Late last night, just before a court deadline, former president Trump’s lawyers requested that his trial for illegally keeping national security documents be postponed indefinitely. While the lawyers argued that they were interested in protecting American democracy, falsely accusing President Biden of advancing the case in hopes of weakening his “chief political rival,” in fact the desire to push off the trial suggests that Trump realizes he’s in big trouble. His advisors have told reporters that he expects to end that trouble by winning the election. In the filing, his lawyers warned that as the “likely Republican Party nominee,” he would not have enough time to manage a trial.
It disturbs me greatly that one Senator, Sinator (sic) Tuberville, can stop the confirmation of 250 military officers including the next Commandant of the Marines! All because the usual way to confirm them is by unanimous consent. Otherwise its a long, long process to confirm each one by a vote. Maybe they should amend the Senate rules to be near unanimous consent like 98% is enough. Sounds like the Senate rules need to put in some checks and balances to prevent one senator having inordinate power like Sinator Manchin for another example. It really is a sin to have people who put personal power over the good of the nation and its People in Congress.
It’s getting clearer day by day that entire federal democracy is on the line in Nov 24! Trump is more deranged than ever and when Fani Willis delivers, he will go stark crazy as well as Lindsey (my prediction he will be among those indicted)! So the answer is, my friends, our youth, women 18 to 35, and as a new poll indicates--conservative women in suburbs relatively near big cities and aged 35 to 44 who are justifiably worried about the health and lives of their daughters! Makes sense?
So we desperately need all your help; please go to www.turnup.us/ to help these brilliant young Harvard students register the young men and women and their conservative mothers and TURN THEM Out! Please? Our democracy depends on them! Many thanks all!
Thank you Prof Richardson for the upbeat finale to this day’s very mixed report. I’d say President Biden is leaning into his years of deep relationship building w many powerful leaders from a broad and deep array of different histories and cultures each of whom live in democracies w various National “flavors”.
Simply put, I want our President to feel our support and revel in his expertise.
If anyone wants to defend tuberville by doubting that he understands what white nationalism means, I am willing to stipulate to it. The poor man obviously isn't very bright.
Other than that, I think he probably is a racistic screwball too.
Again, President Biden’s keen negotiating skills and his extensive international experience shine through. This needs to be lauded in the main media. Being President of the United States is complicated; Biden is doing a stellar job.
The criminally indicted Trump whose ignorant incoherence about any presidential responsibility never had a clue from day to day; he lied about everything, promising followers everything they wanted but never came through — except for tax gifts to the very rich.
The contrast could not be clearer: a highly competent, experienced President who understands the complications of the most difficult job in the world and does excellent work versus an increasingly demented sociopath who knows nothing and cares for nothing, except manipulating people to “further his own interests”, the snake oil con man.
It’s another masterpiece. Hard on the gut, though. Still as disturbing a mass of data as we have seen in a while. I keep wondering if the F-16’s are for the Kurds and if yes, will there be a response. We have already betrayed them three times. Will we again?
I don't know how y'all feel, but I sure find that HCR's and JWV's perspectives often complement one another and form something greater than just the sum of the two.
Each new day seems worse for Trump. If Judge Cannon keeps the trial on a tight schedule — a very big if — then Trump likely faces campaigning while awaiting sentencing to federal prison. That on top of other likely serious criminal charges.
What happens if his fragile, demented psyche breaks amid the crushing onslaught of justice? Will he last through the election or open the door earlier for another vile Republican?
I'm usually very liberal, however lately I see a pattern. This is my opinion that I sent my local newspaper: My 2 cents
As a daughter of a Navy Veteran, grandmother of 7 (almost 8), I am at the point now where I believe the charge of treason and censorship needs to be directed to Senator Tuberville and members of the far right that are stopping the promotions of the military and defense spending threatening the security and integrity of the United States. It is fine to have disagreements. The process of discussion is healthy, but the ability of a few to destroy the integrity of the United States is what is destroying thisemocracy. It’s the reason that the Supreme Court is now taking away 50-60 years of rights that we have protected and wanted. It has created a division of the diversity of this progressive, beautiful country. They need to be stopped now. When it starts to take away law and order on which the constitution is based and of the ability to retain talented service personnel, it’s time to look at censorship/treason charges as that is the effect of their actions. PS Senator Tuberville is not on a football field where winner takes all. He needs to grow up. Write your legislators!
Thank you Dr.; Richardson. I am still reeling from the New York Times report of Trump's lawyers request for an indefinite stay of trial. I have started a response on my Newsletter. But it is the most horrific thing I have read in days.
Virginia Witmer used the phrase "hard on the gut," referencing HCR's letter. Very true, and what baffles me is that the various MAGA positions and demands create strife, uncertainty, and the goal of an authoritarian gov't diametrical to a constitutional republic. Their leader would be a dicktater in this case, not smart enough to be a classical dictator, and the very voters who installed him in a lifetime ruling position would be the ones who pay the piper.
