Culture wars

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Culture wars
© Chris Hayes Highlights:
June 24 | MSNBC
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An excellent and thoughtful interview conducted by Chris Hayes of MSNBC with writer Adam Serwer  who maintains that the Republican Party has forgotten how to run /campaign against “an old white guy” like Biden after 12 years running against a woman and a black man. Trump’s playbook isn’t working this time around. Culture wars made it easier running against/insulting a woman - Hilary Clinton – and a black man – Obama.
(Interview with Serwer begins around 2:40 min.)
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Stoking the culture wars…

Sacha Baron Cohen pranked a far-right rally Saturday in Olympia, Washington, with the actor — pretending to be a bluegrass artist — leading the crowd in a singalong to a tune with racist lyrics.
Social media accounts first revealed …that Baron Cohen was behind the hijinks at the “March for Our Rights 3” rally hosted by the far-right militia group Washington Three Percenters.
According to reports, Baron Cohen first disguised himself as the wealthy head of a political action committee in order to infiltrate the event, then populated the rally with his own entertainment and security team. With his plan in place, Baron Cohen was able to execute his prank — which may or may not been filmed for his Showtime series Who is America? — by severing organizers’ access to their own event.
In one video from the rally, Baron Cohen took the guise of a bluegrass artist and sang,
“Obama, what we gonna do? Inject him with the Wuhan flu.
Hillary Clinton, what we gonna do? Lock her up like we used to do.
Fauci don’t know his head from his ass. He must be smoking grass.
I ain’t lying, it ain’t no jokes. Corona is a liberal hoax.
Dr. Fauci, what we gonna do? Inject him with the Wuhan flu.
WHO, what we gonna do? Chop ’em up like the Saudis do,”
with some in the crowd gleefully singing along.

Audio is not great but listen carefully to the Tweet videos and you’ll make out the words.

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

The gardener worked today and, together, we moved the recycled freezer/greenhouse/cold frame into a sunny spot. I laid out the shelves and the seedling trays…then worried that the monkeys would find irresistible the new item in the landscape. No monkeys visited today so that worry falls to another day.
At the agri-store and purchased seed packs of chard, zucchini, inion (no starts available yet) to replenish what remains of last year’s seed packet collection.
Too busy in the garden to walk the neighborhood.
Tomorrow is another day.
The sun will shine, the air will warm…

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