She may be over-simplifying the content, but I don’t know because the WSJ has a paywall, which adds to the appropriateness of Trump writing to them, since a lot of the nobility will be able to read it, but not so many of the peasants.Īccording to reports, it’s merely a repetition of his lies and fantasies about the election, which he may well believe but which nobody else does, except, as noted above, out of loyalty and ambition.
Their goal is to maintain their power and position.Īnn Telnaes notes the letter Dear Ex-Leader wrote to the Wall Street Journal, and which they printed on their editorial page without corrections or revisions. This plutocratic stratum, as a social media meme reminds us, would rather spend their millions popping up into near-space than building libraries and museums. It’s simply the layering in a society in which the lower layers are becoming a larger part of things and the waffer-theen upper layer is beginning to resemble the rich man in “Tale of Two Cities,” whose carriage runs over and kills a small child, and who genuinely cannot comprehend the tragedy, tossing a coin to the grieving father. Simply a matter of who you hang out with and the perspective it provides for you.Īs Lee Judge (KFS) suggests, his amoral profit-taking hardly makes him stand out in the corporate crowd. Which might be excused as an unintended consequence if there were not internal leaks suggesting it had been brought to his attention, and if he were not known to have met with the Big Liar himself, more than once, and not transparently. Sack doubles down on Zuckerberg’s heartlessness by picking up on the analysis of Facebook algorithms that shows they elevate and promote extreme posts, including hate speech, in order to increase response and build traffic. He obviously lives in a world surrounded by people who see the name on the building, not the name on the product. It’s almost bizarre that Zuckerberg could be so detached from normal people that he renamed the corporation but not the app. However serendipitous his idea may have been, he groomed and positioned it far beyond other people’s good ideas.Īs for his renaming of Facebook, de Adder isn’t the first to scoff, but his is my favorite take, not only for the absurdity of the bunny ears, but for the way it brings to mind crocodile tears, which reportedly flow for purely physiological, not emotional, reasons, as the reptile consumes his prey. Mark Zuckerberg seems to have been an extraordinarily bright college kid who stumbled onto a great idea that went viral, but things don’t just go viral by themselves.
It’s not just in politics, either, as seen in our first Juxtaposition of the Day The farther it drives a person up the ladder, the more overpowering that need is, the more you begin to see what it can crowd out of people’s lives, and souls. Which sounds simple enough, but, as a need becomes a compulsion, it becomes toxic.
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Our government is full of people who have to have to have it. She said that a lot of people want it, but that’s not enough. I’ve quoted the actress Catherine Hicks, a college friend whom I interviewed for a book that didn’t sell, on the topic of why she was the only person in her MFA class who made it into the big time. Which generally works, except in Jimmy Stewart movies. People do not wind up in Congress by happenstance except in Jimmy Stewart movies, and then only as intended pawns of powerful men. Though there is the OJ Simpson/ Jeff MacDonald factor, which is that, when a narcissist is afraid of being exposed, he begins to sincerely believe his own version of things, no matter how it confounds both evidence and logic.ĭoes Trump believe the outrageous things he says? Probably.ĭo his Republican allies? Well, what makes you think they’re cut from such different cloth?
The question is not whether Donald Trump believes his Big Lie - he’s been a bullshit artist all his life - but why Republican politicians almost unanimously go along with a falsehood so transparently disloyal to the facts, and to the Constitution which they swore to uphold. It’s not a real gun and GOP claims of a stolen election are equally fake and, alas, they’re both equally deadly.
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Nick Anderson (Counterpoint) manages the only tasteful riff I’ve seen on that accidental movie set shooting.
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