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
From my fave WaPo prick journalist, Mark the shark Thiessen...an interview with Trump where he tries to make Trump look real...
But Trump is absolutely right to fight back against the cancel culture. And and his message will resonate more than many in Washington realize. “It takes guts to say what I say,” he said on Wednesday. “I mean, I understand, I could do it a lot easier, but it would be the wrong thing to do.
his niece’s book and the Supreme Court’s decision may someday be remembered as the beginning of the end of his institutional protections. And not just in a legal sense. Much of the power of the presidency comes from the perception of it, and that perception is now waning as the president bleeds out in the polls. As that power ebbs, more Mary Trumps and John Boltons will tell their stories, or give their evidence to investigators, with ever less fear.
George Conway in WaPo on Mary Trump's book and Trump v. Vance and their commonality...
(Before we all do a victory dance, we need to ensure we remember every day is critical between now and Nov. 3rd, there is no let up on getting this SOB out of West Wing)
For the country, by adhering to that principle, the court vindicated the rule of law. But for Donald Trump personally, ...
No matter who wins in November, decades from now many of the federal judges Trump and McConnell rammed through the Senate will still be serving, issuing definitive legal rulings in a country that looks less like them every single day.
So it's clear for those in the back on why we need to vote BLUE in a block in NOV.
Trump and McConnell’s Overwhelmingly White Male Judicial Appointments
Donald Trump, with the help of Mitch McConnell, has loudly and proudly packed the federal courts with white male judges. He has filled about 30 percent of the positions in the country’s federal appeals courts. Not a single one of his 53 confirmed appeals court nominees is Black, and only one is Latino.
“In an unfortunate paradox, the phenomenal rise of China may have created the very conditions for the demise of the Asian century,” wrote the Indian commentator C. Raja Mohan. “That China has become far more powerful than all of its Asian neighbors has meant Beijing no longer sees the need to evoke Asian unity. As it seeks to surpass the United States and emerge as the top dog in the world, it is no surprise that Beijing’s imagination has turned to the construction of a Chinese century.”
“Covid-19 has exposed the world’s greatest democracies as victims of prolonged self-harm,” wrote Mishra, pointing to both the United States’ punitively expensive health-care system and the hollowing out of Britain’s social services. “It has also demonstrated that countries with strong state capacity have been far more successful at stemming the virus’s spread and look better equipped to cope with the social and economic fallout.”
Pankaj Mishra wrote in an essay for the London Review of Books that excoriated the Anglo-American handling of the crisis. “Other East Asian countries such as Taiwan and Singapore are also faring much better. Vietnam swiftly routed the virus.”
Ishaan Tharoor in WaPo and the daily RONA update on the dawn of the Asian Century...
America’s failings — and, for that matter, Britain’s — were made all the more stark by successes elsewhere. “South Korea rolled out testing at ‘walk-in’ booths all over the country, then used credit card records and location data from mobile phones to trace the movements of infected people — a tactic Britain has failed to master after months of effort,”
NYT RONA Daily Briefing...
Deborah Burger, co-president of National Nurses United, the country’s largest organization of registered nurses, said nurses were being forced to reuse protective gear in a way that has not been tested for safety.
“It’s almost five months into a pandemic in the richest country in the world and we’re putting people’s lives at risk because we don’t have enough P.P.E.,” she said.
#pups4peace will be on vacay through the end of July 2020...
The Washington Post: Want to know how badly we’ve botched the pandemic? Consider the plight of movie theaters. Show more
But unlike doctrinaire socialists, the goal of industrial policy isn’t to curb private enterprise but to spur it in a new direction—an outcome that’s vital to national interests but which markets alone are unable to achieve.
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/america-needs-an-industrial-policy/
Backgrounder on Biden approach of industrial policy.
The Washington Post: Top Stories | Joe Biden flips the script on Trump Show more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/09/supreme-court-deals-blow-trumps-delusions-untrammeled-power/
If one views this as a question of absolute power and the imperial pretensions of a president, the two cases represent a stunning rebuke to Trump. If one expected to get a peek at the documents before the election, the cases may disappoint. The latter, however, is far less critical than the former. We are a country of laws. The president is bound by them. Not a bad day’s work for the highest court nor for its reputation as an impartial umpire.
We aren’t exceptional and we now know it. And once that’s internalized, work can be done to fix it. That’s the promise of another wave that has the desire for real change behind it.
From David Dayen...
Read through the Unity Task Force Recommendations between the Biden and Sanders campaigns. Pick a page, and read it. Focus on the problems it describes in clear language: the burning planet, the economic deprivation for the broad middle and below, the affordable housing crisis, the childcare crisis, the mass incarceration crisis, the racism crisis, the social mobility crisis, the corporate power crisis, the worker’s rights crisis, the infrastructure crisis.
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