Love your essays. You analyze the issues brilliantly and with wonderful language. You don’t just tell us the truth of what’s happening, your essays are delightfully rendered. Shanley is another great wit. I thank you both for your wonderful contributions to the political essay. I read everything you publish.
As you point out at the beginning of your letter… the Trump Presidency is modeled after his long running TV show The Apprentice. The difference is this Trump Show is Monday thru Friday with the teaser for the following week dropped on Friday afternoon. That leaves his followers on edge.. and he can drive off to golf at one of his clubs. Maybe conduct some business too. Then return to the ‘show’ on Monday. His minions threaten Senators and House Representatives with Doxing or other abuses leaving republicans in fear of their security. My concern is the security breaches in Minnesota and elsewhere which have not been covered by The Media and are suspected to be of Iranian origin. Trump is in WAY over his head and the country will be left with the financial ruin. I seriously wonder why people are still paying their Federal taxes!!
I am, admittedly, ignorant of the law and procedure… BUT, isn’t there a process in which an unlawfully accused and indicted individual can sue the entities that wrongly accused him/them and be legally compelled to pay damages and attorney fees?
When, oh when will the Joint Chiefs and generals stand up in defense of the men and women they command and say enough! We refuse to follow another order issued by trump. Clearly no other institution is willing to force the constitutional crisis this country must have to rid itself of trump, maybe the military can trigger congress to wake up.
Trump's life in the clouds--which results in actual pain and suffering for millions of people--should go down in history as the most perfected real-life version of the old fairy-tale: The Emperor's New Clothes... Also, he is, despite the hair dye and tanning powder, and old man; and as a card-carrying old person, I know that short-term memory becomes limited when we reach old age...
And so you have a man who organically is both incapable of retaining hard, complex information upon which presidents are assumed to base their life and death decisions--AND he is also a man, who, as you suggest, constantly confabulates reality...
So, you have a possible end-of-world scenario where the leader of the most powerful (at least for now until we use up our Patriot missiles) nation in the world is living in a fantasy world and listens only to his crazy version of the facts. There has NEVER been a President whose mental condition begged for the 25th Amendment to be enacted more than Trump-- But, alas, he lives in country where half the residents are themselves naked...
Midterms are only 92 days away. It’s way past time for this entire BS to change, for all of them to be held accountable. That is the goal flip both House and Senate... that’s the start…
“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices”: Voltaire
Denying and distorting evidence-based reality is core to MAGA’s strategy. It’s an essential component of tyrannical rule. Lying with malice is often cited as the key attribute of “evil”.
What’s gobsmacking is how willing people are to buy into even the most absurd, easily verified lies.
As but one chilling example, Jews in Germany were less than one percent of the population in 1933 and proud contributors to German culture and society. Once Hitler’s lies and demonizing took hold, empirical truth ceased to matter.
Truth telling based on evidence could not be more important than it is now. Thank you to Mary and Shanley for carrying the heavy burden of insisting that what’s true and real not be buried.
Love your essays. You analyze the issues brilliantly and with wonderful language. You don’t just tell us the truth of what’s happening, your essays are delightfully rendered. Shanley is another great wit. I thank you both for your wonderful contributions to the political essay. I read everything you publish.
If Ms. Pirro possessed the slightest degree of personal conscience or professional ethics, she'd…
… Never mind.
" His physician said Trump remained in excellent health and fully fit to serve."
That is not evidence. That is his physician talking out his ass.
From the very first physical trump had in his first term I’ve believed that the Dr publicly reports only what trump tells him.
As you point out at the beginning of your letter… the Trump Presidency is modeled after his long running TV show The Apprentice. The difference is this Trump Show is Monday thru Friday with the teaser for the following week dropped on Friday afternoon. That leaves his followers on edge.. and he can drive off to golf at one of his clubs. Maybe conduct some business too. Then return to the ‘show’ on Monday. His minions threaten Senators and House Representatives with Doxing or other abuses leaving republicans in fear of their security. My concern is the security breaches in Minnesota and elsewhere which have not been covered by The Media and are suspected to be of Iranian origin. Trump is in WAY over his head and the country will be left with the financial ruin. I seriously wonder why people are still paying their Federal taxes!!
Agree 100% Susan.
And I suggested a year ago that States withhold federal taxes.
The inability of the US government to remove tDump from office is a crime against humanity.
I am, admittedly, ignorant of the law and procedure… BUT, isn’t there a process in which an unlawfully accused and indicted individual can sue the entities that wrongly accused him/them and be legally compelled to pay damages and attorney fees?
He can and hopefully he will.
When, oh when will the Joint Chiefs and generals stand up in defense of the men and women they command and say enough! We refuse to follow another order issued by trump. Clearly no other institution is willing to force the constitutional crisis this country must have to rid itself of trump, maybe the military can trigger congress to wake up.
Trump's life in the clouds--which results in actual pain and suffering for millions of people--should go down in history as the most perfected real-life version of the old fairy-tale: The Emperor's New Clothes... Also, he is, despite the hair dye and tanning powder, and old man; and as a card-carrying old person, I know that short-term memory becomes limited when we reach old age...
And so you have a man who organically is both incapable of retaining hard, complex information upon which presidents are assumed to base their life and death decisions--AND he is also a man, who, as you suggest, constantly confabulates reality...
So, you have a possible end-of-world scenario where the leader of the most powerful (at least for now until we use up our Patriot missiles) nation in the world is living in a fantasy world and listens only to his crazy version of the facts. There has NEVER been a President whose mental condition begged for the 25th Amendment to be enacted more than Trump-- But, alas, he lives in country where half the residents are themselves naked...
Thank you, Mary. What is obvious or should be obvious is that trump's reality is dangerous to us all.
Midterms are only 92 days away. It’s way past time for this entire BS to change, for all of them to be held accountable. That is the goal flip both House and Senate... that’s the start…
“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices”: Voltaire
Denying and distorting evidence-based reality is core to MAGA’s strategy. It’s an essential component of tyrannical rule. Lying with malice is often cited as the key attribute of “evil”.
What’s gobsmacking is how willing people are to buy into even the most absurd, easily verified lies.
As but one chilling example, Jews in Germany were less than one percent of the population in 1933 and proud contributors to German culture and society. Once Hitler’s lies and demonizing took hold, empirical truth ceased to matter.
Truth telling based on evidence could not be more important than it is now. Thank you to Mary and Shanley for carrying the heavy burden of insisting that what’s true and real not be buried.