How the GOP War on Voting Will Backfire [Click] Well, we can certainly hope! In addition to old folks and rich folks, white folks are most likely to vote by mail (and vote Republican).
AND: The New Mexico Republican Party explained their defeat in this week’s special election: “Low voter turnout was a big factor. Republicans were angry from 2020 — many questioned election integrity — and stayed home.”
Trump Allies Worry That He’s Stuck in the Past [Click] Sources familiar with Trump's thinking describe him as bored by the issues his advisers wish he would focus on -- from threats to America's energy infrastructure to increased inflation and other economic concerns. He is so obsessed with his unsuccessful quest for reelection, one ex-Trump official said, that he has been moving himself toward irrelevance.
"It's like a slow leak of a balloon that is now laying on the floor," is how the ex-Trump official described it.
New Hampshire Union Leader: “[Pence] praised the police who quelled the riot after a mob ransacked the Capitol, some calling for Pence’s death. But Pence stuck by the certification of the election results that declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner.”
Said Pence: “That day we reconvened the Congress and did our duty.”
JPMorgan Chase will resume making political donations to U.S. lawmakers but will not give to Republican members of Congress who voted to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory, Reuters reports.
As I sleep more and more often during the day, I use the radio as gray noise. Local station has two politcal, imported, shows. At some point, both hosts voices rise to a shriek, and I wake, listen for a moment and turn the radio off. Such hate would be funny if it weren't real. Too real. Am almost astonished that these guys don't give themselves cancer. What a hate filled world they live in. What a way to make a living.
That probably is what gave Limbaugh cancer. As a kid I was sometimes subjected to Paul Harvey, in my tutor's car, in public places like hair salons... If a teenager could figure out that he was repulsive, why couldn't adults? And he wasn't as repulsive as the ones today. The pathetic and scary thing isn't these bozos though, but the legions of devoted fans they damage with their hatred.
Reminds me of a YouTube video I saw last night about the Nazis' total economic incompetence--they tried to run Germany as a command economy but were even less successful than the Bolsheviks. Watch here. [Click] Just mind-boggling. The host of the video seems to be a fervent anti-socialist (with limited understanding of just what socialism is), but that's all right. I am reminded that one of my history professors said that despite Bismarck's line about Prussian/German strength being built on blood and iron, it would have been more accurate to say that it was built on coal and iron.
Postivity Rate down to .7% Death Rate still holding at 1.1% Only 7,800 more first dose vaccines to administer for Vermont to reach 80% of eligible people with first dose...at which point the Governor will life restrictions (though not the state of emergency just yet, as that's a funding issue).
HYBRIT project: Sweden goes for zero-carbon steel [Click] This should bring down the cost of hydrogen for other purposes as well.
ReplyDeleteMajor project aims to clear clean energy hurdle [Click] In short: scale up the technology we already have.
How the GOP War on Voting Will Backfire [Click] Well, we can certainly hope! In addition to old folks and rich folks, white folks are most likely to vote by mail (and vote Republican).
ReplyDeleteAND: The New Mexico Republican Party explained their defeat in this week’s special election: “Low voter turnout was a big factor. Republicans were angry from 2020 — many questioned election integrity — and stayed home.”
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ReplyDeleteTrump Allies Worry That He’s Stuck in the Past [Click] Sources familiar with Trump's thinking describe him as bored by the issues his advisers wish he would focus on -- from threats to America's energy infrastructure to increased inflation and other economic concerns. He is so obsessed with his unsuccessful quest for reelection, one ex-Trump official said, that he has been moving himself toward irrelevance.
"It's like a slow leak of a balloon that is now laying on the floor," is how the ex-Trump official described it.
New Hampshire Union Leader: “[Pence] praised the police who quelled the riot after a mob ransacked the Capitol, some calling for Pence’s death. But Pence stuck by the certification of the election results that declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner.”
ReplyDeleteSaid Pence: “That day we reconvened the Congress and did our duty.”
“The room was nearly silent.”
Trump Condo Prices Hit Decade Lows [Click] I wonder if some of his Russian friends might not take kindly to that.
ReplyDeleteJPMorgan Chase will resume making political donations to U.S. lawmakers but will not give to Republican members of Congress who voted to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory, Reuters reports.
ReplyDeleteAs I sleep more and more often during the day, I use the radio as gray noise. Local station has two politcal, imported, shows. At some point, both hosts voices rise to a shriek, and I wake, listen for a moment and turn the radio off. Such hate would be funny if it weren't real. Too real. Am almost astonished that these guys don't give themselves cancer. What a hate filled world they live in. What a way to make a living.
ReplyDeleteThat probably is what gave Limbaugh cancer. As a kid I was sometimes subjected to Paul Harvey, in my tutor's car, in public places like hair salons... If a teenager could figure out that he was repulsive, why couldn't adults? And he wasn't as repulsive as the ones today. The pathetic and scary thing isn't these bozos though, but the legions of devoted fans they damage with their hatred.
DeleteIt's pretty hard to figure, all right.
DeleteReminds me of a YouTube video I saw last night about the Nazis' total economic incompetence--they tried to run Germany as a command economy but were even less successful than the Bolsheviks. Watch here. [Click] Just mind-boggling. The host of the video seems to be a fervent anti-socialist (with limited understanding of just what socialism is), but that's all right. I am reminded that one of my history professors said that despite Bismarck's line about Prussian/German strength being built on blood and iron, it would have been more accurate to say that it was built on coal and iron.
DeletePaul Harvey had terribly rightwing views, to be sure. But at least he was decorous. Today's announcers are not.
DeleteQuite so.
DeleteG7 nations a 'millimetre away' from tech tax deal [Click] Welll, a millimetre is as good as a mile, as the old saying goes. . .but here's hoping.
ReplyDeleteMagawa the hero rat retires from job detecting land mines [Click]
ReplyDeleteHeadline noted in passing:
ReplyDelete"Why UFO existence is still up in the air…"
Where else would UFO's be if not up in the air?
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DeleteVT June 4th: 24,252-24,240 = 12
ReplyDeleteActive Cases:740
Deaths:256(+1)
Recovered:23,256(95.9%)
Hospital:1(-2) ICU:0(0)
Tests:395,047(+365)
Postivity Rate down to .7%
DeleteDeath Rate still holding at 1.1%
Only 7,800 more first dose vaccines to administer for Vermont to reach 80% of eligible people with first dose...at which point the Governor will life restrictions (though not the state of emergency just yet, as that's a funding issue).
VERY late to the party here. I was on the run all day.
ReplyDeleteIt also happened to be Eldest's 46th birthday! Wow!
My eldest turns 57 in six weeks. . . .
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