[Cboldt]

-- I'm finding it hard to believe that women, in this day and age when they can search the internet, are falling for the hit on Trump. --

I don't think they (or many of them) are falling for it. More men than women are falling for it, and the GOPe stalwarts are using it as a convenient but false reason to disparage Trump.

Other that taking attention from the issues, it's all good. And even as a manufactured issue, it has a silver lining. The more the press and EM surrogates (but I repeat myself) display false outrage over fake or minor issues, the more they marginalizes themselves.

[JustSurrounded]

It's the darn talk shows. Every morning my sister puts on the Today show while she gets ready for work. I try to tell her they're pouring poison in her ear, even as they chit chat. She likes the happy chatter and feels she is getting informed, I guess. My blood pressure goes through the roof when I am forced to listen to that stuff in a waiting room.

Who knew my parents were right? TV really is a boob box and watching too much really does turn your brain to jelly.

p.s. good morning, all. And thank you, Nikos, for these threads. I cannot get to them real-time, so often, but they're my daily go-to!