tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11780356854614092462024-03-15T11:33:37.688-07:00The Juan PercentJuan wants you to know things about politics, business, society, and octogenarianism.Sirinyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904745301630205972noreply@blogger.comBlogger3053125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-45939780972204836772024-03-15T11:32:00.000-07:002024-03-15T11:33:05.129-07:00Something to Know - 15 March<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><b>California is a very large state, with something for everyone. Mountains, deserts, ocean, rivers, beaches, urban centers, and rural communities; it's all there. To get a flavor of it "all", here is an article from today's Los Angeles Times that highlights a section of the RED state. California is noted as being a very progressive and BLUE part of the United States, but this is just to let you know that there is a very vocal and vibrant characteristic that some people may not be familiar with:</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><h1 class="gmail-headline" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:3rem;margin:0px auto;font-weight:400;line-height:3.1875rem;letter-spacing:-0.5px;color:rgb(0,0,0);max-width:1200px;text-align:center">Is Donald Trump a new King David? Ask California's right-wing Sons of Liberty</h1></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail-byline-prefix" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:BentonGothic,arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase">BY</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:BentonGothic,arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase"> </span><a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.latimes.com/people/jeffrey-fleishman" aria-label="Jeffrey Fleishman" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:BentonGothic,arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase">JEFFREY FLEISHMAN</a><span class="gmail-author-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-family:BentonGothic,arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:0.875rem;margin:0px 0px 0px 4px;display:inline;text-transform:uppercase">STAFF WRITER </span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail-author-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-family:BentonGothic,arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:0.875rem;margin:0px 0px 0px 4px;display:inline;text-transform:uppercase"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-03-12/donald-trump-and-the-sons-of-liberty">https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-03-12/donald-trump-and-the-sons-of-liberty</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div><font size="4">HANFORD, Calif. — Before the 1776 Sons of Liberty meeting got underway at the Elks Lodge, Adam Medeiros, a hairdresser for 44 years, sat in a folding chair and referred to the Bible to explain his politics: "I don't think I'd have liked King David," he said. "He was an adulterer and a murderer, but God chose him to rule a nation. "<br>Medeiros paused and added: "I believe Donald Trump was anointed by God to save this country."<br>The man across the table, Brian Gogue, a pest control advisor for farms in the Central Valley, nodded. "Sometimes," he said, "God uses imperfect people for his perfect work." Both men smiled. It was almost 7 p.m. Men in ball caps and jeans, including veterans and at least one pastor, filed into the lodge, where they, along with Medeiros and Gogue, stood in a circle and pledged allegiance to the flag. They prayed and the meeting commenced.<br><br>"The California GOP is crooked," one man said.<br>"America is not ready for a woman president," another said.<br>"Our hospitals have half the number of doctors and nurses we're supposed to have," a third said. "It's a problem."<br>Another night in rural America. Stars in the sky, snow on the mountains. Homeless people in the alleys. Migrants at the borders. A feeling of unease in a restless nation of splintered identities and conflicting creeds. The Sons of Liberty — 28 men and seven women — felt this foreboding as they shared grievances about who would protect the Constitution from what they see as progressive wackos, Marxist democrats, storytime drag queens, globalist provocateurs and a Biden White House that has weaponized the Justice Department against Trump, the only man who, despite the 91 criminal charges he's facing, can fix what's wrong.<br>How a showdown between Central Valley Democrats could help the GOP keep control of Congress<br><br>"I'm a huge Trump supporter," said Medeiros, a neatly pressed man who cuts 15 to 20 heads of hair a day, some of them graying classmates from his days at Hanford High School. "Back in 2016, I thought he was a little too brash and talked like a conceited New Yorker. I wasn't going to vote for Hillary [Clinton], though. I voted for Trump and saw that, yes, this is how it's supposed to be. Run the country like a business. Put America first. That's when I became a true believer."<br>The 1776 Sons of Liberty — named for the colonists who helped instigate the American Revolution — was founded in Kings County in 2020 as a protest to Trump's first impeachment. Most of its members, including John Darpli, an alfalfa broker and softball coach, and Jeff Mora, a DJ and podcaster, are conservative constitutionalists who argue that the government is perverting the ideals of the Founding Fathers.<br><br>Calling themselves "warriors of liberty and seekers of truth," the Sons believe they are representative of disaffected Americans opposed to gun restrictions, open borders, "liberally indoctrinated schools," foreign wars and what they see as the overreach of the state and federal governments into the lives of citizens. They support Trump, but it's their disdain for Democrats and President Biden that fuels much of their passion.<br><br>For the Sons, most Republicans are sellouts, except for the ultra-right Freedom Caucus, a band of congressional disrupters that has wreaked legislative havoc and forced then-Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) from his post as speaker of the House last year. But their concerns go deeper. They center on a political establishment they see as undermining patriotism, hard work and Christian ethos at a time when identity politics, rising immigration and technology are reshaping an America that they no longer recognize.<br>The Central Valley gives California a recall rarity: a squeaker of a race<br><br>"They've taken God out of schools," Darpli said the day after the meeting, eating breakfast with Mora at the Green Valley Cafe, where waitresses hurried with refills and political chatter veered well into the morning. "They're mutilating teens with gender conversions. They're threatening the Constitution. There's no moral structure anymore. No sense of a shared American identity.<br>"The immigrants coming now are not proud to fly the American flag. They're coming here and raising the flag of where they came from. It's somehow racist these days to be a proud, white patriotic citizen."<br><br>Mora sensed other designs at work. "It's part of a globalist plan for a one world government." he said. "Billions of dollars spent on Ukraine when more could be done here to help Americans."<br>He believes — despite court evidence and the convictions of hundreds of perpetrators — that the Jan. 6 insurrection "was orchestrated by the FBI to get rid of Trump and make us look like a crazed group of extremists. The whole thing was a farce, a tourist attraction gone awry."<br>When asked how a group that reveres the Constitution could support a man who said that if reelected he'd act like a dictator on his first day in office, Darpli laughed and said, "He just says stuff. He doesn't mean it. If Trump tried to become a dictator, I'd be the first one to boot him out. I started watching him years ago on his TV show, 'The Apprentice,' I liked the way he just fired people. He has common sense. That's why I want him to be president."<br>:::<br>The November election is certain to further inflame the country's divisions and distort its realities. In a time of lies, misinformation and growing suspicion of institutions — including colleges, Congress and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — confidence in democracy has been shaken by extremist political elements on the right and left.<br>Like many Sons of Liberty members, Gogue leans on his faith to cope with the disarray. He was raised a Catholic but at the urging of his wife, he switched to a nondenominational church, where, he said, God penetrated his heart and changed him completely. But he worries about what will come in the autumn.<br>"If Trump wins, riots will break out across the country," he said. "There are guys on the right [militias] who will lose it if Biden wins. There will be fireworks on both sides."<br><br>"It could get ugly," said Medeiros, a trustee for the county's board of education.<br>California is a stronghold of liberalism, but the Central Valley, where the scent of manure rims the highways and cattle ranchers tend winter grass, is a redoubt of conservatism. In 2008, 73.7% of Kings County — one of the state's highest percentages — voted against same-sex marriages. Sixty-four percent of voters in Kings County, which has a population of about 153,000, voted to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, in 2021. Trump had won 55% of the county's vote in the presidential election a year earlier.<br><br>Ultraconservatives in this town about 80 miles north of Bakersfield see the former president as an antidote to the liberal forces that have forsaken them, a billionaire chaos agent who has upended the system with nationalist fervor and a showman's entourage. He is a vessel for their anger, the talisman of their grievances. He is flawed, they say, but who isn't, and his threats to bend the government to his whims, which have alarmed Democrats and world leaders alike, are to his supporters the stuff of a robust, uncontainable personality.<br>The Sons have grown to about 100 members. They are more hard-line and politically active — sponsoring debates and candidate nights — than many Republicans. A number of them said they would vote for Trump, who recently was ordered to pay more than $450 million in a civil fraud case, even if he were convicted of charges related to the Jan. 6 uprising and other criminal counts against him.<br><br>"Love him or hate him, Trump brought results," said Larry Faria, 47, a public safety worker and former Sons president. "The economy was strong. He didn't get us in any wars. He's brutally honest and speaks plainly. His abrasiveness got him elected. The Democrats have gone for too many niche issues. They forgot about the working class. ... Trump spoke to them. If he's elected he'll halt the immigrant invasion, cut inflation and stop sending money to other countries."<br><br>A few hours before the Sons meeting at the Elks Lodge, Faria drove his pickup around Hanford, which is the county seat with a population of about 58,500. He pointed to where he hunted doves and rabbits as a boy. The fields are now home to Walmart, Target and other big-box stores that lend an air of sameness in countless communities across the U.S. It's a corporate imagining of national identity, which to Faria amounts to a kind of loss: "We're in the industrial machine, losing the small town touch," he said. "It's the story of America."<br>He grew up on a dairy farm that survived the Great Depression but shut down about 10 years ago when milk prices fell. Big farms, government jobs and six prisons within an hour of Hanford propel much of its economy today. The county's median household income is $68,540 — compared with the state median of $91,905 — and about 18% of people are poor. The official poverty level for a family of four is an income below $29,678.<br>Faria said the high cost of living in California has spurred a "mass migration of the middle class out of the state to Texas, Tennessee, Utah and other places. They're taking their knowledge and tax base with them and we're getting back-filled with people not of the same caliber."<br>The state's population fell by more than 117,000 between 2021 and 2022. On the other hand, nearly two-thirds of those moving to California from another state in 2022 — and more than half of those emigrating from others countries — had a bachelor's degree or higher.<br>Thousands of California wells are at risk of drying up despite landmark water law<br><br>Faria turned toward downtown, mentioning that business owners are trying to hang on but that the old granary by the railroad tracks closed not long ago. This land is accustomed to hard times and competing interests, he said, noting that there was trouble when the railroad first arrived. In 1880, five ranchers and two deputy U.S. marshals were killed in a battle between settlers and the Southern Pacific Railroad over land rights.<br>Faria made a left. A homeless man rummaged around a trash can across the street from the old stone and brick jail, known as "The Bastille."<br><br>"We've got 400 homeless people in this county," he said. "Twenty years ago, we had one homeless person — the lady in the park everybody knew."<br><br>Faria said immigration, mainly from Spanish-speaking countries — Kings County's Latino population jumped from 43% in 2000 to 57% today — is changing the country. The scenes of migrants at the Texas border with Mexico, he said, amount to "an invasion that neither party wants to fix. The Republicans want cheap labor and the Democrats want to import the next generation of Democrat voters. It's the people like us who lose."<br>"I'm not against immigration," he said, "but it's got to be done right."<br><br>He passed a church and drove along open land. The farmers in this region have long contended with drought and falling groundwater tables from over-pumping. When he was younger, he said, he'd drive past the farms in a valley layered in fog. The mist is not so thick anymore; he didn't know exactly why, only that things never stay the same.<br>He accelerated.<br>"If Biden gets elected," he said, "it will be a tragedy."<br>:::<br>Cars arrived at the Elks Lodge at nightfall. A couple sat at the bar in low light, and the place, for a moment, carried the feel of another time, like a scene in an old black-and-white movie. The Sons of Liberty dispatched to a meeting room. A woman noted attendance and sold ball caps. Members thumbed through ballots and talked local politics and how tough it was being a conservative in California.<br>Medeiros, who was a child when his family emigrated to the U.S. from the Azores, said these days he's troubled by liberal attitudes around homelessness. "We're becoming a community of enablers. A lot of the homeless are posers. They smoke pot and charge their cellphones at their moms' houses. We'll help the legitimate homeless, but we can't get to them through the cloud of abusers."<br>The members sat in a circle. Trump challenger Nikki Haley's name came up.<br>"Older men my age will not vote for her," one man said.<br>Others politely suggested that such thinking was out of date and that it didn't matter whether a candidate was a man or a woman so long as they'd protect the Constitution.<br>Heads nodded.<br><br>Talk veered to McCarthy, whose district included part of Kings County. McCarthy was never conservative enough for the Sons; to their mind he did not focus enough on Central Valley issues and was too enamored with appearing on Fox News. But they acknowledged that McCarthy's resignation from Congress last year cost the region a direct connection to Trump.<br>"We don't have an insider anymore," one man said.<br>The conversation went on for a while, a small group calculating the odds of who might win in November, a chorus moving toward a nation's political reckoning. When the last bit of business was done, the parking lot emptied and the Sons drove home, past a closed-up downtown and fields that stretched quietly to the mountains.</font><br>
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But this year's election is an entirely different kettle of fish than that of 2020.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">In 2020 there were plenty of red flags around Trump's plans for a second term, but it was not until after it was clear he had lost the election that he gave up all pretense of normal presidential behavior. Beginning the night of the election, he tried to overturn that election and to install himself as president, ignoring the will of the voters, who had chosen Joe Biden. His attack on the fundamental principle of democracy ended the tradition of the peaceful transfer of power established in 1797 when our first president, George Washington, deliberately walked behind his successor, John Adams, after Adams was sworn into office.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Trump then refused to step aside for his successor as all of his predecessors had done, and has continued to push the Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. His loyalists in the states have embraced that lie, undermining faith in our electoral system, although they have never produced any evidence for their claims of voter fraud. (Remember the Cyber Ninjas who handled the election "audit" in Arizona? The company went out of business in 2022.) </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Then, a year after he left office, news broke that Trump had compromised the country's national security by retaining highly classified documents and storing them in unsecured boxes at Mar-a-Lago. When the federal government tried to recover them, he hid them from officials. In June 2023 a grand jury in Miami indicted Trump on 37 felony counts related to that theft. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Trump is not the same as he was in 2020, and in the past three years he has transformed the Republican Party into a vehicle for Christian nationalism. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">In 2016 the Republican Party was still dominated by leaders who promoted supply-side economics. They were determined to use the government to cut taxes and regulations to concentrate money and power among a few individuals, who would, theoretically, use that money and power to invest in the economy far more efficiently than they could if the government intervened. Before 2016 that Reaganesque party had stayed in office thanks to the votes of a base interested in advancing patriarchal, racist, and religious values. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">But Trump flipped the power structure in the party, giving control to the reactionary base. In the years since 2020, the Republican Party has become openly opposed to democracy, embracing the Christian nationalism of leaders like Hungary's Viktor Orbán, who maintains that the tenets of democracy weaken a nation by giving immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and women the same rights as heterosexual, native-born white men. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Rather than calling for a small federal government that stays out of the way of market forces, as Republicans have advocated since 1980, the new Trump Party calls for a strong government that enforces religious rules and bans abortion; books; diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; and so on. In 2022, thanks to the three extremists Trump put on the Supreme Court, the government ceased to recognize a constitutional right that Americans had enjoyed since the 1973 <em>Roe v. Wade</em> decision: the right to abortion. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Last week, Trump formally took over the apparatus of the Republican Party, installing loyalists—including his daughter-in-law—at the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and purging the organization of all but his own people. Indicating its priorities, the RNC has hired Trump lawyer Christina Bobb, former correspondent at the right-wing media outlet One American News Network and promoter of the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, as senior counsel for election integrity. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">In Congress, far-right Trump supporters are paralyzing the House of Representatives. The Republicans took power after the midterm elections of 2022 and have run one of the least effective congresses in history. Far-right members have refused to agree to anything that didn't meet their extremist positions, while first Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and then Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refused to reach out to Democrats to pass legislation except for must-pass laws like appropriations, when Democrats provide the majority of the votes that keep the government functioning. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The result has been a Congress that can get virtually nothing done and instead has focused on investigations of administration officials—including the president—which have failed spectacularly. Republican members who actually want to pass laws are either leaving or declining to run for reelection. The conference has become so toxic that fewer than 100 members agreed to attend their annual retreat that began today. "I'd rather sit down with Hannibal Lecter and eat my own liver," a Republican member of Congress told Juliegrace Brufke of <em>Axios</em>.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Meanwhile, Trump has promised that if he returns to office, he will purge the nonpartisan civil service we have had since 1883, replacing career employees with his own loyalists. He has called for weaponizing the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense, and his advisors say he will round up and put into camps 10 million people currently living in the U.S., not just undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers but also those with birthright citizenship, tossing away a right that has been enshrined in the Constitution since 1868.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Internationally, he has aligned with dictators like Russia's Vladimir Putin and Hungary's Viktor Orbán and has threatened to abandon the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a security pact that has protected the U.S. and like-minded nations since 1949. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">If Trump has descended into authoritarianism since 2020, Biden has also changed. For all his many decades of public service, it was unclear in 2020 what he could actually accomplish as president, especially since Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had weaponized the filibuster to stop Congress from passing anything on the Democrats' wish list. But on January 5, 2021, in a special election, Georgia voters elected Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, and the Democrats took control of the Senate as well as of the House. