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choie

(4,111 posts) Fri Oct 11, 2019, 09:50 PM Oct 2019

The "Tweet of Damocles"

Just now on Rachel's show, a representative - I didn't get his name - was discussing his attendance at Ambassador Yovanovitch's deposition today and said (I'm paraphrasing only a little) "You cannot work under the threat of the tweet of damocles" That is brilliant!!!

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The "Tweet of Damocles" (Original Post) choie Oct 2019 OP

Tom Malinowski. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #1

How rare the phrase madamesilverspurs Oct 2019 #2

I think this is another new term...last 2 months..?? Stuart G Oct 2019 #3

Metus est plenus tyrannis - Fear is plentiful for tyrants. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #4

Very well said...!!! Trump & the Gang..don't know what is coming. They have a right to be scared.. Stuart G Oct 2019 #6

18 minutes were erased, not 15. nt tblue37 Oct 2019 #9

He's just another stooge. TheBlackAdder Oct 2019 #5

Thank You ...a great clip indeed.... Stuart G Oct 2019 #7

I actually jotted that down canetoad Oct 2019 #8

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,739 posts)

1. Tom Malinowski.

Reply to choie (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2019, 09:51 PM

Oct 2019

Gonna have to remember that one.

madamesilverspurs

(15,805 posts)

2. How rare the phrase

Reply to choie (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2019, 09:54 PM

Oct 2019

that is so mouthwateringly delectable.

Yum.

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Stuart G

(38,436 posts)

3. I think this is another new term...last 2 months..??

Reply to choie (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2019, 09:57 PM

Oct 2019

I forgot who "Damocles" is/was. I will look it up..no I won't go to the library..there is something called..........
.............google...........

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,739 posts)

4. Metus est plenus tyrannis - Fear is plentiful for tyrants.

Reply to Stuart G (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 11, 2019, 10:06 PM

Oct 2019

Stuart G

(38,436 posts)

6. Very well said...!!! Trump & the Gang..don't know what is coming. They have a right to be scared..

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 11, 2019, 10:21 PM

Oct 2019

Very scared.. Trump & Gang think they can ...."get away with it""" whatever "it" is..

I recall clearly that there was a 15 minute gap in a "Nixon Tape." Evidently a very telling conversation was erased by someone. Guess what?..didn't matter a tiny bit..Most of the gang went to prison for a while, and Nixon was forced to resign, even though a week or so earlier Nixon said, " I won't resign" (yes, I still have a newspaper with that headline in the basement) August 1974...

Trump like Nixon got away with most of the sh*t.. Not this time. This time the fear is real. A storm is coming the likes of which Trump has never seen. And that storm will destroy the "Trump Name"..forever..Trump may not end up in prison, but most of the crowd will. Who knows who?? I think his sons will.

Just as important in my opinion is the similar thinking of Nixon and Trump.."I can get away with anything, no matter what "anything is."

Most important, ...time is not on Trump's side He and his gang cannot wait it out. Some of the gang is already in prison..Wait...a lawyer for Trump..Is he sitting in a prison right now?? Yes indeed. right now.