What a fool I've been
This report in the NYT about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinkski making a trek to Mar-a-lago to kiss the ring and then getting on the air yesterday acting like it's no big deal and just an obvious thing to do after spending almost a decade railing against everything the ring wearer has stood for:
"For those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back, ‘Why wouldn’t we?’” Ms. Brzezinski told viewers on Monday, disclosing the meeting for the first time. “Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.
“What we did agree on,” Ms. Brzezinski added, “was to restart communications.” She compared the summit to the diplomatic work of her father, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser.
“My father often spoke with world leaders with whom he and the United States profoundly disagreed,” she said. “That is a task shared by reporters and commentators alike.”
How convenient to be able to compartmentalize it all this way and absolutely laughable that she compares herself to her diplomat father, like any of this is even tangentially related.
Ultimately shame on me for having bought in to all of this crap. At the very least I can say this last election really opened my eyes and this "meeting of the minds" between Morning Joe and Donald Trump just cements what I've learned.
Apparently I am not normal. It would seem that most people can easily dismiss things as long as their eggs are cheap (or whatever their issue du jour is). I most certainly can not do that and I guess that's why I'm always on the losing side in all of this shit.
It also cements in my mind that my own "Project 2025" (yes I have named my own project with the same name because it's the exact opposite, building up instead of tearing down, in my case personally) is the right direction. Timothy Leary famously said “Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out”: drop out of mainstream culture and adopt an alternative lifestyle. I guess in my case the "alternative lifestyle" is being a rational, thinking, empathetic human being.