Ladies and gentlemen, the new press secretary to the President of the United States:
She's blonde! She's thin! Bonus: she's a bigot!
Judging by the activities of the old press secretary, the new press secretary will be expected only to lie about Trump on TV and Twitter, which she's been doing anyway for years. Now she'll get about $15k/mo of US Treasury funds for the same work. Sweet! A couple years ago, asked on TV about all the golf Trump plays, she said that Obama was on his way to the golf course when he expressed outrage over the beheading in Pakistan of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. But Pearl was killed in 2002, when Obama was representing a district on the south side of Chicago in the Illinois state legislature. He was elected president a little more than 6.5 years later. So . . . timeline problems.
"Only the best people."
My stepson is still working two jobs, one at a Caribou, the other at a bagel shop, both just doing the drive-through now. Because I think he's my most likely link to the coronavirus, I was quizzing him recently about his experience at work, and he told me everyone these days is either unusually pleasant or insufferably rude. Sounds right. In the mailbox a few mornings ago I found this postcard addressed to my middle-schooler:
I've met Mrs Marr at conferences and came away with the impression that she'd have been at Woodstock but for another timeline problem. I'm trying to bring this around to where I started, stitching together disparate threads into a unified compositional structure. Some people (middle-school teacher) stepping up; others (the president, his staff) same old shitshow.
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