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John Gregory's avatar

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.

Mary Geddry's avatar

Thank you

Carletta Starks's avatar

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.

David Olson's avatar

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.

Judy Boudreau's avatar

Um, no comment about Trump being in bed with Netanyahu?

John Gregory's avatar

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).

Vi Mooberry's avatar

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!

Laurie Trombley's avatar

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?