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">In Biden's first two years—with the help of then–House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who managed a squeaky-small House majority—Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic majority, and on occasion, a few Republicans set out to demonstrate that the government could work for ordinary Americans. They passed a series of laws that rivaled President Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan rebuilt the economy after the worst of the coronavirus pandemic; the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act) is rebuilding the nation's roads and bridges; the $280 billion Chips and Science Act invests in semiconductor manufacture and scientific research; the $739 billion Inflation Reduction Act enables the government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies and invests in programs to combat climate change. Projects funded by these measures are so popular that Republicans who voted against them are trying to claim credit. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Biden, Harris, and the Democrats have diversified the government service, defended abortion rights, reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act, relieved debt by enforcing the terms of student loans, passed a gun safety law, and reinforced NATO.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">They set out to overturn supply-side economics, restoring the system on which the nation had been based between 1933 and 1981, in which the government regulated business, maintained a basic social safety net, promoted infrastructure, and protected civil rights. The result was the strongest economic recovery from the pandemic of any country in the world. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"Now, the general election truly begins, and the contrast could not be clearer," Harris wrote after Biden secured the nomination. "Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and our fundamental freedoms. He is proud of his role in overturning <em>Roe</em>, and has talked openly about plans for a nationwide abortion ban. He routinely praises authoritarian leaders and has himself vowed to be a dictator on Day One. Just this week, he said that cuts to Social Security and Medicare would be on the table if he receives a second term. Each of these stances ought to be considered disqualifying by itself; taken together, they reveal the former President to be an existential danger to our country.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"With his State of the Union speech last week, President Biden passionately presented our alternative vision. We will reduce costs for families, make housing more affordable, and raise the minimum wage. We will restore <em>Roe</em>, protect voting rights, and finally address our gun violence epidemic. The American people overwhelmingly support this agenda over Donald Trump's extreme ideas, and that will propel our campaign in the months ahead."</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">It appears that Biden and Trump will square off again in 2024 as they did in 2020, but the election is not a replay of four years ago. Both candidates are now known quantities, and they have clearly laid out very different plans for America's future. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">—</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Reminder: These letters are available in a free audio version at Substack, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Notes:</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/a468245a-b603-494a-bb71-fa74689af767?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/cyber-ninjas-company-led-arizona-gop-election-audit-shutting-down-n1287145</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/1df63a60-4cff-4f89-8322-76c18a0ff6dd?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/politics/rnc-trump-takeover-lawyers-election/index.html</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/4c55e22f-1336-40b8-8ec5-b2bc5f2a7670?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://apnews.com/article/trump-documents-investigation-timeline-087f0c9a8368bb983a16b67dd31dcd4c</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/3bcf17f3-1c3c-4c19-8fb0-8d5d4d9674f9?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-classified-documents-indictment-c15a5f36e4e83417805718d81a035441</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/9d5f12b7-44c7-4002-a562-08ce17715f12?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.axios.com/2024/03/12/house-republican-retreat-infighting</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/5db97b3d-228c-4c00-b30f-5c2cdf7ef682?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://punchbowl.news/article/never-ending-impeachment-inquiry/</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Twitter (X):</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/1de33933-5dbe-42d2-9348-ea6b97e34474?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">Acyn/status/1768084013799932213</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/8380f98c-9faf-4cb3-9116-6e07270e11c5?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">david_darmofal/status/1767735412158570604/photo/2</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/b1ebcfbf-4228-4a2c-bf8c-fa1e93b78402?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">Victorshi2020/status/176796502</a></p></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div 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1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-14135570902155923992024-03-13T10:47:00.001-07:002024-03-13T10:47:46.686-07:00Something to See - 13 March<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><b>If you have not seen this video, it the Oscar winner for the Best Documentary (short subject). The Last Repair Shop is about the repair of musical instruments for students in the Los Angeles Unified School District - if features the students and the dedicated repair technicians (who are an amazing force themselves). It is 40 minutes long, and well worth your time.</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xttrkgKXtZ4&t=2147s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xttrkgKXtZ4&t=2147s</a><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">****</div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Juan Matute</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtYBPYaoP68">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtYBPYaoP68</a></font><br></div><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#222222" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> (click on it)<br></span></font><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">― </span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold">The Lincoln Project</span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> 1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-61038527334621826222024-03-13T10:33:00.000-07:002024-03-13T10:34:00.407-07:00Something to Know - 13 March<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><b>Democrats would be wise to stick with those issues that marginalize the MAGA folks. No need to call the opposition The GOP and the MAGA wing as two operatives. The Republican Party is all MAGA now. Here is the way to call them out - pin their unpopular and selfish agenda in ways that embarrass them in the eyes of the average citizen, and keep it up all the way through the political campaign. It is uncomfortable for the truth to be told. MAGA folks do not support programs that support health for all. "It costs too much money"....really? Instead...they want to cut more taxes and drastically cut Medicare and other programs. Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times clearly points that out. Calling out Hypocrisy is good journalism.</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail-ct-rich-text-children gmail-font-body gmail-font-normal gmail-text-lg gmail-leading-7.75 gmail-text-primary-text-color gmail-clearfix gmail-mb-10 gmail-md:max-w-170 gmail-md:mx-auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin-bottom:2.5rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.9375rem;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;max-width:42.5rem"><h1 class="gmail-headline" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:3.125rem;margin:0px 0px 40px;font-weight:500;line-height:3.375rem;letter-spacing:-0.2px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Column: Republicans would rather keep poisoning children with lead than pay for a fix</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><img class="gmail-image" alt="Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach" width="1200" height="800" src="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9573cbf/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4081x2721+0+0/resize/1200x800!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7a%2Fce%2F5b3543a0c8fc9603b2112b98d508%2Fa73b6ec0b7ce4899a3b3248c570c12f8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 768.571px; margin-bottom: 10px;"></span><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"></span></p><div class="gmail-figure-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:0.875rem;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px 0px 20px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px"><div class="gmail-figure-caption" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:inline">Kansas </div></div><div class="gmail-authors" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:flex;margin-bottom:12px;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-author-name" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:0.875rem;display:inline"><span class="gmail-byline-prefix" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">BY</span> <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.latimes.com/people/michael-hiltzik" aria-label="Michael Hiltzik" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none">MICHAEL HILTZIK</a><span class="gmail-author-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:0.875rem;margin:0px 0px 0px 4px;display:inline">BUSINESS COLUMNIST </span></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span class="gmail-published-date-day" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">MARCH 11, 2024 </span><span class="gmail-published-time" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">9:25 PM PT</span><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Here are a few things we know about lead in drinking water:</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">◆ There is no known safe level. More than a decade ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ceased setting minimum acceptable standards for children's blood lead levels.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">That was because scientific studies couldn't identify any concentration that didn't have "deleterious effects" on children's health. The only proper approach, the CDC said, is prevention "to ensure that no children in the U.S." face any exposure to lead.</p><div class="enhancement" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;width:680px;clear:both;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><div class="gmail-quote" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:45px 0px;width:680px"><blockquote style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:0px 0px 20px;text-align:center"><p class="gmail-quote-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:1.5rem;font-style:italic;line-height:2.25rem;margin:0px">Lead exposure causes damage to the brain and kidneys and may interfere with the production of red blood cells that carry oxygen to all parts of the body.</p></blockquote><p class="gmail-quote-attribution" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:1rem;font-weight:700;line-height:1.25rem;margin:0px;text-align:center">— Environmental Protection Agency</p><p class="gmail-quote-attribution" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:1rem;font-weight:700;line-height:1.25rem;margin:0px;text-align:center"><br></p><p class="gmail-quote-attribution" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:1rem;font-weight:700;line-height:1.25rem;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:1.125rem;font-weight:normal"> ◆ Removing all the sources of lead exposure is expensive, but over the long term a sound investment, for it eliminates long-term effects that lead to massive healthcare costs, cognitive deficits and higher crime rates.</span></p></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"> ◆ Children in low-income and minority neighborhoods are the most seriously affected, because their families have few options to avoid exposure. The lead crisis in Flint, Mich., erupted as <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.nrdc.org/stories/flint-water-crisis-everything-you-need-know#summary" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">a national scandal in 2011</a>, but it was the tip of the iceberg.</p><div class="enhancement" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;width:680px;clear:both;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><div id="gmail-nativo_1" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"></div></span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"> ◆ Industry has been opposing abatement programs for decades — in California, for instance, three companies that produced and promoted lead paint for homes fought a <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-lead-paint-case-20170423-story.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">19-year legal battle to evade the costs of residential abatement</a>. They finally reached a $305-million settlement with several counties and cities in 2019.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">That brings us to the latest initiative by the Republican attorneys general of 15 red states, aimed at stifling a lead abatement initiative of the Biden administration.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Led by Kansas Atty. Gen. Kris W. Kobach, they've taken aim at a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/12/17/2021-27457/review-of-the-national-primary-drinking-water-regulation-lead-and-copper-rule-revisions-lcrr" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">to order the removal of some 9 million lead water lines</a> across the country. The rule conforms with an action plan Biden issued in 2021 aimed at <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/16/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-lead-pipe-and-paint-action-plan/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">replacing 100% of the lead water lines serving homes</a> in the U.S.</p><div class="enhancement" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;width:680px;clear:both;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span class="gmail-promo gmail-promo-position-small gmail-promo-small" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:block;padding:20px 0px"><div class="gmail-promo-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:flex"><div class="gmail-promo-media" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:grid;margin:0px 20px 0px 0px;overflow:visible;width:110px;max-width:110px"><br></div></div></span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">You may remember Kobach's name from his adventures waging various right-wing culture battles, all of which he lost — often at the expense of the localities that followed his lead as Kansas secretary of state. These included failed efforts to enact draconian anti-immigration ordinances.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">In 2018, Kobach <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.propublica.org/article/kris-kobachs-lucrative-trail-of-courtroom-defeats" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">suffered a mortifying defeat</a> at the hands of a federal judge who overturned a Kansas law he championed that required proof of citizenship to vote. The judge further held him in contempt for repeatedly flouting courtroom procedure.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Kobach lost races for governor in 2018 and the U.S. Senate in 2020, but managed to win a race for attorney general in 2022. From that perch he has been pressing his new cause — exposing Kansans to lead in their drinking water.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">In <a class="gmail-link" href="https://ag.ks.gov/docs/default-source/documents/comment-letter-to-epa-re-lead-and-copper-pipes---final.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">a comment letter to the EPA</a>, Kobach and his colleagues call the proposed rule "unworkable, underfunded, and unnecessary." They also say the benefits "may be ... entirely speculative."</p><div class="enhancement" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;width:680px;clear:both;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><div class="gmail-social-embed gmail-tweet-url" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:flex;width:680px;overflow:hidden;text-align:center"><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:flex;max-width:550px;width:550px;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div></div></span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">They suggest it's an infringement of states' rights, which is an argument that has seldom been heard since the Civil War.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">The Kobach cabal, which encompasses the attorneys general of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming, further asserts that private homeowners would "bear the brunt of the costs."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">With one exception, all these claims are false. The one true assertion is that the mandate is underfunded. Estimates of the cost of meeting the EPA's proposal run from about $45 billion to $60 billion.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Biden's 2021 infrastructure bill allocated $15 billion for the purpose — but he originally proposed $45 billion, which was pared down in congressional negotiations.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">As for the rest, obviously the rule isn't "unworkable." The EPA proposes to give localities and utilities 10 years to complete the mandated replacements, averaging 10% of the work per year. The red states say that's an unreasonably "tight timeline." But the rule makes municipalities with especially numerous lead pipes, such as Chicago, Cleveland, New York and Detroit, eligible for extensions.</p><div class="enhancement" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;width:680px;clear:both;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span class="gmail-promo gmail-promo-position-small gmail-promo-small" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:block;padding:20px 0px"><div class="gmail-promo-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:flex"><div class="gmail-promo-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><div class="gmail-promo-title-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><p class="gmail-promo-category" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-weight:700;font-size:0.625rem;line-height:0.625rem;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-transform:uppercase"><br></p></div></div></div></span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">The technology and engineering necessary for the job are well understood. <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.newarkleadserviceline.com/replacement#about-lslr-program" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">Newark, N.J., replaced its more than 23,000 lead water lines</a> via a three-year, $170-million program that commenced in 2019, all at no direct cost to homeowners — despite what Kobach et al. claimed. Green Bay, Wis., completed the replacement of its 2,000 lead lines in 2020, after a five-year effort that also required no out-of-pocket spending by homeowners.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Is it "unnecessary"? Are the benefits "speculative"? Surely not.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">The adverse health impacts of lead in drinking water are absolutely indisputable. The EPA's proposed rule spelled them out, with citations to the relevant scientific data.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">"Lead exposure causes damage to the brain and kidneys and may interfere with the production of red blood cells that carry oxygen to all parts of the body," the proposal stated. "The most susceptible life-stages are the developing fetus, infants, and young children.... Because they are growing, children's bodies absorb more lead than adults do, and their brains and nervous systems are more sensitive to its damaging effects. As a result, even low-level lead exposure is of particular concern to children."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">As for the special vulnerability of children in low-income communities to these conditions, a <a class="gmail-link" href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2784260" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">2021 study in JAMA Pediatrics</a> found that children in those communities are nearly 2.5 times as likely to have elevated blood lead levels compared with those in low-poverty areas.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Another 2021 study found that Black infants suffered a <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721013759" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">50% higher average loss of IQ points attributable to blood lead</a> than white or Hispanic infants, costing them an estimated loss in lifetime earnings of more than $47,000.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">These considerations should make the eradication of lead from drinking water a major goal for a party that claims to be devoted to the health and welfare of children, even before infancy. But actions speak louder than words, and the actions of Republicans tell us that they care a lot more about money than about children.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Let's start with the lead water pipe rule that the new EPA proposal aims to replace. The old rule was promulgated by the EPA under Trump. It was <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-01-15/pdf/2020-28691.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">issued on Jan. 15, 2021</a>, five days before Trump left office.</p><div class="enhancement" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;width:680px;clear:both;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span class="gmail-promo gmail-promo-position-small gmail-promo-small" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:block;padding:20px 0px"><div class="gmail-promo-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:flex"><div class="gmail-promo-media" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:grid;margin:0px 20px 0px 0px;overflow:visible;width:110px;max-width:110px"><br></div><div class="gmail-promo-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><div class="gmail-promo-title-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><p class="gmail-promo-category" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-weight:700;font-size:0.625rem;line-height:0.625rem;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-transform:uppercase"><br></p></div></div></div></span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">The Trump rule left in place a preexisting standard of 15 parts per billion of lead in water that had been the trigger for lead pipe removal. That was three times the level deemed the maximum allowable in Canada and the European Union, <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.nrdc.org/bio/nrdc/despite-major-health-risks-epa-plans-leave-millions-lead-water-pipes-ground" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">the Natural Resources Defense Council reported</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">The Trump rule also extended the deadline for pulling out lines in the most heavily contaminated systems to 33 years, from 14. The NRDC estimated that the weakened standards would leave more than 5.5 million people exposed to heavily contaminated drinking water for decades to come.