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CSotD: I ponder what the peasants are doing tonight?
Nick Anderson (Counterpoint) manages the one tasteful riff I’ve seen on that unintended film set taking pictures.
It’s not an actual gun and GOP claims of a stolen election are equally faux and, alas, they’re each equally lethal.
The query isn’t whether or not Donald Trump believes his Huge Lie — he’s been a bullshit artist all his life — however why Republican politicians nearly unanimously associate with a falsehood so transparently disloyal to the information, and to the Structure which they swore to uphold.
Although there may be the OJ Simpson/Jeff MacDonald issue, which is that, when a narcissist is afraid of being uncovered, he begins to sincerely imagine his personal model of issues, regardless of the way it confounds each proof and logic.
Does Trump imagine the outrageous issues he says? Most likely.
Do his Republican allies? Properly, what makes you assume they’re lower from such completely different fabric?
Individuals don’t wind up in Congress by happenstance besides in Jimmy Stewart motion pictures, after which solely as meant pawns of highly effective males. Which typically works, besides in Jimmy Stewart motion pictures.
I’ve quoted the actress Catherine Hicks, a university pal whom I interviewed for a e-book that didn’t promote, on the subject of why she was the one individual in her MFA class who made it into the large time. She stated that lots of people need it, however that’s not sufficient. You need to must have it.
Our authorities is full of people that must must have it.
Which sounds easy sufficient, however, as a necessity turns into a compulsion, it turns into poisonous.
The farther it drives an individual up the ladder, the extra overpowering that want is, the extra you start to see what it could actually crowd out of individuals’s lives, and souls.
It’s not simply in politics, both, as seen in our first
Juxtaposition of the Day
Mark Zuckerberg appears to have been an awfully vivid faculty child who stumbled onto an awesome concept that went viral, however issues don’t simply go viral by themselves.
Nonetheless serendipitous his concept could have been, he groomed and positioned it far past different folks’s good concepts.
As for his renaming of Fb, de Adder isn’t the primary to scoff, however his is my favourite take, not just for the absurdity of the bunny ears, however for the way in which it brings to thoughts crocodile tears, which reportedly movement for purely physiological, not emotional, causes, because the reptile consumes his prey.
It’s nearly weird that Zuckerberg may very well be so indifferent from regular people who he renamed the company however not the app. He clearly lives in a world surrounded by individuals who see the identify on the constructing, not on the product.
Sack doubles down on Zuckerberg’s heartlessness by selecting up on the evaluation of Fb algorithms that reveals they elevate and promote extreme posts, together with hate speech, as a way to improve response and construct visitors.
Which could be excused as an unintended consequence if there weren’t inner leaks suggesting it had been delivered to his consideration, and if he weren’t recognized to have met with the Huge Liar himself, more than once, and not transparently.
Not a conspiracy. Merely a matter of who you hang around with and the angle it supplies for you.
As Lee Judge (KFS) suggests, his amoral profit-taking hardly makes him stand out within the company crowd.
It’s not even a con job. It’s merely the layering in a society by which the decrease layers have gotten a bigger a part of issues and the waffer-theen higher layer is starting to resemble the rich man in “Tale of Two Cities,” whose carriage runs over and kills a small little one, and who genuinely can not comprehend the tragedy, tossing a coin to the grieving father.
This plutocratic stratum, as a social media meme reminds us, would quite spend their thousands and thousands popping up into near-space than constructing libraries and museums.
Their objective is to keep up their energy and place.
Ann Telnaes notes the letter Pricey Ex-Chief wrote to the Wall Road Journal, and which they printed on their editorial web page with out corrections or revisions.
She could also be over-simplifying the content material, however I don’t know as a result of the WSJ has a paywall, which provides to the appropriateness of Trump writing to them, since lots of the the Aristocracy will be capable of learn it, however not so lots of the peasants.
In keeping with stories, it’s merely a repetition of his lies and fantasies in regards to the election, which he could properly imagine however which no one else does, besides, as famous above, out of loyalty and ambition.
We joked in regards to the Emperor’s New Garments, however who’s laughing now?
What I do know is that, again after I was a biz author and began every morning with the WSJ, I used to be not the one one that learn the information columns however solely perused the editorial web page for laughs.
There may be alleged to be a division, in main papers, between information and commentary, however the Journal was well-known for information tales that discounted a false report whereas the editorial web page proclaimed it as true, and fumed over the non-facts.
A number of WSJ reporters have publicly objected to the publication of a letter containing recognized falsehoods — a breach of coverage — inflicting their overlords to elucidate why they ran it:
Which sounds rather a lot as if the principles don’t apply to the the Aristocracy, solely to the peasants.
Which sounds a lot like Rupert Murdoch, who’s both a propagandist or a lunatic, a matter which may be tested in Australia.
Threats to democracy are apparently taken extra severely Down Below, although this David Pope cartoon counsel the challenges should not so completely different from ours.
We’re a extra tolerant nation, nevertheless, permitting folks to interrupt into our Capitol, threaten to kill our flesh pressers, assault cops and crap on the ground, although Steve Brodner factors out that a minimum of one grumpy choose objects to it.
My remaining hope being the reminiscence that I believed Nixon would get away with it, till Choose John Sirica bought grumpy and commenced insisting that the legal guidelines be enforced.
Maybe you needed to be there.
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