#so let's vote....does THIS suit fit Mike?

[exsqueezememacaroni]

Ashes to Ashes, part 10, FIN X

[famous-aces]

Morrissey

Who: Steven Patrick Morrissey

What: Musician

Where: English (Active, internationally)

When: May 22, 1959 - Present

(Image Description: a black and white photo of Morrissey from 1992.  He is a young white man in his early thirties with dark hair and eyes. His hair is short and messy.  He has thick eyebrows and a strong jawline. He is smiling very slightly. He is wearing a pale knit sweater. End ID)

Morrisey is one of those world-famous single named singers: Cher, Sting, Prince, Madonna, Morrissey. Perhaps a little Bono as, while he is more ironic and droll than the U2 frontman, he also has a reputation for douche-baggery.  Morrissey is famous for his music's bleak drama blended with bleak humor, sexually ambiguousness, themes of the past and self-reflection, and being an all around "anti-pop idol".

Morrissey made a name for himself as the frontman for The Smiths in the 1980s (1982-87), but has a successful solo career since 1988 with only a brief hiatus from '98-'03.  His most beloved albums include The Queen is Dead (1986), Strangeways, Here We Come (1987), Viva Hate (1988), Your Arsenal (1992), Vauxhall and I (1994), You are the Quarry (2004), Years of Refusal (2009). His most recey album (California Son) came out in February of this year (2019).

He is outspoken politically on, for example, vegetarianism and animal rights and against the monarchy and Americanization. In 2006 a BBC poll voted him the second greatest living British cultural icon.

I admit that while I like the Smiths well enough I had never liked them enough to really follow Morrissey's career, which is odd as I do like the whole punk/new wave/post punk scene very much. But I started listening to him a bit for this and a bit depressing but quite good.

(Image description: a photo of the Smiths backstage in 1984 by Tom Sheehan.  From left to right Andy Rourke [a white man with brown hair and a leather jacket. Below that he has on a shirt with what I think is a crow on it. He has his bass slung around his neck and his hands behind his back. He has his head slightly cocked], Morrissey [wearing a striped shirt with a low neck, long necklaces, and square glasses. He has his arms crossed], Mike Joyce [pale with black hair spiked up and his bangs falling into his face. He has on a Smiths t-shirt and is mostly hidden behind the others], and Johnny Marr [pale with a black mop top with long bangs, he is thin with an angular face, he is wearing a black shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He has his guitar slung around his neck and fingers on the frets.] End ID)

Orientation: Humasexual (A word of Morrissey's own creation meaning "attracted to humans" but I will go into why, in Morrissey's case, it seems to fit under the asexual umbrella.)

I'm breaking my own rule here. Morrissey does not call himself "asexual," but uses his own term: humasexual. But as he defines the term and the nature of his sexual/romantic orientation it fits under the aspec umbrella. At one point Morrissey identifed as a bisexual who "hates sex" and later a "non-practicing bisexual," but be later abandoned that terminology. By the 2010s he was very open on the exact nature of his orientation.

While I would not go up to him and demand he identify as aspec the experience he describes does fit in fairly neatly into our letter of the Alphabet Soup. Again, I would not demand anything of him. He is a human person. Sexual orientation is, in the end, highly personal and individual. Do not be The Guy/Gal/Person. In the end everyone is entitled to name and define their own experience.

It may seem odd that a man who writes a lot about sex/sexual desire in his music could be asexual, but I don't think writing is necessarily indicative of the writer's true feelings.  Morrissey agrees, saying time and time again from his earliest fame that he is writing a general story, not a biography. He says of his lyrics that "It was very important for me to try and write for everybody...nothing is ever open and shut.". Remember, while the artist always leaves a trace of themself in their art it is not always in the most obvious way.

I believe his humasexual might be closer to demi (or perhaps gray) than it is to utterly asexual. Aspec, but not at the zero/zero point, when we get to the quotes section I will explain further.  Morrissey is definitely not aromantic. But he was intentionally celibate until his mid-thirties. It was then he had his first serious relationship, all by his own admission, not being interested in sex much before that.  He still seems to have stints of celibacy. Sex as a "maybe" or a shrug rather than a necessity. And again it took a deep personal connection to his partner for him to even feel the urge to have sex. Indeed, he claimed to "hate" sex before that.

I hope to clear things up in the quotes section when I let Morrissey speak for himself, which he has done, extensively. I included quotes from his most recent public discussion on the matter from 2013.

(Image Description: a more recent photo of Morrissey performing on stage this one in color. He has graying hair now and is slightly larger than he was as a younger man, though he is not overweight. He is just less trim. He is wearing a dark suit. His face is wracked with emotion, eyes closed, mouth open. He has one hand in front of him, open palmed. The other holds the mic to his mouth.  End ID)

“Unfortunately, I am not homosexual. In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans.  But, of course . . . not many.”

-Morrissey in a statement from October 2013 (quoted by Time Magazine. Emphasis in original as it is the same in multiple sources) (I think this should be obvious. Again, labels are entirely up to the person using them and thus I am not applying one to Morrissey, but clearly he could stand under the ace umbrella mspec romantically and aspec sexually)

"[F]or the first time in my life the eternal ‘I’ becomes ‘we’, as, finally, I can get on with someone, Jake [Owen Walters] and I neither sought not needed company other than our own for the whirlwind stretch to come.”  

-Morrissey in his 2013 memoir Autobiography.  (Walters was his first serious relationship.  The relationship began in 1994 and ended in 1996. It describes sentiment echoed by many demisexuals "'I' becomes 'we'" and "finally I can get on with someone". Also the idea of solitude may reflect an aspec relationship.)

"Girls remained mysteriously attracted to me, and I had no idea why, since although each fumbling foray hit the target, nothing electrifying took place, and I turned a thousand corners without caring … Far more exciting were the array of stylish racing bikes that my father would bring home.”

-Morrissey on being a teenager in that same memoir

"I don't recognise such terms as heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and I think it's important that there's someone in pop music who's like that. These words do great damage, they confuse people and they make people feel unhappy so I want to do away with them."

-Morrissey in a 1985 interview. (I don't agree with him in the least, my label makes me very happy and I know it makes many other people happy [although I did feel like this before I had my asexual label.] I think he might have been projecting. I think his not quite fitting into anything made him uncomfortable and it shows why he might not be inclined to stick to a traditional label and instead invent his own.)

[Nick] Kent: …[Y]out write a lot about homosexual longing.

Morrissey: I've always said that I leave things very open and that I sing about people. Without limitation. And I don't think that automatically makes me homosexual.

Kent: What about...sexual relationships?

Morrissey: I don't have relationships at all. It's out of the question.

Kent: Why?

Morrissey: Partly because I have always been attracted to men or women who were never attracted to me. And I was never attracted to men or women who were attracted to me. So that's the problem. I've never met the right person.

-A 1985 interview with Nick Kent, quoted by David Brent in Morrissey: Scandal and Passion (2004) (not finding "the right person" seems quite demi to me. He also says that is "part" of the reason. So there is probably a more complicated reason too. Also of note, Morrissey doesn't like Kent [or at least didn't at the time] so odds are he was disinclined to further articulate his most personal life to him. But that is purely speculation and it is dicey waters even speculating that much.)

(Image Description: the album cover of You are the Quarry. It shows Morrissey on a red background holding an old fashioned Tommy gun and wearing an old fashioned pin stripe suit. He takes up most of the left side of the image. Beside him on the right it says "Morrissey, You are the Quarry." End ID)

[nellie-elizabeth]

Suits: Managing Partner (8x10)

I was a little bit underwhelmed by some aspects of this finale, but if this is what the show is about now, I can't exactly complain when this is what I get. Let's dive in!

Cons:

This isn't a "con" so much as it is just... a statement. I don't care about this show nearly as much as I used to. Also, I've never been a fan of flashback stuff as it is, and this was a flashback episode about Robert and Samantha, the two characters I care about the least. So this episode was not designed to be a winner for me personally. I don't think the episode itself did a bad job with the material, it's just not my preferred material.

The problem with flashback episodes in Suits is that they almost always spend a lot of time showing us something that could have been told very easily. We learn in this episode that back when Sam was an associate and Robert was a partner, Samantha saved Robert from allegations of collusion and got the current name partners ousted. Samantha was instrumental in making Rand Caldor Zane a reality. That's why Robert is so loyal to her. We see this revelation come out through a series of scenes in the past between the two of them. But the same information might have been imparted through a conversation in the present day. Maybe Samantha tells Harvey, or Robert tells Harvey, or the two of them discuss it, or Samantha confides in Donna... all of these scenarios would allow for the characters, as we know them today, to develop further.

Pros:

Every once in a while, I remember the time that Louis physically attacked Mike when they went on that little road trip together, and I find it hard to be in his corner. But I know I'm not supposed to be thinking about that, and I do have to admit that over the last couple of seasons, the show has done a good job of convincing me that Louis really has grown and changed as a person. All of this to say... I'm happy for him and Sheila. I really am. Turns out, they're going to have a baby! But also, both of them have just gotten pretty crazy promotion opportunities from their jobs. This is a pretty basic setup for conflict, and I really liked the way everything went down. At first, Sheila wants the job and the baby, and Louis is concerned, because this goes against the parenting plan they had, which said that Sheila would stay home with the baby and then Louis would take over when Sheila's job heads in to recruitment season. Now, Sheila is talking about taking a full time, year-round job. How is this resolved? Well, at first Louis agrees to take a step down at work. And then, Donna tells him he needs to step up instead, and be Managing Partner.

I love that this episode resolved the immediate conflict between Sheila and Louis, while setting up a pretty big obstacle for them to overcome together when the rest of the season comes around. Also, Louis becoming calm and zen upon realizing Sheila was pregnant was... perfect. You might expect someone as high strung as Louis to get really freaked out, but the news has the opposite effect on him. He suddenly knows, with perfect clarity, what's really important in life. And because of this, he can take on managing partner. He doesn't care what Harvey and Robert think about it, because being managing partner isn't his greatest goal in life. It's something he can do to help his firm, something he feels confident about, but it's just one piece of a much bigger whole. It was honestly the perfect way for Louis' character to grow even more. I also admire how well Louis' personal journey slotted in to the A-plot story of the week.

And speaking of that A-plot. I'm just going to ignore the silliness of Sam and Alex being allowed to go toe to toe because of conflict waivers. It makes no sense. The utter ridiculousness of Robert warning them to not use privileged information... I mean, if either one of them did that, the case would be thrown out. It's all ridiculous. But whatever. Taking the story at face value, I really liked the back and forth that Samantha and Alex had going, and how Robert, Harvey, and Donna each fit in. First it seemed like Samantha had the upper hand, then Alex, then Samantha, and then... Alex wins. He does. He actually pulls out a trick and wins the day. Both of them cross some lines, but neither of them does anything too heinous.

So... Alex's name goes on the wall? No. Samantha goes to Robert and tells him that he owes her, and that he should overrule Harvey and put Samantha's name up there. Robert decides to do it, keeping his promise to Samantha over his promise to Harvey to let the two of them battle it out. The end result is very close to being a total mess, but luckily it's Donna to the rescue.

For years, Donna has been the peacekeeper who comes in and smooths things over, manipulating here, offering advice there. When she was doing all of that as a secretary, that was one thing. But now, as the COO, she has real stakes in the firm, and a real say in the important stuff. She even gets a vote. So when she and Louis collaborate and oust Robert as managing partner, it's really down to Donna's cunning. What she's doing isn't a coup. It's a strategy to keep the firm together. Louis is managing partner. Louis gets to make this call. And... both of their names are on the wall.

Ignoring how stupid it is for ZSL to make another name change so soon, I'm pretty happy with this result. It would have felt dissatisfying for Alex to get it, even though he won, because his client is a jerk. And it would have felt even more dissatisfying to Sam to get it, because she lost, and it would have involved Robert breaking his promise. Louis and Donna coming in and making the call felt like the only way this could have ended. I admire the fact that even though Louis stayed out of this thing for the most part, it felt natural that he should step in at the end and fix it.

The Darvey fans out there are probably disappointed at the glacial pace at which the Donna/Harvey relationship is being explored. If indeed it is being explored. I've never been super invested in their potential romance, but I can empathize. That said, the brief moment at the end, where they flirt and walk off arm in arm to go get drinks, was pretty adorable. I hope we can maybe turn the heat up on their relationship a little bit, perhaps increase the frequency of these little flirty moments, so that when this show ends, they can at least suggest a happy future for the two of them.

So there you have it. Alex and Samantha have come to a tenuous peace, they both get to be name partner at a big New York law firm, and Louis is the new managing partner, with a baby on the way, and a celebratory hug from Harvey. Things are about to get... well, hopefully interesting. I don't think I want this show to come back for a Season Nine. I'm just not invested in it like I once was. That said, there are still plenty of elements to enjoy!

7/10

[janepwilliams87]

Cory Gardner talks cannabis, reelection and Trump (Newsletter: May 28, 2020)

NY blocks marijuana biz from state COVID aid; LA Senate approves medical cannabis expansion; Fmr. AG backs federal legalization waivers for states

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[feministeblog-blog]

A Southerner Details Exactly How Donald Trump Is Horrible

All class, this man. All class. (Photo credit KSTP-TV)

The South, of course, isn’t exactly known for recognizing and rebuking Donald Trump’s awfulness. Every state in the Deep South went red in 2016, usually by a respectable margin, and his approval ratings consistently sit comfortably above sea level. But it’s far from universal. He has plenty of opposition in the South, people unwilling to accept his racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, unapologetically cruel policies and statements and are constantly fighting his rhetoric and standing up candidates to grind his attempts to kick our country back into the 1950s into a fine powder.

This is home, and we’re not, as so many have suggested, going to just move out of the South and let it secede like the growing, emboldened crowd of white supremacists want to. The South is made up of a diverse group of people with diverse philosophies, and we’re not giving up that easy to a man who’s heartless, ignorant, egotistical, bigoted, and corrupt. And with apologies to friends and family for the harsh language I’m about to use:

He’s so tacky.

Stay with me here, because I’m not just talking about the traditional conceptions of tackiness. Gold-plated bathrooms are obviously tacky. Ill-fitted suits when you have tons of money for a tailor are obviously tacky. Openly ogling women is obviously tacky.

But Trump takes tackiness to a new and unforeseen level. He uses it like a weapon of war, turning it into something that threatens global stability and gouges the foundation of our society in ways from which we seriously won’t recover. Never before have we seen 46.1 percent of our country vote for a man not in spite of but because of this unique, pernicious type of tackiness. Because tackiness plus power minus accountability puts us all in a very dangerous place. Here’s what I mean:

He’s thirsty.

Donald Trump is so very, very desperate to be seen as cool. Not since I was 13 and looking in the mirror have I seen someone so desperate to be liked by the cool kids. He’s spent most of his life up until now as an unchecked authoritarian power in his own little world, spending the vast majority of his time in towers and golf courses that bear his name and in which he’s able to craft reality itself to his liking, “you’re fired”ing at will and being named champion of golf tournaments he didn’t even play in.

But then, when he got to the White House and discovered that life there isn’t like life inside his gold-plated bubble, he immediately began currying favor with the people who have the kind of power he covets — the ruthless dictators who use fear and military might to craft their own reality in their own countries. Kim Jong Un. Mohammed bin Salman. Rodrigo Duterte. Vladmir Putin. He’s happy to give them a pass on offenses, attacks, and atrocities — over the objections of his own intelligence community — for fear of losing their favor and the sense of coolness he gains from their presence.

You can see that thirstiness in the shows of fealty he demands from those under him. Watching his cabinet officials prostrating themselves in front of him during cabinet meetings is nausea-inducing. (And Mike Pence is The Absolute Worst about it.) And that makes him manipulable — all Kim Jung Un has to do is send Trump “beautiful letters,” and Kim can get whatever he wants. Fox and Friends just have to stroke his ego a little, and they’re able to influence policy decisions via TV during Executive Time. It would be gross if it weren’t worse than gross — it’s a danger to our country.

Dictators invade countries, and have people murdered, and hack computer systems within our own actual country to sway elections in favor of the candidate they know will become the world’s most powerful puppet, and he doesn’t just ignore it — he actively defends them. Because who cares if ruthless authoritarians gain power in the world as long as they let him sit at their lunch table?

He’s fake.

Donald Trump is as fake as his orange spray tan and unconvincing yellow hair. He’s built up an image and fully invested in it, at any cost. He had his attorney threaten the schools he attended to keep his grades a secret so no one will find out that the self-proclaimed genius was actually a shitty student at UPenn. He strategically angled and cropped photos of his inauguration to make it look like people actually attended. He’s blatantly lied, and had his staff blatantly lie, about his efforts to hide any evidence that he probably could never have been elected without the interference of an adversarial power. He’s (allegedly) tried to obstruct an investigation meant to uncover important details about a foreign attack on our sovereignty. He lies, regularly, to the American people to cover up not just misdeeds but anything that might tarnish the image that he seems to think remains untarnished.

In his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, Bill Barr insisted that without underlying criminality, Trump couldn’t have actually obstructed justice. First of all, Bob Mueller certainly didn’t see it that way, as noted in his report, but also, I can think of plenty of reasons Trump might have tried to waylay a criminal investigation without actually having committed a crime. If he thought he’d committed a crime, even if it turns out he actually hadn’t. If someone else (or, like, 11 someone elses) had committed a crime that he wanted to cover up. Or if there was just something embarrassing in his past that he didn’t want to come to light, to the point that he was willing to commit a crime — which obstruction of justice is — to keep it secret. There are plenty of reasons Trump might fear himself being fucked that wouldn’t end up with him behind bars.

Why is he going to such lengths to keep his tax returns (which every presidential candidate for the past four decades has made public) under wraps? It couldn’t be because they’d expose the fact that he’s not as rich as he claims to be. Just think about it: a president willing not just to lie to the people but to subvert the rule of law to protect his own ego. Tell me that guy is worthy of the office.

He’s crude.

This, of course, is a sin of which I am guilty myself from time to time (and am reminded about by my parents every time I drop an f-bomb in a blog post). But I’m crude recreationally and strategically. He’s crude as a way of life. When your grandmother tells you that people who swear do so because they don’t have a better vocabulary, this is the guy she’s talking about (although she probably doesn’t know it). “Grab ‘em by the pussy,” “shithole countries,” “get that son of a bitch off the field” — Trump directs his crudeness toward the people for whom he has the most contempt. You know, women, people of color, immigrants.

Dictators, of course, are funny, and very, very smart, and strong leaders, and truly love their countries.

Because murdering your own people is totally cool, but being a black athlete taking a stand against police brutality is the ultimate sin.

He’s indecent.

Giving his political opponents juvenile, asinine nicknames like “Sleepy Joe” and “Pocahontas” (and I won’t even try to unpack everything that’s awful about that), lying publicly about everything from murder rates to vaccine safety, filling his cabinet with criminals, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on golf trips, trashing the press as liars and enemies of the people at every turn? That’s offensive.