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">The Biden administration suspended the Trump proposal upon taking office. That won support from the attorneys general of eight states, including California and the District of Columbia, who rightly labeled exposure to lead <a class="gmail-link" href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24475592/blue-states-lead.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">"a public health issue of paramount importance."</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">The proposal being challenged by the Republican attorneys general is its replacement. It accepts no compromise in pulling the most dangerous sources of lead poisoning out of the ground.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">No one disputes that eliminating lead from drinking water is an expensive undertaking. But if Kobach and his colleagues are really concerned that the EPA rule is an "unfunded mandate," as they label it in their comment letter, there's an obvious solution: They should turn their political influence to persuading their congressional delegations to <i style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">funding</i> it.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Those 15 states have 30 senators among them (all but three Republicans) and 118 House members (83 of whom are Republicans). 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Biden condemned "state laws banning the freedom to choose, criminalizing doctors, forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave their states to get the treatment they need," and he called out Republicans "promising to pass a national ban on reproductive freedom."</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Biden quoted back to the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court, sitting in front of him in the chamber, their words when in June 2022 they overturned the 1973<em> Roe v. Wade</em> decision that recognized the constitutional right to abortion.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The justices wrote: "Women are not without electoral or political power." </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Biden responded: "You're about to realize just how much you were right about that." "Clearly, those bragging about overturning <em>Roe v. Wade</em> have no clue about the power of women. But they found out. When reproductive freedom was on the ballot, we won in 2022 and 2023. And we'll win again in 2024." Biden promised to restore <em>Roe v. Wade</em> if Americans elect a Congress that supports the right to choose.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) gave the Republican rebuttal to the State of the Union address. Sitting in a kitchen rather than in a setting that reflected her position in one of the nation's highest elected offices, Britt conspicuously wore a necklace with a cross and spoke in a breathy, childlike voice as she wavered between smiles and the suggestion she was on the verge of tears. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"What the hell am I watching right now?" an unnamed Trump advisor asked Nikki McCann Ramirez and Asawin Suebsaeng of <em>Rolling Stone</em>.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Britt's performance was the logical outcome of right-wing demonization of women's rights advocates since the 1960s. That popular demonization began soon after women calling for "liberation" from the strict gender roles of the post–World War II years protested the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The protesters tossed items related to women's roles as homemakers and sex symbols—bras, girdles, pots and pans, and <em>Playboy</em> magazines—into a trash can. That act so horrified traditionalists that a journalist likened the women to young men burning their draft cards, starting the myth that the protesting women had burned their bras. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Two years later, with his popularity dropping before the 1972 election, President Richard Nixon wooed Catholic Democrats by abandoning his support for abortion rights. The following March, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, declaring that "[e]quality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex," and sent it off to the states for ratification. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Advocates of traditional gender roles used abortion as a proxy to attack women's rights in general. Railing against the Equal Rights Amendment in her first statement on abortion in 1972, activist Phyllis Schlafly did not mention fetuses, but instead attacked "women's lib"—the women's liberation movement—which she claimed was "a total assault on the role of the American woman as wife and mother, and on the family as the basic unit of society." </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The Supreme Court decided <em>Roe v. Wade</em> in 1973, including women in the ranks of marginalized Americans whose civil rights were protected by the federal government. Since the 1950s, opponents of such federal protection for Black and Brown Americans had tied such federal action to communism because it meant the government used tax dollars for the benefit of specific groups. In their minds, this amounted to a redistribution of wealth from hardworking taxpayers to undeserving special interests. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The cultural backlash to the idea of women's equality strengthened. In 1974 the television show <em>Little House on the Prairie</em>, based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, began its nine-year run. It portrayed western women as wives and mothers cared for by menfolk, complementing the image of the cowboy individualist championed by the antigovernment right wing. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">As historian Peggy O'Donnell noted in <em>Jezebel</em> in 2019, prairie dresses, with their image of "traditional" femininity and motherhood, the female version of cowboy clothing, became fashionable, even as the era's popular televangelists railed against feminists. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Constantly evoking the image of the western cowboy, Ronald Reagan won the White House. Four years later, sociologist Kristin Luker discovered that "pro-life" activists believed that selfish "pro-choice" women were denigrating the roles of wife and mother and were demanding rights they didn't need or deserve.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Increasingly, Republicans portrayed women who demanded equality as a special interest made up of feminist scolds who wanted federal support they did not deserve. In 1984, when Democratic presidential candidate Walter "Fritz" Mondale tapped the very well qualified Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his running mate, opponents circulated fake campaign buttons backing "Fritz and Tits," and even 60 percent of Democrats thought Ferraro was there only because Mondale was under pressure from women's groups who wanted special legislation. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Powerful women either fell out of public view or were pilloried for intruding on a man's world as those opposing women's equality portrayed women either as wives and mothers, who looked to their husbands for financial security and safety, or as sex objects available for men's pleasure. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">By 1988, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh had begun to demonize women's rights advocates as "feminazis" for whom "the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur." After the 1993 siege of the headquarters of a religious cult near Waco, Texas, that left 76 people dead and inspired the rise of right-wing militias to resist the federal government, Limbaugh emphasized that the attorney general who ordered the operation was the first female attorney general: Janet Reno.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Such rhetoric turned out Republican voters, especially the white evangelical base, and after it launched in 1996, the Fox News Channel (FNC) reinforced the idea that individualist men should be running society. Most FNC personalities were older men; the network's female personalities were young, beautiful, and deferential. (FNC chair and chief executive officer Roger Ailes resigned in 2016 after accounts emerged of alleged sexual harassment.) </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">By 2016 the competing ideologies concerning the role of women in American society were encapsulated by the contest between Donald Trump and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton was highly educated and extremely well qualified. She advocated protecting the rights of women and minorities and warned that Trump would pack the Supreme Court with extremists who would undermine abortion rights. She provided detailed policy papers. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Trump, in turn, bragged of sexual assault and called for Clinton to be arrested: "Lock her up!" became the call and response at his rallies. Ending access to abortion had become the rallying cry for the evangelicals who supported Trump, and he promised to end those rights, even flirting with the idea of criminal punishments for women seeking abortions. Far from being disqualifying, Trump's denigration of women embodied the sort of traditional gender roles fundamentalists embraced.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Once in office, Trump nominated and the Republican-dominated Senate confirmed three radical Supreme Court justices who in June 2022 overturned <em>Roe v. Wade</em>, taking away the recognition of a constitutional right Americans had enjoyed for almost 50 years. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">When Britt delivered the Republican rebuttal to the State of the Union from a kitchen, wearing a cross and using a submissive speaking style, she represented the outcome of the longstanding opposition to women's equal rights in the United States.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The Democrats' position last night was a sharp contrast. Biden stood in front of the nation's first female vice president as he denounced the Republican assault on women's rights. He warned the country: "America cannot go back."</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Perfect timing for today's celebration of International Women's Day.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">—</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Notes:</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/2c4494d6-9127-4b47-a22d-9634545b5eb2?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/</a></p><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:26px;text-align:center"><div style="border:1px solid rgb(231,238,233);border-radius:12px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";line-height:1.5;margin:36px auto;max-width:600px;padding:20px;text-align:left"><div style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(231,238,233);display:flex;height:28px;line-height:26px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-bottom:20px"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17930843-20df-473d-8d9d-8f0cb8220a89_1280x1280.png" width="28" height="28" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="border-radius: 8px; display: block; height: 28px; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 28px; border: none;"><span style="font-family:"SF Pro Display",-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";line-height:28px">The View from Rural Missouri by Jess Piper</span></div><div style="display:flex;line-height:26px;margin-bottom:8px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/1cd2afa5-c36a-4b44-a053-fdceb632c491?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:"SF Pro Display",-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:18px;font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:none">The Fundie Baby Voice</a></div><div style="color:rgb(128,128,128);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:4px">I was about to head to bed after the State of the Union last night, when I heard a voice coming from my television that stopped me in my tracks. I didn't know who was speaking, but it really didn't matter—I recognized the voice. It was so many voices from my childhood. It was so many Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. It was potlucks, and baby show…</div><div style="border:1px solid rgb(231,238,233);border-radius:8px;box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-flex;line-height:16px;margin-bottom:16px;padding:10px 12px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/1cd2afa5-c36a-4b44-a053-fdceb632c491?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration-line:none">Read more</a></div><div style="color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:14px;line-height:26px">16 hours ago · 258 likes · 53 comments · Jess Piper</div></div></div><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/ac8f3330-d3ba-4d7e-88d1-7bd266f1ae12?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/katie-britt-sotu-rebuttal-torched-republicans-1234983528/</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/f3f479c3-cc63-40e5-8e56-01eac719868d?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.npr.org/2008/09/05/94240375/pageant-protest-sparked-bra-burning-myth</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel, "Before (and After) <em>Roe v. Wade</em>: New Questions About Backlash," <em>The Yale Law Journal, 120</em> (June 2011): 2028–2087, at <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/cdf65ae2-c8e3-456d-85b3-14656cbf9b2d?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.jstor.org/stable/41149586</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/93f08440-f0f9-479d-9d4b-1656359fba43?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2016/02/02/whats-wrong-with-equal-rights-for-women-1972/</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/99c661af-d0a9-4ca2-a6f0-6b7ca539042f?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/01/feminazi-feminists-women-rights-feminism-charlotte-proudman</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Kristin Luker, <em>Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood</em> (University of California Press, 1984).</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/f95ee49c-a106-4bd1-bc19-d1a3d0beb0cb?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.jezebel.com/the-settler-fantasies-woven-into-the-prairie-dresses-1831746430</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/2854cc74-a8f3-4230-9e1e-3d1b088b2340?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/08/katie-britt-sotu-reaction</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/85f1e69e-8a7b-4ecb-9b68-22df0a39a214?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.npr.org/2016/09/02/492443262/allegations-reveal-how-roger-ailes-ran-fox-news-by-projecting-power</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/9508701b-61da-4ad3-93a5-664cbc795079?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/roger-ailes-resigns-fox-news-ceo-n614396</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/9e63f7f5-b549-4fcb-9049-e5e02979f11d?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.statista.com/statistics/691173/share-of-women-in-us-cabinet-positions-johnson-to-trump/</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/ca8af3e3-131d-4c7b-9a84-740c5a587927?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election/clinton-warns-of-possible-trump-supreme-court-nominations-idUSKCN0WU16O/</a></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" 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You who read this are probably in the politically astute category, and most-likely have had some trepidations that maybe Joe was too old to carry the banner again. Well, most concerns were resolved last night, and Biden captured the attention he needed, and he performed well enough to merit support for another 4 years. His real campaign began last night, and when you compare Joe to his "predecessor", there is no doubt who is the most able to competently reside in the oval office. As I watched that meek little twit to the right of Joe on the TV screen, he appeared to be out of his element as a leader and speaker of the house. He looked more like a kid sent to the principal's office and is sitting in his chair and soiling his pants as he waits for his mother to come to the school to take him back home. 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On the heels of his wins on Super Tuesday, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, his last serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination, suspended her campaign Wednesday morning. That afternoon, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who enabled Trump during his administration but apparently hoped to see him replaced at the top of the party, endorsed him.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Haley did not endorse former president Trump, suggesting he needed to earn the support of those Republicans who don't back him. But Trump's team has dismissed Haley supporters, saying he doesn't need them.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">In contrast, President Joe Biden continued to broaden the Democrats' tent. Biden reached out in a statement, saying there was a place for Haley supporters in his campaign. "I know there is a lot we won't agree on," he said, "But on the fundamental issues of preserving American democracy, on standing up for the rule of law, on treating each other with decency and dignity and respect, on preserving NATO and standing up to America's adversaries, I hope and believe we can find common ground."</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">President Biden continued to outline the differences between MAGA Republicans and the rest of the country in tonight's State of the Union address. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Biden launched the speech, a draft of which the White House made available in advance, by referring to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's attempt in January 1941, about a year before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, "to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that…[f]reedom and democracy were under assault in the world." Biden identified the same crisis in the present. "Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today," he said. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Overseas, Russian president Vladimir Putin has invaded Ukraine and threatens Europe, Biden said, putting "the free world at risk." He warned that those blocking aid to Ukraine are destroying "our leadership in the world" and blasted Trump for saying he would tell Putin to "do whatever the hell you want." Biden urged Congress to "stand up to Putin. Send me the Bipartisan National Security Bill" that funds Ukraine.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Then he turned to the home front. Identifying those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, as "insurrectionists" who "had come to stop the peaceful transfer of power and to overturn the will of the people," Biden called "January 6th and the lies about the 2020 election, and the plots to steal the election…the gravest threat to our democracy since the Civil War." </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">That threat remains, he said. He asked Republicans to "speak the truth and bury the lies." He urged them to "[r]emember your oath of office to defend against all threats foreign and domestic. Respect free and fair elections. Restore trust in our institutions. And make clear—political violence has absolutely no place in America." </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">As Democrats stood to applaud, Republicans remained resolutely in their seats.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Biden continued his study in contrasts. He urged Republicans to guarantee the right to in vitro fertilization, a popular measure that they killed in the Senate again this week. He called out Republicans for trying to pass a national abortion ban and declared, "If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore <em>Roe v. Wade</em> as the law of the land again." </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">He touted the economic successes of his administration—15 million new jobs, unemployment at 50-year lows, 16 million new businesses, 800,000 new manufacturing jobs, more people with health insurance, rising wages, falling inflation—and described a nation with a thriving middle class. He reiterated his support for unions, noting that he was the first president to walk a picket line, and praised United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain, who responded by putting his fist in the air and mouthing, "Thank YOU!" </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Biden then looked ahead to "a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and biggest corporations no longer get all the breaks." He promised to continue to fight unfair tax codes, price gouging, shrinkflation, and junk fees. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Biden called out the Republicans for bowing to Trump's demand that they kill the bipartisan border bill, which would provide 1,500 more border security officers, 100 more immigration judges, 4,300 more asylum officers, and 100 more high-tech drug detection machines and give the president authority to shut down the border when the number of migrants reaches a certain level. As House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) shook his head in apparent disagreement, Senator James Lankford (R-OK), a staunch conservative who negotiated the bill, nodded, saying, "That's true." </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Biden took on the two biggest controversies in his presidency directly. "I know the last five months have been gut-wrenching for so many people, for the Israeli people, the Palestinian people, and so many here in America," he said. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">He recounted the deadly attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, continued to defend Israel's right "to go after Hamas," and promised to continue to negotiate for the remaining hostages. He also said that the war "has taken a greater toll on innocent civilians than all previous wars in Gaza combined. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed…. Nearly 2 million more Palestinians under bombardment or displaced. Homes destroyed, neighborhoods in rubble, cities in ruin. Families without food, water, medicine."