Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Good summary with suggested political lessons included---
Op-ed by David von Drehle @ WashingtonPost.com, Feb. 27
It’s a scandal for our times, an iconoclastic political outsider undone by allegations of homemade revenge porn. Or maybe Missouri Gov. Eric Greitenswon’t be undone. Running a page from the playbook of his pal President Trump, the Republican rookie is plunging ahead, gutting it out, evidently impervious to embarrassment.
If you’ve missed this story amid the welter of news, let me catch you up. A couple of years ago, Missouri appeared to be headed to another of its customary statewide elections in which a ladder-climber from the Democratic Party would square off against a ladder-climbing Republican to succeed an incumbent known mainly for his ladder-climbing skills [....}
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Then they came for Tiffany. Because what could be more compromising than daughter of Trophy Wife #2, the one who Dad seems to dislike and ignore, promoting fingernail polish, gasp... while *not* mentioning her famous father? Because God knows engaging in money laundering, election tampering, selling permanent visas to rich foreigners, violating the Hatch Act, leaking state secrets to the Russians, refusing to respond to a natural disaster because you don't like brown-skinned people, getting $500 million in dodgy loans rather obviously tied to your government service, working with the toppest government secrets for over a year without a clearance, etc. etc. etc haven't been enough to damage the nepotistic collusionary government. And that's just the prez's circle - look at Elaine Chao, Wilbur wassisname at Commerce, etc., etc.
But this may be the straw that broke the camel's back - Tiffany's got a job! and she's not doing anything illegal! Talk about a way to deflate the Trump Brand (tm). The Washington Post is now more outraged than when Bill Clinton said "y'all" in the White House (okay, maybe not). and then they say "This is the kind of thing that's not done in Washington." Except *TIFFANY'S NOT IN WASHINGTON, YOU DUMB-AS-A-ROCK-HOOSIERS-POSING-AS-SOPHISTICATES*!!!!
#MediaMorons. The kind for which there are always second acts.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 8:00am