The Right can't give up on the Pacific Northwest. The early Americans explored it. The pioneers settled it. And we aren't going to give it up.
Olympic National Forest with our new family dog, Jack London.
On the Obamas being depicted as monkeys:
Trump’s account posted a video about voting.
At the very end, for a couple of seconds, a completely different video appears - one depicting politicians as animals (Trump as a lion, Biden as a monkey, the Obamas as monkeys, etc.).
I don’t think they meant to post that second video at all.
It looks like someone screen recorded the first video, and the platform autoplayed the next video in the feed before they stopped recording.
Then they were careless and didn’t cut that second video out.
This happens to me constantly as a content creator - if you don’t trim your screen recordings using an editor, whatever autoplays next gets tacked onto the end.
Try screen recording a video on your phone right now.
Watch what happens when it ends.
The second video was made by someone who was thoughtless at best and racist at worst.
It’s also a random video from the internet.
I can’t read minds.
But based on what I can see: the most likely explanation is that this was a careless mistake - and the only reason anyone’s seen that one second frame from the video is because it got accidentally tacked onto the end of a screen recording.
My original reaction was “wtf?” - same as yours, probably.
Then I slowed down, calmed down, did the research, and this is what I found.
That said, given the obvious sensitivity of depicting any black person as a monkey - even unintentionally - it’s a good idea for Trump to make a statement taking accountability for careless management of his account.
Would be nice to see from a leader.
BREAKING: The Trump Administration announces the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, putting REAL FOOD back at the center of health. 🇺🇸
https://t.co/tkGF01onpm
What you soon learn with guitar, weapons, field outfitting, horseback riding, studio engineering, analytics, or travel is that - no matter your years of practice or depth of qualification - to many pundits you are still doing it wrong. They crave hovering about to instruct everyone on how to do it right.
Just walk into any craft or specialty store and begin to fiddle about. They will soon emerge.
There are so many of these experts available that you begin to wonder whether the world is simply flush with 'expertise.'
The artist, by contrast, is keenly aware that there is most often no single correct answer - and in his silence refuses to lead another where instruction is unnecessary or even stifling.
A consequence of this is that the artist in philosophy also understands that debunking and trivial critique are common stage acts, apt to deceive the magician far more than they enlighten.
A rarer talent still lies in the ability to craft novel coherence - to frame the familiar anew, to step beyond the pastiche - into a horizon of apprehension that is elegant, even beautiful, in art, in form, and in structure.
Be wary of noisy experts. They are often blind to their own weaknesses - and deaf to the strengths of authenticity.
The work must speak where the instruction can not.
Jammie Booker, a man pretending to be a woman, just won the title of “World’s Strongest Woman” at the World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas.
Andrea Thompson, the female runner-up, had her title stolen by a man.
KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS