So--your article gets down on its hand and knees and begs the eternal question...
Who buys all this packaged for Fox smoke-and-mirror bullshit?
Truly, I do believe that Trump was right when he said, ""I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? ...His entire traveling carnival show--and the deadly and corrupt political realities that operate backstage--is based on the boundless ignorance and the medieval credulity of millions of American voters. ...You've heard of the Stone Age and the Iron Age... Now we have passed completely into the Entertainment Age; fact and reality have become meaningless and fantasy and fabrication have taken their place...
Trump said, inevitably, that the Reflecting Pool Algae was the work of left-wing saboteurs and Democratic Party operatives.. What percentage, do you think, of his cult followers actually believe that?
Good Mike…what percentage of his cult is left I could ask …aka the Tzar Ridiculies , a flailing star of billionaires …how many more millions will it cost us , them, the world …to clean up this scam?
Not to be so prosaic or use such dramatic words, but I've been around a long time and I've never seen a more consequential mid-term election as this one coming up in the fall... This jerk's got millions of votes, he's got the Supreme Court willing to erase themselves for his sake and he's got the Congress in his pocket... If the Democrats don't win in the fall, despite all the cheating by Trump, et. al., then any democracy that most of us recognize is a dead issue...
I was reminded as I read your Meloni/Italy part of this morning’s essay of a video clip from a G7 meeting during the first cosplay where a picture was being staged of the participants (heads of state, I think) as Trump entered the room from the back and he physically and obviously elbowed several of the international heads of state to place himself in the front of everyone else. His crass rudeness masquerading as power is a sad representation of this country. I took time to view the events in Chicago at the Obama Presidential Center and wept with overwhelming sadness at what we have lost as a people.
Observing the transformation of the iconic Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool over the past few weeks prompts me to respectfully suggest a Presidential Proclamation renaming it “The New Green Deal.”
“This is what makes the story bigger than green water. It is the entire governing style in miniature: announce spectacle, rush execution, award questionable contracts, declare success, deny the visible failure, then blame enemies when people notice the thing with their eyes. Trump promised to drain the swamp. Instead, his administration is now trying to explain why the Reflecting Pool looks like one.”
If reality and fantasy are the topics at hand, then the reality is that the MOA was a trap set to spring quickly, as it asked the USA to bear the burden of decisions made by nations and bodies independent of the USA. In other words, it was meant to exaggerate the USA's current lack of international power by revealing it as a fantasy. The trap sprung as planned. That, apparently, Iran got a big payment in the form of released funds before the trap was sprung has the look of something well-planned as well, and, frankly, without risk. The funds would have been released later and further funds will still need to be released if any of the MOA remains in force. If it doesn't remain in force, the USA's former allies in the Gulf have taken note. It was a no-risk trap. The tragedy is that the fantasy game continues to be the GOP and MAGA strategy. It may play within certain strands of the US, but internationally it appears to now be a great weapon for the USA's enemies to wield against it. That's a rather classic tragic flaw. There is such a strong class of USAmericans with the knowledge to see these games clearly and to play them. I am thinking a rather radical lot of artists, writers, cultural thinkers and, frankly, innovators and innovators working outside of official institutions, but with quite different agendas, philosophies and tools than the MAGA bunch. The reason that the human species continues to throw out outliers is for moments like this. The country would be wise to embrace difference right now.
Netanyahu conned Trump into attacking Iran with promises of quick victory and historic glory because he needed a distraction from his genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. He gains nothing by abiding with the terms of Trump's "deal" to end the Iran war.
Not sure if you saw the video from cnn of Vance’s walk up to his Iranian counterpart (sorry I’d don’t his name) in S? Vance swaggers in as though he’s the most important guy entering a bar and doesn’t even look at his counterpart. No eye contact. On the other hand the Iranian representative is looking right through Vance. I doubt Vance has the balls to work a deal against this guy.
So--your article gets down on its hand and knees and begs the eternal question...
Who buys all this packaged for Fox smoke-and-mirror bullshit?
