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Dart Boards and Hatred, a DoubleTake

Sunday, December 29th, 2019

[ by Charles Cameron — featuring a comparison between Osama bin Laden and Adam Schiff ]
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From my private collection, now in storage, an image of counter-terrorist hatred:

and a second image:

‘Nothing Less Than a Civil War’: These White Voters on the Far Right See Doom Without Trump

forming together with the first what I call a DoubleTake, in this case featuring a parallelism that’s suggestive.

What do you think?

Funniest DoubleQuote in a while

Saturday, December 21st, 2019

[ by Charles Cameron — simple fun, with a more serious footnote ]
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I just very much enjoy my friend Aaron Zelin‘s response [lower frame, below] to President Trump’s tweet [upper frame]:

To be honest, I think Aaron has a mildly warped sense of humor — a warp which I certainly share.

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Here’s the Christianity Today editorial to which Trump obliquely refers:

  • Mark Galli, Trump Should Be Removed from Office
  • ICYMI Natasha Bertrand and Laura Walker

    Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

    [ by Charles Cameron — this story of the “Nunes acolyte” is too timely to miss, too singular to loom large in the so-called greater picture ]
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    I’ll let Laura Walker have the first word of the White House worm called Kashyap Patel:

    Nunes acolyte misrepresented himself to Trump as Ukraine expert

    Natasha Bertrand, brilliant Politico writer, gets the next bite, writing the original story that Laura opened with:

    Nunes acolyte misrepresented himself to Trump as Ukraine expert

    And I’ll close with Laura‘s closing link, backgrounding Patel:

    Trump admirer Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel lands important White House position

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    Follow Laura. Follow Natasha

    That’s it for today.

    Praying the Impeachment, a DoubleQuote

    Thursday, October 10th, 2019

    [ by Charles Cameron — with an assist from Abraham Lincoln — “The Almighty has His own purposes” .. yet to be determined in this case ]
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    Reminding me of Abraham Lincoln:

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    Sources:

  • Guardian, ‘Brought to Jesus’: the evangelical grip on the Trump administration
  • HuffPost, Christians Plan National Day Of Prayer To Support Trump Impeachment Inquiry
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    From Lincoln’s Second Inaugural:

    Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other .. The prayers of both could not be answered .. The Almighty has His own purposes.

    Chyrons, quotes, etc, 18

    Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

    [ by Charles Cameron — CPAC and Fox, Kushner and the Judiciary Committee, India and Pakistan, even a mention of epistemology, still plenty going on ]
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    Misc:

    BrownPundits:

    It puts India and Pakistan on the same moral plane, right?
    You talk about India and Pakistan being rivals. It’s just both sideisms of the most mendacious kind.

    ??:

    No doubt Trump‘s dealing with Cohen and Kim are leading stories about now, so this headline deserves to lead this post, but — wait for it —

    — it’s the bit about muscling reality into submission that caught my attention. Just muscling into submission would be metaphor enough for me to take notice — but when it’s reality itself that’s being wrestled down, we’re clearly in epistemological territory, perhaps of the variety Michelle Goldberg: talked about the other day:

    ..The epistemological terrorism that the Trump administration practices on us every day to keep us in this state of kind of derangement and feeling slightly off-center and not being able to get your bearings in this moment.

    Terrorism? Not in the usual natsec sense — but hang on, terror itself is a framing of reality, located in the mind-heart-brain complex, and that’s the stage par excellence on which epistemological experience plays…

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    If I could access it, there’s a dueling breaking news chyron at the end of Bryan Williams’ 11th hour for February 26th.

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    Dom Donilon:

    North Korea of course is the combination of a cult and kind of a mob operation

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    A Day of Reckoning for Michael Jackson with “Leaving Neverland”

    It is admittedly difficult, while watching “Leaving Neverland,” to hold in mind two contradictory but equally imperative ideas: that victims should be believed, and that the accused are innocent until proved guilty. The first is wildly crucial if we wish to protect the disenfranchised from egregious abuses of power. The second remains the crux of the American criminal-justice system. Can these two ideas coexist? Right now it feels as if they have to, which means that we are sometimes required to make personal choices about how we accept or dismiss the information made available to us.

    The ability to hold in mind two contradictory but equally imperative ideas is a strong version of F Scott Fitzgerald‘s definition of genius — strong because Fitzgerald didn’t insist on the ideas in question being imperative.

