It’s a ceasefire, not an end to the Israel-Hamas war, but it’s an undeniable success.
How Trump secured a Gaza breakthrough which eluded Biden
Trump has taken a page from the old presidential handbook, that when things aren’t going well domestically, look for a win internationally.
Today, I attended a town hall meeting with my Congressman, Jim McGovern. If there were any Trumpers in the audience, they remained silent.
I didn’t get in line to ask a question, but at the close of the session I expressed my concern about the economy to McGovern. Trump has Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary, he’s compromising confidence in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and he will certainly take control of the Federal Reserve. If we’re lucky, when combined with the tariffs, the economic damage will result in a strong midterm election for Democrats. That’s assuming the election is held, and McGovern is concerned it won’t be.
McGovern said he doesn’t respect Republican politicians who aren’t voting their conscience, out of fear that Trump will put a challenger up against them in their next primary. I’m voting my conscience today, by unsubscribing from comedian Louis C.K.’s mailing list.
I was willing to reserve judgment about Louis for his admitted sexual misbehaviors. The accusations against him came about when the #metoo movement refused to allow any nuance in discussions regarding the most complex aspect of human relationships. Propositions were viewed as precursors to assaults.
But now, I’m done with Louis C.K. He is trying to introduce nuance where I see no wiggle room for it. Saudi Arabia’s follow-up to sportswashing is jokewashing. No matter how you cut it with a bone saw, it’s blood money.
Everything is under assault by Trump and Republicans, from Democracy to the Rule of Law. Perhaps the longest-lasting damage will come from placing superstition above science.
The second half of the inflationary Seventies, when the decline of union labor began.
Thanks for remembering me, cartoon Donald, but it was half my life, 35 years ago, that my cartoon Donald called you a freak.
Before watching the video, read this jumble of words. Just as Biden did at that age, Trump is deteriorating, but at least it isn’t hidden from view.
“They looked at him falling downstairs every day. Every day, the guy is falling downstairs. He said, It’s not our President. We can’t have it. I’m very careful. You know, when I walk downstairs for, like, a month, stairs, like these stairs, I’m very—I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall, because it doesn’t work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy. We don’t want that. You walk nice and easy. You’re not having—you don’t have to set any record. Be cool. Be cool when you walk down, but don’t—don’t pop down the stairs. So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a President, but he would bop down those stairs. I’ve never seen it. Da-da, da-da, da-da, bop, bop, bop. He’d go down the stairs. Wouldn’t hold on. I said, It’s great. I don’t want to do it. I guess I could do it. But eventually, bad things are going to happen, and it only takes once. But he did a lousy job as president. A year ago, we were a dead country. We were dead. This country was going to hell.”
I was confident the world would survive Trump’s first term. I’m hoping we can do it again. For now, I am relying on “marker therapy.”