We frequently are treated to photos and video interviews with this crowd, ambassadors of a culture representing a seemingly non-existent educational system, a lack of civility, and on and on.
Why do they want an overthrow of our gov't? Why do they think times would be better for them? I asked a Vietnam vet the question as he displayed his Trump commemorative gold coin, and all I got for a response was minor name-calling and sputtering about communism.
Try as I might, I can conjure up no valid, positive explanation for their behavior other than to stick it to the current administration, and create a new society which welcomes random vigilanteism, against their minority group du jour. The prospects are hard on the gut alright, and on the mind, well, I can't find the words. Devastating for certain, but that isn't enough. Cataclysmic?
I am leaving off my sense that the roots of these threats run back to Eisenhower's warning about a military-industrial complex, through Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and the most recent disaster number 45.
Jobs? It doesn't appear that many of them even work. The border? Can we accomodate Nationalism and Global Capitalism together? Immigrants? Who else creates a thriving economy? Florida is the petri dish for that experiment. Regarding that state (of confusion,) Farmers Ins and others are withdrawing from the homeowner market there, citing losses, corruption with contractor lawsuits, weather damage, etc. If a homeowner loses coverage, will banks issue protection for their mortgages, or will mortgages become unavailable? I just do not know.
If anyone thinks there are easy answers to relations between Russia, Ukraine, and NATO countries, they don’t know history.
“Liana Fix, European fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations about President Biden : “For Europe, he represents a nostalgia for the 20th century, which was based on shared values, when the West was strong and the relations were clear with the Cold War.” There’s more than the Cold War between Russia and countries it’s battling, including Lithuania. My relatives escaped Kiev and Vilnius and the Czar in the early 1900s. The battle for land and power is centuries old. Once Czars and Cossacks. Now Putin and modern and the deadliest of war machines. Including land mines/cluster munitions used in other wars including Vietnam. These are permanent because they do not all explode and often remain where the civilians, especially children may be injured, maimed or killed. There are military reasons for providing and using these weapons. But it looks like endless war and a land that will be dangerous for generations. I’m sickened by the war mentality on the road to Peace. Is Peace forever a Dream? There’s a song of course. Find the music online. We know it all by heart.
It disturbs me greatly that one Senator, Sinator (sic) Tuberville, can stop the confirmation of 250 military officers including the next Commandant of the Marines! All because the usual way to confirm them is by unanimous consent. Otherwise its a long, long process to confirm each one by a vote. Maybe they should amend the Senate rules to be near unanimous consent like 98% is enough. Sounds like the Senate rules need to put in some checks and balances to prevent one senator having inordinate power like Sinator Manchin for another example. It really is a sin to have people who put personal power over the good of the nation and its People in Congress.
You cover all those bases so incredibly well. Thank you. Again and again.
It’s getting clearer day by day that entire federal democracy is on the line in Nov 24! Trump is more deranged than ever and when Fani Willis delivers, he will go stark crazy as well as Lindsey (my prediction he will be among those indicted)! So the answer is, my friends, our youth, women 18 to 35, and as a new poll indicates--conservative women in suburbs relatively near big cities and aged 35 to 44 who are justifiably worried about the health and lives of their daughters! Makes sense?
So we desperately need all your help; please go to www.turnup.us/ to help these brilliant young Harvard students register the young men and women and their conservative mothers and TURN THEM Out! Please? Our democracy depends on them! Many thanks all!
Them that think Republicans think, don't.
Thank you Prof Richardson for the upbeat finale to this day’s very mixed report. I’d say President Biden is leaning into his years of deep relationship building w many powerful leaders from a broad and deep array of different histories and cultures each of whom live in democracies w various National “flavors”.
Simply put, I want our President to feel our support and revel in his expertise.
If anyone wants to defend tuberville by doubting that he understands what white nationalism means, I am willing to stipulate to it. The poor man obviously isn't very bright.
Other than that, I think he probably is a racistic screwball too.
"As the 'likely Republican Party nominee,' he would not have enough time to manage a trial." !!!!! As I used to say in my teens, "tough shitski!"
Again, President Biden’s keen negotiating skills and his extensive international experience shine through. This needs to be lauded in the main media. Being President of the United States is complicated; Biden is doing a stellar job.
The criminally indicted Trump whose ignorant incoherence about any presidential responsibility never had a clue from day to day; he lied about everything, promising followers everything they wanted but never came through — except for tax gifts to the very rich.
The contrast could not be clearer: a highly competent, experienced President who understands the complications of the most difficult job in the world and does excellent work versus an increasingly demented sociopath who knows nothing and cares for nothing, except manipulating people to “further his own interests”, the snake oil con man.
