tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post6196604524502757607..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: A Portrait of the Artist as Con ArtistStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-35166606202252446782017-05-13T10:43:44.033-07:002017-05-13T10:43:44.033-07:00Make the Ares comments stop. Make the Ares comments stop. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-64996332362368535342017-05-13T09:52:23.369-07:002017-05-13T09:52:23.369-07:00Market values seem to have some sort of religious ...Market values seem to have some sort of religious significance, in the sense of money being the root of all evil, and so why not test the limits of this idolatry?<br /><br />Funnily Goldberg brings up the con artist artists in relation to Donald Trump's self-referential antics. <br /><br />And I also recall how Trump paid an artist to paint a portrait for himself, and then used his Trump Foundation to buy the portrait with other people's money. That's almost as low down as a jar of excrement.<br />http://theweek.com/speedreads/648952/heres-story-donald-trumps-6foottall-painting-paid-by-foundation<br /><br />I notice Goldberg ends with an issue of "external self awareness" from a previous topic. Trump either has no idea or doesn't care, or intentionally loves that he can regularly humiliate his spokes people by telling them to sell one false narrative, and then admitting something closer to the truth when reporters actually talk to him and help him sort out the truth in his mind.<br /><br />Goldberg ends with a challenge to Trump's enablers:<br /><br />Golderg: The smart — never mind honorable — response from conservatives to all this should be the Jerry Maguire response. Rather than rationalizing and enabling this behavior, conservatives should be doing everything they can to convince Trump that he’s his own worst enemy. Mike Pence would do himself, his party, and his country a favor by telling Donald Trump, “If you humiliate me like that again, I will resign and run against you in 2020.” It may not work. But it’s a far better approach than bending over and shouting, “Thank you, sir! May I have another!?”<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-41720962872927119002017-05-13T07:58:49.512-07:002017-05-13T07:58:49.512-07:00Another example of the insanity of "the rich&...Another example of the insanity of "the rich".Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com