Shit-stirring

“They stir up more troubles and crave the whole world to be in chaos, acting like a shit-stirring stick,” Mr. Kang said on the usually stolid 7 p.m. national news program on CCTV, China’s state broadcaster.

We should expect more attempts Tuesday night, and for Biden and Warren to spend most of their night evading competitors and shit-stirring moderators.

She’s built and maintained an improbable career based solely on her prodigious shit-stirring and her ability to turn every tragedy, from the death of her fiancé, actor Michael Clarke Duncan, to the election of this calamitous president, into attention for herself.