SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 2026
We Blues don't know how to describe it: Almost surely Ezra Klein's latest column was written before the latest fatal shooting.
Below, you see the (insightful) way the column starts.
But let the word go forth to the nations. In the wake of the latest fatal shooting, one part of our national circumstance should now be abundantly clear:
Trump Just Proved Carney’s Point
“Dear Prime Minister Carney,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Everything Trump has done over the last week has made him look tawdry, addled and small. He began his latest play for Greenland by complaining about being passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize and ended it by disinviting Mark Carney from his “Board of Peace.” For Trump, nothing—not even peace—transcends his brutish transactionalism.
The president believes, or says he believes, that his cockamamie snd kooky "Board of Leaders" is destined to become "the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time!"
With that, let's be honest, just once:
Does any journalist need any further proof that, at the very least, that most powerful person is, at the very least suffering from some sort of cognitive shortfall? Perhaps from some ongoing cognitive decline? Perhaps from some such decline layered atop something potentially worse?
Cognitive decline is a human tragedy. So is the "lack of empathy" associated with several (clinically diagnosable) personality disorders, including antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.
Just to be clear:
That "lack of empathy" is seen as a lack of empathy only when compared to the shortfalls of empathy which are more typical of everyone else. For the record, all of us are gifted with limited stores of empathy. Those of us who suffer from certain clinical disorders are even less inclined to empathy than that.
It's also true that those diagnosable medical disorders may have a physiological base. The leading authority on "sociopathy" starts its discussion of that matter like this:
Antisocial personality disorder
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Causes
Personality disorders are generally believed to be caused by a combination and interaction of genetics and environmental influences.
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Research into genetic associations in antisocial personality disorder suggests that ASPD has some or even a strong genetic basis. The prevalence of ASPD is higher in people related to someone with the disorder. Twin studies, which are designed to discern between genetic and environmental effects, have reported significant genetic influences on antisocial behavior and conduct disorder.
In the specific genes that may be involved, one gene that has shown particular promise in its correlation with ASPD is the gene that encodes for monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A), an enzyme that breaks down monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin and norepinephrine. Various studies examining the gene's relationship to behavior have suggested that variants of the gene resulting in less MAO-A being produced (such as the 2R and 3R alleles of the promoter region) have associations with aggressive behavior in men.
The discussion of possible physiological causes continues at length from there. Let's put it in slightly simpler terms:
Some unfortunate kids may be born with a wire hanging loose in their heads! In that sense, a diagnosis of ASPD would be the diagnosis of a disease (i.e., of a mental illness).
It would be a diagnosis of a physiological affliction which leads to certain kinds of behavior. It would be the diagnosis of an illness. It would not simply be a high falutin way of describing undesirable behavior.
Our nation is facing a world of hurt at the present time. That said:
In the presence of the president's ludicrous assessments of his own superior moral and intellectual greatness, is there any excuse for our major journalists to continue along as if they've spotted nothing to look at with respect to this powerful person's overall mental/medical makeup?
There are many problems to be examined in the wake of the latest fatal shooting. For one example, you need to see the way the fatal shooting was reported and described by all three co-hosts on this morning's Fox & Friends Weekend.
It was Charlie and Rachel and Griff oh my! The agitprop was general over the broadcast. The thumbs on the scale were endless.
That said:
Given our current state of tribal division, our nation is currently locked in a virtual civil war. But let the word go forth to the nations:
Some of the problems we currently face originate Over Here, within the warrens of our own Blue America.
Some of the problems are found Over Here! That said, a major circumstance driving all these matters is the president's apparent medical / cognitive circumstance. Journalists who still behave as if there's nothing to see there enable that tragic but dangerous syndrome.
Unfortunately, Blue America's leading journalists don't seem to have the slightest idea how to handle this problem. Long ago and far away, Bob Dylan sketched the outlines of this Blue American shortfall in his most famous song:
Like a Rolling Stone
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You’ve gone to the finest schools, all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it.
Nobody ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you’re gonna have to get used to it...
Many went to the finest schools, but there seem to be things they weren't taught there. Being human like everyone else, they seem to be massively over their heads at this profoundly dangerous time.
