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Top Comments: Notebook #42- Bombshell Week [1]
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Date: 2022-07-01
Bombshells were in the news for much of the week.
First there was the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson before the Jan. 6 Select Committee on Tuesday.
x “I am the effing president, take me up to the Capitol now.”
Cassidy Hutchinson says Trump reached to grab the steering wheel when his security detail refused to take him to the Capitol — and lunged at his clavicle. pic.twitter.com/X6UQZvf1iT — Axios (@axios) June 28, 2022
Reporting that has now been confirmed.
I could fill the diary with multiple tweets of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony alone but that testimony wasn’t the only thermobaric news item of the week.
There’s...the Supreme Court and their rulings on matters ranging from abortion to climate change to Miranda rights to gerrymandering.
x this year, the Supreme Court has
1) made abortion illegal
2) made school prayer legal
3) make gun control illegal
4) overturned Miranda rights
5) made it illegal for the EPA to regulate emissions
at this point, expanding the court is a moderate response to an extremist court — sam (@sam_d_1995) June 30, 2022
And just when we thought we were safe from bombshells, we received an unexpected one from college sports.
x Breaking: USC and UCLA have been notified that their application to join the Big Ten has been accepted, per @PeteThamel, confirmed by @RossDellenger 🚨
The Trojans and Bruins will leave the Pac-12 and start playing in the Big Ten as soon as 2024
📝:
https://t.co/RKKrVTjxmz pic.twitter.com/9WAVjhY3K5 — Sports Illustrated (@SInow) June 30, 2022
Too many bombshells. Or...are they “bombshells” at all?
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Definitions...I need definitions.
Miriam-Webster
: one that is stunning, amazing, or devastating The book was a political bombshell. b : a person who is the cause and object of sensational and usually widespread attention, excitement, or attraction
Oxford
an event or a piece of news which is unexpected and usually unpleasant a very attractive woman
Well...yeah, I know the definition of bombshell related to a very attractive woman, preferably blonde.
But that definition of “bombshell” is attested to much later than the definition that we are using, although I am intrigued that the Online Etymology Dictionary also relates it to bikini. But “bombshell” as it relates to an item of unexpected and usually “bad news” is attested much earlier
The figurative sense of "shattering or devastating thing or event" is attested by 1859.
“stunning”, “amazing”, “devastating,” “unexpected,”
The behavior of Trump on Jan. 6 as described second-hand by Cassidy Hutchinson doesn’t seem stunning, amazing, or unexpected; I mean, he did suggest that maybe we should buy Greenland and he did say that we should inject bleach into our bodies to cure COVID-19. In comparison to other presidents and my own expectations of presidential behavior, the news that Trump threw ketchup on a wall might be a “bombshell” but...the behavior that Cassidy Hutchinson described is consistent with the Trump I have come to know though his job performance.
Overly dramatic, yes. A “bombshell?”
Kinda the same with the Supreme Court rulings.
These rulings were expected based on the ideological composition of the court. The devastation factor, alone, might push it into “bombshell” territory but we did expect these rulings.
USC and UCLA to the Big Ten Conference?
That item wasn’t even in the news until it was almost a done deal.
I’m a Michigan fan and I’m shocked, still.
Truthfully, that’s the only bombshell that I really see.
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