For all that they have tried to argue that the midterm election is a referendum on President Joe Biden’s handling of the nation’s high inflation, House Republicans today released a 1050-page “report” laying out their priorities for what they expect will be their takeover of the House.
"We need to step into the calm eye of the storm, and steer by the stars, to imagine in rich detail, the biggest, most delicious, satisfying, inclusive future that we can, a great flowering of human potential and wellbeing, project our hearts and minds into that future, and then spend our lives walking toward it, and each time the weather buffets us, wait for a glimpse of sky, find that bright point of light, and adjust our course.
"Don’t waver. Don’t let despair sink its sharp teeth Into the throat with which you sing. Escalate your dreams. Make them burn so fiercely that you can follow them down any dark alleyway of history and not lose your way. Make them burn clear as a starry drinking gourd Over the grim fog of exhaustion, and keep walking."
"This will break the dam," said the brilliant Laurence Tribe of Kash Patel's testimony to the federal grand jury investigating Trump's theft of top secret documents.
Makes me picture Trump caught in a roiling, powerful rush of filthy water, struggling to stay afloat. This torrent empties into prison.
Ever since Donald Trump has been investigated he has called every investigation a “ Witchhunt“. He has been correct all occasions, the only thing that he didn’t realize is that there is a witch and his name is Donald Trump.
His insistence that he is going to declare his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election will serve to further split and already shredded Republican party. Shredded because Donald Trump is a criminal and he’s made everyone and everything that he has touched into criminals and criminal activities. From his attempts to pressure the Georgia Secretary of State into “finding” enough votes to give him the election, to “Stealing” documents of a highly sensitive nature that were intended to go only to the national archives, he has continued to commit criminal activities unfettered.
Now, his co-conspirators in Congress have put out an egregious document that does nothing more than regurgitate all of the garbage that has come out of these treasonous Republicans over the last five years and is attempting to create doubt as to the credibility of the FBI, Department of Justice, Merrick Garland and every other legitimate federal agency that is pursuing charges against the former president.
What Mr. Trump now sees as a light at the end of the tunnel is merely the train that is headed his way. Donald Trump does not belong in any federal office, where he belongs is in federal prison for his numerous crimes against the American people and the United States of America.
"I'm here to tell you, that once political violence starts, it is very difficult to contain." We are at a crossroads. Will it be democracy and freedom to live in peace, or hatred and chaos? Before you vote, please look into your hearts and ask yourselves, What do I really want for my loved ones and for my country?" -Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat
The 1,000 page report according to MSNBC’s Alex Wagner is another trumped of Trump con of super stretched word processor thin print expanded by the high school trick of exploding type face and wider margined pages, thus 1,000 is much less. And the 50 pages of original content is much, much less. In truth, there’s nothing that’s news but the threat of running - and that’s undoubtedly not true, either, for grifting Trump is rolling in dough by taking his con for a walk, not running! Money, Honey, is running in not out, and Trump the Con is not going to get more by running. He will be shut down by running. He runs to stop prosecution, as he himself states. So, AG Garland can hide his department from public scrutiny and prosecution by refusing to charge Trump. It’s a circle jerk, to use a Wall Street phrase that describes talk not walk.
Michael Dean Cohen was clear on MSNBC: Trump isn’t going to run. He’s going to talk about running, not run - not ever.
Wait, you mean to say that any sane person still has a Twitter account? Let it die the overdue fiery death it deserves, while the rats eat the mutinous new captain of the ship instead of jumping. Poetic justice, if ever.
There are some ludicrous things that just can't be ignored in these surreal times we are experiencing. The first relates to the man who successfully launched the electric vehicle market, the non-governmental space industry, a novel means of boring tunnels under cities. As a set of engineering tasks, these efforts are signs of pure genius. So many others have failed miserably in similar efforts. The guy deserves to be fabulously wealthy on the basis of these achievements. BUT, in his personal life and his new foray into social media, he's a nutcase and a disaster. He stepped outside his sphere of competence and he'll hemorrhage billions and potentially destroy that on which he just spent 20% of his very impressive fortune. He clearly paid too much if this is what he really intended to do with the platform. From the prior history with industrial tech success, one would think he would have left everything exactly as it was, studied the details very carefully and then made incremental changes, all the while paying close attention to what made the company successful in the first place. That would be the engineer's approach. He's playing with Twitter like it's his latest toy, instead. go figure...
Then, there's the inscrutable fact that a sizeable fraction of our national political leadership has moved beyond the possibility of being constrained by embarrassment. "Report?". Countless 6th graders have tried that stunt with their geography or social science teachers; packing a "book report" with scads of unattributed previously published content in an attempt to impress others, forgetting that it's a teacher who's going to grade the original thinking of their effort. Shamefully, I did something similar once early in my education. I have never forgotten the effort I put into that scam and I still feel shame over it about 47 years later. I should have been mercilessly punished with a failing grade in the class. How it happened that I wasn't remains a mystery to this day. Why are these people who have become uncoupled from the truth so immune to embarrassment or shame?
