We went to Costco on Saturday, a very bad idea, although Costco was handling the crowd pretty well — all checkout lanes open, and as always, the ruckus was in the fresh-foods section, where people were lined up for Lunch at Costco, i.e. all the samples they were giving out.
To be sure, one of those people was me, although only in the less-busy stations. I ate a bite of plant-based pasta, some sort of savory pastry, chicken Alfredo and cherry cheesecake. Mea culpa.
That said, it was kinda festive, because everyone, and I mean everyone except the Derringers, was outfitted in festive Detroit Lions merch, and spirits were high. Go Lions! We’re Super Bowl-bound!
Alas, that didn’t work out. This is why I, generally speaking, don’t follow sports. Isn’t life full of enough disappointment? Isn’t the idea of facing the next four years misery enough? Do we have to layer our crushing moods like a party dip? I say leave that to others. In return, I promise I won’t bandwagon when your team is having a great year.
This was the Costco in Macomb County, i.e. Trump country, so it’s possible all the smiles and go-teams were also about Monday’s events, and I’m not talking about the King holiday. Perhaps it just wore Lions merch instead of MAGA hats. Entirely possible, but at this point I don’t care. I put down the NYT in despair today, unable to read anything more troubling than a short piece on Jamie Leigh Curtis. But it won’t last. I’m only practicing self-care, and only for a while.
This very interesting data tool shows that I’m among friends in my precinct — Harris by 28 — and the metro area in general is still blue enough for comfort. For now. Anyway, I ain’t giving up.
That said, if you’re feeling fragile at the moment, you probably don’t want to read this, but here’s a taste. It’s about Trump’s phone call with the Danish prime minister last week:
In private discussions, the adjective that was most frequently used to describe the Trump phone call was rough. The verb most frequently used was threaten. The reaction most frequently expressed was confusion. Trump made it clear to Frederiksen that he is serious about Greenland: He sees it, apparently, as a real-estate deal. But Greenland is not a beachfront property. The world’s largest island is an autonomous territory of Denmark, inhabited by people who are Danish citizens, vote in Danish elections, and have representatives in the Danish Parliament. Denmark also has politics, and a Danish prime minister cannot sell Greenland any more than an American president can sell Florida.
At the same time, Denmark is also a country whose global companies—among them Lego, the shipping giant Maersk, and Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic—do billions of dollars worth of trade with the United States, and have major American investments too. They thought these were positive aspects of the Danish-American relationship. Denmark and the United States are also founding members of NATO, and Danish leaders would be forgiven for believing that this matters in Washington too. Instead, these links turn out to be a vulnerability. On Thursday afternoon Frederiksen emerged and, flanked by her foreign minister and her defense minister, made a statement. “It has been suggested from the American side,” she said, “that unfortunately a situation may arise where we work less together than we do today in the economic area.”
If you voted for this, then, well, you voted for this.
I will be practicing self-care all day Monday, i.e. not watching the new administration goose-stepping into the White House. If anything happens, I’ll hear about it later and there will be multiple camera angles. My house needs cleaning. That’s what I’ll be doing. How about you?
David C said on January 19, 2025 at 11:26 am
My neighborhood was +16 for Kamala but was +21 for Biden. So good, but not great.
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susan said on January 19, 2025 at 11:53 am
Music. I will be listening to Schubert piano & chamber… Dvorak chamber….Beethoven chamber & piano….maybe The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart edition
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jim h said on January 19, 2025 at 1:46 pm
A brief call back to the Neil Gaiman allegations. As background, growing up I loved Bill Cosby records, and saw him in performance. Anyone who is a serious fan of someone’s work struggle when that person is revealed o have done awful things (Cosby, Alice Munro) or is alleged to have done so (Gaiman). I found this NPR essay helpful in my own struggles with such art. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/18/nx-s1-5265623/neil-gaiman-sexual-abuse-allegations
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Julie Robinson said on January 19, 2025 at 1:46 pm
Monday mornings are spent at our trainer’s, where she will work us hard enough to get some good endorphins. Then we’re going to IKEA, which I no longer love, but I do like their pegboard systems. Tomorrow is the last day of the sale. I’ve done a reorg of my tiny sewing area, and a new Skadis is just what I need.
