I love that you noticed and are outraged. The out-of-place hawk speaks to a lack of attention to detail. I don’t expect there was a cactus; why did no one consider the bird? Similarly, I get agitated about anachronistic* props, costumes, set dressing (*in an otherwise earnest period piece)
This woman claims to be the (solo) individual he’s referring to, and I would not be surprised if Trump had been shown one video and extrapolated it to multiple Black women, begging him to intervene in Chicago, for six weeks now: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Right. For his whole public life (even pre-dementia), there’s been nobody trusted (or bold?) enough to advise him not to say or do certain things. Most public figures have a handler who’d give them a note, and they’d never utter such idiocy again. Not Trump. He is just free range lies and dumbness.
Thank you, Mark, for your honest, clear, and intelligent observations in this segment, for putting antifa in its actual historical context, for all your scholarship, and for your courage and integrity. Be safe and well.
Thank you for using “grok” accurately and without comment. I have to say, I am sad that Musk and his stupid fascist LLM has ruined that term for me, but I am glad to see it in use by others whose intellect and work I respect, such as yourself.
I am also entertaining a theory that Mike Johnson and Bari Weiss may be the same person. Imagine him with longer hair, or her with a pixie cut. I find it impossible to unsee.
Yes, this is a very good article; see also Timothy Snyder's latest video, "Stephen Miller and Stalinism" (transcript included): snyder.substack.com/p/stalinism-...
Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
Leslie Bibb is the actor who plays “my smokin’ hot wife, Carly,” in Talladega Nights. I am so glad I could offer this bit of information after the fact, to infinitesimally enhance this excellent show.
SPC SPAN CEAS — I love the mysterious elided name, the colors, the composition, the fact that one could drive past this scene and not give it a second thought, yet there is so much to behold.
I concur, though, with the poster below who argues that this is not anarchic governance. It is "anarchy" in the sense of chaos, ignorance, disorganization (and cosplay, across the board). But the style of governance, if one can call it that, is fascistic and authoritarian, characterized by chaos.
Correct, about his knowing nothing. He has no grasp of what the branches of govt. are set up to do; he does not have an understanding of judicial precedent, of legislative process, of anything. (All aside from dementia.) He also does not grasp economics at all; he has always operated as a con man.
It reminds me of a dresser/desk set I had as a little girl, which, even then, I thought was gaudy— white wood with “fancy gold” hardware, but at least it was functional. These are just tacky appliques stuck on the walls.
They each cherry-pick with abandon to support their ideas (often based on existing biases), but because they are writing for a “popular” audience, the lack of credible science is somehow allowed to slide.
Now more than ever it seems imperative to establish journalistic protocols for verifying the identity of a source who’s using text (or email or anything but a face to face conversation, as voice audio can also be deep-faked).
Yes! This seems terrifically irresponsible of Tapper or any journalist, as it’s clear (from different phrasing, style, coherence) that on any given day a handful of different individuals send out posts from Trump’s account.
Ben Shapiro is trying so hard to look like Jack Posobiec (I can’t bring myself to dig up a photo of “Poso,” but trust me). I just noticed the similarity a couple days ago. (Also, Shapiro is as bad a critic as he is a writer of fiction and screenplays, which is very, very bad.)
Also, people (men and women) seem to resent truth-speaking young women. The misogyny leveled against Greta Thunberg— as if she should be silent, because she is young and female— is mind-boggling.
I think this was the thought association (stay with me): this strategy is a perverse "Parent Trap," using the kids to entrap the parents. The 2000s remake of "Parent Trap" starred Lindsay Lohan, but that name is too on the nose, so they went with another Lohan remake, "Freaky Friday."
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