Always good to have a voice of sanity on the day's madness. Thank you.
P.S. I think the present tense of 'wrought' is 'work' - bizarre though it may seem. Not 'wring', in any event, but not 'wrought' either. Maybe what Trump has wrought is what one man can do, or create, or even wreak.
Thank you, Mary. I appreciate you dissecting the events of the day for those of us who can no longer stand the sound of tRump's voice or his "version" of the news. At any rate, anything tRump says is literally suspect. That is one thing, possibly the only thing, we can count on from this administration.
The moral arc of the universe may bend toward justice. I think the greater truth, history is a Darwinian story of trial and error. What succeeds, persists’; what fails, derided and thrown into the dust bin of history. In that vein, Trump’s Iranian “excursion” succeeds militarily and fails strategically. Ironically, it may strengthen a regime that was failing. Perverse. In the domestic, Wall Street places its bets as Trump waxes about his excursion (not-a-war, war) ending soon. But on Main Street, the truth is brutal. Adjusted, as Powell notes, new hires have flatlined. We all know the truth at the gas pump, and await the more systemic effects from greater logistic cost. The debt is over $38T, growing, and those treasury gimmicks are really just monetizing the debt. Who knows what the GOP Congress does for the paycheck, certainly not the business of America. I think the dust bin beckons.
The damage this man has done along with his sycophant minions is stunning and will remain for years after he is rotting in the ground. My only hope is that those who have willingly participated will find that justice eventually catches up.
If hopes could be realized no matter how fanciful, the batteries on the entire trump administration, Republicans who continue to support him, and corporations who profit from his egregious ways would soon run out of irreplaceable batteries and be tossed away. May it be so! Thanks, Mary!
I am much more familiar with Shakespeare than I am the Bible. But this whole thing feels less the former and more than latter. The venality of our elected and non elected leaders, in politics, fianance and tech is tangled in a nest of vipers. The branding you speak of is pushed on the floor of the temple. As they sacrifice brown and black skinned children, while targeting other religious lives around the world, the cowards calling for violence hide behind hired hands, guards meant to keep the leaders' heads from rolling from the angry, starving people. Like the stories of the Bible, the intrigue comes, and the wicked are smite.
Great analysis! Trump has created a catastrophic Humpty-Dumpty fall, but lacks "all the king's horses and all the king's men". He is truly an olympic grade idiot with a single savant expertise in his art of the grift. The world is held hostage by a leader who had no idea or interest in understanding the complicated consequences of his actions, and now no capacity to deconstruct his mess and determine constructive strategies to de-escalate and resolve the crisis. Complicating matters, we are staring into the empty crevasse of his cabinet, providing only bobble-headed adoration and mannequin-like responses. We are in deep sh*t and need Congress to step up to the moment if they can ever awaken from their politically induced coma. The depth and breadth of global harm, suffering, and mayhem this one man has reaped will indeed cast him in disgraced infamy in the annals of history.
and the Israelis say they have lots of targets left in Iran (not to say Lebanon), whether Trump wants/hopes to 'wind things down' or not. And the Iranians are expanding their catalogue of potential targets. The person who starts the war doesn't necessarily get to say when it's over (alas).
Always good to have a voice of sanity on the day's madness. Thank you.
P.S. I think the present tense of 'wrought' is 'work' - bizarre though it may seem. Not 'wring', in any event, but not 'wrought' either. Maybe what Trump has wrought is what one man can do, or create, or even wreak.
Thank you
Thank you, Mary. I appreciate you dissecting the events of the day for those of us who can no longer stand the sound of tRump's voice or his "version" of the news. At any rate, anything tRump says is literally suspect. That is one thing, possibly the only thing, we can count on from this administration.
The moral arc of the universe may bend toward justice. I think the greater truth, history is a Darwinian story of trial and error. What succeeds, persists’; what fails, derided and thrown into the dust bin of history. In that vein, Trump’s Iranian “excursion” succeeds militarily and fails strategically. Ironically, it may strengthen a regime that was failing. Perverse. In the domestic, Wall Street places its bets as Trump waxes about his excursion (not-a-war, war) ending soon. But on Main Street, the truth is brutal. Adjusted, as Powell notes, new hires have flatlined. We all know the truth at the gas pump, and await the more systemic effects from greater logistic cost. The debt is over $38T, growing, and those treasury gimmicks are really just monetizing the debt. Who knows what the GOP Congress does for the paycheck, certainly not the business of America. I think the dust bin beckons.
The damage this man has done along with his sycophant minions is stunning and will remain for years after he is rotting in the ground. My only hope is that those who have willingly participated will find that justice eventually catches up.
Mary, Marz, keep up this good work 🙏
Thank you, Mary.
If hopes could be realized no matter how fanciful, the batteries on the entire trump administration, Republicans who continue to support him, and corporations who profit from his egregious ways would soon run out of irreplaceable batteries and be tossed away. May it be so! Thanks, Mary!
I am much more familiar with Shakespeare than I am the Bible. But this whole thing feels less the former and more than latter. The venality of our elected and non elected leaders, in politics, fianance and tech is tangled in a nest of vipers. The branding you speak of is pushed on the floor of the temple. As they sacrifice brown and black skinned children, while targeting other religious lives around the world, the cowards calling for violence hide behind hired hands, guards meant to keep the leaders' heads from rolling from the angry, starving people. Like the stories of the Bible, the intrigue comes, and the wicked are smite.
Great analysis! Trump has created a catastrophic Humpty-Dumpty fall, but lacks "all the king's horses and all the king's men". He is truly an olympic grade idiot with a single savant expertise in his art of the grift. The world is held hostage by a leader who had no idea or interest in understanding the complicated consequences of his actions, and now no capacity to deconstruct his mess and determine constructive strategies to de-escalate and resolve the crisis. Complicating matters, we are staring into the empty crevasse of his cabinet, providing only bobble-headed adoration and mannequin-like responses. We are in deep sh*t and need Congress to step up to the moment if they can ever awaken from their politically induced coma. The depth and breadth of global harm, suffering, and mayhem this one man has reaped will indeed cast him in disgraced infamy in the annals of history.
Glad to hear you slept in a bit, Mary. So did I. Vance is Catholic now, right? Is he hearing Pope Leo do you think?
Let’s be clear, Vance is a die in the wool, Christian Nationalist at his core.
Um, no comment about Trump being in bed with Netanyahu?
and the Israelis say they have lots of targets left in Iran (not to say Lebanon), whether Trump wants/hopes to 'wind things down' or not. And the Iranians are expanding their catalogue of potential targets. The person who starts the war doesn't necessarily get to say when it's over (alas).