Letters from an American
Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
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Garamond
I’ve been getting your ‘letter’ in my inbox every morning from almost the beginning but listening to you on Substack is the icing on the cake. You’ve been a life saver everyday, thank you!
Agreed! I read it every day but then listen the day after. Oddly - the information is awful but having HCR read it is very comforting.
Doesn’t this just feel like a ‘let them eat cake’ moment?
This administration thinks that if you are ridiculously wealthy you are stupid. They have another thing coming.
Thanks again for the audio version.
Unless the cake is made in China.
Bondi needs a wake up call. The primary function of the US AG is not to fight for the policies of her President like some wartime press secretary. And she lectures judges (who fight for those who are deeply wronged) on how to advocate for the USA.
Doesn't have a clue.
Read Ruth Marcus in the New Yorker ('Has Trump’s Legal Strategy Backfired?') last Friday about the angry reaction of judges who are being lied to by government lawyers and officials.
I think all her hair bleach treatment has been absorbed by her brain. There are srudies to prove how poisenous hair treatments can be. Wish some of them would just LOOK their age.
Agree. To me she's so sunken and hollow. What a shame.
It boggles the mind as to the length and breadth of the corruption. Some of this is probably ‘watch the birdie’ as Trump and others set up their Crypto systems.
“The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster”
From Rachel Maddow
One man is doing such damage and destroying the economy of the
richest nation in the world with very little thought.
The tariff idea started during Trump’s first campaign. He had no economic adviser so he asked his son-in-law, Jared Kushner to find one.
Jared went on Amazon.com searching book titles & came across “Death By China” by Peter Navarro. Navarro was then asked to join Trump’s team.
Navarro was a trade deficit hawk and had a PRO TARIFF policy. He used “Ron Vara” as his “expert” source, as a back up source.
Ron Vara is a NON Existent, made up person - an ANAGRAM*. FICTION! Peter Navarro INVENTED this “expert source” so he could quote this “expert source” in his crackpot books.
“In several of his books, Navarro quoted a fictional economist named "Ron Vara", an anagram of his name, as a source of information.”
Trump needs to be stopped.
Listen to Rachel Maddow’s podcast below:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-ridiculous-real-story-behind-the-tariff-plan-that-turned-donald-trump-into-a-global-disaster-236611653893
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anagram
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Navarro
Poor farmers. No pun intended.
Most supported trump..Even his 1st term I'm from California & I use to go visited my mother on her little sheep ranch in LaGrange-Mariposa County & I would drive those country roads & I never saw so many signs for trump..one after another..& they voted for him again..u try to talk with people & ur the idiot not them...I mean what did we know right!? .. & oh they r not going to vote for a woman when they could have a macho superstar noted liar con & rapist thief promising them the moon!!!
I feel sorry for these people because their injustice was self inflected...Now we all r paying..
Nah, they voted for all this. They've been listening to this right-wing extremistm for years on AM radio and FOX, which has a huge place in rural American life. They are willfully uninformed (obviously not all) and because of republican policies the party that they continue to vote for, their lives have been getting harder. Rather than look at who they vote for and change their party, I believe most because they love their racism and othering people so they vote R, they just keep blaming Democrats and immigrant, trans people, gay people, black people and "the elite.". They think the hardships they suffer are part of their mystic, it's an origin story, they don't attribute it to anything else and they'll only ever be happy with profitability if it comes under a Republican banner.
I agree with you. They want this - just not to hurt them.
Given that President Dumpty spends so much time chumming with Saudis in their Liv Golf grift, I can hear him out on the golf course: “Let them eat Bermuda Grass!”.
Many farmers in rural Wisconsin *still* have huge Trump signs in their fields, on their silos, etc. I see it every day. These people voted for all of this. I always remind myself that it is not all farmers who support him. I know from my in laws that democrats in farm country just keep their mouths shut. Trump supporters are huge bullies. But it is true that a large share of farmers continually vote against their best interests, and especially love Trump.
Trump "probably" done with his reign after a second term? If things keep going this way i fear we'll perish! Thanks, Heather for your usual OUTSTANDING work. I'm new to it, reccomended by my best friend's son, and find it extremely helpful, factual and unburnished. I look forward to it every day in my inbox. ✌
Love the newsletter but the reminder that I’m a paid subscriber isn’t necessary.
Kent
It's likely a legal requirement or platform requirement to inform subscribers on a regular basis.
kent probably didnt know that
thank you for your voice of sanity
It is 100% let them eat cake, or crumbs
I predict that Bondi, should Trump's plans for concentration camps becomes his promised reality, will be transferred to function like the twisted female assassins in hitler's concentration camps. Her heart is that cold and sociopathically sadistic.
She smiles when she is saying the ugliest things. She is a horrid person.
The only reason anti-vaxers have been able to live fairly untouched by these diseases up to this point...is bc the rest of us were vaccinated.
Very astute observation, Mam!
"blondie Bondi" needs to either get her facts straight or keep her mouth shut !! Preferably the latter...
The obvious is these men are terrified of Tramp!
Never trust a person who knows, not, they are lying to themselves.
Denial is a very strong drug that consumes the soul of the victim.
Just look around and don't take your eyes of them.
Those people in and around D.C. know this game must act to shut this idiot's madness down.
NOTE BELOW!
Wiki Cultural Genocide or culturicide : recognized in 1944 by attorney Raphael Lemkin when he distinguished a cultural component of genocide.
Some controversy exists about the origin. Bottom line often destroying ideas and articles associated with the culture is the beginning of things to follow. Say for instance fascism.
Himself and his ilk very are aggressively prosecuting the destruction of the entire Federal system, using his administrative position to do so, starting with the administrative foundation of the Federal Administrative System. At the same time laying waste to the established historical cultural traditions and etiquette used as a basis for the organized civil practices historically centered at the center of the nations government. Destroying the Historical context of the region. And at what end?
Time to take it back. Back to the original 'Tea Baggers', and the Sons of Liberty.
Have a nice evening. ,`; ')
This makes me sick to my stomach. His arrogance will get the best of him and Bondi should be fired. Can’t stand her nor her utter disregard for the law.
The Americans who have saved for retirement are intelligent and most assuredly follow their savings earnings or losses.
Interesting comment by loyalist Pam. But we should not lose sight of this process they would like to change.
Also I hope the Supreme Court hears about the criminal behalf our government on those deportations as they hear the one case for which the ruing to bring Garcia home.
What, or who, is Garamond? Is Politics Chat on at a certain time on Tuesday? Thanks for all you do for us.