As a general matter, we Blues don't see this lack of skill among our own elites as part of our national problem. Massively, though, it is.
Fox & Friends Weekend was awful today, but we Blues have our large shortfalls too.
The madness has been general from MAGA elites in the wake of the latest fatal shooting. (Kristi Noem: Astounding!) If the power stays on in Baltimore even after the snow and the ice stop descending, we'll struggle to begin sorting it out, starting tomorrow morning.
For now, in closing, this:
What will be the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled at any time!
The man from ICE, per law, neutralized the assassin.
ReplyDeleteman from ICE??????
DeleteWhat the fuck is wrong with you?
Gotcha , Trumptard, so it’s FAFO, just like Charlie Kirk. Time to get back on your computer and beat off to a loop you created of a Capitol Policeman wedged in a door by your felon’s mob.
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ReplyDelete"The president believes, or says he believes, that his cockamamie snd [sic] kooky "Board of Leaders" is destined to become "the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time!" "
It's sad that you, Bob, and the Klein idiot are so horribly envious of not being invited. So envious that you can't even type straight.
Yes, sad, very sad. Try to get over yourself, Bob.
You can maybe take up one of the empty seats. It will take a while for them to invite the very lowest dregs to fill them, but keep an eye on your inbox.
Delete"That "lack of empathy" is seen as a lack of empathy only when compared to the shortfalls of empathy which are more typical of everyone else. For the record, all of us are gifted with limited stores of empathy. Those of us who suffer from certain clinical disorders are even less inclined to empathy than that."
ReplyDeleteThis is bunk. Humans have empathy because it provides survival value to a species that has depended on group cohesion to stay alive during the very long period of human evolution. Having empathy is normal. Lacking empathy is a deviation. When Somerby proposed that lack of empathy is normal, he is wrong and contradicts the knowledge of most experts who study humanity.
When Somerby claims that it is normal to lack empathy or to have limited empathy, he is trying to justify Trump's failings and the failings of those in power now -- the people who are pursuing only their own self interest and who don't give a damn about the people they are supposed to be governing. But that is not the normal human condition -- it is an aberration.
The NIH (National Institutes of Health) have conducted many studies showing that empathy is an innate, inborn human trait that appears in early childhood, as when one baby's crying sets off another baby to cry. It is instantiated in the brain via mirror neurons. As children develop empathy is nurtured by prosocial teaching. Somerby's contention that failures of empathy are normal and that humans fall short when it comes to empathy is self-serving nonsense that serves his own purposes of excusing the aberrant behavior of our president and his appointees, notably Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, and others who reveal themselves to be sociopathic and emotionally disabled as human beings.
Nancy Eisenberg studies empathy and prosocial emotion. Her work is a good place to start understanding the role of empathy, sympathy, and social learning:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10751984/
Bob Dylan doesn't excuse Kristi Noem or Trump (who attended military school).
ReplyDeleteSomerby's idea that these people have ASPD and thus are allowed to deviate from social norms because of loose wiring is ridiculous. First, those with ASPD largely learn to obey cultural via other types of learning, even if they lack an empathetic response to the distress of others. Most grow up to be useful and productive members of society, form relationships and live their lives because they are taught how to behave and benefit from that teaching.
It is only when ASPD is combined with severe abuse in early childhood that such people become deviant enough to break the law, hurt others and become criminals of one sort or another (Bernie Madoff is a different kind of criminal than Hannibal Lecter or Donald Trump). Our laws are sufficient to remove deviants from society, and that system fails only when combined with great wealth, so it is the combination of control system failure that produces someone like Trump or Ted Bundy. But the deviance and rareness of such people is a hallmark -- it is not the case that these people are widespread in our culture because we all lack sufficient empathy, as Somerby claims today. That is a major insult to both humanity and to the many kind and good people who have built inter-dependent communities in which people help each other to improve their lives.
The fact that there is a special category in psychiatry for anti-social personality disorder is itself an indicator that this condition is abnormal, not typical of us all.
