The Weekly Flail — September 14, 2024

Mike Meyer
8 min readSep 14, 2024

OVERVIEW

After a month of a totally new game with Kamala Harris replacing Joe Biden and five days since Kamala destroyed Donald in their first and now last debate, the dust settled, and nothing has changed. Trump has made it clear that he is unfit for the presidency or to be left alone in public, but that doesn’t matter to his followers. No one can figure out what this means.

The Harris campaign is building momentum by refusing to change anything and never saying the word Gaza, let alone genocide. School shootings will eventually fade away if not discussed, and the climate disaster can be improved by EVs and increased fracking while thinking green thoughts. Nothing else matters.

WAR

Israel’s war on Gaza live: At least 26 killed by Israeli strikes in one day [Aljazeera]

  • The Israeli army orders new evacuations for thousands of Palestinians in three areas of the northern Gaza Strip, stoking fears of an imminent deadly ground invasion.
  • An Israeli air strike hits another school-turned-shelter for war-displaced civilians, this time in northern Gaza City, with the civil defence agency…

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Mike Meyer

Writer, Educator, Campus CIO (retired) . Essays on our changing reality here, news and more at https://rlandok.substack.com/