So there are some checks on Trump and his loonies. Good to know.

The White House budget office rescinded a memo ordering a broad freeze on federal grants and loans after Republican senators “hit the ceiling” over the order, which caught them completely by surprise and created confusion in their home states.

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“Republicans were starting to hit the ceiling because the state governments, people in our states were coming to us saying, ‘Wait, wait, wait, wait. What does this mean? Does it mean we’re going to lose funding for X, Y, Z?’” said one Republican senator who requested anonymity to discuss the uproar behind closed doors caused by the memo. “As drafted the initial memo sounded so broad, and it sounded like a new order. It sounded like it was a new freeze, which was super confusing,” the senator added.

A second Republican senator who requested anonymity said the memo the White House budget office dropped on Monday was “shocking” and caused a lot of confusion throughout the Senate Republican conference. “We were all hyperventilating because of the pause on federal funds and programs,” the lawmaker said.

So even Republican senators don’t actually think there should be zero money spent on anything non-military. Good to know.

Republican senators led by Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told the White House directly that the OMB directive was written far too broadly.

Does it please me that the leaders were both women? Yes, yes it does.

“I made clear that I thought it was too sweeping, that it was causing a lot of confusion and consternation in my state, particularly for non-profit organizations, and I’m glad that it’s apparently been rescinded,” Collins said Wednesday afternoon.

Republicans standing up for funding non-profits. Whaddya know.

Amnesty does its favorite fingers-in-ears childish repetition thing yet again.

As always: of course trans people have human rights. That doesn’t mean there are special new rights just for trans people, and Amnesty conspicuously fails to say what it means by “transgender rights.” Is there a “transgender right” for men to plant themselves in women’s toilets and changing rooms and organizations? No, but we can be pretty sure Amnesty thinks there is. It’s interesting that it’s careful not to spell that out though.

Ah. We’re at concentration camps already.

President Donald Trump signed a memo Wednesday that sets in motion preparations for a facility to house thousands of migrants at the U.S. military camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which he said was an effort to “halt the border invasion.”

“I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States,” the memo to the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department says.

Trump previewed the directive at a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act, an immigration detention measure, saying he would “instruct the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantánamo Bay.”

“Most people don’t even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back,” he added.

It begins with “holding.” It doesn’t always end there.

Originally a comment by Rev David Brindley on Ok ok we take it back.

An interesting article from Salon, “MAGA’s true believers don’t understand capitalism — Trump will teach them a hard lesson.”

The highlights

America is a nation at war with its mythologies.

For all the electoral postmortems about the desire for economic change, what’s unsurprisingly absent is what seems, to me, an obvious omission: an all-enveloping misunderstanding of American capitalism.

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With due respect to the many Americans who voted for Donald Trump, their overwhelming sense of entitlement dwarfs that of the hard-working immigrants who cut their grass, scrub pots and pans in the restaurants they frequent, and care for their kids and elderly loved ones. Too many Americans have come to believe they are owed financial comfort and material abundance, not to mention eggs and gasoline at predictable prices.

Dare I say it, but this strikes me as the “… the pursuit of Happiness.” from the Declaration of Independence writ large. But rewritten for today’s world meaning less the pursuit and more the entitlement.

Jeremiads about grocery prices are now an acceptable element of political discourse and, per GOP logic, we have a right to complain about them. Feeding the hungry, though? That edges too close to pinko communism. But the point our fellow countrymen and women should grasp is that presidents, whoever they are, have very little control over inflation.

You know what my wife and I did when household costs became too onerous last year? We reduced our expenses, and adjusted our quality of life.

That’s, you know, fiscal conservatism: Tightening the belts, practicing austerity, living within our means, limiting debt. We didn’t literally pull ourselves up by the bootstraps or walk to school through the snow without shoes. But isn’t that the American mythos?