Sitting at my machine with music will be good for me, and I’m determined to carve out some time. The local animal rescue always needs mats for cages, so I won’t just be indulging myself. Being a helper also lifts my own spirits.
Let’s remember it’s MLK day too. Reading his words is good for the soul.
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Jeff Borden said on January 19, 2025 at 2:10 pm
Music, music, music for me tomorrow.
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Jakash said on January 19, 2025 at 2:37 pm
I realize that it’s not until long after the primary goose-stepping will have been avoided, but it’s almost as if nobody cares that there’s a much bigger football game tomorrow night than anything taking place in the NFL this weekend.
Teams supported by two of the most obnoxious fan bases in the country face off. (Though selecting the most obnoxious fan base among college sports followers is a fool’s errand, needless to say.)
As a one-time altar boy who grew up in Ohio, I’m a lifelong supporter of both Notre Dame and Ohio State, so I’ll be happy either way. Though the Irish have suffered through a much more lengthy and bitter drought to get here and upsetting the Buckeyes, who are 8 or 9 point favorites, would be quite the way to end it.
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Dorothy said on January 19, 2025 at 2:42 pm
I must be in some kind of fugue state these day. On my way out of Kroger I barely even registered that the guy coming toward me was wearing a MAGA hat. He was probably at least 5 or 10 years older than me. I used to glare at anyone I passed by who was decked out in that identifier. Today I just blew past him.
Jamie Lee’s next movie is another one I want to see before it disappears. I have heard raves about her performance and also Pamela Anderson’s. Did anyone watch a series on Netflix called Sticky? Jamie Lee suggested Margo Martindale for the lead role, and Jamie has a small part in it, too. We did and I wasn’t bowled over by it. Thought it was just okay.
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Michael said on January 19, 2025 at 3:32 pm
Sticky was a disappointment. Peak Margo Martindale is still Justified s. 2.
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nancy said on January 19, 2025 at 3:47 pm
So much of what’s on Netflix these days is just OK. It’s like they’re aiming for the just-OK demographic that half-watches while folding laundry or cooking. Nothing too challenging.
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alex said on January 19, 2025 at 4:10 pm
The data tool has no data from my ZIP code or even from my entire state. But I’m happy to report that some neighbors I wasn’t sure about told us that they didn’t vote for Trump and are as anxious about things as we are.
My hubby’s going to be home all week after two weeks on the road, and I’ve got home repairs/improvements planned for the day tomorrow, and possibly making a big dinner and having family over.
I went and got Prime TV and Paramount Plus with Showtime but I click through it all just like I did back when I had cable, landing on nothing I like and regretting the time I’ve wasted even trying to find something to watch. What an assortment of dreck.
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tajalli said on January 19, 2025 at 4:52 pm
The painting/water-proofing that began Oct 30 has finally finished so I’ve begun the process of moving my plants back out onto the balcony from the kitchen floor where they were blocking everything, particularly my sewing and general projects table.
On the upside, the snow peas began germinating while inside and the babies are now outside again. Gave away 5 pots of ferns used as a screen. Will probably replace them with some seasonal daikon and bougainvillea cuttings in peach and raspberry.
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Julie Robinson said on January 19, 2025 at 5:51 pm
Good idea, tajalli, let’s all talk about our home improvement projects. We just finished, and when I say we, I actually mean our handyman*, a lanai and pool deck refresh. The lanai ceiling needed a new coat of stain, and the pool deck needed its paint redone. Parts were peeling off and one area was still bare concrete. You use a very pricey paint with texture and cooling properties.
The important part of all this is that the kitties and doggy had to stay inside for two whole weeks while all this was happening/setting up/drying, and much mischief was made whilst energy couldn’t be burned off by running around outside. They kitties especially missed their daily gecko intake, so have had to triple up since then. They torment the geckos, bring them inside to eat the head, then barf them back up. Oh how we’ve missed it. Oh, and the dog missed crapping on the concrete so she did it inside, lol.
*Our handyman is actually an architect from Colombia, who is here legally but was unable to pass the licensure exam, is a true gem. Sometimes it takes three of us to understand what he’s saying, but he always has better ideas of how to fix something, and we’ve decided home repairs is not how we want to spend our retirement. The downside is that he works on mañana time.
