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Three Political Thoughts
Aug. 1st, 2024 10:12 amThe news has been flying fast and furious of late, too fast for me to comment on it. Herewith, three thoughts.
1) Trump and NABJ As reported nearly everywhere, Trump allowed himself to be interviewed for ~30 minutes (it was supposed to be an hour, but he bailed early) by three members of the National Association of Black Journalists. I've seen dumpster fires which went better. The only reason I can think he wanted to attend was that he's desperate to get some attention back on him.
2) Russian hostage release News is coming out that Russia is releasing some US hostages in a swap deal with the US. Of note is that one of the hostages, Evan Gershkovich, was, per Trump, only going to be released if Trump was elected President. Either a) Trump was full of shit when he said that or b) the Russians have decided that Trump's not looking so hot at the moment and now's a good time to get what they can. I report, you decide, Gentle Reader.
3) "But She Changed Identities!" Also from the mind of Trump and many of his MAGA supporters, there's an argument that Kamala Harris can't be Black because she's Asian or vice versa. This article has a nice analysis. The tl;dr of it is "normal people" (white men) can't change their identities, and doing so is unfair. Yeah, not really - people can be more than one thing - even white people.
1) Trump and NABJ As reported nearly everywhere, Trump allowed himself to be interviewed for ~30 minutes (it was supposed to be an hour, but he bailed early) by three members of the National Association of Black Journalists. I've seen dumpster fires which went better. The only reason I can think he wanted to attend was that he's desperate to get some attention back on him.
2) Russian hostage release News is coming out that Russia is releasing some US hostages in a swap deal with the US. Of note is that one of the hostages, Evan Gershkovich, was, per Trump, only going to be released if Trump was elected President. Either a) Trump was full of shit when he said that or b) the Russians have decided that Trump's not looking so hot at the moment and now's a good time to get what they can. I report, you decide, Gentle Reader.
3) "But She Changed Identities!" Also from the mind of Trump and many of his MAGA supporters, there's an argument that Kamala Harris can't be Black because she's Asian or vice versa. This article has a nice analysis. The tl;dr of it is "normal people" (white men) can't change their identities, and doing so is unfair. Yeah, not really - people can be more than one thing - even white people.
