Monday, October 31, 2022
Villain
“This scheme,” she said, “was conducted and authorized at the highest levels of the Trump Organization working out of offices at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.” The businesses on trial, she reminded the jury, are “owned by Donald Trump.”
Hope
Washington Post: Opinion - Why Bolsonaro’s stunning loss should give humans a glimmer of hope By Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman
...authoritarian politicians are the ones most prone to spinning conspiracy theories and lies about climate change while resisting the transition to a green energy future.
Brand
Washington Post: Opinion - Republicans have made violence part of their brand By Jennifer Rubin
One ad for Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens featured the former governor busting into a home to go “RINO hunting.”
Blocker In Chief
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
Axios: Trump asks Supreme Court to block House Dems from getting tax returns By Erin Doherty
Expect Much More
Stochastic terrorism is “the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted.”
Gavel
America is poised to hand the gavel to the political party that has descended into extreme violence, conspiracy, and insanity.
It's Not Both Sides
Washington Post: Opinion Don’t blame ‘both sides.’ The right is driving political violence. By Max Boot
The same day as the Pelosi attack, a man pleaded guilty to making death threats against Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.). Two days earlier, three men who were motivated by right-wing, anti-lockdown hysteria...were convicted of aiding a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D).
Seoul
“And if this continues, and that’s what happened, then all the people in that zone will no longer have enough oxygen, even after they faint, and will die one after the other.”
Apostate
...the apostate. The history of American politics is littered with such figures who left one party or faction for another and who profess to have a righteous knowledge that was a product of their transformation.
The Market On Monday
Good morning. At 6:30 a.m. ET DOW futures are -155, S&P futures are -22, and NASDAQ futures are -86. The market is poised to open significantly lower.
CNN: Wheat and corn prices jump after Russia quits Black Sea grain deal By Hanna Ziady
Worst
This article is from October 2020.
New Yorker: Noam Chomsky Believes Trump Is “the Worst Criminal in Human History” By Isaac Chotiner
Friday, October 28, 2022
Trump's Legacy On America
The assailant attacked Mr. Pelosi with a hammer, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the situation.
Access
Data copied from these machines has been misrepresented as empirical evidence for the false claims of fraud that have warped American political discourse and spurred violence, notably the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Nothing
NY Times: Republicans Have No Inflation Plan By Paul Krugman
But to the extent that Republicans have laid out what they will try to do if they win the midterms, their policies would make inflation worse, not better.
The Market On Friday
Good morning. At 7:20 a.m. ET DOW futures are -63, S&P futures are -26.75, and NASDAQ futures are -126.5. The market is poised to open significantly lower.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Peace
The Peace Of Wild Things By Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Putin
NY Times: Russia-Ukraine WarPutin Rails Against ‘Western Elites’ in Speech Aimed at U.S. Conservatives
...a West of “traditional, mainly Christian values” with which Russians feel kinship. But, he said, “there’s another West — aggressive, cosmopolitan, neocolonial, acting as the weapon of the neoliberal elite,” and trying to impose its “pretty strange” values on the rest of the world.
Have An Excellent Thursday
"Ukrainian artist Lubov Panchenko who died on April 30, 2022 in Bucha after suffering due to the war/occupation"
Infighting
In case anyone has not noticed, Ive stopped posting articles from The Palmer Report and I've replaced them with articles from The Bulwark. The Bulwark appears to be Republicans who have lost faith in the GOP since Trump's brutal regime. TPR on the other hand appears to be headed for the end.
Help!
I must say, following this upcoming election is possibly my least favorite thing ever, this is a car wreck that I can't bare to look at. The country seems hellbent on allowing a jackass like Marjorie Taylor Greene make critical decisions about the future of the country, plus we're talking about SSI and Medicare. The country is blindly following a course that sends us right over a cliff. There's no stopping it either.
And in Pennsylvania, Democrats were trying to move past a shaky Tuesday debate performance by John Fetterman, who is recovering from a stroke.
The Market On Thursday
Good morning. At 7:30 a.m. ET DOW futures are +233, S&P futures are +4.5, and NASDAQ futures are -43. The market is poised to open significantly mixed.
CNN: Big Tech can’t save your investments By Nicole Goodkind
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Explain
"If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it." - Richard Feynman
Learned
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou
Nazis
“We’re going to be there and enforce those rules, and we’ll challenge any vote, any ballot, and you’re going to have to live with it, OK?” one-time Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon said on a recent episode of his podcast.
Won't Work
That would effectively bar the federal government from issuing new bonds to finance its deficit spending, potentially jeopardizing on-time payments for military salaries and safety-net benefits, and roiling bond markets.
The Market On Wednesday
Good morning. At 7:10 a.m. ET DOW futures are -14, S&P futures are -24, and NASDAQ futures are -183.5. The market is poised to open moderately lower.
