Is everyone happy now?
by digby
"On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them," Ginsburg said in a statement. "Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect."
Trump responded by pulling together his rent garment and releasing the pearls he'd been clutching tightly in his tiny hands and said:
The Supreme Court is above that kind of rhetoric, those words," he said. "But she acknowledged she made a mistake and I'll accept that."
"It wasn't really an apology, but we have to move on anyway. It's just something that should not have taken place."
Apparently, Justice Ginsburg will not be receiving an apology for Trump saying her "mind is shot." But that's how these things work. As Josh Marshall says, with Trump "it's always and only about dominance." And Villagers are always ready to submit.
The good news is that liberals can now relax and give themselves a big high five for their brave willingness to chastise their own icons for saying something mean about Donald Trump.
Now we're getting the press in on this little game:
I sure hope everyone joins in on that bandwagon and tells the Democratic Presidential candidate that it's being "too partisan" to attack the proto-fascist Donald Trump at a time when the nation needs "healing." But hey, it's all good. Mitt Romney and Stuart Stevens are out there making the case against Trump so maybe Clinton can follow the advice of the sage liberal commentariat and spend all of her time groveling like a dog and begging for forgiveness. That's very inspiring.
Also, since she's so incredibly boring I understand she needs to "do something" to make sure she gets her ratings up like Trump's. I'm thinking a Cercei Lannister style "walk of shame" (without the nudity, needless to say) where everyone gets to spit on her and call her names would be good. Democrats especially enjoy that and I have no doubt the networks would cover it gavel to gavel. It's not as great as listening to Trump recite the gripping story of his primary victory in New York for the thousandth time --- nobody can beat that. But it might boost her TV ratings a little bit. Trump's ratings are through the roof! And that's what it's all about.
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