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highplainsdem

(49,041 posts) Thu Aug 23, 2018, 01:42 AM Aug 2018

TNR's Jeet Heer responds to 5-word Trump "WITCH HUNT!" tweet by quoting Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Love the response from The New Republic's Jeet Heer to Trump's late-night tweet, minutes ago, appearing in all caps hours after his previous tweet:

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NO COLLUSION - RIGGED WITCH HUNT!

Jeet Heer simply quotes the famous opening lines of "The Tell-Tale Heart":

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True! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them.....Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story

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TNR's Jeet Heer responds to 5-word Trump "WITCH HUNT!" tweet by quoting Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Original Post) highplainsdem Aug 2018 OP

Poe Donald! dchill Aug 2018 #1

Awesome! Hekate Aug 2018 #2

Kick dalton99a Aug 2018 #3

... Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #4

LOL the Idiot thinks he can keep repeating himself and the message will stick onetexan Aug 2018 #5

I think he is trying to convince himself now PatSeg Aug 2018 #6

It's his new mantra. Any day now, he'll shave his head, start Buns_of_Fire Aug 2018 #7

I'm picturing Leonardo DiCaprio PatSeg Aug 2018 #9

A little musical accompaniment for that thought Dread Pirate Roberts Aug 2018 #8

In an Oral Interpretation class in college (stop snickering, you 12-year-olds!), Staph Aug 2018 #10

dchill

(38,543 posts)

1. Poe Donald!

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Thu Aug 23, 2018, 01:45 AM

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Hekate

(90,828 posts)

2. Awesome!

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Thu Aug 23, 2018, 02:34 AM

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dalton99a

(81,599 posts)

3. Kick

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Thu Aug 23, 2018, 02:52 AM

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Rhiannon12866

(206,072 posts)

4. ...

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Thu Aug 23, 2018, 03:50 AM

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onetexan

(13,061 posts)

5. LOL the Idiot thinks he can keep repeating himself and the message will stick

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Aug 23, 2018, 03:54 AM

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truth isn't truth after all

PatSeg

(47,609 posts)

6. I think he is trying to convince himself now

Reply to onetexan (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 23, 2018, 04:30 AM

Aug 2018

If he says it often enough, maybe it will come true.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,197 posts)

7. It's his new mantra. Any day now, he'll shave his head, start

Reply to PatSeg (Reply #6)

Thu Aug 23, 2018, 06:29 AM

Aug 2018

wearing robes, and beg for love offerings from the WH staff. And when the nice young men in their clean white coats come to take him away, ha ha, he'll still be mumbling it to himself as they lock him in a nice clean cell with gold naugahyde padding.

PatSeg

(47,609 posts)

9. I'm picturing Leonardo DiCaprio

Reply to Buns_of_Fire (Reply #7)

Thu Aug 23, 2018, 09:23 AM

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in The Aviator in the Las Vegas penthouse surrounded by jars of urine.

Dread Pirate Roberts

(1,896 posts)

8. A little musical accompaniment for that thought

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Thu Aug 23, 2018, 08:02 AM

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Staph

(6,253 posts)

10. In an Oral Interpretation class in college (stop snickering, you 12-year-olds!),

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Aug 23, 2018, 03:12 PM

Aug 2018

I read The Tell-Tale Heart, with a recording of a timpani playing heartbeats in the background. The volume was completely off at the beginning and slowly increased through the reading.

I got a hearty round of applause, and a serious case of goosebumps.

I can imagine Trump hearing that bump-bump. Bump-bump. Bump-Bump. Bump-Bump! BUMP-BUMP!!

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