A new day

[susandennis]

Ok, so that shit's behind us. I followed it all on TV and on news sites but this morning was anxious to get Gabe Fleisher's morning newsletter. No one cuts to the important stuff like Gabe. I'm not sure when he had time to write it. According to his tweet stream, he hasn't taken time off for a decent leak since Monday. He's still on duty today and tomorrow's newsletter will catch me up then.

I do think removing Trump from office at this point is a ridiculous waste of time, energy and money. Just let him slink away, clean up the mess and move the fuck on.


And, hey, we've still got the virus! Oddly and delightfully, my state (Washington) and my county (King) are really lagging behind on all COVID numbers! For once. Whew. But even more comforting is that I do not have to go anywhere for the next month. ish. I have not heard back from the house cleaner on confirmation or a date. But, at least for now, I am inside and staying here. I have drug deliveries today but they are UPS and Mr. UPS brings stuff right to my door, bless his heart.

I do have some new tech. Amazon put up some of its 10" Fire tablets in the refurb shop and I bought one. My dining room table tablet is a very old Google one that is no longer supported and quite tired. It's the one I use to read magazines and newspapers while I eat. Since most of that reading is via Kindle app, it's one of the few purposes for which a Fire tablet works and works best. This one is pretty zippy and good looking. I may side load Google (for the Play Store) onto it but I'm going wait until I hit up on something I need it for. So far, everything I need is right there and easily accessible. In a nice, 10" size.

Biggie's incision is all healed up. Finally. In the mornings, first thing, I used to clip one, maybe two nails, in return for treats. But, while I was worried about taking his stitches out too early, I traded a photo of his tummy for the treat. This morning we went back to nail clipping and he was having NONE of it. Does not take long for him to dump a habit. Geesh.

Today will be back to a regular day of crochet and TV and general stuff. I hope.

Comments

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

"I do think removing Trump from office at this point is a ridiculous waste of time, energy and money. Just let him slink away, clean up the mess and move the fuck on."

Here, I must disagree.
Don't kid yourself that he won't attempt to run again, in 2024.
And don't kid yourself---let us not kid ourselves---that there wouldn't be another victory for him, not because he's good at this job and not because he'd be the best man for the job or even because then it could not be said of him that we wouldn't elect anyone who'd never before held an elected public office, but because there will still be a large group of angry, frustrated, feeling-disenfranchised and resentful voters out there who'd put him in office again.

Enacting the...fourth part, is it?---of the 25th Amendment to keep him from engaging in any more intrigue right now (war with Iran is a very real possibility), and bringing impeachment charges against him, right now, and doing it right and getting a conviction, will keep him from running for political office ever again.

And his son is gearing up for a major political run in the not too distant future. (I'm basing that on snippets I overheard from the next room.)

[susandennis]

nope. if removing him is our best defense against him and his family then we deserve what we get. we have far greater battles to use our money and energy to fight.

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

"Nope" is right, and it's what I'm saying, too, only I'm saying, "Do it right and do it right now: don't let it drag out. This was a criminal act---some would say bordering on treason ---and he has to be made to account for it and hopefully pay for it. Far more importantly, his privileges, authority and powers must be estoppeled immediately
Ma'am, we may have LARGER battles, or more expensive ones in terms of money, but I truly believe we don't have a more important or more urgent one, nor will money be better spent.
Now, you and I will not do better today than to agree to disagree.

But it's my firm conviction this man should never have been allowed to run, let alone have been elected, and it's hard to understand how it came about, with so many able, experienced politicians/statesmen on the dais in Cleveland, Ohio, back in 2016, that we wound up with Donald John Trump running as the Republican candidate for the most powerful and most important public office in the world.

It's not a question of us deserving what we get: we can't afford what we've got and even more significantly, we can't afford another four years of it, with or without a four- or eight-year hiatus between his terms. If it takes some time, hopefully a very brief time, and energy and money to remove him from office and to keep him from stirring up any more trouble either domestically or on the world stage until President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris are sworn into their respective offices, I can't imagine a better way to spend all three.

[amw.livejournal.com]

I just had a quick look at the archives and this seems like a good newsletter tip.

I've been appreciating Tangle https://tangle.substack.com/ which is also mostly US politics. The writer goes out of his way to report on the spin coming from different sides of the media, which gives it a bit of a bipartisan feeling.

Also the BIG newsletter https://mattstoller.substack.com/ is a good one for corporate/monopoly news. It's less frequent, but with Google and Facebook finally facing lawsuits, i think it'll have some interesting reporting in the upcoming year(s).

[susandennis]

Excellent newsletters! Thank you.

My other daily one is https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login Ina Fried, knows her shit and how to boil it down to what matters.

[maju01.livejournal.com]

Have you heard of Heather Cox Richardson: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/ She has an almost daily free newsletter that I subscribe to, as well as paid content that I don't get.

[susandennis]

i used to get her newsletter and then stopped. maybe i need to revisit

[texasts.livejournal.com]

I don’t think it’s behind us yet. 45 isn’t gone yet. Heard he is going off as usual or worse than usual on parler. I don’t have an account over there. Definitely not wanting to start one either.

[laciann.livejournal.com]

From over here, it doesn’t look like that man has ever “slinked” anywhere. You might get a flounce out of him. On a good day.

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

The trick is that if we impeach and remove 45 then he can never run for public office again. So there’s that.

It doesn’t stop his idiot kids from running, though.

[stasia]

Successful impeachment means he doesn't get his pension, travel allowance, secret security protection detail, and means he can't run for office ever again.