</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The U.S. has "been working non-stop to establish an immediate ceasefire that would last for at least six weeks," Biden said. "It would get the hostages home, ease the intolerable humanitarian crisis, and build toward something more enduring." The U.S. has "been leading international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance into Gaza" and is now building a temporary pier on the Gaza coast to "receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelters."</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Biden addressed Israel's leaders directly: "As we look to the future, the only real solution is a two-state solution. I say this as a lifelong supporter of Israel and the only American president to visit Israel in wartime. There is no other path that guarantees Israel's security and democracy. There is no other path that guarantees Palestinians can live with peace and dignity. There is no other path that guarantees peace between Israel and all of its Arab neighbors, including Saudi Arabia. Creating stability in the Middle East also means containing the threat posed by Iran." </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Biden then took on the issue of his 81 years. Age makes "certain things become clearer than ever before," he said. "I know the American story."</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"Again and again I've seen the contest between competing forces in the battle for the soul of our nation. Between those who want to pull America back to the past and those who want to move America into the future. My lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy. A future based on the core values that have defined America. Honesty. Decency. Dignity. Equality. To respect everyone. To give everyone a fair shot. To give hate no safe harbor. </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"Now some other people my age see a different story," he said, in a reference to Trump, who will turn 78 in June. "An American story of resentment, revenge, and retribution."</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"[T]he issue facing our nation isn't how old we are, it's how old our ideas are," Biden said. "Hate, anger, revenge, retribution are among the oldest of ideas, but you can't lead America with…ideas that only take us back. To lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a vision for the future of what America can and should be…. I see a future where we defend democracy, not diminish it. I see a future where we restore the right to choose and protect other freedoms, not take them away. I see a future where the middle class finally has a fair shot and the wealthy finally have to pay their fair share in taxes. I see a future where we save the planet from the climate crisis and our country from gun violence. Above all, I see a future for all Americans…. So let's build that future together." </p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Biden spoke powerfully for an hour and a half, veering off script to make points stronger or respond to Republican heckling. He seemed to enjoy the scrapping (and might even have set it up), using the back and forth to get Republicans to reject tax cuts just as last year he forced them to reject cutting Social Security.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The Republicans tapped Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) to give their rebuttal to the speech, evidently hoping to contrast her youth—she's 42—with Biden's age. But while her team helpfully distributed talking points to Republican influencers before either Biden or Britt had spoken, suggesting they describe her as "America's mom" and say that Biden's speech was "tone deaf" while hers was "the perfect pitch," the fact that the Republicans had a female senator give what could be the most important speech of her life in a kitchen seemed to tell its own, more powerful, story.</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">—</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Notes:</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/4e63552b-30eb-4252-9bf1-015a3758e313?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4513925-trump-has-choice-to-make-when-it-comes-to-haley-voters/</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/5cda337d-8b6d-488c-9abb-d1b62da94d1f?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/06/politics/mitch-mcconnell-endorses-trump/index.html</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/93c1043b-fdb5-4c27-9f27-236a9d34cc9a?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nikki-haley-drops-2024-presidential-race-regrets/story?id=107842396</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/84338213-9912-46bc-8ffb-3d8c07cc95ce?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/07/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-prepared-for-delivery-2/</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/e9b9f086-ee9a-4a1d-8bfd-7552aa2f9a50?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/us/politics/katie-britt-talking-points-influencers.html</a></p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Twitter (X):</p><p style="color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">atrupar/status/1765919219231641834</p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">****</div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Juan Matute</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJaAu2tKENk" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJaAu2tKENk</a></b></font><br></div><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#222222" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> (click on it)<br></span></font><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">― </span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold">The Lincoln Project</span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> 1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-87929440730099038912024-03-07T07:51:00.001-08:002024-03-07T07:51:42.288-08:00Something to Know - 7 March<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">Looking for news stories underneath the usual eye-grabbing subjects (McConnel's hypocritical Trump endorsement, etc) there is this important gem from Michael Hiltzik from this morning's LA Times. The GOP has sought to underfund and even abolish the IRS, for reasons that are plain to see in this article. A return of $6 dollars for every $1 spent is a good investment that removes the wealthiest sneaks off of the backs of us commoners:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><h1 class="gmail-headline" style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:3.125rem;margin:0px 0px 40px;font-weight:500;line-height:3.375rem;letter-spacing:-0.2px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Something for Biden to brag about — his IRS funding more than pays for itself</h1></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail-byline-prefix" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:BentonGothic,arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase">BY</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:BentonGothic,arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase"> </span><a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.latimes.com/people/michael-hiltzik" aria-label="Michael Hiltzik" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:BentonGothic,arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase">MICHAEL HILTZIK</a><span class="gmail-author-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-family:BentonGothic,arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:0.875rem;margin:0px 0px 0px 4px;display:inline;text-transform:uppercase">BUSINESS COLUMNIST </span><br></div><div class="gmail-page-actions" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin-bottom:20px;max-width:680px;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto"><span class="gmail-action-bar" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:block"><ul class="gmail-action-bar-menu" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:0px;padding:0px;display:flex;list-style:none"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin-right:5px"><a class="gmail-action-link" href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-03-07/biden-state-of-the-union-irs-funding-more-than-pays-for-itself?sfmc_id=65206f18720486302913533d&skey_id=34fc7409b06c7a53f1b5615843f54caad3fd894f886885a537ca3bbc165dfa59&utm_id=34597452&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLTR-Email-List-Columnist%20Alert%20-%20Michael%20Hiltzik&utm_term=Alert%20-%20Michael%20Hiltzik#" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none;display:block;border:0px"><br></a></li></ul></span></div><div class="gmail-ct-rich-text-children gmail-font-body gmail-font-normal gmail-text-lg gmail-leading-7.75 gmail-text-primary-text-color gmail-clearfix gmail-mb-10 gmail-md:max-w-170 gmail-md:mx-auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin-bottom:2.5rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.9375rem;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;max-width:42.5rem"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">It goes without saying that President Biden will take the podium for Thursday's State of the Union address armed with facts and figures of all that he's accomplished for the American people during his term. All presidents do.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Here's one item we hope he doesn't fail to mention: By arming the Internal Revenue Service with billions of dollars in new resources, he has generated many more billions of dollars in tax revenues. And without raising tax rates.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">That's the outcome of a provision of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which endowed the IRS with $80 billion in new funding over 10 years. About $20 billion of that is being rescinded as the GOP's price for an agreement to raise the federal debt ceiling, but what's left is still enough to start restoring the agency's tax collection efforts.</p><div class="gmail-teads-player gmail-native" id="gmail-teads0" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;margin:0px auto;max-width:550px;display:flex"></div><div class="enhancement" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;width:680px;clear:both;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><div class="gmail-quote" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:45px 0px;width:680px"><blockquote style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:0px 0px 20px;text-align:center"><p class="gmail-quote-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:1.5rem;font-style:italic;line-height:2.25rem;margin:0px">A taxpayer who is audited in 2024 and found to have underreported tax will voluntarily pay more tax in 2025, 2026, and beyond.</p></blockquote><p class="gmail-quote-attribution" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:1rem;font-weight:700;line-height:1.25rem;margin:0px;text-align:center">— Internal Revenue Service</p></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">The Treasury Department recently reported that it's <a class="gmail-link" href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2079" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">money well spent</a>, in spades. The full $80-billion appropriation would produce $561 billion in increased revenues; the $20-billion give-back would reduce that by $100 billion. If the higher level of funding were renewed after it expires, Treasury says, the new revenues could reach $851 billion.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">That includes not only direct recovery of unpaid taxes but what the IRS calls <a class="gmail-link" href="https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Specific-Deterrence-Paper.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">"specific deterrence."</a> As the agency explains, "a taxpayer who is audited in 2024 and found to have underreported tax will voluntarily pay more tax in 2025, 2026, and beyond."</p><div class="enhancement" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;width:680px;clear:both;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><div id="gmail-nativo_1" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"></div></span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Do the math, and it turns out that every dollar spent on shoring up the enforcement and efficiency capabilities of the IRS produces about $6 in gains.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">To a great extent, that return comes from enforcement efforts aimed at the richest Americans, who have consistently reigned as <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-03-23/super-rich-tax-evasion" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">our leading tax cheats</a>. Millionaires and billionaires have been evading about $150 billion a year, <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/tax-evasion-by-wealthiest-americans-tops-150-billion-a-year-irs.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told CNBC</a> last month.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Every hour a government auditor spends scrutinizing a return declaring $5 million of income unearths nearly $3,500 in unpaid taxes, <a class="gmail-link" href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24460225/audit-per-hour.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">according to the Government Accountability Office</a>; for returns reporting $10 million or more, the yield is more than $13,000 per hour. It's hard to imagine a better bang for the government buck.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Under Biden, the IRS has been able to start reversing the historical free ride on tax compliance enjoyed by corporations and the rich. "Tax cheating became almost risk-free for the wealthiest Americans during the Trump years," <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/irs-wealthy-tax-cheats/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">David Cay Johnson reported recently in the Nation</a>.</p><div class="enhancement" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;width:680px;clear:both;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span class="gmail-promo gmail-promo-position-small gmail-promo-small" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:block;padding:20px 0px"><div class="gmail-promo-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:flex"><div class="gmail-promo-media" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:grid;margin:0px 20px 0px 0px;overflow:visible;width:110px;max-width:110px"><a class="gmail-link gmail-promo-placeholder" href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-03-07/wall-street-journal-asks-us-to-weep-for-the-very-very-rich" aria-label="Column: Wall Street Journal tells us to weep for the plight of the very, very rich" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none;display:block;height:0px;padding-bottom:73.2589px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><img class="gmail-image" alt="Bryan Chan 805–653–7527 –– – Realtors Mauricio Umansky, right, and Lea Jett tour the $19.7–million home at 80 Beverly Park in the gated community of Beverly Park . They are standing in the backyard." width="840" height="560" src="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0e1229c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2355x1570+39+0/resize/840x560!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fzbk%2Fdamlat_images%2FLA%2FLA_PHOTO_ARCHIVE%2FSDOCS%2826%29%2Fhm3qlakf.JPG" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 110px; color: transparent;"></span></a></div><div class="gmail-promo-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><div class="gmail-promo-title-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><p class="gmail-promo-category" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-weight:700;font-size:0.625rem;line-height:0.625rem;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-transform:uppercase"><a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.latimes.com/business" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none;color:inherit">BUSINESS</a></p><h3 class="gmail-promo-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.3125rem;letter-spacing:-0.2px"><a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-03-07/wall-street-journal-asks-us-to-weep-for-the-very-very-rich" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none">Column: Wall Street Journal tells us to weep for the plight of the very, very rich</a></h3></div><p class="gmail-promo-timestamp" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-weight:700;font-size:0.625rem;line-height:0.625rem;margin:0px">March 7, 2023</p></div></div></span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">This is a crime highly corrosive to American society — taxes unpaid by the wealthy only land on the backs of lower-income taxpayers, and the perception of the rich getting away with it even as they increase their share of national income eats away at the public's respect for government generally.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">All this should provide some perspective on the partisan tug of war staged by the Republican Party over IRS funding in recent years. After the Inflation Reduction Act passed Congress without a single Republican vote, GOP lawmakers threw a conniption over the IRS appropriation.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">They depicted the 87,000 workers who might be hired with the appropriation as an army of jackbooted thugs poised to knock down the doors of ordinary Americans. "We should stop the weaponization of the tax code, <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cruz-on-tax-day-stop-weaponization-of-tax-code-abolish-the-irs" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">abolish the IRS</a>, and start over," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) declared in a typically feverish broadside.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">What Cruz and his fellows don't seem to understand is that raising taxes on the wealthy and cracking down on their tax breaks is overwhelmingly popular among the voters — including Republicans — as <a class="gmail-link" href="https://navigatorresearch.org/americans-support-raising-taxes-on-the-wealthy-and-big-corporations/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">Timothy Noah observed</a> in the New Republic.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">The truth is that the ability of the IRS to enforce the law against the most determined cheats had been hobbled for decades — by budget cuts enacted by Republicans and Democrats alike. From 2011 to 2019, the audit rate of returns reporting $1 million or more in income fell from 7.2% to 0.7%, <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p3744.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">according to the IRS</a>. In the same period, the audit rate of large corporation returns fell from 10.5% to 1.7%.</p><div class="enhancement" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;width:680px;clear:both;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><img class="gmail-image" alt="audits" width="1200" height="1017" src="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1f4b81a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1262x1070+0+0/resize/1200x1017!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F91%2F0f%2F85ab924f4b059a35526ede61ad9f%2Firs-audits.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 680px; margin-bottom: 10px;"></span><div class="gmail-figure-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:0.875rem;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px"><div class="gmail-figure-caption" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:inline">Findings of unpaid taxes among those earning $1 million or more, and especially those earning $10 million or more, soared after the IRS began cracking down on scofflaws in 2020.</div> <div class="gmail-figure-credit" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:inline;margin-left:5px">(Government Accountability Office)</div></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Oversight of the wealthiest Americans had gotten so embarrassingly low that then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin ordered the IRS in 2020 to audit at least 8% of returns reporting $10 million in income or more every year.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Reviving the enforcement capability at the IRS was no simple matter. Years of attrition had sapped the agency's expertise at analyzing the complex finances of the 1%.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Training new auditors takes two to three years. High-income and high-wealth individuals and their representatives often "intentionally delay or obstruct the audit," <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/d24106112.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">according to the Government Accountability Office</a>. "For example, ... taxpayers or their representatives might take the maximum amount of time to provide the minimum amount of information to the auditor."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Still, the IRS has materially stepped up its targeting of millionaires and billionaires. In January, Werfel reported that over the previous year the IRS had collected <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-ramps-up-new-initiatives-using-inflation-reduction-act-funding-to-ensure-complex-partnerships-large-corporations-pay-taxes-owed-continues-to-close-millionaire-tax-debt-cases" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">$520 million in unpaid taxes from some 1,600 rich scofflaws </a>— thus far.</p><div class="enhancement" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;width:680px;clear:both;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span class="gmail-promo gmail-promo-position-small gmail-promo-small" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:block;padding:20px 0px"><div class="gmail-promo-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:flex"><div class="gmail-promo-media" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;display:grid;margin:0px 20px 0px 0px;overflow:visible;width:110px;max-width:110px"><a class="gmail-link gmail-promo-placeholder" href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-14/who-does-the-irs-audit" aria-label="Column: Proof the IRS targets the poor for tax audits while leaving millionaires alone" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none;display:block;height:0px;padding-bottom:73.2589px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><img class="gmail-image" alt="Sen. 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Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) in Cumming, Ga." width="840" height="560" src="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b676a8b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/840x560+0+0/resize/840x560!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F80%2F4c%2F4e677abe46119dc65c3f6ae5ba50%2Fted-cruz.