Lodestar: Let the hunt begin.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 09/06/2018 at 09:13 • Filed to: None

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If I were serving in or near the Trump Whitehouse — perish the though — and I wanted to pen an anonymous OpEd for the NY Times, for sure, I’d massage the style and pick a word or several like lodestar to throw people off my scent. This is shaping up to be some great political theatre. Is it possible that institutions like NY Times (and maybe Nike?) are waking up and fighting back?

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Ash78, voting early and often > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 09:26

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Lodestar?

That sounds just like the kind of word that my brother, Ted Kaczynski, would have used!

I personally like throwing fun words into serious conversation. Like kerfuffle . 

Hamtractor > Ash78, voting early and often 09/06/2018 at 09:35

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I enjoy using real words turned into fake words. For example, I would call you a kerflufflist. Instead of calling a boxer a pugilist, I’ll call him a pugilizer. I called my cop friend an arrestitician. Makes my english major wife completely insane, lol... I also use the term gribbledeeskribblewitz at the end of sentences as an affirmation. As in “That was pretty freakin awesome! Gribbledeeskribblewitz!”. Because I’m a twelve year old boy genius trapped in a 44 year old body.

Wacko > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 09:36

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/06/bookies-place-odds-on-identity-anonymous-white-house-official.html

love that they are giving Trump 25 to 1

when we all know it’s not him, there was complete sentences, and no made up words.

50 to 1 odds for Conway and Melania

I would like to think it’s John Kelly because...

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 09:37

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Nike wants to sell more slave-labor-produced product. While I applaud them for giving Kaep an enormous platform; one must also remember #Brands are not our friends, and Nike wants to quietly move on from their corporate harassment debacle as well as their continued use of what is effectively slave labor to make their product.

I do not begrudge Colin for agreeing to partner with them. His message is prescient and crucial to our country’s continued growth.

Ash78, voting early and often > Hamtractor 09/06/2018 at 09:39

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Nice. I personally love creating custom portmanteaus (call me The Portmanteauminator, aka Albee Bock ). And of course, the most OG of Dad Jokes, the mondegreen .

I’m a few years younger, but hopefully you remember back in the 80s there was a series of books called Sniglets that would be right up your alley (partly the brainchild of comic Rich Hall).

DipodomysDeserti > Ash78, voting early and often 09/06/2018 at 09:42

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Lodestar is my nom de porn.

Azrek > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 09:42

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Only one man would give me the raspberry!
*Slam*
LONESTAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DipodomysDeserti > Hamtractor 09/06/2018 at 09:42

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Me gustilations!

Ash78, voting early and often > DipodomysDeserti 09/06/2018 at 09:44

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Sounds like the screen name of actor Bill Poleman.

He uses the Schwarz.

random001 > Ash78, voting early and often 09/06/2018 at 09:48

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Covefe?

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 09:52

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What a Lodestar might look like.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 09/06/2018 at 09:53

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My favorite Sniglet:

Frust : that annoying line of dust that you can never get into the dust pan.

ttyymmnn > DipodomysDeserti 09/06/2018 at 09:53

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You sure that isn’t LoadStar?

someassemblyrequired > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 09:54

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Best theory I’ve heard here in DC: things are about to get much much worse for the GOP, and this is a hail mary to try and salvage some sort of political future beyond the revelation of that information. If someone isn’t pushed out in the next few days over this, you can be assured that was the goal.

Though I have been in a Lodestar, so maybe it was me?? Probably not though, as Oppo is a more rep utable outlet than the New York Times.

someassemblyrequired > ttyymmnn 09/06/2018 at 10:00

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Howard 250!!  

nermal > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 10:05

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How many times have we seen this? WH staffer, writes saucy book, gets a few days of news coverage, makes a sizable chunk of $$$, then disappears. This op-ed seems like the pre-cursor to yet another saucy book.

The way to stop this from happening is for the public to stop buying books.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Hamtractor 09/06/2018 at 10:06

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I maintain that every man is still a twelve year old boy inside; i t is just a question of how freely we each choose to embrace  it.

ttyymmnn > someassemblyrequired 09/06/2018 at 10:10

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Indeed. Some great lines on that bird.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 10:13

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I bet it was Chuck Norris.

fhrblig > ttyymmnn 09/06/2018 at 10:45

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I loved Sniglets! My favorite was g lackett : the little metal ball they put inside spray paint cans.

fhrblig > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 10:47

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Someone should really make some “I AM THE LODESTAR” bumper stickers.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Ash78, voting early and often 09/06/2018 at 10:52

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Or covfefe?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Hamtractor 09/06/2018 at 10:52

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Get me some brockley at the store?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Wacko 09/06/2018 at 10:55

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John Kelly would be interesting, but I don’t see it. Rinse Prius would be more my guess. But he’s been out a long time.

ttyymmnn > fhrblig 09/06/2018 at 10:58

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Onomatopoeia FTW.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 09/06/2018 at 10:59

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one must also remember #Brands are not our friends

Not even Patagonia? I troll. But I like your point(s). A thinking person cannot be all of one thing or another, but a compound of multiple things. For me, for my part that’s about social justice and restoration, the Nike/CK thing is spot on. But just for that piece, because exploitation and profits and all of that. I get it. It also pokes 45 in the eye, and the spiteful part of me is okay with that bit. But is any of this constructive? Methinks not.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Azrek 09/06/2018 at 11:00

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This means nothing to me.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 09/06/2018 at 11:01

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Retrofit with turboprop engines and maybe we can talk...

