Bob Shepherd: A Commemoration in Honor of Trump

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1. Yvonne says:

   February 12, 2021 at 9:06 am

   Thanks, Bob Shepherd.

   And NOW, that dumpster needs to slink off into a corner and GO AWAY … preferably to JAIL.

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2. Jon Awbrey says:

   February 12, 2021 at 9:42 am

   And then came “Capitol Punishment” (sic)

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   • SpmeDAM Poet says:

     February 12, 2021 at 12:25 pm

     And the Oaf of Office

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3. retired teacher says:

   February 12, 2021 at 9:48 am

   The word “trumpery” is a legitimate English word. Here’s the apropos meaning from the dictionary.

   noun, plural trump·er·ies.
   something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
   nonsense; twaddle: His usual conversation is pure trumpery.
   Archaic. worthless finery.
   adjective
   of little or no value; trifling, worthless; rubbishy; trashy.

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   • retired teacher says:

     February 12, 2021 at 10:14 am

     The English verb “to trump” derives from the French word “tromper”
     that means to lie, cheat, take advantage of. There is an expression in French ‘ne me trompe pas’ which roughly means: Don’t mess with me or Don’t play me for a fool.https://wordhistories.net/2016/10/14/trumpery/

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     • Bob Shepherd says:

       February 12, 2021 at 11:33 am

       Remembered in English in the phrase trompe l’oeil, “fool the eye.” So perfect as a name for Don the Con, aka IQ45–in both senses of the word “fool.”

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     • SpmeDAM Poet says:

       February 12, 2021 at 12:28 pm

       Trump me once. Trump on you.
       Trump me twice…
       Won’t get Trumped again

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     • SpmeDAM Poet says:

       February 12, 2021 at 12:30 pm

       Trump du Soily

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4. Bob Shepherd says:

   February 12, 2021 at 11:46 am

   Thanks so much for sharing this, Diane! I know that during the Trump Defense Comedy Marathon today starring Trump’s legal team, Goofy and Bart Simpson, I shall have many occasions to call upon this new vocabulary: What a load of trump! A total trumpshow! Trump for brains.

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5. Bob Shepherd says:

   February 12, 2021 at 6:28 pm

   The Trump legal team described on Friday a Trump who doesn’t exist. They would have us believe that Trump is something other than someone

   so profoundly ignorant that he actually believed that the election was stolen from him,
   so profoundly narcissistic that he thought he could not have lost,
   so volatile that he reacted with rage,
   so violent that he incited violence, so stupid that he thought such violence would actually be successful in stopping the certification of the election, and
   so desperate about not being prosecuted for his many crimes that, all else having failed, he was willing to believe that.

   But that’s exactly who the man is, isn’t it? He’s ignorant, profoundly narcissistic, volatile, violent, stupid, and desperate. Give me a break. We know who this man is. And the Republicans know this, too. They are spineless cowards who fear standing up to Trump because it might cost them the moron vote.

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6. Bob Shepherd says:

   February 12, 2021 at 6:36 pm

   We all know that Trump’s speech was stupid mobster talk–an attempt to incite violence while maintaining plausible deniability. It’s obvious enough:

   DETECTIVE: So, you deny that you threatened this man’s family?

   MOBSTER: Of course I didn’t. I expressed concern for their safety.

   DETECTIVE: You didn’t say to your crew [reads from transcript], “It would be a shame if something happened to his beautiful family?”

   MOBSTER: Yeah. There you go. Concern for the continued health and well-being of his family.

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7. Bob Shepherd says:

   February 12, 2021 at 6:38 pm

   The Further Adventures of the Teflon Don v2.0

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8. Bob Shepherd says:

   February 12, 2021 at 9:16 pm

   Trump refused to call off the insurrectionists, and he gloried in what they were doing. This is known. It’s treason. And it’s impeachable. Any Republicans who vote not to convict Trump are complicit.

   https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-mccarthy-shouting-match-details/index.html

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   • Bob Shepherd says:

     February 12, 2021 at 9:17 pm

     The Trump-McCarthy telephone call is the smoking gun (as if one were needed). Trump knew how bad things were. And he reveled in it. Why? Because the insurrection was precisely what he had called for.

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9. Jon Awbrey says:

   February 13, 2021 at 12:28 am

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