A few more details on Trump's Stormy affair

[rjmacs]

NewtonMP2100 wrote:
....doesn't matter to me, but they spent a lot of time on Clinton's indiscretions......seems to make sense to spend some time on this........

Does it? Because while we blather on about his more than decade-old alleged dalliance, he's trying to destroy the country. I think we have better places to focus.

[Pam]

rjmacs wrote:
[quote=NewtonMP2100]
....doesn't matter to me, but they spent a lot of time on Clinton's indiscretions......seems to make sense to spend some time on this........

Does it? Because while we blather on about his more than decade-old alleged dalliance, he's trying to destroy the country. I think we have better places to focus.
The Federal Election Commission may disagree with you. Not about the acts, but the money.

[$tevie]

I think it is significant that this story is just another day in the lowered expectations for the President of the country. Evidently all the conventions of dignity, propriety, and legality are out the window. Trump can do anything with no fear of reprisal. Today it’s paying off porn stars, tomorrow it’s paying off witnesses to crimes, who cares? It’s Trump! We have given him carte blanche to decide how our government will work from now on.

[Bill in NC]

like on SNL's "Weekend Update"

"President found with dead hooker" story appears next to the crossword puzzle.

[SteveG]

Even if it's not an actionable crime, it's a still a good reminder for his 'Christian family values' supporters.

[pdq]

There's 130,000 reasons to believe that Trump's people thought it was a big deal.

[Speedy]

pdq wrote:
There's 130,000 reasons to believe that Trump's people thought it was a big deal.

And yet he still tried to stiff her. Probably for the first time, too.

[pdq]

I enjoyed this take:

Dear God:

...The latest draft chapter you’ve submitted, “Stormy Weather,” was frankly difficult for me to read all the way to the end. For one thing, the central plot point — the reality TV president ends up having paid a six-figure settlement to a porn star to cover up his affair with her at the time that his new (third!) wife was pregnant — is just incredibly over the top. I mean does she have to be a porn star?

And the narrative details! She spanks him with a copy of Forbes?!? Does the phrase “heavy-handed” mean anything to you any more? You used to be so much better than this.

Also, the business about how he told her she reminded him of his daughter was tasteless in the extreme.

Although I don’t want to overstep my editorial bounds by lecturing the Lord God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, and of All Things Seen and Unseen, I must gently remind you that, to be both aesthetically pleasing and rhetorically effective, a satire must retain some minimal degree of plausibility.

Sincerely yours....

miley-laughing001:

[$tevie]

pdq wrote:
I enjoyed this take:

Dear God:

...The latest draft chapter you’ve submitted, “Stormy Weather,” was frankly difficult for me to read all the way to the end. For one thing, the central plot point — the reality TV president ends up having paid a six-figure settlement to a porn star to cover up his affair with her at the time that his new (third!) wife was pregnant — is just incredibly over the top. I mean does she have to be a porn star?

And the narrative details! She spanks him with a copy of Forbes?!? Does the phrase “heavy-handed” mean anything to you any more? You used to be so much better than this.

Also, the business about how he told her she reminded him of his daughter was tasteless in the extreme.

Although I don’t want to overstep my editorial bounds by lecturing the Lord God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, and of All Things Seen and Unseen, I must gently remind you that, to be both aesthetically pleasing and rhetorically effective, a satire must retain some minimal degree of plausibility.

Sincerely yours....

miley-laughing001:

:goodone:

[Lemon Drop]

Have ya'll already covered the part where he made her watch Shark Week with him for 3 hours, and had her spank him with a rolled up Forbes magazine?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018...-magazine/

She claimed this in a 2009 interview.