HisArpy
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I was sitting in a doctor's waiting room for entirely too long this morning (I'm fine, thanks for caring) and read the print version of Time magazine (cover date: August 6, 2024) for the first time in forever.
It proved to me how fast the political cycles move in the era of 24/7/365 internet news cycle.
The feature story was the "assassination attempt" on convicted felon DonOld Trump. The defiant fist in the air with the bloody ear was of course the cover story, which was, of course superseded by current events.
The first story was about President Joe Biden not seeking re-election and the events that led up to it. It was absolute journalistic perfection, all sort of "insider baseball" stuff with who-knew-what-and-when and how they seemlessly transitioned from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris as standard bearer in 24 hours.
The main story, however, was a now-dated piece on convicted felon DonOld J Trump and how this "assassination attempt" changes EVERYTHING. He's expected to be the clear front runner now, he's changing his tone and asking for unity, he's humbled and bewildered a bit by people (including President Joe Biden) calling and wishing him a speedy recovery. His advisors were saying off the record how "Bad Trump" had been put on the shelf for a while, and "Good Trump" (doing things his professional handlers WANT him to do) is reaping increased goodwill.
The piece hasn't aged well, and it'll still be on newsstands for another week.
There was an inciteful piece on the Indian Prime Minister Modi, who lost his majority and has to shift to a coalition government. Modi made a state visit to America earlier this year but visited Russia last week. I didn't know India gets virtually all of its oil and most of its military hardware from Russia, and pays in hard currency that Putin needs to maintain his war. Modi promised India would remain "strictly neutral" in the Ukranian-Russia conflict, because China has been saber-rattling with India over disputed areas in Nepal.
The rest of Time was devoted to 20 places around the world you gotta visit sometime in your life and 20 songs you gotta hear this summer. 10 pages of fluff
Nice to hear you went to the doc. I'd have been more caring if you'd mentioned it BEFORE you decided that no one gave a shit.
Which illustrates once again that it's a YOU problem, not a me problem.