- The problems with the TSA and why the presidential candidates don't discuss them.
Ironically, the only people not talking about the crisis are presumptive presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. That's because neither flies commercial and neither rubs elbows with poor schleps like us.
Joe Brancatelli, The Business Journals. [ETA: See also Southern Beale's post on the subject.]
The problem when everyone except presidential candidates is talking? There's a lot of hokum being served up, regurgitated by instant experts and presented to a tired, impatient nation as a panacea for long security lines.
- Last clown standing, or the weakness of Mr. T. Lance Mannion:
The political press has been expecting him to make the pivot. They’ve been predicting he’ll make it any time now. They’re not so secretly begging him to make it. They need him to start acting and sounding like a “normal” Republican candidate for President---and keep in mind the political press still believes the GOP is the party of responsible, grown-up moderates and a “normal” Republican is a center-rightists whose only real concern is keeping rich people’s taxes low, as if that’s not such a bad thing---they need him to act and sound “presidential” in order to give them an excuse to cover him as if he is. Sure, they love the clown act because it’s ratings and clickbaiting gold. But they also know it’s offensive, despicable, and disgusting and may cost him the election. I don’t think the press on the whole wants him to win. What they want is for him not to blow it too soon. They want it to be a horserace to the very end. They don’t want him falling down at the first turn. They want to be able to cover the campaign in a way that allows them to treat both him and Hillary as the same. They want to be able to criticize her without it looking trivial and fatuous in comparison to all the things they should be criticizing him for.
- What the media apparently doesn't understand about the email situation. Crooks and Liars' shelleyp reports.
- ETA: Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm-hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
It does also go on to show one meme regarding this issue is true - our children would be safer in a bathroom with a transgender person than they would be with a Republican.
capper, Crooks and Liars.
Saturday, May 28, 2016
More Straws in the Typhoon
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I'm the subject of TSA, no one seems willing to,point out that Republicans cut their funding, forcing layoffs, then complain about the long wait times. Typical Conservative tactic, break it, then complain that it doesn't work.
Heh. That's probably because I didn't see Southern Beale's post until much later in the afternoon, by which time I was attempting to research (aaaaiiiieeeeeeeeeee!) a topic. But I think that article hits your points and I need to insert an ETA.
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