Trump has (maybe only ever had) one card to play: resignation in exchange for a pardon. Maybe he has a side deal with Vance to screw up so massively & make everyone want him out so badly that when Vance pardons him, Vance won’t be blamed the way Ford was for pardoning Nixon.
Thune is calling out Trump for caring more about punishing Powell than getting Warsh confirmed. Thune was too dispassionate though to help cause Trump to move, probably deliberately so, because Thune is just adding the Fed to the list of institutions Trump doesn’t care about including Thune’s Senate
Not to get all Barry Levinson’s “Avalon,” but my 1st generation American grandparents somehow retained & radiated the joyous promise of America despite all the hardships to follow enough so that I could pick up on it without their having to kvetch about the old country or kvell about their new one.
Republicans succumbed to Trump in 2015 which was way too early & now they’re compounding that horrendous mistake by concluding that it’s too late to abandon him now. I’d like to think they feel guilty & are trying to lose their congressional majorities, but I know they just sold their souls to Trump
The lesson Republicans learned from the fall of GWB was to double down on a failing president of your own party. In retrospect, it seems like they nominated McCain & Romney expecting them to lose while waiting for a hero. They knew Trump wasn’t a hero but he had cultists & they were tired of waiting
Iran should declare Trump completely unreliable, demand that he resign, making Vance president & then Vance can stay home, enabling Iran to rely on Vance’s choice of negotiators & the orders he gave them.
Spoken like a VA Dem who respects the intelligence & values of his voters. Regardless of his assessment, whether based on sound polling or not, Kaine voters now know he knows, not that they didn’t already, it’s their turn to show their love for democracy & the absolute imperative to resist Trump.
Virginia Democrats have made clear that they, too, prefer nonpartisan redistricting, but Trump, on this & so many other issues, has left them with the simple choice of resistance or surrender. VA Republicans could have & should have denounced Trump long ago. If they’re unhappy, blame him not VA Dems
This one’s still my fave: youtu.be/3OSd17ko3O4?...
We must remember! Republicans were awful before Trump. It’s shameful that it took until Trump’s 2nd term for their anti-Obama zeal to be almost universally recognized as the racism it was all along. The GOP will have to figure out on its own how to reform or be supplanted. Until then, only vote Dem.
He’s delusional & must be removed from power asap. Why not just buy him out?He’d settle for a ceremonial title & living out the rest of his days between his homes instead of prison. He could even continue to enrich himself albeit without being able to extort/be bribed due to his having actual power.
I was old enough to be scared by the 1968 tumult & refused to believe in normal thereafter. Nevertheless, even though I thought Hillary would win, I was so outraged by Republicans’ letting Trump seize the nomination, I was screaming at her & the Dems to lump them all together. It might’ve mattered.
In 2021, a critical number of Loudoun voters may have pivoted from blaming Trump to blaming Biden & may have punished McAuliffe. There are way more blamers now, their blaming Trump is still growing & it outweighs any blaming of Spanberger. Any principled anti-gerrymanderers won’t be enough. Yes wins
Camus: We must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Chigurh: We must imagine Sisyphus resigned but with dignity.
Altman: We must imagine Sisyphus replaced but happy.
Moss: Gotta go with Camus on this one.
i have to interrupt my listening for a very good reason
omg track five!
how is this even possible?
So, so, so glad one of my favorite first reads of the day followed up. I’m only on track two and I’m blissfully captivated.
Who wouldn’t want to feel self-satisfied, but who could, knowing they’re choosing to comfort the comfortable, even if they aren’t directly afflicting the afflicted? When I overindulge in hate-reading writers’ trying to hide their shame behind pseudo-intellectualism, I feel ill. It’s just trolling.
I learned, listened & loved. Thank you!
“We followed this DIY/punk/Hawkwind ethos…I looked up to those bands who’d done it themselves…There were other bands…who all seemed to be pretty much working outside of the music business. And that was the thing that made me think, ‘Well, anyone can do it.’”
In exchange for opening the Strait, maybe Trump and Iran’s leaders have a secret deal that gives Iran so much money that it would embarrass Trump.
To whom will the torch be passed? Booker?
[On Nov 9 Brian] phoned Bill Harry…[who] informed Ray McFall that Brian Epstein of Nems would be coming down to speak to the Beatles…Brian suggested his PA Alistair Taylor join him: they would go for lunch and drop into the Cavern on the way, to find out more about this “My Bonnie” record. “Tune In”
I should have posted the excerpt below also from “Tune In” before the post about Jones, because Jones probably heard the record at The Cavern.
Stuart Sutcliffe sent over the initial copies of their first record…Jimmy Campbell remember[ed] Paul[‘s making] the [Cavern’s] DJ [Bob Wooler] put it on.
Oct 28…Raymond Jones walked into Nems on Whitechapel & tried to buy the record…two girls came a day or so later also wanting to buy it…Brian’s policy [was] that Nems obtain any record a customer ordered, no matter how obscure…he set about his “My Bonnie” inquiries.
“Tune In” by Mark Lewisohn
“Harrison performed lead guitar, although Sheridan played the solo, which was later spliced in from a different take.” www.beatlesbible.com/1961/06/22/r...
The time between John and Paul’s meeting (July 1957) and the release of “My Bonnie” by Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers (October 1961) youtu.be/hHmrNBkVjjI?...
If Jesus were to say suffer Trump to come to him, he’d mean “Let me at him!”
Thanks. We’re still standing. I should probably re-read “Showdown at Gucci Gulch.” From this perspective I would probably smile about how naively optimistic we were about a law that was bound to be eroded by future Presidents & Congresses. I voted for Clinton but George HW might have eroded it less.
I had a great commute but moved closer to my sick daughter, a single mom. She died not long after I stopped working & I’m now single parenting my grandson. I’ll never know if I could have kept working but the money would have been helpful. With so many new retirees, my pension only started recently.