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Deborah said on January 19, 2025 at 6:21 pm
The grifting is outrageous, there’s a new bitcoin scam called $Melania. I read that as Smellania. The corruption is going to be so horrendous. I mean the guy has total immunity, he’s going to get away with murder and the GOP will be twiddling their thumbs or getting away with murder themselves.
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SusanG said on January 19, 2025 at 6:47 pm
In this time of despair, I’ve cleaned and organized closets and drawers. Tomorrow I’m going bougie prepper. I’m making dark rye bread, sesame butter, Martha Stewart’s olive oil granola and homemade yogurt. The new polar vortex is coming, so it’s going to be too cold to walk the dogs. Think I’ll take them for a ride.
A friend in Indianapolis told me that St. Monica’s (a Catholic Church with predominantly Afro-American parishioners) is holding a special service for those who are having trouble with what is about to come.
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Carter Cleland said on January 19, 2025 at 9:30 pm
Alex @ 16, and all, Try and screen Jimmy Carter: Rock N’ Roll President, as I suggested in an earlier post. It’s on MAX and AppleTV for sure, and possibly on Prime, Kanopy, and others. Great music and great memories of an honest, patriotic American. Perfect antidote to the inauspicious inaugural.
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NancyF said on January 19, 2025 at 9:44 pm
Dorothy @7 et al: “The Last Showgirl” is excellent, with strong performances by Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, and the supporting cast. Bonus: It’s a tight 89 minutes, unlike some of the bloated new releases I won’t name here.
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Jeff Borden said on January 20, 2025 at 8:27 am
Iniating news blackout today and tomorrow. Watching MLKs “I Have a Dream” speech and reflecting on how little things have changed since he delivered it on a muggy August day in 1963.
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Dorothy said on January 20, 2025 at 8:44 am
I’ve decided not to go to the movie this morning and instead make a few new quilt blocks from patterns I found in a book I borrowed from the library. Victoria Findlay Wolfe is the author and the book just came out last year (The Quilting Experience). Many of the stories in the book moved me to tears, and the pictures of the quilts in it have lit a fire in me to try some blocks I had never seen before. I saved $40 borrowing it from the library, and i used my own template plastic to make four templates. They might not be as fancy as the acrylic ones she sells on her website, but they’ll work fine for tracing on fabric and cutting out with scissors. It pays to be an experienced old lady quilter and you know how to stretch your dollars! My favorite quote from the book was from an 83 year old quilter: You’re never too old to buy a new sewing machine!
I’m very glad about the last minute ‘pardons’ for Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, Mark Milley, etc. It’s a preemptive move and one that was necessary. Deep breaths, everyone – we are going to survive these next four years. I have no doubt.
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basset said on January 20, 2025 at 9:11 am
Had some family here this past weekend, they’re Lions fans so we had the game on… first time I have watched or more like been in the room for an entire TV football game in quite a few years, still can’t get interested in it.
No plans to leave the house today, gonna stay in and make some more deer soap, maybe process some pottery clay… if I do go anywhere I’ll wear my Harris/Walz camo cap just to see who I can antagonize.
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Icarus said on January 20, 2025 at 10:05 am
My plan for the inauguration is to mimic the Lion’s defense and not show up.
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Jeff Gill said on January 20, 2025 at 10:06 am
Callista Gingrich is the most terrifying face I could imagine to ever see coming at me, in a dark room or a well-lit Rotunda.
I know, y’all aren’t watching it, but in the spirit of “Notes on an Execution” . . .
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alex said on January 20, 2025 at 10:56 am
Hubs and I are taking a roadtrip shortly to be sure we miss it. My stereo will be streaming smooth jazz.
Newt’s still banging that crazy bitch? You’d think by now he’d have burned through, I don’t know, at least three more wives.
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Sue said on January 20, 2025 at 11:34 am
I’ll be doing my regular Monday deliveries of Meals on Wheels. Visiting with the folks on my route never fails to brighten my day, even one as bleak as this one.
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Peter said on January 20, 2025 at 11:36 am
Dorothy, I was so disappointed with Sticky – I had read the articles about the big maple syrup heist in Quebec, and this series had so much info to mine, and….bleh.
Speaking of bleh, I have to do some field measuring today in an abandoned portion of a hospital, but at least it’s indoors and the heat is on.