CNN: Are in-wheel motors the future of electric cars? By Nell Lewis
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Ails
Washington Post: Opinion A ‘right to sex’ is not the cure for what ails so many men By Christine Emba
In many cases, their underlying desire wasn’t for the act itself, but for the chance to be with someone — to feel intimacy and closeness, to wake up next to someone else.
Know
Not only are we able to grow some new neurons — a process called neurogenesis — especially in the sites where physical trauma has occurred, our brain cells are capable of neuroplasticity, which means they can rearrange which other neurons they are in communication with.
Wobbly
Washington Post: Opinion - This is no time to go wobbly on resisting Russian aggression By the Editorial Board
Rank-and-file GOP voters, possibly influenced by messaging from former president Donald Trump and Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, are warming to the idea that U.S. aid is a waste of money better spent on domestic problems.
The Market On Tuesday
Good morning. At 6:50 a.m. ET DOW futures are -126, S&P futures are -11.5, and NASDAQ futures are -7.25. The market is poised to open significantly lower.
Monday, October 24, 2022
Vanishing
A shrinking white share of the population is a hallmark of the congressional districts held by the House Republicans who voted to challenge Mr. Trump’s defeat, a New York Times analysis found — a pattern political scientists say shows how white fear of losing status shaped the movement to keep him in power.
Cheney
Washington Post: Opinion - Cheney imparts 5 critical observations on the eve of the midterms By Jennifer Rubin
"...when Minority Leader McCarthy has had the opportunity to do the right thing or do something that serves his own political purpose, he always chooses to serve his own political purpose..."
Polling Itself
And like you, pollsters are anxiously waiting for Nov. 8. Not necessarily to see if a specific candidate wins, but to see if election polling will live another day.
The Party Of Hate
But when historian Michael Beschloss tweeted: “Do any Republican Party leaders have any comment at all on Trump’s admonition to American Jews?”, the silence was deafening.
Rebound
"This is going to look better than the previous two GDP reports, but conditions on the ground haven’t changed very much..."
Democracy
“It is daunting to convince fellow Democrats their votes matter,” said Tammy Wood, a party organizer who tried to fire up the crowd at Thrunie’s with a rousing “Welcome, Democrats, defenders of democracy!”
The Market On Monday
Good morning. At 6:50 a.m. ET DOW futures are +109, S&P futures are +11.25, and NASDAQ futures are +10. The market is poised to open significantly higher.
CNN: Your dog can earn $10,000 a year as a pup influencer By Yenny Sanchez,
Woodward
Washington Post: The Trump Tapes: 20 interviews that show why he is an unparalleled danger By Bob Woodward
Two years later, I realize I didn’t go far enough. Trump is an unparalleled danger. When you listen to him on the range of issues from foreign policy to the virus to racial injustice, it’s clear he did not know what to do. Trump was overwhelmed by the job. He was largely disconnected from the needs and leadership expectations of the public and his absolute self-focus became the presidency.
Friday, October 21, 2022
Comment
America seems determined to jump off a cliff come election day. Two main reasons for this are inflation and Trump's insistence and unproven claims of a stolen 2020 election.
As we know, there is no evidence whatsoever that the election was stolen. There's nothing, only intentional false allegations. There's no proof of a stolen election, there's nothing. Yet Trump's pull and sway over the GOP has made this lie a central tenet in the hearts and minds of Trump supporters. What do you do with that? Who had Trump destroys American democracy on their dance card?
Then there's inflation. Yet any idiot who can read will easily find out in about 2 minutes that inflation is a GLOBAL problem. It's not in the least little bit isolated to America alone. Read about England, which has significantly higher inflation than the USA, and then there's France and Japan and on and on, all these countries are experiencing high inflation.
Somehow or other enough Americans believe that the GOP which literally has two solution for everything, cutting taxes on the rich and removing hard earned civil advances including Social Security and Medicare, is going to fix this. It's unreal.
Comment
There is a very odd situation arising with Trump's J6 activities. With the recent ruling that Trump knowingly lied about the results of the 2020 election in legal filings, which is a crime, Trump faces even more reasons for his indictment.
There is a real possibility that Trump will face the judge for his role in J6. Simultaneously, we have hundreds of his supporters who are also 2020 election deniers, likely being elected to political offices at the local, state, and federal levels come election day.
Here's the metaphor. What we have is a disease, Trump, potentially falling into the hands of justice and consequently ending his political career as it were along with the obvious disclosure of his lying about 2020, yet his supporters, the disease variants, carrying on his message of fraud while destroying democracy. We have a disease and its variant scenario where the main disease fizzles out (Trump), but the variant is more contagious and spreads wider (elected election deniers).
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