midnight snack
To say that the world is not worth anything, that life is of no value, and to give evil as the proof is absurd, for if these things are worthless what does evil take from us?
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Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (via philosophybits) |
Man of the People Will Lock Himself in Borrowed House | Elle
The White House is erecting an ‘unscalable fence’ as barricade for Election Day.
Like a frenzied character in a well-made mid-century play who spends much of the first act willfully wreaking havoc before breaking a lamp and locking himself in the bathroom, Donald Trump will be reporting to his dressing room for the climax where he will be tweeting and waiting for the curtain call.
Like an overpriced supermarket in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, the White House is boarding itself up in anticipation of Election Day. After a final week of hosting superspreader campaign events across the country and leaving constituents stranded in remote areas with no way of returning (both metaphorically and literally), Donald Trump plans to return to a house he does not own, put up an unscalable fence outside, and turn off the lights, according to a report from CNN. Federal authorities are expected to erect the fence and other defensive measures around the White House as a symbol of our enduring and functional democracy.
Apparently a huge fan of the novel Leave the World Behind, Donald Trump will be spending election night pretending to be the book’s central characters by refusing to leave a house built by Black people.
Donald Trump, a noted Beetlejuice, was summoned years ago by a minority of the electorate too embittered by the grief of realizing the American Dream is a fallacy invoked to reaffirm a caste system that keeps most on the bottom and is now invoking squatters rights. This, of course, is an ironic turn of events given the aggressive anti-tenant tactics employed by Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is like if the Chuckie doll was a haunted porcelain Victorian figurine created by a racist algorithm….