Truly, I do believe that Trump was right when he said, ""I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? ...His entire traveling carnival show--and the deadly and corrupt political realities that operate backstage--is based on the boundless ignorance and the medieval credulity of millions of American voters. ...You've heard of the Stone Age and the Iron Age... Now we have passed completely into the Entertainment Age; fact and reality have become meaningless and fantasy and fabrication have taken their place...
Trump said, inevitably, that the Reflecting Pool Algae was the work of left-wing saboteurs and Democratic Party operatives.. What percentage, do you think, of his cult followers actually believe that?
Good Mike…what percentage of his cult is left I could ask …aka the Tzar Ridiculies , a flailing star of billionaires …how many more millions will it cost us , them, the world …to clean up this scam?
Not to be so prosaic or use such dramatic words, but I've been around a long time and I've never seen a more consequential mid-term election as this one coming up in the fall... This jerk's got millions of votes, he's got the Supreme Court willing to erase themselves for his sake and he's got the Congress in his pocket... If the Democrats don't win in the fall, despite all the cheating by Trump, et. al., then any democracy that most of us recognize is a dead issue...
Yes. We’ve got a lot to do.
I was reminded as I read your Meloni/Italy part of this morning’s essay of a video clip from a G7 meeting during the first cosplay where a picture was being staged of the participants (heads of state, I think) as Trump entered the room from the back and he physically and obviously elbowed several of the international heads of state to place himself in the front of everyone else. His crass rudeness masquerading as power is a sad representation of this country. I took time to view the events in Chicago at the Obama Presidential Center and wept with overwhelming sadness at what we have lost as a people.
My Dear Mr. President:
Observing the transformation of the iconic Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool over the past few weeks prompts me to respectfully suggest a Presidential Proclamation renaming it “The New Green Deal.”
You don’t need to thank me.
He may not, but the rest of us will.
Reality bats last!
Trump is taking the prototypical “grumpy old man” to extremes.
“I’m right, you’re wrong. I will always be right and you will always be stupid.”
“This is what makes the story bigger than green water. It is the entire governing style in miniature: announce spectacle, rush execution, award questionable contracts, declare success, deny the visible failure, then blame enemies when people notice the thing with their eyes. Trump promised to drain the swamp. Instead, his administration is now trying to explain why the Reflecting Pool looks like one.”
So much winning!!! Make it stop!!!
If reality and fantasy are the topics at hand, then the reality is that the MOA was a trap set to spring quickly, as it asked the USA to bear the burden of decisions made by nations and bodies independent of the USA. In other words, it was meant to exaggerate the USA's current lack of international power by revealing it as a fantasy. The trap sprung as planned. That, apparently, Iran got a big payment in the form of released funds before the trap was sprung has the look of something well-planned as well, and, frankly, without risk. The funds would have been released later and further funds will still need to be released if any of the MOA remains in force. If it doesn't remain in force, the USA's former allies in the Gulf have taken note. It was a no-risk trap. The tragedy is that the fantasy game continues to be the GOP and MAGA strategy. It may play within certain strands of the US, but internationally it appears to now be a great weapon for the USA's enemies to wield against it. That's a rather classic tragic flaw. There is such a strong class of USAmericans with the knowledge to see these games clearly and to play them. I am thinking a rather radical lot of artists, writers, cultural thinkers and, frankly, innovators and innovators working outside of official institutions, but with quite different agendas, philosophies and tools than the MAGA bunch. The reason that the human species continues to throw out outliers is for moments like this. The country would be wise to embrace difference right now.
"Reality is becoming harder to bully."
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Netanyahu conned Trump into attacking Iran with promises of quick victory and historic glory because he needed a distraction from his genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. He gains nothing by abiding with the terms of Trump's "deal" to end the Iran war.
Not sure if you saw the video from cnn of Vance’s walk up to his Iranian counterpart (sorry I’d don’t his name) in S? Vance swaggers in as though he’s the most important guy entering a bar and doesn’t even look at his counterpart. No eye contact. On the other hand the Iranian representative is looking right through Vance. I doubt Vance has the balls to work a deal against this guy.