Not to mention that stocks took a dive today as China gets hit with tariffs. But, who’s watching?
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You’re partially right. The olds around here are cranky, and prone to interpret everything in a worst case scenario fashion.
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It’s not without good reason, though.
Now get off my lawn…
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WELL one might ARGUE that they’re in the “Pacific Ocean” not in “Asia”
but apparently that would be wrong
People who employ hyphenations to refer to their community usually do so because they’ve been historically disenfranchised in the American political system, and bringing people together under an umbrella identity is a means of creating a larger voice for that community. Silly thing to do, I know, but there it is.
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You must be watching a different MSNBC than I, for I watched it this morning and didn’t get the impression they were “gleeful”. I watch about an hour and a half before work, and I can honestly say I don’t remember them EVER talking about the Clinton emails. Maybe they do that from 10 AM to 3 PM when I’m working.
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I don’t think it’s silly to do. I think it’s silly to care what other people do.
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Though this does seem to have been a highly scheduled shitstorm, as it’s looking like the White House set this up to take attention away from the Kavanaugh situation.
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It would be a brilliant move to cut Kav loose and bring in Barrett at the last min. It would let the air out the opposition and people would cheer for another woman on the court.
But, he won’t do it. He’s fixated on not backing down.
Evangelicals would freak the f out.
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If Trump truly wanted to fire Rosenstein, he would just tweet it without waiting for Thursday. (We’ve seen that before.) So either he wants to press for a resignation, or this is just theater.
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Except that’s what people say about every new shitstorm from this White House. It’s just been one continuous, unrelenting category-five torrent since day one. It’s looking less and less like a machiavellian strategy than just Trump’s natural state.
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It can be both.
Constant chaos is Trump’s natural, unavoidable state and this chaos is being cynically exploited by his administration in order to chaff the public discourse and sneak through all manner of bastardry.
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Nobody in this administration knows what’s going on, pretty much always.
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Certainly the whole notion of race is intensely silly. But society treats it as serious, and that means that it has serious effects. As we’ve seen throughout history, society spreads these effects pretty unevenly so that some segments of the population are hurt more than others. This can lead to anger, but also to feelings of solidarity with what may be a small part of one’s ancestry.
Silly, ain’t it?
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And the White House has seen how that’s allowed Trump to skate through what would normally be huge political disasters by preventing anyone from focusing on any one - the next disaster takes over the news cycle before the media can really drill down and let it generate the appropriate amount of outrage. Even if Trump isn’t smart enough to figure this out (though apparently he does like the chaos, it’s not clear he fully understands how it works for him), his smarter staff certainly must.
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Dogs and cats living together, mass-hysteria!
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Eh, continental divisions are kind of arbitrary and not necessarily related to plates.
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With thoughts of SNL’s take on Spain’s Franco…
… as of ~5:30PM PST:
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I guess I don’t understand what you’re meaning here, then. Who do you find silly? These categories were generally employed by colonial powers in order to be carve up the world and justify forms of oppression. The fact that Asians or Asians Americans (or African Americans, or whoever) embraced these categories as a form of empowerment isn’t silly, it’s attempting to turn these categories against forms of oppression.
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