I hope no one was passing out water or snacks.
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As a lifelong New Yorker who has observed his malevolent actions for decades well as knowing people who had to tangle with him in court his comeuppance and accountability moment should have occurred decades ago.
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Not with your …
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bingo
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In context, I’d say people the likes of: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr; Congressman John Lewis; Medgar Evers; Andrew Goodman; Michael Schwerner; James Chaney; Viola Liuzzo; Rosa Parks; and Leonard Beerman. You know, the vermin.
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It’s not the Generals I am worried about. I have no clue if Trump has enough support in the military, but I imagine there are at least some military MAGAts. It is them we have to worry about IMO. They will claim to be following the orders of their CIC who outranks all of his (and our) Generals.
Well said.
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We think of National Guardsmen firing on fellow citizens as something beyond the pale, and rightly so. But it’s happened before, in my lifetime.
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By most measures, Biden’s economic performance has been stellar when measured against the post-pandemic performance of other G7 countries, but also China, the world’s second-largest economy. Yet Americans are supposed to measure that performance against some other time, not how we are doing in current circumstances. Old information, like whether you were better off at some time in the past is largely irrelevant. Heraclitus, for example, noted that
“No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
So Trump’s inability to even adjust his brain to the current era was disconcerting, and not just for macroeconomists. He certainly stepped in it, but it wasn’t a river.
“Donald Trump continued his pre-election economic event tour on Tuesday with a lengthy interview with Bloomberg at the Economic Club of Chicago. It was a total mess,” Rolling Stone reports.
“Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait did not take it easy on Trump, and it quickly became clear that the former president has no conception of the mechanics of or the potential ramifications of the economic platform he’s running on. Bluntly, the former president was incoherent when pressed with real questions about his policies.”
David Graham: “When he speaks about the economy, he sounds like a child—which might be the source of his appeal.”
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Also, we have the first court ruling on whether county election supervisors in Georgia can refuse to certify an election. Interestingly, this case was brought by an election board member who wants to refuse certification. Judge said, “Nah, you can’t do that.”
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Still, Trump and his allies have been laying the groundwork for months to cry foul if he loses on Nov. 5. He could contest a win by his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in the courts or raise doubts about the validity of her victory among supporters that could have unforeseen consequences.
I’m not sure I agree with the Reuters writer here. Since we’ve been down this road in 2020, seen many examples of contested elections in other countries, and had to listen to Kari Lake’s blather, a lot of the consequences of a Trump loss are foreseen. Contesting is about the only thing he can do before he is thrown to the dogs.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-could-happen-if-trump-rejects-us-election-results-2024-10-16/
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Fully understanding consequences is a bitch.
The only thing worse is not understanding. That catches up with you.
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I’m turning fifty this year, and have lived in the St. Louis area all my life. I EVEN KNEW he was a piece of shit in the 1980s. As a teenager.
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Trump has become more erratic, not something many believed was possible. Anyway, he’s now a handful for his campaign, which mercifully ends in a few weeks.
The explanation for all this is not that Trump has suddenly become camera shy. It’s that his campaign undoubtedly realizes his rapidly degrading condition doesn’t play well with audiences beyond the MAGA cult. As a result, they’re retreating to the safer terrain of nonstop rallies and fawning Fox hits.
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“Four dead in Ohio “
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There are some members of our Military who are willing to back Trump because they will be able to shoot people legally but not all.
Hopefully the majority will keep their oath.
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Okay, so here in oHIo we have to mark our ballots in blue or black ink. My personal tradition is to use one of my fountain pens with a 1.1mm stub nib, and this year it’s going to be a Monteverde Innova.
What I’m undecided about is the ink to use. Here are the choices:
- de Atramentis Document Black (a very permanent dark black ink)
- Noodler’s Midway Blue (a lovely medium ocean blue, part of their V-Mail series of inks modeled on WW 2 era fountain pen inks. None of those inks were used on V-Mail letters, so the series name is a little inappropriate.)
- Monteverde Blue Skies (the name says it all)
- Robert Oster Thunderstorm (a blue-black)
- Lamy Benitoite (Benitoite is the State Gem of California, barium titanium cyclosilicate, the ink is a dark blue)
- de Atramentis Alexander Hamilton (an eggplant purple-black, and probably an edge case for use on a ballot)
- Private Reserve Black Cherry (a red-black ink and also an edge case for ballot use)
If I could find an appropriate ink named Tuck DonOLD Frump I’d use that, but it doesn’t exist. If I use either Alexander Hamilton or Black Cherry I’ll bring along an alternate pen loaded with Document Black.
What do y’all think?
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The Army was conducting riot training a year or two before the National Guard shot up Kent State for no particular reason. My NCO in charge thought they should use machine guns. In '67 or’68 blood was spilled at UNM when the troops fixed bayonets.
If TSF gets to be Mussolini For A Day, he will certainly want to deploy massive force to convince the U.S.A. to never disobey his whims.
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This is certainly true.
And because of that perceived fear, the appeal of an authoritarian like trump is palpable. These fearful people crave a champion, even if it is an ignorant lunatic like him.
It is the reason why so many of his followers cannot go anywhere unarmed, as if “packing heat” is going to save them. It often will not.
Moreover, you have to ask just how you could be afraid of going to, say, Dairy Queen without your arsenal. You’re afraid of the ice cream? That Buster Bar is gonna bust your chops? C’mon.
I believe you have referenced this book before, and I have read it on your recommendation. It is very cogent.
For an old school look at this phenomenon, Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer captures the essence well.
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You forgot the bestest part of that line:
I mean, if I went ‘round sayin’ I was emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
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