... two articles in my regular blog/Substack daily roundup caught my eye this morning. Both are full of interesting information and insight, and I want to recommend them both to your attention.
Jeff Childers, writing at Coffee & Covid, tells us about "2025’s surreality motif, Trump’s political alchemy, Biden’s fake presidency, Autopen orders, Trump’s Supreme Court battle, and a Trump-Putin negotiation masterclass". An excellent article with some very interesting insights.
El Gato Malo, writing (without capital letters) at Bad Cattitude, discusses our universities, saying: "education and research in america constitute a gordian knot situation and such situations need lateral thinking to resolve. they cannot be fixed within the construct that made the mess. a new frame is required." He proceeds to offer just such a framework.
Both articles are excellent, and I highly recommend them.
Peter
6 comments:
Go watch Joes Signature morph from 6 documents to one. I don't know of anyone who could do that for real.
Thanks for the links, heading over to read them.
All of the various courts up to and including the Supreme Court can rule however they want about Trump stopping all kids of payments to NGO's and all the other corrupt money laundering projects funded through USAID. The one thing the Courts can't do is un-ring a bell. DOGE put a spotlight on it and now we get watch who defends it. Trump has taken a page out of Alinsky's Rules For Radicals "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." and fired it right back at them.
The "No capital letters" thing is a bit childish, doncha think>
It was funny......once. Cute, even. For a short time
Now it just makes it hard to read.
I have been following Childer's since a month or so ago when you recommended him. Found out when I mentioned it to my wife she had been reading his stuff for years.
I really liked him for a week or two but have been cooling off a lot. I like that he points out stuff that is going on I don't know about, but the majority of his content is demagogy wrapped around this bits of information. He also seems to be pretty positive about trumps comments about annexing Canada, Mexico and Greenland. My mental picture of him is almost a clickbait artist but that he does link out to the stories he covers. Just feels as if the last week or two the tone has gotten more inflammatory and a bit crazed. then again I don't have long history following him. Just since trump took office.
I hope trump is being his normal flamboyant self just starting shit with the media when he throws these things out (annexing countries). What is disturbing is seeing what I would have considered rational people jumping on that bandwagon rather than treating it as hopefully a throwaway twitter storm. If it is serious that is us starting a war with Canada or Mexico. Maybe you could convince Denmark to sell Greenland and there really aren't enough people there to truly stick up for themselves if that happened. I don't think it would.. more likely a treaty or something to allow us to have a base there which is probably what the long term goal is. However a lot (LOT) of us voted for trump as we thought he was less likely to get us in a world war than the DEM's. So far he seems to be shaking stuff up and de-escalating stuff with Russia for sure and maybe with china to. Moving back to a lets talk a lot and solve our issues that way while I lean my stick in the corner behind me. It's there but I hope you won't make me use it sort of attitude. The fact he is kicking the EU in the nuts and doing a great reset with them is really encouraging as based on UNSAID and other things involving Ukraine it seems a lot of the European bureaucracy and leaders were working hand in hand with our scumbags to maintain and encourage that war for their own profit same as the US was doing. It's so discouraging have to see my country I love dragged down to this level of criminality and dishonor in our government. It's not that I haven't known some of it happened going back to bush, Obama etc.. when I started paying more attention. But the pure calculated level and magnitude of it is shocking.
Great link, great discussion!
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