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For the last two days, Fox has been railing against anonymous sources, including their own

Donald Trump demands Fox reporter Jennifer Griffin is fired

 

I can’t decide which of these I like better

 

My father, a fellow Boomer like Trump, served in Vietnam in the Air Force, working on the planes that dropped the Agent Orange. As a result he developed Hodgkins disease then died of a heart attack that came about from the radiation treatment.

He was 32 and I was 5 when it happened.

Trump can go fuck himself obviously, but this is just who he is. The fact that so many other boomers continue supporting this man while having known Vietnam vets — friends from high school who never came home — well, you can begin shooting these people out of a cannon into a brick wall whenever you’re ready. I won’t lose a minute of sleep over it.

 

Six of one, half a dozen of another. Pick ‘em.

 

I suggest you speak with any European who lived through WWII before you describe freely raging on a message board as "this living hell."

 

China’s attempt to cow Europe this week went poorly and I feel like there’s gonna be some aftershocks.

In the ritualized world of diplomatic jargon, this moment signaled not only a new European tone but also a new direction. For years, many European countries, and above all Germany, did their best for commercial reasons to look the other way as China violated human rights, took advantage of Europe’s open markets and bullied some of its Asian neighbors. Those times appear to be over.

The list of grievances against China has simply become too long. It starts with the crackdown on Hong Kong and the suppression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang — China insists that both topics, like the Taiwanese question, are internal matters and none of the world’s business. Then there’s China’s saber-rattling in the South China Sea, and of course its rapacious approach to business.

To ameliorate the latter, the summit on Sept. 14 was originally meant to formalize a better relationship for mutual investment between the EU and China. But after years of negotiations, the Europeans are fed up with China’s intransigence over the many ways its state-owned or state-guided firms buy into the EU’s single market to distort competition or snaffle up technologies. Rather than facilitate Chinese investment in Europe, the EU is starting to restrict it.​

Opinion | Europe Just Declared Independence From China — Bloomberg

 

I’m going with the classic here: Fuck him gently with a chainsaw, Heather.

 

FATUS again distracts while the real criming continues unabated. But, hey, who has time for details on illegal surveillance?

 

Talking to Trumpists reminds me of trying to have a rational conversation with my dying mother when she no longer knew who I was; it’ll never make sense and trying to change that is only beating your head against a wall.

 

I can't safely go to a movie (one of the loves of my life) but charlatans are demanding I send my children to school - I would call that a living hell of sorts.

 

Dueling militias in Kentucky, y'all.