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highplainsdem

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Sat Oct 31, 2020, 09:10 AM Oct 2020

Brian Karem: Trump "wants to be the swamp master, a king of the amphibians"

FWIW, I've always thought Trump, like Barr, looked like an amphibian trying to look human.



https://thebulwark.com/trump-the-fly-catcher/


Far from draining the swamp, Trump wants to stock it full of creatures friendly to him. He wants to be the swamp master, a king of the amphibians. And if he isn’t defeated, this is what we’ll get.

Politics indeed makes for strange bedfellows and some say it has never been stranger. Republicans and Democrats fighting together to get rid of Trump the frog king isn’t nearly as strange as those who support this fly-catching lump.

I know evangelicals who cannot stand Trump, but will vote for him. I’m not the first one to ask why. I’m sure not the first one to laugh at the incongruity of this allegiance. But I have to ask: If your faith is so important to you that you sacrifice common decency to vote for Donald Trump, then perhaps you’re not faithful enough to your Christianity.

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Not since William Jennings Bryan—another famous “fly-catcher,” as H.L. Mencken lampooned him—has an American politician so successfully conned the nation.

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Brian Karem: Trump "wants to be the swamp master, a king of the amphibians" (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2020 OP
as we all know, Hillary had this pegged. Deplorables indeed NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #1
Yep. What you said, my friend. calimary Oct 2020 #2
Ugh.... secondwind Oct 2020 #3
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