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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 30, 2016, 12:40:34 am ---I think some of the actual verified appointees are just as scary, if not more so.
Maybe I'm insufficiently knowledgeable about New Jersey politics, but Chris Christie would seem positively reassuring compared to, say, Steve Bannon.
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You do need to read up on Jersey politics. Christie is a bully and an asshole. Look up "Bridgegate" if you're not familiar with it. Before the Supreme Court ruling, he twice vetoed a same-sex marriage bill that had passed both houses of the General Assembly because he didn't approve of the concept, and his excuse was, "The voters should vote on it."
On the other hand, a drinking buddy of mine who lives in Jersey was kind of hoping Christie would get a cabinet position just so he'd get the hell out of New Jersey!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 30, 2016, 10:40:48 am ---You do need to read up on Jersey politics. Christie is a bully and an asshole. Look up "Bridgegate" if you're not familiar with it. Before the Supreme Court ruling, he twice vetoed a same-sex marriage bill that had passed both houses of the General Assembly because he didn't approve of the concept, and his excuse was, "The voters should vote on it."
On the other hand, a drinking buddy of mine who lives in Jersey was kind of hoping Christie would get a cabinet position just so he'd get the hell out of New Jersey!
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Oh, I do know enough about Jersey politics to know Christie is a bully and an asshole, and I'm familiar with Bridgegate. We've just reached the point where an asshole bully who closes down a bridge could look good next to a white supremacist.
Still, if he's a heterosupremacist, that puts him in the same realm. :-\
serious crayons:
Keep in mind that, over the past couple of weeks, I have longed for the return of Richard Nixon. And that while within the past year I have called George W. Bush the worst president in history, I would take him back in a second.
Jeff Wrangler:
I was going to skip the Nov. 21 issue, the one with the reflections from the writers, but then I noticed it has an article by Jill Lepore, and I always read Jill Lepore, and the article about the guy in the Philippines might be instructive.
Jeff Wrangler:
I just realized the cover of the Nov. 21 issue is supposed to represent the wall.
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