From a few days ago…
February 28, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Behind the horse race–type coverage of the contest for presidential nominations, a major realignment is underway in United States politics. The Republican Party is dying as Trump and his supporters take it over, but there is a larger story behind that crash. This moment looks much like the other times in our history when a formerly stable two-party system has fallen apart and Americans reevaluated what they want out of their government.
An important post to read. Accurately describes the moment we are in. May democracy survive.
Nice recipe for eggplant. Keeps the oil to eggplant down and yields a crispy skin and silky herbed “meat.”
www.melaniecooks.com/spicy-gar…
Play with spices to your taste.
… right-wing activist Jack Posobiec opened this weekend’s conference of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) … with the words: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely.” … “After we burn that swamp to the ground, we will establish the new American republic on its ashes, and our first order of business will be righteous retribution for those who betrayed America.”
… i can’t begin to express how disappointed in, and angry with, Christian culture in this country…
February 25, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
More important than that, even, is that it shows that even in a strongly Republican state, 40% of primary voters–the party’s most loyal voters–prefer someone else. As Mike Allen of Axios wrote today: “If America were dominated by old, white, election-denying Christians who didn’t go to college, former President Trump would win the general election in…a landslide.” But, Allen added, “It’s not.”
Which may be precisely why Trump loyalists intend to overthrow democracy.
… at what point can we call them traitors?…
The State of the Culture, 2024 - by Ted Gioia
The tech CEOs know this is harmful, but they do it anyway. A whistleblower released internal documents showing how Instagram use leads to depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. Mark Zuckerberg was told all the disturbing details.
An important read?… I am wondering if the dopamine addiction depression is what prevents people who have otherwise good lives from seeing they are good?… is this a reason why a lot of people are thinking about voting for 45 again?…
Every day I have to take a few deep breaths, in, out, in, out. These are frightening times. Ukraine deserves our support. I don’t want to live in a world where Russia succeeds in occupying Ukraine. 45’s brownshirts in congress are trying to make sure I do.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/februar…
Today’s big story continues to be Trump’s statement that he “would encourage [Russia] to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that are part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) if those countries are, in his words, “delinquent.” Both Democrats and Republicans have stood firm behind NATO since Dwight D. Eisenhower ran for president in 1952 to put down the isolationist wing of the Republican Party, and won.
I would vote for a paper bag over 45.
As I watch the hand wringing about 45 on MSNBC, I wonder, how could anyone be considering voting for 45 again? How is it we as a country seem prepared to be that stupid? It shouldn’t even be close. Yet it is.
Now heading into my third week of COVID. My first time in the rodeo. Can’t imagine what getting it in the beginning would have been like. I am fully vaccinated and got Paxlovid in the beginning of this round. So tired of not being able to go anywhere.
I have been doing some tidying up of various online accounts and replacing debit cards in those accounts with a new one necessitated by the compromising of my old one. I am astonished by how uniformly badly the majority of these websites work and how awful the experience is.