A bit warmer today, with 79F and 87%RH this morning. Clear blue skies and sunny. Ah, summer. <\/p>\n
Hurricane season is kicking off here in the Gulf Region (I know, RBT, I know), so it’s time to ramp up the seasonal preps. As I do, I’ll mention it here…. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
As an example of the continuing degradation of the public sphere, can anyone here imagine, in your wildest dreams, that someone would call the daughter of the President and a Whitehouse staffer, a “feckless c#nt” on a national TV show? <\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-05-31\/comedian-wins-award-social-change-calls-ivanka-trump-feckless-ct<\/p>\n
After [some] public outcry and [some] advertisers bailed, she said ” It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it.” <\/p>\n
What she means is “I MOVED a line, and next time it will be worse.”<\/p>\n
Again, I know I’m ‘doom and gloom’ but think about what it means for our society that stuff like this is happening. Think about the ‘frog boiling’ aspects of it. I can’t see it ending up anywhere nice, and I can’t see it taking very much longer to get there.<\/p>\n
Remember, she thought she would be REWARDED by people for what she said. Her staff full of writers did too. As did her Producers.<\/p>\n
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A bit warmer today, with 79F and 87%RH this morning. Clear blue skies and sunny. Ah, summer. <\/p>\n
Hurricane season is kicking off here in the Gulf Region (I know, RBT, I know), so it’s time to ramp up the seasonal preps. As I do, I’ll mention it here…. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
As an example of the continuing degradation of the public sphere, can anyone here imagine, in your wildest dreams, that someone would call the daughter of the President and a Whitehouse staffer,<\/p>\n