Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:

No, it's like PBS. 

Or like our CBC.  A propaganda site for entrenched bureaucracies and those who feel they're so smart and important that they really should be addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Spectator USA

The carnival in the Capitol | Spectator USA

You don't take a big wooden spear to a protest if you have an earnest plan to storm Capitol Hill. Yet inarguably they did storm Capitol Hill

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Great analysis.  Also linked to therein by the author:

theweek.com

How camp explains Trump

On the still strangely underappreciated nature of the outgoing president's appeal

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From the article:

Camp, according to Sontag, "sees everything in quotation marks." It also depends upon "flamboyant mannerisms susceptible of a double interpretation; gestures full of duplicity, with a witty meaning for cognoscenti and another, more impersonal, for outsiders." This is what the fact-checking crowd never understood: Trump's off-the-cuff superlatives, both positive and negative, were part of a performance. The hysterical reaction of journalists, especially those who assume that such statements are capable of being judged in some coldly objective, quantitative manner, to his assertion that he has done more for African Americans than any president with the possible exception of Lincoln is the point, and so is the breathless defense from figures like Candace Owens.

I like this:

One thing Sontag does not mention in her essay is that politically speaking camp belongs decidedly, if not with any especial degree of conviction, to the right. Mussolini with his pouting lips and burlesques of classical architecture was a camp figure in a way that no left-wing dictator could be. Margaret Thatcher was camp, and so was Silvio Berlusconi. Camp is incompatible with progressive politics because its assumption of a hierarchy of understanding between those who do and do not "get it" is inherently anti-egalitarian, and with modish liberalism because it rejects moralism. (The polar opposite of right-wing camp is Aaron Sorkin.)

Are we keeping score?

Apollonius (Theocritos) said:

Are we keeping score?

TheHill

US attorney's office opens federal murder probe into Capitol police officer's death: reports

Federal authorities will open a murder investigation following a Capitol Police officer's death after Wednesday's riots at the Capitol, according to multiple media reports.

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I'm looking for several billion dollars in reparations from Black Lives Matter for all the deaths and destruction they have wrought.

Apollonius (Theocritos) said:

Black Lives Matter

Yes, they do. Here's some of the weapons that this civil war is being fought with.

Atlanta musicians hold lunchtime ‘Violin Vigil’ for Elijah McClain

Don't know anything about it.

Where are you that you can pick it up?

I don't understand the point of the article.

Yeah, man!!!