Looks an awful lot like our local politics, too. People demanding governments do something about things over which governments no longer have control. On this day in 1953 an Adelaide butcher was fined for selling mutton at a price higher than the maximum mandated under The Prices Act. When I moved to South Australia in the 1970s the state government mandated maximum prices for a schooner of beer, a meat pie, and a pair of jeans. Could anyone contemplate a return to those days?

So I’ll pose almost the same question nearly a decade later: What do Trump voters, and especially true believers in the MAGA community, of which I was once a full member, think capitalism is?

We legislate against some of the baser traits of our nature: incitement, theft, violence. Our laws aren’t entirely devoid of protections against avarice (such as antitrust regulations), but Americans, collectively and historically, have a high tolerance for greed.

There’s the mythology of capitalist meritocracy at work, which is still championed by many people who’ve been failed by both major political parties. Their concerns have been exploited and manipulated by Republicans who have traumatized them into believing that liberalism, rather than capitalism, is the source of their ills; that because of the evil policies of liberals, they keep working harder and harder but never seem to break even, much less get ahead.

This is the great lie that so many people, like those of iknklast’s family, and people we all know, have fallen for and wholeheartedly believe. If you want to get ahead, you just have to work harder. Isn’t that why there are so many billionaire cleaners?

The author, Rich Logis, is a former MAGAhat who has seen the naked emperor.

One rule for me, another for thee.

All women’s centres pop-ups have been paused from the 30th January onwards.

Mind you…the event itself sounds like all my worst nightmares in one place. Quiet/prayer space? Crafts and more crafts and more crafts?? Blrrrghh. But that’s not the point. The point is all this stupid relentless bullying.

Don’t mention the man.

A second teenage footballer has been handed a six-match ban for asking whether adult transgender opponents she was playing were men.

An 18-year-old who, Telegraph Sport has been told, has both ADHD and learning difficulties, was sanctioned by a National Serious Case Panel in a case with parallels to that for which a 17-year-old girl with suspected autism was handed a similar suspension.

The second teen was charged by her county FA over comments she made to a referee during a match in September, the same month she turned 18. It was alleged she said: “Ref, have you checked if all of their players are eligible to play? Look at their ’keeper and for example their number 10 is obviously a man,” or something similar.

Stupidly, the reporter forgot to spell out that this is a girls’ or women’s team he’s talking about. The “teen’s” question implies it, but the reporter should have said it up front.

She was banned for six matches, two of which were suspended, after accepting the charge brought under national Football Association rules that allow those born male to play in women’s matches.

Finally the mention of women’s matches. It’s always stunning, no matter how many times you’ve seen it, to see “national Football Association rules that allow those born male to play in women’s matches.” If men are allowed to play then they’re not women’s matches, are they?!

The disciplinary proceedings were triggered by a complaint made by the opposition club, which included the claim that she had said to their non-trans players: “This is a man.” She has admitted trying to ask those players if their team-mates were biologically male after failing to get clarity from the ref, who, she wrote in her statement, had threatened to send her off if she continued to quiz him on the matter.

Speaking to Telegraph Sport on condition of anonymity, the teenager said of her ban: “It kind of made me hate football.”

Right there with you, kid. It’s a god damn insult.

Fiona McAnena, director of campaigns at Sex Matters, said: “It’s disgraceful that another teenage girl has been suspended for daring to challenge the presence of a male player in a women’s game. The FA has punished her for asking a question that matters for her own safety, and for fairness for all girls. Sending her for mandatory ‘re-education’ won’t solve this.

“How many other cases are there like this? How long can the FA continue to claim that there is no problem? How can the FA say it supports the women’s game when girls are being suspended for pointing out there is a man on the pitch?”

In fact how can the FA say it supports the women’s game when it lets men play on the women’s teams?

It can’t.

Oh honestly, is this how it’s going to be? They throw a bomb, the shouting is too loud, they haul the bomb back? Government by toddlers?

The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants, according to a copy of a new memo obtained by The Washington Post, after the administration’s move to halt spending earlier this week provoked a backlash.

