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Themon the Bard's avatar

But you see, The Former Guy wasn't really bad. He was just stupid.

I believe this is called "damning with faint praise." And it seems to be the very best that his most ardent admirers can come up with.

Of course, I damn him with nothing that can be called "faint," nor can it be even remotely associated with "praise." I've even invented a new part of the Inferno for him to spend eternity in.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

I dunno, Joseph. He’s not dumb and I truly feel his “admirers” don’t think he’s stupid. I know this was tongue-in-cheek, but TFG is extremely dangerous. If he is finally thrown in prison, my guess is he’ll sing like a canary. He won’t want to be by himself facing the audience…this time.

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kim  CR🌈🌴😎's avatar

trying to 'like' this, but substack won't let me.

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Roland (CA->WA)'s avatar

Also trying to ❤️ Marlene’s post

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Anne-Louise Luccarini's avatar

I think the red ink gets blocked. I clicked on all three hearts, nothing, then refreshed, and lo! they were all fixed when I came back.

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Ally House (Oregon)'s avatar

Sometimes, if you write a comment, you can come back to the post and like it. Other times, getting off Substack and back on fixes it. For a while.

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Barbara D. Reed's avatar

Try refreshing the page-that should help.

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Annie D Stratton's avatar

When I try that, I end up somewhere else in the long, long list, and am lost. <sigh>

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Themon the Bard's avatar

I was just clarifying their argument. "He wasn't bad, he just had bad advisors."

Sure, Mr. Trump, go ahead and put your tongue on that frozen flagpole.....

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Gus Koch (GA)'s avatar

Joseph, it looks more like they are praising with faint damn to me....make that wing of the inferno big enough for all of them....

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Anne-Louise Luccarini's avatar

Why did that make me laugh so much? getting feeble.

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