Thank you, once again, New Yorker. I needed two mornings (and two coffees!) to get through this whopper from beginning to end. (Frankly, I wish I read it in print; this pushed my screen-reading limits!) But I'm glad I got through it, nonetheless.
Although I could have done without the reminiscing about Snowden (I've read so so so much about that already!) I still think this is REQUIRED READING for Glenn fans. It brilliantly portrays the human (a very imperfect one!) that wraps the brain and intellect we know and love.
As it relates to Russia & Trump, I'm with Glenn 100%. It is, in fact, a witch hunt. If it ends with a peepee video - fuck us all. And if it ends with some other evil Putin/Trump shenanigan... well... tell me something we don't all already know. What's more important is that we, as Americans, wake up to our own corruption, evil, and, as of late, our capacity for outrageous levels of stupidity and ignorance.
These are my favorite quotes:
"American liberals [are] caught up in an “insane, insidious, xenophobic, jingoistic kind of craziness."
"It has become a virtual consensus among the elites that their members are so indispensable to the running of American society that vesting them with immunity from prosecution—even for the most egregious crimes—is not only in their interest but in our interest, too."
“It’s great that people like Paul Manafort are finally being held accountable for their sleazy K Street practices, and their money laundering and all of that.” He talks fast, and often at a volume suited to a poor Skype connection. “But I really don’t think it’s about justice. I think the people who are doing this are genuinely offended by the entire Trump circle, in part for political and ideological reasons, and in part because he has broken all of the rules of their world, in terms of who gets to be in power, and what you have to do to get it.”
"“The people who hate Trump the most are the people who have been running Washington for decades. It’s not so much that they’re bothered by his corruption—they’re bothered by his inability to prettify and mask it.”
...and yeah... definitely... the United States IS a “uniquely corrupt and evil country.” To say or think otherwise makes you an idiot.
Thank you, once again, New Yorker. I needed two mornings (and two coffees!) to get through this whopper from beginning to end. (Frankly, I wish I read it in print; this pushed my screen-reading limits!) But I'm glad I got through it, nonetheless.
Although I could have done without the reminiscing about Snowden (I've read so so so much about that already!) I still think this is REQUIRED READING for Glenn fans. It brilliantly portrays the human (a very imperfect one!) that wraps the brain and intellect we know and love.
As it relates to Russia & Trump, I'm with Glenn 100%. It is, in fact, a witch hunt. If it ends with a peepee video - fuck us all. And if it ends with some other evil Putin/Trump shenanigan... well... tell me something we don't all already know. What's more important is that we, as Americans, wake up to our own corruption, evil, and, as of late, our capacity for outrageous levels of stupidity and ignorance.
These are my favorite quotes:
...and yeah... definitely... the United States IS a “uniquely corrupt and evil country.” To say or think otherwise makes you an idiot.