In a memo dated Wednesday and distributed to federal agencies, Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, states that OMB memorandum M-25-13 “is rescinded.” That order, issued Monday, instructed federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all federal financial assistance.”

In other words they’re messing with us along with doing as much as they can get away with. Win-win for them.

The original White House order freezing federal grants, which became public on Monday, caused mass chaos and confusion across Washington, appearing to imperil government programs that fund schools, provide housing and ensure low-income Americans have access to health care. States reported issues accessing funds under Medicaid, and even as of Wednesday, public housing authorities reported being locked out of their funding portal. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that assistance for individuals would not be affected.

In other words she lied.

Trump is setting fire to the entire federal government.

The Trump administration has offered buyouts to almost all of the roughly 3 million people who work for the US government if they leave their jobs by 6 February, as the White House attempts to gut the civil service.

The US office of personnel management (OPM), the government’s human resources agency, sent an email to the entire federal workforce on Tuesday evening with four directives that it says Trump is mandating. They included a full-time return to the office for most employees.

The email said that the federal workforce would be subjected to “enhanced standards of suitability and conduct”, aiming to retain only employees who were “reliable, loyal, trustworthy”. It warned that most agencies would be downsized.

Of course “loyal, trustworthy” means loyal to Trump and trustworthy according to Trump.

“If you choose not to continue in your current role in the federal workforce, we thank you for your service to your country and you will be provided with a dignified, fair departure from the federal government utilizing a deferred resignation program,” the email reads. It offered workers more than seven months’ salary, and asked them to reply with the word “Resign”.

The email had the same subject line – “Fork in the road” – as one sent by Elon Musk to employees at Twitter in 2022 when he bought the social media platform.

So that’s just great. The federal government and civil service are now a branch of Twitter, and run accordingly.

The mass departure of federal workers – from frontline healthcare workers in the veterans affairs department to the officials charged with processing loans for homebuyers or small businesses – could have sweeping consequences for Americans.

The New York Times reported that it could seriously disrupt American life on a vast scale, including most benefits traditionally termed “welfare” – including Medicare, social security and food stamps – as well as travel, tax returns, the normal function of national parks and national museums, passport renewals, medical research, other forms of science, the inspectors and regulators who make sure that food, water and pharmaceutical drugs are safe to consume, and even the accurate functioning of the National Weather Service.

We’re doomed.

So even the Holocaust has to be inclooosive now. I did not see that on the horizon.

Holocaust Memorial Day is about the holocaust of Jews under the Nazi regime. End of story. It’s not a grab bag. It’s not about Everyone.

Updating to add: Ok I overstated it – see Naif’s comment @ 2. It’s about the holocaust of Jews and others in the Nazi death camps. It’s not about post-Nazi genocides.

The truth is there should be a new Memorial Day, or rather a God damn it stop DOING THIS day, to recognize AND DISCOURAGE all these post-1945 genocides that keep happening. Have one of those days every month, or every day, since we can’t seem to learn.

Rape Crisis Scotland still determined to taunt and bully women who have been raped.

A rape crisis charity embroiled in a transgender row has dropped a pledge to issue a definition of women, The Telegraph can reveal.

Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS) admitted it was no longer planning to publish a definition, despite previously promising to do so, following the recommendations of independent expert review.

Of course we shouldn’t need a definition, since we already know, and have all along, but because RCS is so determined to play silly buggers, here we are.

Vicky Ling was commissioned to investigate Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) after a damning tribunal ruling found it was operating an “extreme” version of gender identity theory under the leadership of Mridul Wadhwa, a biological male who identifies as female.

She found it was doing a crap job and had to do better.

Ms Ling called on RCS to devise and publish a “shared definition of woman/female” to be adopted across its network.

Which just…I mean…they…how have they been running a rape crisis anything all this time if they don’t know what a woman is and can’t even manage to find out?

The charity, which receives more than £3 million in annual funding from the SNP government, had previously accepted Ms Ling’s recommendations in full. Sandy Brindley, its chief executive, claimed last September that work on a definition had been going on for nearly a year.

