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we went to catch the bus today just as 50 people got off a broken down bus and walked up to the stop. we got in the car and drove.

and so it goes...
2
So, Trump actually thought staging this photo at the concierge desk of the Mar-A-Lago (which itself appears to have been modeled after some 13th Century Moorish seraglio - figures) would make him look thoughtful and presidential, got it.

Why then am I imagining that legal pad is filled, not with somber and weighty words, but rather with crude depictions of the female anatomy, and flying daggers shooting towards a stick-figure rendition of CNN's Jim Acosta sporting devil horns?
3
I love that Touraine...for years it was like $6.99 at Uwajimaya.
4
I could not care less if the president elect stages a photo shoot, which is only something every politician ever does all the time.

I am much more concerned with how much Mudede drinks in the morning, considering with how haggard he looks.
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@4,

Not sure if serious...?

I'm guessing Charles staged the photo, browbeaten look and all, to satirize Trump's staged photo.
6
Love the dissection of the latest Trump distraction. The perfectly relevant Susan Sontag and Socrates references, the parody pic.

I hadn't noticed the eagle until Mr. Mudede pointed it out. And suddenly I was brought back to the eagle in Stephen Colbert's Wonderful Pistachios commercials. Speaking of camp... Or I guess Colbert doesn't count as true camp.
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@5: I know the purpose of the photo, but I don't know many non-alcoholics who drink big ass glasses of wine for breakfast.

If Trump had a drink in his photo, I would assume it was there as a prop.
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@7 and you somehow know that it isn't a prop in Charles's photo?
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@8: Well, if his goal is recreating a photo (which I assume he was doing), I find it odd he would choose to add a prop on his own, since it was not in the original photo.

I could most certainly be wrong, but it seems the simplest answer is that Mudede is drinking a big ass glass of wine early in the morning. I married an alcoholic, so perhaps I am simply more sensitive to such things.
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@3: me too. it's probably $2/bottle in Touraine.
12
The "wine" in the glass is colorless.
13
Anyone notice the tiles with the Latin inscription? Plus Ultra? It means roughly "more more" ...how fitting to have that phrase repeated over and over on the wall of a greedy man.
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You almost nailed it, Mudede. If you had instead stared past the camera, with a vaguely disinterested look in your eye, you would have matched it perfectly.
16
So @10 is projecting.
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@12: Some very nice white wines are that color.
18
Looking forward to human feces in the future Link stations.
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@18

That is bullshit.
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@16: Projection is when you apply your own undesired feelings or impulses to someone else, not when you wonder if someone who appears to be drinking a lot of wine early in the morning may have a problem with alcohol.

Try using Google if you don't know what a word means, you can just type it in, and it usually gives you a definition right there!
21
My national bird would be the Turkey Buzzard.
22
If it was a mimosa or a bloody mary we wouldn't be so concerned.

(Should M in mary be capitalized?)
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@22:

They should both be capitalized, as they are titles.
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Love that pic w/ the wine in the morning and the haggard look. Hey, some mornings are like that. Perfect.
25
You can add photographers to the list of talent that won't work with Trump.
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@23 - I believe Bloody Mary is often capitalized as it' named after a person, but I do not believe there's any reason to capitalize mimosa.
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@26:

I beg to differ - and so does everybody else.
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@27 I beg to differ your differing! The only reason I see for capitalizing "mimosa" in those links is that it's the first word of the sentence.

Take it away, Grammergirl:
"Some cocktail names are easy to figure out because they go by the standard capitalization rules. If they don’t include something that would be a proper noun, such as a person’s name or a city name, don’t capitalize them. So “mimosa,” “mudslide,” and “pina colada” are all lowercase."
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/educati…

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