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Scout said on January 20, 2025 at 12:02 pm
I’ll be streaming House Hunters International. I think that sends the appropriate message. What really did take the sting out of today for us is that yesterday we accepted a full price offer on our old house after only 2 weeks on the market. I’m still in a great mood about that.
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LAMary said on January 20, 2025 at 12:47 pm
Trump’s speech was slightly less “weird shit”(quoting W’s comment on Trump’s last inaugural address) but much more disturbing.
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tajalli said on January 20, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Whoot!
Leonard Peltier has been pardoned!!
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tajalli said on January 20, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Whoot!
Leonard Peltier has been pardoned!
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Dexter Friend said on January 20, 2025 at 1:25 pm
Today’s Ohio Lotto Pick 3 Noon Drawing number is 000. A harbinger of things to come, an omen.
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Sherri said on January 20, 2025 at 2:17 pm
RIP Cecile Richards.
“It’s not hard to imagine future generations one day asking: ‘When there was so much at stake for our country, what did you do?’ The only acceptable answer is: ‘Everything we could.’”
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ROGirl said on January 20, 2025 at 2:38 pm
I’m listening to Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace album, which seems fitting for today. Stay warm, folks!
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Julie Robinson said on January 20, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Congratulations, Scout! If you’ve mentioned moving, I missed it. Where will you go?
Got my pegboard at IKEA, but the café was out of pulled pork.
A friend just died after battling breast cancer twice. She was so valiant, and even had successful reconstruction surgery, so they both retired to have fun together. And then it came back. Damn damn damn.
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susan said on January 20, 2025 at 3:31 pm
Music for today
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basset said on January 20, 2025 at 4:16 pm
Icarus, sounds like that’d work but just one turnover would be enough.
Took a chance and went outside for awhile, dressed to fit in, gray work pants and a Carhartt jacket, five or six days of gray beard… and a camo Harris-Walz cap that only one person seemed to notice, older black guy who glared at me as I was going into Costco. Dollar General and auto-repair shop, expected at least one Trumpie would give me shit about it but no. Too small an overall sample, I guess.
About to go see how we do at Goodwill and the recycling point,
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Jeff Borden said on January 20, 2025 at 4:57 pm
I’m trying to avoid any coverage the return to power of a felonious, rapist, traitor, but on a non-news site, I saw a clip of Elmo Musk doing what very much looks like a “Seig Heil” salute at the “inauguration.” Folks, the man is a straight up fascist pig. I need to reread William Manchester’s “The Arms of Krupp” to get the sense of what happens when a powerful business interest teams up with a dictator.
Now, back to Leonard Cohen.
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Jeff Borden said on January 20, 2025 at 4:58 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8u9ZbCJgQ
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David C said on January 20, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Susan @ 32. I haven’t seen a manualist since Johnny Carson has John Twomey on The Tonight Show.
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alex said on January 20, 2025 at 5:28 pm
Susan, that reminds me of the joke about the guy who told the bartender he could fart the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Sherri said on January 20, 2025 at 5:32 pm
From Tressie McMillan Cottom’s newsletter today:
As sad as many are that Americans chose Trump, a lot of us are also grieving the end of a social movement, the extended cumulative shock of a pandemic and the end of Barack Obama’s multiracial coalition. That’s not just grief; that’s something akin to what sociologists call anomie. That’s a collective sense that a social contract — the norms on which we rely to navigate the vicissitudes of society — is broken.
Anomie is a shared experience. It happens because the hallmarks of identity that we rely on to give us the safety to go to work, to make families and to trust strangers have eroded. A lot of Black Americans, especially, feel as if a promise was made when this country elected President Obama. They sensed a fulfillment of King’s vision of multiracial liberal democracy.
I fear that we forget how King saw that multiracial liberal democracy coming to pass. It was not only a project of moral remediation of this nation’s racism. It was also always a project of this nation’s fundamental crises, including inequality and militarism. That King is not the white liberal fantasy of a man obsessed with content of character. It is the harder truth of King the mobilizer and the organizer, who saw poverty as a twin evil of racism.
That King is the one we need to remember today. Because that King would not have been surprised that people scared of poverty would find a racist leader palatable.