A year??? A fucking year???

Come on. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this.

e Sunday Post reported at the weekend that in an internal consultation document about new rules, RCS stated that a woman can be “anyone who self-identifies as a woman”.

An RCS spokesman said it was in discussions with survivors to ensure “any terminology used to describe different spaces within rape crisis services is accessible and easily understandable”.

What do they mean “discussions”? This isn’t physics. This isn’t even the manual you study before taking a driving test. This is not complicated or tricky or difficult. It’s being made difficult, artificially, by obstinate stupid believers in the Holy Male Women Theory, to the inconvenience and annoyance of 99.9 percent of people, especially the female kind.

They added: “The independent review of ERCC published last September identified that although the national service standards for rape crisis centres require centres to provide women-only spaces, they do not define what this means.

“The Supreme Court is currently considering the legal definition of women, and we don’t feel it would be helpful or appropriate to pre-empt this by issuing a definition of women.”

But you know what women are. This is all just theater – theater of stupid. Knock it off.

Anne Applebaum in the Atlantic:

Until recently, Russia was the most important state seeking to undermine European institutions. Vladimir Putin has long disliked the EU because it restricts Russian companies’ ability to intimidate and bribe European political leaders and companies, and because the EU is larger and more powerful than Russia, whereas European countries on their own are not. Now a group of American oligarchs also want to undermine European institutions, because they don’t want to be regulated—and they may have the American president on their side. Quite soon, the European Union, along with Great Britain and other democracies around the world, might find that they have to choose between their alliance with the United States and their ability to run their own elections and select their own leaders without the pressure of aggressive outside manipulation…

A crunch point is imminent, when the European Commission finally concludes a year-long investigation into X. Tellingly, two people who have advised the commission on this investigation would talk with me only off the record, because the potential for reprisals against them and their organizations—­whether it be online trolling and harassment or lawsuits—­is too great. Still, both advisers said that the commission has the power to protect Europe’s sovereignty, and to force the platforms to be more transparent. “The commission should look at the raft of laws and rules it has available and see how they can be applied,” one of them told me, “always remembering that this is not about taking action against a person’s voice. This is the commission saying that everyone’s voice should be equal.”

At least in theory, no country is obligated to become an electoral Las Vegas, as America has. Global democracies could demand greater transparency around the use of algorithms, both on social media and in the online-advertising market more broadly. They could offer consumers more control over what they see, and more information about what they don’t see. They could enforce their own campaign-funding laws. These changes could make the internet more open and fair, and therefore a better, safer place for the exercise of free speech. If the chances of success seem narrow, it’s not because of the lack of a viable legal framework—­rather it’s because, at the moment, cowardice is as viral as one of Musk’s tweets.

And Musk is only going to get more dangerous, not less.

H/t Tim Harris

This clip is an oldy, but it’s still interesting.

Yes.

Michael Ann Devito is an Assistant Professor in Khoury College of Computer Sciences, with a joint appointment in the Department of Communication Studies. She works in the areas of AI & Social Justice and Extraordinary HCI. Dr. Michael Ann DeVito (she/her) is a qualitative, interdisciplinary researcher and designer. She studies how users and communities understand and adapt to the challenges of AI and machine learning-driven sociotechnical environments…

Michael Ann most often acts as a member-researcher, employing her own positionality as a neurodivergent, transgender lesbian as a key tool in her grounded theory-based approach.

Such as sharing clips of himself warbling that if you don’t “date” trans folks you’re a transphobe.

Yeah great, let’s throw all those unemployed little kids off school lunch programs.

CNN’s Pamela Brown asks Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) about President Trump’s administration pausing aid for federal grants and loans that could affect millions of Americans. McCormick defended President Trump’s move and argues that aid programs, including ones that help vulnerable students eat lunch at school, should be evaluated.

And in order to “evaluate” the programs it’s necessary to snatch them away first, because poor people, especially children, must be punished.

