re: #161 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

As a distraction.

Absolutely. Coming right after losing his health bill, right before losing the Alabaster primary, while catching PR shit for PR (sorry) … Trump flailed around for anything that would enrage his shrinking base.

Mind you, I got criticized elsewhere for saying that, on the grounds that BLM is a major and really important issue, to which my response is that I can hold two complementary ideas in my head at the same time. The key is to flip the conversation back to the origins of Kap’s protest — and to be fair some of the sports stars (Steph Curry, take a bow, along with Pop) have actively tried to do that.

The media (pace Dave Zirin, Charles Pierce and a few others) sucks.