Monday, March 18, 2024
Comment
They identify with Trump. His rage is their rage, his lunacy is their lunacy, his wild conspiracies are their wild conspiracies. He sounds like them. He hates who they hate and he tells them as much. Trump blesses them for their leap into violence, they are martyrs and the true patriots. It's very much based on emotion, it has nothing to do with practicality, numbers, real economic figures, real ability, real international political knowledge. It also goes hand in hand with FOX News, and that goes hand in hand with local cultures, family cultures, community cultures, and especially Evangelical cultures. Think rural Arkansas the home of the KKK except in mostly all rural America. Trump is holding the line between normality and the communist liberal Marxist intellectual elites who want their children to be taught by pedophiles dressed in drag. It's all of course, hyper- crazed thinking, if you can call it thinking. but this is part of the wall that is separating blue and maga right now.
Unable
NPR: Trump unable to post $450M bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers say By Andrea Bernstein
Trump's lawyers say they've approached 30 companies through four brokers and none will accept his real estate holdings as a guarantee on the bond for $454 million and argue the judgment is unconstitutionally high.
Olive Oil
Washington Post: Are all olive oils equally healthy for you? A look at the research. The benefits of adding just a little bit to your daily diet By Jennifer Cook
Research links olive oil to lowered blood pressure, LDL cholesterol — which is considered the “bad” version — and inflammation; and increased HDL cholesterol — considered the “good” type; and a reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes and cognitive decline.
'Insurmountable Difficulties'
Those efforts included approaching about 30 companies, and yet, they said, he has encountered “insurmountable difficulties.”
Needles
“Just yesterday, a defeated-looking man came up to me and said, ‘I’m being crushed by debt. I’m completely wiped out,’” Biden said. “I said, ‘Sorry, Donald, I can’t help you.’”
Doocy
He has also emphasized the significance — and veracity — of the legal challenges facing Trump, talked up Trump challengers like Nikki Haley, and dinged the MAGA wing of the Republican Party.
Vivid
NY Times: Trump Just Made the 2024 Choice as Vivid as Possible By Patrick Healy - Deputy Opinion Editor
Listening to Donald Trump’s speech in Ohio Saturday night, where he demonized migrants and described some of them as “not people” and “animals,” I imagined this: It’s November 2024, and the presidential campaign boils down to a tale of two speeches from this month — Trump’s “not people” speech and President Biden’s State of the Union speech.
Putin
The leader of one opposition research group in Moscow has argued that backing for Mr. Putin is actually far more brittle than simple approval numbers suggest.
The Market On Monday
Good morning. At 7:08 a.m. ET DOW futures are -42, S&P futures are +20, and NASDAQ futures are +143.5. The market is poised to open mixed.
Friday, March 15, 2024
Front Page - Top Headline Story On Friday
The ruling by Judge Scott McAfee of Fulton Superior Court cut a middle path between removing Ms. Willis for a conflict of interest, which defense lawyers had sought, and her full vindication.
Remain
Washington Post: Fani Willis can remain on Trump Georgia case if special prosecutor steps aside By Holly Bailey and Amy Gardner
In a 23-page ruling issued Friday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote that defendants “failed to meet their burden” in proving Willis’s relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade was a “conflict of interest" enough to merit her removal from the case.