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Yesterday I woke up to a frantic message from Alexandra Petri alerting me to my printer. Aides who sat behind Donald Trump during the former president's trial are known to carry the radio to print good news from the Internet on Trump's behalf, and Alexandra said it was had to be announced to the whole world, she explained.
Or are we all dreaming, as Alex wondered in a later column? Is the defendant himself dreaming?
“Despite all the evidence to the contrary, what are the signs that this isn't a strange dream brought on by eating a questionable burger late at night?” Alex asks. “I'm looking for a friend. Well, not my friend, but he must be someone's friend. Isn't he?”
The printer and its operator are less than half of the strange things that take this trial to dreamland. Alex said the anti-Trump memes read aloud by the judge also played a big role.
Trump appeared to be testing the dream proposal by falling asleep on the first day of his trial. Jen Rubin writes that falling asleep is the least serious misconduct in court. His continued belligerence – intimidation of jurors, anti-trial editorials on his own social network “Truth Social” – leaves Judge Juan Melchan (who has already issued a gag order) with a dilemma. I'm making you fall into it. Bullying witnesses and perhaps others involved in the trial? ”
Jen has her own idea to get around this, and it involves some fines with lots of zeros.
Chaser: Gene Robinson writes that Trump's trial shows that the justice system – thankfully – is still working.
It reiterates what “apparently” still needs to be dug into from Katherine Rumpel's column: Steel and aluminum tariffs are bad for U.S. manufacturers and U.S. workers. They may help his one steel manufacturer, but what will happen to his 75 to 80 steel users who are now facing higher costs? And, of course, many of those costs? is paid to the consumer.
Catherine hopes this will trickle down to President Tram, or Biden.
“As president, Biden extended (nearly) all of President Trump's tariffs,” Katherine wrote, despite vocally campaigning against President Trump's price gouging policies.
Not to be outdone, Trump is also currently campaigning to impose 10% tariffs on the world…which Biden is once again vociferously opposed to. Can candidate Biden just say a few words with President Biden and get him to look at things straight?
For all the women out there who are frustrated with trying to have it all: Why not become a housewife by trade instead?
In the tradwife, or “traditional wife” phenomenon, which is spreading primarily on social media, young women reject careerism and take up performative, retro housekeeping. In one video I watched, a woman painstakingly made Oreos from scratch, which she quickly crushed to make her own homemade ice cream.
What causes such madness? In the latest episode of the Impromptu podcast, Opinions' Amanda Katz and Alyssa Rosenberg are joined by News' Monica Hesse, author of a recent essay on trad wives.
In a transcribed excerpt from the episode, the three begin to focus on what may be the young women's main motivator: that it is becoming impossible for everyone to enjoy their leisure time. .
Megan McArdle writes that roadblock protests will only grow further until jurisdictions impose tougher penalties to deter these demonstrations, which, by the way, she argues are woefully ineffective. are doing. Karen Attia reflects on the promise and tragedy of #BringBackOurGirls, a campaign started 10 years ago to rescue kidnapped Nigerian girls.
Goodbye. It's a haiku. It's… Bye-Ku.
in control of your home
The dreams of trad wives and Trump
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