Yes, I'm still profoundly disabled -- the pain of my torn hip and thigh ligaments and the associated buttocks-to-ankle hematoma far surpasses the anesthetic ability of my (begrudgingly*) prescribed painkillers -- but the material accessed by this Columbia Journalism Review link is by far the most newsworthy material I have yet handled, "yet handled" covering a journalism career that began in late 1956 and continues sporadically even now. It is also the most potentially revolution-inspiring story I have ever covered, and I post this link with full knowledge of its implications.
Quoth CJR:
Meeting
with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office, President Trump expressed
his displeasure with the bipartisan immigration deal being discussed. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump asked, referencing immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations. The Washington Post’s
Josh Dawsey broke the story, reporting that Trump next suggested the US
should instead prioritize people from countries such as Norway.
Trump’s
words may have been shocking, but they can’t be seen as surprising. His
history of racist comments stretches back decades, and it was only
weeks ago that The New York Times reported
that the president, again in an Oval Office meeting, said Haitian
immigrants “all have AIDS” and Nigerians who visit the US would never
“go back to their huts.” Yesterday’s comments were nothing new for a man
who launched his political profile on the lie that Barack Obama wasn’t a
true American.
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*I
would be derelict in my reportorial duty were I not to report that the
excruciating inadequacy of my prescription pain medications is a product
of two uniquely USian conditions. The first of these is the fanatical
Christian belief that all suffering is approved by their notably
sadistic god -- that adequate pain medication is therefore defiance of
the Divine Sadist's will. The second of these is the nationwide,
seemingly "health"-oriented but ultimately fanatical Christian panic
over the abuse of opiates, which in hideous truth is spawned by the
fanatical Christians' terror over the allegedly "heretical" insights all
mood-altering drugs are alleged to provide.
(To read the rest, go here or here.)