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 110px; color: transparent;"></span></a></div><div class="gmail-promo-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><div class="gmail-promo-title-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat"><p class="gmail-promo-category" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-weight:700;font-size:0.625rem;line-height:0.625rem;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-transform:uppercase"><a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.latimes.com/business" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none;color:inherit">BUSINESS</a></p><h3 class="gmail-promo-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.3125rem;letter-spacing:-0.2px"><a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-14/who-does-the-irs-audit" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none">Column: Proof the IRS targets the poor for tax audits while leaving millionaires alone</a></h3></div><p class="gmail-promo-timestamp" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;font-weight:700;font-size:0.625rem;line-height:0.625rem;margin:0px">March 14, 2022</p></div></div></span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Last month, the IRS sent letters to 125,000 high-income households that hadn't filed tax returns since 2017, advising them to get right with the government "immediately" by paying their delinquent tax, interest and penalties. The mailings went out to more than 25,000 recipients with more than $1 million in income and more than 100,000 of those with incomes between $400,000 and $1 million.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">The agency is also taking a closer look at schemes through which corporations and wealthy taxpayers are known to shelter their income illicitly. That includes unwarranted business deductions for corporate jets actually used for personal travel, which should be treated as income.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Meanwhile, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has launched a committee investigation of <a class="gmail-link" href="https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/chairman_wyden_to_harlan_crow_2624.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat">business deductions taken by multimillionaire Harlan Crow</a> on his superyacht Michaela Rose by declaring it a vessel for business charters. Wyden asserted in a letter to Crow's lawyer that there's no evidence the yacht has been registered as a charter vessel, but instead has been used for pleasure cruises by Crow, his family and his guests.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">Crow has been in the news as a generous benefactor to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who reportedly traveled on the yacht to several locations around the world, Wyden observed. By taking deductions for charter losses and maintenance costs, Wyden asserted, "Mr. Crow appears to have claimed to lower his tax liability by millions of dollars."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;background-repeat:no-repeat;margin:30px 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",times,serif">The most important outcome of Biden's approach to tax enforcement is curing corporations and the wealthy of their poor taxpaying hygiene. They've gotten away with evading their responsibilities for so long that they came to see the IRS as their own entitlement program. The rest of us have been paying for that. 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And then there are days when good journalism comes to life and a fountain of newsworthy opinions come in waves - here is an example:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><table role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="right" style="text-align:start;height:20px">\</td></tr></tbody></table><div dir="auto" style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;padding:16px 0px 0px"><div style="line-height:26px"><h1 style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Lora,sans-serif;font-size:32px;line-height:36px;margin:0px"><a href="https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=365422&post_id=142227812&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=62q1c&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDIwNDc1MiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTQyMjI3ODEyLCJpYXQiOjE3MDk2MjkzNTMsImV4cCI6MTcxMjIyMTM1MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTM2NTQyMiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.RWcnLG7XrhjAtXjHrj4WDd3WuB-2RrBQ5k4kPo1SYDc" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration-line:none">Back to the trial of John T. 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Wade.</em></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">So far this year, at least 14 states have introduced fetal personhood legislation — extending not only to fetuses, but also embryos and eggs. <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/a039a445-6996-4950-a27d-3b4bb9ec1c78?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64)">Two-thirds</a> of pregnancy criminalization arrests are now coming from Alabama, Oklahoma, and South Carolina — whose highest courts have defined "children" to include fetuses, fertilized eggs, and embryos. If you suffer a miscarriage, you could potentially be arrested for homicide or manslaughter. State courts have become the scenes of a growing number of reproduction criminalization trials.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Contraceptives and abortion pills may be the next targets. This month, the two largest pharmacy chains in the United States will start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The Alabama ruling also reveals the growing political influence at the state level of Christian fundamentalists who believe that human life, as Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker wrote in a concurring opinion, "cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself."</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">And the ruling epitomizes the Christian right's ever-more vehement attacks on science.</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:26px;margin:32px auto"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"></td><td align="left" width="127" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/5c6a95b4-8dc0-4292-8f0d-0bff3a95e6b6?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="border:none;display:block;height:auto;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration-line:none;width:auto"><img alt="" width="127" height="114.13924050632912" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_127,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1eddc334-33ea-4ba3-83ef-906aee1bfe7e_237x213.jpeg" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; border: none; width: auto;"></a></td><td style="text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">We've been here before. In the early twentieth century, some state legislatures relied on the Bible to dictate what their citizens could and couldn't do — resulting in notorious trials such as <em>Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes</em>, which began July 10, 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">John Scopes was a high school biology teacher. He was charged with violating Tennessee's Butler Act — passed at the behest of Tennessee Representative John Washington Butler, head of the World Christian Fundamentalist Association — which made it illegal to teach human evolution in Tennessee schools.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">William Jennings Bryan, the populist three-time presidential candidate and former secretary of state, argued for the prosecution; Clarence Darrow, for the defense.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"></p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:26px;margin:32px auto"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"></td><td align="left" width="270" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/9a90e30f-eedf-4d1d-a7af-c15ab357d137?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="border:none;display:block;height:auto;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration-line:none;width:auto"><img alt="" width="270" height="412.5" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_270,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F042b4c71-79a9-44e3-86d0-a169ce777450_180x275.jpeg" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; border: none; width: auto;"></a></td><td style="text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><em>William Jennings Bryan in 1925</em></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The presiding Tennessee judge, John T. Raulston, quoted Genesis at the outset of the trial — just as did Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker in the recent Alabama case.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Bryan opened for the prosecution by criticizing the theory of evolution and the notion that human beings were descended "not even from American monkeys, but from old world monkeys."</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Darrow argued that the Bible should be limited to the realm of theology and morality and had no place in high school science courses.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">After six days of trial, Judge Raulston declared that all the defense testimony that Darrow had presented on the Bible, much of it from Biblical scholars, was irrelevant and could not be presented to the jury (which had been excluded from the courtroom during the defense).</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Darrow then thought he might be able to use Bryan to make his points in a way that could command the nation's attention. Bryan was eager to oblige.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">In shirtsleeves and his trademark suspenders, Darrow began his interrogation of Bryan with a quiet question: "You have given considerable study to the Bible, haven't you, Mr. Bryan?"</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:26px;margin:32px auto"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"></td><td align="left" width="297" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/1811776f-6ded-4399-9e06-097bc387ef33?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="border:none;display:block;height:auto;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration-line:none;width:auto"><img alt="" width="297" height="237.83665338645417" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_297,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbf7707a-ebbc-4b1d-a84e-96ffa169f596_251x201.jpeg" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; border: none; width: auto;"></a></td><td style="text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><em>Clarence Darrow in 1925</em></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Bryan replied, "Yes, I have. I have studied the Bible for about fifty years." Bryan then claimed "everything in the Bible should be accepted as it is given there."</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Darrow asked Bryan whether he believed that a whale swallowed Jonah, that Joshua made the sun stand still, that Noah survived the great flood by putting the males and females of every species into his arc, that Eve had been created from Adam's rib, that Eve had tempted Adam in the garden of Eden, and the six days of creation according to Genesis.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Bryan finally conceded that the words of the Bible should not always be taken literally, and explained that "I do not think about things I don't think about." Darrow then asked: "Do you think about the things you <em>do</em> think about?" To the derisive laughter of spectators, Bryan responded, "Well, sometimes."</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Bryan charged that the purpose of Darrow's questioning was "to cast ridicule on everybody who believes in the Bible." Darrow responded that his purpose was to prevent "bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States."</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Bryan then accused Darrow of attempting to "slur at the Bible," and agreed to answer Darrow's further questions because "I want the world to know that this man, who does not believe in God, is trying to use a court in Tennessee …" Darrow interrupted, saying, "I object to your statement" and to "your fool ideas that no intelligent Christian on earth believes."</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Raulston promptly ordered the court adjourned, and the next day ruled that Darrow could not put Bryan back on the stand and that Bryan's testimony from the previous day must be stricken from the record.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Darrow did not summarize his defense. Bryan's summation, which was distributed to reporters but not read in court, provides an insight into the beliefs of the religious right even today:</p><blockquote style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border-left:4px solid rgb(58,102,41);margin:20px 0px;padding:0px"><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px 20px">Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm-tossed human vessel…. Sience has made war so hellish that civilization was about to commit suicide; and now we are told that newly discovered instruments of destruction will make the cruelties of the late war seem trivial in comparison with the cruelties of wars that may come in the future. If civilization is to be saved from the wreckage threatened by intelligence not consecrated by love, it must be saved by the moral code of the meek and lowly Nazarene. His teachings, and His teachings alone, can solve the problems that vex the heart and perplex the world.</p></blockquote><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">After eight days of trial, it took the jury nine minutes to find Scopes guilty. He was ordered by Judge Raulston to pay a $100 fine (the equivalent of about $1,900 today). The Tennessee Supreme invalidated the decision on a technicality.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Bryan died suddenly five days after the trial's conclusion.<sup></sup></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">In his autobiography, <em>The Story of My Life</em>, published in 1932, Darrow predicted that "it will be only a few years before the senseless [Butler] statute will be wiped from her books either by repeal or the decision of a final court." The Butler Act was not repealed in Tennessee until 1967.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Darrow also wrote that "there is now reason for feeling confident that no more states will permit their fanatics to place them in the position of Tennessee." Darrow's biographer Irving Stone went so far as to declare in <em>Clarence Darrow for the Defense</em> that Darrow had "dealt a deathblow to fundamentalism." </p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">In 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in <em>Epperson v. 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Colorado officials, as well as officials from other states, had challenged Trump's ability to run for the presidency, noting that the third section of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits those who have engaged in insurrection after taking an oath to support the Constitution from holding office. The court concluded that the Fourteenth Amendment leaves the question of enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment up to Congress. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">But the court didn't stop there. It sidestepped the question of whether the events of January 6, 2021, were an insurrection, declining to reverse Colorado's finding that Trump was an insurrectionist.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">In those decisions, the court was unanimous.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">But then five of the justices cast themselves off from the other four. Those five went on to "decide novel constitutional questions to insulate this Court and petitioner from future controversy," as the three dissenting liberal judges put it. The five described what they believed could disqualify from office someone who had participated in an insurrection: a specific type of legislation.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in one concurrence, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett in another, note that the majority went beyond what was necessary in this expansion of its decision. "By resolving these and other questions, the majority attempts to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office," Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson wrote. Seeming to criticize those three of her colleagues as much as the majority, Barrett wrote: "This is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency…. [W]ritings on the Court should turn the national temperature down, not up." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Conservative judge J. Michael Luttig wrote that "in the course of unnecessarily deciding all of these questions when they were not even presented by the case, the five-Justice majority effectively decided not only that the former president will never be subject to disqualification, but that no person who ever engages in an insurrection against the Constitution of the United States in the future will be disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment's Disqualification Clause."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife, Ginni, participated in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, notably did not recuse himself from participating in the case.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">There is, perhaps, a larger story behind the majority's musings on future congressional actions. Its decision to go beyond what was required to decide a specific question and suggest the boundaries of future legislation pushed it from judicial review into the realm of lawmaking. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">For years now, Republicans, especially Republican senators who have turned the previously rarely-used filibuster into a common tool, have stopped Congress from making laws and have instead thrown decision-making to the courts.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Two days ago, in <em>Slate</em>, legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern noted that when Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was Senate majority leader, he "realized you don't need to win elections to enact Republican policy. You don't need to change hearts and minds. You don't need to push ballot initiatives or win over the views of the people. All you have to do is stack the courts. You only need 51 votes in the Senate to stack the courts with far-right partisan activists…[a]nd they will enact Republican policies under the guise of judicial review, policies that could never pass through the democratic process. And those policies will be bulletproof, because they will be called 'law.'"</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">—</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Notes:</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/c6351ee9-2526-4957-9b2f-a12ea5aea668?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64)">https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/86ba7537-e332-438a-9c21-d36b8aeb191d?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64)">https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-rules-constitutions-dq-clause-cant-keep-trump-off-ballot</a></p><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:26px;text-align:center"><div style="border:1px solid rgb(231,238,233);border-radius:12px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";line-height:1.5;margin:36px auto;max-width:600px;padding:20px;text-align:left"><div style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(231,238,233);display:flex;height:28px;line-height:26px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-bottom:20px"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8cbe1ea0-c31e-479b-9808-6db76cda8477_402x402.png" width="28" height="28" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="border-radius: 8px; display: block; height: 28px; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 28px; border: none;"><span style="font-family:"SF Pro Display",-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";line-height:28px">Law Dork</span></div><div style="display:flex;line-height:26px;margin-bottom:8px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/fac5672e-1c19-4ec9-bfd0-63797f8f0155?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:"SF Pro Display",-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:18px;font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:none">Supreme Court, 9-0, says Colorado can't kick Trump off ballot</a></div><div style="color:rgb(128,128,128);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:4px">Donald Trump will remain on the ballot in Colorado's Republican primary on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday, reversing the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to the contrary. In December 2023, the Colorado court had ruled that Trump could not appear on the ballot because he had engaged in insurrection in connection with his actions related to January 6, 2021, disqualifying him from being president under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment and barring him from appearing on the Colorado primary ballot under state law…</div><div style="border:1px solid rgb(231,238,233);border-radius:8px;box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-flex;line-height:16px;margin-bottom:16px;padding:10px 12px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/fac5672e-1c19-4ec9-bfd0-63797f8f0155?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration-line:none">Read more</a></div><div style="color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:14px;line-height:26px">15 hours ago · 131 likes · 35 comments · Chris Geidner</div></div></div><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a 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style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> 1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-81141547963715346432024-03-03T13:36:00.000-08:002024-03-03T13:37:21.712-08:00Something to Know - 3 March<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">Robert Reich is one of many leaders who openly plead for president Biden to make a progressive bold move with respect to the carnage and unrest in the Middle East. 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Either way, it is the end game that matters, and Biden is the only one who can pull it off right now.