But fuck that shit.

Separating families, putting children in cages, and then firing his Secretary of Homeland Security because she wasn’t horrible enough? That’s indecent. Banning trans people from the military and stripping away protections for trans children in schools? That’s indecent. Smearing immigrants as rapists, murderers, invading forces, animals, feeding the cruelest instincts of hateful people who want to shoot up synagogues and mosques and churches? Greeting asylum seekers with indefinite detention and application fees?

That’s indecent. That’s offensive to anyone with even the most blackened and shriveled of souls. It offends the very concept of human rights and humanity itself. It’s the kind of thing any decent person would back away from slowly without breaking eye contact, but Trump is not a decent person. I’m not sure what kind of a person he is, actually. The things he does would seem over-the-top if they were coming out of a movie villain, but there he is, befouling the Oval Office and dragging the country down with him.

Unforgivably corrupt is as unforgivably corrupt does.

So when I say Trump is tacky, I don’t mean someone needs to talk to him about his handbag (although Mike Pence is definitely the fake Louis Vuitton bucket bag of U.S. politics). I mean he’s a generally horrible person and threatens the very fabric of our nation. I mean he redefines the concept and takes it to the point that it doesn’t even really qualify anymore, because lending his power to dictators, (allegedly) committing crimes, and blatantly lying to the American people isn’t anything that might be covered by Emily Post. I mean he is a danger and a threat to everything he touches, and he hides it all under the disguise of an ignorant buffoon. But, like booty shorts and a muscle tee at Walmart, his supporters don’t care as long as their ass is covered.

[kiraalexander]

anyway i was sad so i wrote more.

bcs/young pope au part funf: this time there’s mike

Cardinal Voiello was very unhappy.

He had overplayed his hand with Ester, and now he’d lost control of Valente. He knew this, but couldn’t seem to find a way to get them back in hand. Now that the pope had revealed his knowledge of Voiello’s plan to have Esther embroil him in a scandal, Voiello had been forced to give his plan up entirely - and what was more, Valente reveled in it. When Voiello had cornered him this morning, demanding to know what the pope had been doing with the loud American lawyer on the roof of the Basilica last night, Valente had only replied, “talking, your eminence. The holy father enjoys talking with the American lawyer very much.” And then he’d smirked. Smirked. At him.

The humiliation only continued in his morning audience. After he dutifully fetched the pope his coffee, the pope made the American canonist, that Ms. Wexler, read out loud every single provision in the Code of Canon Law relevant to the ouster of a cardinal from both ecclesiastical office and from the curia. She read every line in her flat voice, then rounded it out with a recitation of Canons 331 through 335: the Roman Pontiff.

“The Roman Pontiff obtains full and supreme power in the Church by his acceptance of legitimate election…” she droned, all while Voiello ground his teeth. He wanted to snap that he hardly needed reminding about the basic tenets of the canon law, but wasn’t given the chance. As soon as Ms. Wexler’s voice faded, the pope had snapped, “you can go. Both of you.” So this was just the opening act, and Voiello was left to twist in the wind another day, wondering whether he’d be pulled back into the fold, or set adrift.

The only saving grace was that the other American lawyer - the loud one - had not been in attendance at this little show. When Voiello had caught up to Ms. Wexler’s long strides in the corridor, he’d put on the best mask of friendliness he could muster, and asked where her assistant had been, since he was always such a help to her.

“His holiness - asked that I come myself,” she said, her eyes downcast. And that was another blessing - her meeting with Sofia yesterday had completely unmoored her. And if Sofia did what she was told, he’d be rid of both American lawyers before the week was out, and replace them with proper canonists, ones who had a background in the priesthood. Yes, perhaps all this could be salvaged after all.

“And Father Amatucci - where is he?” Ms. Wexler asked.

“Ah, I fear he has come down with a stomach illness,” Voiello said. “It is very close quarters here, particularly with all the cardinals packed into the Casa Santa Marta for the election, and then awaiting his holiness’s address. Naturally we are all susceptible. I believe Don Tommaso is also ill - no confessions can be taken this morning, unfortunately.”

“I hope they both feel better,” Ms. Wexler said. “Excuse me.” And she stepped quickly away, her heels clacking on the polished floor. And as he watched her go, Voiello said a prayer, begging the Lord to let Sofia succeed where Ester had failed.

Perhaps, he thought, his failure was a matter of beauty. Sofia was very beautiful. He knew this because she told him so. They said that Ester was beautiful as well, but apparently not beautiful enough for the pope. They also said the pope was beautiful, although Voiello was sure he’d seen better days. Perhaps Kim Wexler was beautiful - Sofia certainly seemed much more eager to complete her assignment once she’d seen Ms. Wexler face to face.

Cardinal Voiello was not beautiful, and he knew it. He never had been beautiful. He’d always been squat and lumpish, easily winded and jowly, with squinting eyes and a turtle’s mouth. He’d always had that mole on his cheek, much more prominent when he’d been a child, and it had been like a target on his face for those who wanted to needle him about his doughy face and body. Perhaps all this was the hand of God, smoothing his path into the seminary - he’d never known how it felt to be wanted, and would never miss it. But it gave him a curious blind spot in that he could not understand what others considered beautiful. Certainly he felt that sunsets were beautiful, as was the ocean, and when Napoli scored against Roma. But as far as human beings were concerned, the sight of Sofia moved him no more than did the sight of Sister Bice. He’d told Sister Mary that she was beautiful twice, but she seemed to see through what he now realized were the forced repetitions of a bad liar. The only human thing he could think of that he considered beautiful was the plump cunt of the Venus of Willendorf, and that was made of stone.

He rested his hands on the swell of his belly, and turned to walk to his apartment. It was nearly time. He nodded to the Swiss Guard flanking the path, thinking vaguely of how fitting this was. He considered praying, but didn’t. He missed Amatucci’s quiet, reassuring presence, but it was probably better not to have his shadow behind him today.

He didn’t have much more time, that was certain. Perhaps the holy father could afford to dither, to cat-and-mouse him in order to drive him crazy, but Voiello could not afford to play. Now that Ester hadn’t worked, now that he could still feel the sole of that damned embroidered shoe on his shoulder, forcing his head down - he had to strike an even more decisive blow, and quickly, or else it would all get away from him.

Not my job. It isn’t the job I want to save. It’s the Church. The Church itself.

Why he had to keep reminding himself of that was something he tried not to think about too hard.

When he entered the apartment, he had to unlock the door, but he knew his guest would be there already. He knew, because he was seven minutes late, and his guest was always on time. The air in his apartment had a sense of being subtly displaced. He tried to breath in a steadying column of air, and arrange his face to look serene. He closed and carefully locked the door, then began his search to see where in the house his guest had settled. It didn’t take long - the clack of a billiard ball sounded before he took three steps in. Kind of him, Voiello thought, not to surprise him too badly. They were both getting on in years.

He stepped into the billiard room to find his guest standing behind the table, idly rolling one ball into another, and watching the doorframe.

“Michael,” Voiello said, “how good it is to see you after all this time.”

“It has been a long time, Eminence,” said Michael, “and I gotta say, this place hasn’t changed at all.”

“You’d be surprised,” said Voiello.

Once they were settled across the coffee table with espresso, Voiello was struck with sudden reluctance.

“I understand you have a grandchild now,” he said. “Please accept my warmest congratulations.”

“Yeah,” Michael said. “Five years old. Prettiest thing you ever saw.” He fished a photo out of his wallet that had gone limp at the corners. An unremarkable blond child smiled out from it, but Voiello made a show of admiration. “She’s just lovely. Your son must be so proud.”

“Yeah. He’s dead.”

“What?” Voiello said. Amatucci hadn’t told him this. He wondered how he could have missed it.

“About six months back,” Michael said.

“I’m so very sorry for your loss. If I’d known-”

Michael shrugged. Voiello had never known him to be one for displays of emotion. “It’s good to get away, Eminence,” he said, “but why don’t you tell me exactly why you sent for me.”

Voiello sighed and put down his demitasse cup. “I’m certain you are aware that we have a new pope,” he said.

“Yeah. I followed the conclave news. Pretty young for a pope.”

“That is just the trouble.”

Michael’s shoulders straightened with sudden interest. “You didn’t vote for him?”

“Oh no. I voted for him. But… I did not vote for what we received.”

“Hm,” Michael grunted. “Seems to me you get what you pay for.”

“In some circumstances, yes, that is the case,” said Voiello. “But in circumstances when one has been defrauded, isn’t it only fair to request a refund?”

Michael didn't say anything for a minute. “Why don’t you tell me what it is you want me to do.”

“I want you to resume your position as special firearms instruction for the Pontifical Swiss Guard,” Voiello said. “I’ve already received permission for you to take up the position - it’s been too long since the guard has had a truly intensive training.”

Michael was shaking his head. “Why me? I’m used up. There’s plenty of military trainers younger, sharper-”

“No,” Voiello said. “You were the best in 1981, when we first started automatic weapons training, and you’re the best still.”

Michael was silent, and stared into his cup.

“Michael,” Voiello said gently. “Does it still hurt you to be here? After all this time?”

“You know that old dreams die hard,” Michael said.

Voiello sighed, and in it was not a little genuine regret. “You were the only one who made me feel at home during my first year at the Vatican. I still wish that I could have done something for you.”

“No,” Michael said. “It wasn’t gonna happen. I was to old. And I’m not Swiss.”

“But you helped us to protect the pope,” Voiello said. “Isn’t that something great?”

“It sure is something.”

“And anyway, I never thought the uniform would have suited you.”

Michael cracked a smile at this. “And i never thought the clown suits they make you cardinals wear ever suited you. But now look at you - you’re a real politician.”

“And you are-”

“An old soldier, an ex cop. Put out to pasture.”

“No,” Voiello said, and reached across the coffee table to take Michael’s hand. “On active duty.”

Michael stared hard at Voiello, but didn’t remove his hand. “I think you had better tell me just exactly what you want me to do, right now. If it’s not out of your mouth in the next sentence, I’m out the door.”

Voiello’s heart stopped at the words. He couldn’t know, he told himself, he couldn’t know that it’s how his holiness spoke to me. He almost called the entire thing off right there, but then it came again - the weight of that shoe on his shoulder, and he hardened his heart, and steeled his jaw.

“I want - I need you to assassinate the pope.”

Michael took back his hand and sat back on the sofa. “No,” he said.

Voiello shook his head. “If I could express to you how important-”

“Not until I understand why,” Michael said, and Voiello let out a harsh, relieved breath.

“You must understand,” Voiello said, “we elected him because we thought he would be a compromise between the liberal and conservative factions within the curia. But he’s revealed himself to be so reactionary - he’s threatened to remove two-thirds of the clergy for homosexual attraction. Attraction! Not action! It goes against thousands of years of doctrine. He wants to shut out the people, take us back into the dark ages, when priests jealously kept all knowledge, language, doctrine, out of the reach of the common man. Do you understand what that means? He wants a monopoly on God. I know you remember how it felt, to be denied a position in the Swiss Guard, even though you are the best marksman who’s ever entered the Vatican? Just because of the arbitrary fact that you are not Swiss? He wants to do that but on a worldwide scale - and not just for the Guard, but for heaven itself.” Voiello pointed one stubby forefinger skyward. “I thought that you of all people could understand why this cannot go on.”

“Voiello,” Michael said, “you’re asking me to kill a man.”

“No,” Voiello said. “The Church is a body. If a body becomes cancerous, do we allow that cancer to kill the body? Or do we cut out the cancer? Even if it is living tissue, part of that body?”

Michael shook his head again, but slower this time. A little more, Voiello thought, a little more, and he’ll say yes.

“I don’t know,” he said.

“Michael,” Voiello said, “after all this time - don’t you trust me?”

Michael took a loud breath in, out, in, out. He drained his cup, letting the dregs of the espresso settle in a grainy stew at the bottom. “If I’m going to kill a man,” he said, “I need to look him in the face first. It isn’t that I don’t trust you,” he said, interrupting what would have been Voiello’s indignant protest, “but I have to decide for myself. Give me an audience - then I’ll decide.”

“Michael we don’t have time-”

“We?” said Michael, looking out from under a brush of brow. “Is it we who don’t have time? Or just you?”

Voiello stared back, and considered saying that no, it wasn’t just him, it was the Church herself.

“I’ll get you an audience,” he said.

“Good.” Michael stood. “In that case, I’d better go find my quarters. Thanks for the coffee.”

Voiello walked Michael to the front door, and held it open for him. He stepped out, then turned back to Voiello.

“Do you know how my son died?” he asked.

“I’m afraid I don’t,” Voiello said. “As I said, if I had known-”

“He was shot,” said Michael.

Voiello was suddenly overwhelmed with the memory of standing before Michael and his wife, both of them beaming, the tiny child in her arms. Voiello had been the one to baptize him. It could have been Wojtyla, they could have insisted - but Michael had asked for him instead. He remembered anointing the child and thinking of how tiny he was, how pink, how helpless. “Shot,” he repeated.

“Assassinated,” said Michael, and he left.

Voiello was in a rotten mood for the rest of the afternoon, and when the pope called him in for yet another audience, it was all he could do to catch every other word he said.

When they were finished, his holiness asked after Amatucci. “I understand that he’s ill,” he said. “Isn’t that too bad? I’m always seeing him in the garden, in the Apostolic Palace - just wherever I go, somehow, there he is. I missed him very much today. Please, won’t you tell him to get well from me?”

“I’m sure he would appreciate that very much, holy father,” said Voiello.

“And Tommaso, sick as well,” said the pope. “It’s really just too bad. You know, I think I might be coming down with it myself?”

“Oh, no, holy father,” said Voiello, and he was at least halfway to being genuinely concerned. “You are nauseated? Vomiting?”

“Mm,” said his holiness, “no.”

“Then - a headache, or trembling?”

“No,” said his holiness. “Is that what Amatucci is complaining of?”

“Yes, I’m afraid so - the doctor says he must stay in bed for at least another few days.”

“I see,” said the pope, putting an undue emphasis on the words, in Voiello’s opinion. “Maybe I’m not coming down with what he has after all. In fact, I’m just having trouble sleeping. Can’t you tell?”

He pointed to his eyes, which looked normal to Voiello.

“No, holy father, I’m happy to say that you look perfectly healthy to me.”

“Oh, that’s good - because my eyes feel so dry. Excuse me,” he said. And he took a small bottle of Visine from his pockets, making an exaggerated face as he let a drop splash first into one eye, then the other.

“Ah,” he said, “that is so much better.” And he carefully placed the nearly empty bottle in the middle of the desk.

Voiello stared at the bottle, and thought back. Tremors. Nausea. Vomiting. A racing heart, dilated pupils. And how to make someone just sick enough to be confined to his bed, but not to kill him - yet.

“I’m so happy to hear it, holy father,” he said carefully. “And I think you will find that you won’t see Amatucci quite so often in the future. He must be getting to his own duties once he gets well.”

“That is so good to hear,” said his holiness. “Good bye, Voiello.”

Voiello went straight to Valente, and begged him to allow the new automatic weapons trainer for the Pontifical Swiss Guard to have an audience with his holiness as soon as it could be arranged.

But there was still one thought that nagged him, all on his way back to discuss this problem with Girolamo. Why was it that Father Tomasso, who had to his knowledge never done the pope any harm, gotten ill as well?

He didn’t know, and not knowing made him unhappier still.

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Alex Thomson profile: Understanding the man behind the suit

Alex Thomson is embarking on his fifth Vendée Globe campaign, Helen Fretter finds out what drives him

“I don’t really want to be associated with someone who can’t be bothered to tuck their shirt in.”

Everyone knows Alex Thomson. He’s not only one of the most immediately recognisable IMOCA 60 skippers, but one of the few sailors who have managed to transcend the sport and – very nearly – become a household name. He’s done mid-ocean live link-ups with BBC Breakfast news, millions have watched his Keelwalk, Mastwalk and Skywalk videos on social media, he’s hung out with Lewis Hamilton and appeared in glossy magazines like GQ.

He’s the one with the monochromatic boats, the slick suits, the crazy stunts. He was the wunderkind who became the youngest ever skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Race in 1999 aged just 25. He has big budget campaigns with a huge marketing profile, he talks a good game, and is not shy of sharing his confidence in his own abilities.

He’s had one of the most spectacular and public runs of misfortune; sinking, capsized, hit by a fishing boat, coming down with appendicitis 24 hours before the start of a race. But he’s also twice smashed the 24-hour world sailing speed record.

So all that must make Thomson a big talent, a big ego, who pushes his boats too hard and takes too many risks, right? Well, that – partly – is his public persona. But personas can only ever be a cartoon sketch of a person. And Alex, with his Milk Tray man suits and James Bond-styled boat, is easily drawn.

As a marketing strategy, it’s brilliant. It has made Alex Thomson and his succession of Hugo Boss IMOCA 60s (six at last count) one of the most recognisable, consistent and high profile brands in sports sponsorship. Up to a certain point, it suits him. He is charismatic, super-confident, fiercely competitive, and a little bit flash.

But he’s also been dealt some of the harshest lessons in vulnerability and failure a sportsman can face. He has continued a commercial partnership throughout situations that seem, on paper, impossible – the Hugo Boss sponsorship deal has, he points out, survived three different CEOs and CMOs (chief marketing officers) at the German luxury goods brand.

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More critically, it has also survived having one boat abandoned and two severely damaged pre-race, and 14 years of campaigning without that elusive big win. “They’ve been terribly loyal, more so than they needed to be,” he notes.

When Thomson finished 3rd in the 2012 Vendée Globe, it was the first solo round the world race he’d ever completed, having pulled out of his two previous Vendées and abandoned ship in the Velux 5 Oceans. To sustain a career for so long (2020 will be his fifth Vendée Globe attempt) proves that Thomson is more than a one-dimensional image.

Talking to him about how he has developed over two decades of trying to succeed at one of sport’s toughest challenges reveals complexities, almost contradictions. Last year he was named the 2018 YJA Yachtsman of the Year. It’s an award voted for by sailing journalists. Given Thomson’s high profile, and inherent media friendliness, it surprised me to realise this as the first time he’d received it. It doesn’t surprise Thomson.

“I haven’t really won anything!” he says, giving me a very direct look. “I won the Clipper in 1998 and I was nominated Offshore Yachtsman of the Year, but I haven’t won anything else, have I?”

Photo: Anthony Jones / Lloyd Images

It’s true that while Thomson has achieved plenty in the intervening 20 years – podium finishes in two Vendée Globes and a Barcelona World Race, transatlantic and 24-hour record times – he hasn’t actually won much.

Unlike many of the French skippers, for whom events like the Transat Jacques Vabre and Route du Rhum are of huge significance, for Thomson, with his English team and German backers, the shorter races are something of a necessary evil. He doesn’t particularly enjoy them and doesn’t have a great track record in them.

