The big news until shortly before midnight tonight was that businesses do indeed seem to be coming home after the pandemic illustrated the dangers of stretched supply lines, the global minimum tax reduced the incentives to flee to other countries with lower taxes, and the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act spurred investment in technology.
Okay, I think I see what's going on here. Heather is putting these pieces together long before the news outlets and official statements are putting them together, which is why tonight's second-half (about the purloined documents) sounds like an echo of stuff we've already heard. We have heard it before, thanks to Heather's excellent narrative work.
I'm so glad Biden is out there touting his agenda. The Technology Initiatives by Biden, you've listed, seem to be taking hold. We are moving forward while the maga people are just stirring up more $#!t to feed to their hungry base.
And as for that picture of those sensitive documents laying spread out on the floor, showing the evidence. How does this dude get away with this stuff? Thank you for the news HCR.
Mostly the news is good, about the companies coming back to the US, jobs in the future for many now unemployed, we hope those jobs will pay well. Automation may “steal” some of the possible employment, but it all seems hopeful. Fossil fuels must be eliminated for energy needs and production of electric vehicles makes real sense. But the documents are troublesome and what he did with them is even more so. I will flip out if we eventually learn the scumbag sold data, intel, names, gossip to our enemies. And maybe to our friends. Sure seems like he was pawing his way through everything. That little detail about the pile of highly classified papers interspersed with framed Time Magazine covers made it very real. Obsessed only with himself and his illegal and treasonous way to gain and hold power is the lesson here. Let’s fire him into prison. You’re FIRED!
I’d like the mirror to reflect a question back to the FPOTUS. “Why are you and your party of trump so damn mean?” You say you support law enforcement but you name as patriots and tourists those that attacked, maimed, killed and desecrated the Capitol on Jan 6th. How mean is it to say “we are the party of pro-law enforcement” but hold the troops back on Jan 6th so you can be pro-insurrection? You can’t be the party of law and order when violence again on the people is threatened this very week if the rule of law and order is upheld. And by the way… how mean is it to steal money to support your disgusting band of traitors from ordinary citizens who have pledged loyalty and their money to someone who coyly kisses the American flag at rallies but kisses the rings of Putin and Orban in dark rooms? Ewwww.
All you losers and posers. Your knickers in a knot because people are “so mean”?
You best call your nice Friends at Fox as they twiddle their widdles and make up new acronyms to denigrate Democracy. Not to be mean, but that Russian submarine can go f*ck itself.
My preference is for our duly elected President and Commander-in-Chief who is firmly in command.
Close up shop while you can, former. Before Melania sells off all the trinkets.
I give it a 20% chance that, after prompting from cronies, Trump will next try to say that, since that picture was taken with the appropriate cover sheets on the documents, no actual secrets were disclosed. <Queue the laugh track> . It IS true, if those cover sheets weren't present you couldn't publish that picture (also notice how many pages have been whited out. ONE word on a page can make it classified). It's also just amazing AF they have those docs all there, still with their bright yellow cover sheets on them screaming "Yoo hoo! TS//SCI information, right over here!" But if you listen to Michael Cohen (I rarely do, but when it comes to decoding Trump, I do) it makes sense--Trump wanted to show this stuff off like museum artifacts. Thankfully, I don't see any program names (those would be whited out too).
Just for reference, even INSIDE A SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) you can't just leave those documents lying around, say, at night when everyone goes home without those cover sheets (because, even in a SCIF, those docs can be from a program that not everyone with general access to the area has been read-on). Ordinary people have NO IDEA what a complete sh*tstorm big deal this is, NO IDEA.
"the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act spurred investment in technology."
Poor Republicans. They have been trying (or so they say) to accomplish such things for over 40 years with corporate deregulation and tax cuts, and s o m e h o w it never worked.
We are far beyond the point of no return with what must be done with Trump. The Democrats know it. The GOP know it. More importantly he knows it. Yesterday's barrage of insane QAnon based tweets coming from him on his social media platform at the rate of over 60 in just the morning has laid bare the fact he is a detached from reality, desperate individual. If we can separate the man from the situation, for a moment we would call for an intervention for him if he were a neighbor or co-worker at this point. The chilling difference is he can call on his cult to cause violence.
