Sure, standard Kahemnan "Fast brain, slow brain", autoreporting vs analysis, one you do snap snap, the other you slow down to think about. Every day I leave the house, turn right on Spruce, pick up a bagel at corner of Turner, and dive into work on Vine, humming a tune as I go. But if there's a fire on Turner, I might choose another street that day. If they've dug up the street it might be weeks. If they've sold off Turner for a shopping mall it might be years, if it's not invaded by revolutionaries. We adapt fast brain. Hucksters and grifters use fast brain tricks to keep us from engaging analytical slow brain when needed badly - works on PhD's and blue collar.

*You* know about Trump. I'm not worried about you. I often read the news for what they'll report to *the rest of the world* that confirms my suspicions and world view (sometimes forced to change mine). This isn't just Trump - is Russia really reforming has been a question for decades,  and the answer and key turning points have been critical to get right -Sochi was impressive despite looking a bit corrupt, the bit over chemical weapons in Syria vs Obama was the foggiest - afterwards with Novichok and 2016 hacking, became more obvious. But we depend on these daily stories to clue us in despite inevitable denials which in other cases might be sincere. Yet the Times ran a blatantly untrue sop to Russia and Trump just days before the 2016 election - FBI clears Russia of collusion. Lesson learned? Or just the complaints of privileged progressives?

While photos of Epstein partying around Manhattan with Trump and Melania have surfaced, Daily Beast spends its time looking for Epstein donations to the Clinton White House that *has to* have had an effect despite being below the top 1000 donors or using Epstein's plane to fly to public AIDS events across Africa, treating both as equivalent - that the likelihood of each banging a 14-year-old in such circumstance is the unstated background. It's obscene.

Trump's been pimping for a Nobel and perhaps a place on Rushmore. He can call Mexicans rapists and murderers, insult shithole countries, blast Dem-led cities as infested, has Pence tour cages of illegal immigrants in shitty cages with stories of some forced to drink toilet water and some deaths, and this made up line of "invasion" he's been using since "the caravan", while rewarding and pardoning Racist #1 Joe Arpaio for blatantly ignoring judge's orders.

How many ways to slice this before treating it other than a business-as-usual event, giving Trump the illusion of normalcy? The rest of the world sees Trump's behavior at the G8 or in Syria or bonesawing a reporter -but next day let's go back and get our bagel? In the middle of this Breughelian plague scene we're going to pop up Trump spouting "Unity over Racism", which he'll follow within 24 hours attacking as many public Dems national or local as he can, even a couple usual allies on Fox News? He'll be "comforter-in-chief" in Dayton/Toledo and El Paso as CBS put it, despite acting horridly towards Puerto Rico in natural disaster, scolding them and withholding money and bizarrely tossing paper towels as thousands died and millions wentwithout electricity for half a year? This tyrant is running for president *again*. Should the Times hire Judith Miller back to push more White House spin onto the front page or acknowledge this isn't just covering White House eggrolls (which Trump also perverts by lecturing kids on defense budgets and other spin). No, it's not normal - don't normalize where obscene to do so.