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><div class="gmail-post-header"><h1 class="gmail-post-title gmail-unpublished" style="margin:0px">How Biden can save tens of thousands of lives (and help save his presidency)</h1><h3 class="gmail-subtitle" style="font-weight:400;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">What he must tell the Israeli people</h3><div class="gmail-pencraft gmail-pc-display-flex gmail-pc-flexDirection-column gmail-pc-paddingBottom-16 gmail-pc-reset" style="text-decoration:unset;list-style:none;display:flex;padding-bottom:16px"><div class="gmail-pencraft gmail-pc-display-flex gmail-pc-flexDirection-column gmail-pc-paddingTop-16 gmail-pc-paddingBottom-16 gmail-pc-reset" 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Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px"></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Friends,</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">On Thursday, more than 100 people were killed and 700 injured in northern Gaza, after thousands of hungry civilians rushed at a convoy of aid trucks, leading to a stampede and prompting Israeli soldiers to fire at the crowd. It is not yet clear how many died from gunfire and how many from being trampled or run over, although most of the injuries in the local hospital were said to be bullet wounds.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">The immediate causes of the chaos were extreme hunger and desperation. The United Nations has warned of a looming famine in northern Gaza. This has been exacerbated by Israel's failure to set in motion a plan for how Gaza will be governed.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Joe Biden is the key out of this morass. He may be able to save tens of thousands of lives, and even help save his presidency. How?</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">**</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px"><em>My friend Bernard Avishai wrote the following, which I am reproducing with his permission, in slightly edited form.</em></p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Israel Defense Forces are poised to attack the southern Gazan city of Rafah, where Israel believes that four of Hamas's last six battalions are hiding in tunnels and holding what is estimated to be around a hundred still surviving hostages. Netanyahu told CBS that, once the assault begins, "the intense phase of the fighting" will be "weeks away from completion."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">An attack on Rafah would compound the carnage to which Biden is already considered an accomplice.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Netanyahu's real opposition, now, is Biden. There are secular leaders in Israel positioned to support an alternative vision for Gaza and the region, and, arguably, to bring Netanyahu down. But dread grips the public, and these leaders currently have no real standing in the absence of a U.S. President detailing a plan, proving the support of Arab allies, and warning Israel of the dire consequences of defying him.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Biden might well reunite the Democratic Party, and get himself reëlected, in the process. (In the <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/michigans-uncommitted-democrats-send-a-message-to-biden" rel="">Michigan Democratic primary</a> on Tuesday, the "uncommitted" vote, protesting Biden's handling of the war in Gaza, was just shy of the spread between Biden and Trump in 2020.)</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">An estimated thirty thousand people in Gaza have been killed, seventy per cent reportedly women and minors. Tens of thousands more, including many children, have suffered serious injuries and amputations.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Rafah is a nearly twenty-five-square-mile area, in which refugees from Gaza City and Khan Younis are now sheltering. There are currently around 1.5 million civilians there, most of whom are living in tents—an almost sixfold increase in the population since the war began. (In all of Gaza, at least half the buildings have been destroyed or damaged.)</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">United Nations agencies warn of <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/my-familys-daily-struggle-to-find-food-in-gaza" rel="">famine</a>, and note that there is no drinking water or water for showers in many shelters, and that there are many reported cases of hepatitis A, gastroenteritis, diarrhea, smallpox, lice, and influenza. Medical facilities have been raided. The refugees are utterly dependent on the humanitarian aid that is brought in, on average, by about <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-israels-inspection-process-is-obstructing-aid-delivery" rel="">eighty-five trucks</a>.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Last Sunday, Biden's national-security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told NBC that the invasion of Rafah should not proceed "unless there is a clear and executable plan to protect those civilians."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Biden announced that the U.S. will be initiating airdrops of food and supplies.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">The use of air power is how the Israeli Defense Force (I.D.F.) minimizes dangers to its land forces—of which, as of this writing, two hundred and forty-two soldiers have died. The I.D.F. revealed that, in an audacious raid on February 11th, it rescued two hostages from a Rafah neighborhood. The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least ninety-four people, including young children, were killed in the aerial bombardment that provided the troops cover.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Netanyahu's postwar plan does not convincingly suggest how the crisis might end. Netanyahu and his coalition allies—including the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, and the internal-security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir — are imagining an expansion of the occupation. Various coalition ministers participated in a mass rally in Jerusalem on January 28th, demanding, amid dancing and singing, continuing the fight.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Netanyahu himself does not say why it is realistic to attack in Rafah and yet expect to bring the hostages home alive, or, for that matter, expect local Palestinian officials to put themselves forward for the administration of Gaza under indefinite Israeli rule.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Biden's team, not quite as clearly, is seeking a different endgame. It vetoed, on February 20th, a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a permanent truce, yet Biden had said on February 12th (with Jordan's King Abdullah II by his side) that a multi-week pause in the fighting might be used "to build something more enduring."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">What Biden seemed to be alluding to was a plan, sketched in some detail by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the <em>Times's</em> Tom Friedman, at Davos, in January, that would essentially entail the I.D.F. gradually turning over administration of Gazan cities to a "reformed" Palestinian Authority (P.A.) reinforced, in effect, by Egyptian troops and by Saudi and Emirati money. The Sunni states would get a defense pact with the U.S. against Iran and a commitment from Israel to accept a "pathway" toward an eventual, demilitarized Palestinian state.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Biden is discretely promoting his larger plan, in the obvious hope that a deal for the hostages can be folded into it. To reform the P.A., Washington has been pressuring President Mahmoud Abbas, now eighty-eight, to take on a purely ceremonial role and transfer genuine power to a new government of technocrats; on Monday, Abbas accepted his cabinet's resignation and hinted that he would appoint as Prime Minister the head of the Palestine Investment Fund, Mohammad Mustafa, a former World Bank official.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Mustafa <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/mahmoud-abbas-winning-on-points" rel="">told me</a>, back in 2014, of his desire to see Hamas leaders subordinated to P.A. officials and to "extend the umbrella of nonviolence to Gaza." At Davos this year, he acknowledged that Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia might well be critical to the rebuilding of Gaza. The Israeli news station Channel 12 has reported that Egyptian officials explicitly agreed to provide "policing forces" should a "reformed" P.A. request it. Nasser al-Qudwa, Yasir Arafat's nephew, who is a close associate of the imprisoned Fatah icon Marwan Barghouti—and is often mentioned as a possible replacement for Abbas—told me that he believes strongly in "a temporary, multinational Arab security presence" in Gaza, as it rebuilds, where "Egyptians will be the backbone."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Netanyahu, meanwhile, says that the Palestinian situation must be solved in direct negotiations "without preconditions." Of course, <em>he</em> has preconditions, which are that the whole Land of Israel—read, the entire West Bank—is Israel's, and that a Palestinian state, which, notionally had always also included Gaza, is impossible.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Polls show that, if an election were held now, Netanyahu's theocratic coalition would lose badly—by as many as thirty seats in the hundred-and-twenty-seat Knesset—to a coalition of secular centrists led by the former chiefs of staff Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot, who joined the war cabinet in October. They also show that more than seventy per cent of Israelis want early elections, which would otherwise be held in a couple of years.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Secular leaders such as Eisenkot are, however, confined by the grim public mood, and they still trust, reflexively, in Israeli powers of military intimidation.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">The most profound dread is a wholesale confrontation with Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies, without American backing.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">The economy has shrunk, while the I.D.F. has proposed increasing the mandatory reservist service to forty-two days a year, and raised the age of exemption to forty-five.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">In this context, Biden must lead: he cannot just telephone his friend Bibi, give counsel, and then, as has been reported, call him "an asshole" behind his back.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Biden must present the Israeli public with a stark choice: a detailed regional plan with credible American guarantees or Netanyahu's defiant isolation; Gantz and Eisenkot would thus gain cover for diplomatic realism beyond simple military deterrence.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">The State Department has already signaled a new toughness, putting four violent West Bank settlers under a sanctions regime. More can be added to that list. Gantz is reportedly traveling to Washington tomorrow, to hold talks with Administration officials, without having coördinated the trip with Netanyahu—and infuriating him.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Biden might, as Richard Haass, the former head of the Council on Foreign Relations, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/16/biden-israel-netanyahu-richard-haass-00141924" rel="">suggested</a>, give a speech in Israel, "over the prime minister's head," that would "clearly show what the U.S. believes," much the way Netanyahu, in 2015, aimed to bypass President Barack Obama and sway American opinion against the Iran deal by addressing the Republican-led Congress. The former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told me, "If Biden openly pressures Israel to accept his deal, he will gain some of the support that he might be losing in his own country."</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Spectral,serif,-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">"The Biden Administration believes," Chuck Freilich, a former Israeli deputy national-security adviser and the author of "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Israeli-National-Security-Strategy-Change/dp/0190602937?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50" rel="">Israeli National Security</a>," told me, "that Bibi has no coherent way of coping with the long term, or fully achieving his government's military goals. "If Netanyahu pits himself against the U.S., rejects normalization with the Saudis, risks escalation in the north, sacrifices the hostages—after the war's outbreak, the state of the economy, the judicial overhaul, the endless empty posturing—the streets will explode."</p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">****</div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Juan Matute</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font size="4"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJaAu2tKENk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJaAu2tKENk</a></b></font><br></div><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#222222" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> (click on it)<br></span></font><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">― </span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold">The Lincoln Project</span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> 1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-86607932114749972102024-03-01T11:38:00.000-08:002024-03-01T11:39:21.962-08:00Something to Know - 1 March<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">Okay, we are back. Ship docked in the port of Los Angeles at around 0630 this morning, and we were back home here in Claremont at around 1015. So, here is a quick flash over to David Brooks of the NY Times, courtesy of a fellow alum from college.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="6"><b>The G.O.P. Returns to Its Bad Old Self</b></font></span></div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="text-align:center"><font size="6"><b>Feb. 29, 2024</b></font></div></span><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><div class="gmail-css-1xb94ky" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Times;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:start"><img alt="Part of the crowd at the Republican National Convention of 1920, with American flags hanging above them." class="gmail-css-rq4mmj" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/02/opinion/29brooks1/29brooks1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" width="600" height="476" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: top; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 1200px;"></div><span class="gmail-css-jevhma e13ogyst0" style="margin:0px 7px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem;line-height:1.25rem;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The Republican National Convention in 1920 in Chicago.</span><span class="gmail-css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.8125rem;line-height:1.125rem;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline;letter-spacing:0.01em"><span class="gmail-css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0" style="padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden">Credit...</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span aria-hidden="false" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News/Chicago History Museum, via Getty Images</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div style="text-align:center">By David Brooks</div></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div style="text-align:center">Opinion Columnist</div></span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I've recently been reading about Warren Buffett's father, Howard Buffett, a four-term Republican congressman from Nebraska. He seems to have been a very good father, but his political worldview was predicated on a deep pessimism. He was so convinced that federal spending was ruining the country that he bought a farm so that his family could feed itself while everyone else starved. He predicted that all government bonds would soon be worthless and bought his daughters gold jewelry so that they would have something of value after the dollar became worthless.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">His pessimism manifested itself politically in several ways. First, an intense distrust of elites and a penchant for conspiratorial thinking. He believed that Franklin Roosevelt and George Marshall had secretly maneuvered the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor in order to drag the United States into war. Second, intense isolationism. A nation on the road to ruin could not afford to be active internationally. Third, political rigidity. He refused to compromise or negotiate with the Democrats, who he thought were destroying the country. He was more willing to lose in Congress in order to make a point than to cut a deal.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Buffett was not alone in thinking this way. The Republican Party in the 1920s, '30s and early '40s was steeped in pessimism, and that pessimism showed up as it often does: as nativism, isolationism and protectionism. In 1924, Republicans set strict immigration quotas with the Johnson-Reed Act. As World War II loomed, Senator Gerald Nye urged the passage of several neutrality acts to keep us from exporting arms to warring nations and opposed Lend-Lease to Britain. Senator Robert Taft supported the America First movement before the United States joined the war, and after the war he opposed the Marshall Plan, NATO, the World Bank and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which was designed to lower trade barriers.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">That version of the Republican Party ended in 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower defeated Taft for the Republican presidential nomination. Howard Buffett was so dismayed by the outcome that he refused to endorse Ike, his party leader. That decision effectively ended Buffett's political career. He ended up joining the John Birch Society, the notorious nativist group.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ronald Reagan gets most of the credit, but it was Ike, not Reagan, who transformed the G.O.P. from an anxious, inward-looking party into a confident, outward-facing one. He and his internationalist successors believed that the only way to prevent more world wars was to build a multilateral democratic world order. They had the confidence to believe America could lead such an order. The key to success in any political conflict, the political theorist James Burnham argued in 1941, is spirit and willpower: "All history makes clear that an indispensable quality of any man or class that wishes to lead, to hold power and privilege in society, is boundless self-confidence."</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ike's confidence launched 60 years of Republican internationalism, gradually creating a party that helped defeat Communism and ushered in more global prosperity. Reagan amplified that sense of confidence and possibility. "Emerson was right," Reagan told the 1992 Republican convention. "We are the country of tomorrow." Reagan was confident enough to believe that America could welcome immigrants, benefit from their abilities and still remain distinctly America: "Our nation is a nation of immigrants. More than any other country, our strength comes from our own immigrant heritage and our capacity to welcome those from other lands."</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In his superb history of conservatism, "The Right," Matthew Continetti describes dueling essays in 1989 between the conservative commentators Charles Krauthammer and Pat Buchanan that ran in the pages of The National Interest. Krauthammer argued that America should steer the world away from an unstable multipolar order and toward a more stable "unipolar world whose center is a confederated West." Buchanan, one of the few remaining spokesmen for the older, isolationist G.O.P., titled his essay "America First — and Second and Third."</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">At that time, the party embraced Krauthammer's vision and rejected Buchanan's. Within a decade Pat Buchanan had left the Republican Party, thoroughly marginalized. In 1999 the editors of the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, where I worked, celebrated Buchanan's departure from the party. In that same issue I wrote a humor piece trying to imagine the most hilariously unlikely version of the G.O.P. future. That piece was headlined "Donald Trump Inaugurated."</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">It turns out that some political tendencies never really die; they just lie dormant for a few decades, waiting for the emotional mood to change. It's conventional to say that Trump destroyed the postwar Republican establishment. That's not quite right. The Tea Party's extreme disgust with the course of American life was already flowing by 2009. The Pew Research Center detected a surge in American isolationism back in 2013. In 2004 only 8 percent of Republicans thought the United States' power in world affairs was declining. By 2013, after Iraq and Afghanistan, 74 percent of Republicans thought American was in decline. By 2021, nearly a third of Republicans thought violence might be necessary to save America.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In other words, many Americans had concluded that the country had lost its greatness before Trump entered politics, but he magnified that sense and capitalized on it. Trump didn't remake the party in his image. He restored the 1930s version of the party, merely adding a showman's bravura and gold-plated fixtures.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">If any event could have brought back the Eisenhower-Reagan trajectory, it was the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And for a few months it seemed to. But isolationism is still on the march. As Thomas B. Edsall noted in The Times recently, between March 2022 and December 2023, the share of Republicans who say America provides "too much support" for Ukraine rose to 48 percent from 9 percent. The message is eerily the same as it was in the late 1930s when the isolationists refused to confront the Nazis: America is too morally bankrupt, broke and corrupt to lead. We need to take care of our own.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">People often say that history is a battle of ideas, but sometimes it is just a succession of moods. It was a culture of pessimism — Trump's belief that we're living in an era of "American carnage" — that restored the old G.O.P., not any set of arguments. America has a dazzling economy and dominant military strength. Military spending as a percentage of G.D.P. is dangerously close to its postwar low. But the Republicans apparently lack the self-confidence to believe they can improve the world, or the willpower to substantially try.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Now Mitch McConnell, a child of the Eisenhower-Reagan party, is stepping back. Nikki Haley is cruising toward defeat. Congress may pass a Ukraine aid package, but it will be mostly because of Democratic votes, not Republican ones. The postwar G.O.P. is heaving its last breaths.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Some of my friends believe that after Trump the showman is off the stage, the future of the G.O.P. will be up for grabs. I disagree. Today's Republicanism has deep roots in American history. I suspect the post-Trump Republicans will be just as inward-looking, but drab and defeatist, without the Trumpian razzle dazzle. Howard Buffett would feel at home.