- Via MTN: Nicki Minaj Says She Doesn’t Believe the Moon Landing Happened.
- Via NPR: The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here’s how I came to love it.
- Via Axios: Trump says “I didn’t make a mistake” after racist video of Obamas removed.
- From Seth Masket: A strange puff piece: The NYT’s glowing Britt interview reveals the extent of her influence. It isn’t much.
- Here’s the piece from the NYT (he’s not wrong in his assessment): The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained.
- By Alan Elrod at Liberal Currents: None More Wonderful Than Man: Art, Artists, and MAGA’s Hollow View of Humanity.
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It’s notable that Britt claims to be a Christian and certain things offend her Christian sensibilities, but push comes to shove she is still part of the Trump cult(of personality). She may or may not be doing stuff out of sight, count me skeptical, but she isn’t going to offend Trump or the cult. I think that tells us what she prioritizes. Once again, another person where the only evidence they are a Christian is their verbalized claims, not backed up by any actions that might have some personal costs.
Steve
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Britt is another R that is edging away from the felon, but can’t leave the cult. That’s nice and all, but… No profile in courage there.
Regarding her influence, she has never had influence in today’s GOP, she’s a woman. The only woman in the GOP that has any influence is Senator Concerned and that’s only because her seat is the most likely to change hands in November.
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@Jen:
It was nice to have a trusted, vetted source of factual material.
That would be why they’re dropping it. That’s not a very Republican thing to want.
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@gVOR10: Yes, spending money to make the lives of citizens better? If you want that, you must be a communist!
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In light of Trump’s and MAGA’s reaction to Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I found this passage from the Alan Elrod piece to be particularly on point:
This contempt for artists as nothing more than whores there to please the (preferably conservative) masses is a telling attitude toward the creative pursuits. While I also don’t look to many individual artists to be experts or guideposts in fields like politics and economics, I also do not have any reason to view Michael Knowles, Megyn Kelly, or Jesse Kelly as any more insightful on those matters.
That’s because they are not. They are entertainers themselves. Their political commentary, such as it is, is neither rigorous nor analytical. It’s performance, meant to stir the emotions of their viewers—to get them to clap, to like, to hit share and subscribe.I often think that for the very performative Trump and a lot of his media sycophants, the animus toward the creatives on the left has less to do policy than ego. They’re all trying to stir emotions – for power or for money – and Bad Bunny et al are just so much better at it than they are.
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@Scott F.:
They pine for the Gilded Age, wherein, like Rome, only a few elites called all the shots. Only ones with enough money to control the artists. This new-fangled middle class stuff? Allows the “monkeys” too much influence. They sometimes even use the arts to mock their betters.
Case in point, the monkeys who run the NFL actually put their own interest, selecting Bad Bunny towards the goal of expanding their market into South America, above the interests of King Don I -and without apology.