Noah Berlatsky on The Terror:

Donald Trump spent the first week of his second term using the presidency to glorify political violence and weaponize the threat of it against anyone who might consider criticizing him.

Trump pulled the security detail from former chief White House medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is an enemy of MAGA thanks to his efforts to fight covid. He also ended security details for his former National Security Advisor John Bolton and his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, both of whom have been targeted by Iran because they worked to advance Trump’s hard-line policies during his first term.

Bolton of course is an outspoken Trump critic, but Pompeo campaigned for his former boss just last fall. Trump repaid him by using mobster logic to justify endangering his wellbeing, cold-bloodedly telling reporters who asked him last week about the decision to pull the security detail that “there’s risks to everything.”

Trumpese for “nice little place you got here.”

Trump’s moves against Fauci and company last week were overshadowed by his pardons of about around 1,500 people convicted of crimes in connection with the January 6 insurrection, including some who brutally beat cops. Trump also commuted the sentences of individuals associated with violent rightwing groups and convicted of seditious conspiracy related to their involvement in the attack on the Capitol, including Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio, who had been sentenced to 22 years, and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who was sentenced to 18 years.

There’s precedent. Hitler freed all imprisoned Nazis in a 1933 amnesty.

The most obvious past example of Trumpist terror, of course, is the January 6 coup attempt. On that date in 2021, Trump used his social media platforms and speech to incite a mob to storm the Capitol. There, they assaulted police officers and threatened the lives of lawmakers. As many as nine people died in the violence and its aftermath.

And yet, after all that, he was allowed to run again, and he won. This makes the US a failed state.

Reuters tells us

California on Tuesday denied President Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S. military entered the state to release more water in the wake of deadly wildfires.

In a Truth Social post late on Monday, Trump wrote: “The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond.” California’s Department of Water Resources responded hours later.

“The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful,” the agency said early on Tuesday in an X post.

On Sunday, he ordered the federal government to override the state of California’s water-management practices to bolster firefighting efforts. The order directed the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to deliver more water and hydropower through the Central Valley Project, a network of dams, canals and other infrastructure, even if that conflicts with state or local laws.

A spokesperson for Newsom said that move would not have made a difference in the state’s firefighting efforts as the Los Angeles region gets most of its water from other sources and did not have a shortage.

In short, Trump threw a lot of mud at a random wall in a random location and announced “Look, Mommy, I made everybody dead!”

Some hydrants in the Los Angeles area ran dry during the height of the wildfires, but local officials say that was because they were not designed to deal with such a massive disaster.

No hydrants are, because they can’t be. Hydrants are not magic. Hydro systems are not magic. The LA wildfires were a new thing on the earth, and nobody is a bad webbis for not magically conjuring up a miracle water system that could douse them in minutes.

Wut?

Wtf is that even supposed to mean? Is there a giant faucet in Redding or somewhere that a couple of majors “turned on” to send all the water here to LA County?

No, so what’s he babbling about?

Also it’s not a Fake Environmental argument that the Pacific Northwest west of the Cascades gets more rain than LA County, it’s just reality. LA is in a desert; western Washington and Oregon are not in a desert.

So far I’m still getting water from the tap so I guess he hasn’t sent it all to Malibu yet.

Trump’s revenge:

The Justice Department said Monday that it fired several career lawyers involved in prosecuting Donald Trump, escalating the president’s campaign of retribution against his perceived enemies.

The employees worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to now-dismissed indictments against Trump over his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Two extremely serious crimes that he committed basically in front of our faces, especially the attempted theft of the election.

As a country we’re rolling around in the mire like a herd of hyperactive pigs.

“Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” a Justice Department official wrote to NBC News. “In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda. This action is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

Oh it’s the prosecutors who are weaponizing government! Here I thought it was Chief Criminal Trump.

This is all so shaming. We’re all in filth up to our eyeballs. Only a week in, 200+ weeks to go.

Former Justice Department lawyer Julie Zebrak, an expert in federal employment law, said career civil servants cannot be summarily fired. “They have civil service rights. They have due process rights,” she said. 

