“This is what he/she did as a senator/governor/congressman; imagine what he/she would do with the unbridled power of a President.” 3/3

Reasoning: If there are no constraints on a President, then a moral person must occupy that position, not an amoral person. The SC may have unintentionally set the moral standard for a presidential candidate so high that they won’t be able to find a candidate in their own party. 2/3

If the SC’s conservatives say he can withhold funds even if it’s deemed illegal by lower courts because nothing a President does is illegal, the only way Republicans will be able to save themselves from responsibility for starving children will be to impeach Trump. 1/3

The battle is no longer left/right, but up/down.

The battle is no longer left/right, but up/down.

The battle is no longer left/right, but up/down.

And now he and his cronies have taken those blue state resources out of your pocket, and put them into their own pockets. So you are left to decide; will you suffer on your own, or will you reconcile with those he made you hate in order to remove him from power along with his legion of enablers.”

I think a good campaign argument would be something like, “He taught rural America to hate urban America, when it is urban Americans who have funded the programs that have aided rural America for a generation.

How about “The L-Shaped Room”? Back when I was teenager, it opened my Midwestern eyes to the fact that love for another can take many different forms. If you need an escape from serious, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” has just about every ‘60’s comedian AND Spencer Tracy.

YouTube video by Michael Tilson Thomas - Topic Fanfare for the Common Man

We used to have a very different notion of the “common man” and what they aspired to.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9O...

Actually, it is very conceivable.

The White House managed to host state dinners and social events for over 200 years just as it was. Two years for planning and permitting for an “event space” would have not been a hardship.

Normal Times in Dire Times Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.

I came across this just today. A truly important read for those whose upbringing did not include lessons taught by parents who suffered under fascists.

open.substack.com/pub/frederic...

Well, the precedent has been set. Any President can obliterate that which his predecessors created. Remember that precedent when Trump leaves or is dragged from office.

“Trust” has a different meaning in TrumpWorld.

You are right on. Exchanging help with friends is how my mother survived, and how in turn, how she helped two “half-Jewish” sisters and an escaped Italian prisoner of war survive in Nuremberg, 1940-1946,

Nuremberg (2025 film) - Wikipedia

Look what movie is opening November 7… considering the development and production time of a major motion picture, someone was very prescient.

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YouTube video by merhlin The Promise Of Living - Aaron Copland, (arr. John Williams)

I needed this this morning..,

m.youtube.com/watch

Probably Grindring through his workday.

The architecture and construction firms responsible for this should feel the full weight of public outrage as well. Had they no sense of the monstrous nature of what they were doing? Damned if I would ever hire them after this.

They “attack him for everything” because everything he does is the exact opposite of what a president of a democracy should do.

More of this please. Flood social media with messages like this one. It looks like it was modeled after the coded messages that the BBC broadcast into Europe during WW II to communicate with spies and insurgents. Let them burn resources trying to figure what the code is and who it is for

More of this please. Flood social media with messages like this one. It looks like it was modeled after the coded messages that the BBC broadcast into Europe during WW II to communicate with spies and insurgents. Let them burn resources trying to figure what the code is and who it is for.

My mis-read actually may be closer to the truth; we don’t have a unitary executive, we have a urinary executive pissing on every norm.

The most open and transparent administration EVER!

You couldn’t pitch that script to a B-movie studio without getting laughed out of town.

Money quote: “Rulers, by contrast, tend to jealously guard their dignity. But not Trump.”

Thinking that a shit-poster is the ideal person to lead the free world indicates staggering ignorance, staggering corruption, or both.

Curious to find out.