Thank you for a piece that isn't so dark and dreary. I just finished watching "Rise of the Balsonaros" on WGBH, and it left me really depressed. The "Trump of the Tropics" has been leading the burning of the Amazon (the lungs of the world) and it looks like he, or his son, could remain in power for a long time. Any show that ends with Steve Bannon exulting over that possibility is terrifying. And the Brazilians are much closer to having a military coup than we are, as Bolsonaro has said he won't give up power if he loses the election. And I thought we had troubles...
Tonight’s letter makes me so happy! Maybe we can turn things around. I know we have lots of work to do at the state level—all across the country. But this feels hopeful. The head of the snake is thrashing about with very little to no venom. 😁
One more thing for any Democrats living abroad - or anyone knowing Democrats living abroad - it is vital to vote. It was those of us abroad who put Biden over the top. It is so easy to vote this way. Go to VotefromAbroad.org for your absentee ballot for Americans. Thank you ❤️🤍💜
Thank you for today’s letter. Biden’s speech and his rediscovered feistiness is welcome news. The announcements from many large corporations to build new facilities in the U.S. is welcomed news, too. But the news of the DOJ laying out a timeline of the government’s efforts to recover secret intelligence documents and the former guy and his attorneys stonewalling efforts to recover them was a fine exclamation point on the day’s news.
Why are people so mean? It’s likely because they are tired of dealing with a mendacious blowhard who wouldn’t recognize the truth if he fell over it, who walks out on paying his bills, who stole Top Secret documents, whose businesses have repeatedly gone bankrupt, who is a con man, and who (despite claims that he is a billionaire) is constantly begging for money from his supporters, . . .
It will be a hot time in the old town the night he is indicted and arrested.
Thank you for dedication to democracy and the rule of law.
I think Trump is a spy. Think back remember when he announced that his meetings with Putin would be just him alone with Putin. " so they could have confidential exchanges " Reflect on Trump braggadocio assertions about how much money could be made on a presidential bid and if one got elected. Remember Trumps on going project deals in Russia around the world.
I think Trump took those document to trade their contents with foreign powers in exchange for future accommodations for deals he planned to make, in or out of office. You have to wonder how much classified material he has already traded to Putin the Saudis the Israelis, the North Koreans to further his development schemes in those countries or god knows what else.
I think Trump is a guy without the normal grasp of right and wrong. He is a greedy maniacal narcissist, incapable of guilt. He's nuts! And the tragedy is that we new that long before he was elected, and nobody took it seriously. Nobody cared! Even trump was amazed. ""I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
What the hell is wrong with Americans, with American media, and American Republicans, that they let this Maniac remain loose to run for and be elected President of the United States? Just getting rid of Trump won't fix that.
There is something far larger that needs fixing. something or some conspirators, who saw that nut job as useful, people willing to expose the nation to all the risks of what he might do, in order to disrupt our democracy , rewrite our constitution, and install a "Permanent Republican Majority". Single party rule, like Russia, like China, tyranny, Those are the people who plotted the overthrow of our government and belong in Jail. The trail leads all the way back to 1970 and Lewis Palmer and memorandum detailing ideas that launched a half century long corporatist conspiracy that eventually planned and funded an attempt to over throw the government of the United States.
I am pretty sure that doing that is against the law. And Trump is a chump compared to those guys.
Despite the enumeration of mighty promising ventures, the line that struck a nerve was the bit from the Wall Street Journal that noted, “this re-shoring will not necessarily translate to blue collar jobs, as companies will likely increase automation to avoid higher labor costs.” Upon reading said statement, my mind traveled back to the dawn of the millennium and to the tens of millions who had been the victims of modernity’s unevenly distributed opportunity and prosperity largely due not only to the shift in manufacturing from high-to low-wage countries which, indeed, drove down wages but also, and I believe more importantly, to the rapid technological changes that increasingly had rewarded higher-educated workers over the less skilled.
I suppose I raise this point because nothing I’ve read has helped answer the question as to whether the chaos we are living through is the beginning of something or the end of something. Nonetheless, I am certain of one thing: a principal challenge for America today is whether it will continue to deny, evade, and avoid the emergence of ancient tribalisms that have been revitalized under the aegis of an uncontested, unevenly distributed runaway wild capitalism.
Okay, I think I see what's going on here. Heather is putting these pieces together long before the news outlets and official statements are putting them together, which is why tonight's second-half (about the purloined documents) sounds like an echo of stuff we've already heard. We have heard it before, thanks to Heather's excellent narrative work.