It seems clear that some cultures value empathy more than others, as a value held by a self-aware society. The right wing seems to be emphasizing cruelty these days. That doesn't make every person on the right a cruel person, but it places value on ignoring kindness as a weakness and emphasizing cruelty as a strength. That may attract those with less empathy (or a desire to be hard) to the right wing. It doesn't change humanity as a whole. The left has similarly emphasized the capacity for caring about others. There are lawn signs in CO urging kindness, and t-shirts with such slogans in the Denver airport. That may attract those who are kind or who want to be more kind to blue culture and community. That doesn't change humanity as a whole either -- as witnessed by the existence of ICE agents.
Somerby's lengthy excuse for the actions of ICE is despicable, on the wrong track, and it excuses wrongdoing that is destructive to our society. But his continuing attempts to blame blue America for Trump and Noem is ridiculous. Somerby has never presented any evidence that these people are in power because of we blues. Today he blames us for lack of courage, which is adding insult to the injury committed in Minneapolis by ICE. If we were the majority in Congress there would be more action to use the law to control miscreants in our govt. We follow the law because we believe in it, while Noem and her crew are destroying evidence of the shooting to the point where the DCI has sued to force them to retain it pending investigation.
Somerby's attempt to blame blue America for ICE shows how shitty a person he is. He should be ashamed, but he perhaps lacks the social emotion of shame, as Trump does. Today, he comes here on a Sunday (when he usually does not write) to rub this shooting in our faces. Who does that? Bad people who our neanderthal ancestors would have left out in the snow for lack of community feeling, thus cleansing the species of cold-hearted evil. Too bad that isn't an option today.
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DeleteWell said, 10:48.
DeleteSomerby's dismissal of blues for not rising to the moment is particularly offensive while discussing a circumstance where blues are literally putting their lives at risk to resist authoritarianism.
Jeff Bezos’ Underlings Are Ordered to Prop Up Melania’s Struggling ‘Doc’
ReplyDeleteIs that the same guy who bought the Washington Post and turned it into a rightwing rag? Why yes, I think it is.
What's wild is that even Republicans are aware that Trump and Melania can not stand each other and live separate lives, and Republicans do not care. Heck, Republicans are now fine even if Trump is implicated in the Epstein files (which he is).
DeleteBezos is just trying to buy from Trump some protection, and he's worried it won't work; it was a poor effort in that endeavor, which speaks to Bezos lacking savvy and cleverness.
It could be argued that every action Trump has taken in his life has been to ward off the experience of shame (a social emotion that teaches children about controlling their impulses and bodily functions). He lives in a fantasy world to ward off such feelings as failure and social awkwardness. The futility of his gilding his world is more apparent the older her gets and the more clumsy his seeking of approval.
ReplyDeleteThe irony is that Somerby is trying to hint that Trump may have ASPD, an inability to feel empathy for others, but he himself definitely feels small, inadequate, excluded, deviant, incapable of success, etc., or he wouldn't be doing so much, so continually, to cover up those feelings and puff himself up in the ways where he feels lacking.
It is easy to tell what Trump considers to be his own deficiencies, the ones he is guarding against acknowledging, by his coping efforts. The womanizing and sexual abuse of girls and women, including rape, show his sexual inadequacy. No real man has to buy an Eastern European wife. The things he lies about show what he considers his weaknesses, from his height to his achievements (business success, golf scores, compliments from Putin et al.). Now he brags about his Montreal test scores as a sign of his high IQ. He has to tell so many lies because he has so many vulnerabilities that he cannot face. That suggests too much awareness of how far short of norms he falls, not too little sensitivity to his failures. He wants others to appreciate him so he builds a gaudy gilded facade over his whole life. That is not ASPD. Those people don't care what others think of them. Trump clearly does.
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DeleteHaven't seen that one by Costa-Gavras, but I liked Missing, great movie, I particularly liked the acting and the dynamic between the father (Jack Lemmon) and the wife (Sissy Spacek) of the "missing" journalist.
DeleteI was sad when Costa-Gavras signed onto the petition to release Polanski.
Polanski was also a great filmmaker, but a terrible person.
It is hard to ignore how many of our top storytellers are garbage human beings.
Every time we are hurt by something Trump does, Somerby comes around to kick us while we are down, claiming that we did it to ourselves by putting Trump in office.
