To wit: “Kim tried to involuntarily commit me”
I like it!
And it gives Trump another slogan option as well. “Vote for Trump. Saner than the other guy.”
Kanye West has turned on his own family in the midst of what we’re told is a major bipolar episode … targeting Kris Jenner, comparing his life to the movie “Get Out” and accusing Kim Kardashian of trying to commit him to a mental hospital.
In a series of tweets Monday night, Kanye revealed his wife’s plan to get him help … just 24 hours after a bizarre and, at times, incoherent campaign rally in South Carolina. Kanye said, “Kim was trying to fly to Wyoming with a doctor to lock me up like on the movie Get Out because I cried about saving my daughters life yesterday.”
That was actually one of his more coherent assertions. Some of them are just full Nicholson in The Shining. Check this one out:
“I put my life on my God that Norths mom would never photograph her doing playboy and that’s on God. I’m at the ranch … come and get me.”
Part of Lincoln’s greatness was being able to make use of people like Chase. The man was always intriguing, sometimes pretty openly, against Lincoln. But as long as he was brilliant at his work Lincoln was willing to overlook it.
Btw, some of the actual loan records for the Civil War issues were kept in our Commissioner’s office – and some pretty familiar names were involved in the local sales- Mellon, Rockefeller. Fascinating stuff to go through if you were a history nerd.
He says he did more than Lincoln in his first 3-1/2 years.
Lincoln had effectively won the Civil War at his 3.5. Atlanta had been captured, the Confederates in Tennessee were about to be routed, Lee’s army had been rendered incapable of doing anything offensive. Within the next three months, the Rebs would be chased out of the Valley, the last major Confed. army west of North Carolina would be obliterated and Uncle Billy would be presenting Lincoln with the Christmas present of Savannah. And Lincoln himself was about to win his own landslide reelection. The country was booming, largely because of the extraordinarily well-handled financing of the war (in 1917, the crash war financing was largely accomplished by dusting off 1860s stuff and using it as a starting point – I know this because I went through some of the original material in the early 90s as background research on the 2nd Liberty Loan Act when we were doing up the first Treasury Uniform Offering Circular after the Solomon Bros. thingy.) And something called the Transcontinental Railroad was being built.
Trump? 20,000 lies/distortions, a debt explosion which has gotten us nothing back, complete reversal on climate change and older environmental protections; abusing our friends & sucking up to our enemies; totally fucking over the Kurds; the Really Beautiful Letter, isolationism, bigotry, xenophobia and hyperpartisan nastiness; a total shutdown of all immigration; an Administration filled with scumbags and bozos; and a photo op with a Bible. And complete bungling and pretty much total notgiveafuckness in regard to the biggest health crisis in 100 years.
In the nonlegal use of the term, res ipsa loquitor (the thing speaks for itself).
Re: financing of the Civil War. A lot of credit for that goes to Salmon Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury and one of Lincoln’s “Team of Rivals”. He was kind of a mixed bag in personality (he had run against Lincoln for the Republican nomination and he had a God-give destiny to be President), but Lincoln adroitly finessed him. After he quit as Secretary, Lincoln named him to be Chief Justice, and even after that he was still trying to figure out how to run for President.
“Loquitur,” in Europe we have to learn Latin.
Actually it was my best subject in HS (and I seriously considered going for a masters in Greek and Latin after I retired). Careless spelling there.
Btw. in your opinion should it be ut dona ferentes or ferentis? I’ve seen both.
“ferentes” is the Classical Latin. Whether that’s what Virgil wrote in the Aeneid originally is up for debate.
Wow. How pointless. How do they justify that? A time warp re-establishing the Roman Empire? The Vatican obtaining a Doomsday machine?
It was the universal second language in Europe, sometimes first for a thousand years. Any serious scholar in European history needs at least some familiarity. And it is damn useful in instilling a general sense of language logic and structure (even if they didn’t believe in the past active participle for some reason). I’ve used it many times to to help with concepts in English. And once you’ve learnt it, practically every non Germanic, non-Slav European language is easier to learn. And there is some mighty good reading there.
Roger, you need to do a little rethink here.
The key word in your first sentence is “was”. And how many people are serious students of European history, especially of the period that requires Latin? Yes, I understand it is valuable historically. But making everyone who wants a college degree learn it is, I maintain, pointless. We abandoned that nonsense in this country decades ago.
I am not belittling anyone who learns it; it is tough, and was once considered valuable just for the mental exercise it gave. But as a requirement, it is obsolete. IMO, anyway.
A language requirement may be fine. In fact, it probably is a very good thing. But it might as well be a living language unless the student plans to NEED Latin.
Do you speak any Latin languages?
If you mean me, no. I took on French course in what was then called junior high school. I got a poor grade. I have never cared.
Even if Kanye weren’t in the race, Trump can still use that slogan.
Yep, Trump loves lying! It’s the only thing he used to be good at. Now, of course, he’s pathetic. Or he would be, if he weren’t getting people killed, of course.
Bound to play better than his current –
{drools profusely, gets some on his tie}
Der der
{shits the bed, kills another 10,000 Americans}
Slow the testing DOWN!
{whips it out, waves it at Ivanka}
You forgot him telling us that people say he’s the best President ever, much better than Abraham Lincoln, whom very few people have ever head of. And how the Democrats want to give the country to China.
Sadly, we’ll soon be raising generations of young men for whom the expression “photograph her doing Playboy” will have no meaning at all.
Have they published a genuine celebrity pictorial in the past decade? or longer?
End of an era, I’m afraid.