Trump losing active duty military support. https://t.co/ZA1KU6oRos
— Rick Tyler (@rickwtyler) November 20, 2018
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By Julia Manchester @ TheHill.com, Nov. 16
Brookings Institution fellow Elaine Kamarck on Friday compared President Trump's rhetoric on immigration to "the boy who cried wolf. I think that the president at this point with immigration is like the boy who cried wolf," Kamarck, who also directs the Center for Effective Public Management, told Hill.TV's Jamal Simmons on "What America's Thinking."
"He's overusing it. He's overhyping it. He's over-scaring people. I just don't see this working at this hysterical level that he's got it to," she said, citing the president's rhetoric toward the Central American migrant caravan attempting to reach the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Already you see interviews with these troops at the border who are going to miss Thanksgiving at home, and who've already taken off their flak jackets because there is no invasion coming," she said [....]
What Blair had first conceived of as an elaborate joke was beginning to reveal something darker. “No matter how racist, how bigoted, how offensive, how obviously fake we get, people keep coming back,” Blair once wrote, on his own personal Facebook page. “Where is the edge? Is there ever a point where people realize they’re being fed garbage and decide to return to reality?”....“Nothing on this page is real,” read one of the 14 disclaimers on Blair’s site, and yet in the America of 2018 his stories had become real, amassing an audience of as many 6 million visitors each month who thought his posts were factual.
Pop Culture has generally been defined by outsider culture. Marvel Comics’ creator Stan Lee personified this with X-Men & Black Panther. Same subject, different cast with Jeet Heer.
Babewatch actress seems to be evoking Arbold the talking pig from the Aussie film "Babe" - another mirackle of science.