ReplyDeleteThe people who put Trump in office are the ones who voted for him. We blues didn't do that. We are the ones running around trying to fix the damage Trump is doing to our country. That is what Alex Pretti was doing when ICE shot him.
Somerby aligns himself with Trump, Noem and ICE today. His essay is unkind because it name calls we blue voters, but also the entire human race, pretending that we are all like ICE to one degree or another. That is false, but it is worse that Somerby would tell grieving people that we brought this on ourselves by not kicking Trump to the curb, when that is what we blues tried to do, back when Somerby was telling us (falsely) that Biden was too old and Harris's smile was too sweet, and lying about the border.
Somerby and red America own this situation in Minnesota. Maybe it will be the downfall of Trump because people will identify with Pretti and realize this evil could happen to them too, and do something about it. That is a form of empathy -- recognizing that we too can be oppressed because we are no different than illegals in the eyes of Noem and ICE.
It is the message of the holocaust in Germany. No one is safe from tyrants, so we cannot look on from a safe distance and say "those people are not like me, so I will be fine" because that is not how dictators think about you and I. They only care about themselves and that is too small a circle for anyone else to be safe from their violence, especially when they feel threatened.
Somerby perhaps thinks that aligning with red assholes will keep him safe. Perhaps he is identifying with what he considers strength, or the winners. In the long run, there are more of us blues and more good decent people than there are self-serving assholes like Somerby and his would-be protectors (who will abandon him without a thought), so sacred Troy will rise again and those mugs on the beach with their backs to the waves will be soaked and shivering without anyone to hand them a towel.
You made us vote for him and have every intention of keeping you out of power. Thank the core of your party, the rapists, murderers, abortionists, perverts and child mutilators who define you now.
DeleteThe ICE agent was probably wrong to shoot Alex Prett. Pretti could have been subdued without killing him. Having acknowledged that, what should be done to prevent this sort of thing?
ReplyDelete1. Better training and selection of ICE agents
2. People stop interfering with ICE agents
3. Walz and Frey stop encouraging people to interfere with ICE agents
There were 7+ ICE agents swarming Pretti and 14 or more shots, some to his back. This isn't about one ICE agent.
DeleteYou forgot #4:
Elimination of ICE and firing of all ICE agents.
Laws mean nothing unless they're enforced. If we eliminate ICE agents, we are eliminating laws against illegal immigration. Is that what you want, @11:24?
DeleteBy your logic, we should enforce tax laws by shooting all tax evaders in a firing squad. Pretti was a citizen. Which immigration law was being enforced against him?
DeleteI would add that Noem was wrong to misdescribe the event. But, that still leaves my three suggestions as the only reasonable options to solve the problem.
DeleteI think the 4th option is the best solution -- abolish ICE.
Deleteabolish ICE? Do you mean citizens should just lynch illegal aliens?
DeleteGet the fuck out of here you dumbness ducking g troll.
DeleteNo ICE before Jr. Shrub. Yes, eliminate it, don't give the jagoffs $200 million to kill innocent folks.
DeleteSorry, such a big fucking number, bigger than most countries armed forces, $200 BILLION not million.
DeleteYou don't know what "could have" happened when you're in the middle of a violent armed agitator resisting arrest with a split second to act. That's a dumb take.
DeleteICE and CBP are relatively new, only dating back to the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
DeleteAmerica did just fine without ICE/CBP.
A plurality of Americans now support abolishing ICE.
Pretti was executed by a CBP agent.
Good's shooter was also a former CBP agent.
This distinction is noteworthy because CBP agents only have a jurisdiction of 100-200 miles from a border (the range is dependent on the region), their training is focused on apprehending smugglers, and they have a history of excessive uses of force.
Neither Good nor Pretti were interfering or obstructing ICE/CBP from conducting their official duties.
The Republicans that are doubling down on all this, which would include the original commenter, are shooting themselves in the foot, which is wild to observe.
Get the fuck out of here with your bullshit 1:22. We can watch the snuff murder videos and so can you.
DeleteLook how Somerby tries to discuss this shooting but cannot even say the victim's name. What is wrong with Somerby?
