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The August Day Mark Twain Met Donald Trump
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Even though Pap lusts mostly for liquor and Hucks loot, a treasure trove back then of $6,000 that today wouldnt cover Trumps barber bills, he shares the billionaires braggadocio, the propensity for noise, surly resentments and irrational lashings out, especially at minorities.
A good substance-free rant is just Pap and Trumps style: Then the old man got to cussing, Huck recounts, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadnt skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didnt know the names of, and so called them whats-his-name when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing.
Derisively, Pap says, Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment [sic], wonderful, and then explodes at the notion of an educated, free black man. They said he was a pfessor in a college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that aint the wust. They said he could vote when he was at home. Well, that let me out. Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? I says Ill never vote agin. Thems the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me Ill never vote agin as long as I live.
Many Republicans fear Trumps possible nomination, increasingly concerned that [his] inflammatory language is damaging the party, Jonathan Martin wrote in The New York Times, that his remarks are hardening the tone of other candidates on racial issues in ways that could repel the voters they need to take back the White House. Yet if another GOP candidate wins their nod instead, those same Republicans fear that Trumps voters will stay at home, just like Pap. It is a wretched bed they have made for themselves this last 50 years, a legacy of mongering and misinformation, and with the unlikely Trump of New York, instead of someone from the Deep Red South, the Republicans have managed to achieve a destructive apotheosis of dog whistles and hatred.
Such is the human race, Twain wrote back in 1907. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Prescient indeed.
http://billmoyers.com/2015/09/10/mark-twain-met-donald-trump/
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The August Day Mark Twain Met Donald Trump (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Sep 2015
OP
I have to agree with you. His dry sense of humor said more in a few words...
Frustratedlady
Sep 2015
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Demeter
(85,373 posts)1. Mark Twain saw it all
and he lost everything before he died. He was a embittered by the loss of his children and wife.
But his eye was keen, and his sarcasm finely honed. He was a remarkable reporter on the ground. The Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of the 19th century.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)2. I have to agree with you. His dry sense of humor said more in a few words...
than great writers of the day. I love going back over some of his writings, even today.