- Via The Atlantic: Melania Really Doesn’t Care.
- Via The Atlantic: Donald Trump Flirts With Race Science. I take the rhetorical point that is being made, but I have to confess it seems like more than just a flirtation.
- Via Politico: Trump ends speculation on another debate: ‘There will be no rematch’.
- Via Slate: Ron DeSantis’ Administration Is Threatening to Prosecute the Media for Airing Pro-Choice Ads.
- Via NBC News: Harris blasts Arkansas governor’s comments about her lack of biological children.
- VIA LGM: What are we doing here? Sigh.
- To go along with that link:
TGITabs!
Well, at least it’s Friday…
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@BugManDan: I’ve long been of the opinion that First Ladies (or soon Gentlemen) should not be part of the Presidential election package. If they don’t want to participate in the Presidency, they should have that right. But once they interview, write a book, hideously and publicly redecorate the White House, then they have entered the public domain and are subject to public scrutiny.
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Trump isn’t flirting with race science, he’s a dog humping the leg of race science. He doesn’t have the ability to understand it, it’s awful anyway, but he so likes it. Flirtation suggests a level of understanding that he just doesn’t have.
Seriously, does anyone think Donald Trump would know what to do with calipers and a human skull?
Tom Buchanan, from The Great Gatsby*, was a horrible person with absolutely terrible views on race, but at least he understood the wildly incorrect theories he read about and kept bringing up. Trump doesn’t read. Trump doesn’t go beyond “we is good, they is bad.”
*: that book is wild. It’s a slender book all about white people, but still has time for lots of racism. I’m a big fan of the interpretation that Gatsby was a light-skinned African-American passing for White. And that Nick was in love with Gatsby.
And that Gatsby was colorblind, mistaking red lights for green lights — both at the end of the pier, and at intersections while driving. Everything was telling him to stop, but he just couldn’t see it.
It’s a much better book if you just throw out any and all author’s intent.
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If I may, an addition to the list.
Raccoons are unable to distinguish Elon’s Cybertruck from a dumpster.
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I’m a big fan of the interpretation that Gatsby was a light-skinned African-American passing for White. And that Nick was in love with Gatsby.
I LOVE THIS INTERPRETATION! I wish I had known about it when I was teaching high school.
(My only objection is that the link I was able to get to quickly named Jordan Baker, not Jay and no mention of Nick loving Jay. But those are quibbles.)
ETA: “It’s a much better book if you just throw out any and all author’s intent.”
I think so, too. It has something in common with the Constitution in that way.
