Husk / Victory Day

The Great Emancipator. US Capitol.: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 11 May 2017

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Acting FBI Dir McCabe assures Sen. Ron Wyden he'll refrain from giving the White House updates on the Russian investigation.: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 11 May 2017

Acting FBI Director McCabe appearing before intel panel in place of Comey; Vice chair Warner calls Trump’s firing of Comey “shocking...”: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 11 May 2017

From left, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Robert Cardillo, prepare to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2017, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on major threats facing the U.S.: photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP, 11 May 2017

Upcoming New Yorker cover #ComeyFiring: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 11 May 2017

@SarahHuckabee briefs reporters at the White House.: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 May 2017

Husk

a blown husk that is finished -- E.P.

...So 14-year-old @HarahSuckabee of the Arkie Elite Suckabees in her elephant briefs waddled off chasing a frightened stick insect named @PressSec into the weeds and then... because this is a sort-of democracy

The remaining reporters who were not Russian were all stripped down to their briefs (even briefer!) by Security so that no inconvenient devices could be concealed and then...

Oh my it's a darn good thing we removed Civics and History from the curriculum, and none too soon at that! And don't you dare call us ridiculous

World, just because we're a little down right now and maybe even looking dumb and dumber it doesn't mean we're going to sit back and let anybody who feels like it just go ahead and laugh at us without an appropriate response, so be warned

And then think Airstrike in the morning! It gives us shivers just to say that. The good kind of shivers, the replacement Psycho

Sexual kind we love so much on netflix! What's a Thursday night in America without a bit of seat-gripping horror? Sublimation's what made us great! That and corporate

Weapons production! And supersizing! What would we be without supersizing? Shut up! The question itself is UnAmerican! That's right! Rough em up a bit! Get em outa here! Because

We are a kind people. Just don't ask us anything about current events. Or previous events for that matter. See that sinking ship off there on the event horizon?

It's not really a sinking ship. Or else it's somebody else's ship. Unless it's not a ship. Frankly I don't think it's appropriate to be asking these questions. Or any other

Questions, either, really. So... You'll have to check back with me on that one. Gotta run right now. Er I mean sneak off into the cover of night. Night

Can cover anything, in this great country. It's always night somewhere in one of our great Time Zones. Unless it isn't. But you'd better check back with me on that.

I'm thinking maybe all this lingering-night business just comes down to a middle-class comedy of manners, call it Endless Night. We're busy working on it. We're toppling

All the old icons, pulling the rug out from under the old ideologies, making a whole new America, starting later

This week, or as soon as the financing is set up. The "I am poor because so many people are rich" logic went out with thin

Ankles among the malnourished. In the immanent, self sufficient present no one can tell you what

The words they use actually mean. And they will resent your making a thing out of this. When they mean

"Many" they will say "moldable". You'll hear them saying that a lot. They like to talk like

Police reports. Who needs education. You can't trust science. You want the intimate, the direct, the homely. You don't want to think about yourself

As a part and function of your environment. You want to be absorbed

And controlled by it. You want to stay fluid. You want to look out over the footlights

At the fourth wall and stare so hard the wall starts to crumble along the hairline cracks

Distributed randomly by fate along the fault zone of dramatic conflict. You want to be victorious

In defeat. You feel maybe it's a birthright. We hear you. But we're going to have to get back to you on that.Subversive

Social displacement is always going to be a possibility. This is only a test. We're heading

Into those waters from which the last icebergs, those continents from which the last glaciers

Have retreated. This is our time in the sun. Certain social strata may be threatened. Pay no mind. The password

Is find out the number and the speakeasy door swings open. Don't be peevish. All this is a

Historical necessity. A class that believes in its ultimate victory

Will always regard its sacrifices as a small price to pay for victory, whereas

The other classes will be left to find consolation in the fact that

In this world all great and noble things are doomed to destruction

And will inevitably wish to view this destruction in a transfiguring light, and it is

For this that we are gathered together here tonight. Unless we aren't.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer walks from the West Wing of White House, in Washington, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, to speak to reporters. President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director Comey on May 9, 2017, ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an investigation into whether Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's election meddling.: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 9 May 2017

The White House is seen in Washington, Tuesday night, May 9, 2017. President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director Comey on May 9, 2017, ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an investigation into whether Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's election meddling.: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 9 May 2017