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    There’s a lot of balancing, even mirroring, going on here:

    Postpone Brexit? Maybe Get a Do-Over? The Negotiations Enter a High-Stakes Game-Theory Stage
    By Amy Davidson SorkinF

    Brexit, at the moment, is an exercise in game theory. This week, both Prime Minister Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party, grudgingly agreed to open the way for options that could help to break the current deadlock over the terms of Britain’s exit from the European Union. In May’s case, the option was a possible vote in Parliament to delay Brexit, which is now scheduled, ready or not, for March 29th; in Corbyn’s, it was a new referendum that might overturn Brexit altogether. Both May and Corbyn were acting because of rebellions within their own ranks, which escalated last week—when both Labour and Conservative M.P.s resigned from their parties—and threatened to spread. May reportedly made her offer because three members of her cabinet were about to quit, taking a dozen junior ministers with them.

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    3-4-2019 MSNBC, a few items

    MTP:

    Pres Trump:

    Russia, if you’re listening ..

    Katy Tur:

    It suredoesn’t seem as though the Russians thought it was a joke ..

    43: RT is starting their propaganda campaign that mirrors WikiLeaks which then mirrors what Donald TYrump is saying..

    Melber, The Beat:

    Paul H:

    We’re not at Impeach yet, but we’re definitely on the road, the car is on the road. And this is the gas for that car, this investigation.

    Paul, if this is a car a lot of people thought Bob Mueller was driving it. Thelasttime people remember an Impeac hment proceeding,we had prosecutor Ken Starr now driving it. ARe you suggesting that Jerry Nadler is now really in that

    [more — Clift, Hommer, Prius]

    Eleanor Clift:

    He knew the game was over ..

    The document demand:

    Ari:

    That’s just Kushner..

    Richard Painter:

    We don’t haveconclusive proof that the President is a Russian mole, but it sure seems like it .

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    Hardball:

    Sen Klobuchar: Rail, class one rail, down to four companies, the same number we’re seeing on the Monopoly board. And this consolidation that we’re seein in our country cries out for tougher action on anti-trust.

    Hemmer argues that Fox—which, as the most watched cable news network, generates about $2.7 billion a year for its parent company, 21st Century Fox—acts as a force multiplier for Trump, solidifying his hold over the Republican Party and intensifying his support. “Fox is not just taking the temperature of the base—it’s raising the temperature,” she says. “It’s a radicalization model.” For both Trump and Fox, “fear is a business strategy—it keeps people watching.” As the President has been beset by scandals, congressional hearings, and even talk of impeachment, Fox has been both his shield and his sword. The White House and Fox interact so seamlessly that it can be hard to determine, during a particular news cycle, which one is following the other’s lead.

    Chris Matthews:

    Chris M:

    Who’s the toy here, the Presidentt? or Fox?

    Chris M:

    Why is the President of the United States working for Fox?

    Jane M:

    Despite the discouragement, Falzone kept investigating, and discovered that the National Enquirer, in partnership with Trump, had made a “catch and kill” deal with Daniels—buying the exclusive rights to her story in order to bury it. Falzone pitched this story to Fox, too, but it went nowhere. News of Trump’s payoffs to silence Daniels, and Cohen’s criminal attempts to conceal them as legal fees, remained unknown to the public until the Wall Street Journal broke the story, a year after Trump became President.

    All In

    Ken Liu:

    We want to connect the dots and really put out a narrative of what happened, why it happened, and how we prevent this from happening again

    Wajahat Ali:

    That’s my slight concern about Biden and Bernie Sanders and Trump, that 2020 is like going to be the ticket of Bengay vs Vick’s Vapor Rub vs Metamucil .

    Last Word, O’Donnll:

    Frank Rich:

    Well, look, everything that Trump is guilty of, he’s accused somebody else of doing — so he’s accused Hillary of having all the questions when he had them, he accused Barack Obama of playing golf all the time when he plays golf all the time, and many worse sins than that

    Anita Kumar:

    They don’t like her policies, but they say she (AOC) has political game

    Katy Tur:

    Is she going to be the white whale?

    Seb Gorka:

    That’s why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced the New Green Deal: it’s a watermelon, green on the outside, deep, deep, Communist red on the inbside.

    Brian Williams:

    One of his legal ppl:

    I think she’s showing rmarkable patience. One day, Brian, Roger Stone will be a convicted felon, and this judge will be the one who decides how long he goes to jail. He’s playing a short game, she’s playing a long game.

    3/5/2019 Brian Wms:

    Gen McCaffrey:It’s amazing what’s available through unclassified commercial satellite photography [***** ourob][ .. ]

    We’re being played by the North Koreans, and President Trump is negotiating with himself [ .. ]

    Let’s .. talk about those exercises. The President now openly referring to them as war games –

    — [Brian contd] It is possible he did not know that that phrase existed until now


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