TROUBLE SPAWN
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
“'emboldened'” and “'focused'” more than ever on prosecuting “'his case of grievance, persecution, and resentment.'”
So Trump wants to say the quiet part out loud; he wants to say he’s got this. And there’s no one to stop him now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/15/george-conway-no-one-to-stop-trump-now/
George Conway on Trump as King...
To the contrary, as his (and my) friend Fox News host Laura Ingraham put it, “Barr was basically telling Trump, don’t worry I got this.” In other words, don’t blow this by calling attention to all that I do for you. Don’t say the quiet part out loud.
And, drawing on a story in the New York Times that suggested he is stained but unshackled, Trump boasted that he has indeed survived “'triumphant'” and ...
This is how democracies die — not in darkness but in full view of a public that couldn’t care less.
A recent Gallup poll found that Trump’s approval rating among Republicans — the supposed law-and-order party — is at a record-high 94 percent. His support in the country as a whole is only 43.4 percent in the FiveThirtyEight average, but he is still well positioned to win reelection, because most people seem to care a lot more about the strength of the stock market than about the strength of our democracy.
Max Boot on our apathy...
The French philosopher Montesquieu wrote in 1748: “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.” We are seeing his warning vindicated. President Trump is increasingly acting as a tyrannical (and erratic) prince. And yet much of the public is so inured to his misconduct that his latest assaults on the rule of law are met with a collective shrug.
COVUD-19 Cruise Victims...
Prisoners in a Posh Penitentiary...
TROUBLE SPAWN
boosted
@Madken65 beagle puppies are the best
How will black people, the most loyal of Democratic constituencies, respond, if this is what they are asked to do?
If Democrats are smart, we'll never find out.
https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/leonardpittsjr/s-2326771?ezine=627
Leonard Pitts on the vestiges of Bloomberg's Stop and Frisk..
Maybe. Still, one can't help noting the way many white voters seem to regard racism as something that, while a character flaw, is not a deal breaker. This was true on the right. Apparently, it is also true on the left.
Vote blue, no matter who? Even if the "who" sees your boys and men as Xeroxes, to be interchangeably thrown against walls?
PSA...Apparently the word PORN causes excitement in the morning...
Be Advised
Morning Nauts
Ken-Dogger: Morning Rascal, why the sad face?
Rascal: Dude, this love thing…it’s tricky
KD: Love is patient, love is kind, why has it been tricky?
R: That Trudy bro, apparently she has more beaus than me
KD: Sorry Rascal, sometimes your love is not returned in kind
R: I’m hip, but how will I know…
KD: You’ll know when you see it and feel it…
R: Oh, so it’s like porn then…
KD: Let me start this lesson over…
On this day in 1964, the Beatles' Meet The Beatles! album goes #1 and remains for 11 weeks. In 2005, YouTube was launched in US.
Slate: Trump Administration Deploys Elite Border Agents to Sanctuary Cities.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/trump-deploys-elite-border-agents-sanctuary-cities.html
Trump ups the ante in sanctuary cities...
Let's just militarize the streets before we suspend posse comitatus...
Interesting cover story title on WIRED this month...haven't read it
This was in the local rag this week, just offer it as a view that is out there, if you will...perception is reality
Well damn, look at the time, it flies when you awake at 0420 and are jogged into understanding what that means and then to see how that meanders the start to your day, that suddenly its 0817 and you got shit to do...
Peace Love Dove Peeps
COSO Sixties Saturday theme, Beatles style
For No One
Your day breaks, your mind aches
You find that all the words of kindness linger on
When she no longer needs you
TROUBLE SPAWN
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017