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annie said on January 20, 2025 at 5:47 pm
from Jean Chretien, former PM of Canada:
To Donald Trump, from one old guy to another: Give your head a shake! What could make you think that Canadians would ever give up the best country in the world – and make no mistake, that is what we are – to join the United States?
I can tell you Canadians prize our independence. We love our country. We have built something here that is the envy of the world – when it comes to compassion, understanding, tolerance and finding a way for people of different backgrounds and faiths to live together in harmony.
We’ve also built a strong social safety net – especially with public health care – that we are very proud of. It’s not perfect, but it’s based on the principle that the most vulnerable among us should be protected.
This may not be the “American Way” or “the Trump Way.” But it is the reality I have witnessed and lived my whole long life.
If you think that threatening and insulting us is going to win us over, you really don’t know a thing about us. You don’t know that when it came to fighting in two world wars for freedom, we signed up – both times – years before your country did. We fought and we sacrificed well beyond our numbers.
We also had the guts to say no to your country when it tried to drag us into a completely unjustified and destabilizing war in Iraq.
We built a nation across the most rugged, challenging geography imaginable. And we did it against the odds.
We may look easy-going. Mild-mannered. But make no mistake, we have toughness. Ever since Mr. Trump’s attacks, every political party is speaking out in favour of Canada. In fact, it is to my great satisfaction that even the Bloc Québécois is defending Canada.
But you don’t win a hockey game by only playing defence. We all know that even when we satisfy one demand, Mr. Trump will come back with another, bigger demand. That’s not diplomacy; it’s blackmail.
We need another approach – one that will break this cycle.
Mr. Trump has accomplished one thing: He has unified Canadians more than we have been ever before! All leaders across our country have united in resolve to defend Canadian interests.
When I came into office as prime minister, Canada faced a national unity crisis. The threat of Quebec separation was very real. We took action to deal with this existential threat in a manner that made Canadians, including Quebeckers, stronger, more united and even prouder of Canadian values.
Now there is another existential threat. And we once again need to reduce our vulnerability. That is the challenge for this generation of political leaders.
And you won’t accomplish it by using the same old approaches. Just like we did 30 years ago, we need a Plan B for 2025.
Yes, telling the Americans we are their best friends and closest trading partner is good. So is lobbying hard in Washington and the state capitals, pointing out that tariffs will hurt the American economy too. So are retaliatory tariffs – when you are attacked, you have to defend yourself.
But we also have to play offence. Let’s tell Mr. Trump that we too have border issues with the United States. Canada has tough gun control legislation, but illegal guns are pouring in from the U.S. We need to tell him that we expect the United States to act to reduce the number of guns crossing into Canada.
We also want to protect the Arctic. But the United States refuses to recognize the Northwest Passage, insisting that it is an international waterway, even though it flows through the Canadian Arctic as Canadian waters. We need the United States to recognize the Northwest Passage as being Canadian waters.
We also need to reduce Canada’s vulnerability in the first place. We need to be stronger. There are more trade barriers between provinces than between Canada and the United States.
We also have to understand that Mr. Trump isn’t just threatening us; he’s also targeting a growing list of other countries, as well as the European Union itself, and he is just getting started. Canada should quickly convene a meeting of the leaders of Denmark, Panama, Mexico, as well as with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, to formulate a plan for fighting back these threats.
Every time that Mr. Trump opens his mouth, he creates new allies for all of us. So let’s get organized! To fight back against a big, powerful bully, you need strength in numbers.
The whole point is not to wait in dread for Donald Trump’s next blow. It’s to build a country and an international community that can withstand those blows.
Canadians know me. They know I am an optimist. That I am practical. And that I always speak my mind. I made my share of mistakes over a long career, but I never for a moment doubted the decency of my fellow Canadians.
Vive le Canada!”
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Sherri said on January 20, 2025 at 7:32 pm
There are a number of Washingtonians who would happily join Canada, given the chance.
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Mark P said on January 20, 2025 at 8:23 pm
I’m all for a stronger Canada and a unified front among all of our former allies to face down the threat of Donald Trump.
I heard a report on NPR that I’m afraid is the kind of thing we can expect of the American MSM. They referred to the January 6 insurrection as a protest.