What does one have to do to break free of that powerful inner brake on one's behavior? I don't get it, never have and never will...
A comment about Twitter: “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Søren Kierkegaard
As an Aspergian, I got a laugh out of a pundit writing about Musk today: "Putting the ass in Asperger's."
We can no longer allow a psychologically damaged nitwit to have the power Musk has. He requires termination. However that happens. And the rest of the ultra rich need to be corralled.
Hate to be contrarian here but perhaps, perhaps, the best hope is that the dog(s) catch the bumper. With two years to do damage (which will be limited) the best they can do is create a larger “no” environment and leave the country in even worse shape… right before the next national canvass… none of them (as usual) have any plan or strategy, just as it was with the tangerine dream, to do or fix anything… two years should be just enough to prove it…
An interesting thing about the Musk/Twitter situation is what happened at PayPal when Musk was kicked out by his buddies. He was insisting on converting the backend software to run on Microsoft's commercial grade stuff. This was long before Microsoft had acquired everything they needed to build their Azure platform. So while he left with a huge pile of money (i.e. PayPal stock), it was pretty clear that he did not understand all that was involved in scaling software to the size of the internet.
A better Twitter could be built by a not-for-profit foundation, with a good launch into the news reporting business. The nice thing about the not-for-profit foundation model is that it can be chartered with an altruistic purpose and held to that in its operations. As an aside, the term non-profit is a misnomer and implies something that just isn't true. Not-for-profits make lots of profit, it's just that their incorporation documents specify that their purpose is something else. Also, it is often the case that their CEO's are way overpaid just like they are in the private sector.
If you can get the Smithsonian for July/August 2018, there is a well done article by Alex W. Palmer about the chronic pain in Spain following the fascist civil war and resultant reign of Franco. There are many parallels with us, and we pray that our future will not be like that. BUT the R in southwest Washington who beat Herrera Butler in the primary (she who was one of 8 R's to vote for Trump impeachment) says that the January 6 2021 riot and mob that attacked the Capitol was an FBI plot. Seattle Times headline and article November 4. If these sorts are going to be running the asylum, we will wind up like Spain.
I honestly cannot understand a system where someone can be in possession of stolen government documents, classified and unclassified, and can still be flapping around a free citizen, bribing witnesses, destroying evidence, and on top of that can be permitted to run for president of the nation. If this is how our system works then I suppose we deserve what we’re getting!!??
"We need to step into the calm eye of the storm, and steer by the stars, to imagine in rich detail, the biggest, most delicious, satisfying, inclusive future that we can, a great flowering of human potential and wellbeing, project our hearts and minds into that future, and then spend our lives walking toward it, and each time the weather buffets us, wait for a glimpse of sky, find that bright point of light, and adjust our course.
"Don’t waver. Don’t let despair sink its sharp teeth Into the throat with which you sing. Escalate your dreams. Make them burn so fiercely that you can follow them down any dark alleyway of history and not lose your way. Make them burn clear as a starry drinking gourd Over the grim fog of exhaustion, and keep walking."
Aurrora Levins Morales (via Dahlia Lithwick)
"This will break the dam," said the brilliant Laurence Tribe of Kash Patel's testimony to the federal grand jury investigating Trump's theft of top secret documents.
Makes me picture Trump caught in a roiling, powerful rush of filthy water, struggling to stay afloat. This torrent empties into prison.
I will go to my grave without ever understanding how so many people can be enthralled with an utterly failed human being like IQ45.
Ever since Donald Trump has been investigated he has called every investigation a “ Witchhunt“. He has been correct all occasions, the only thing that he didn’t realize is that there is a witch and his name is Donald Trump.
His insistence that he is going to declare his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election will serve to further split and already shredded Republican party. Shredded because Donald Trump is a criminal and he’s made everyone and everything that he has touched into criminals and criminal activities. From his attempts to pressure the Georgia Secretary of State into “finding” enough votes to give him the election, to “Stealing” documents of a highly sensitive nature that were intended to go only to the national archives, he has continued to commit criminal activities unfettered.
Now, his co-conspirators in Congress have put out an egregious document that does nothing more than regurgitate all of the garbage that has come out of these treasonous Republicans over the last five years and is attempting to create doubt as to the credibility of the FBI, Department of Justice, Merrick Garland and every other legitimate federal agency that is pursuing charges against the former president.
What Mr. Trump now sees as a light at the end of the tunnel is merely the train that is headed his way. Donald Trump does not belong in any federal office, where he belongs is in federal prison for his numerous crimes against the American people and the United States of America.
Living in this mess of gerrymandering here in Wisconsin, I feel the urge to learn the Canadian national anthem...
We have yet to see the bottom of how far the Republicans will go to be in power, and stay in power.
