Isn't the whole shebang that is in fact (double entendre on purpose, thus no commas) true getting more and more discouraging? As Ben Franklin so notably said, "A Republic if you can keep it" -- or something quite like that.
It is getting more and more discouraging, Mary. I don’t see much to encourage. I ask myself what most Democratic legislators actually think they’re accomplishing each day. I’m a fellow fan of Franklin quote, many of which, I understand, require some research as to real time, place, and wording. (Everyone’s an editor!) I love yours and am also fond of “"We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately." For readers who don’t know, that’s known as a syllepsis (or zeugma). I think of the syllepsis as the punning of rhetoric.
And this is but the beginning after 108 (?) days in office!
I read in an update in the news that at his most recent sit-down with Kennedy Center board members, no one dared touch a morsel of just-served food until he had his first bite.
Has there ever been a more apt idiom than "the emperor has no clothes"?
The speed is stunning — yet exactly what some of us warned of all along. I hadn’t heard about the Kennedy center working lunch. I could be wrong but I don’t recall reading anywhere that the Kennedy Center. a cultural and performing arts institution, was any kind of agency or department under the control of the executive (or any) branch — any more than is the Library OF CONGRESS — but people have just, and quickly, given in. It’s what happens.
There should be, Frederick, for all of them, as you say. That is, indeed, what I mean to imply by this bill of categories. But I can’t say I feel hopeful.
Unfortunately, words seem to have failed to convince those who believe in cruelty that trump will turn his wrath on all, even those who lick his golden-plated toilet.
On top of all this, so well laid out, can you believe he fired the head of the Portrait Gallery because he accuses her of being partisan or in other word not voting for him? Does he want to run our museums too?
Unfortunately, I can believe it. Trump's instinct with power, and the ideology of his Heritage and Christian nationalist backers, is fully authoritarian, which includes culture.
A very powerful piece of writing, Jay.
Thank you, friend. Whatever power it may have is unfortunately fueled by outrage and grief.
Yes, I hear both of those things.
Wow. You brilliantly and most sorrowfully listed it all.
You included a key word, Rivvy -- sorrowfully.
Isn't the whole shebang that is in fact (double entendre on purpose, thus no commas) true getting more and more discouraging? As Ben Franklin so notably said, "A Republic if you can keep it" -- or something quite like that.
It is getting more and more discouraging, Mary. I don’t see much to encourage. I ask myself what most Democratic legislators actually think they’re accomplishing each day. I’m a fellow fan of Franklin quote, many of which, I understand, require some research as to real time, place, and wording. (Everyone’s an editor!) I love yours and am also fond of “"We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately." For readers who don’t know, that’s known as a syllepsis (or zeugma). I think of the syllepsis as the punning of rhetoric.
Yes, sir. Will we make through? That question faces everyone who has actually read the Constitution!
And this is but the beginning after 108 (?) days in office!
I read in an update in the news that at his most recent sit-down with Kennedy Center board members, no one dared touch a morsel of just-served food until he had his first bite.
Has there ever been a more apt idiom than "the emperor has no clothes"?
The speed is stunning — yet exactly what some of us warned of all along. I hadn’t heard about the Kennedy center working lunch. I could be wrong but I don’t recall reading anywhere that the Kennedy Center. a cultural and performing arts institution, was any kind of agency or department under the control of the executive (or any) branch — any more than is the Library OF CONGRESS — but people have just, and quickly, given in. It’s what happens.
Will there be a kind of tribunal one day in which not only the wannabe dictator, but also his enablers, pay for the damage they've wreaked?
There should be, Frederick, for all of them, as you say. That is, indeed, what I mean to imply by this bill of categories. But I can’t say I feel hopeful.
maybe on the Day of his big beautiful parade...An opportunity gifted by Heaven!
Wanna be dictator? Aren’t we already there? Agree with everything else you said.
a monster that should've been aborted in the womb...so despicable IT makes satire useless...may he DIE tonite!
Unfortunately, words seem to have failed to convince those who believe in cruelty that trump will turn his wrath on all, even those who lick his golden-plated toilet.
On top of all this, so well laid out, can you believe he fired the head of the Portrait Gallery because he accuses her of being partisan or in other word not voting for him? Does he want to run our museums too?
Unfortunately, I can believe it. Trump's instinct with power, and the ideology of his Heritage and Christian nationalist backers, is fully authoritarian, which includes culture.