Day 1,893: platitude, rebut, unspool
When, in the debate due on September 10th, Mr Trump attacks her for being too weak to stand up to Russia and China, or too much of a radical socialist to deal with immigration or create a healthy economy, she will need more than platitudes to rebut him. If it is the first time she tries to unspool a single thread running through her life, her principles and her policies, she is unlikely to do her best.
Artwork of the day
Spool
Oleksandr_AksininDate:1980Genre:figurativeMedia:ink, etching
Word of the day
platitude: a remark or statement that may be true but is boring and has no meaning because it has been said so many times before:
rebut: to argue that a statement or claim is not true:
unspool: to become, or to make something become, less strong or less under control: When a story or an event unspools, or someone unspools it, it develops or becomes known to people:
Quote of the day
“Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth”
― Bertrand Russell