If Trump loves dictators so much, why is he so set against Maduro? Was there just too much “we hate America” for him to get past?
(BTW, love this image: toy Battleship™ game pieces on a real map.)
Money and multinationals are not patriotic, so why the focus on “Americans” and “our country”? Communities, yes. Stable geopolitics, yes. Is the Business Roundtable particularly American, somehow? Are there similar organizations in Europe & Asia, with similar statements?
«“Americans deserve an economy that allows each person to succeed through hard work and creativity and to lead a life of meaning and dignity,” reads the statement from the organization, which is chaired by JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.
The group says its members “share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders,” and commit to doing well by their customers, employees, suppliers and local communities. “Each of our stakeholders is essential,” the group adds. “We commit to deliver value to all of them, for the future success of our companies, our communities and our country.”»
«If people feel that their motives are impugned, if they feel they’re not bad people but are being told they are—being told they’re racist or misogynist—it can foster a mentality of victimhood.
In the minds of a lot of conservatives, the left exists to impugn their motives, and the Republican Party regularly lied to them and said they would defend them and then didn’t. And that was the establishment.
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I think everybody has the ability to be garbage. A big step is to accept that about yourself and then fight that part of yourself.
I don’t feel like a lot of people on the right do that. They’re very certain of their righteousness. That’s probably the thing I dislike the most.
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I think we have a divisive political structure that encourages bad-faith arguments, and makes people view their fellow Americans as the enemy. That’s what creates a feeling of justice when you do something in the best interest of your “team.”
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The idea of a culture war has to die. There’s cultural forces that oppose each other, I won’t deny that. But when this dynamic is described as a war, it invites a battlefield mentality, that a separate set of morals apply when you’re facing your enemy.
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I’m talking to the individual who, by the end of the book, feels pretty certain they were right to be critical of evangelicals. And what I wanted was some kind of reminder that it is going to take unity to fix this.
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Green: Something I noticed throughout our conversation is that you’ve struggled a lot with pronouns: “we” and “they”.
Howe: Oh, ugh. I switch back and forth because I feel like I’m a separated wife, but I’m not divorced yet.
Green: Are you an evangelical?Howe: I am.
Green: So why “they”?
Howe: Because when I’m saying “they”, I’m talking about people who support Trump in the way I’m criticizing.
Green: Are you a conservative?
Howe: I still am, yeah, …
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Green: It sounds a little bit like you’re a man without a “we”.
Howe: Oh, I feel like I am. All I’m hoping for is that there are a lot of people who feel like me, who will start to rise up, so I can eventually call myself a “we” again. I think there are lots of people who think like me. I just don’t think we’re all talking.»
This is what @ewarren should be thinking about: the pragmatic black voters who pick Biden b/c they think he’s the most electable. She needs to be making a more indirect argument (e.g., that she can win b/c she’s for working people* and fair play). Reparation talk might scare off a bunch of white people and hurt that “electability” argument.
*”Working people” NOT a code phrase for “white people”.
«Henry Singleton of New York watched all the major Democratic candidates make their pitch to black voters at the NAACP convention in Detroit last month. He was impressed with Kamala Harris, but he plans to vote for Biden in the primary.
“We can’t play with this. This is very, very serious,” Singleton said. “The rhetoric and what Donald Trump is doing — we got to get this man out of office. We can’t take a chance, and Joe Biden is our best chance.”»
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«I don’t care if Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a mendacious Massachusetts liberal. She could tell me that she’s going to make me wear waffles as underpants and I’ll vote for her. I don’t care if Sen. Kamala Harris is an opportunistic California prosecutor who wants to relitigate busing. She could tell me that I have to drive to work in a go-cart covered with Barbie decals and I’ll vote for her. I don’t care if Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is a muddle-headed socialist from a rural class-warfare state (where I once lived as one of his constituents). He could tell me he’s going to tax used kitty litter and I’ll vote for him.
I don’t care if Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is clearly influenced by a hostile foreign government or that Marianne Williamson is a weird, anti-science guru. They could …
Wait. I do care about that. It’s the reason they won’t get my vote next year, and why the president won’t either.»
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/15/politics/aipac-ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-israel/index.html
Well, well, well. Trump and Netanyahu beyond even AIPAC’s pale.
https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1161914145425580032?s=17
Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) Tweeted:
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Have a good day. 🤖
«A recession occurs, on average, 22 months following such an inversion, according to Credit Suisse.»
But the election is a year away, so guess what?
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