I'm so glad Biden is out there touting his agenda. The Technology Initiatives by Biden, you've listed, seem to be taking hold. We are moving forward while the maga people are just stirring up more $#!t to feed to their hungry base.
And as for that picture of those sensitive documents laying spread out on the floor, showing the evidence. How does this dude get away with this stuff? Thank you for the news HCR.
Mostly the news is good, about the companies coming back to the US, jobs in the future for many now unemployed, we hope those jobs will pay well. Automation may “steal” some of the possible employment, but it all seems hopeful. Fossil fuels must be eliminated for energy needs and production of electric vehicles makes real sense. But the documents are troublesome and what he did with them is even more so. I will flip out if we eventually learn the scumbag sold data, intel, names, gossip to our enemies. And maybe to our friends. Sure seems like he was pawing his way through everything. That little detail about the pile of highly classified papers interspersed with framed Time Magazine covers made it very real. Obsessed only with himself and his illegal and treasonous way to gain and hold power is the lesson here. Let’s fire him into prison. You’re FIRED!
Why are people so mean?
Because you're such an ignorant, worthless, scummy moron piece of shit TRAITOR, Lardo Lardass. That's why!
We want you swinging from a rope till your corpse rots off it.
I’d like the mirror to reflect a question back to the FPOTUS. “Why are you and your party of trump so damn mean?” You say you support law enforcement but you name as patriots and tourists those that attacked, maimed, killed and desecrated the Capitol on Jan 6th. How mean is it to say “we are the party of pro-law enforcement” but hold the troops back on Jan 6th so you can be pro-insurrection? You can’t be the party of law and order when violence again on the people is threatened this very week if the rule of law and order is upheld. And by the way… how mean is it to steal money to support your disgusting band of traitors from ordinary citizens who have pledged loyalty and their money to someone who coyly kisses the American flag at rallies but kisses the rings of Putin and Orban in dark rooms? Ewwww.
All you losers and posers. Your knickers in a knot because people are “so mean”?
You best call your nice Friends at Fox as they twiddle their widdles and make up new acronyms to denigrate Democracy. Not to be mean, but that Russian submarine can go f*ck itself.
My preference is for our duly elected President and Commander-in-Chief who is firmly in command.
Close up shop while you can, former. Before Melania sells off all the trinkets.
United we stand. 🗽🇺🇸
I give it a 20% chance that, after prompting from cronies, Trump will next try to say that, since that picture was taken with the appropriate cover sheets on the documents, no actual secrets were disclosed. <Queue the laugh track> . It IS true, if those cover sheets weren't present you couldn't publish that picture (also notice how many pages have been whited out. ONE word on a page can make it classified). It's also just amazing AF they have those docs all there, still with their bright yellow cover sheets on them screaming "Yoo hoo! TS//SCI information, right over here!" But if you listen to Michael Cohen (I rarely do, but when it comes to decoding Trump, I do) it makes sense--Trump wanted to show this stuff off like museum artifacts. Thankfully, I don't see any program names (those would be whited out too).
Just for reference, even INSIDE A SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) you can't just leave those documents lying around, say, at night when everyone goes home without those cover sheets (because, even in a SCIF, those docs can be from a program that not everyone with general access to the area has been read-on). Ordinary people have NO IDEA what a complete sh*tstorm big deal this is, NO IDEA.
"the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act spurred investment in technology."
Poor Republicans. They have been trying (or so they say) to accomplish such things for over 40 years with corporate deregulation and tax cuts, and s o m e h o w it never worked.
Thank you Heather.
We are far beyond the point of no return with what must be done with Trump. The Democrats know it. The GOP know it. More importantly he knows it. Yesterday's barrage of insane QAnon based tweets coming from him on his social media platform at the rate of over 60 in just the morning has laid bare the fact he is a detached from reality, desperate individual. If we can separate the man from the situation, for a moment we would call for an intervention for him if he were a neighbor or co-worker at this point. The chilling difference is he can call on his cult to cause violence.
He needs to be shut down. Now.
Be safe. Be well.
Thank you for a piece that isn't so dark and dreary. I just finished watching "Rise of the Balsonaros" on WGBH, and it left me really depressed. The "Trump of the Tropics" has been leading the burning of the Amazon (the lungs of the world) and it looks like he, or his son, could remain in power for a long time. Any show that ends with Steve Bannon exulting over that possibility is terrifying. And the Brazilians are much closer to having a military coup than we are, as Bolsonaro has said he won't give up power if he loses the election. And I thought we had troubles...
