Convergence of Catastrophe

Rachel sums things up pretty well.

 

 

Tagged Politics, President VonClownstick, Rachel Maddow   |   Posted on June 25, 2020 at 11:08pm   |   Permalink   |     |  

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The Rule of Law is Broken

Ten minutes from Rachel Maddow tonight that I thought deserved some amplification.

Tagged Rachel Maddow, Media   |   Posted on February 14, 2020 at 9:34pm   |   Permalink   |     |  

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Believe the Autocrat

The other day I cited Rachel Maddow as an exception in my screed about the failure of the news media to treat the Trump crisis as a crisis. This segment from her show earlier this week illustrates her difference.

Tagged President VonClownstick, Rachel Maddow, Media   |   Posted on February 14, 2020 at 6:09pm   |   Permalink   |     |  

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The New Normal

The avalanche of crap coming from the White House has been impossible to keep up with. There's just too much. Every day brings news of a new outrage from President VonClownstick or one of his toadies. If it's not the "shocking" racist statement about immigrants form "shithole countries" (this shocks no one who has been paying attention, that's who this idiot is), it's the neverending stream of lies coming from Sarah Huckabee Sanders' press briefings or tweets that parrot Fox News and cause national security officials to go into frenzied damage-control spasms. And that's just the "big" stuff.

Rachel Maddow did an exceptional "A" block the other evening that pretty well covered my feelings on the subject; there is just SO MUCH in terms of outrageous behavior, bad policy, overt meanness, and basic incompetence and stupidity coming out of 1600 Penn. that we're numb to it. It takes the exceptionally salacious or brutal to be given its proper reaction and attention, otherwise it's just Trump being Trump and so much yadda yadda yadda.

We humans only have so much bandwidth to devote to keeping up with the details of this crisis in history, but even if we don't pay strict attention to the yadda yadda of it, we have to remember that's what it is. Life keeps on chugging forward day by day, but we are living through a pivotal period in history that demands attention—as much as we can bring ourselves to give it, anyway.

 

Tagged President VonClownstick, Politics, Rachel Maddow   |   Posted on January 14, 2018 at 6:32pm   |   Permalink   |     |  

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