“I find the sprints really hard actually,” he says, “The Route du Rhum will be really hard for me [Ed note: this article appeared in the May 2018 issue of Yachting World, before Alex ran aground during the 2018 Route du Rhum when about to win his first IMOCA transatlantic race] and I really struggle with the New York to Vendée. You don’t really have time to get into the rhythm, by the time you get into it it’s finished.”

It was Thomson’s 2017 Vendée Globe 2nd place finish, coming on the back of a 3rd in 2012/13, that really proved he could deliver consistently top level results – and silenced the critics. “I don’t sail any differently now to then,” Thomson observes.

Photo: Lloyd Images

“In some ways, I was quite lucky to end up with that kind of reputation. Not so much reckless, maybe maverick, which is what people would say; that I pushed it too hard. It’s better than being thought of as too slow, isn’t it? So at the beginning, I enjoyed it. Then there came a period when obviously I was breaking the boat a lot, where it became a bit painful for while. And now I don’t really care. I am who I am.

“I’m not the only one stuff has happened to – go and look at Bernard Stamm’s record, it’s a hard game to be in. But I don’t think I ever pushed the boat too hard. I can’t think of any occasion when the boat’s broken because I’ve been ragging it!”

Mike Golding raced against Thomson for over a decade. “I don’t think he is reckless,” comments Golding, “I think he pushes extremely hard and he’s spent a long time trying to adjust the dials to get a boat to survive his treatment. But he seems to have got that right now. And the net result is he’s extremely competitive.

“He definitely works at the outside edge of the boat, but there’s nothing wrong with that. That can be a winning formula. And he does that, not just on the water, but also in his choices. He’s not constrained by convention.”

What Thomson did change was how he runs his campaigns. “It was really hard to go through the first five or six years in my IMOCA career with all the stuff that happened. You have to learn how to pick yourself up.

“But the reality is in sport you make your own luck, and the lucky teams are, funnily enough, the ones that get the details right and tick more boxes than anybody else.

“So the game-changing moment for me was the realisation that we couldn’t run the team in the way we were. And that was when I started looking for someone to come in and run the business side of it.”

Team CEO Stuart Hosford joined from a successful career at RBS in 2010. “He brought not only a business point of view but he helped bring in the process and the systems that run our team. So sometimes there’s quite a lot of bureaucracy within our team, but we feel that’s how we have to do it in order to capture all the detail.”

Photo: Lloyd Images

The focus on eliminating mistakes was hugely informed by the lead up to the 2008 Vendée Globe, when Hugo Boss was holed and dismasted by a French fishing vessel en route to the start in Les Sables d’Olonne – a situation that ‘absolutely should have been avoided’, says Thomson.

Ten years on, he still gets animated when thinking back to that incident. You do not get many chances in ocean racing, and to throw one away like that hurts.

“That was a boat that was so ready to do that race. It had done the miles. To be honest, that was my best chance to win the Vendée… before this time. It was a hard pill to swallow.”

Having come so close in 2017, there was no real question that he wouldn’t go around the world again in 2020. “I promised my wife that this was the last one… gone,” he recalls drily. “It’s so onerous, it takes up so much. Kay and I had agreed that would be the last one, and then I phoned her the night before the finish [in 2017].

Alex with his family at the end of the 2016-17 Vendée Globe Race. Photo: Lloyd Images

“I said, ‘Look, at the press conference the first question will be, am I going to do it again?’ And she said, ‘Well, you came 3rd and 2nd, it would feel a bit wrong if you didn’t want to go again and go for the win, so if you want to do it I’ll support you.’ So I’m definitely doing one more Vendée.. shall we just…” he pauses, “Let’s just say that!”

“I feel physically and mentally fit to be able to go and win the next one. But the day I don’t feel like I can win, then I’ll stop.”

Thomson says he never feels daunted about the danger of sailing around the world. But this is where the contradictions come in – the mental gymnastics required to balance a life lived on the edge.

“The daunting bit is choosing to spend that time alone, that’s the hard bit to get over. If you are used to sailing on the ocean, it’s just… nice.”

Flying the flag en route to 2nd place in the last Vendée Globe, equalling Ellen MacArthur’s result in 2001 as the best non- French finisher. Photo: Marine Nationale / Nefertiti / Vendée Globe

His father was a search and rescue helicopter pilot (his mother died when he was a teenager). I wondered if watching his dad pluck people from the sea gave him a different perception of those dangers?

“No,” says Alex, “You see, you made the assumption that what I do is risky, now I don’t think it is. I never feel at risk. The boats are safe, they really are, they’re amazing bits of kit, fully unsinkable now.”

Has he never felt that perhaps he had just run out of luck? “Maybe, momentarily. Maybe upside down in this boat two years ago, there was like a 20 second period of ‘bollocks to this!’”

That’s not to say he doesn’t feel fear. During his first mid-ocean rescue, when Mike Golding recovered him from a sinking Hugo Boss during the Velux 5 Oceans in 2006, Thomson admits he was frightened.

“Mostly, the overriding emotion for me was sadness about losing the boat. That was a good boat and it was my first. There was a point in the liferaft when my hand got broken and I went into shock and became quite negative. Thought I was going to die. But apart from that…!”

Being rescued by helicopter after his newest Hugo Boss was dismasted and capsized mid- Atlantic in 2015

To Thomson, fear is not remarkable. “There are instances where you wake up, the wind’s picked up and the boat’s out of control. I know when I’m scared because I just start sweating profusely through every part of my skin. And I have to stop it.”

He works with sports psychologist, Ken Way (who also saw Leicester City FC on their way to win the Premier League in 2016), on mental techniques to deal with pressured situations. They took that lurching fear, and turned it into a tool.

“One of my problems is that I’m an extrovert and I’m emotional, really emotional. My heart’s on my sleeve and I suffer from lows and highs. It can happen instantaneously – I can go from super low to super high in three seconds.

“The result is when I’m low, I have to work harder. I give up sleep, food whatever. My mood is only governed by my performance, there’s nothing else. But actually my bigger problem is highs, because being high means I can be complacent and there’s no place for complacency on these things on your own.

“So we recreated that aura of invincibility: imagine driving down the road, you feel great, you’re not really paying attention. We took that feeling and related it to a car coming out in front of you and BAM!” he does a full-body mime of an emergency stop. “We recreated all that so whenever I felt that feeling of invincibility then I’d get this other feeling of ‘what’s going to happen next?’

“That’s probably the most extreme example, but it really works, and I can’t separate it from my personal life.” Living with extreme fear is all part of the normalisation of the extraordinary which characterises the best ocean racers.

“One of the feelings when I finish the race and all those 50,000 people turn out, is that you don’t feel worthy. And that’s because, although you know it’s extraordinary, having spent 80 days doing it, it’s become normal.”

The 2016-17 Vendée Globe departs from Les Sables-d’Olonne

Right now Thomson is in the midst of planning his new boat – something he says was as hard as ever to get signed off financially. “We’re about two-thirds of our budget secure, but that’s enough for us to design and build and get on with it.”

They have not announced who will be drawing the next Hugo Boss, although Thomson does say, “We do have the ambition to build in the UK, which is important to us.”

This time around he is building a boat with one single ambition: a Vendée Globe win. “In the days where, performance-wise, we had been terrible, it was hard because you’re having to make choices to make sure that you finish. We couldn’t take any more non-finishes. There’s no compromise now.”

Thomson is fascinated by the technical element of the IMOCA class, as well as enjoying the luxury of being able to commission his own design. And there it is again – that dichotomy between the huge ego needed to feel comfortable with having a multi-million pound yacht custom built with your name on it, and the awareness that the ocean can take it away and humble you in a heartbeat.

Thomson skippered a winning Clipper Race entry when aged just 25

“There’s obviously the challenge and all that kind of stuff, but I love the humility of the whole thing. When you go offshore and you can’t see land you know how insignificant we are.

“Plus I get the reward of being able to build a boat just for me, about me, my height, my weight, everything. I can pretty much have whatever I want. It’s so ostentatious!”

Alex on image

“If you look at Armel Le Cléac’h or François Gabart, they’re slick. They turn up with suits to the right events. They do a great job. Some of the grittier side of [the IMOCA world], personally I’d like to see change a bit.

“Because we all stand there and take pictures together, and I don’t really want to be associated with someone who can’t be bothered to tuck their shirt in. To me, that’s not what we do. We’re representing our sponsors and we should look like a professional sportsman.”

Alex on his big break

“I joined Clipper Ventures in 1997 as a bosun. My job was to help refit eight boats, and then Robin [Knox-Johnston] asked if I’d be the first mate on an expedition to Greenland.

“I said: ‘Well Robin, I’m honoured you want me to go with you, but I want to be a skipper in your race. Am I too young?’ He just looked at me and…” Alex deadpans in a pretty good impression of Sir Robin’s famous tones, “He said: ‘I don’t know. Come to Greenland and we’ll find out.’

“Now, knowing what I do and all the responsibilities and stuff that can go wrong, I look at Robin and say ‘Wow, mate, that was a serious risk to take me on.’ But I loved it and it’s made me.”

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Push to rename building for McCain is a strange, ironic twist

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Push to rename building for McCain is a strange, ironic twist

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wants to rename the Russell Senate Office Building after the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

Yet, in a strange twist of irony, many progressive ideals which serve as touchstones of today’s Democratic Party and the progressive movement may not exist were it not for the building’s namesake, Sen. Richard Russell, D-Ga.

Three Senate office buildings sit across the street from the U.S. Capitol, linked by an underground network of tunnels. The newest is the Hart Senate Office Building, named after Sen. Phil Hart, D-Mich. — the “conscience of the Senate.” Then there’s the Dirksen Senate Office Building, the namesake of longtime Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, R-Ill. Closest to the Capitol is the Russell Senate Office Building. Russell is the oldest of the trio, opened in 1909.

Thirty-five senators and six committees maintain offices in Russell. The structure holds the suite used by McCain and the Armed Services Committee, which he chaired.

Richard Russell served for 38 years in the Senate. A staunch anti-communist, Russell also led the Armed Services Committee. Russell never served as a Senate majority or minority leader. But there’s a reason for that: Russell didn’t need to. He committed to memory all of the Senate’s rules. He could convince fellow senators to vote for bills they otherwise opposed. The idea of a majority or minority leader was a new concept in the Senate in the early 20th century. The Senate is a body of equals. That’s why Senate Majority Leaders Alben Barkley, D-Ky., Scott Lucas, D-Ill., and Ernest McFarland, D-Ariz., struggled. They held the title. But none radiated the political wattage of Richard Russell.

During his time on Capitol Hill, no one commanded all of the Senate’s folkways, methods and procedures quite like Russell.

And here’s the bad part: Russell was a racist and segregationist. He filibustered civil rights bills. He fought legislation banning public lynchings.

“We believe the system of segregation … is a reason to preserve peace and harmony between the races” said Russell, as quoted in Robert Caro’s book “Master of the Senate.”

Russell’s views on race are why Schumer and other Democrats want to rename the building after McCain.

“It is only fitting that his name should adorn a physical institution of the Senate, particularly one that housed the Armed Services Committee,” said Schumer.

But it’s just not Democrats who want to change the name.

“Having a building named after (McCain) makes a lot of sense to me,” said Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the lone African American Republican in the Senate.

“I’m great with that,” said Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., when asked about Schumer’s proposal. “I loved John McCain. He was a good friend and a mentor. He took me under his wing.”

But not everyone’s on board, including lawmakers from Georgia.

Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., accused Schumer of playing politics.

“McCain just passed away. We need to take a deep breath,” said Perdue.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., wants to name something after McCain for time immemorial.

“I don’t want to establish the precedent that we can un-honor somebody in the future,” said Cassidy.

In other words, if they can strip the name “Richard Russell” off the Russell Senate Office Building, why couldn’t that happen to the “McCain Senate Office Building” in the future?

“I’d name the Capitol after the old guy if I could,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

Graham also suggested naming the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) after the Arizona Republican.

“John hated it. He thought it was a waste of money,” said Graham, noting with a chuckle that bestowing the CVC with the McCain moniker might be “my last way to get at him.”

But Graham says a lot of the focus seems misplaced at a time of mourning.

“Instead of worrying about what to name for him – which we should name something or a bunch of things — let’s try to be more like him,” suggested Graham.

The Russell Senate Office Building wasn’t always named after Richard Russell. It was initially just the Senate Office Building – because it was the only one. Some called it the “SOB” for short.

Perhaps that’s a dig at Russell. And, considering the original “SOB” moniker, one McCain friend told Fox that naming the building after McCain would fit the late senator perfectly.

But here’s why Russell was important:

Take a look at the aforementioned “Master of the Senate” by Robert Caro. The 1,100-page magnum opus details how Lyndon Baines Johnson truly became the master of the Senate as no one had really done before him. Remember those other Senate leaders who lacked the chops? Guess who arrived on the scene who did? Lyndon Johnson. Johnson went on to become one of the most-powerful Senate leaders of all-time. The only others who come close are Sens. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Bob Dole, R-Kan., Howard Baker, R-Tenn., and Mike Mansfield, D-Mont.

For good or ill, when Johnson became president, he successfully advanced his “Great Society” programs through Congress. That included passing landmark civil rights legislation, waging a “war on poverty.” Congress approved legislation creating the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Johnson signed laws on consumer protection and housing. He corralled the votes to create the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and launched public broadcasting.

How did Johnson achieve this? Well, he learned the Senate and developed his bona fides from Richard Russell.

Russell could have moved into a vacant leadership post any time he wanted. But he didn’t want to get bogged down in details. In 1951, Johnson became the Senate Democratic Whip. The sole reason? As Caro writes, Johnson had the backing of “one man,” Richard Russell. Two years later, Johnson became Democratic Leader.

In order to understand Johnson, one must dig deeply into Russell. Caro does so in his tour de force, devoting an entire chapter to the Georgia Democrat: “A Russell of the Russells of Georgia.” It was Russell’s own mastery of the Senate which partly helped President Franklin Delano Roosevelt muscle through his own legislative program during the Great Depression: “The New Deal.”

Russell espoused views on race which are offensive today. But were it not for Richard Russell, and later, his agent Lyndon Johnson, major tenets of the Democratic party’s platform would not be law today.

It’s unclear if Schumer and others will get their way and rename the Russell building after McCain. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is empaneling a bipartisan “gang” to determine the proper way to honor McCain.

“In addition to getting things done, he also wanted to get them through in the regular order,” said Senate Rules Committee Chairman Roy Blunt, R-Mo., of his fallen colleague. “I’m sure the Senate will find a way to honor him.”

One senior Senate source tells Fox they think the Senate should name something “new” after McCain. That may yet happen.

Democrats will talk a lot of preserving major New Deal and Great Society programs on the campaign trail this fall. Richard Russell doesn’t align with contemporary views on race. But the party and the country would look a little different today if it weren’t for him and his protégé Lyndon Johnson.

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Post-AGT Appearance 819: Scott Shannon in the Morning June 12

The John Williams Medley would hold at 27, My Homeland 35, Please vote for Avonelle 36 and Aaaaaaaaaaavonelle 40 on the pop chart.  With just 3 weeks left on the Shannon Show he would have limited enthusiasm and want me to rush through the Time 100.  I would try to comply.

Shannon: That was Aaaaaaaaaaavonelle, the latest of the songs for the losing candidate series by our friend Phil Cole, accompanied of course by the great Dolly Parton.  Phil joins us today with good news about the success of this song, right Phil?

PBC: It’s on the pop and country charts.

Shannon: That’s a rare feat and of course this tune hits all the right notes.

PBC: With Dolly Parton there are no wrong notes.

Shannon: That’s one thing everyone notices about you, Phil.  you criticize all the big shots, but when you get someone you really like, you gush with praise.

PBC: That list is so short ha ha.

Shannon: Besides Dolly Parton and that wonderful cousin of yours, Phil, who would you say are the people you most admire...living today, in any walk of life?

PBC: Ohhh...uhhh...Billy Graham, Stan Lee...

Shannon: The master of Marvel.

PBC: Yes, Loretta Lynn, Glen Campbell, you know, old people, so old they can’t let me down...like Bill Cosby.

Shannon: You were a big fan of his?

PBC: Soon as I knew who he was.  of course he’s still the funniest man alive.  You don’t lose that title by having a personal problem.

Shannon: So...best in his field professionally if not morally.  Do you think he’ll be convicted?

PBC: No way!  Even if you can ignore a lifetime of laughs, you can’t send an old man like that to the gas chamber.

Shannon: He’s not facing the death penalty.

PBC: Close enough. 

Shannon: Well we know some people you don’t think much of: the Time most influential people.  Are you ever going to finish that routine ha ha?

PBC: Well you know I performed the whole thing from beginning to end this weekend.  It took 137 minutes.

Shannon: Ha ha ha ha ha a marathon of laughter.  Where’d you get that much time?

PBC: One of the establishments I co-own.

Shannon: Oh!

PBC: Paid off the owner’s mob debts in exchange for unlimited mike time.

Shannon: Ha ha ha ha ha.

PBC: I love it when they laugh at something 100% true.

Shannon: So, you have a lot more jokes about these people than you’re sharing with us?

PBC: Yes like...Chuck Schumer: how can a white man be the minority leader?

Shannon: Ha ha ha, so let’s see.  You left off at Daniel Ek.

PBC: Yes, next is Evan Spiegel.  If I looked like him I’d want someone taking my picture all the time too.  Didn’t he ever hear about Narcissus?

Next we have Harvey Weinstein bragging how Jason Blum made him a lot of money.  That’s influence, but I reckon he won’t be producing The Merchant of Venice anytime soon.

Tom Brady made the list.  Does anyone need him to decide to make a pass at a supermodel?

Shannon: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

PBC: The Dutch helped the original New England patriots in the war you know.  Still he couldn’t win if his receivers didn’t run like a bunch of gazelles.

Shannon: Oh, oh a Giselle Bundchen joke.

PBC: Without Phillip we can’t get those jokes to work.

Next is Margrethe Vestager, from Denmark.  She’s homely enough for a big photograph.  They have to explain in green print why she’s important.

Finally the big one Vlola Davis.  She’s got the cover photo in my state, mouth wide open, hair’s a mess.  If anyone even knows who she is looking like that, that’s influence.

Cole: Next is Biram Dah Abeid.  They call him Mauritania’s abolitionist, so I reckon he  freed a slave ship, or at least one hot gal.

Simone Biles is next.  Funny she rouses a body fluid inside me, but it sure ain’t biles.

Then comes Ashley Graham.  I think she gained weight the last 2 years.  Sports Illustrated can’t fit her in the bathing suits anymore so they use body paint. 

Leila de Lima’s there and from what it says de Lima’s in a big dilemma.  She’s complainin’ on accounta the new guy in the Philippines is killin’ all the drug lords.  Maybe puttin’ her in the magazine’ll keep her alive.  Of course if she keeps the drug dealers in power, that’s a big influence in the wrong direction.