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't it sufficient to refer to red and blue as two different sets of political values/beliefs/attitudes instead of layering the term "tribal" over the differences, especially when there are no actual tribalisms that correlate?
ReplyDeleteI do not see how Somerby's continual efforts to diminish human nature and humanity will solve our current disputes. Does he think that devaluing our values will lessen our willingness to fight for our freedoms, democracy, and the things we care about (fairness, equality under the law, civil rights)? Does he want to see us all as apes groveling in the mud -- let the biggest ape win? That is Noem's level, even if her weapons are louder than neanderthal clubs.
Bottom line for Somerby is that we should all give up trying to defend democracy and other lefty values because we are all just craven cave men cowering in caves, with nothing to gain and no claim to be better than desperate creatures, some with a wire hanging loose.
Well written@11:42. Here's a paradox: Both sides think they're supporting fairness, equality under the law, civil rights, civil liberties. Both tribes believe that the other side is undermining these values.
DeleteThe right wing is not supporting civil rights for all, just for white people.
DeleteBlacks in Chicago and other Democratic cities don't have good civil liberties. Go read the book "Crook County" and find out how badly blacks are treated in Chicago.
DeleteThat is why I've moved to the Democratic Republic of the Congo! It's a beautiful place! Come, come over, Democrat cat-ladies!
DeleteGet the fuck out of here you stupid troll.
DeleteI was wrong. I thought the problems of ICE in MN were due in part to the unusually large ICE activity in MN. It turns out that Texas, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Arizona, etc. have had more ICE arrests than Minnesota. Those states didn't have problems like Minneapolis. https://x.com/Geiger_Capital/status/2015313021208330636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2015381195128009211%7Ctwgr%5E1fc79ddedac4e384fb19e7d9ccf89daff9692809%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F771820%2F
ReplyDeleteOf course they have had problems in those other states too. Your ignorance of them doesn't mean they haven't been happening.
Deletehttps://www.npr.org/2026/01/22/nx-s1-5685017/death-of-a-detainee-at-an-ice-detention-center-in-texas-is-ruled-a-homicide
Deletehttps://abcnews.go.com/US/dont-life-family-nicaraguan-man-seeks-answers-after/story?id=129497484
Fuck David the crunt troll. Get the fuck out of here you piece of shit. Everybody hates your brand of stupid.
DeleteTo be fair those states don't have billions of dollars of corruption and theft to cover up by Tampon Tim Walz and Somalis.
DeleteThe fraud in MN involved 250 million dollars, it was masterminded and implemented by an American White Christian woman, Aimee Bock - the woman who founded and operated the organization that ran the fraud, and investigators are continuing to find more money that she squirreled away for her personal benefit.
DeleteThe fraud was discovered by the Walz administration who then tipped off the Feds, and it was later prosecuted by the Biden administration.
"A conservative who served as the top lawyer for the Department of Homeland Security under president Trump, and who helped create the DHS in 2002, is furiously calling for the president to be impeached after the latest killing by agents.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Conway, a fellow conservative who has opposed Trump for years, noted about the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti that, "The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts."
"The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him. The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed in cold blood," Conway wrote. "There is no conceivable justification for this intentional homicide. And make no mistake, that intentional, unjustified homicide was committed on behalf of Donald J. Trump."
Conway further added, "Trump's militarization of Minneapolis and other parts of our nation isn't about illegal immigration."
"It's not about enhancing public safety. It's about destroying any sense of that safety—to intimidate political opponents, and to punish dissent," he said on Saturday. "It's about a corrupt, out-of-control regime's effort to provoke citizens in order to justify the violence it desires to commit against them so that it can expand and retain its power. That is fascism. It is tyranny. It is governmental criminality."
Conway's post appears to have struck a chord with former George W. Bush appointee John Mitnick, who also served in Trump's DHS. He shared it on social media.
"I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department," he added Saturday. "I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty. Impeach and remove Trump—now." [Rawstory]
Somerby's suggestion that this is tribal is contradicted by the various conservatives and Republicans who are expressing outrage over Trump's actions.
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DeleteWell said12:07, indeed Democrats are retarded.
