The New York Times made a video of things they’ve recorded people saying at Trump rallies over the last year. It’s actually a little tame compared to what I expected, but still beyond appalling.
The compilation is only modestly more disgusting than the things Trump has said himself.
Found this in the comments at Washington Monthly:
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
The US has been a fertile ground for racism, sexism, et al.
Love how the NYT is always engaged in a form of cultural tourism. This could have been narrated by Sir Richard Attenborough: “The Trump supporters, after a rousing speech by their candidate, often get quote jacked up and quote go after Muslims. Why, sometimes they get involved in gasp fisticuffs!”
It also reinforces the observational bias that leads to all Trump supporters being thought of as comparable to the folks at these rallies. But I don’t see in this film much sense diversity of the Trump movement. (Yes, there can be different flavors of small-mindedness and bigotry!)
So glad you shared it here. Would love to have Alexa Pelosi re-visit her film on the 2008 election focussing on McCain supporters. Thought she nailed this issue in that piece…
I’m wondering at which point we’ll see a full-on disconnection, Scientology-style, between the most ardent Trump supporters and their relatives. It seems to be happening in some of my friends’ families, but the plural of anecdotes is not data.
Would love to have Alexa Pelosi re-visit her film on the 2008 election focussing on McCain supporters.
Has anyone seen Alexandra Pelosi’s latest? The biggest donor to HRC’s SuperPAC, Haim Saban($5,000,000+), was a sexest pig towards her. And for those of you that don’t know, Saban funded the building of the DNC HQ. He’s also why the Democrats are so over-the-top pro-Israel. That he was so sexist towards Nancy Pelosi’s daughter means he thinks of them as hired help. Imagine what he thinks of us proles.
But it’s totally about trade policy.
For some people it is.
Anyone here ever actually SEEN an avalanche from beginning to end? I have. In Lassen ’85, Xcountry skiing around Bumpass Hell to Lake Helen.
It starts very softly, is quite serene and is very small. The only real difference between the start of an avalanche and the wind blowing whiffs off the ridge line is that the whiffs are coming 5-10 ft below the top of the ridge line. It quickly becomes huge (within about 75-100ft) and the noise sounds like a tornado.
You are beginning to see the whiffs from about 25-30 feet from the ridgeline.
Once the house of cards has begun to fall, I doubt there is anything that stop it.
Just a technical note; some avalanches start that way. But slab avalanches, which are the variety that I would see in Colorado, basically involve a huge shelf of ice/snow breaking off and barreling down the mountainside.
This doesn’t contradict your analogy, though. The potential energy is built under the snow cover, where it can’t be perceived.