https://spectator.us/pathetic-exhibition-virtue-miami/
A pathetic exhibition of virtue-signaling in Miami
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A genuine liberal education is as much an education of the emotions as it is an education of the intellect. The truly educated person experiences the right emotions at the appropriate times in the appropriate intensity for the appropriate reasons.
Aristotle explains all this in the Nicomachean Ethics. Knowing this, I felt badly watching the ‘debate’ among the first tranche of 10 Democratic aspirants to be their party’s nominee for president in 2020. I felt, I must admit, an immoderate access of schadenfreude — tinged with revulsion, it is true, but the element of pleasing disdain predominated. I am not proud of it. I merely record the fact.
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Love him or hate him, Donald Trump has presided over one of the most — I think it is probably the single most — successful opening years of any president ever. That’s a difficult record to run against. So what tonight’s 10 candidates did — and I am certain that tomorrow’s will as well — was to deny reality and pretend that they were running against the Donald Trump of their dreams: a dark figure whose policies hurt instead of helped average Americans, who was anti-black, anti-woman, anti-immigrant.
Trump touches down in Japan for a crush of intense diplomatic talks with Putin and China at the G20 – after blasting India for ‘unacceptable’ tariffs and mocking NBC debate moderators from Air Force One
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En route to typhoon-expectant Japan, Trump fired off a bullish tweet, chiding long-standing ally India for ‘unacceptable’ tariffs on American goods.
And before setting off he lambasted China for ‘going down the tubes,’ slammed Vietnam as the ‘single worst abuser’ on trade, lashed Germany as ‘delinquent’ on contributions to NATO, and said hosts Japan would not help the US in the event of WWIII.
‘If Japan is attacked, we will fight World War III. We will go in and protect them with our lives and with our treasure,’ he said. ‘But if we’re attacked, Japan doesn’t have to help us. They can watch it on a Sony television.’
Trump blasted Beijing, claiming they wanted to do a trade deal because the world’s number-two economy was ‘going down the tubes’.
The in-flight entertainment en route was less than satisfactory. Trump declared the Democratic presidential debate, where his name barely came up, ‘BORING.’ He also said NBC and MSNBC should be ‘ashamed’ for an embarrassing technical glitch that forced the network to cut to commercial.
About 20 minutes before he landing, he tweeted a video mocking the glitch, set to ACDC’s ‘Crazy Train.’