“If everyone is covered in mud, it makes it less obvious that you’re covered in shit.”
This is Liz and her cohort trying to “both sides!!” away the behaviour they incited.
It’s crab-bucket PR: if they can get enough of the media saying how bad the left is, it makes the right-wing pogroms less horrifying.
Trump did the same thing post-Charlottesville, conflating BLM and Antifa with the rich-setting, “Jews will not replace us” chanting, protestor-merdering neo-nazis who supported him.
Ah the GM U-Body. It's good looking trash, but it's still trash.
Based on the then-problematic W-Body, it didn't drive well, lacked a fourth door, had front suspension that got misaligned if you went over a speedbump and ate head gaskets for breakfast, which was a challenge because almost every issue with the powertrain or accessory belt stuff, and there were lots, was an engine-out repair job.
It made the Astro look good, which was not easy. Only the Toyota Van (the HiAce and Previa) were more challenging, and at least they were reliable.
The Caravan, exploding transmission and all, was a better car.
Interestingly, this same chassis got a lot less sexy as the years went on. GM butched it up for the SUV craze with the Montana/Uplander, and the shorty version was the basis for the Aztek.
Because Google was so focused and strategic before the pandemic rollseyes.
The issue is Google’s broken governance and incentive system, which gives product owners and executives incentives for new products and actively disincentivizes maintaining and improving existing products...and that was a thing from well before the pandemic hit.
It's why Google launched three pay systems and had five messaging systems at the same time.
And, finally, this is all because of the strategy set by senior leaders.
I'd be all for unfettered immigration if it worked both ways: you, the capitalist, get to try to hire people from cheaper parts of the world, but I, the worker, should be able to move anywhere, work immediately, gain citizenship and--this is the big one--unionize across borders.
It was abused by millionaire farm owners who didn't want to pay Canadians high enough wages and cried to the government about how hard-done they were. They did, at least, have an excuse, in the form of keeping food prices low.
It's since moved on to multimillionaire Tim Horton franchisee owners who need the TFW program so they can afford payments on their second mistress's third Mercedes.
Expect a sternly worded note, maybe a press conference. If it gets really bad, they'll pull a media-trained CEO in front of a few incompetent parliamentarians for an impotent finger-wagging session.
I'd also add that Tim Hortons are franchisees, and they're almost always a) very very wealthy, b) some of the most rapacious capitalists around, combining the worst of large/corporate inhumanity with the worst of small-business hustle, and importantly c) a very large voice when it comes to influencing local members of provincial and federal parliament.
As icing on the cake, a lot of them are also large-scale property investors.
There's a lot of whitewashing going on by labelling these people as "small-town business owners" or "mom-and-pop donut shop owners", but that image is largely a relic, and these people, today, are very, very rich, very very influential and are pushing some very, very toxic economic policy.
Let's re-write that in truthful language: Tim Hortons franchisees, who are multimillionaires, don't want to pay people a market wage and is looking to the government the bring in cheap labour to help them get richer.
The Olympics weren't always about peak skill, at least in the athletic sense. Prior to (I think) 1948, they used to give out medals for artistic competition, like painting, sculpture or poetry.
Personally, I think they could bring those back; I wouldn't mind seeing an Olympic art competition. Heck, they could modernize it: Olympic rap battles/battles of the band, or Olympic Iron Chef.
You'd think, but that probably won't happen unless one of them recognizes and accepts that they're much lower-status then the other.
Narcissists don't do well in groups, especially when they're all roughly equivalent status. There's a ridiculous amount of infighting and posturing as they try to establish dominance over each other.
Watch Musk or Trump when they have to deal with something who reality requires them to defer to (eg, like Xi or Putin). They look almost depressed and broken, because in a very real way, they are.
What you're describing happens when a sycophant praises a narcissist, or when a narcissist is drunk on praise from a sycophant. That's when the rhetorical fellatio really kicks into high gear; when the narcissist is getting high on supply.
A large part of the issue is that the Democratic Party (and Labour in the UK, and the Liberals in Canada) really drank the third-way neoliberal koolaid in the 1990s and have done a poor job of speaking to the anxieties and concerns of the poor.
The political right has talked to those anxieties, albeit in a dishonest, manipulative and disingenuous way, but they do talk to it and--not only do they talk to it, they deliver results. Again, dishonest, manipulative and self-serving results, but if you don't look to closely it looks like they're taking action.
I'm hoping Harris and Walz mark a new era, but after witnessing Trudeau in Canada and Starmer in the UK continuing to make the mistakes of the 1990s, I'm not holding my breath.
“If everyone is covered in mud, it makes it less obvious that you’re covered in shit.”
This is Liz and her cohort trying to “both sides!!” away the behaviour they incited.
It’s crab-bucket PR: if they can get enough of the media saying how bad the left is, it makes the right-wing pogroms less horrifying.
Trump did the same thing post-Charlottesville, conflating BLM and Antifa with the rich-setting, “Jews will not replace us” chanting, protestor-merdering neo-nazis who supported him.