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You really need to spend more time on these. UBU ROI as roman a clef!

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My god, these need to be filmed!

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Casting will be amusing...

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Probably get most of them to play themselves cheap enough.

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I love these! There is no top high enough to go over anymore with the Supreme Asshole. Speaking of Seinfeld, I picture Frank Costanza as the Pentagon bigwig dressing down George:"You put the Soleimani hit in the PowerPoint? You gave this guy the chance to whack a general? Are you nuts?"

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Excellent as always, but "Bannon snarls at Bannon"?

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Thanks for pointing out the typo — will fix at my earliest opportunity.

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Thank you for being so gracious about it!

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You did me a favor!

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Agreed, but I know a couple of people who wouldn't see it that way.

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I was guessing he had pulled out his compact and was looking in the mirror

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-dimly lit, almost like for a seance. -

Nice!

May I suggest a Tangerine Dream soundtrack?

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"Now who's being pessimistic" yields an amazing chill

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As they say, Donnie does things in the shittiest way possible and everything always about him -- his ego and his wallet. And since by the time of the post-bankruptcy era, he burned bridges with reputable lenders, of course he'd deal with only the worst (such as what was referenced in The New Yorker piece linked at Davidson's tweet) and, more recently good old fashioned money laundering.

As for the hit on Soleimani, Donnie only knows the Republican memes, as it were, that excites the part of the GOP base that isn't supportive for personal benefit but because they believe the bullshit. So. Since 1979, the Republicans have had bees up their collective butts about the Islamic Republic -- in this case, Donnie's also being encouraged (or played) by the Saudis and Israelis. At which point, we can ask a) Why is the US in any way involved in a religious war in the Mid East (Sunnis vs. Shiites) and b) Not that it matters, does Donnie have any awareness of the US' killing of civilians including children?

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If anything it will be Iranians (or anyone Mr. and Mrs. Meddle America thinks looks like a "raghead" or a "Mooslim") that are done *to*.

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