Filthy, buster.
Friday, March 31st, 2017 to Friday, April 7th, 2017.
The Senate has voted itself less power to defeat the nominations of an authoritarian president in the face of a nomination by an authoritarian president. The Senate has further abdicated its duty to be the source of military authorization in the face of military action by an authoritarian president.
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I went to Baltimore last weekend for no particular reason and wandered around and then came home. I’m lucky to be able to do things for no good reason at all.
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So much happened, this was the first week that I felt underwater, as opposed to overwhelmed. It felt like everyone was writing speculative fiction. Every article read like either an alternative future, or, if it reported just the facts, the facts themselves demanded to be read imagining where they might lead, that you write the future yourself.
And then, last night, Syria. People agree that something must be done. No one seems to agree on what should be done, just that something is better than nothing. I question that. I don’t need to include the caveat that everyone does: that I abhor the gassing of civilians. 500,000 Syrians have died, several thousand of them have been gassed. Many have had bombs or buildings or bullets hit them. All of it was tragic. We did nothing. I did nothing.
So why now? And why this? And what will it accomplish?
We should not accept that a man who refused the entry of refugees from Syria acts in the interests of the people he so despises. We shouldn’t accept that a man who derides the tentpoles of our democracy (our courts, our journalists, our freedoms to express ourselves) would act in the best interests of the people of any country. Do you honestly believe that if there was a greater advantage to Trump, he wouldn’t kill these people he speaks of rescuing? That if there wasn’t a greater advantage, he wouldn’t kill you?
Ugh, his numbers will go up. People love an Action President. People moan that he’ll take the wrong lessons from this. He already knew this. He knows he needs a war. It probably won’t be this war. It’ll be somewhere else. If he’s competent. Which he isn’t.
Bannon calls Kushner cuck. So that’s fun.
