honestly i have been in a bit of an election hiatus in my head; a man can take only so much. back now.
morning joe essentially did three hours of hyper-redundant trump-bashing this morning. it's hard to stay hysterical for months on end, and the new york times and washpost opinion pages etc are going to have to regain their composure (actually the times has backed off the last few days a bit). continuous outrage, expressed over and over in the same sentences, is boring, which is the problem with it as television or newspapering. one particularly idiotic chunk of tizzy: that pertaining to generals being 'reduced to rubble.' nice turn of phrase, actually. uninterpretable by television hosts. it's just non-stop arbitrary or meaningless speech prohibitions and their violation. now anything that is not automatism is insane or incomprehensible.
on the other hand this russia thing is getting awfully strange. but it makes sense for trump to praise putin: not as a prince among men but as a strong-ass nationalist leader, almost a role model, though that's not to say ally. well, that's not good either. but the idea is almost that it takes a putin to stand up to a putin. it's above all the bureaucratic-safe responses of public figures that trump despises, and indeed hillary bureaucratese/technocracy is incompatible with any sort of leadership. one thing he does is feed this into the gender machine: obama is weak and effeminate in comparison with...putin.