NYPD officials hold a press conference near the location where a body was pulled from a pond in Central Park, Wednesday May 10, 2017, in New York. The discovery came a day after the body of another man was recovered in the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir near Central Park West and 90th Street.: photo by Bebeto Matthews/AP, 10 May 2017

May 4 #NY Protesters rally against president Donald Trump and his policies, close to Trump Tower. By @drewangerer @GettyImagesNews: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 11 May 2017

A poster showing Pope Francis kissing a devilish, gun-toting Donald Trump is seen on a wall in Rome, Thursday, May 11, 2017. The poster has appeared in Rome less than two weeks before the first meeting between the pontiff and President Trump and is captioned with writing reading in English and Italian "The Good forgives the Evil" in tiny letters along Francis’ belt.: photo by Alessandra Tarantino/AP, 11 May 2017

NICEVILLE, Fla.— On any given day, President Trump is known to fire off tweets that grab the attention of those inside the Beltway. On Wednesday, for example, he singled out a senator from Connecticut who “cried like a baby” and called Democrats “phony hypocrites.” The day before, he defended his decision to fire the FBI director and attacked “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer.” Last week he praised Australia’s socialized health-care system, declared that the “fake news media is officially out of control” and congratulated a morning talk show for “its unbelievable ratings hike.”

But nearly 1,000 miles south of Washington, in the bar of American Legion Post 221 in the Florida Panhandle, no one seems to notice his Twitter habits.

Instead, the regulars talk about their grandkids, home-improvement projects, politics and the way things used to be in conversations peppered with curse words and crude jokes.

The jukebox blares country, with some classic rock mixed in, as the bartender pours $1 draft beers and $2 mixed drinks.

No one has a Twitter account — frankly, many aren’t even sure how Twitter works — although they do know it keeps getting the president into trouble.

“I wish he’d quit tweeting,” Becky Corcoran, 62, a Trump-supporting retired school custodian, said last week. “Keep your mouth shut, quit tweeting. . . You’re not just a businessman any more. Now you’re president of the United States.”

Although the president pledged to let go of his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account if elected, he has continued to tweet, insisting that it’s the only way he can bypass the media and directly connect with his supporters.

A Quinnipac University poll last month found that 68 percent of registered voters said the president should stop tweeting from his personal account. Among Republicans, opinions were split, with 47 percent saying he should continue, 47 percent saying he should stop and 6 percent not caring. A Fox News poll of Trump voters in March found that 35 percent approved of his tweets — while 51 percent wished he would be more cautious and 12 percent disapproved.

And for those who are active on Twitter, interest in Trump’s tweeting is fading. The president’s tweets earn far fewer likes than they did during the election — or even when he first took office, according to a Bloomberg News analysis. Those who engage with Trump are more likely to be left-leaners leveling criticism than right-leaners lavishing love, according to an analysis by the Associated Press and Cortico, a media analytics nonprofit group.

Niceville, Fla., is home to about 12,000 people, many of whom work at Eglin Air Force Base.: photo by Meggan Haller/Keyhole Photo/The Washington Post, 11 May 2017

Many of those at the American Legion bar one night last week said they can’t keep straight which of the president’s comments were delivered in a tweet and which came in an interview, speech or formal statement. Everything melds together as they watch the news, listen to their favorite talk-radio shows or read articles posted on Facebook.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the president’s supporters don’t have to read his tweets on Twitter for them to be powerful modes of communication.

“When he tweets . . . it gets picked up by everybody, it gets read live on the news, you guys will cover it in the paper,” Spicer said. “We put out a press release and it gets covered much less than when he sends a single tweet.”

Here in Niceville — which replaced the town name Boggy in 1910 — questions about the president’s tweets were often met with shrugs. Many said they care more about some congressional Republicans not supporting the president’s full agenda, about liberals not giving Trump a fair chance and about the media seeming to ignore the victories that they see.

Scottie Gontarek of Niceville, Fla., at the bar of the American Legion post.: photo by Meggan Haller/Keyhole Photo/The Washington Post, 11 May 2017

“I’d rather hear honest and crude than unhonest and sanitized,” said Scottie Gontarek, 60, who retired after 20 years in the Air Force and is one of a handful of widows who often hang out together at the Legion post. “You might not like what he says, but he’s honest.”

Trump won overwhelmingly in the Panhandle, which culturally has much more in common with the southern states it borders — Alabama and Georgia — than with Miami.