Shannon: Ouch.

PBC: Cuts both ways, doesn’t it Scott.  If she’s that influential why doesn’t she make them quit the drug business?

Cindy Arlette Contreras Bautista: it takes influence just to get someone to say that whole name.

Cindy Sherman takes pictures.  Doesn’t she belong on the Life Magazine list?

It says Raf Simons built a religion around fashion.  I might believe that if he wasn’t wearing a sweatshirt with the letter A on it. 

Fatou Bensouda: it turns out she’s a woman and she’s fat too.

Raed Saleh leads a group that digs people out from under a pile of rubble.  We need him hear for most of our Presidencies.

Neymar plays soccer.  That means he’s a guy who uses his head.

Shannon: We’re running out of time again.

PBC: But we’re not running out of Time Magazine.  We ran out of Newsweek because...take it Cole.

Cole: The way Newsweek told the news was weak.

Shannon: Ok it looks like we have to wait one more week for the end of Phillip and Cole’s Variety Team’s report on the Time Magazine top 100 most influential people of 2017.

PBC: I think you ran out of breath.

Shannon: I did, I did.  Come back next week for more of this and stand by for more great music.

[ulyssesredux]

Hades

Can't bury in the riverbed clutching rushes.

When a country churchyard it ought to mind that job, shaking that thing over all the others go under first. Obama was to know who is self-funding. N.C. Even the once great Caesars is bankrupt in A.C. —Her grave is over there in the U.S.

—But the worst in many polls, and so did I. Chicago murder rate is record setting-4,331 shooting victims with 762 murders in 2016. Mr Dedalus said, do you do? Him take me completely out of race. Have fun! Murder will out. Martin Cunningham said. I made our speeches-Republican's won ratings Crooked Hillary Clinton is not in that, Mr Bloom put on his neck, pressing on a Sunday morning, Mr Power said. Crooked Hillary is spending tremendous amounts of Wall Street Crooked Hillary Clinton and Sanders people who will uphold the US Constitution. Out on the wrong direction. Aboard of the great man, says he will come together to save time. Tim Kaine together. Plant him and slammed it twice till it turns adelite.

Shovelling them under by the canal. Corny Kelleher and the young chiseller suddenly got loose and over the world without yet another one. Sorry, sir, Mr Bloom said. Later on please. Otherwise you couldn't remember the face. —Yes, yes: gramophone. And Paddy Leonard taking him off. It might thrill her first. Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the very important decisions on the altarlist. Dick Tivy bald? John MacCormack I hope and.

WIN! Mr Power said, do you think, Martin Cunningham said, We are suffering through the worst long-term unemployment in the debate if you come to pay for the middle of his soul. The one about the dead. Heading to New Hampshire and Maine.

They are in very good shape! Martin laying down the quay more dead than alive. Crooked Hillary Clinton can't close the deal, no: he knows them all and shook water on top of them: sleep. Well no, Sexton, Urbright.

What is going to lose the election night tabulation be accepted. Or a woman's with her, unless he is airing his quiff. Ned Lambert smiled.

#MakeAmericaGreatAgain Just leaving D.C. Wouldn't be surprised.

I forgot he's not married or his landlady ought to have picked out those threads for him. Crooked Hillary speak. Smith O'Brien. Crooked Hillary Clinton was not arranged or that I raised/gave!

My thoughts and prayers are with those affected by two with his fingers.

Cold fowl, cigars, the soprano. Same house as Molly's namesake, Tweedy, crown solicitor for Waterford. They have nothing going but to obstruct. Dropping down lock by lock to Dublin. I am now going to build a great healthcare plan that really works-much more crime, failing schools and vanishing jobs. Bam! Start afresh. Molly and Floey Dillon linked under the hugecloaked Liberator's form.

Martin Cunningham affirmed. James Clapper and others are putting on their caps and carried their earthy spades towards the barrow. The last house. Very much enjoyed my tour of the race! Sunlight through the gates. Same thing watered down. I am sitting on something hard. Scandal! Feel live warm beings near you.

John Henry Menton is behind. Bam! Doubles them up black and blue in convulsions. Well it's God's acre for them. Never better. They should be EASY D! —Quite so, I can use all the juicy ones. Salute. Nothing to feed well, does no harm. When will CNN do a hit ad on me concerning women when her husband is going to paradise or is in paradise. It is time for change.

The language of course, Martin Cunningham said. Crooked Hillary Clinton strongly stated that I had one the other. Look forward to introducing Governor Mike Pence was harassed last night have passion for our VETERANS. He patted his waistcoatpocket. Feel my feet quite clean.

Five people killed, like Bernie himself, Martin Cunningham began to move between all 50 states, including the smaller ones, into play. Now he wants the people of Ohio called to express their own accord. Mistake must be simply swirling with them! Wear the heart!

Martin is going crazy-yet Obama can make up on the brink, looping the bands round it. The gates glimmered in front, turning them over and back, just prior to me for tweeting at three o'clock in the name: Terence Mulcahy. Crooked Hillary is being rigged by the server.

But I wish to Christ he did, Martin Cunningham said. #ImWithYou How quickly people forget that Crooked Hillary Clinton is soft on Russia and all is over there, all over the place maybe. —O, to build a great man, clad in mourning, a must! As if they did for Hillary Clinton! The stonecutter's yard on the economy. Light they want. #MAGA!

I'm driving her nuts. You will see my ghost after death. Is that the Freedom Caucus was able to lose with dignity.

Read your own obituary notice they say, Hynes said. Learn anything if taken young.

Crimea. Praying for all of the drunks spelt out the damp.

I will beat Hillary. Soon be a woman too. Get the pull over him that way? Wrong answer! A pointsman's back straightened itself upright suddenly against a corner: the bottleworks: Dodder bridge.

We've had free—was about China, Russia and all.

—I hope and. Honored to say that but simply showed him groveling when he was in Crosbie and Alleyne's? Tiptop position for a false ad on me & I won in a buff suit with a fare. Shuttered, tenantless, unweeded garden. To cheer a fellow. As they turned into reality. Both unconscious. Just arrived in Scotland. Thou art Peter. And the sergeant grinning up. —The greatest disgrace to have a big deal! Thanks Carrier I will sign the first bill to repeal #Obamacare and give Americans many choices and much more. Barmaid in Jury's.

Burial friendly society pays. Once you are. The coffin lay on its bier before the criminal investigation of Clinton. You would imagine that would be. Crooked Hillary Clinton.

Been around for 240 years. Felt heavier myself stepping out of the computer servers? Cracking his jokes too: trim grass and edgings.

—His father poisoned himself, Martin Cunningham said, and another thing. Eyes of a shave.

Demand is unreal. Eyes of a cheesy.

I saw his speech rudely: Unless I'm greatly mistaken.

—And Corny Kelleher said. It is so bad she is used to be a person is. It was truly an honor to introduce my wife, Mr Bloom said. Knows there are no catapults to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect.

Even Parnell. So and So, wheelwright. —Two, Corny Kelleher fell into step at their side.

I thought it would be better to bury Caesar. Polls looking great, and Crooked Hillary Clinton, Americans have experienced more attacks at home than victories abroad.

Or so they said killed the christian boy.

The room in the arena! Cure for a penny! Just released that $67 million in negative ads on me. The great physician called him home. Hoping some day above ground in a Clinton ad. Houseboats. Lots of them. Half the town was there. The hazard. Pomp of death. Liquor, what Peake is that Parsee tower of silence? God? —Was that Mulligan cad with him into oblivion! —Quite so, I hope not, Martin? Where is that? Yes, Menton.

Wow, did a really bad job Hillary type policy and management has done nothing in the quick bloodshot eyes. He clasped his hands in silence. Let us all. Instead of blocking up the envelope?

Crumbs? Mr Dedalus said drily.

Must be damned unpleasant. Come out and rolling over the wall with him into oblivion! Senators in the chapel, that two drunks came out through a door. On the towpath by the cartload doublequick. Pass round the corner of Elvery's Elephant house, showed them a pass! She is ill-fit with bad intentions out of an artery.

I like Michael Douglas! Where is he?

That was why he asked them, about to speak!

Wellcut frockcoat. Yesterday was amazing—5 victories. Where is he?

—Everything went off, followed by the cartload doublequick. Hillary Clinton wants to get the youngster into Artane. Martin Cunningham whispered.

—It does, Mr Dedalus said: The best death, poor little Paddy wouldn't grudge us a touch, Poldy.

Lyin' Crooked Hillary did not have delayed! A bargain. Mr Power said, in Wisdom Hely's. Crooked Hillary Clinton. Expect we'll pull up here on the quay more dead than alive. I will win on the right, only to be smart! Gone at last. Domine-namine.

The weapon used. He has seen a ghost? Dressy fellow he was the one coffin. Romeo.

Vote Trump and end this madness! Like Shakespeare's face.

A child. Must get that grey suit of mine turned by Mesias.

People.

Death by misadventure. Busy day planned in New York City. —No, Mr Bloom said.

The National Enq. Also, deductibles are so thoroughly devastated by the Dems are to blame for the Cork park races on Easter Monday, Ned Lambert followed, Hynes said scribbling. Hopefully the violent and vicious killing by ISIS.

#MDW Don't believe the biased and phony ads, he said that I want toughness & vigilance. Mr Power said pleased. The Sacred Heart that is fact! Ay but they might object to be in his office.

First-so why isn't the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to an election? A total lie-and with the editors of Conde Nast & Steven Newhouse, a very open and successful presidential election.

Mi trema un poco il. Can that be damned for a big fan! Pause.

Today there were terror attacks in NY, NJ and my deepest gratitude to all of the Red Bank the white disc of a stone, that be damned for a major ad of me by the cartload doublequick. Has anybody here seen?

I was here for BREXIT.

We have time.

Wait till you hear that one, they have to get it! —How is that he agrees with me that alliance members must PAY THEIR BILLS.

Wow, the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare will take place today at Trump Tower today. There is a long laugh down his name was like a corpse. Not pleasant for the repose of his ground, he said shortly. Watched Crooked Hillary and myself, should be admonished for not having a general election. Sadly missed. I just released my financial disclosure forms, the man, clad in mourning, a man who takes his own grave. Crooked Hillary Clinton cannot even bring herself to say something else. Four bootlaces for a quid. Full of his people, or I will be running our government for a nun. More sensible to spend far less reason to tweet. We are talking to many groups and it is, I mustn't lilt here.

—I suppose, Mr Power said. I settled the Trump Admin. Five people killed in Washington D.C.

They sometimes feel what a mess they are very smart and vigilant. Then they follow: dropping into a hole, one of the voice like the past. Hope it's not chucked in the hall. Grows all the others.

Why? Only circumstantial, Martin Cunningham said broadly. Such dishonesty! The mutes bore the coffin and bore it in through the others. Mr Kernan and Ned Lambert and Hynes. That will be holding a major business while I campaign and finish it off on the rampage all night. Pallbearers, gold reins, requiem mass, firing a ballistic missile. Mr Dedalus sighed resignedly.

My kneecap is hurting me. Quietly, sure of his huge dustbrown yawning boot.

Will reverse Obama's Executive Orders and concessions towards Cuba until freedoms are restored. Heart on his left knee and, indeed, he said. Shoulder to the foot of the wheels: Unless I'm greatly mistaken. As you are dead you are dead.

Fun on the floor since he's doomed.

Yet sometimes they repent too late! Corny Kelleher stood by the media refuses to expose! Big powerful change.

For Growth said in subdued wonder. I know his face.

The cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing. Some say he is airing his quiff. WRONG or lie!

And a good word to say that large scale voter fraud happening on and before election? The very foul mouthed Sen. John McCain begged for my support during his primary I gave, he said, pointing also. Your heart perhaps but what do we get tough, smart & strong if it were up to the brother-in-law his on a Sunday morning, Mr Power gazed at the Convention though I'm sure he would never do this under the plinth, wriggled itself in under it.

Entered into rest the protestants. Martin Cunningham's eyes and sadly twice bowed his head again. Would birds come then and peck like the man who takes his own life.

Embalming in catacombs, mummies the same after. Apart. We must take a charitable view of it out of his beard.

Isn't it awfully good one that's going the pace, I remember now.

We need change!

But he has to say that I was here for BREXIT. Menton is behind.

Where is that child's funeral disappeared to? Deathmoths. I was down there.

All watched awhile through their windows caps and hats lifted by passers. Looks like yet another one.

Most amusing expressions that man finds. Who? Who passed away. Ivy day dying out.

The Croppy Boy.

You would imagine that would be bust!

She is not freedom of the halls. Every mortal day a fresh one is let down. —We're off again. It's as uncertain as a businessman, but if I don't want to hit Crazy Bernie, will come way down! Knows there are four people in DNC in writing those really dumb e-mails, which will go next. Corpse of milk.

What harm if he could dig his own grave.

Body getting a bit: forget you. Wear the heart and make everyone less safe.

—He's at rest, he said, wiping his wet eyes with his shears clipping. The dishonest media refuses to expose! Crooked Hillary Clinton knew everything that her husband wanted to. Nothing ever happened with any of the cease to do. Very nice!

And the retrospective arrangement.

Voglio e non. Who kicked the bucket.

Well but that fellow would lose!

Troy measure. Her record is so bad that such a rooted dislike to me. Typical politician-can't make out why the corporation doesn't run a tramline from the parkgate to the boats. A tiny coffin flashed by. I put her letter after I entered the race so badly-I will be greatly strengthened and our economy. Martin Cunningham said.

Hillary Clinton is using race-e-mail scandal! Will guns be taken in trucks down to the boy with the help of Club For Growth, which is terrible! I knew his name for a shadow. Murderer is still at large. Time and on-line from Wikileakes, really vicious.

—Her grave is over.

Three days. Many on the economy! Oot: a dullgarbed old man from the Coombe and were passing along the tramtracks. —After you, Mr Bloom entered and sat in the history of politics-b/c I stand 100% behind everything we do. —What is he taking us?

Must be an infernal lot of wedding emails. Ought to be wrongfully condemned. A juicy pear or ladies' punch, hot, strong and sweet.

They know if certain people are allowed to use Air Force GENERALS and Navy ADMIRALS today, Crooked Hillary said her husband. 4 a.m. this morning!

AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! John Lewis should spend more time doing a great friend in the quick bloodshot eyes. Mr Bloom began, and other things!

I am come to bury them in summer. He said something truly horrifying … he refused to say, Hynes said scribbling. —Yes. John Kasich have no border, we welcome all voters who want to admit those who keep us safe is an attack on Pearl Harbor while he's in Japan? —What? She should be painted like a poisoned pup. The mourners knelt here and there you are. Today, all of us.

On Saturday a great journey to the right, following their slow thoughts. That issue has only created jobs at the tips of her statements were lies and her killed so many bad years they were. When I become POTUS we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Strange feeling it would. —I was passing there. Mr Bloom put on their way to the right.

Will be there soon! Twenty. John O'Connell, Mr Dedalus said: The grand canal, he said. A server bearing a brass bucket with something in that it is just the same. Why can't the pundits be honest? Ned Lambert said softly, clasping hands. Monday he died. When I am working hard, even with an unlimited budget, military, guns and just don't know who he is voting for Kasich who voted illegally Trump is going to get together and win by the Dems said maybe it is almost unanimous, I will be a smooth transition-NOT! Wallace Bros: the royal canal.

While I am come to look exhausted and done, then it would. The Obama Administration from Gitmo has killed an American. —And tell us, Mr Bloom stood behind the boy to kneel. The Apprentice except for the poor wife, Mr Bloom asked, turning away, no: he has to do. Keep out the dinge and smoothed the nap with care round the place maybe. The crown had no evidence, Mr Bloom said.

Our inner cities have been absolutely decimated by dumb politicians, drew behind a few violets in her then.

Hope he'll say something. Not much grief there. —It is Clinton and the son himself … Martin Cunningham said. Every mortal day a fresh one is let down. Chummies and slaveys. General Michael Flynn. Plasto's. Under the leadership of Obama, and played up by women many already proven false and unsubstantiated charges, and the many roles they serve that are vital to the boy followed with their pants down. Him? —A pity it did not know. After the litigation is disposed of and respecting all of himself that morning. Nobody owns. Quiet brute. Hillary Clinton. An attack on Mosul is turning out to be prayed over in Latin.

Hellohellohello amawfullyglad kraark awfullygladaseeagain hellohello amawf krpthsth.

11:00 A.M. to talk manufacturing in Pennsylvania where we will swamp Justice Ginsburg of the Irish church used in a flash. He doesn't know much especially how to win there-Mormons don't like LIARS! Wow, television ratings just out book-THE WORK BEGINS! Mason, I think having Jeb's endorsement hurts Lyin' Ted Cruz has lost so badly-I will REPEAL AND REPLACE! The carriage galloped round a corner: stopped.

As broad as it's long. —In the midst of life. Father Mathew. Hillary just can't close the deal, and lines from Michael Douglas! Mr Bloom said.

We need serious leaders.

They looked. For Growth tried to drown …—And Reuben J, Martin Cunningham began to move, creaking and swaying. Then a kind of panel sliding, let it down the edge of the dance dressing. Watch Wednesday! The Republican Convention was great Bernie Sanders too hard yet because I sailed inside him.

#Debate #BigLeagueTruth The 2nd Amendment is under great strain. I'll swear. —And, Martin Cunningham cried.

Lots of them all up out of him? What do African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP! Always in front, turning to Mr Dedalus said, and never let you down! —It's as uncertain as a personal hedge fund to get shut of them. Meant nothing. Rusty wreaths hung on knobs, garlands of bronzefoil. Big mistake by an incompetent judge! He left me on their clotted bony croups. It is time for Republicans & Democrats to get together, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Martin is going to take up an idle spade. Hillary will never vote for Hillary Clinton surged the trade deficit in many years our country coming to me. Brunswick street. Down with his plume skeowways.

Gordon Bennett. Mr Bloom said. Mobile, Alabama today at Lincoln Memorial. For Growth, which turned into a stone crypt. John Henry Menton is behind. What swells him up that way without letting her know. Former President Vicente Fox, who scream, curse punch, hot, strong and sweet. I don't believe that Bernie Sanders would have made U.S. a mess they are sadly weak on illegal immigration, with all of the great State of Louisiana, and run as an independent! Inked characters fast fading on the win. Pull the pillow away and finish it off on the table. A beautiful funeral today for a one-sided spin that followed. The polls are close so Crooked Hillary Clinton as exposed by WikiLeaks.

Tremendous support. Seat of the Venetian blind.

Outside them and through them ran raddled sheep bleating their fear. It's dyed. —O, draw him out of another fellow's. Devil in that grave at all levels! Warm beds: warm fullblooded life. Mr Bloom put on his last legs and ready to explode.

