Schadenfreude Debate

~ Clarissa

So who’s with me on watching the Schadenfreude debate tonight? Seven lame ducks, pouty and aggrieved, trying to look relevant. This will be fun.

It’s hard not to be grateful to Trump for doing this to the Republican party.

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        1. I do!
          Try it!
          Om Padme Hum!
          Om Padme Hum!

          ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं

          The “Jewel is in the Lotus” is a euphemism for “making the beast with two backs”, which in turn is a euphemism for “boinking”, which in turn is a cacophemism for sexual intercourse.
          All good Republicans are doing it. How else do you think they’ll be able to get all sweaty with the Eng Lit or Women’s Studies Co-Eds? Innit?

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    1. Shakti!
      Girlfriend!
      With a name like yours, you oughta be able to sink some ‘Sutra’ learnin’ into our poor politically naive and misguided friend, Dreidel.
      You could change his Haecceity from this

      “נס גדול היה שם”

      to this:

      “נס גדול היה פה”

      Let’s make Dreidel a ‘maidel mit a klaidel’ sort of.

      I’m a maidel mit a vayndel when it suits me.

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        2. Wait a minute!
          Your name is Dreidel
          AND you don’t recognize the characters in Hebrew that are found on every Dreidel AND you don’t recognize even the simplest Yiddish?
          And you are a Doc?
          I just figgered yins to be member of the Semitic persuasion. Why choose ‘Dreidel’ if you’re not of Abraham?

          Oy Gevalt!

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              2. When it’s done to me, it’s not the “peering” that bothers me, it’s the “trying to get into” that irks me.
                So The quintessentially Hebrew noun Dreidel is carried by a non-Jew and The equally quinttessentially Feminine non Shakti may or may not be carried by a female.

                “Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice

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              5. On the internet, nobody knows if you’re a dog or a spinning top or the eponymous character of a ’90s teen sitcom. 🙂

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              1. I thought you were a librarian who fights crime.

                I still hope yins is a girl though.
                Yins or yinz? Where ever you are, drive slowly. If it’s between you and large wildlife, the wildlife will win. Unless you own a gun.

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              3. It’s “yins”!
                I picked that up when I darkened the door at Carnegie Mellon in Picksburg one fateful semester.

                “Yins goin’ dahn tahn picksburg to see the Stillers?”

                “What’s your watch at?”

                Never did figure out what the latter meant. I kept answering, “My wrist” and the questioner would look at with an expression of equal parts horror and sympathy and walk away, slowly – backwards.

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  3. Sure I’ll watch the real time text stream for the Schadenfreude debate but only the Donald has the Sprachgefühl ‎necessary to relate to the audience. 🙂

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        1. Of course, I want Trump to win the nomination because I believe he is more stable than Cruz. But I can’t watch the whatever event he’s organizing. The fellow bores me. I only ever managed to sit through a single episode of the Apprentice. And I love reality TV.

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          1. “I believe he is more stable than Cruz.”

            By WHAT criteria?? Cruz has been very consistent in his nutty Tea Party views and his reptilian personality. Why do you think all his Republican colleagues hate him?

            Trump is a megalomanic sociopath who is socially liberal but is lying about his beliefs. He secretly holds the correct positions on abortion (pro), gay rights (pro), assault rifles (ban them), but is now claiming the opposite. And I don’t think he’s any more religious than I am.

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            1. I agree completely with your analysis of Trump. But by “stable” I meant psychologically, not ideologically. I have a radar for creepy, freakish men that was honed by many years of experience. I sense something very unhealthy in Cruz.

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  5. “This is the age of fluid identities. . .”

    Clarissa, you never answered my question in the “Ethnic” posting comments about how you self-identified in the 2015 U.S. census.

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      1. “I didn’t get the census questionnaire…in 2015.”

        The U.S. government does a nation-wide census every ten years during years ending in “0,” but in 2015 it also conducted a fairly wide census that apparently didn’t cover the entire country.

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  6. “So you are Jewish!”

    Whatever…at least the modern-day Jews know how to win their wars when they’re attacked.

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      1. Yes, and that picture looks exactly like me, except I’m a bit skinnier and haven’t been in Israel since 1985.

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  7. My Prediction
    Granted I am an illegal alien in the frozen wastelands of Soviet Canukistan, but nonetheless, this is how your election will go this year.
    Trump will not win the Republican Nomination. He will then run as an Independent, siphoning votes from whomever does win the Republican Nomination. The Democrat will squeak by – whomever that will be.

    Harkens back to the 1968

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_presidential_campaign,_1968#General_election_results

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    1. Except George Wallace wasn’t a spoiler, even though he was the only 3rd party candidate to win any electoral votes since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.

      I remember that race well (in 1968, not 1912!) and was very worried that Wallace would throw the election to the Democrats. Fortunately, the idiot Dems were mad at Hubert Humphrey (because of the Vietnam War — which V.P. Humphrey, certainly no Dick Cheney, had absolutely no influence over), and the base didn’t turn out to vote for him.

      What’s going to happen this year? Here’s the worse-case scenario: The major-party candidates are Trump vs. Sanders, so Bloomberg runs 3rd party, and Trump (GAD!!) wins by an even bigger majority than he would have without Bloomberg in the mix.

      Second worse-case scenario: Hillary (non-capital gad!!) wins.

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      1. I didn’t put that much thought into my prediction, and frankly, I don’t know what I am talking about! Especially 1968 – it would still be 11 years before I become my mother’s crotch fruit. I’ve never heard of this Sanders bloke, or this Cruz person our gracious hostess and y’all ramble on about.
        Besides How can any of you think about the election when poor Jennifer Aniston still hasn’t found true love?

        Majuscule GAD?
        Minuscule gad?

        Clever! I’m totally nicking that!

        “……which V.P. Humphrey, certainly no Dick Cheney,…..”

        You mean he was a better shot?

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        1. “poor Jennifer Aniston still hasn’t found true love?”

          She got married last August!

          “‘……which V.P. Humphrey, certainly no Dick Cheney,…..’ You mean he was a better shot?”

          No, I mean that unlike V. P. Cheney, who clearly influenced George W.’s war policy, Humphrey was as totally inconsequential and completely ignored by his boss as most vice presidents.

          You might as well chill out for a while. Usually EVERYBODY posting on this website except me completely disappears each evening from about 1700 Arizona time to 2200, and my oven timer just went off, so I’ve got to go eat now.

          (Clarissa will probably return earlier than usual tonight to cover the main Republican debate. See ya!)

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  8. “Didn’t Dick Cheney shoot somebody on a hunt once?”

    At least Cheney didn’t drive anybody off a bridge and leave her at the bottom of a river to make sure she wasn’t pregnant, like a certain very prominent, very progressive Democrat did.

    (Before your time — if you don’t get the reference, don’t worry about it.)

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