I'm hearing E Jean Carroll's team is thinking of suing Trump again over the statements he made at CNN's "townhall". That would be a mistake in my opinion. E Jean Carroll won and Trump cannot erase or pardon himself out of that sex abuse verdict. It's going into the history books. Therefore to sue again is risky. You can't be sure how the next verdict will go and it's not necessary. The jury spoke and none of Trump's blather can change that.

It looks like CNN is trying to make a play for FOX viewers. But getting too close to Trump and his MAGA audience doesn't end well. FOX needed to firmly state that Trump lost in 2020. Instead to appease their audience they had on Sidney Powell which led to Dominion suing them for defamation which led to discovery, Tucker being fired and their audience leaving. That's what can happen if a network gets too close to Trump.

"Allowing Trump to appear in front of an audience exclusively comprised of people who are likely sympathetic to Trump -- and then turn over the questions to that group -- is irresponsible" - Judd Legum

I so agree. The CNN boss Chris Licht said it was important for America to hear from Trump voters who often don't get a voice.

Are you kidding me? Since 2016 reporters have done nothing but cover the grievances of the Trump voter. I can no longer watch CNN under this new management.

When I am feeling stressed or blue there is nothing like beginning a new Louise Penny mystery.

@Raj I disconnected from Twitter a few months ago and if I want to I can still see tweets from people I enjoy reading. I just can't respond or like their tweets and I don't miss it.

@ProjectShadow it looks like that's exactly what happened. And the audience from the news reports I am reading was entirely made up of Trump supporters. CNN has conservative owners now but jumping on the Trump train is going to backfire as FOX found out.

I will not watch CNN's Town Hall with Trump tonight. But I will be curious how he behaves. Trump knows he has been given a huge platform and that millions of voters are watching. But tonight's event may be a good opportunity to gage how in control Trump still is. He will be asked about E Jean Caroll but he'll also be asked about Ukraine and Putin. Hopefully this is a tough interview with follow up.

@Cosmichomicide That's scary to hear. Where does the time go? But at least their are reruns!

Dave Barry has a new novel out. Swamp Story. I will read it. He's so talented and I like the fact that he still lives in Florida. Gives me hope. But gone are the days when people associated the Sunshine State with the Golden Girls and Miami Vice. That Florida is gone sadly.

If you are a company or corporation you are thinking twice about moving to Florida right now and if your corporation is already here you are quietly thinking about leaving. Basically you have seen the way DeSantis has treated Disney and you want no part of that and I don't blame you.

And while DeSantis is in his war with Disney entirely of his own making he should be worrying about hurricane season which begins less than a month from now.

When I was on Twitter the fact that I didn't have a blue check never bothered me. I understood it. I never had more that a few hundred followers and so why would I have a blue check? And it was the blue check accounts that I most gravitated too. They had hundreds of thousands of followers for a reason, many were prominent journalists and thinkers that were worth reading.

But now you can get a blue check by paying for it and it's another reminder why I left twitter.

@MLBjustme Well said although I wish I lived in the UK right now even with King Charles and Queen Camilla. Instead I am stuck here in Florida with DeSantis and the even bigger horror of Trump 2024.

The idea of Queen Camilla will never sit well with me. Not wild about Charles either. They had their chance when they were young to get married and didn't. At that point you move on but Camilla wouldn't and that was unfair to Diana. It's why I root for Megan and Harry. The whole idea of royalty is problematic and England is so much more than the Royals. Its the land of the Magna Carta, Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens and the courage shown during WW II.
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"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has signed onto a letter stating he and more than 40 members of the Senate GOP conference will not back “any bill that raises the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budget reforms" - The Hill

I am worried and McConnell should be too. If the US defaults social security, the stock market etc are in big trouble. McConnell like most Senators is a millionaire many times over but you would hink he'd care about his constituents but no.

@TrueBloodNet Trump is counting on Trump supporters on the jury and I'd like to think he's wrong but he got 74 million votes in 2020. My question why did Tacopina even want to go to work for Trump. It never works out for Trump attorneys and he must know this.

If Joe Tacopina loses the E. Jean Caroll case it may not be his fault. But that won't matter since Trump never blames Trump.

@TrueBloodNet True, climate is a big deal here. Even DeSantis knows this yet he pretends like Disney is his major concern.

"CNN - An Experimental Alzheimer’s medication slowed declines in patients’ ability to think clearly and perform daily tasks by more than a third in a large clinical trial"

The above is from today's CNN front page website and what wonderful news if this drug turns out to work.

@TrueBloodNet That's a good point and what many GOP older Floridians don't get is that our state relies on social security more than most states, particularly with the high rent costs in FL. And right now the GOP is refusing to pass a clean debt ceiling bill risking default and social security. These are scary times.

@TrueBloodNet I live in a very blue part of Florida. It helps some but not as much as one might think.