It puts India and Pakistan on the same moral plane, right? ??:<\/p>\n No doubt Trump<\/strong>‘s dealing with Cohen <\/strong>and Kim <\/strong>are leading stories about now, so this headline deserves to lead this post, but — wait for it —<\/p>\n — it’s the bit about muscling reality into submission<\/strong> that caught my attention. Just muscling into submission<\/strong> would be metaphor <\/strong>enough for me to take notice — but when it’s reality <\/strong>itself that’s being wrestled down, we’re clearly in epistemological territory, perhaps of the variety Michelle Goldberg:<\/strong> talked about the other day:<\/p>\n ..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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Terrorism? Not in the usual natsec <\/strong>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<\/em> on which epistemological experience plays…<\/p>\n **<\/p>\n If I could access it, there’s a dueling breaking news<\/strong> chyron at the end of Bryan Williams’ 11th hour for February 26th. <\/p>\n **<\/p>\n Dom Donilon: <\/p>\n North Korea of course is the combination of a cult and kind of a mob operation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n **<\/p>\n
\nYou talk about India and Pakistan being rivals. It’s just both sideisms <\/strong>of the most mendacious kind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/header-Trump-Kim-Cohen.png\")
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