</span><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix"><font size="4">-- </font></span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">****</div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Juan Matute</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#1155cc" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDZ-cLvEiM&t=5s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDZ-cLvEiM&t=5s</a></u></b></span></font><br></div><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#222222" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> (click on it)<br></span></font><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">― </span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold">The Lincoln Project</span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> 1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-41745270372892356512024-02-29T06:43:00.001-08:002024-02-29T06:43:16.024-08:00Fwd: Goodbye, Mitch: You were the worst<div dir="auto">This is the basic email from Professor Reich. Ship docks in Los Angeles tomorrow morning. Two weeks of continuous rough seas. Viking ships are small and get tossed around more than bigger ships. See you all in Claremont on Friday. <br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from Gmail Mobile</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Robert Reich</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:robertreich@substack.com">robertreich@substack.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 01:03<br>Subject: Goodbye, Mitch: You were the worst<br>To: <<a href="mailto:juanma2t@gmail.com">juanma2t@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="font-kerning:auto"><img 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He helped transform the Republican Party into a cult, worshiping at the altar of authoritarianism. He's damaged our country in ways that may take a generation to undo. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">No, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. The politician I'm referring to is Mitch McConnell, who yesterday announced he will step down as Republican leader in November. Who's worse — Trump or McConnell? </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Like Trump, McConnell hasn't been just a garden-variety bad public official. He's been a truly awful public official. McConnell has always put party above America. Remember when he said his </span><em>most important</em><span> goal as Senate leader was to make Barack Obama a one-term president? The fact that he hasn't </span><em>always</em><span> kissed Trump's backside has infuriated the former furor-in-chief.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Despite his opposition to Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election — admitting publicly that Trump "provoked" the attack on the U.S. Capitol — McConnell voted to acquit Trump on the charge of inciting an insurrection on January 6, 2021. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">So who's worse? It's a tough call. Trump defaced and defiled the presidency, but no person has done more in recent years to undermine the functioning of the U.S. government than McConnell.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Remember, this is the man who refused for almost a year to allow the Senate to consider President Obama's moderate Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Then, when Trump became president, this is the man who got rid of the age-old Senate rule requiring 60 senators to agree on a Supreme Court nomination so he could ram through not one but two Supreme Court justices, including one with a likely history of sexual assault.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">This is the man who rushed through the Senate, without a single hearing, a $2 trillion tax cut for big corporations and wealthy Americans — a tax cut that raised the government debt by almost the same amount, generated no new investment, and failed to raise wages, but gave the stock market a temporary sugar high because most corporations used the tax savings to buy back their own shares of stock.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">McConnell earned the nickname "Moscow Mitch" because he has done almost everything Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump wanted him to do, except abandon Ukraine. McConnell has refused to support what's needed for comprehensive election security, although the U.S. intelligence community says Moscow is continuing to weaponize disinformation through social media on behalf of Trump. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">McConnell has also blocked bipartisan background-check legislation for gun sales, even after repeated mass shootings have scarred and scared the nation. He secured a right-wing takeover of the U.S. federal court system — giving conservatives power to shape the law on the climate, reproductive rights, voting rights, and other issues affecting millions of people across the country.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>McConnell has </span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/10ce5465-a9a8-49c1-a425-fea2e7aeeb03?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">consistently</a><span> received </span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/5b9f954d-901e-4c2d-ac47-8da6e4cb0508?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">low</a><span> approval </span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/d26b4645-2ff6-4a1d-9c1c-81aad518045a?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ratings</a><span> from </span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/009132b9-2ec6-422c-9eb6-486cb1bdd9aa?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">voters</a><span> in Kentucky because he has repeatedly sacrificed Kentucky to the Republican agenda — for example, agreeing to Trump's so-called emergency funding for a border wall, which took $63 million away from projects like a new middle school on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">McConnell even cut funding for black lung disease suffered by Kentucky coal miners. I know from my years as labor secretary that coal mining is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, and the number of cases of incurable black lung disease has been on the rise. But when a group of miners took a 10-hour bus ride to Washington to ask McConnell to restore the funding, McConnell met with them for one minute and then refused to help them. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Am I being too harsh on Mitch? I felt bad for him when he froze before the cameras because of some kind of seizure. I'm sure he loves his children. I met his current wife, Elaine Chao, when she was secretary of labor, and she seemed like a nice person. He's a human being. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">But history will not be kind to him. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Who will replace him? </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I'm hearing that Senators John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas, and John Barrasso of Wyoming will vie for the party leadership role. All three will do Trump's bidding. All have endorsed Trump in the 2024 election in recent weeks. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">But Trump is more likely to want a Senate leader who'll serve him as a fierce MAGA lapdog — someone who will further tighten Trump's grip on the party, who's sufficiently young and telegenic to help Trump sell his authoritarianism to the public, and so unprincipled and ambitious that he'll flush democracy down the toilet to promote Trump and himself. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Who fits the bill? Ohio's Senator J.D. 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dir="auto">Robert Reich</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:robertreich@substack.com">robertreich@substack.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 23:04<br>Subject: The Emerging Republican Theocracy<br>To: <<a href="mailto:juanma2t@gmail.com">juanma2t@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="font-kerning:auto"><img src="https://eotrx.substackcdn.com/open?token=eyJtIjoiPDIwMjQwMjIzMDkwMTIwLjMuOGRmNDllZDQzYWFjMTMzZEBtZzEuc3Vic3RhY2suY29tPiIsInUiOjEwMjA0NzUyLCJyIjoianVhbm1hMnRAZ21haWwuY29tIiwiZCI6Im1nMS5zdWJzdGFjay5jb20iLCJwIjoxNDE5MzYyOTMsInQiOiJuZXdzbGV0dGVyIiwiYSI6ImV2ZXJ5b25lIiwicyI6MzY1NDIyLCJjIjoicG9zdCIsImYiOmZhbHNlLCJwb3NpdGlvbiI6InRvcCIsImlhdCI6MTcwODY3OTA1NywiZXhwIjoxNzExMjcxMDU3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMCIsInN1YiI6ImVvIn0.0Inl5_gXKlal5-oLy6FLYl-YfDwxxYbXB5n4Re1vtKk" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" 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style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Lora,sans-serif;font-size:32px;font-weight:600;line-height:36px;margin:0"><a href="https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=365422&post_id=141936293&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=62q1c&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDIwNDc1MiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTQxOTM2MjkzLCJpYXQiOjE3MDg2NzkwNTcsImV4cCI6MTcxMTI3MTA1NywiaXNzIjoicHViLTM2NTQyMiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.EwkSmIAmMzdfInZ62YMdnIcPiBNVDwBjbMmhHoXMsPY" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">The Emerging Republican Theocracy</a></h1><h3 style="color:#808080;font-family:'SF Compact Display',-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;line-height:24px;margin:4px 0 0;margin-top:12px">White Christian nationalism is the creed of red America </h3><table role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" 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As a result, Alabama in-vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics are ceasing services, afraid to store or destroy any embryos.</span></p><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:32px auto"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"></td><td align="left" width="399" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/da1c17e2-7fcf-4e0c-a5f5-bdd94b3e0c23?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="border:none;display:block;height:auto;margin:0;padding:0;text-decoration:none;width:auto" target="_blank"><img alt="" width="399" height="329.1201923076923" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_399,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc9d285a-0249-4f45-9d28-dc2c34ee796b_3500x2886.png" style="border:none!important;display:block;height:auto;margin:0 auto;margin-bottom:0;max-width:100%!important;vertical-align:middle;width:auto!important"></a></td><td style="text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The underlying issue is whether government can interfere in the most intimate aspects of people's lives — not only barring people from obtaining IVF services but also forbidding them from entering into gay marriage, utilizing contraception, having out-of-wedlock births, ending their pregnancies, changing their genders, checking out whatever books they want from the library, and worshipping God in whatever way they wish (or not worshipping at all). </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">All of these private freedoms are under increasing assault from Republican legislators and judges who want to impose their own morality on everyone else. Republicans are increasingly at war with America's fundamental separation of church and state. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>According to </span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/1341e6d1-d305-470d-abbe-09e4f4cd5d1f?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">a new survey</a><span> from the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution, more than half of Republicans believe the country should be a strictly Christian nation — either adhering to the ideals of Christian nationalism (21 percent) or sympathizing with those views (33 percent).</span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">This point of view has long been prominent among white evangelicals but is spreading into almost all reaches of the Republican Party, as exemplified by the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">It is also closely linked with authoritarianism. According to the survey, half of Christian nationalism adherents and nearly 4 in 10 sympathizers said they support the idea of an authoritarian leader powerful enough to keep these Christian values in society.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">During an interview at a Turning Point USA event last August, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said party leaders need to be more responsive to the base of the party, which she claimed is made up of Christian nationalists.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">"We need to be the party of nationalism," she said. "I am a Christian and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>A growing number of Republican voters view Trump as the </span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/d187f090-d2bd-49e4-a19d-29804a8d6443?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">second coming</a><span> of Jesus Christ and see the 2024 election as a battle not only for America's soul but for the salvation of all mankind. Many of the Trump followers who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, carried Christian symbols, clothes, and signs invoking God and Jesus. </span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>An influential think tank close to Trump is developing plans to infuse Christian nationalist ideas into his administration if Trump returns to power, according to </span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/10e4e678-d67b-4f31-b566-8588f91c869f?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">documents</a><span> obtained by </span><em>Politico.</em></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Spearheading the effort is Russell Vought, who served as Trump's director of the Office of Management and Budget during his first term and remains close to him. Vought, frequently cited as a potential chief of staff in a second Trump White House, has embraced the idea that Christians are under assault and has spoken of policies he might pursue in response.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Those policies include banning immigration of non-Christians into the United States, overturning same-sex marriage, and barring access to contraception. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">In a concurring opinion in last week's Alabama Supreme Court decision, Alabama's chief justice, Tom Parker, invoked the prophet Jeremiah and the writings of 16th- and 17th-century theologians. "Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God," he wrote. "Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Referring to the Book of Genesis, Parker noted that "the principle itself — that human life is fundamentally distinct from other forms of life and cannot be taken intentionally without justification — has deep roots that reach back to the creation of man 'in the image of God.'"</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Before joining the court, Parker was a close aide and ally of Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was twice removed from the job — first for dismissing a federal court order to remove an enormous granite monument of the Ten Commandments he had installed in the state judicial building, and then for ordering state judges to defy the U.S. Supreme Court's decision affirming gay marriage.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>So far, the U.S. Supreme Court has not explicitly based its decisions on scripture, but several of its recent rulings — the </span><em>Dobbs</em><span> decision that overruled </span><em>Roe v. Wade</em><span>, its decision in </span><em>Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District </em><span>on behalf of a public school football coach who led students in Christian prayer, and its decision in </span><em>Carson v. Makin, </em><span>requiring states to fund private religious schools if they fund any other private schools, even if those religious schools would use public funds for religious instruction and worship — are consistent with Christian nationalism. </span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">But Christian nationalism is inconsistent with personal freedom, including the First Amendment's guarantee that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">We can be truly free only if we're confident we can go about our private lives without being monitored or intruded upon by government, and can practice whatever faith (or lack of faith) we wish regardless of the religious beliefs of others. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">A society where one set of religious views is imposed on a large number of citizens who disagree with them is not a democracy. 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This article is about that ride. Very unspectacular.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from Gmail Mobile</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Robert Reich</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:robertreich@substack.com">robertreich@substack.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 13:01<br>Subject: When I met Strom Thurmond<br>To: <<a href="mailto:juanma2t@gmail.com">juanma2t@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="font-kerning:auto"><img 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today's GOP lawmakers are "worse" and have "become a party of chaos and division."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">"I've been a senator since '72. I've served with real racists. I've served with Strom Thurmond," Biden said, referring to the South Carolina Republican senator and segregationist who died at the age of one hundred in 2003. "I've served with all these guys that have set terrible records on race. But guess what? These guys are worse. These guys do not believe in basic democratic principles."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">"By the time Strom left, he did terrible things," Biden said of Thurmond. "My point is at least you could work with some of these guys," he added. "Time and again, Republicans show they are the party of chaos and division."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Thurmond was governor of South Carolina between 1947 and 1951 and senator for that same state between 1954 and 1956 and again from November 7, 1956 to January 3, 2003, when he retired from politics. He ran for president in 1948 for the Dixiecrat faction of the Democratic Party that defended Jim Crow laws and racial segregation. With the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, Thurmond joined the Republican Party.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">My one interaction with Thurmond came in 1996 when I was on Capitol Hill meeting with senators about raising the minimum wage. Thurmond wasn't on my schedule. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I was in an elevator when he came in. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">"Mr. Secretary," he acknowledged, with a smile. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">"Senator," I said, nodding my head. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">"Nice suit you have on, Mr. Secretary," he said. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">There was nothing special about it, as far as I knew. Standard dark blue.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">"Thank you, Senator."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">"Tell me," he said, slyly. "do they make that in an adult size?"</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">I didn't know how to respond. 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American</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:heathercoxrichardson@substack.com">heathercoxrichardson@substack.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 18:41<br>Subject: February 21, 2024<br>To: <<a href="mailto:juanma2t@gmail.com">juanma2t@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="font-kerning:auto" dir="auto"><img src="https://eotrx.substackcdn.com/open?token=eyJtIjoiPDIwMjQwMjIyMDQ0MDA5LjMuYjIxN2NmZjAxNTNmNjgyYkBtZzEuc3Vic3RhY2suY29tPiIsInUiOjEwMjA0NzUyLCJyIjoianVhbm1hMnRAZ21haWwuY29tIiwiZCI6Im1nMS5zdWJzdGFjay5jb20iLCJwIjoxNDE5MTQ5ODQsInQiOiJuZXdzbGV0dGVyIiwiYSI6ImV2ZXJ5b25lIiwicyI6MjA1MzMsImMiOiJwb3N0IiwiZiI6ZmFsc2UsInBvc2l0aW9uIjoidG9wIiwiaWF0IjoxNzA4NTc2OTA0LCJleHAiOjE3MTExNjg5MDQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0wIiwic3ViIjoiZW8ifQ.BC_mcBDMIZMBFEmPqCLGTdQHl6gWg1r6hY7mAwyl8P4" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" 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Honolulu was beautiful the past two days. Departed pier 11 at 6pm. Onward to Hilo. HCR has a summary of yesterday's MAGA follies and related problems,<div style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#333333;line-height:1px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;opacity:0;overflow:hidden">The centerpiece of Republicans' case for impeaching Democratic president Joe Biden is the allegation that he and his son Hunter each accepted a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma when Biden Sr. was vice president. 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But in the last week, that accusation has revealed quite a different problem, one that implicates Republicans. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The accusation that the Bidens accepted bribes broke into public channels on May 3, 2023, when Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Representative James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray saying they had received "highly credible…whistleblower disclosures" that said the Department of Justice and the FBI appeared to have "valuable, verifiable information that you have failed to disclose to the American people." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Grassley and Comer claimed there was "growing concern about the DOJ and the FBI's track record of allowing political bias to infect their decision-making process," and so Congress would be conducting its own "independent and objective review of this matter." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Comer then issued a subpoena for the document containing the information, a so-called FD-1023, which is the form used by FBI agents to record "raw, unverified" information from confidential informants. In it, informant Alexander Smirnov made a number of allegations about the Bidens, including that they had accepted bribes. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">In July, Grassley and Comer got the document and showed it to others in a secure facility. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) saw it there, took pictures of it, and posted them on social media. She claimed that "Joe Biden is a criminal and is compromised" and that he was backing Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion because Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky "has proof of more Biden crimes." "IMPEACH BIDEN," she wrote.