Niceville is home to about 12,000 people, and is known for its annual Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival (named for a fish, not the hairstyle). Last week, fighter jets practiced overhead as students at Northwest Florida State College took finals, tourists posed for photos at an armaments museum and families gathered at a local playground.

No one could name a tweet that the president had sent recently.

Among those shopping at a local Walmart was a 56-year-old Republican who refused to vote for Trump and called his tweets “childish,” along with a 29-year-old whose husband is based in South Korea and who wishes the president would be more careful with his comments, especially those about North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. At a water park, a 69-year-old grandfather who voted for Trump said he had to cut back on cable news late last year for fear that the stress was hurting his health — so he’s unsure what the president has been tweeting.

During a lunch rush at the chain restaurant PoFolks — “be sho’ to tell yore friends how much ya enjoyed yore visit,” the menu says — a 57-year-old white grandmother raising her 14-year-old grandson said she loves the president’s tweets and said that the occasional typo or poor choice of words shows he’s down-to-earth and not trying to “be some bigwig that thinks he’s above all of us.” At a nearby booth, a 56-year-old African American grandmother who is helping to raise her three grandchildren and didn’t vote in November said that Trump “shouldn’t even be tweeting at all.”

As the night wore on at the American Legion, a light rain began to fall. Rob Orr, a 48-year-old electrician, ordered a round of Tequila Rose shots for several of the women in the bar, most of whom were old enough to be his mother.

“Tastes like a strawberry milkshake,” said Lenora Ellison, 77, a retired Air Force mechanic who loves telling stories about being one of few women in the service.

Ellison thinks a lot of the nation’s problems could be solved with more birth control — “and that’s a position I even made on Facebook,” she said — and she voted for Trump.

“He says what he thinks and doesn’t flower things up,” she said.

Sitting to her right is Corcoran and her husband, Kim Jones, who said he worked for General Motors in Michigan until his job was shipped overseas.

Around the corner is Jeff Gipson, a dump truck driver with triplet grandsons who said he has been mad at the government since 1978 when he graduated from high school in Michigan, volunteered for the Army and was given a date to report — only to show up and learn that doctors wouldn’t allow him to go.

“We had a goodbye party with my family and friends. . . I said goodbye to my family, my friends,” he said. “I think the damn government owes me a paycheck for about 40 years.”

Gipson said that he’s fine with Trump “speaking his mind” and doesn’t think his tweets are terrible, although he doesn’t follow them closely.

To Ellison’s left is a 38-year-old who grew up in the Midwest and specializes in defusing bombs for the Air Force. He voted for Barack Obama in 2008, felt let down, and voted for Trump, noting the charismatic similarities between the two. He asked that his name not be published, as he’s active duty and not allowed to speak to the media without permission.

The Oliver D. Nichelson American Legion Post 221 in Niceville, Fla.: photo by Meggan Haller/Keyhole Photo/The Washington Post, 11 May 2017

Like many in the bar, he was glad to see Trump finally take action against the Syrian regime, although he thinks the president went a little light. And it was “awesome” that the military used the “mother of all bombs” against the Islamic State in Afghanistan.

“But, if I was in charge of him. . . I would be like: Kill your Twitter. Turn it off, shut it down, block, whatever,” he said.

“But that’s just Trump,” Ellison said.

“I mean, it’s a good tool to be able to mass communicate quickly,” he said. “But I think knowing Trump — and this is just the way he is — he gets all ‘grrrr.’ He gets all hot under the collar. . . I think they’re hurting him more than helping him. But it’s him. I mean, at the end of the day, no one’s going to tell him: ‘You can’t do it.’ ”

At the post is a signed letter from Charles E. Schmidt, national commander of the American Legion, as well as portraits of past post commanders.: photo by Meggan Haller/Keyhole Photo/The Washington Post, 11 May 2017

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Syrians work inside a workshop produces fuels and gas from plastic waste materials in the town of #Douma on May 10, 2017. Ph: SameerAlDoumy: image via Sameer Al-Doumy @SameerAlDoumy, 10 May 2017

Worker Abu Fahed poses for a picture at a workshop produces fuels and gas from plastic in the town of #Douma, #Syria. Ph: SameerAlDoumy: image via Sameer Al-Doumy @SameerAlDoumy, 10 May 2017

