Because you must get your enemy to expend ammo. Trump has been hyping this as the biggest announcement in 100 years. Only thing that big is declas. But he gets more response by making them THINK he will declass, vs actually declassifying.
Temper expectations. Severely temper them. Those who have been around as long as I have been thru this exact, same, song and dance multiple times before.
Anyone who thinks DT will drop the hammer and expose all tonight hasnt read enough. We are no where near the precipice. Normies are still getting moar boosters.
Hawaii is one of the 50 states?
No shit.
: )
Hey, to be fair, for thousands of not millions of living Americans, it wasn't always. During the pandemic I made a living caretaking for a Japanese nonagenarian from Hawaii, and it taught me that any history within an extent person's lifetime is really current events. She remembers the campaign for Statehood and how for the first few cycles the factories would shut down on Election Day so the people could go vote "for one of our own people instead of the Governor from the mainland". When she was born, Hawaii was only recently no longer under Hawaiian sovereignty.
The really wild thing is TV - she was a teenager when TV debuted, and in her twenties before it was widespread. So she had a fully developed brain and understanding of the world before TV entered it. And then it was always TV... Until it suddenly wasn't. It was cheaper for us to have just internet and stream stuff, and it was flat out impossible to get her to understand that TV is no longer something that you turn on and it just goes. Now TV is something where you have to keep making decisions about what you want to watch. It has basically completely transformed into a different type of user experience. One closer to a salad bar than a feeding trough. So for her, she basically saw the entire lifespan of Television, before it was subsumed by the Internet.
A reminder to us that all castles are sand castles, and time is the endless sea.
What an amazing history and I am glad you were able to learn about her perspective and experience.
Did you write that last line, or is that from something? It's quite a beautiful metaphor.
And... you know I was joking with my comment about Hawaii, I assume.
I did know! It just sparked a recent thing I'd been musing on. It was an impactful experience and I saw the opportunity to share a little.
The sand castles bit is definitely not an original line but I can't tell you where I first ran across it. I think I was kind of mashing up two old chestnuts in my mind. Some find the sea scary, in its expanse and depth and mystery. I find it comforting. But I can find Time scary, depending on the day. Imagining time as an ocean makes it a little easier to find Time comforting.