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Suzanne said on January 20, 2025 at 8:24 pm
My social media is filled with people clutching their pearls that Trump pardoned all the J6 insurrectionists. Why would anyone believe he wouldn’t do this? He said he would, of course he would, he needs goons on the street. At this point, why does anyone think our norms and institutions will hold? They won’t.
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Deborah said on January 20, 2025 at 8:33 pm
Oh the humanity. I don’t know what else to say. I’ve stayed offline as much as I could today. I wish I could blow off politics and live my life that way, but too many people are hurting and I can’t do that. Here we go.
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alex said on January 20, 2025 at 10:45 pm
I was blown away to see, on bluesky, that the ADL — that’s right, the Anti-Defamation League — is making excuses for Elon Musk’s “awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute” today.
The capitulations of Bezos and Zuckerberg I can understand. But the ADL? Really?
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Mark P said on January 21, 2025 at 1:36 am
I think the ADL is afraid that offending Musk, and therefore Trump, would jeopardize support for Israel. We’ll be seeing more of this ass covering.
Musk’s salute was either intentional, or he is so stupid and ignorant that he doesn’t know what it means. Either way, it is appalling and inexcusable.
He has apparently signed orders withdrawing the US from the Paris accords and from the WHO. He is apparently firing long-term, career workers.
My opinion is that Trump’s goal is the actual complete destruction of the regulatory government, and he just doesn’t give a shit any more. Who is he accountable to? He has imperial power and is immune to any possible consequence. Between the Republicans in Congress and the corrupt political hacks on the Supreme Court, he has been given essentially absolute power.
I truly fear for the country.
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David C said on January 21, 2025 at 5:44 am
If I was a cop on J6, I’d sue every one of the released criminals. Keep the bastards in court and shelling out for lawyers for the rest of their pathetic lives.
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alex said on January 21, 2025 at 7:41 am
No way does Musk not know what that means. He’s been courting neo-Nazi groups in Germany. I just hope that he ends up on Trump’s shit list for stealing Trump’s limelight sooner rather than later.
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Jeff Borden said on January 21, 2025 at 8:54 am
It’s weird to be rooting for Canada, the EU, Mexico, etc. over the country of my birth, but that’s how I’m feeling. I can’t take pride in a nation that elects a creature like tRump. In fact, I’m embarrassed. As a good friend of mine has said, “I just live here.”
It sucks being in your 70s and realizing you not only are never going to see the kind of nation you once envisioned, but you may well be watching it implode at the hands of the corrupt, the criminal and the mind-boggling stupidity citizenry.
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Suzanne said on January 21, 2025 at 9:00 am
The right has long lusted after the notion of destroying the federal government so they can use anyone who is not a white Christian male for whatever purposes they wish. Trump is their long awaited vehicle who is loyal to no one but himself and given enough money and flattery, will do their bidding because he thinks it will benefit him. At some point, he will either die of natural causes or have a fall from a balcony or something because he’s too self absorbed to be useful forever.
So, I am mystified why anyone is surprised at his pardons and other executive orders.
Did anyone else think that FLOTUS’s low rider big black hat was to hide the fact that she wasn’t the real Melania? The fake one usually wears sunglasses but being the ceremony was indoors, that would be too obvious.
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basset said on January 21, 2025 at 9:31 am
Not much reaction to the Harris/Walz cap yesterday, just that one glare at Costco and “I like your hat!” from a young woman entering a used-book megastore. I need to come up with a better response in case I get another compliment, maybe “no surrender!” or something like that in place of just “thanks!”
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alex said on January 21, 2025 at 9:33 am
It’s possible she was hiding a shiner or two after refusing to attend. There was some speculation in 2017, when she hadn’t been seen in months, that she was being kept in hiding to conceal injuries inflicted after the last inauguration.
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Deborah said on January 21, 2025 at 9:44 am
Melonia is just as bad as he is, she loves every last minute of attention she gets. I stayed off the internet yesterday as much as I could. I didn’t know much of the crap that happened yesterday until I read Heather Cox Richardson this morning. Holy Cow, yesterday was horrible, so depressing.
I’ve given myself a new rule, I’m only allowing myself to be online in the mornings, once I’m done with breakfast, that’s it. Except for email, as I’m working on a project and I need to communicate. I think I’ll be reading lots of books in the next 4 years. They’re going to be mostly novels, not political books.
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