Froggy’s getting warmer by the minute
The normal political cycle is burned into our brains. We normalize everything, almost autonomically. The trouble is, what we’re going through now is not normal.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
Putin sees a gang of white supremacists trying to overthrow elective government as dissidents and freedom fighters, though they had the backing of their POTUS.
Meeting the enemy (and it is still us).
We Americans are fond of conspiracy theories, especially ones that involve nefarious foreign actors, like Russia or Iran.
Muddle in the middle.
Placing Donald Trump in the cockpit of the titanic killing machine that is the presidency is not only irresponsible, it’s sheer madness.
Why fat Donnie don’t care.
Frankly, Trump doesn’t give a shit about people of color. If more of them drop dead from COVID, there will be less of them marking a ballot for his opponent.
Intelligence and skepticism.
I recommend skepticism with respect to the intelligence agencies, even if Trump calls bullshit. The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.
Ten in Georgia.
It would be hard to overstate the sheer joy being felt by our corporate media over the last couple of weeks. It reminds me of those times when there’s three major stories and a hurricane. They are never so happy as when the news machine is firing on all cylinders, and that is certainly what’s … Continue reading Ten in Georgia.
Their man.
The only question about Trump is whether, at any given moment, he may be pursuing his own narrow self interest or following the directions of his neocons.
Cloud nein.
We really want to make our next gig out in the Small Magellanic Cloud. All we need to do is invent radically new technologies over the next couple of days.
Say what?
Bolton and Pompeo are obviously throwing a monkey wrench into the Korean peace process, while simultaneously trying to gin up conflicts and regime change in Iran, Venezuela, and ultimately Nicaragua and Cuba. “Liberal” commentators are, in essence, taking their side.