why a trans-ban? don't ask don't tell vs. Truman-- moral questions of inclusivity in the military
i need to pay to get full access to washington post and paris review
washington post has been my favorite newspaper since i went on a trip to d.c. to see georgia o'keefe with my mom and there was a word i didn't know in the piece i was reading at breakfast
placeholder for the thing i was thinking 'you've really gotta write that down' 'why, it isn't current' 'no but you're thinking about it so it's pertinent'-- which i now cannot remember
hunt for orange october
spy in the house of love-- trump as russian asset-- he didn't think he would win, maybe was (in addition to playing with the alt-right to set up media empire) trying to close russian real estate deal and got hoodwinked into being russian puppet
someone described the wall as a series of burning crosses stretching along the border
the wall as symbol in campaign, wasn't quite the immediate security crisis last year. motivations for the shutdown, unstated possibilities
- to look tough for his base-- in which case why isn't he declaring emergency and using DOD $ to fund thewall
- to distract from the muller investigation (which seemed to be snowballing)
- to impede the FBI investigation (federal workers)
- to destabilize the government-- why is that desirable?
- why would russia want to u.s. destabilized at this time?
