Posted by
Steve Smith on
Aug 21, 2020; 3:21am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Curmudgeons-Unite-tp7594434p7598418.html
> Steve -
>
> Are you saying that DT tenukis every move? It appears to me that the Dems
> follow him around the board. While the latter is most certainly a beginner
> mistake, the former (if memory serves) was the sound advice given to a young
> Janice Kim from her father. idk, I will ask her next I see her.
I am too lame at Go to say much, but aping the idiom as best I can, I
think the *media* has followed him around the board and to the extent
the board we are playing on is much larger than the 19x19 standard grid,
he has gotten away with a Tenuki nearly every week/event.
The analogy breaks down badly unless we can invoke some kind of
*collective* Go playing with team Trump and team McConnel and team
Limbaugh/Jones and team Bannon (see the news on him today?!) and
probably team Putin and Team Assange and ??? with, as you say Team
Pelosi, Team mainstream Media, and Team alternative Media (e.g. DN,
Guardian, etc.) "following them around the board".
I'm looking forward with morbid fascination/trepidation at how the
configuration of the board is going to need/deserve "cleaning up" in a
few more months... I'm sure there will still be rearGuard defenses
skirmishing against those who DO try to clean it up, just as there must
have been in all the failed Trump enterprises (Steaks, University,
Casino, ... ) and now the myriad schemes he's started/aborted/abandoned
these last 3.x years from the White House.
I hope Biden/Harris, and more to the point, the army of functionaries
(Cabinet staff, Department/Agency staff, etc.), look at what *those*
cleanup crews had to deal with... like the retreating Axis armies in
Europe WWII, it suspect there will be (metaphorical) undetonated
munitions everywhere if not outright mines set to destroy evidence and
slow down the Allies.
I also hope Biden/Harris and their other power-allies look more to
Mandela's or Havel's lead than to Stalin's or Putin's or Trump's in a
post-opposition nation.
Of course many here will (loudly or silently) decry my implied optimism
on the upcoming overthrow of "he who shall not be named".
- Steve
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