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Most weeks my Mondays unfold in a well-practiced routine: brush teeth, wash face, walk dog. This morning, I added a new step: spend 15 minutes scrolling through Twitter to see whether anyone had synced that delicious footage of President Trumps face falling on Sunday as the World Series crowd is booing him with the R.E.M. song Everybody Hurts.
I watched the video over and over, scrutinizing every second of the footage, waiting for the exact moment when Mr. Trumps smirky grin gives way to stony petulance, the precise instant when he realizes that this sea of red-hatted Americans are not his red-hatted Americans, as the applause for veterans gives way to lusty boos, and the chants of Lock him up! ripple through the stadium.
It felt like medicine, like balm for a weary soul. It wasnt until Id watched the footage sped up, slowed down and from six angles and heard myself crooning, Let me taste your tears! that I started feeling a little sick, as if Id gorged on Halloween candy.
I realized that I was gloating. It was not a pleasant realization.
The booing itself wasnt the problem. The booing was appropriate. The booing was necessary, insofar as his trip to Nationals Park was one of the few times Mr. Trump has crept out of his self-made bubble and encountered something resembling the real world. When he eats out, its in a restaurant in a hotel he owns; when he plays golf, its at a club he owns; when hes with a crowd, its his crowd.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/opinion/trump-booed-world-series.html
RockRaven
(15,019 posts)which will be several years from now -- at best -- if ever. And the safe bet is, sadly, on never again.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)sop
(10,274 posts)while Obama was openly ridiculing him at the WH Correspondents' Dinner. I'll bet he's plotting revenge against the Nationals' ownership and their fans, much like he went after Jeff Bezos when The Washington Post trashed him.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I think our joy is very small when weighed against the loss of life hes caused. Children are in cages, and Puerto Rico is still unable to recover, and Kurds and their children are being genocide.
And were supposed to feel shame for getting some satisfaction that he gets a little embarrassed? Hell no! Fuck that crap! He deserves far, far worse.