A stadium’s worth
The Times is just pointing and laughing now.
■ Donald J. Trump, after an intelligence report concluded that Russia tried to help him get elected, is going after … Meryl Streep.
■ The president-elect takes credit for a $1 billion Fiat-Chrysler investment in the U.S.
■ Mr. Trump might want to save some ammunition. He has a big week ahead of him.
They share those tweets, including the one that calls Streep “a Hillary flunky who lost big,” and annotate with:
For the record, Mrs. Clinton did not lose big. She won the popular vote by nearly three million votes and lost the presidency by losing Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by about the number of people who cheered the Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday.
Ouch.
He also referred to Streep as “overrated” – I think that is probably a matter of opinion, but I happen to think she is a wonderful actress, and always enjoy seeing her. I will admit, she is past his expiration date on age, but that makes it all the better, a woman who manages to still hold people transfixed even at the age of 67.
Heh, I know, I picked a fight with that surreal claim in the previous post.
Yes, I read the posts in reverse order – silly me!
I just wouldn’t want anyone to think I failed to take intense umbrage at that claim!
Streep overrated, as opposed to … um, the strump?
rofl, as the in-crow used to say.
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I’m glad the Times is flexing its muscles. Even in this glittering sci-fi age of technology we across the pond get only a fraction of the reaction to Trump but it seems from here that hardly any of the major news organisations are sufficiently critical. We’ve all seen how he went after a media outlet that dared such a thing. No doubt he has friends and admirers on the boards of such companies and we know he’s more than willing to use whatever pressure he can possibly exert to ruin the careers and lives of people who say bad things about him.
As I said on another thread, this strikes me as the single most terrifying part of everything that’s happening.
Oh, and on the ‘overrated’ issue. This is the sort of thing that worries me the most. Of course the overratedness or otherwise of a person doesn’t change whether their opinions are correct and Trump simply cannot help slipping insults like this into his tweets about people who criticise him. We’ve seen this tactic for (in my case) many decades and we’ve grown to recognise it as the red flag it clearly is. We know that it signals an untenable position and a whole lot of bullshit flung out in greasy handfulls to defend it. It’s the exact same thing that people like Ken Ham do when they wake up every morning. Only somehow even more narcissistic.
Let’s skip over, for now, Trump’s assumption and assertion that he’s the sole arbiter of actress ratings and that his sole criterion is how much the actresses flatter him. Let’s forget that he hasn’t addressed Streep’s complaint. Let’s ignore the fact that he quite clearly did mock someone’s disability and use it – as with Streep’s alleged overratedness – to dismiss an unflattering but true article.
Let’s do all that because……well, that seems to be what we do now.