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2017 according to our betters

Goodbye 2017. And good riddance.
What a dumpster fire of a year, especially for those who reside and operate in the world of politics and policy. Who will mourn the passing of 2017?

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As the year comes to a close, the job of making sense of it begins.
This year, I heard so many people ask, "Is this really happening?" It felt at times as if we were living in an alternate reality. There’s no denying that 2017 was both bizarre and a rallying of all sorts. The question is, who will be left standing when the rally is over?

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Grit your teeth. Persevere. Just a few more days and this awful, rotten, no-good, ridiculous, rancorous, sordid, disgraceful year in the civic life of our nation will be over. Here’s hoping that we all — particularly special counsel Robert Mueller — have a better 2018.

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Alas, I confess to having difficulty finding much positivity to cling to this year, because as far as the state of the American union is concerned, I have never seen anything as bad as 2017.

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War, climate change, and the return of fascist politics to the United States and Europe have all shown that the certainties of the 1990s were not certainties at all. Neither Hitler nor the Paris Peace Agreement changed our world permanently. Donald Trump is the president and the future feels canceled.  How do we escape, now? In 2017 the monsters of our nightmares stepped into the daylight, and in response we turned to a new version of the real.

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Читал бы такое и читал, эх. Отличный был год, короче говоря. Жалко только, что "и это пройдет".

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Bright

Зачем еще нужны издания вроде Вокса: когда они что-нибудь ругают, можно с достаточной уверенностью предположить, что они это делают из идеологических соображений – и сделать соответствующие выводы. Сейчас проверю этот принцип в очередной раз: прочел там полную презрения и отвращения рецензию на первый нетфликсовский фильм Bright, который сегодня вышел, и намерен его посмотреть. Подозреваю, фильм оказался для воксовцев недостаточно woke, то есть смотреть будет можно.

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Напоминание

Полезно помнить, кто тут на чьей стороне: статья на Воксе про голосование в ООН озаглавлена "The world just delivered a stinging rebuke to Trump over Jerusalem" Очередная, типа, победа здравого смысла над Трампом.

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Откуда у вас, доктор, такие картинки?

President Trump attacked Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in a sexually suggestive tweet Tuesday morning that implied Gillibrand would do just about anything for money, prompting a swift and immediate backlash.

“Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Charles E. Schumer and someone who would come to my office ‘begging’ for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump,” the president wrote. “Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!”

"- Дети, у меня в руках кирпич. О чем вы думаете, когда смотрите на него?"

UPD: это не просто sexually suggestive tweet. Это, оказывается, slut-shaming. Еще полдня, и это будет sexual assault.

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A Woman To Look Up To

Украшение на верхушку рождественской елки.

Angel Hillary

Идея явно оттуда же, откуда Dumbledore’s Army, из любимой книжки:

"Fred, George, Harry, and Ron were the only ones who knew that the angel on top of the tree was actually a garden gnome that had bitten Fred on the ankle as he pulled up carrots for Christmas dinner. Stupefied, painted gold, stuffed into a miniature tutu and with small wings glued to its backit glowered down at them all, the ugliest angel Harry had ever seen"

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Хроники Резистанса

Партизанская борьба в глубинах CFPB:

Some employees, including a few of the bureau’s top officials, have welcomed their new leader. Others, pointing to Mr. Mulvaney’s earlier hostility toward the agency and its mission, are quietly resisting. One small group calls itself “Dumbledore’s Army,” according to two of the people who were familiar with their discussions. The name is a reference to a secret resistance force in the “Harry Potter” books.

С одной стороны, совершенно охреневшие от безнаказанности бюрократы, которые слишком много о себе возомнили. Не нравится им, видите ли, что новая администрация их миссию не уважает. С другой стороны – ну дети же, ей-богу. Dumbledore’s Army. Прямо жалко их, несчастных.

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BFD

Заявления насчет Иерусалима еще нет, но вся левая лента уже в слезах, слюнях и соплях по колено. Как же им плохо при Трампе, а. Каждый день конец света.

UPD: He did it.

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Сгущалось

Ross Douthat, NYT: It may be that the conservatives of the 1990s were simply right about Clinton, that once he failed to resign he really deserved to be impeached.

Прямо оторопь берет. Подозреваю, впрочем, что из этого внезапного общенационального, хотя и несколько запоздавшего, покаяния вот-вот логически вылезет необходимость импичнуть Трампа, которому нашли человек десять обвинительниц прямо перед выборами. "Мы же своего осудили!"

Где те обвинительницы, кстати, куда их засунули, когда Трамп выборы выиграл? Будут их сейчас доставать обратно?

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