Azrek > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 11:04

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..........Spaceballs?

Officer Jim Lahey is not a real cop > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 11:09

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Wacko > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 11:10

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Imagine if it was Conway, she played the game so well to get where she is right now.  Her and her husband planned this from the beginning.....

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > nermal 09/06/2018 at 11:32

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Or stop reading the news. Good morning.

I see the current POTUS as a ten-year-old boy who keeps poking a hornet nest with a stick and crying like a baby when he is repeatedly stung and then blaming the hornets.

But to your point, I hadn’t thought of it: once that guy is outed, then he can resign and write a book. I think you’ve called it.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 09/06/2018 at 11:36

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Anthony Scaramucci is my guess.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > fhrblig 09/06/2018 at 11:41

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Capital idea!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Azrek 09/06/2018 at 11:42

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All I remember from Spaceballs is switching from suck to blow.

nermal > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 11:43

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Trump has by far the highest number of ex-staffers of any president in his first two years. However, he probably also has the highest number of ex-staffers with million $$$ book deals as well.

Working for him isn’t as bad as it’s portrayed. Just wait your turn to sell out and go on a book tour.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Wacko 09/06/2018 at 11:44

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I would be truly shocked or, to your point, truly played , if it turned out to be Kellyanne. Her husband, maybe, but not she...

Now, Hope Hicks...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > nermal 09/06/2018 at 11:49

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But there, too, he’s brought it upon himself, says I. All of this Me First thing, the shill. Honestly? I think President Trump views his base as a bunch of suckers and fools. For that matter, he may very well view every human that way who is not President Trump himself or Pa Trump.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 12:14

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Patagonia is at the very least neutral. I’m sure with some digging one could find some questionable production practices. They do however put their profits where their mouth is, and for that I respect them.

Is this Nike ad campaign a perfect middle finger to our Mango Fascist? Yup, and I also find some pleasure in knowing it will hurt his delicate fee-fees.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 12:16

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45431300

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 12:20

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Also, it occurs to me that we still call those who worked with the Nazi party in German, regardless of how much they personally did to enable genocide, Nazis. So there's that...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 09/06/2018 at 15:55

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Sn0wslayer said it: history is not going to be kind to this group of people.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 09/06/2018 at 15:58

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Yes, there is that. There is always some of that . That’s why sides work so poorly and why sides is where Trump & Company are trying to put us all. I just hope we get out of this without an Armageddon.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 16:32

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I have said all along that they are on the wrong side of history. There are trying days ahead, but I still believe it. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 09/06/2018 at 17:17

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And I think they will all turn on Trump like a herd of hyenas when his time is done and the rest of us will all turn on them.

nermal > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 18:43

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I think Trump views himself more like the Godfather. Very family focused, all of his kids are along for the ride. Ex wives not so much. The concept of loyalty is very important, he will drag those that are loyal to him upward, and do his worst against those that are perceived as disloyal.

For the voter base, he needs to appeal to single issue evangelicals, hence bringing Pence on board with his anti-abortion nonsense. I don’t think he views voters as suckers, more that he honestly wants to make things better for those that vote for him and screw over those that didn’t. Look at the tax reform as an example, people in NY and CA were the two states where individuals were most likely to see a tax increase.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > nermal 09/06/2018 at 19:12

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Did you ever watch the program Caligula that PBS put together like 40 years ago? In that show, partway through, Caligula decided a bunch of his generals were disloyal and had them all put to death. I hold a perception that hitching one’s wagon to President Trump is a dicey proposition. Other than writing books later, how can there be an upside?

And the evangelicals. I see that lot as a group who see themselves as arbiters and enforcers of what they see Christ having wanted, to the point of proclaiming which religions are true and which are not. And then they follow about as un-Christlike a man as I could possibly imagine. The same is true of followers of the judicial appointments. These folks are concerned about judges, but will proclaim they wouldn’t care it President Trump “robbed a bank” so long as he keeps appointing those judges. Maybe I am naive and this is run-of-the-mill politics, but gosh: it seems hugely disingenuous to me. And I wish someone could help me understand how and why the Merrick Garland appointment wasn’t a blatant political ripoff. I don’t get it. I am happy to accept a cogent explanation of any of those , but so far, I haven’t gotten one from anybody.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > someassemblyrequired 09/06/2018 at 20:35

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I agree it reads as someone who still wants a semblance of a politcal career, and is still young enough. kellyanne or sanders.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/06/2018 at 20:39

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I think it is someone who when the dust settles, still wants/needs a job. Most of cabinet is old, leaving me to think kellyanne or sanders. 

someassemblyrequired > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 09/06/2018 at 21:03

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Both of those two are full on thermonuclear politically once Trump is gone . They’ll probably fail into some cushy corporate job at a GOP connected firm, but after Trump they’ll never work in politics/government again. That is if they avoid going to jail.