Even if I won the election, if that dodge works now getting dicky meat off the train at Clonsilla. Run the line out to all of the lofty cone. Crumbs? Look what has happened in Orlando is just a club for people to express their best wishes on the earth in his time, is to have a clue. The wheels rattled rolling over stiff in the world again. Wonder if that is: showing it. What a great evening! Stay safe! I feel it is-RADICAL ISLAM! Hillary is flooding the airwaves with false and phony ads against me is the New York City with my family and friends. Thursday, Friday and Saturday! Monitoring the terrible deal the U.S. are now at 1001 delegates.

Stop! I said I. Cuffe sold them about twentyseven quid each.

Martin Cunningham said. We come to pay for the United States for years, our inner cities.

It's a good spinnnn! Never forgive you after.

We welcome all voters who want to know? How quickly people forget that Crooked Hillary Clinton knew everything that her servant was doing at the debate. How do you do? Crooked Hillary after she decieved him and have special trams, hearse and took out the two failed presidential candidates, Crooked Hillary Clinton, who I never met but spoke against me.

He passed an arm through the slats of the Democratic Convention has paid ZERO respect to the boy followed with their pants down. Crooked Hillary, we will slaughter you pigs, I saw him last and he was before he got the $5,600,000 were detained and held for questioning.

The caretaker moved away, looking about him. Wait for an instant of shower spray dots over the world.

Found in the world to see a dead one, he said. Sadly missed. The weather is changing, he does. —There's a friend of theirs. His garden Major Gamble calls Mount Jerome for the terrible things they did it of their graves. Leaving now for the dying.

Sympathetic human man he truly hates, Lyin’ Ted Cruz had zero. The coffin dived out of control, more states coming up in America. More interesting if they want even if it wasn't broken already.

That keeps him alive. Yes, it is a little book against his toad's belly. Look forward to it.

It's dyed. The 2nd Amendment. Yes, Menton. But he has anyway.

When I am very proud of my campaign, by saying she’ll tax estates at 65%.

I want to talk about Hillary's policies that have made U.S. a mess they are go on living. If little Rudy. Don't let up, Martin Cunningham said pompously.

The Supreme Court! His name stinks all over the coffin into the U.S. in totally one-by a haulage rope past beds of reeds, over slime, mudchoked bottles, carrion dogs. —I believe so, Mr Dedalus asked. Bam! They stopped. Funerals all over Europe and, when all had knelt, dropped carefully his unfolded newspaper from his pocket and knelt his right hand. I have created tens of thousands of great reviews & will win. Whew! —Unless I'm greatly mistaken. Life, life. She will sell many air conditioners! Meeting with biggest business leaders this morning. But with the rip she never stitched.

Press his lower eyelid.

The FBI is totally rigged & corrupt! Monitoring the terrible tragedy in Nice, France. When will CNN do a segment on Hillary’s plan to increase Syrian refugees 550% and how much it will just go on living. Will soon be the biggest budget increase in the lives of ALL Americans. I always knew he was.

—It does, Mr Power said. Policeman's shoulders. The mourners took heart of hearts. Greyish over the place. Celebrate Martin Luther King Day and all uncovered. The Theater must always be trying to get in Harvard. Only a pauper.

Coffin now. The carriage wheeling by Farrell's statue united noiselessly their unresisting knees. —They say a man who does it is a very, very much against me misrepresents the final night, after blinking up at her for some time. Illegals out!

—About the boatman? Shows the profound knowledge of the sepulchres they passed. A great blow to Obama's message-only 38,000 and got in trouble for far less. One on the altarlist. I am right, following their slow thoughts. Well preserved fat corpse, gentleman, epicure, invaluable for fruit garden.

—Unless I'm greatly mistaken. It's the moment you feel.

Pull the pillow away and finish #1, so complex-when actually it isn't!

You should focus their energies on ISIS, illegal immigration and not in trouble for far less reason to tweet. Yes, yes. Good Lord, what Peake is that beside them. An empty hearse trotted by, coming from the beginning, & when people make mistakes, now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?

What we need her to announce this?

Lighten up at the Republican Convention are totally embarrassed!

Three days. —Sad occasions, Mr Power asked through both windows. Many people dead and totally desperate.

—In the same after. Once you are dead.

—They say a white man smells like a big thing in a massive military complex in the morgue under Louis Byrne. Ideal spot to have a clue.

A throstle.

—Better ask Tom Kernan turn up? The resurrection and the priest began to read a name on the next please. Monday, Ned Lambert answered. They struggled up and out: and there in prayingdesks. This is a total fraud!

—Immense, Martin Cunningham said. Then saw like yellow streaks on his hat. Pols made big mistakes, they twist it and never let you down! She was very rude last night in Orlando. Wow, just can't close the deal on N.Korea etc? Thinking of victims, their families. Getting ready to deliver jobs, no, Sexton, Urbright. His wife I forgot he's not married or his aunt Sally, I could not have our best interests at heart. She is owned by the slack of the U.S. charges them nothing or little. This will quickly lead to our country.

Then knocked the blades lightly on the gravetrestles. Wren had one opponent, instead of golfing. Beggar. Very exciting! The blinds of the truly great business in our country has the temperament or integrity to be sideways and red it should be dealt with strongly by the Democrats—both with delegates & otherwise. The Electoral College is actually genius in that, Mr Bloom asked, twirling the peak of his beard. I greatly appreciate your support! —He doesn't know who he is. China The pathetic new hit ad on me. Thank you Washington! —O, excuse me! Bernie Sanders would have campaigned in N.Y. Molly wanting to do with a knob at the auction but a lady's. Springers. Must be twenty or thirty funerals every day. And, it is completely false!

Wren had one!

Pennyweight of powder in a coordinated effort with the rip she never stitched. Mr Kernan said with reproof. But the shape is there. For yourselves just.

Mr Dedalus nodded, looking up at the window. —O, that. Eulogy in a short while—great to have been left behind. #Debates2016 #debatenight Really sad that a person is.

Under the leadership of Obama & Clinton should stop meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu in Trump Tower at 10:00 P.M. W. Hillary and Tim Kaine should not be talking about the disaster known as ObamaCare! Bernie, run.

Today is the biggest physical & economic threat facing the American flag and laughed at police Muhammad Ali is dead, of course … Holy water that was. He is trying to rig the vote.

We are going to Iran! I had one like that when the hearse capsized round Dunphy's, Mr Bloom came last folding his paper again into his pocket and knelt his right hand.

Who passed away.

Depends on where. —That is not the thing else. We will Make America Great Again. Dressy fellow he was landed up to the Isle of Man boat and he wouldn't, I would win with the spoon. For many happy returns. A tiny coffin flashed by.

What Bill did was stupid! Every man his price.

Burst sideways like a sheep in clover Dedalus says he. Just watched recap of #CrookedHillary's speech. With thanks.

—How is that beside them. —The O'Connell circle, Mr Dedalus exclaimed in fright. There is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country down the edge of the economy. Big place. I.

Lyin' Ted Cruz should not be allowed! The caretaker hung his thumbs in the doorframes.

Every Friday buries a Thursday if you believe. Me in his eyes and sadly twice bowed his head? Great optimism for future presidents, but also at many polling places-SAD Election is being badly criticized for a win!

Ashes to ashes.

The world is in horrible shape and falling apart, not mine!

We are suffering through the sluices. Still, the party is VERY disrespectful to Bernie Sanders. I am President! Extraordinary the interest they take in as many as 5000 ISIS fighters have infiltrated Europe. With a belly on him like this. Mr Bloom reviewed the nails and the rest. —The others are putting on their clotted bony croups. Great deal for workers! Terrible attacks in Turkey, Switzerland, not a fraud! Nobody else can do so many things on purpose. Better luck next time. Levanted with the two failed presidential candidates, Crooked Hillary said that I can go along with Obama-and I will be remembered! President! And tell us, Hynes walking after them a rollicking rattling song of the Lockheed Martin F-35 program and cost is out of the others. That last day idea. He's as bad as old Antonio. —That is not affordable-116% increases Arizona. I wish Mrs Fleming is in. Very much enjoyed my tour of the fryingpan of life, Martin Cunningham asked, turning away, looking up at one of the race so badly by the cartload doublequick. Europe and the Baldwin impersonation just can't close the deal with Bernie Sanders said, in Wisdom Hely's. Wrong! Russia dealing with men who get off the stage, didn't honor the enduring fight for you while Hillary brings in more than Hillary Clinton is guilty as hell. Just leaving Virginia-JOBS, JOBS! Pure fluke of mine turned by Mesias.

Secret Service Agent Gary Byrne doesn't believe that his name for a penny.

A total double standard! Jolly Mat.

My thoughts and prayers are with you talking of suicide before Bloom. Fancy being his wife.

If not from the curbstone: stopped. —Better ask Tom Kernan? Recent outrage.

Mr Bloom said beside them.

Sad State Treasurer John Kennedy is my last wish. Has anybody here seen Kelly? Soon be a woman too. He's there, awake, to memory dear. Who knows is that she got more publicity than any in the vaults of saint Mark's, under enormous pressure, were incredible!

For yourselves just. Deadhouse handy underneath. The language of course … Holy water that was season 1 compared to the Dallas & Arizona papers & now Lyin’ Ted Cruz should not interfere in our society. Gone at last. —Breakdown, Martin Cunningham said.

Shows the profound knowledge of the bill Hillary’s husband signed NAFTA?

Well, the caretaker answered in a country is in pocket of Wall Street. Keys: like Keyes's ad: no fear of anyone getting out. Just what I have created tens of thousands of illegal immigration. —L, Mr Kernan said with a weak gasp. Mason, I have instructed my execs to open the magnificent Turnberry in Scotland was a disaster America is proud to stand a drink or two. Be sorry after perhaps when it is, he said no. Hillary! A total double standard! Wow, Lyin' Ted is when he said, the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare will explode and we will make it strong and doing very well, sitting in there all the same like a real wage increase in Syrian refugees. I knew his name was like a corpse.

The coffin lay on its bier before the and knew they were. Make him independent. So I raised/given a tremendous amount of money goes to wonderful charities! My prayers and condolences to those involved in the world. But he knows the ropes. Together, we wouldn't have scenes like that when the hearse capsized round Dunphy's, Mr Dedalus said.

GO FLORIDA! But look at it by the wayside. See your whole life in a buff suit with a fare. Hillary Clintons foreign interventions unleashed ISIS and all is going to be a great day! The reason lyin' Ted Cruz is incensed that I not allowed to use Air Force One Program, price will come way down!

NOT believe it at first. President Obama is not for striking oil, build the wall with him.

My dear Simon, the drunken little costdrawer and Crissie, papa's little lump of dung, the Tantalus glasses. Developing waterways. Molly and Floey Dillon linked under the hugecloaked Liberator's form. Hoo! What Bill did was wrong! Something to hand on. Remember him in the macintosh? He left me on the bowlinggreen because I sailed inside him.

Better for ninetynine guilty to escape than for me!

I will be a Native American. Three days.

Only politeness perhaps. Things are looking good, but leaves behind amazing legacy. —I was in Crosbie and Alleyne's? Our Native American in order to spend far less. A great blow to Obama's message-only 38,000 and got in, saying: Yes, yes: a dullgarbed old man from the open drains and mounds of rippedup roadway before the chancel, four tall yellow candles at its corners. For instance who? Is he dead? The Lord forgive me! Wellcut frockcoat.

Gang members, drug dealers & others are putting on their caps and hats lifted by passers. How are all watching take place.

This is a good spinnnn! Meant nothing. Springers. Ye gods and little fishes!

—I know his face. —No, no: he is. Some reason. From one extreme to the inauguration, It will only get worse. Good job Milly never got it. The rally inside was big and hairy. They look terrible the women.

Very exciting!

Bent down double with his aunt Sally, I still number one-sided deal from the Koran.

Would he understand? Heading to Pennsylvania for a big giant in the grave. Huggermugger in corners. I won the popular vote. See him grow up. Talks about me. On the slow weedy waterway he had the gumption to propose to any girl.

Big interview tonight by Henry Kravis at The Business Council of Washington?

First-so why isn't the House and Senate. Big announcement by Ford today. —Who? Many reports that it will sell many air conditioners! We have to get away with murder. The greatest disgrace to have in the morgue under Louis Byrne.

Love! You can tell them to be built here for cars sold here! Security and extreme vetting.

Anniversary. I daresay the soil would be bust! Ned Lambert says he'll try to get one of the girls into Todd's. Liquor, what became of him. James M'Cann's hobby to row me o'er the ferry.

Great Again! Martin Cunningham said.

Much higher ratings at Fox The real story here is why they cancelled fireworks, they want.

Mr Bloom said. Crooked Hillary is too deep. A shoelace. Coffin now. I am asking the chairs of the murdered. Do you think of them thugs, who wants to get the youngster into Artane. I will be a disaster from which it never recovered. Daren't joke about the place and capering with Martin's umbrella. As they turned into Berkeley street a streetorgan near the Basin sent over and scanning them as he is. I could make a great Thursday, of course … Holy water that was season 1.

Want to feed on themselves. Will be spending the day. The hazard. The #1 trend on Twitter right now, Martin Cunningham, first, poked his silkhatted head into the public by putting stories that never happened into news!

No touching that. —Bloom, chapfallen, drew behind a few paces and put on their own accord. Senate in many years, say.

The Croppy Boy. The weapon used. A raindrop spat on his coatsleeve. So much time left.

Marriage ads they never try to get someone to sod him after he changed his story.

Going to Salt Lake City, Utah-fantastic crowd with no interruptions. When I do not have done. Never better. A gruesome case. Crazy Megyn anymore. One whiff of that.

—Thank you to Fox & Friends for so reporting! —They say a white man smells like a poisoned pup.

Just another case of BAD JUDGEMENT Does anyone know that Crooked Hillary, who I will appear to you after death. Sympathetic human man he truly hates, Lyin’ Ted Cruz should not have watched my standing ovation speech in West Virginia. Me in his office in Hume street.

No, Mr Dedalus said drily. The Democrats made up things that I wanted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Yes, I suppose we can never beat Hillary.

Tantalising for the repose of the two police officers shot in San Diego to raise money for the swearing-in-law his on a lump. Whisper. Everybody is arguing whether or not it is. #Imwithyou ISIS threatens us today because of Hillary. My condolences to all of the race! Begin to be wrongfully condemned. Dreadful. Body getting a bit.

Sympathetic human man he is. Wow, did a really bad judgement and temperament cannot be allowed in the side of the boy's bucket and shook water on top of them. I'm dying for it.

I raised/given a tremendous amount of money for children with cancer because of him? Seems a sort of a cheesy. Hope you like to hear an odd joke or the women. As broad as it's long. Get up! Change that soap now. Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else.

—What is he? We need to be packed? The chap in the U.S. charges them nothing or little. Poor old Athos! Pause. Ah, the world to see it has proven to be flowers of sleep. He was an amazing talent and wonderful guy.

SEE YOU IN COURT, THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR TRUMP. All followed them out of that. Crazy Megyn anymore. Nice fellow. Stay safe! General!

We are TRYING to fight ISIS, and he determined to send him to where a face with dark thinking eyes followed towards the barrow. Expect we'll pull up here on the low-life and against Planned Parenthood & Ocare! I win-I am very proud of my top priorities. But suppose now it is now endorsing Lyin' Ted Cruz can't win with the rip she never stitched. The felly harshed against the very important decisions on the corrupt Clinton Foundation corruption and Hillary's pay-to-play question. The shadows of the dance dressing. Going to Salt Lake City, Utah, for your support! A throstle. Come out and rolling over the coffin. I will take place today at Trump Tower today. —Huuuh!

Job seems to suit them.

Thank you. People first. De mortuis nil nisi prius. Thank you, Simon? Just landed in New York-a great evening we had a chance. To his home up above in the afternoon. I will be the same like a coffin. Where the deuce did he leave? —In God's name, John Henry Menton asked. Haven't seen you for your wonderful letter!

—In paradisum. Spend more time on balancing the budget, military, vets, I wanted to be that poem of whose is it the chap was in there. Details to follow Julian Assange-wrong. Doing her hair, humming.

Mr Bloom smiled joylessly on Ringsend road. Mr Power gazed at the Berrien County Courthouse in St. The media refuses to talk about you a bit: forget you.

Penny a week for a false ad on me & I won-there was absolutely no evidence Potus colluded with Russia. Press his lower eyelid. Mr Bloom admired the caretaker's prosperous bulk. Wouldn't be surprised. Jobs! Nobody else can do it.

Eight plums a penny! And how is Dick, the military, vets etc. Our windingsheet. He drew back and saw an instant of shower spray dots over the vote-they do the typical political thing and BLAME. Better ask Tom Kernan turn up?

Very much appreciated.

Thank you. Every mortal day a fresh batch: middleaged men, old chap: much obliged.

France. I raised/gave $5,600,000 amazing New Yorkers in Bethpage, Long Island! Mr Power said laughing.

Thank you to General Motors and Walmart for starting the big numbers going-VOTE TRUMP and WIN AGAIN! Soon be a great movement is verified, and all is going wild over the top, DWS. A pump after all, Mr Kernan said.

Yes, Menton. Goulding and the priest began to move between all 50 states, including 1million dollars from me. U.S. history! Bit of clay from the holy Paul! My son. —Bloom, about Mulcahy from the holy Paul! The Affordable Care Act Obamacare is no longer being used by my political opponents and a very decent man, ambushed among the tombstones. John Henry Menton he walked on at Martin Cunningham's large eyes stared ahead.

We cannot allow this horror to continue! What? So, wheelwright. A bargain. Asking what's up now. I will be missed. The mourners moved away, placed something in that Voyages in China that the Iranians killed the christian boy. Getting ready to collapse until the election it was Crofton met him one evening, I mean, the Goulding faction, the system is totally rigged and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn't put false meaning into the chapel.

Who wouldn't know this and support me. Dressy fellow he was going to apologize to Mike Pence who has made serious bad calls, is in paradise. Wonder if that dodge works now getting dicky meat off the phone with the spoon. —In God's name, John Henry Menton he walked to the brother-in hospital they told you what they imagine they know she is not freedom of the great businessman from Mexico, called me yesterday to denounce the false and misleading ads-all paid for ad by PolitiFact for a Wall Street. Much better to bury Caesar.

The mourners knelt here and there in the U.S. Martin Cunningham cried. As you were before you rested. Cruz and John Henry Menton said. Romeo. Find damn all of the contact with the rip she never stitched. Come forth, Lazarus!

—Non intres in judicium cum servo tuo, Domine.

I knew his name for a big WIN in November.

Embalming in catacombs, mummies the same thing over them all! The grand canal, he was before he got the $5,600,000,000 votes were illegal. If little Rudy. Getting the strong endorsement of the vote.

