorilla suit. Because in the end even thinking of him plays into his tiny hands. I believe that um would like nothing better than to become all we think about, all of us, all of the time, the center of everyone’s attention, and we can’t let him have that satisfaction.
If all that isn't "bewilderment" I don't know what is.If it were baseball, I'd guess Garrison is working on his "screwball"...the one in which there is virtually no spin on the ball and it wobbles.
Candidates who throw it are not quite there yet, given the "current bewilderment" in all of us, ptichers included..
What to do? Go with your heart first. If the heart is not nodding, neither should we.... Move on and write-in some on who is on.....as JImmy Smits said in his opening speech to his party leadership in "West Wing: "I'm not here to tell you what you want to hear. I'm here to tell you what you NEED to hear." Who out there has that timidity....anyone? Anyone?
This year I'm picking Tom Hanks again.All sides of him are good, even as an actor.
That opening, breathless, intense, hysterical-yet-chilling paragraph is one of the most remarkable I’ve read in a long time--especially in the anti-MAGA sub genre of American letters. He is so outrageously comedic that it makes perfect sense to attempt to say something about him with such exaggerated and masterful prose. Perhaps you alone--someone of such vast writing experience and someone so fond of comedy even as you so value human compassion and goodness--can really contend with him. Thanks for this.
Thanks for finally speaking out against the former guy who unfortunately is becoming less "former" by the day. PR genius, totally incompetent to be president. We can only hope the courts bring him to justice...because the media still worship at his feet.
Love it! Write on!
Poor Mrs. Mrs. Moehlenbrock. She must have had the patience of a saint!
"Presidentless" Why does that sound like a breath of fresh air?
Yes, if having a crush on someone is akin to supporting them, then I’m all about Nikki
My thoughts exactly!
As the old adage applies. Never wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty and the pig loves it.
More truth than fable.
Thank you. Thank you. I’m sending this on to others. I wish we could get this monster buffoon off our airways and out of our headlines. We miss you out here in Minneapolis. I was in your audiences and remain a fan who like you, age 81, will have a mitral valve replacement this December. Wish me luck!
Let’s not forget that in the Trump years Niki was joined at the hip with the ex-prez flying around with him on Air Force One until gossip of an affair put a stop to that and she suddenly was given the title of ambassador for the UN even though she had no foreign policy experience. Evidently, she wasn’t entirely happy so quit after a year or so. She probably had her eyes on a political run for office back then. Please don’t praise her too highly as she was with the previous guy never quitting when she should have. Even though she could see what he was doing to our country and to the people. She may have been critical at times but still stuck with him.
She is a republican and went along with the anti-abortion stance in South Carolina, she opposed improving voting rights and she supported Ted Cruz for president. That should say a lot about her. She once said of the previous prez in her book, “In every instance I dealt with him, he was truthful, he listened and he was great to work with. On his policy, I agree with everything that he’s done.”
Need I say more?
Spot on.
Ok Garrison. It is time to get off your hind end, get some tools, and start building bridges to make sure Trump does not get elected. And this applies to the liberals and progressives too. After six years I am really surprised somebody has not taken the time to understand who votes for Trump. It’s not that complex.
I know the people that are on the verge of voting Trump into office. I live with them, work with them, and play with them. They are not stupid.
Of this group, I estimate 25% are ignorant. You want to write a group off? Ok, do it here.
Another 30% are disenfranchised. When American poverty gets addressed, these folks will stop voting against the establishment. But this is going to take 1/2 a generation to fix because this problem has been building for about 1 generation.
Now for the next group, and they are around 50%. These people live in a culture that is very different than the metropolitan culture that you love so much. I find it sad when folks from American cities go to other continents of the world to explore other cultures when they won’t take the time to get to know the other culture that exists in their own country!!!! When you take PHC on the road to small Southern towns, you START to understand this culture I am referring to. Superficially you have stated how you enjoy this culture and how they treat you well. I wish you, and others from metropolitan areas would take the time to further understand the people in this culture. You may have to accept some things which you do not understand or which you cannot rationalize. But in doing so, bridges of understanding could be built, common interests could be reinforced, and we could work together to elect a leader we all could be proud of.
Brilliant, Garrison, brilliant. Your "fable" should be printed in every newspaper in the land.
In November 2016 I wrote the following, and I'm afraid that events have borne me out.
THE CASE FOR UM
Because I have no wish to feed the President’s malignant narcissism, not to mention unintentionally advertising his brand each time I write or speak his name, I have decided to refer to him by simply the syllable UM. Those two letters stand in about the same proportion to his full name as his insecure real self must stand in proportion to his overblown ego persona. He cannot t _ _ _ _ democracy if he is after all only an um. (Capitals are optional.) I already spend more time obsessing over the acronym for The Really Ugly Man Presiding than he deserves, and I’m sure I’m not alone in this. Um will be much easier to put out of my mind, to establish um-free zones of thought. The best way to defeat um is to shrink him in our minds as small as he is inside, a colicky red-faced infant in a five-hundred-pound gorilla suit. Because in the end even thinking of him plays into his tiny hands. I believe that um would like nothing better than to become all we think about, all of us, all of the time, the center of everyone’s attention, and we can’t let him have that satisfaction.
If all that isn't "bewilderment" I don't know what is.If it were baseball, I'd guess Garrison is working on his "screwball"...the one in which there is virtually no spin on the ball and it wobbles.
Candidates who throw it are not quite there yet, given the "current bewilderment" in all of us, ptichers included..
What to do? Go with your heart first. If the heart is not nodding, neither should we.... Move on and write-in some on who is on.....as JImmy Smits said in his opening speech to his party leadership in "West Wing: "I'm not here to tell you what you want to hear. I'm here to tell you what you NEED to hear." Who out there has that timidity....anyone? Anyone?
This year I'm picking Tom Hanks again.All sides of him are good, even as an actor.
That first paragraph describing the orange guy might be the best thing I've ever read! So accurate.
That opening, breathless, intense, hysterical-yet-chilling paragraph is one of the most remarkable I’ve read in a long time--especially in the anti-MAGA sub genre of American letters. He is so outrageously comedic that it makes perfect sense to attempt to say something about him with such exaggerated and masterful prose. Perhaps you alone--someone of such vast writing experience and someone so fond of comedy even as you so value human compassion and goodness--can really contend with him. Thanks for this.