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Week that was (5.0).
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It has been another one of those weeks, packed to the gills with
news, mostly bad. Of course, this is not a bug but merely a feature of
the times we live in, so I will make my usual lame effort at grappling
with a small subset of what has been assailing us over the past few days
in the final full week of the third year of Our Lord Trump, king of the
chimps.
Debate #7. Not at all sure I see the point of these
corporate exercises in superficial political sparring. The CNN
questioners were clearly excited to dig in to their “breaking news”
story about what Bernie said to Elizabeth a couple of years ago in a
private conversation. The moderator who queried Sanders on this when
straight to Warren with a question that assumed he was lying in his
response. I am disappointed in Warren, frankly, for perpetuating this
line of attack. It plays on the odious claim the Sanders and his
followers were misogynistic in their race against Clinton in 2016 –
something Clinton alumni cling to as one of the rationales for their
loss. This is toxic, and I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to suggest that
it could ultimately blow the election. WTF, people … time to put the
movement above your personal fortunes. Knock. it. off.
Impeachment. A historic week in terms of the
delivery of articles of impeachment to the Senate for only the third
time in American history, with respect to presidents, at least. It seems
like a forgone conclusion that Trump will walk away from this, but not
unscathed – impeachment without removal is a kind of accountability. If
there is history after this presidency, this action will be indelibly
recorded next to his grisly name. As for the trial, well … I expect a
relative circus as compared to the already ridiculous Clinton
impeachment. The G.O.P. has decayed considerably over the past 20 years,
such that there’s some question as to whether all of them will keep
their pants on for the entire proceeding. We shall see.
War lies. Bernie had it right Tuesday night: our two
biggest foreign policy disasters in recent decades were spawned by lies
– Vietnam and Iraq. Though with Vietnam, I’m pretty sure he’s talking
about the Gulf of Tonkin incident that never happened, with the U.S.S.
Maddox and Turner Joy. (There were a lot of lies that preceded that with
regard to Indochina.) Of course Trump is lying about Iran … that’s the
same as saying he’s speaking about Iran. We are in a similar
boat with Iran as we were with Iraq back in 2001-03; elements within the
the administration want to have a war for whatever reason, perhaps
ideological, perhaps mercantile, likely some mixture of both. It appears
that the general population is more against the idea than it was in the
case of Iraq 2003, and that that opposition is broad-based enough to
make Trump somewhat cautious. Ironic that this heightened tension is
taking place in the immediate wake of the release of the Afghan papers,
the DOD internal history of the Iraq conflict, and the big Intercept / NY Times scoop on the activities of Iran’s intelligence services in Iraq. (Of course, these were all one or two-day stories at best.)
Natural Disasters. Heartbreaking climate-fueled
fires in Australia, earthquakes in Puerto Rico, volcanic eruptions in
the Philippines. Jesus H. Christ, what next?
When the queen of England died last week, I felt bad for the 96-year-old human being that she was, a lady about the age of my late mother. I take no joy in the death of anyone, even people I’m not crazy about, so all due condolences to her family who, I hear, are planning a quiet little funeral. Did I say little? I meant large … in fact, six billion pounds worth of funeral. Such is the institution of the British monarchy – still crazy after all these years. No, I’m not a fan of “The Royals”. I watched The Crown on Netflix or whatever, and it was mildly entertaining in a slightly nuanced gossipy kind of way. (They went way too easy on Thatcher and made Robert Kennedy look like a cheap wing man for his wife-beating brother the President.) But generally I avoid T.V. dramas about royalty mostly because it bores the living piss out of me. Then there’s that small matter of imperialism , but let’s try to keep our thoughts positive, eh, what? They’re changing the guard at T...
We got another one of those notes, man. One of those neighbor notes about the uncut lawn. Let’s say they’re a little disappointed in us. I have to admit, I’m disappointed in us, too. We really SHOULD have mowed that lawn, but we were too damn LAZY and SHIFTLESS. (Please share this post with our neighbors so that they will feel validated.) Anyway, here we are in the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill, no validation in sight … not even for our parking. You know, I think we might be the subject of yet another community effort to rid the neighborhood of ne’er do wells. Frankly, I object to being termed in such a way. I may not always do well, but I certainly sometimes do well. I can’t speak for any of the other members of our entourage, but I for one try to remain on the straight and narrow. (It’s been a bit too narrow lately, though.) Call in the lawn robots Now SOME people I know, and I won’t say who, hire robots to mow their lawn. I’m not super comfortable wi...
Well, Trump started channeling QAnon in a big way this week at an Ohio rally. I’m assuming anyone who reads this blog knows what QAnon is. It’s basically the blood libel, updated for the modern age. Some idiot posted some random shit on 4chan (which happens basically every second) claiming that s/he is a secret intelligence operative and was spilling tea on upcoming FBI raids on Trump’s political enemies. It was supposed to happen in 48 hours and, of course, it didn’t. That failure, however, didn’t stop the true believers. These people must be total knuckleheads. Who would earnestly believe this crap? Of course, people have a tendency to believe whatever places them in a positive light. Whatever the case may be, QAnon has a lot of followers , and they are apparently laser-focused on the conspiracy theory. Trump is their greasy, corpulent pope. It makes total sense that he would pull those people close – they are the scrum who never left him. What they think they’re...
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