Today's thoughts on the President
On Twitter I got sent, and I foolishly went, to a review of Mary Trump's "biography" of Donald Trump, Too Much and Never Enough. (A title that could probably be used for many, many people). The reviewer started with this:
However, because he might yet destroy our republic and is already the most improbable and spectacular world-historical monster since the chancellor of the German Reich killed himself in 1945, filling in the details remains important. And Mary Trump’s “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” is the converse of the standard Trump account — not shocking but definitely surprising.
Um, what about Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Stalin.... and a few others? He will not destroy our republic. We will if we don't wise up. Let's stop blaming someone else for our own sins.
Talk about "too much." Now, you won't find anything positive written by me about Donald Trump. He's appalling. But here we are back at the logical fallacy of reductio ad Hitlerum. Do these folks not realize that resorting to calling him Hitler for everything is ineffective, and "too much"?
It's another example of the rotten discourse of our time. In the last edition of the textbook on basic public speaking we wrote, I added a section on how our discourse is unruly and how a return to basic principles of time and order might help, rather than the inane shouting matches and gotcha battles we have now that are considered debates.
That said, this issue of the Uighurs in China is so upsetting. We are sitting on our rearends and letting genocide happen so we can get cheap products from China. The same with Hong Kong. I will never watch the NBA again.
However, because he might yet destroy our republic and is already the most improbable and spectacular world-historical monster since the chancellor of the German Reich killed himself in 1945, filling in the details remains important. And Mary Trump’s “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” is the converse of the standard Trump account — not shocking but definitely surprising.
Um, what about Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Stalin.... and a few others? He will not destroy our republic. We will if we don't wise up. Let's stop blaming someone else for our own sins.
Talk about "too much." Now, you won't find anything positive written by me about Donald Trump. He's appalling. But here we are back at the logical fallacy of reductio ad Hitlerum. Do these folks not realize that resorting to calling him Hitler for everything is ineffective, and "too much"?
It's another example of the rotten discourse of our time. In the last edition of the textbook on basic public speaking we wrote, I added a section on how our discourse is unruly and how a return to basic principles of time and order might help, rather than the inane shouting matches and gotcha battles we have now that are considered debates.
That said, this issue of the Uighurs in China is so upsetting. We are sitting on our rearends and letting genocide happen so we can get cheap products from China. The same with Hong Kong. I will never watch the NBA again.
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