"Bathtub ring of hell."
"I've never seen such a bathtub ring of hell around any other president." - Chris Matthews. Normally Tweety irritates the heck out of me but that comment cracked me up.
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His huuuge contribution to America's economy is through 1.) fees for tens of thousands of attorneys, 2.) innumerable book deals and printing/distribution of said books, 3.) massive expansions of the world's data centers just to log all their bullshit and 4.) fees and salaries for media pundits.
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I think all politicians embellish the truth at times for impact, and they all make mistakes and sometimes their judgments are based on false information. I can live with that reality.
My personal favorite news source during the 2015/2016 campaign was The Guardian (UK) because they did see through Trump's BS and didn't hesitate to call out his lies and deceptions. They documented the worst of them and published a weekly summary to help us keep track.
Although no surprise to those of us that knew of Trump's history, it was shocking to see it published because no major media outlet in America was doing that. We know darn well our media knew he was lying and not calling him out was a calculated choice.
I've said for a long time that if there's a single good thing that will come out of his time as president, it's that he has exposed the dark underbelly of that invisible separate world of the wealthy for all the world to see. We're only seeing a small portion of it and more comes each week (sex trafficking, buying college entry, etc.) but I hope many more Americans will bother to look.
Unfortunately, our nation is sharply divided and fortified into two big bubbles, and I fear the other side will not see......
...alligator in the swamp, and today that alligator is two shoes, a handbag and a belt."
That haberdashery be Paul Manafort. 
