Category: Politics

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Trump of Thrones

It’s the year of the disruptor. Smashing traditional political patterns of the past. Nominating a real estate developer. Celebrity television man. A guy who lives in a gilt castle on Fifth Avenue. With his own airplanes. Helicopter. Sounds more like an oligarch or monarch. Donald the First. We live in a new kingdom. Problem is. Moats don’t work anymore.

Hillary is next in the line of Democratic succession. Yet her crown is tarnished. Her reign stale before it begins. Bernie. Her 74 year-old rival for the throne is the fresher face of the future. Corral the dragons. Raise the drawbridge!

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Journalistas

Young women reporters following the campaign on MSNBC. Call themselves Road Warriors. Hallie Jackson. Kristen Welker. Kasie Hunt. Katy Tur. Tireless. Professional. Attractive. Yet. No false eyelashes. Nor pancake makeup. Modern garb vs. cocktail dresses. Foxbots they are not. Relentless questioning. Know their stuff. Historically. Currently. Refreshingly. Journalistic.

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I Did It My Way

Tear up past tactics. Trump and Sanders are doing it their way.

Donald is ditching the digital strategies. Stats out. Rallies in. Big venues with throngs of thousands. No SuperPacs. Going with what is working. All out Clinton attacks. More fun. Bernie not keeping with the old playbook either. Crowds are coming to feel the Bern. New voters to both. Many say they’ll vote for the other over Hillary any day.

What would Sinatra say?

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Pivot Points

Media pivoting as predicted by conservative conspiracy theorists. From Morning Joe to NYTimes. Those who have been giving him cover. Turning to Trump-bashing. Now that he’s won the nomination and blown up the Republican party. Full-on Hillary propping up has begun.

Time to speed up Game of Thrones. SNL had it right. Yawn. Fell asleep. C’mon. Dragons! Action! Please. Can’t follow plot from Season One.

Mother’s Day spent with Icelandic glaciers and geysers. Breaded pigs ears in Reykjavik. Vicariously texting with mAdBen. Fun!

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El Trumpo Thumpo

Media talking heads. Columnist elites. Establishment politicos. Insular class. Divorced from the people for decades. The invisible angry masses have spoken. They are mad as hell and won’t take it anymore. Trump is a divining rod who satisfies his audience’s thirst for attention and respect. Mirrors the Sanders disaffected youth. Both get crowds. But. El Trumpo did thumpo a throng of candidates. Will he dumpo Hillary, too? Hmmm.

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Side Show

White House Correspondents Dinner. As usual. Obama bests the comedian. His timing and delivery flawless. Boehner-Barack video the highlight. Wilmore embarrassed. Where were Mika & Joe? Will Trump’s past pique turn into the quintessential payback’s a bitch moment?

Over at Live! The side show rages. Will Kelly poke Michael on his new girlfriend’s rap sheet? Gonna be a shady couple of weeks. Ironically. They are both Emmy-award winning “actors” it seems. Won. Again. Last night. Best talk show hosts 2016. Ha!

Game Of Thrones. As Arya hones her swashbuckling instincts. Tyrion unleashes his dragon-whisperer skills. Anachronisms aside. All roads lead to Jon Snow.

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Cut the Cards

Hillary’s new campaign ad. Send money and literally get a pink (seriously) plastic card that says Woman Card. Broken record alert! Why don’t they get how insulting this is to treat women as a monolithic group who all think the same way? She indicts Donald for playing the “Trump Card”. Which means anti-women. Despite the fact that he is an equal opportunity offender.

Yes. He does accuse Hillary of only having that one card. Game on. Cut the cards and deal.
Bon weekend.

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Dangerfield Doctrine

Trump’s Foreign Policy Analysis. We don’t get no respect. Anywhere. By anyone around the world. His vision is an expansion of his personal view of fairness and respect. Leaders must greet Air Force One at the airport. The President has to know the outcome of a deal before he embarks on a trip to a foreign country to negotiate. Be prepared to walk away from the table. If allies don’t pay for our protection, we will pull out our troops and close our military bases. In Germany. Korea. Japan. Wherever.

Have to say. Trump sounded more like Rodney Dangerfield meets Ronald Reagan. The world has to be nice to us financially thereby proving respect. Different.

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Crooked Mile

There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile. Who called everyone and everything else crooked. He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile. And spent it sparingly. Then cried when the crooked people bested him at his own game.

Trump has deemed the Republican Party’s nominating rules rigged and crooked. He has dubbed his Democratic rival Crooked Hillary. It’s a good neutral non-gender specific adjective which everyone can relate to. And keeps the media out of his own crooked house.

-Apologies to Mother Goose.

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SideTrek.NYC

Rainy Monday on Central Park West. Schools closed up North. Hampton. Snow.

Mermaid Inn has moved. Expanded. Little necks still sweet. Mussels too. Kept its ambience and character. Politics seems so remote all of a sudden. Furniture deliveries trump everything.