Invectives

We are living through an age of negativity. People are pushing others out of the way to become the avatars of invective. This trend may not have been started by Donald Trump in the presidential debates ... but it certainly was amplified therein. A good measure of this negativity would be to look at a list of invectives and who now seems to fir these slights. I offer the following line-op of those whose demeanors are not my favorites:

Manipulative -- Nancy Pelosi
Bombastic -- Adam Schiff
Sanctimonious -- James Comey
Malevolent -- Hillary Clinton
Caustic  -- Chuck Schumer
Spiteful -- John McCain
Abusive -- Alec Baldwin
Vindictive -- Robert Mueller
Lascivious -- Bill Clinton
Insolent -- Maxine Waters
Contemptuous -- Mika Brzezinski
Humiliating -- Donald Trump
Sheepish -- Jeff Sessions
Dense -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Duplicitous -- Paul Ryan
Inconsequential -- Barack Obama
Self-serving -- Al Sharpton
Pedantic -- Thomas Fridman

(Just another exercises in frustration relief.)

Punching Back

Hillary Clinton called many of us "irredeemable deplorables" and, I'm sure, a lot worse in private. Now the right, taking a hint from Trump, is punching back. The Mostly Cajun blog has reprinted a series of epithets for the gun grabbers ... some coming close but, in general, a little harsh ... see: Mostly Cajun Quotes. (My favorite is "inbred college professors.") If you qualify as someone who wants to repeal the Second Amendment, like Justice Stevens, David Hogg and CNN, peruse these slurs to see how Middle America views you. They also don't quite match the invective spewed last weekend by For Our Lives "student" marchers toward the NRA but they come close. Take your pick and enjoy! Turn around is fair play.

The Real Hillary

A Retrofitted Hillary

They say you can judge a person’s character by how people subservient to this person are treated … those who cannot respond to abuse.  The following squib reminded me of such behavior … and contains the following quote:

As bad as it sounds, Kessler points out that there is one detail that [Secret Service] agents despise even more than having to view Biden in his birthday suit. That would be having to protect former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 

Here is the source of the quote: Breitbart Squib

And here is the memory that this quote engendered … many years ago a high-level White House insider during the early years of the Bill Clinton presidency related the following incident to my wife and myself. Apparently one quiet Sunday morning Hillary and Bill were being driven to church by the Secret Service in the presidential limo. The poor agent driver (one asked to take a bullet for her) made a wrong turn and, during the time it took for him to correct this miscue, he was assailed by the First Lady with a stream of invective that would have embarrassed a longshoreman. It was also the case that much of the staff serving Hillary in the White House would cower in their offices if it was known that Hillary was on her way down the hall. (Perhaps, in Hillary's case, the "lady" part of First Lady needed some rethinking.)

I have also heard very flattering things said about Hillary from her peers … those who could possibly benefit her. But I wonder, if she runs for president, more such stories of how she mistreats those beneath her will be reported?