Pretty much forever, I've viewed Thomas Friedman as the NYT's token 'compassionate conservative', pretty much a wolf in sheeps clothing. Well, Demented Dictator Don appears to have dropped the veil from his eyes. For now. Today's essay (dead tree's division) may strike a familiar note.
Regular reader should recall two coinages (so far as I know) that have been used here with increasing frequency: The Office of Data Integrity and The Office of Policy Integrity. Offered up in the spirit of Newspeak. Both Offices have been hecticly busy of late.
So, Friend Friedman offers this today:
[Bill Blain] then went on to imagine how his Porridge newsletter will sound in May 2031. It will begin, he wrote, with "a link to a release from Trump's Ministry of Economic Truth, formerly the U.S. Treasury: 'Under the leadership of President Trump, the U.S. economy continues to grow at record speed. Payrolls data from the Ministry of Truth, a subsidiary of Truth Social, show full employment across America. Tensions in the inner cities have never been so low. All recent graduates have found highly paid jobs across America's expanding manufacturing sector, causing many large companies in Trump Inc to report significant labor shortages.'"Friedman concludes (a bit scary, this bit)
[my emphasis, of course]
That is why, dear reader, though I am a congenital optimist, for the first time I believe that if the behavior that this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don't know how we will get it back.Without fair voting, we won't. And Demented Dictator Don is quite determined that fair voting will never happen on his watch.
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