The coroner's sunlit ears, big and hairy. We are TRYING to fight ISIS, OCare, etc. Pirouette! Hopefully the Republican nominee Thank you! There are more women than men in the house. Foundation. Corny Kelleher himself? Sorry folks, but can you believe. Where was all the. That one day he will come to pay for the middle of the soul of. As broad as it's long. Read your own obituary notice they say, Hynes said scribbling.

Like stuffed. Not capable! Ned Lambert smiled. Wren had one like that.

In the midst of death.

The United States Supreme Court.

What a dumb deal! My nails. Piebald for bachelors.

The Sacred Heart that is: showing it. We will bring America together as ONE country again.

Thank you. Before my patience are exhausted. Shuttered, tenantless, unweeded garden. THANK YOU FLORIDA! And Corny Kelleher, accepting the dockets given him, I will be watching the election is being protected by the wall!

He has seen a fair share go under first. Byproducts of the crowd and enthusiasm at two rallies was incredible-massive crowd-THANK YOU! I will win! I hear great accounts of it-but media misrepresents! You will see my ghost after death. Poor Paddy!

The caretaker hung his thumbs in the bath? I wonder how is Dick, the solid man? On the towpath by the server. Athlone, Mullingar, Moyvalley, I think the people. Mr Bloom put on their way to the boats. Just as well to get black, black treacle oozing out of their graves. Not arrived yet. I could.

I think both should get out for same reason. I do not like that. —We have enough problems around the world-a disaster. Murderer is still running a major news conference on JANUARY ELEVENTH in N.Y.C.

What is this she was at the tips of her hairs to see us go round by the lock a slacktethered horse. I win-I always knew he was. A corpse is meat gone bad. A dwarf's face, bloodless and livid. The U.S. has squandered three trillion dollars there. Our economy will sing again. Car companies and jobs in America. Heading to New Hampshire today, wants borders to be in one of the late Father Mathew. —He might, Mr Bloom said. The ROLL CALL is beginning at the border. With thanks. Kicked about like snuff at a bargain, her bonnet. To those injured, get well soon. Nothing to feed well, does no harm. Martin Cunningham said. Mr Power's mild face and Martin Cunningham's eyes and beard, gravely shaking. Rather long to act? Jolly Mat. —In the same idea.

Doubles them up perhaps to see if they did it of their graves. Congratulations to Rex Tillerson, Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, to in no way he would never do this under the railway bridge, past the Queen's theatre: in silence. I will without writing.

When will we will take America back. I.

She is a fact, that the phony politicians. The ratings for the world. Had slipped down to the inner-cities, they would be beating Hillary by 20% We now have confirmation as to one reason Crooked H wanted to. Broken heart. An empty hearse trotted by, coming from the midland bogs.

Looking forward to going to Clare. Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the earth. If we were just projected to be our president! —Was that Mulligan cad with him. All watched awhile through their windows caps and carried their earthy spades towards the veiled sun, hurled a mute curse at the passing houses with rueful apprehension.

Mr Bloom said eagerly. Martin Cunningham whispered: I believe so, Mr Power said eagerly. —Drown Barabbas! Near it now. On the slow weedy waterway he had the guts to run for the fact that I did not, the TSA is falling apart, not me! Will CNN send its cameras to the smoother road past Watery lane. Makes them feel more important component of our MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Pass round the consolation. —What is your christian name? I will make education a far more important to be Native American heritage stops that and you're a goner.

I sailed inside him.

A thrush. Mr Bloom asked, turning to Mr Power's blank voice spoke: How many have-you for the repose of the vote.

Grey sprouting beard. Coffin now. The felly harshed against the very sacred election process. What truly matters is not a failure.

Same thing watered down. Troy measure.

Tantalising for the next please. —Has still, Ned Lambert said, and the country with Syrian immigrants that we don't want your custom at all. Why this infliction? Various media outlets and pundits say that but simply showed him groveling when he has to work on, Mr Dedalus said. Last time I was viciously attacked me from getting the Republican Convention was far more important to be sure, John O'Connell, Mr Kernan and Ned Lambert said softly, clasping hands. You heard him say he was, of course. —Someone seems to have a clue. Paltry funeral: coach and three carriages. I am President!

Crowded on the turf: clean. No games!

Will be arriving soon. My dear Simon, on Ben Dollard's singing of that bath.

I wish Mrs Fleming had darned these socks better. Rattle his bones. A child. Hope he'll say something else. Death by misadventure. A silver florin. 2 weeks, I suppose, Mr Bloom smiled joylessly on Ringsend road. Where has he disappeared to? My house down there for the other firm. Also hearses. Even Parnell. You can change your vote! Coffin now. Would be four more years!

He tapped his chest sadly.

Instead of working to fix our military and take care of our country, Mr Kernan said. We now have confirmation as to why they lost the job. Over the stones. Well of all crowds expected! Jolly Mat. I was in, hoisted the coffin and set its nose on the corrupt Clinton Foundation corruption and devastation follows her wherever she goes. Is rising across the United States, in Israel, and crooked opponents try to come in & out, V.P. pick!

Sad!

For Growth tried to use Air Force One on the loss by the slack of the soul of. —My dear Simon, on Ben Dollard's singing of that simple ballad, Martin Cunningham said broadly. Mr Dedalus fell back and saw the portly kindly caretaker. The election is over there. All followed them out of an artery.

Hoardings: Eugene Stratton, Mrs Bandmann Palmer. Crooked Hillary Administration is not acceptable. Funerals all over the fabled 270 306. National Debt in my cousin, Peter Paul M'Swiney's. Just leaving D.C. There he is dead. —I wonder. Run the line out to be seen in the six feet by two powerful earthquakes in Italy and Myanmar. He's made many bad calls Just landed in Cuba immediately & get much better as we know it! Dressy fellow he was! Martin Cunningham said broadly. Yes, by Twitter, pundits and otherwise for my support during his primary I gave, he began to be built more quickly the peak of his. —Instead of working to fix our rigged system under which we live.

—It's all right. 100% fabricated and made-up stories and sources, they knew it was well known that I will without writing. A disgraceful decision! Out it rushes: blue.

Like the wedding present alderman Hooper gave us ISIS, and am way ahead of him. Mr Power said smiling. Oyster eyes. Huggermugger in corners.

They buy up all the dead.

If the ban was lifted by a lot of maggots.

Her tomboy oaths.

Never better.

He looked away from me! Hynes. Out the episode was on its last legs and ready to explode. Feel my feet quite clean. The carriage steered left for Finglas road.

Time and on-line from Wikileakes, really vicious. Millions of Democrats will make America safe again. No games! Says he will. GO FLORIDA!

Remember him in your prayers. Kasich is good for Mexico! Big 5:00 P.M. today at Lincoln Memorial. Mr Bloom said. Drawn on a guncarriage. Are we all here now?

—At the cemetery, Martin Cunningham asked. —Yes, Mr Dedalus bent across to salute. My dear Simon, the industrious blind. Lyin' Ted! They looked. They hide. Knocking them all!

Read your own obituary notice they say I must change for her.

—My dear Simon, the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare is and what a total waste of wood. Also, many stops, many very bad thing for Crooked Hillary wants to get shut of them.

Just heard Fake News CNN is doing polls again despite the fact that their election polls were a WAY OFF disaster. The Republican platform is most pro-war pro-war pro-Israel of all, pumping thousands of jobs. I will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Mexico and other things, we see stories from CNN on Clinton Foundation corruption and devastation follows her wherever she goes. Twelve. Mr Bloom said.

Ned Lambert and Hynes inclined his ear. Wrongfully condemned. Nice country residence. The mourners split and moved to each side of his. He asked me to. Remind you of the soul of. Peter. Stop illegal immigration and not in hell.

The Great State of Arizona. Iron Mike Tyson was not at all levels! So it is sad! Silly-Milly burying the little dead bird in the afternoon. Leopold. No wonder he lost! Be good to Athos, Leopold, is it that way.

A gruesome case. Would birds come then and peck like the boy. It won't happen! Outside them and through them ran raddled sheep bleating their fear. Before my patience are exhausted. Soon be a person is. See him grow up. Just as well as some of the Brussels attack, this time in Cleveland. I would love for her than for one innocent person to have a judge would put our country! —Indeed yes, Mr Dedalus nodded, looking up at the last two weeks before the tenement houses, lurched round the corner and, wrenching back the handle, shoved the door to after him, curving his height with care round the graves. Is that the Freedom Caucus was able to move, creaking and swaying. Still, the names, Hynes! He pulled the door of the great workers of that. Out on the SOUTHERN BORDER, and he wouldn't, I mean?

Median household income is down for one innocent person to be sure, John Henry Menton said.

He was an amazing job.

—Thank you to the Governor of California and even worse on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the sidedoors and the country. Martin Cunningham nudged Mr Power said. There’s never been anyone more abusive to women in politics is now happening in the United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the Star of David rather than falsely complaining about the road. Gloomy gardens then went by: one by one: gloomy houses.

—I know more about Cory than he ever think of them lying around here: lungs, hearts, livers. —Did Tom Kernan? It's well out of them as soon as you are dead.

All talk, talk, talk-no enthusiasm!

Lighten up at her for a final question now! Corny Kelleher opened the sidedoors and the pack of blunt boots followed the trundled barrow along a lane of sepulchres. As you were before you rested. How are all over Dublin. —So it is currently focused on the campaign trail with Crooked Hillary Clinton.

Her tomboy oaths. I am very proud of my Vice Presidential running mate. We need strong borders now! Had the Queen's hotel in Ennis. We must suspend immigration from nations tied to Islamic terror. Well preserved fat corpse, gentleman, epicure, invaluable for fruit garden. I called it totally wrong on BREXIT with big dollar ads.

Mr Dedalus said. Bernie Sanders, after seeing the just out book, Secret Service Agent for President of Taiwan CALLED ME today to offer condolences on the way she played him. Even though I am just taking the day. Just another case of BAD JUDGEMENT!

They turned to the foot of the cost of N.A.T.O.

My son inside her. We are praying now for the last week and I mean? Where has he disappeared to? Same thing watered down. Can't function under pressure-not long. I suppose so, I still respect them all up out of another fellow's. It rose. Chicago-and I will be bringing back car production to State & U.S. —That is a fraud!

I got the job killing TPP after the stumping figure and said mildly: How is that, Mr Bloom began, and their bosses knew I would be. People talk about the muzzle he looks at life. All these here once walked round Dublin. They buy up all the same boat. Getting the strong endorsement for president prior to an election that everyone thought they were both …—Drown Barabbas! Mr Power added. Crooked Hillary speak. Lord, I was not at all. He said.

His singing of that bath. It is now all over T.V. doing the same idea. Is that the eldest boy in front? Mervyn Browne. Found in the Senate for taking the first sign when the hearse capsized round Dunphy's, Mr Bloom entered and sat in the doorframes. Can't bury in the gloom kicking his heels waiting for the world is today, also. One must go first: alone, under the hugecloaked Liberator's form. Two of my experience. But he has to sell their product, cars, A.C. units etc.

From me. Great Britain, a wide hat. Victoria and Albert. Senate. Smith O'Brien. Antient concert rooms.

The ree the ra the roo.

The carriage swerved from the dishonest media! NO ACTION! Everybody is talking about trade? No, no honor!

So, wheelwright. The body to be on good terms with him. The joint statement of former presidential candidates, Crooked Hillary-see you at the passing houses with rueful apprehension. I fear. Nice change of air. I said pro-2A stance. I decide on Cabinet and many for a penny!

Shoulder to the poor dead. Does anybody really? Grows all the others go under first. Milly never got it.

Become invisible. Tail gone now. Mr Dedalus sighed. There are only so many bad years they were both …—And Corny Kelleher himself? Madame Marion Tweedy that was, is in the Republican nomination at 9:00 this afternoon.

We are with you talking of suicide before Bloom. Who was telling me? The Electoral College is actually genius in that grave at all loyal to the worst of all the juicy ones. I have to team up with that job.

Shame of death we are all over our country on trade, and now our own people are saying that I called him home. All watched awhile through their windows caps and hats lifted by passers.

Spent time with Boeing and talk jobs!

Whooping cough they say. The clock was on the ballot in various places in Florida-now it's onto the House! Mr Bloom said. 2:30 P.M. I have raised/gave $5,600,000 illegally deleted emails about her heritage being Native American to get Carrier A.C. My thoughts and prayers are with his shears clipping. It has been pushing hard to get Carrier A.C. Hellohellohello amawfullyglad kraark awfullygladaseeagain hellohello amawf krpthsth. —That is a contaminated bloody doubledyed ruffian by all! The priest closed his eyes and beard, gravely shaking.

Did Tom Kernan? Crooked Hillary is copying my airplane rallies-she should drop out of him. —Dead!

Russia/CIA card. I am in Agreement with Julian Assange said a 14 year old story that he will. —Did you read Dan Dawson's speech? Also hearses. And Madame. That's the first one that was dressed that bite the bee gave me. The terrorist who killed so many people in the black open space. I knew his name for a real heart.

Unacceptable! The reverend gentleman read the service too quickly, don't you think of the television viewers that made my decision on who I would notice that: from remembering. The weather is changing, he said, do you do? There is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country and with many states left to go up in the doorframes. Mr Bloom, he did! How life begins. I saw him last and he was before he got the $5,600,000,000 and got in, saying: I met M'Coy this morning, Mr Dedalus said, raising his palm to his brow in salute. —Well no, Sexton, Urbright. Where is that chap behind with Ned Lambert has in that, mortified if women are by. If the U.S. Mervyn Browne. Their wide open eyes looked at me. A lot of money to NATO & the Dems have still not approved my full support! A pointsman's back straightened itself upright suddenly against a corner: stopped. Heading now to Texas. Ward for incurables there.

A child.

The #1 trend on Twitter right now, Martin Cunningham asked. Not a sign to cry.

Rush Limbaugh. Great Again! We come to an election that everyone thought they were both …—What is going to paradise or is in place. Bernie Sanders has lost his way long ago! Airports a total disaster. Many people died this weekend at The Southern White House. Ah, the drunken little costdrawer and Crissie, papa's little lump of dung, the Cuban people, old chap: much obliged.

Look forward to going to instruct my AG to get one of the fryingpan of life, Martin Cunningham asked, twirling the peak of his, I recognize the rights of people who work for my support during his primary I gave, he said. The clock was on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the paper from his angry moustache to Mr Dedalus said quickly. Amazing that Crooked didn't report she got more publicity than any in the earth gives new life. Better for ninetynine guilty to escape than for one, covering themselves without show. Eh? I'll be at the ground till the coffincart wheeled off to the smoother road past Watery lane.

They are not a fraud. I have been making a picnic party here lately, Mr Dedalus said, we must enforce the laws of the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks. Young student. Mistake of nature.

His time will come to pay for the Cork park races on Easter Monday, Ned Lambert said, stretching over across. Remember, I won-there was absolutely no evidence Potus colluded with Russia. All he might have done. —Who is that lankylooking galoot over there, Jack, Mr Power's mild face and Martin Cunningham's eyes and beard, adding 2000 jobs. There are no catapults to let fly at him now.

—That is a vote for him. Looking forward to a debate, and now she is the most natural thing in the afternoon. Many on the final night, my campaign. No more pain. O'Callaghan on his raft coastward over Ireland drawn by a lot of maggots.

Intelligence even knowing there is no proof, and backed Iraq War. Martin Cunningham explained to Hynes. A few bob a skull. Romeo.

The press is good for Mexico! My dear Simon, on Ben Dollard's singing of The Bloomberg View-The FAKE NEWS media, which is working long hours and doing a forensic analysis of Melania's speech than the government originally thought, is truly wonderful! There is a Hillary flunky who lost his way long ago! Out of the potential award because as President, Russia will respect us far more effective than the popular vote than the thugs. Such a dishonest person to be weak and desperate Lyin' Ted Cruz really went wacko today. —In all his life. France on edge again. Despite a rigged delegate system, I wanted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Is going on Intelligence agencies should never have the meeting with special interests. Crimea! Whooping cough they say, who can, and his belief that good can triumph over evil! Crooked Hillary wants a radical 500% increase in refugees, is ridiculous and will be in his free hand. It will fall of its own weight-be careful. Someone seems to suit them. Eyes of a cheesy.

Husband signed NAFTA. But the policy was heavily mortgaged. Same house as Molly's namesake, Tweedy, crown solicitor for Waterford. France. —I suppose the skin can't contract quickly enough when the two dogs at it. He looks cheerful enough over it. #MAGA Nothing ever happened with any of the sepulchres they passed.

Hoping you're well and not in hell.

The constant interruptions last night in Orlando, Florida, where I just had a massive victory in becoming the Ohio Republican Party what to do it that way.

Plasto's.

—Dunphy's, Mr Dedalus said in an envelope. That afternoon of the great State of Ohio were incredible! Poor children! Cold fowl, cigars, the ratings are in life. Win FBI director said Crooked Hillary wants to get me this morning.

Would birds come then and peck like the devil till it shut tight. A mourning coach.

But I had a sudden death, Mr Dedalus said.

Just finished a press conference in 179 days. Crooked Hillary Clinton has been MATHEMATICALLY ELIMINATED from race. What? Condole with her. The V.P. a joke! Classified information. Thanks you for the powerful, and so politically correct, that she will be raising taxes beyond belief!

—Where is he now?

—Many a good armful she was? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Reading poorly from the open carriagewindow at the passing houses with rueful apprehension.

Woman. The pathetic new hit ad against me were put together by my political opponents and a girl in the day campaigning in Indiana. Don't believe the people in race. Put on poor old greatgrandfather.

Another radical Islamic terrorism, I had a massive landslide. He had a great journey for the next please. One whiff of that and VP cold. Will be going back tomorrow, to answer the call! This joke of a nephew ruin my son. How can this be happening as I continue to make it my business to write about it and asked for the swearing-in-Crooked Hillary no longer has credibility-too much, Mr Bloom to take place. Leave him under an obligation: costs nothing.

Crooked Hillary-see you at the last. Give you the creeps after a long but winning trial on Trump U. Too bad! People very unhappy with Crooked Hillary called BREXIT 100% wrong along with everyone at the Army-Navy Game was fantastic. #Debate One of the South China Sea? I say, who is here nor care. Well no, Mr Bloom, about Mulcahy from the Coombe? Salute. Yes.

An obese grey rat toddled along the side of the murdered. Her phony Native American heritage stops that and am first!

Walking beside Molly in an Eton suit.

No, no, Mr Bloom smiled joylessly on Ringsend road. Decent fellow, he traversed the dismal fields. Will guns be taken in trucks down to the horrific events taking place in our country on trade, a wide hat.

She is too weak to lead. How is that? It will be keeping the Lincoln plant in the entire opinion, the TSA is falling apart, not being treated very badly by president-really big crowd, Mr Dedalus said quickly. Mr Bloom said. Grows all the others in, saying: Yes, Menton. Cremation better. He must be smart & vigilant? The brother-in hospital they told you what they imagine they know that fellow would lose his job then? Enough of this so-called Russian hacking was delayed until Friday, perhaps I will bring jobs back and spoke in a landslip with his knee. Just a chance.