It's nice of Democrats to obstruct law enforcement operations and violently resist arrest while armed, to give Republicans the pretext for militarization of Minnesota. Other states aren't cooperating as well with us so we're stuck just doing the boring removal of criminal illegals, but we can count on Minnesota to help with our grand scheme of retaining power.
DeleteRemember when you bravely defended Texas from Obama's attempted military takeover code named 'Jade Helm' you ridiculous piece of shit?
DeleteYou can look it up. According to a branch of psychology called Behaviorism, a person's behavior is determined through a process called OPERANT CONDITIONING. Simply put, if a person's behavior has positive results, that behavior it is likely to be repeated. Notwithstanding dementia, with no checks on Trump, and his life history Trump’s behavior may not be that surprising.
ReplyDeleteOver Trump’s past year, what originally looked like an effort to make the government his personal plaything has drifted distinctly toward doctrinal and operational fascism. Trump’s appetite for lebensraum, his claim of unlimited power, his support for the global far right, his politicization of the justice system, his deployment of performative brutality, his ostentatious violation of rights, his creation of a national paramilitary police—all of those developments bespeak something more purposeful and sinister than run-of-the-mill greed or gangsterism.
DeleteWhen the facts change, I change my mind. Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse.
Anyone really knows me gets this. I’m an immigrant and so is my spouse. We come from two different continents. The second we speak, our heavy accents give us away. No way to hide it.
ReplyDeleteWe’ve been in NYC for over 30 years, married more than 20. This is the capital of liberalism, full of Democrats, leftists, and socialists everywhere you look.
And here’s the hard truth we’ve lived, the people shouting loudest about “protecting immigrants” and hating on ICE don’t actually care about immigrants like us. They care about looking morally superior. That’s it.
During Covid, when I volunteered at food pantries, unfortunately mostly serving immigrants in my area, you couldn’t spot one single Karen helping out. But they were the ones crying on social media that people were going hungry because of job losses and city shutdowns.
We’ve talked openly about our so-called liberal friends here. Most of them treated us like outsiders at best, like trash at worst. Americans who, outside our tennis club, never once hung out with immigrants on purpose. The only people of color they ever spent real time with were the ones they met at parties in our house.
These are the same people who post nonstop about diversity and inclusion. Yet in their real lives? Almost no immigrants, almost no people who look or sound different from them.
Then we voted for Trump. Overnight they called us racists, cut us off completely, and even stopped our kids from playing with theirs. Kids who grew up together, shared everything, all gone just like that.
This isn’t me playing victim. It’s what happened.
They don’t care about actual immigrants, the ones who came legally, worked hard, paid taxes, and built lives here with thick accents and all. They care about the idea of immigrants as a symbol that makes them feel good and righteous.
Right now the anti-ICE rage and pro-immigrant talk are the same thing. It costs them nothing. It lets them feel noble while the real pressure hits schools, housing, and neighborhoods. Their hands stay clean because the mess lands on someone else.
The hypocrisy runs deep. They preach compassion but practice exclusion. We’ve seen it up close for decades in the middle of the most “progressive” city in America.
So when they lecture about empathy and kindness, remember, they only love the concept of immigrants, never the reality of people like us. We’ve lived behind the curtain. The whole performance is about them feeling better about themselves. Nothing more.
So spare me the lectures on empathy from people who only love the idea of immigrants, never the reality.
We’ve seen behind the curtain. The emperor has no clothes. It’s just a megaphone and a mirror.
Go enjoy a nice glass of we don't give a fuck about your wine. Go back to your shit hole countries and leave us the fuck alone, America hater.
DeleteI missed the part where Somerby shows that we blues don't know how to talk about what is happening to our country. He does quote Ezra Klein, but says he wrote his essay before the shooting. He doesn't get around to telling us what is wrong with what Klein said. Where is Somerby's evidence; where are his arguments? Does he just get to say stuff like that and assume it is true because he said it?
ReplyDeleteTrump does this, that, and the other thing, so Trump has some Personality Disorder. And because he has a Personality Disorder, Trump does this, that, and the other thing.
ReplyDeleteNah, the felon is toast, its his handlers now who are steering the demented old fool.
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