Palestinians carry an injured man during clashes with Israeli troops after a protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, May 11, 2017.: photo by Majdi Mohammed/AP, 11 May 2017

Kashmiri Shiite Muslims pray near the graves of their relatives to mark Shab-e-Barat on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, and Thursday, May 11, 2017. Muslims visit ancestral graveyards for the salvation of the souls of the departed and also believe that all sins will be forgiven by praying to Allah throughout the Shab-e Barat night.: photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP, 11 May 2017

In this Wednesday, May 10, 2017 photo, prosthetic legs can be seen in the workplace of the International Committee of the Red Cross clinic in Irbil. The clinic receives more than 450 new patients per month.: photo by Bram Janssen/AP, 11 May 2017

A family passes a destroyed building and cars inside western Mosul, Thursday, May 11, 2017. U.S.-backed Iraqi forces were moving to surround Mosul's Old City on Thursday, a week after launching a fresh push to drive Islamic State militants from areas they still hold.: photo by Bram Janssen/AP, 11 May 2017

#Syria Children learn how to protect themselves in case of a bombardment during a war safety class in Harasta. By @SameerAlDoumy @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 10 May 2017

#China A woman wears a mask to protect herself from particles blown during a sandstorm in Beijing. By @kevinfrayer @GettyImagesNews: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 11 May 2017

People arrive at Plaza de Mayo square to protest a Supreme Court ruling that benefited a man serving time for crimes against humanity in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. In response to the popular outcry, earlier in the day Wednesday, Argentina's Congress approved a bill banning the reduction of jail sentences for people serving time for crimes against humanity.: photo by Victor R. Caivano/AP, 10 May 2017
Venezuela Political Crisis

Amid a cloud of tear gas, an anti-government protester covers himself with a shield that reads in Spanish "Freedom," from jet of water shot from water cannon, during clashes with security forces in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro attempted to march to the Supreme Court to protest its decision to gut the opposition-controlled congress of its powers _ a ruling that was quickly rescinded under a barrage of international criticism but that set off weeks of political unrest that have left some three dozens killed.: photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP, 10 May 2017

Anti-government protesters work together to aim a giant slingshot holding a glass bottle of fecal matter, at security forces blocking their march from reaching the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro tried to march to the Supreme Court to protest its decision to gut the opposition-controlled congress of its powers _ a ruling that was quickly rescinded under a barrage of international criticism but that set off weeks of political unrest that have left some three dozens killed.: photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP, 10 May 2017

Israel Victory Day

A member of a group called WWII Reenactment Club takes part in a weapons display marking the Victory Day in Ashdod, Israel, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in 1945.: photo by Oded Balilty/AP, 10 May 2017

A woman holds a rifle during a weapons display by a group called WWII Reenactment Club, marking the Victory Day in Ashdod, Israel, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in the the second World War.: photo by Oded Balilty/AP, 10 May 2017

Members of a group called WWII Reenactment Club participate in a ceremony marking the Victory Day in Ashdod, Israel, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in 1945.: photo by Oded Balilty/AP, 10 May 2017

The rusting, discolored exterior of the fuselage of a Cyprus Airways Trident passenger jet is seen by barbed wires, parked on the tarmac of the long-abandoned Nicosia airport that lies inside a United Nations-controlled buffer zone, that separates the breakaway Turkish speaking north of ethnically divided Cyprus from the internationally recognized Greek speaking south, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. The airport has remained frozen in time after being shut down in 1974 when a coup by supporters of union with Greece prompted Turkey to invade and split the island into a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north and an internationally recognized Greek Cypriot south.: photo by Petros Karadjias/AP, 10 May 2017

A man wears a cross and a shirt with the portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin as he arrives for an event commemorating the end of World War II 72 years ago, at the Soviet War memorial at the district Tiergarten in Berlin, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Thousands of people most of them with Russian roots or Russians living in Germany attend the annual celebrations marking the victory over Nazi Germany and the end of the WWII at the Soviet war memorials and cemeteries in the German capital.: photo by Markus Schreiber/AP, 9 May 2017

Protesters sing and chant in front of a burning barricade in the Ennerdale, Johannesburg township, Tuesday May 9, 2017. Violent protests have erupted in South Africa's biggest city for a second day, with police firing rubber bullets at demonstrators who blocked roads and burned tires.: photo by AP, 9 May 2017

Husk / Victory Day

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