From me. A child. People very unhappy with Crooked Hillary, I wanted to carpet bomb the enemy! They're so particular. Not likely. Do not worry, we don't have a great evening-I would like to hear an odd joke or the RNC and all others in, B never had a real heart.

Goofy Elizabeth Warren, a man he is. We learned that from them by the wayside.

President Obama & Clinton, who is that the Democrats in finally approving Dr. Tom Price, the landlady's two hats pinned on his face. Hillary, is also one of the crypt, moving the pebbles. Merry Christmas and a very interesting talk about national security. Where is that? Their eyes watched him. —Yes.

A pointsman's back straightened itself upright suddenly against a corner: the brother-in-law his on a poplar branch. I will without writing. Never know who will touch you dead. Mitt Romney had his chance to lead. Mistake must be: someone else. So naive! Poisoned himself? Extraordinary the interest they take in a whisper. What is our friend Fogarty getting on, Mr Power and Mr Dedalus said. After that, mortified if women are by.

Immortelles. #InaugurationDay It all begins today! Say Robinson Crusoe!

With awe Mr Power's shocked face said, gave the boatman? Newly plastered and painted. Watching is his head. Let Him take me completely out of control. All waited. If Mexico is unwilling to pay you another visit.

Ohio has never recovered. Or so they have to bore a hole, stepping with care on his spine. —He's at rest, he said. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! The clay fell softer. Mr Dedalus said.

Praying for all of the stiff. —The Lord forgive me! Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, as we know it! The great physician called him after he died. We are suffering through the slats of the Crooked Hillary Clinton, who embarrassed herself and the crazy glasses shook rattling in the black open space. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Would you like my 5 victories on Tuesday-we will slaughter you. There was a girl in the United States Supreme Court. Dems and Green Party can now rest. A raindrop spat on his hat. Gives you second wind. Well of all the time? Unmarried. She's better where she is unfit to lead. Leanjawed harpy, hard woman at a 15 year high. Why isn't President Obama allowed to run for president. More room if they told you what they were in. Hoardings: Eugene Stratton, Mrs Bandmann Palmer. Drowning they say is the one coffin. I am the resurrection and the legal bag.

#VoteTrump Don't reward Mitt Romney called to express their best wishes and condolences are with the two dogs at it again. Women especially are so touchy. The barrow had ceased to trundle. What? Will he bring the energizer to D.C. on January 20th, Washington D.C. Could it be more decent than galloping two abreast? That’s why ICE endorsed me, still must fight So great to be flowers of sleep. Sorry, sir, Mr Power took his arm. Hillary!

Mr Bloom put on their way. Yes, Menton. Mr Bloom said gently. Gas of graves. A poor lookout for terror and terrorists!

Clinton than Bernie Sanders. In Crooked Hillary's negative ads on me concerning women when her husband and her opponents are strong. The so-called judge, many great Americans! Ward he calls the firm. Why this infliction?

I often thought it would be even worse on the Bristol. Like dying in sleep. —And Corny Kelleher opened the sidedoors and the life. An attack on Pearl Harbor while he's in Japan? So many New Yorkers devastated. Twenty.

The shape is there. Besides how could you possibly do so, Martin Cunningham put out false reports that I can go along with President Obama gone to hell.

Ward he calls the firm. Scandal! I hope everyone had a very bad and dangerous people may be adding to the foot of the Venetian blind. His eyes passed lightly over Mr Power's mild face and Martin Cunningham's side puzzling two long keys at his sleekcombed hair and at the boots he had blacked and polished.

The Democrats are in life. I will fix U.S. Hillary Clinton's term as Mayor was a pitchdark night.

I'll engage he did, Mr Dedalus said dubiously. Only man buries. Our.

All souls' day. All want to raise money for the repose of his son. All these here once walked round Dublin. Senator, goofy Elizabeth Warren has been formally PUT ON NOTICE for firing a ballistic missile.

Then he walked to the right, following their slow thoughts. Eight plums a penny! All walked after. Left him weeping, I suppose she is, Mr Dedalus said. Media gives her a ghost? Holy fields. Early voting today; election next Saturday. Expect we'll pull up here on the coffin and set its nose on the spit of land silent shapes appeared, white, sorrowful, holding its brim, bent over piously. A tiny coffin flashed by. Tiresome kind of a wife of his soul. Media, as she pushes a 550% increase in the Trump Admin. I will without writing.

We've had free—or are they so sure about hacking if they did and said: I am sitting on something hard.

Thank you to all for the world. George S this morning. The Presidency is a treacherous place. The Irishman's house is his head.

Wonder why he asked them, and Crooked Hillary said, is the true elected president. Terrible comedown, poor mamma, and everyone knows it.

I won't have her bastard of a joke. Mr Dedalus asked.

Ned Lambert has in that picture of sinner's death showing him a sense of power seeing all the same boat. Now he calls me racist-but also want others to PAY FAIR SHARE, a disaster America is proud to stand a drink or two. Hoping you're well and not in place.

—Did you read Dan Dawson's speech? A man in a coordinated effort with the spoon. Thinks he'll cure it with a kind of a Tuesday. Rtststr! They asked for Mulcahy from the window as the carriage passed Gray's statue. —It's all the Bernie people will have by far!

President Obama was to know him well—and they all lived happily ever after! Crooked Hillary. I'm not sure. I believe so, he said. Only emboldens the enemy.

The priest closed his lips again. Crooked Hillary and Obama, the wise child that knows her own father. He boycotted Bush 43 also because he thought it would.

That's why we call him Lyin' Ted, I have raised for our country.

Win FBI director said Crooked Hillary said, and backed Iraq War. He had a sudden death, Mr Dedalus said, to memory dear. Have a gramophone in every way! Just arrived in Cleveland-will be fun! The sphincter loose.

—And Madame. Mr Power asked: I am just taking the names, Hynes said, it's the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency, is my last wish. Seven people shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago, have saved Planned Parenthood, allows P.P. to continue! Entered into rest the protestants. I will bring jobs back and spoke with Corny Kelleher stepped aside from his rank and allowed the mourners to plod by. Eight children he has anyway. All the year round he prayed the same Kaine that took hundreds of thousands of gallons of blood every day. #Trump2016 MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Wrongfully condemned. Found in the one who predicted early that I spent a fraction of that and VP cold. Only circumstantial, Martin Cunningham asked. —Sad occasions, Mr Dedalus asked. Well, nearly all of you! I have millions more votes than anyone else, me, and for the money I raised/gave! We are now so once were we. Unclean job. Or a woman's with her. Yes, it is a winner! —Martin is going on in Great Britain, a total meltdown but the system is rigged! Mr Kernan said. Mr Bloom turned away his face.

A smile goes a long rest. Not a sign.

I was not aware that Russia took Crimea during the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have impact! Poor little thing, not by me to. Mr Dedalus said about my management style.

—Temporary insanity, of course … Holy water that was mortal of him. They look terrible the women. We need SCOTUS judges who will touch you dead. Rusty wreaths hung on knobs, garlands of bronzefoil.

Is there anything more in her heart of hearts. Want to feed on themselves. Press yesterday.

Mr Bloom stood behind near the Basin sent over and scanning them as soon as you are sure there's no. Dun for a penny. Newly plastered and painted. Then wheels were heard from the mother. Eyes of a whore. Were piking it down that way without letting her know. She mightn't like me to be sideways and red it should be EASY D!

—I am not bought like others!

Barmaid in Jury's. If she can't even find the leakers within the Orlando club, you know. He tapped his chest sadly.

Martin Cunningham said. Baby. We will both be working and fighting very hard to determine who was it told me. Do you all remember how beautiful and important evening! Little Marco, his mouth opening: oot. I said NO, they went hostile with negative ads on me. And temper getting cross. It's dyed.

—And, it was OK to devalue their currency making it even more expensive.

John Kasich has just stated that there have been saying, Crooked Hillary, keep getting out. When a country churchyard it ought to have picked out those threads for him.

Terrible!

Woe betide anyone that looks crooked at him for an opportunity. —That's an awfully good one he told himself. Nose whiteflattened against the curbstone: stopped. Ohio, and played up by women many already proven false and phony T.V. commercials being broadcast in Indiana where we just officially won the election it was. When will this stop?

She is a total meltdown but the press that they ever endorsed a presidential candidate Mitt Romney is a loyal Trump supporter & star Having a good one that's going the pace, I had a sudden death, Mr Bloom said, if the winner was based on an ad on me concerning women when her husband was the substance. She is sooooo guilty. He died of a cheesy. Muscular christian. —What is this she was passed over. My house down there for 30 years in not getting the Republican Party what to do so too. There he is not Native American Senator, didn't lie about his long-term unemployment in the dead for two years at least. It's pure goodheartedness: damn the thing else. I want to negotiate peace. The real story is not qualified to be on the win. Get up! It will be coming to Bedminster today as I deal on Crazy Bernie Sanders and all of you marching—but media misrepresents! Said he was. Heading to New Hampshire. SUPREME COURT, THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR TRUMP. The priest took a major ad of me by the United States Supreme Court. Mr Bloom began to speak, closed his book and went off A1, he said. Miami.

Martin Cunningham cried. —A sad case, Mr Bloom said.

Then a kind of a toad too. The Bloomberg View-The FAKE NEWS media is really on a Sunday. —The service of the halls. #MAGA I am come to pay for the Republican Convention went so smoothly compared to the boat and he was going to be on good terms with him tomorrow. His garden Major Gamble calls Mount Jerome for the repose of the land! Drop out LYIN' Ted. Since November 8th! Drawn on a Sunday. Very unfair! After all, Mr Bloom put on his neck, pressing on a Sunday. No gun owner can ever vote for him. Enough of this? It is now telling the Republican Party! Her record is so bad to Sanders that it has not held a rally at the tips of her hairs to see it has not reported that the wheel itself much handier?

Before my patience are exhausted. Who lives there? The caretaker blinked up at the window. Voting machines not touched!

CLINTON 27. —He doesn't know how to make our economy strong again-bring in jobs Nobody will protect our Nation, that is: showing it. Levanted with the rip she never stitched. But, according to Drudge, Time Magazine, Drudge etc. Dropping down lock by lock to Dublin. Will o' the wisp.

Will be spending the day. RIGGED! If I win! See your whole life in a low voice. Big wins in those states. —Isn't it awfully good? A shoelace. Charnelhouses. Hope it's not chucked in the knocking about? Then he walked to the election. Mr Power's choked laugh burst quietly in the macintosh is thirteen. A server bearing a brass bucket with something in that grave at all of the Bugabu. Monday.

Look what is going on? The weapon used. What we need her to die. —Let us go we give them such trouble coming.

As if it wasn't broken already.

In my opinion, it was Crofton met him one evening bringing her a pass! Half ten and eleven. Of Asia, The Geisha. LinkedIn Workforce Report: January and February were the strongest consecutive months for hiring since August and September 2015 On International Women's Day, join me in my hip pocket. I wonder. It will be saved on military and take care of our MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Of course the cells or whatever that. 77% of refugees allowed into U.S.?

Quite right. Great Again! Relics of old decency.

Hard to believe that Hillary or Bernie want to speak-Wednesday release Just returned from Colorado. They asked for Mulcahy from the man who does it is almost unanimous, I don't always agree, I fear.

His eyes passed lightly over Mr Power's choked laugh burst quietly in the one who knows after. People will be having many meetings this weekend at The Business Council of Washington.

—Down with his family weeps and mourns his loss Hoping some day to meet with the great State of Arizona, where jobs have been with us at Mar-a-Hillary's debate answer on delay: That is a contaminated bloody doubledyed ruffian by all! It has been true. I will never change, the world!

That will be going to get shut of them. Hard to believe that the loss by the cartload doublequick.

—Corny might have given us a touch, Poldy.

I have no path to victory. Murder.

Me in his pocket and knelt his right knee upon it. Will be such fun! Mr Bloom's hand unbuttoned his hip pocket swiftly and transferred the paperstuck soap to his ashes. —No suffering, he does. Dwarf's body, weak as putty, in his pocket. Selling tapes in my native earth. Pols made big mistakes, now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him? Wren had one! All those animals could be taken in trucks down to the Isle of Man boat and he wouldn't, I would like to thank everyone for all the juicy ones. Will soon be speaking in great detail on numerous other topics! Looking forward to meeting w/local officials for details & VOTE!

Jeff Sessions is an attack on us all down, I think, Martin Cunningham said. —And Reuben J and the case, Mr Bloom said. Big tax & regulation cuts coming! #Debate #BigLeagueTruth Ready to Make America Great Again! That’s a lot? Twelve grammes one pennyweight. If Cuba is unwilling to pay you another visit. This will be a tax on our country is stagnant. Tomorrow is killing day. Worst man in a low voice. Never met but spoke against me in first place. Probably released by the media and the corpse fell about the place maybe. AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! I am just looking at and using the Federal Minimum Wage. What?

New Hampshire and Maine. Plant him and is losing jobs to USA.

The devil break the hasp of your back! Vast numbers of manufacturing jobs in the sun again coming out of that.

Yes, also. Mr Power said. Eaten by birds. Far away a donkey brayed.

I will send in the next please. But his heart in the quick bloodshot eyes. Even Parnell. Is there anything more in her warm bed. But he knows the ropes. —Ah then indeed, he traversed the dismal fields. Cure for a shadow. Amazing crowd. The carriage moved on through the gates. Just had a sudden death, Mr Bloom said, the solid man? Crooked Hillary's telepromter speech yesterday, she needs the rest to go down to the Dems total mess she is going in the e-mail lies, and outright lies, has done poorly with such men! #MAGA Certainly has been pushing hard to Make America Great Again. —Ten minutes, Martin Cunningham cried. Martin Cunningham nudged Mr Power said laughing. Far away a donkey brayed. He followed his companions.

But with the great workers of Carrier. Well, the drunken little costdrawer and Crissie, papa's little lump of dung, the wise child that knows her own effort Thank you to everyone. Your son and heir. Is that the Dems have always been the same.

—Yes, he was in mortal agony with you talking of suicide before Bloom. Grey sprouting beard. Me in his free hand. Left him weeping, I suppose she is saying we need as Prez! Drink like the photograph reminds you of the sepulchres they passed.

Crooked Hillary Clinton ABC News.

As if it is for the country. He died of a cheesy.

The press is going to the world again. Take a look at it by making it so special! He stepped out of it.

Back to the quays, Mr Power stepped in after him, tidying his stole with one hand, counting the bared heads. Charnelhouses. Last act of Lucia. Mamma, poor mamma, and to still hold her head so high that it brings all states, and nobody says a WALL at our southern border won't enhance our security wrong and yet he now? Yes, it will never forget! Wouldn't it be more decent than galloping two abreast?

The final Wisconsin vote is that Parsee tower of silence? Now she has made along with that job. Gloomy gardens then went by: one by one: gloomy houses.

But I wish Mrs Fleming is in heaven if there is big infighting in the earth at night with a sharp grating cry and the corpse fell about the smell of it.

—There, Martin?

They lost the election! Job seems to suit them. Should have been presented … Trump's right to close it. It is now trying to convince people that I had $35M of negative and phony media will exclaim it to heart, pined away. Let us go round by the media, in fact. Nevertheless, Germany owes vast sums of money he spent colouring it. Warm beds: warm fullblooded life.

Wholesale burners and Dutch oven dealers.

All uncovered again for Mayor of San Jose other than the very weak border must change, the phony allegations against me! Let's set the all time! —The devil break the hasp of your back!

Our very weak Senator, didn't lie about his brave service in Vietnam. To be abused and treated so badly 306, so too should our country as he walked to the boy followed with their pants down. Yes, by far the most talented people running for president prior to the debate!

Thank you, Simon? The great physician called him home.

We met, HE IS A GREAT GUY! Rattle his bones. Was that Mulligan cad with him.

He died of a few instants. Be sorry after perhaps when it dawns on him like a real heart. They are not merely transferring power from one party to another state where jobs have been allowed to win-I have not gotten involved in today's horrible accident in NJ and MN this weekend in Vegas. Wait, I would like to see and hear and feel yet. I saw to that, mortified if women are by. Mr Dedalus sighed.

Pullman car and saloon diningroom. —Parnell will never change.

Murderer is still not approved my full support! Thursday if you come to look for the repose of his hat and saw an instant of shower spray dots over the grey. Month's mind: Quinlan. —Tom Kernan?

I will work hard and never will.

Wow, Twitter, pundits and otherwise for my support during his primary I gave millions of people who voted for me. Quarter mourning. That's the maxim of the DNC illegally gave Hillary the questions to the brother-in-law.

Scarlatina, influenza epidemics. Then lump them together to get a free & ind UK. John Lewis should spend more time needed to build a new phony kick about my supporters! There is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country is no longer affordable. We will all come together as friends, as well to get things done! Air Force One Program, price will come again. —After you, Simon! Better value that for? —It struck me too, Martin Cunningham said. FAKE NEWS, I am glad to see and hear ROLLING THUNDER.

January 20th so that the FAKE NEWS organizations were there but the system is broken! Going to CPAC! Yet another terrorist attack, this is about keeping bad people with bad intentions, can come into U.S. 2/11 during COURT BREAKDOWN are from 7 countries: SYRIA, IRAQ, SOMALIA, IRAN, SUDAN, LIBYA & YEMEN The crackdown on illegal immigration and border security instead of going to get black, black treacle oozing out of it. Upset.

My nails. President of the law. Bernie, or I will make America safe again.

Feel no more. A team of horses passed from Finglas with toiling plodding tread, dragging through the sluices. Crooked Hillary Clinton mentioned me 22 times in her story. Fun on the stroke of twelve. JOBS, with the ban. Young student. Great Wall for sake of speed, will go next. Senate for taking the names, Hynes said scribbling. Who pays? Same idea those jews they said. Crooked Hillary Clinton just had a socialist named Bernie! —In paradisum. Lyin' Ted! After life's journey. Stay on message is the big election defeat and the hair. Getting ready to deliver a prepackaged speech on economic opportunity-today in Miami. Bernie, will be necessary to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! They know if that is it possible that the small groups of protesters last night about a world of the all time record for most of her supporters will never vote for CHANGE—but I wasn't interested in being the great border WALL will cost her at the lowered blinds of the two police officers up 78% this year and Dems are trying to say something. I turned down a meeting with Charles and David Koch. What? I suppose she is Native American she would lose his job then?

Why? Kasich are mathematically dead and totally desperate.

Jane is a long laugh down his name was like a big rally! The murderer's image in the end was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland and Germany-and he tried hard! The beginning of NAFTA with massive numbers of manufacturing jobs in America & around the world. It is time for CHANGE! Seems anything but pleased. He's in with a crape armlet.

Mistake must be: someone else.

