"I'm not a relativist or anything"

В комментариях к вчерашней записи, "О Путине", я написал, что трамиста невозможно отличить от пародии на трамписта.

And I really mean it. Абсолютно.

Теперь возьмем не рядового трамписта, а Такера Карлсона. Карлсон про Ына. Начинает он за здравие -- последний по-настоящему сталинистский режим и т. п. Но суть его комментария не в этом, суть вот в чем:

You've got to be honest about what it means to lead a country, it means killing people. Not on the scale that North Koreans do, but a lot of countries commit atrocities, including a number that we're closely allied with. So, you know, I'm not a relativist or anything, but it is important to be honest about that. And it's not necessarily a choice between, you know, the evil people and the great people; it is a choice most of the time between the bad people and the worse people. That's kind of nature of life and certainly nature of power.

Tucker Carlson justifies KJU's murderous regime: "You've got to be honest about what it means to lead a country, it means killing people. A lot of countries commit atrocities, including our allies."

Carlson adds, 'it's silly and stupid to point out KJU is 'so mean'' pic.twitter.com/FpAKFQUB3c

— Lis Power (@LisPower1) June 30, 2019

Интересно, кстати, каков сейчас рейтинг одобрения Ына среди республиканцев. Мы знаем, что рейтинг Путина среди республиканцев взлетел с Трампом. Вероятно, у рейтинга Ына похожая судьба.

Bottlecap Challenge

what the fuck, pic.twitter.com/iJqn1nYDf9

— Davis. (@realdaveimboden) July 1, 2019

Здесь можно посмотреть, как другие люди делают то же самое, или пытаются сделать: https://twitter.com/hashtag/bottlecapchallenge

"It's a phenomena that started two years ago."

Не то чтобы нужны были дополнительные иллюстрации, но вот еще одна.

Трамп сегодня дал интервью Карлсону. Видео ниже, а полный транскрипт здесь. Я один кусок процитирую.

Все отмечают первую фразу Трампа, которую я вынес в заголовок. Фраза эта, конечно, что-то с чем-то. Трамп стал президентом и бездомные стали справлять нужду на улицах американских городов... Отлично ведь.

Но черт с ней, с этой фразой, допустим, что Трамп оговорился. Хотя оговорился... а что он намеревался сказать-то?

Но ладно, вы оцените sheer бессвязность ответа Трампа! Прочитайте его ответ. Обдумайте его. Потом прочитайте его еще раз.

CARLSON: You’ve come to where we are now Osaka or Tokyo and the cities are clean. There's no graffiti. No one going to bathroom on the street. You don't see junkies.

TRUMP: It's very nice, isn't it?

CARLSON: Very different from our city.

TRUMP: Yes. Well, no, some of our cities --

CARLSON: Some of our cities, but New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles - they've got a major problem with --

TRUMP: It's very sad.

CARLSON: With filth. Why is that?

TRUMP: It's a phenomena that started two years ago. It's disgraceful. I'm going to may be and I'm looking at it very seriously, we're doing some other things that you probably noticed like some of the very important things that we're doing now. But we're looking at it very seriously because you can't do that.

You can't have what's happening -- where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat. I mean, they're getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick, where the people living there living in hell, too.

Although some of them have mental problems where they don't even know they're living that way. In fact, perhaps they like living that way. They can't do that. We cannot ruin our cities. And you have people that work in those cities. They work in office buildings and to get into the building, they have to walk through a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago.

And this is the liberal establishment. This is what I'm fighting. They -- I don't know if they're afraid of votes. I don't know if they really believe that this should be taking place. But it's a terrible thing that's taking place. And we may be --

You know, I had a situation when I first became President, we had certain areas of Washington, D.C. where that was starting to happen, and I ended it very quickly. I said, "You can't do that."

When we have leaders of the world coming in to see the President of the United States and they're riding down a highway, they can't be looking at that. I really believe that it hurts our country.

They can't be looking at scenes like you see in Los Angeles and San Francisco. San Francisco, I own property in San Francisco, so I don't care except it was so beautiful. And now areas that you used to think as being, you know, really something very special, you take a look at what's going on with San Francisco, it's terrible.

So we're looking at it very seriously. We may intercede. We may do something to get that whole thing cleaned up. It's inappropriate.

Now, we have to take the people and do something. We have to do something.

CARLSON: Right.

TRUMP: And, you know, we're really not very equipped as a government to be doing that kind of work. That's not really the kind of work that the government probably should be doing.

We've never had this in our lives before in our country. And it's not only those few cities, it's a couple of other ones.

CARLSON: No, it's a lot of cities.

TRUMP: At the same time, most of our cities are doing great. But if you look at some of these, they are usually sanctuary cities run by very liberal people and the states are run by very liberal people.

But the thing that nobody can figure out is do these governors or mayors, do they really think this is a positive? Do they really think this is okay? Because it's not. It's destroying their city. And it's destroying a whole way of life, and it's not our country. It's not what our country is all about.

Бабочку сегодня сфотографировал.