Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Today's News: Quick Takes on Trudeau, Poilievre, the House of Commons, Harris, Trump, the US Election, and Brexit


Just a few Quick Takes - some stuff  worth reading tonight:

Trudeau
Poilievre: The House of Commons Harris 
From David Rothkopf Call Her Madame October Don't Let the Media Sheep Mislead You, the Vice President is Killing It On the Campaign Trail:
...the secret to the success of this campaign, the source of its energy and its joy and its good judgment and its forward momentum and its ability to attract such a broad coalition of supporters is Kamala Harris herself. This is an experienced political pro who has also captured the zeitgeist in way that makes her the perfect foil for Trump and the next generation leader that America needs.
That happens every so often. A candidate comes along and defines a bright line in our history. Kennedy led one such generational changing of the guard with his “New Frontier.” Clinton with Gore led another as America transitioned to leaders from the Baby Boom generation and to the post-Cold War Internet age. Now, she is “turning the page” on the Boomers (and on straggler from the “silent generation” Joe Biden) and, a California woman raised as Silicon Valley grew, she will be the right leader for America in the Age of AI and for helping to usher in the new perspectives and voices of Gen X, Millenials and even Zoomers.
She is the right woman in the right place at the right time and, despite the naysayers and the odds and the challenges, she is going to make history as a result...
Trump Or, as Rick Wilson said "#ETTD - Everything Trump Touches Dies"
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2 comments:

Purple library guy said...

Trump is ALMOST always wrong about everything. Every once in a long while, his ignorance causes him to be unaware of the agreed-on lies about something and he accidentally tells the truth. So, Federal Reserve--sure, Trump in specific would do a crappy job running the Federal Reserve.

But the doctrine that it (or the Bank of Canada) should be insulated from public, democratic oversight and instead run by some bankers who have no real interest in helping anyone except other bankers, is pretty ridiculous. It's a doctrine that was advanced by technocratic neoliberals on the theory that they know best and there's no such thing as a conflict of interest; I think we found out in 2008 that is not the case. So in a weird way Trump is touching on something there that everyone else has agreed not to talk about.

Purple library guy said...

Meanwhile, I love Bob Woodward, but when he starts talking about "basic human decency" and "Tony Blinken" in the same breath . . . as Biden might say, come on, man.