…forgive me if this is a question of shipping coals to Newcastle
…but as it happens they haven’t mined their own coal in that part of the world for a good while now
…& just as recently as yesterday I found out that even in places I’d have expected to not everyone has run across this…or at least the word some people use to describe it
…now…wired often seems to me to be overly fond of superlatives that aren’t strictly applicable…so even in 2019 I’d argue suggesting it takes a “master” to employ such tactics was unduly asinine…but all the same there’s definitely something to the mechanism that goes beyond the conceptual level
…& even without the reich-wing lunatics to be frank the cognitive dissonance of some of those wilfully ignorant potential Dolt45 voters qualifies by any reasonable metric as extremism
…so the woeful truth of the matter is that it has for some years now been no exaggeration to declare the “acting” president as an actual terrorist
…& yes…by that definition you could argue that, as Obi Wan might say “from a certain point of view” you could thereby claim that if not a tale as old as time it’s at least one old enough to predate the presidency itself
President Trump and his cronies are like the cartoon villains in movies who not only unleash dastardly plots but then helpfully explain them to the audience. Thus on Thursday, the president’s outgoing counselor, Kellyanne Conway, told Fox News: “The more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is for the very clear choice on who’s best on public safety and law and order.”
…the bit about the “very clear choice” actually ought to be true
…& yet in a depressingly orwellian example of double-speak the meaning oh-so-obviously intended by the departing kool-aid dissemination device is characteristically diametrically opposed to reality
…but…it is monday…so maybe I’m just mad the weekend is over & I still feel like I’m out another day of rest…& I’d like to remember what having one or two of those from time to time felt like because even the memory is starting to fade at this point
As always, thank you for culling current events for us. On an up-note, excellent musical choices today, from KRS-One to the Pixies. On a low-note, your point “so the woeful truth of the matter is that it has for some years now been no exaggeration to declare the “acting” president as an actual terrorist” seems accurate.
I am entirely impressed/amazed/horrified by the term stochastic terrorism. This is the first time I’ve encountered the phrase but I’m sitting here saying, “Holy shit, this is absolutely correct.”
I’m also reminded of Asimov’s psychohistory in his Foundation series. The premise is that a mathematician can predict the future of large populations, but not specific individuals, by basically extrapolating from statistical analysis. It’s got a lot of the same elements — you don’t know what nutjob will take a certain action, but odds are at least one nutjob will.
That’s giving Trump too much credit, of course, but I do feel that instinctively he’s managed to latch on to a way to attack his enemies while maintaining deniability.
for some reason the us of a wont need more ventilators (or…at least not philips made ones) https://nltimes.nl/2020/08/31/us-kills-philips-deal-wont-buy-30000-icu-ventilators
i… dont actually know what to make of that one…on the one hand…dick move backing out of a major order half way through like that…but i guess with the current admin its not unexpected and philips took that gamble
im going to use up my last shreds of optimism here and say the us must have enough ventilators now and arent just killing a deal coz they dont need it right this second….
As always, thank you for culling current events for us. On an up-note, excellent musical choices today, from KRS-One to the Pixies. On a low-note, your point “so the woeful truth of the matter is that it has for some years now been no exaggeration to declare the “acting” president as an actual terrorist” seems accurate.
I am amazed that Trumpers can even lie after they die!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/herman-cain-coronavirus-not-as-deadly_n_5f4ca08fc5b64f17e13fc8b4
As you all know, I am a Laker fan but I am such an NBA junkie that I watch all the games I can. Last night’s Nugget/Jazz game was one for the ages and hard not to root for Jamal Murray after that performance!
https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/jamal-murray-bubble-play-weight-social-justice-nuggets-jazz-01eh23wrgeh3
How can the ghost of Herman Cain’s account tweet that with a straight face?
Ah, yes, not as deadly even though I’M FUCKING DEAD.
I am entirely impressed/amazed/horrified by the term stochastic terrorism. This is the first time I’ve encountered the phrase but I’m sitting here saying, “Holy shit, this is absolutely correct.”
I’m also reminded of Asimov’s psychohistory in his Foundation series. The premise is that a mathematician can predict the future of large populations, but not specific individuals, by basically extrapolating from statistical analysis. It’s got a lot of the same elements — you don’t know what nutjob will take a certain action, but odds are at least one nutjob will.
That’s giving Trump too much credit, of course, but I do feel that instinctively he’s managed to latch on to a way to attack his enemies while maintaining deniability.
for some reason the us of a wont need more ventilators (or…at least not philips made ones)
https://nltimes.nl/2020/08/31/us-kills-philips-deal-wont-buy-30000-icu-ventilators
i… dont actually know what to make of that one…on the one hand…dick move backing out of a major order half way through like that…but i guess with the current admin its not unexpected and philips took that gamble
im going to use up my last shreds of optimism here and say the us must have enough ventilators now and arent just killing a deal coz they dont need it right this second….