If the Justice Department is arguing that the lawyers are not performing properly, they must be subject to what is known as progressive discipline, she said, including warnings and notice. They must be allowed to hire lawyers before they lose their jobs. “There is a reason people say it’s so hard to fire federal employees,” she said.

Trump will do it anyway. It’s a dictatorship.

Trump is not messing around: he’s already bullying Denmark to underline his rude demands that it give him Greenland.

Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy Greenland, according to senior European officials.

Speaking to the Financial Times, officials said that Trump, then still president-elect, spoke with Frederiksen for 45 minutes last week, during which he was described [as] aggressive and confrontational about Frederiksen’s refusal to sell Greenland to the US.

He doesn’t get to order any head of state to give the state to him. Who does he think he is?

The Financial Times reports that according to five current and former senior European officials who were briefed on the call, the conversation “was horrendous”. One person said: “He was very firm. It was a cold shower. Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious and potentially very dangerous.”

He was very firm the way the guy with a gun standing in your living room is very firm. He was very firm the way any violent macho bully is very firm.

Another person who was briefed on the call told the outlet: “The intent was very clear. They want it. The Danes are now in crisis mode.” Someone else said: “The Danes are utterly freaked out by this.”

According to one former Danish official, the call was a “very tough conversation” in which Trump “threatened specific measures against Denmark such as targeted tariffs”.

Trump has previously said that the US needs to control Greenland and has refused to rule out using US military force to take over the territory. During a press conference a few weeks ago, Trump said that the US needed Greenland “for economic security”. The 836,300-sq-mile (2,166,007-sq-km) Arctic island is thought to be rich in oil and gas, as well as various raw materials for green technology.

So he wants to steal them.

There’s this fella named Philip Low who knows Elon Musk all too well. He has this to say about Musk and the Nazi salute:

Elon is not a Nazi, per se.

He is something much better, or much worse, depending on how you look at it.

Nazis believed that an entire race was above everyone else.

Elon believes he is above everyone else. He used to think he worked on the most important problems. When I met him, he did not presume to be a technical person — he would be the first to say that he lacked the expertise to understand certain data. That happened later. Now, he believes he has all the solutions.

All his talk about getting to Mars to “maintain the light of consciousness” or about “free speech absolutism” is actually BS Elon knowingly feeds people to manipulate them. Everything Elon does is about acquiring and consolidating power. That is why he likes far right parties, because they are easier to control. That is also why he gave himself $56 Billion which could have gone to the people actually doing the work and innovations he is taking credit for at Tesla. His lust for power is also why he did xAI and Neuralink, to attempt to compete with OpenAI and NeuroVigil, respectively, despite being affiliated with them. Unlike Tesla and Twitter, he was unable to conquer those companies and tried to create rivals. I fired him with cause in December 2021 when he tried to undermine NV.

Elon did two Nazi salutes. He did them for five main reasons:

1. He was concerned that the “Nazi wing” of the MAGA movement, under the influence of Steve Bannon, would drive him away from Trump, somewhere in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, rather than in the West Wing which is where he wants to be. He was already feeling raw over the fact that Trump did not follow his recommendation for Treasury Secretary and that the Senate also did not pick his first choice;

2. He was upset that he had had to go to Israel and Auschwitz to make up for agreeing with a Nazi sympathizer online and wanted to reclaim his “power” just like when he told advertisers to “go fuck yourself”. This has nothing to do with Asperger’s;

3. There are some Jews he actually hates: Sam Altman is amongst them;

4. He enjoys a good thrill and knew exactly what he was doing;

5. His narcissistic self was hoping the audience would reflect his abject gesture back to him, thereby showing complete control and dominion over it, and increasing his leverage over Trump. That did not happen.

All very unreassuring, wouldn’t you say?

H/t Rob

How NOT to talk about the Holocaust on a tv news program.

As well as millions of others THAN WHAT?

They erase women by saying “people” and they erase Jews by saying “people” – and they do it right in plain sight.