We cannot reward hostage-taking. If the President can arbitrarily shut down the government now and get what he wants, he will do it time and again.
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) January 20, 2019
Brilliant and morbidly hilarious @maggieNYT / @russbeuttner story contextualizing Trump's shutdown tactics as a continuation of his business tactics https://t.co/JbmAUFUZ73
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) January 21, 2019
Calls escalate for Trump to end shutdown and trade war amid fears of economic slowdown https://t.co/7GE9KQXOjB
— Beach Peanuts (@BeachPeanuts) January 21, 2019
Trump is the hammer and everybody else is a nail.
And now for something completely different.
In Shoshana Zuboff’s new book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” she writes “You are not the product. You are the abandoned carcass.”
Which is a takeoff on the old meme that “If you’re not paying for it, then you’re the product.”
Zuboff paints a bleak and enlightening picture in her new book.