It’s that time of the week again when, besides eating mince pies and getting hypnotised by sparkly tinsel things because of the particular week it is, I round up a choice of those “serious issues” this week.
Regards how it is to be one of tangerine Trump’s former friends when not helping him get his way:
Highland Trump II: The Don defends Scotland from wind turbine giants (thisisnocave.blogspot.co.uk).
“Donald Trump harangued the former first minister of Scotland as ‘Mad Alex’ and accused him of being on a ‘march to oblivion’ in a series of increasingly angry and eccentric letters about windfarms he claimed were blighting his Scottish golf courses. The correspondence with Alex Salmond, revealed by the Huffington Post after a freedom of information request, demonstrated that Trump’s tone swung wildly between coaxing and threatening as he grew increasingly frustrated with his former ally’s refusal to change his policy on renewable energy. Trump warned Salmond that his dream of Scottish independence would be ‘gone with the wind’ if he continued to support windfarm developments, accusing the then leader of the Scottish National party of being ‘hellbent’ on damaging Scotland’s coastline.”
And besides going on to show that his Scotland knowledge seemingly comes from a book about Rob Roy then went on to show that despite supposedly doing it to honour his mother with an alt-right Pepe as his Sancho Panza helping pull on his armour so “The Don” can quixotically tilt wind turbine giants, it’s more, as you might remember if post-truth hasn’t done a Sith lord mind trick on your sense of disbelief, all about said wind turbines spoiling view in his Scottish golf course rich man Disneyland.
And, meanwhile, does anyone want to say again that racism was not a part of the equation?
Trump official Paladino under fire over crude Obama remarks (thisisnocave.blogspot.co.uk).
“Carl Paladino, a co-chair of President-elect Donald Trump’s New York campaign, is facing a backlash over crude remarks about Barack and Michelle Obama. … Referring to Mr Obama, Mr Paladino said he hoped the president ‘catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations’ with a cow and would die and be buried ‘in a cow pasture’. On Mrs Obama, Mr Paladino said: ‘I’d like her to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.’ … He later said his remarks were meant to be humorous. But…”
But, if it’s a lack of “little deprecating humour”—seemingly always aimed at those perceived as inferior—that has lost America it’s greatness… yeah, híjole, you’re fucked and should really just let old Mr Mr Palomino Paladino get back to his dreams of rolling in horse rather than cow “pasture”.
A digest that through the quirky deconstruction of latest stories aims to show that a lot of media “opinion” is actually just “agenda” or “opportunity” and why philosophy is useful in everyday life in defining—for and by yourself—the difference between what ancient Greeks like Plato defined as episteme (knowledge) and doxa (belief), and not just idealistic training to pack Fyffes bananas. Think a bumper bonanza of those cultural, political and just down right hypothetical you don’t really read in Latest Picks.
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