Worth watching and sharing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtYXAxWuC3k
"I'm here to tell you, that once political violence starts, it is very difficult to contain." We are at a crossroads. Will it be democracy and freedom to live in peace, or hatred and chaos? Before you vote, please look into your hearts and ask yourselves, What do I really want for my loved ones and for my country?" -Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat
The 1,000 page report according to MSNBC’s Alex Wagner is another trumped of Trump con of super stretched word processor thin print expanded by the high school trick of exploding type face and wider margined pages, thus 1,000 is much less. And the 50 pages of original content is much, much less. In truth, there’s nothing that’s news but the threat of running - and that’s undoubtedly not true, either, for grifting Trump is rolling in dough by taking his con for a walk, not running! Money, Honey, is running in not out, and Trump the Con is not going to get more by running. He will be shut down by running. He runs to stop prosecution, as he himself states. So, AG Garland can hide his department from public scrutiny and prosecution by refusing to charge Trump. It’s a circle jerk, to use a Wall Street phrase that describes talk not walk.
Michael Dean Cohen was clear on MSNBC: Trump isn’t going to run. He’s going to talk about running, not run - not ever.
Wait, you mean to say that any sane person still has a Twitter account? Let it die the overdue fiery death it deserves, while the rats eat the mutinous new captain of the ship instead of jumping. Poetic justice, if ever.
There are some ludicrous things that just can't be ignored in these surreal times we are experiencing. The first relates to the man who successfully launched the electric vehicle market, the non-governmental space industry, a novel means of boring tunnels under cities. As a set of engineering tasks, these efforts are signs of pure genius. So many others have failed miserably in similar efforts. The guy deserves to be fabulously wealthy on the basis of these achievements. BUT, in his personal life and his new foray into social media, he's a nutcase and a disaster. He stepped outside his sphere of competence and he'll hemorrhage billions and potentially destroy that on which he just spent 20% of his very impressive fortune. He clearly paid too much if this is what he really intended to do with the platform. From the prior history with industrial tech success, one would think he would have left everything exactly as it was, studied the details very carefully and then made incremental changes, all the while paying close attention to what made the company successful in the first place. That would be the engineer's approach. He's playing with Twitter like it's his latest toy, instead. go figure...
Then, there's the inscrutable fact that a sizeable fraction of our national political leadership has moved beyond the possibility of being constrained by embarrassment. "Report?". Countless 6th graders have tried that stunt with their geography or social science teachers; packing a "book report" with scads of unattributed previously published content in an attempt to impress others, forgetting that it's a teacher who's going to grade the original thinking of their effort. Shamefully, I did something similar once early in my education. I have never forgotten the effort I put into that scam and I still feel shame over it about 47 years later. I should have been mercilessly punished with a failing grade in the class. How it happened that I wasn't remains a mystery to this day. Why are these people who have become uncoupled from the truth so immune to embarrassment or shame?
What does one have to do to break free of that powerful inner brake on one's behavior? I don't get it, never have and never will...
For those who have social media accounts--other than Twitter, of course!!--this is worthy of being posted to your accounts, latest from Politics Girl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKfeBT0LD4M
A comment about Twitter: “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Søren Kierkegaard
As an Aspergian, I got a laugh out of a pundit writing about Musk today: "Putting the ass in Asperger's."
We can no longer allow a psychologically damaged nitwit to have the power Musk has. He requires termination. However that happens. And the rest of the ultra rich need to be corralled.
Hate to be contrarian here but perhaps, perhaps, the best hope is that the dog(s) catch the bumper. With two years to do damage (which will be limited) the best they can do is create a larger “no” environment and leave the country in even worse shape… right before the next national canvass… none of them (as usual) have any plan or strategy, just as it was with the tangerine dream, to do or fix anything… two years should be just enough to prove it…
An interesting thing about the Musk/Twitter situation is what happened at PayPal when Musk was kicked out by his buddies. He was insisting on converting the backend software to run on Microsoft's commercial grade stuff. This was long before Microsoft had acquired everything they needed to build their Azure platform. So while he left with a huge pile of money (i.e. PayPal stock), it was pretty clear that he did not understand all that was involved in scaling software to the size of the internet.
A better Twitter could be built by a not-for-profit foundation, with a good launch into the news reporting business. The nice thing about the not-for-profit foundation model is that it can be chartered with an altruistic purpose and held to that in its operations. As an aside, the term non-profit is a misnomer and implies something that just isn't true. Not-for-profits make lots of profit, it's just that their incorporation documents specify that their purpose is something else. Also, it is often the case that their CEO's are way overpaid just like they are in the private sector.
If you can get the Smithsonian for July/August 2018, there is a well done article by Alex W. Palmer about the chronic pain in Spain following the fascist civil war and resultant reign of Franco. There are many parallels with us, and we pray that our future will not be like that. BUT the R in southwest Washington who beat Herrera Butler in the primary (she who was one of 8 R's to vote for Trump impeachment) says that the January 6 2021 riot and mob that attacked the Capitol was an FBI plot. Seattle Times headline and article November 4. If these sorts are going to be running the asylum, we will wind up like Spain.
I honestly cannot understand a system where someone can be in possession of stolen government documents, classified and unclassified, and can still be flapping around a free citizen, bribing witnesses, destroying evidence, and on top of that can be permitted to run for president of the nation. If this is how our system works then I suppose we deserve what we’re getting!!??