November 28, 2022

Trump's association with anti-semites...

Ye and Fuentes gives Jared & Ivanka the cover they need to turn on him. As Rachel always says, 'Watch this space'.

November 27, 2022

Bill Kristol asks Republicans a question...

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-26-2022

Letters from an American:

'...Trump hosted the antisemitic artist Ye, also known as Kanye West, for dinner...Ye brought with him 24-year-old far-right white supremacist Nick Fuentes...Accounts of the dinner suggest that Trump and Fuentes hit it off, with Trump allegedly saying, “I like this guy, he gets me,”...Republican lawmakers have been silent about Trump’s apparent open embrace of the far right, illustrating the growing power of that far right in the Republican Party...

Today, after the news of Trump’s dinner and the thundering silence that followed it, conservative anti-Trumper Bill Kristol tweeted: “Aren’t there five decent Republicans in the House who will announce they won’t vote for anyone for Speaker who doesn’t denounce their party’s current leader, Donald Trump, for consorting with the repulsive neo-Nazi Fuentes?”

So far, at least, the answer is no.'

November 20, 2022

Letters from an American: I urge you to read this in its entirety...

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-19-2022

'...150,000 soldiers...slashed at each other in...Gettysburg, Pennsylvania...they left scattered behind them more than seven thousand corpses... A local lawyer, David Wills,...called for the creation of a national cemetery...almost as an afterthought, they asked President Abraham Lincoln to make a few appropriate remarks.

...the southern enslavers who were making war on the United States had stood firm on the Constitution and said that its protection of property rights—including their enslavement of their Black neighbors— was the heart of the nation, Lincoln tied the country's meaning instead to the Declaration of Independence...“that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

...Lincoln urged Americans “to here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- 'and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Words For Our Time (me).

November 16, 2022

Sources are saying Trump indictments coming in 30-90 days.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-indictment-predictions/

'The View's Sunny Hostin says Trump indictment is coming in 30-90 days — cites DOJ sources..'

'New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said ahead of the announcement that the reason Trump wanted to announce so quickly after the midterms was that he thought it would make things more difficult for the Justice Department to indict him.'

'Alyssa Farah Griffin (former Trump White House assistant) agreed she's heard the same thing from her sources.'

Keep the faith. Indictments are coming (my words).

November 16, 2022

Heads Up... Rupert Murdoch said...

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-15-2022

Letters from an American:

'According to Mark Sweney of The Guardian, after the Republicans’ poor showing on Tuesday, in which the high-profile candidates Trump backed lost, media mogul Rupert Murdoch has told Trump that he will not support Trump’s 2024 candidacy and will instead back Florida governor Ron DeSantis should he decide to run.'

'...former president Donald Trump announced a run for the 2024 presidency tonight in a speech from Mar-a-Lago before an audience that included a number of far-right social media influencers...the lack of enthusiasm in the room seemed marked, and after about an hour, while Trump was ranting about former German chancellor Angela Merkel, the Fox News Channel cut the live feed.'

November 16, 2022

OMG, Trump has lost his mind. Lies, lies, lies.

November 14, 2022

Let the indictments begin & may the Stain of Shame

mark the GOP forever.

November 10, 2022

The Tide Has Turned...Hold on, the indictments are coming...

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3729130-wall-street-journal-labels-trump-biggest-republican-loser/

'Wall Street Journal labels Trump biggest Republican ‘loser’

November 9, 2022

'Here's how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks'

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/

'It’s the small things
Whether it’s manual RTs appearing for a moment before retweets slowly morph into their standard form,...or replies that simply refuse to load, small bugs are appearing at Twitter’s periphery. Even Twitter’s rules...went offline temporarily under the load of millions of eyeballs. In short, it’s becoming unreliable.

The list grows longer
...a dystopian future where issues pile up as the backlog of maintenance tasks and fixes grows longer and longer. “Things will be broken. Things will be broken more often. Things will be broken for longer periods of time. Things will be broken in more severe ways,”

Brain drain
...there’s no longer the institutional knowledge to quickly fix issues as they arise. “A lot of the people I saw who were leaving after Friday have been there nine, 10, 11 years... decades of knowledge about how its systems worked disappeared with them...'

RIP (my words)

November 9, 2022

'Hurricane Nicole made landfall just before noon in the Bahamas and is targeting Florida tonight ..'

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/weather/hurricane/os-ne-tropical-storm-hurricane-nicole-threatens-florida-wednesday-20221109-6nibldmqzbbf7ilixhzvqn7ifu-story.html

'Thousands of Floridians are under evacuation orders as a strengthening Tropical Storm Nicole is expected to grow into a Category 1 hurricane today with hurricane warnings in place from the coast of Volusia-Flagler county line south to Boca Raton.'