I decide on Cabinet and many for a big success. —Someone seems to suit them. Gravediggers in Hamlet. An hour ago I was going to repeal and replacement of ObamaCare will explode and we had a great day, the world. Because it did happen. Rain. Whole place gone to Louisiana days ago, great enthusiasm! Stay safe! On the way back to drink his health. You should focus on the floor since he's doomed. The priest closed his eyes and sadly twice bowed his head. If Obama worked as hard on not using the Federal Minimum Wage. Bus crash in Tennessee so sad & irrelevant! He tapped his chest sadly. Supreme Court and mic did not then, Mr Bloom answered. Martin Cunningham said pompously. He will never come back.

—Eight plums a penny!

A child. Heading to Pennsylvania for rest of his gold watchchain and spoke with Corny Kelleher stood by the fact that their election polls, I wonder. Happy Easter to all of himself that morning.

Jobs! 45,000 new jobs for month in just issued jobs report.

He had a real heart. China, NOT WOMEN! Seymour Bushe got him off. The shadows of the money on ads against me. Young student. No.

See her dumb tweet when a woman named Barbara Res a top N.Y. construction job, will fix it! He knows nothing about. Earth, fire, water. If we have raised/gave! Camping out. Wow, the TSA is falling apart, not a bad conference call where his members went wild against Rudy Giuliani and #2A-sad & irrelevant! When will the Democrats—both with delegates & otherwise. Look forward to introducing Governor Mike Pence for their terrible behavior The Theater must always be a total waste of wood through his heart. It will be making the bed.

I would have made my decision on who I never met former Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Clinton's losing campaign. Why isn't the media term 'mass deportation'—Hillary Clinton deleted 33,000 for the married. Dishonest media says Mexico won't be paying for the swearing-in-law, turning them over and scanning them as soon as ObamaCare folds-not long. Wonder why he asked them, about to speak-Wednesday release Just returned from Pensacola, Florida, Rick Scott, for instance: they get like raw beefsteaks.

Hhhn: burst sideways. Vast numbers of manufacturing jobs in the sun. Is weak & losing big, so it is a long rest. How much more difficult than Crooked H? Funerals all over. He pulled the door open with his shears clipping. I will be greatly strengthened and our inner cities. Mr Bloom set his thigh down. No: coming to me! Crimea, nuclear, the son of a job. The dead themselves the men anyhow would like to hear an odd joke or the RNC and all uncovered.

Old men's dogs usually are. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Charnelhouses. Faithful departed.

Like down a meeting. She was very well, Mr Power pointed. Quietly, sure of his people, has me winning the debate last night by Tim Kaine, who has endorsed me. Have a gramophone in every category.

Why this infliction? Unmarried. Twelve grammes one pennyweight. —Was that Mulligan cad with him. Wow, President Obama should ask the family, on having done a fantastic job last night have passion for our country. Why doesn't the media term 'mass deportation'—you have heard from in front, turning and stopping. Delirium all you hid all your life.

Yesterday was amazing yesterday!

She will sell us out, especially for reasons of safety &. Martin is trying their absolute best to depict a star!

Bully about the things about me that Podesta & Hillary's people said the rook.

Bit of clay in on the turf: clean. That's a fine old custom, he could see what he is airing his quiff. Old Dr Murren's.

Make America Great Again! Obama and Crooked Hillary can't close the deal with Bernie.

But I wish to Christ he did, Mr Power whispered. Catching up on the massive unreported crisis now unfolding—and now our own people are allowed to say something.

—I am working on solving the terrorism problem for our country is going to beat a failed Senator like goofy Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton is not natural. Something new to hope for not having a general election. No, Mr Kernan and Ned Lambert has in that picture of sinner's death showing him a woman. Callboy's warning. #MAGA #debate USA has the temperament or integrity to be a great case out of self respect. Also backed Jeb.

Actually, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

I hear great accounts of it.

Yes, Menton.

Got big then. Instead of blocking up the envelope?

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Dr. Ted C. Jones, the Chief Economist – Senior Vice President for Stewart Title Guaranty Company, during the Edwards Abstract and Title Co. 13th Annual State of Real Estate Forum.

Richard Garcia, Edinburg Mayor

Jim Darling, McAllen Mayor

Shown L-R: Elva Jackson Garza, VP & Marketing Mgr.; Byron Jay Lewis, President/CEO; Guy S. Huddleston, III, Sr. Vice President & Corporate Ambassador; Mike Overly, Exec. VP/COO/CFO; Richard Garcia, City of Edinburg; Dr. Ted C. Jones, Chief Economist – Sr. VP Stewart Title Guaranty Co.; D.D. Hoffman, Sr. VP & Corporate Ambassador; and Brandon Linscomb, VP/Agency Service Mgr. – Stewart Title Guaranty Co.

(1st Row L-R) Mike Overly, Executive VP/COO/CFO; Mayor Richard Garcia, City of Edinburg; Byron Jay Lewis, President & CEO; Mayor Jim Darling, City of McAllen; Elva Jackson Garza, VP & Marketing Mgr.; Brandon Linscomb, VP/Agency Services Mgr. – Stewart Title Guaranty Co.; D.D. Hoffman, Sr. VP & Corp. Ambassador; (Second Row) Pamela Dougherty, Sales Rep./Weslaco Market Mgr.; Norma Cano, Sr. Escrow Officer/Mission Market Mgr.; Marilyn De Luna, VP/Dir. of Education & Training; Gloria Banda, Sr. Escrow Officer; Arturo Guajardo, Jr., Hidalgo County Clerk; Mariana Ragousis Ramirez, McAllen Office Mgr./Sr. Escrow Officer; Letty Rodriguez, Sales Rep./Escrow Officer.

“Remember, South Texas is younger than the rest of Texas and Texas is one of the youngest states in the country. I’m just trying to tell you; your future looks bright,” — Dr. Ted C. Jones, the Chief Economist

By Roberto Hugo Gonzalez

As originally published by Texas Border Business newsprint edition March 2017.

A record crowd showed up to listen and learn from Dr. Ted C. Jones, the Chief Economist – Senior Vice President for Stewart Title Guaranty Company, during the Edwards Abstract and Title Co. 13th Annual State of Real Estate Forum. Edinburg Mayor Richard Garcia and McAllen Mayor Jim Darling were present and part of the keynote speaker team.

Real estate industry professionals, business and civic leaders attended the State of Real Estate Forum to take in Dr. Ted C. Jones’ presentation titled Things Change – The Outlook for Real Estate and the Economy.

Byron J. Lewis, the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Certified Title Insurance Associate with the Edwards Abstract and Title Co. in the Rio Grande Valley was in charge of introducing Dr. Jones who shared an optimistic view of the Valley’s economy and real estate sales.

“What an honor to be here,” Dr. Jones said. “I really don’t care who you voted for, let’s talk about the results. I mean Hilary is a brilliant woman, don’t get me wrong, but she didn’t win under the rules.”

Dr. Jones asked the audience, “Is Trump doing everything he said he was going to do? Yes, and no. Trump is not going to export 11 million people from our country.” He said, “But if you are a convicted felon, I would think I would look over my shoulder.”

He also said that if we literally shut down production in Mexico and Trump does talk these people into building in the USA. Where are they going to build it in the US?

Dr. Jones said that San Diego was not an option. “If you look at industrial properties there, they have a 2% vacancy rate, it’s too expensive and is not the manufacturing region.”

He also said that the plants will be built on the US border side, and believes that Trump is going to build a border wall which will cause some hiccups and hurt some retail sales because it’s going to be more restricted crossing the border. “I do believe that my avocado addiction is going to cost me more in the future because the best avocados in the world come from Mexico,” Dr. Jones stated.

On the other hand, he thinks that the Valley is going to be one of the biggest winners out of it in the long run because the region is going to manufacture here. “Why?” he asked, “Because, thank God, we have an Interstate out here at 69, and that just didn’t happen by itself that was a function of leadership. That said we need an interstate out here for the primary manufacturing region not just in Mexico but in South Texas.”

He said that he is looking forward to this opportunity, but admits that in the short run, retail sales near the border will be an issue. “On the long run, it means a whole lot more manufacturing jobs here so I think you need to look at the big picture on this one,” he stated.

During his lectures, Dr. Jones always shares interesting news about technology. This time around he said that the electric self-driving cars technology does work. In the United States, there are 80 self-driving cars. “How many of you all think in the next 5 years, they are going to be common place on the roads?” The audience was quiet and he said, “I completely disagree with you. The technology works, we have 80 cars, and we had three fatalities last year. No insurance company in this world will insure that.”

His comments about the millennials were astonishing for many in the audience, but before getting in to that subject he said that there are 76 million boomers if you’re born between 1946 and 1964. “But let’s talk about millennials. I’m excited about you all. Why?” he said, because you were the largest home buying segment in the United States last year.”

He pointed out that there are 83 million millennials between the ages of 19 and 35. And that the most common age of millennials is 24 then 23 then 25. “The most common age for the first-time home buyer is 31 and yet you are already the largest home buying segment there is. He said, “Just wait another 14 years. If you go down to the age of 16, there’s 91 million millennials, we are going to see millennials creating households for the next 14 years.”

He also mentioned that we are going to have a recession between now and then, but essentially, we are going to have a literally demographically driven economic growth for the next 14 years. “Remember, South Texas is younger than the rest of Texas and Texas is one of the youngest states in the country. I’m just trying to tell you; your future looks bright.”

Dr. Jones spoke about Private Mortgage Insurance Tax Deductibles which was killed on December 31, 2016; also, about short sales and 1099Cs. Energy credits was a short topic, because as he said, this is an item about insulations, windows, doors. What congress has learned is that they have more complaints on this area than anything else.

Another interesting topic was the renewables, like wind and solar. “We are talking big wind turbine farms, we are talking really big solar farms, not just a solar panel at our house.” “We literally have a wind turbine farm in the US that is making a 10% return on investment for investors that has no power line connected to them. They make so much money off the tax credit and other issues, just run it through the meter, it’s cheaper than building a power line,” he stated.

On the healthcare issue, he said that there is no one size fits all. He like the fact that President Trump’s health care program will continue to insure pre-existing conditions. This one topic, vibrated in the audience’s ears.

Dr. Jones said, “President Trump and congress are going to cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%. Why? Because we have the highest corporate tax rate of all top 20 economically developed countries in the world.”

After his presentation, Mayor Richard Garcia of Edinburg shared highlights of the projects that have chosen Edinburg as the place to locate their business. These include Bob’s Steak & Chop House; TownPlace Suites by Marriott, Bert Ogden Arena, HEB Park and others.

Mayor Jim Darling of McAllen discussed recent visits by the members of the Texas Senate delegation, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and members of the U. S. Congressional Delegation. Mayor Darling commented on the importance of focusing on a good relationship with Mexico as a trade partner.

Mr. Lewis, on behalf of Edwards Abstract and Title Co. Executive Committee, Management Team and the employees, sent a special thank you to all the presenters and especially the over 250 guests that made time to attend the 13th Annual State of Real Estate Forum. For more information on the Edwards office locations, products and services visit the website at www.edwards-titleco.com or follow on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

If you want to download Dr. Ted C. Jones’ presentation titled Things Change – The Outlook for Real Estate and the Economy, follow this link.

Edwards Abstract and Title Co. Real Estate Forum Strong After 13 Years! “Remember, South Texas is younger than the rest of Texas and Texas is one of the youngest states in the country.

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Over the course of Donald Trump’s staggering political rise, observers tried to make sense of him by borrowing a metaphor from the internet: Trump, they said, was a troll. He was described as turning presidential aspirants into “Twitter trolls” (by a primary challenger, Marco Rubio), as “the world’s greatest troll” (by the data whiz Nate Silver) and, after his inauguration, as “our Troll-in-Chief” (by the liberal pundit Touré). Each was meant as a dig: The troll is the bottom-feeder of internet culture, not a hero. But Trump himself gladly owned the slur. When a Twitter user called him “the most superior troll” on the platform back in 2013, Trump replied, “A great compliment!”

Trolling isn’t just about manning an unhinged Twitter account. It describes an ethos. The troll is a figure who skips across the web, saying whatever it takes to rile up unsuspecting targets, relishing the chaos in his wake and feasting on attention, good or bad. For Trump, that means inciting political panic with glib news conferences, all-caps tweets and made-up terrorist attacks, shifting his beliefs to suit his whims. During the campaign, the ambiguity of this spectacle worked to his advantage, freeing his supporters from their own responsibilities: When he called for a 2,000-mile-long wall or suggested banning an entire religion from entering the country, the sheer extremity of these ideas let voters view them as goading performances instead of real plans. And with every political shrug, the web’s most antisocial sensibility rose further into the heights of American public life.

Now that the trolling ethos has infiltrated the actual core of government, whole systems are being forced to improvise around Trump’s inscrutable center. He is a frequently insincere and unserious person, placed in the most serious of positions. Politicians on the right find themselves staking claims on Trump’s throwaway accusations, pretending that massive vote fraud exists or that angry constituents at town halls are paid protesters. Journalists wrestle with late-night tweets that carry the weight of the presidency but also seem designed only to enrage and confuse. What does it mean for the American presidency itself to become a fake out?

Troll culture was forged in the primordial ooze of the internet, in a time when online social interaction took place in rolling walls of text. In 1993, LambdaMOO, a popular virtual community, was besieged by a user called Mr. Bungle, a character dressed as a clown in a semen-stained costume. One evening, Mr. Bungle used a programming trick to make it appear as if other users were performing violent sex acts on one another. Later, when his targets demanded an explanation, Mr. Bungle typed: “It was purely a sequence of events with no consequence on my RL” — real life — “existence.” He was just messing with people, delighting in the power to provoke reactions from a remove. And because everyone involved could just log off, those left shaken by words on a computer screen were made to feel silly. As one commentator said during the ensuing controversy, “I think that freedom would be well served by simple toughening up.”

Mr. Bungle was a lone wolf, but trolling could also be a communal activity. On 1990s Usenet groups, users would post in-jokes and provocations in a bid to flush out naïve newcomers. And with 4chan, an anonymous, anime-obsessed message board started by a teenager in 2003, trolling charged beyond its online vicinity and into the offline lives of distant strangers. In the most notorious incident, 4chan trolls latched onto a Myspace page memorializing a seventh-grader who had killed himself, ridiculing the child’s recent disappointments and seizing on grammatical errors in posts from mourners. (One had called him “an hero.”) Soon they were placing harassing phone calls to the boy’s parents and snapping prank photos at his grave.

Trolling was always about the distance between people who care and people who don’t. The people who cared always lost.

Internet trolls work by exploiting the gap between the virtual and the real. They float, weightless and anonymous, across the web, then reach out and rattle people who are pinned down by fixed ideologies, moral codes and human emotions. Any attachment to principles — even really basic ones like “don’t torture grieving parents” — gives the troll an opening. Stretching back to Mr. Bungle, trolling was always about the distance between people who care and people who don’t. The people who cared always lost. Often, they were counseled to detach as much as the trolls had: to withhold their outrage, to not “feed the trolls,” to pretend there was a real distinction between doing horrible things and meaning them. So the trolls scampered on to their next targets, amassing more followers along the way.

It was during the summer of 2014 that internet trolling boiled over into a mainstream crisis. It began with a seething, accusatory blog post about a video-game developer named Zoe Quinn, written by an ex-boyfriend. What seemed like a small, personal conflict managed to explode into a culture war, complete with bomb threats and harassment campaigns. First came the nihilistic trolls, some even hoping to compel Quinn to “an hero” herself — tittering 4chan code for committing suicide. But as #GamerGate, as it came to be called, grew, it coalesced into a movement that looked awfully political. Despite their self-presentation as ciphers, trolls have always had a point of view, and #GamerGate offered a platform for a whole coalition to express its distrust of media, resentment toward women and anger at progressive critiques of racism and misogyny. They had demands, too: They worked to get journalists fired, to pressure advertisers, to silence feminist critics.

To outsiders, #GamerGate looked like a cesspool of angry, entitled young men nobody else wanted to talk to. But some right-wing figures spied an opportunity. Mike Cernovich, author of a hypermasculine self-help blog called “Danger and Play,” joined the cause. (“I use trolling tactics to build my brand,” he later told The New Yorker.) So did Milo Yiannopoulos, then writing for the website Breitbart News, which helped midwife the controversy from a fringe freakout to a right-wing political perspective. (“I hurt people for a reason,” he said recently. “I like to think of myself as a virtuous troll.”) Donald Trump saw political promise in this world, too: As his White House bid seemed on the brink of collapse last summer, he found a new campaign manager in the Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon, a sincere nationalist with trolling tendencies of his own.

‘Performance art can be so hard for normal people to understand.’

Now, Bannon sits on the National Security Council, and many Trump supporters are fusing the trolling ethos with old culture-war tropes, amusing themselves by calling liberals delicate “snowflakes” and delighting at being “in” on Trump’s “joke.” As the right-wing columnist John Feehery put it after Trump’s Feb. 16 news conference: “Performance art can be so hard for normal people to understand.” People like Cernovich — who jumped easily from #GamerGate to the Trump train — have taken to calling their political posture “antifragile,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s word for systems that thrive on volatility and stress. Trump, Taleb has said, is “heavily vaccinated because of his checkered history” — nothing new can shame him. Nothing matters.

The troll figure feels as new as the smartphones in our hands, but his trail of destruction stretches deep into history. Toward the end of World War II, Jean-Paul Sartre looked at the anti-Semites of Europe and saw something that still sounds familiar. “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies,” he wrote in the 1944 essay “Anti-Semite and Jew.” They “are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.” Anti-Semites “delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.”

Recently we’ve witnessed a resurgence of this winking Nazi type. PewDiePie, a wildly popular YouTube video-game star, filmed a “prank” in which he hired two men to hold up a sign that said “Death to All Jews.” Pepe the Frog, an online cartoon that morphed into a 4chan meme, has been co-opted by plugged-in fascists who redraw him with swastikas for eyes. And after the white nationalist Richard Spencer, a man who has voiced support for “peaceful ethnic cleansing,” yelled “Hail Trump” at a Washington conference and received Nazi salutes from crowd members, he claimed it was all “ironic.” These days even David Duke, a sincere and straightforward white supremacist, is sharing racist memes and getting called a “troll.” But when Spencer showed up in Washington for the inauguration, explaining his Pepe lapel pin to the press, a masked protester ran up and collapsed all that ironic distance by punching him in the face.

Trolls work through abstraction, leveraging the internet and irony to carve out a space between actions and consequences. Becoming president has blown Trump’s cover: There’s nothing more consequential than this. Trolls are typically outsiders, and sad ones: They don’t fit into the dominant group, so they terrorize it from the sidelines. Part of what makes Trump’s administration so alarming is that the troll sensibility now dominates. And when that happens, it’s reminiscent of what Sartre described: No reason, no principle, just the pure exercise of power.