Mass Media - do your journalistic job!!!
It’s another masterpiece. Hard on the gut, though. Still as disturbing a mass of data as we have seen in a while. I keep wondering if the F-16’s are for the Kurds and if yes, will there be a response. We have already betrayed them three times. Will we again?
For some further discussion and explanation of the latest events in the Carroll and Mar-a-Lago documents cases, see this evening's post from Joyce Vance: https://joycevance.substack.com/p/two-legal-issues?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email.
I don't know how y'all feel, but I sure find that HCR's and JWV's perspectives often complement one another and form something greater than just the sum of the two.
Each new day seems worse for Trump. If Judge Cannon keeps the trial on a tight schedule — a very big if — then Trump likely faces campaigning while awaiting sentencing to federal prison. That on top of other likely serious criminal charges.
What happens if his fragile, demented psyche breaks amid the crushing onslaught of justice? Will he last through the election or open the door earlier for another vile Republican?
We’re heading into The Great Uncertainty.
I'm usually very liberal, however lately I see a pattern. This is my opinion that I sent my local newspaper: My 2 cents
As a daughter of a Navy Veteran, grandmother of 7 (almost 8), I am at the point now where I believe the charge of treason and censorship needs to be directed to Senator Tuberville and members of the far right that are stopping the promotions of the military and defense spending threatening the security and integrity of the United States. It is fine to have disagreements. The process of discussion is healthy, but the ability of a few to destroy the integrity of the United States is what is destroying thisemocracy. It’s the reason that the Supreme Court is now taking away 50-60 years of rights that we have protected and wanted. It has created a division of the diversity of this progressive, beautiful country. They need to be stopped now. When it starts to take away law and order on which the constitution is based and of the ability to retain talented service personnel, it’s time to look at censorship/treason charges as that is the effect of their actions. PS Senator Tuberville is not on a football field where winner takes all. He needs to grow up. Write your legislators!
Thank you Dr.; Richardson. I am still reeling from the New York Times report of Trump's lawyers request for an indefinite stay of trial. I have started a response on my Newsletter. But it is the most horrific thing I have read in days.
Virginia Witmer used the phrase "hard on the gut," referencing HCR's letter. Very true, and what baffles me is that the various MAGA positions and demands create strife, uncertainty, and the goal of an authoritarian gov't diametrical to a constitutional republic. Their leader would be a dicktater in this case, not smart enough to be a classical dictator, and the very voters who installed him in a lifetime ruling position would be the ones who pay the piper.
We frequently are treated to photos and video interviews with this crowd, ambassadors of a culture representing a seemingly non-existent educational system, a lack of civility, and on and on.
Why do they want an overthrow of our gov't? Why do they think times would be better for them? I asked a Vietnam vet the question as he displayed his Trump commemorative gold coin, and all I got for a response was minor name-calling and sputtering about communism.
Try as I might, I can conjure up no valid, positive explanation for their behavior other than to stick it to the current administration, and create a new society which welcomes random vigilanteism, against their minority group du jour. The prospects are hard on the gut alright, and on the mind, well, I can't find the words. Devastating for certain, but that isn't enough. Cataclysmic?
I am leaving off my sense that the roots of these threats run back to Eisenhower's warning about a military-industrial complex, through Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and the most recent disaster number 45.
Jobs? It doesn't appear that many of them even work. The border? Can we accomodate Nationalism and Global Capitalism together? Immigrants? Who else creates a thriving economy? Florida is the petri dish for that experiment. Regarding that state (of confusion,) Farmers Ins and others are withdrawing from the homeowner market there, citing losses, corruption with contractor lawsuits, weather damage, etc. If a homeowner loses coverage, will banks issue protection for their mortgages, or will mortgages become unavailable? I just do not know.
If anyone thinks there are easy answers to relations between Russia, Ukraine, and NATO countries, they don’t know history.
“Liana Fix, European fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations about President Biden : “For Europe, he represents a nostalgia for the 20th century, which was based on shared values, when the West was strong and the relations were clear with the Cold War.” There’s more than the Cold War between Russia and countries it’s battling, including Lithuania. My relatives escaped Kiev and Vilnius and the Czar in the early 1900s. The battle for land and power is centuries old. Once Czars and Cossacks. Now Putin and modern and the deadliest of war machines. Including land mines/cluster munitions used in other wars including Vietnam. These are permanent because they do not all explode and often remain where the civilians, especially children may be injured, maimed or killed. There are military reasons for providing and using these weapons. But it looks like endless war and a land that will be dangerous for generations. I’m sickened by the war mentality on the road to Peace. Is Peace forever a Dream? There’s a song of course. Find the music online. We know it all by heart.
”Last night I had the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war.”
Another masterful gathering of the myriad threads woven into an increasingly dense web. Thanks, Professor!