Tonight’s letter makes me so happy! Maybe we can turn things around. I know we have lots of work to do at the state level—all across the country. But this feels hopeful. The head of the snake is thrashing about with very little to no venom. 😁
One more thing for any Democrats living abroad - or anyone knowing Democrats living abroad - it is vital to vote. It was those of us abroad who put Biden over the top. It is so easy to vote this way. Go to VotefromAbroad.org for your absentee ballot for Americans. Thank you ❤️🤍💜
Thank you for today’s letter. Biden’s speech and his rediscovered feistiness is welcome news. The announcements from many large corporations to build new facilities in the U.S. is welcomed news, too. But the news of the DOJ laying out a timeline of the government’s efforts to recover secret intelligence documents and the former guy and his attorneys stonewalling efforts to recover them was a fine exclamation point on the day’s news.
Why are people so mean? It’s likely because they are tired of dealing with a mendacious blowhard who wouldn’t recognize the truth if he fell over it, who walks out on paying his bills, who stole Top Secret documents, whose businesses have repeatedly gone bankrupt, who is a con man, and who (despite claims that he is a billionaire) is constantly begging for money from his supporters, . . .
It will be a hot time in the old town the night he is indicted and arrested.
Thank you for dedication to democracy and the rule of law.
"he challenged the Republicans on their claim to be the party of law and order, "
"I will fight to protect you — I am your president of law and order..." - DJT
Yeah, and I'm a billionaire prince who just needs you to send me a $1500 money order so I can access my billions, and share them with you...
Why does anyone believe this stuff?
So delicious to see him squirm. On the other hand I am dismayed by the possible damage done. I just hope the whole rotten lot of them go down soon.
Hoping Dems increase their hold on congress and there are more good changes to come.
I think Trump is a spy. Think back remember when he announced that his meetings with Putin would be just him alone with Putin. " so they could have confidential exchanges " Reflect on Trump braggadocio assertions about how much money could be made on a presidential bid and if one got elected. Remember Trumps on going project deals in Russia around the world.
I think Trump took those document to trade their contents with foreign powers in exchange for future accommodations for deals he planned to make, in or out of office. You have to wonder how much classified material he has already traded to Putin the Saudis the Israelis, the North Koreans to further his development schemes in those countries or god knows what else.
I think Trump is a guy without the normal grasp of right and wrong. He is a greedy maniacal narcissist, incapable of guilt. He's nuts! And the tragedy is that we new that long before he was elected, and nobody took it seriously. Nobody cared! Even trump was amazed. ""I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
What the hell is wrong with Americans, with American media, and American Republicans, that they let this Maniac remain loose to run for and be elected President of the United States? Just getting rid of Trump won't fix that.
There is something far larger that needs fixing. something or some conspirators, who saw that nut job as useful, people willing to expose the nation to all the risks of what he might do, in order to disrupt our democracy , rewrite our constitution, and install a "Permanent Republican Majority". Single party rule, like Russia, like China, tyranny, Those are the people who plotted the overthrow of our government and belong in Jail. The trail leads all the way back to 1970 and Lewis Palmer and memorandum detailing ideas that launched a half century long corporatist conspiracy that eventually planned and funded an attempt to over throw the government of the United States.
I am pretty sure that doing that is against the law. And Trump is a chump compared to those guys.
Despite the enumeration of mighty promising ventures, the line that struck a nerve was the bit from the Wall Street Journal that noted, “this re-shoring will not necessarily translate to blue collar jobs, as companies will likely increase automation to avoid higher labor costs.” Upon reading said statement, my mind traveled back to the dawn of the millennium and to the tens of millions who had been the victims of modernity’s unevenly distributed opportunity and prosperity largely due not only to the shift in manufacturing from high-to low-wage countries which, indeed, drove down wages but also, and I believe more importantly, to the rapid technological changes that increasingly had rewarded higher-educated workers over the less skilled.
I suppose I raise this point because nothing I’ve read has helped answer the question as to whether the chaos we are living through is the beginning of something or the end of something. Nonetheless, I am certain of one thing: a principal challenge for America today is whether it will continue to deny, evade, and avoid the emergence of ancient tribalisms that have been revitalized under the aegis of an uncontested, unevenly distributed runaway wild capitalism.