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Grassley also released it, suggesting that the Justice Department and the FBI were trying to cover up a "criminal bribery scheme" implicating the Bidens. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) jumped in, saying: "Every day, the evidence keeps mounting and the evidence that is coming in is number one, of a widespread bribery scheme of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and the entire Biden family, to extract bribes from foreign nationals." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The idea that Biden had accepted bribes was central to the House impeachment effort that then–House speaker Kevin McCarthy (D-CA) announced in September 2023.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">That story fell apart a week ago, on February 14, 2024, when a federal grand jury indicted Smirnov for lying and "creating a false and fictitious record." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And the story became even more troubling yesterday, when Trump-appointed Special Counsel David Weiss of the Justice Department filed a document establishing that the informant, Alexander Smirnov, has "extensive and extremely recent" ties with "Russian intelligence agencies." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The filing revealed other, more recent, false allegations Smirnov had made, and concluded that "Smirnov's efforts to spread misinformation about a candidate of one of the two major parties in the United States continues…. What this shows is that the misinformation he is spreading is not confined to 2020. He is actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections after meeting with Russian intelligence officials in November." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, told reporters today that "the impeachment investigation essentially ended yesterday, in substance if not in form, with the explosive revelation that Mr. Smirnov's allegations about Ukrainian Burisma payments to Joe Biden were concocted along with Russian intelligence agents. And it appears like the whole thing was not only obviously false and fraudulent but a product of Russian disinformation and propaganda. And that's been the motor force behind this investigation for more than a year."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The Republican release of Smirnov's allegations in July 2023 did not happen in a vacuum: they came right after the Republican-led House censured Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) for "misleading the American public and for conduct unbecoming of an elected Member of the House of Representatives," including "spread[ing] false accusations that the [2016] Trump campaign colluded with Russia."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">But the Mueller Report concluded that "[t]he Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion" and that "the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts." The Senate Intelligence Committee Report found that "the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multifaceted effort to influence…the outcome of the 2016 presidential election" and that Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort worked directly with Konstantin Kilimnik, "a Russian intelligence officer." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">That effort continued in 2020, with the U.S. intelligence community assessing in March 2021 that "Russian President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the US."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">That foreign countries try to influence elections is far less a surprise than that one of the two major U.S. political parties now appears to be, wittingly or not, working on their behalf.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">That willingness to do anything to win—even working with a foreign dictator—seems a logical outgrowth of the process begun during the administration of President Richard Nixon, when his people deliberately appealed to voters' emotions with a picture of traditional America under siege by antiwar student activists, people of color, and feminist women. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">To rally voters to their party in the 1970s midterms, Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew engaged in what they called "positive polarization." Nixon's speechwriter Pat Buchanan wrote a memo to Nixon warning: "We are in a contest over the soul of the country now and the decision will not be some middle compromise…. It will be their kind of society or ours." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">The theme that the Republicans' opponents were dangerous socialists out to destroy the country became the centerpiece of Republican rhetoric. From President Ronald Reagan's welfare queen, who was scamming the system and thus taxpayers, through talk radio host Rush Limbaugh's "feminazis," to Trump's claim that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," the party has defined itself as "true America" standing against enemies.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">And if you believe you are fighting for the right, it only makes sense to do whatever it takes to win.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Meanwhile, that belief has now overlapped with the evangelical base that supports what it considers traditional values so that, as Alexander Ward and Heidi Przybyla outlined in </span><em>Politico</em><span> yesterday, the party is now advancing plans to impose Christian nationalism on the country. Leaders of the Christian nationalist movement incorrectly believe that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, so they intend to rest the government and public life on what they consider to be Christian values. </span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">In December, Trump promised: "Upon taking office, I will create a new federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias to be led by a fully reformed Department of Justice." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">What that might look like became clear this week when the Alabama Supreme Court decided in a wrongful death suit resulting from the accidental destruction of embryos that were part of an in vitro fertilization (IVF) process, in which doctors artificially fertilize eggs outside the womb and then transfer them into a person, that fertilized human eggs have the same status as children. Chief Justice Tom Parker declared in a concurring opinion that the people of Alabama have adopted the "theologically based view" that "life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">About 2% of U.S. births are a product of IVF. Today the largest healthcare system in Alabama has announced it is halting its IVF program out of fear of prosecution. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Reworking the nation to impose Christian nationalism requires minority rule, which aligns with the ideology of authoritarianism, enabling Trump and those who share his views to praise someone like Vladimir Putin. And, it seems, to accept his help winning elections.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">—</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Notes:</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/0ece1e5c-c292-45ae-a855-3b7577605d1d?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.167064/gov.uscourts.nvd.167064.15.0.pdf</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/ea688188-0c72-434d-b489-e426ca50c3bd?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/indictment-of-fbi-informant-undermines-centerpiece-of-gops-impeachment-case/</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/77a6d476-66c6-45ff-9283-ac0080cec2cf?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://perma.cc/Z7N6-9Q8L</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/51e2248f-4cd3-42fd-9adf-0bf1555133c3?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://perma.cc/7Z4D-ZHPH</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/c7f0e868-2836-49c4-916e-2f3c6eaec677?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/mccarthy-speaker-biden-impeachment-republicans-shutdown-4d8c314763252429a6f87e7d13ad2b43</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/8c61acd3-e86b-4547-951e-2a1453ce0beb?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/521/text</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/fbdf3064-e26b-4dd0-b3b7-23988ceddc9c?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/b338915d-ab9f-4a0d-86d4-1a1fda3e3a90?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/f3638de3-a923-4c45-b933-6183554e6d78?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ICA-declass-16MAR21.pdf</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/8442348b-d305-4239-862f-c6a43d456fc1?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/bfc75133-35be-4e73-9252-167f9952f384?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/20/donald-trump-allies-christian-nationalism-00142086</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/f6359084-c4da-4484-9c16-0ddc555e3c9a?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" 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Buchanan, "Media Memorandum for the President," May 2, 1970, at Nixon Library,</span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/3a1e786a-115b-4219-97fc-ea5ce7a27e7c?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"> https://bit.ly/3XXkxXV</a><span>. Spiro Agnew, quoted in Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall, </span><em>Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics</em><span> (New York: W. W. 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You are so right.</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> Karen</div> <div id="appendonsend"></div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> ppdialogues@googlegroups.com <ppdialogues@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Gary Oba <obagary@gmail.com><br> <b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 19, 2024 8:27 PM<br> <b>To:</b> Juan Matute <juanma2t@gmail.com>; AndyUdis Gmail <andyudis@gmail.com>; Panerians <panerians@googlegroups.com>; juanpercent blog <juanma2t.blogit@blogger.com>; ppdialogues <ppdialogues@googlegroups.com><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [ppdialogues] Fwd: February 19, 2024</font> <div> </div> </div> <style type="text/css" style="display:none"> <!-- p {margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0} --> </style> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Thanks, Juan, for sharing this article and marking the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. Because of its history with this issue, Japanese American community organizations such as Tsuru for Solidarity are mobilized to resist any attempts to round up migrants and place them in detention camps. Americans cannot allow what happened to Japanese Americans in World War II to repeat itself.</div> <div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Gary Oba</div> <div id="x_appendonsend"></div> <hr tabindex="-1" style="display:inline-block; width:98%"> <div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> ppdialogues@googlegroups.com <ppdialogues@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Juan Matute <juanma2t@gmail.com><br> <b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 19, 2024 7:51 PM<br> <b>To:</b> AndyUdis Gmail <andyudis@gmail.com>; Juan Matute <juanma2t@gmail.com>; Panerians <panerians@googlegroups.com>; juanpercent blog <juanma2t.blogit@blogger.com>; ppdialogues <ppdialogues@googlegroups.com><br> <b>Subject:</b> [ppdialogues] Fwd: February 19, 2024</font> <div> </div> </div> <div> <div dir="auto">Fresh off the press. HCR as I get her work. Seas are calmer now that we are one day out to HNL.<br clear="all"> <br clear="all"> <div> <div dir="ltr" class="x_x_gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from Gmail Mobile</div> </div> </div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> <div class="x_x_gmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr" class="x_x_gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br> From: <strong class="x_x_gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:heathercoxrichardson@substack.com">heathercoxrichardson@substack.com</a>></span><br> Date: Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 17:39<br> Subject: February 19, 2024<br> To: <<a href="mailto:juanma2t@gmail.com">juanma2t@gmail.com</a>><br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="font-kerning:auto"><img alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" style="height:1px!important; width:1px!important; border-width:0!important; margin-top:0!important; margin-bottom:0!important; margin-right:0!important; margin-left:0!important; padding-top:0!important; padding-bottom:0!important; padding-right:0!important; padding-left:0!important" src="https://eotrx.substackcdn.com/open?token=eyJtIjoiPDIwMjQwMjIwMDMzNzM5LjMuMGI5MGIyYWY1NzcyY2Y0YUBtZzEuc3Vic3RhY2suY29tPiIsInUiOjEwMjA0NzUyLCJyIjoianVhbm1hMnRAZ21haWwuY29tIiwiZCI6Im1nMS5zdWJzdGFjay5jb20iLCJwIjoxNDE4NDk4MjEsInQiOiJuZXdzbGV0dGVyIiwiYSI6ImV2ZXJ5b25lIiwicyI6MjA1MzMsImMiOiJwb3N0IiwiZiI6ZmFsc2UsInBvc2l0aW9uIjoidG9wIiwiaWF0IjoxNzA4NDAwMzU5LCJleHAiOjE3MTA5OTIzNTksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0wIiwic3ViIjoiZW8ifQ.Lyah1Oc7vRzUU9OUmgywEG19V1KWE-gQe22WsJKtd-g"> <div style="display:none; font-size:1px; color:#333333; line-height:1px; max-height:0px; max-width:0px; opacity:0; overflow:hidden"> Today is the anniversary of the day in 1942, during World War II, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 enabling military authorities to designate military areas from which "any or all persons may be excluded." That order also permitted the secretary of war to provide transportation, food, and shelter "to accomplish the purpose of this order."</div> <div style="display:none; font-size:1px; color:#333333; line-height:1px; max-height:0px; max-width:0px; opacity:0; overflow:hidden"> ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ </div> <table role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td></td> <td width="550"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td align="left" width="550"> <div style="font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 auto; max-width:550px; width:100%"> <table role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="right" style="height:20px"> <table role="presentation" width="auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128)!important; 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line-height:26px; padding:16px 0 0 0"> <div dir="auto" style="font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin-bottom:16px; text-align:initial; width:100%; word-break:break-word"> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0; margin-top:0"> Today is the anniversary of the day in 1942, during World War II, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 enabling military authorities to designate military areas from which "any or all persons may be excluded." That order also permitted the secretary of war to provide transportation, food, and shelter "to accomplish the purpose of this order." </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> Four days later a Japanese submarine off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, shelled the Ellwood Oil Field, and the Office of Naval Intelligence warned that the Japanese would attack California in the next ten hours. On February 25 a meteorological balloon near Los Angeles set off a panic, and troops fired 1,400 rounds of antiaircraft ammunition at supposed Japanese attackers.</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> On March 2, 1942, General John DeWitt put Executive Order 9066 into effect. He signed Public Proclamation No. 1, dividing the country into military zones and, "as a matter of military necessity," excluding from certain of those zones "[a]ny Japanese, German, or Italian alien, or any person of Japanese Ancestry." Under DeWitt's orders, about 125,000 children, women, and men of Japanese ancestry were forced out of their homes and imprisoned in camps around the country. Two thirds of those incarcerated were U.S. citizens.</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> DeWitt's order did not come from nowhere. After almost a century of shaping laws to discriminate against Asian newcomers, West Coast inhabitants and lawmakers were primed to see their Japanese and Japanese-American neighbors as dangerous. </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <span>Those laws reached back to the 1849 arrival of Chinese miners in California and reached forward into the twentieth century. Indeed, on another February 19—that of 1923—the Supreme Court decided the case of </span><em>United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind</em><span>. It said that Thind, an Indian Sikh man who identified himself as Indo-European, could not become a U.S. citizen. Thind claimed the right to United States citizenship under the terms of the Naturalization Act of 1906, which had put the federal government instead of states in charge of who got to be a citizen and had very specific requirements for citizenship that he believed he had met. </span></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> But, the court said, Thind was not a "white person" under U.S. law, and only "free white persons" could become citizens.</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <span>What were they talking about? In the </span><em>Thind</em><span> decision, the Supreme Court reached back to the case of Japan-born Takao Ozawa, decided a year before, in 1922. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that Ozawa could not become a citizen under the 1906 Naturalization Act because that law had not overridden the 1790 naturalization law limiting citizenship to "free white persons." The court decided that "white person" meant "persons of the Caucasian Race." "A Japanese, born in Japan, being clearly not a Caucasian, cannot be made a citizen of the United States," it said. </span></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> As the 1922 case indicated, Asian Americans could not rely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, to permit them to become citizens, because a law from 1790 knocked a hole in that amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment provided that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." But as soon as that amendment went into effect, the new states and territories of the West reached back to the 1790 naturalization law to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship on the basis of the argument that they were not "free, white persons." </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> That 1790 restriction, based in early lawmakers' determination to guarantee that enslaved Africans could not claim citizenship, enabled lawmakers after the Civil War to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship. </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> From that exclusion grew laws discriminating against Chinese immigrants, including the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act that prohibited Chinese workers from migrating to the United States. Then, when Chinese immigration slowed and Japanese immigration took its place, the U.S. backed the so-called Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 under which Japanese officials promised to stop emigration to the United States. The United States, in turn, promised not to restrict the rights of Japanese immigrants already in the United States, although laws prohibiting "aliens" from owning land meant Japanese settlers either lost their land or had to put it in the names of their American-born children, who were citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment. </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <span>After the 1923 </span><em>Thind</em><span> decision, the United States stripped the citizenship of about 50 South Asian Americans who had already become American citizens. One of them was Vaishno Das Bagai, an immigrant from what is now Pakistan who came from wealth and who settled in San Francisco in 1915 with his wife and three sons to start a business. Less than three weeks after arriving in the United States, Bagai began the process of naturalization. He became a citizen in 1920. </span></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <span>The </span><em>Thind</em><span> decision took that citizenship away from Bagai, making him fall under California's alien land laws that said he could not own land. He lost his home and his business. In 1928, explicitly telling the </span><em>San Francisco Examiner</em><span> that he was taking his life in protest of racial discrimination, Bagai committed suicide. His widow, Kala Bagai, became a community activist.</span></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> World War II changed U.S. calculations of who could be a citizen as global alliances shifted and Americans of all backgrounds turned out to save democracy. From Japanese-American concentration camps, young men joined the army to fight for the nation. In 1943 the War Department authorized the formation of Japanese-American combat units. One of those units, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, became the most decorated unit for its size in U.S. military history. Their motto was "Go for Broke." </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> Congress overturned the Chinese exclusion laws in 1943 and, in 1946, made natives of India eligible for U.S. citizenship. The last Japanese internment camp closed in March 1946, and Japanese immigrants gained the right to become U.S. citizens in 1952. </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford officially repealed Executive Order 9066 and noted that it was a "setback to fundamental American principles." "We now know what we should have known then," he said. "[N]ot only was that evacuation wrong, but Japanese Americans were and are loyal Americans…. I call upon the American people to affirm with me this American Promise—that we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to treasure liberty and justice for each individual American, and resolve that this kind of action shall never again be repeated."</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> But now so-called "internment camps" are back in the news.</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> Trump has promised his supporters that in a second term he would launch "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history." To deport as many as ten million of what he called "foreign national invaders," Trump advisor Stephen Miller explained on a November podcast, the administration would federalize National Guard troops from Republican-dominated states and send them around the country to round people up, moving them to "large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas," that would serve as internment camps.</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> —</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> Notes:</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/e12bcbd4-552d-473a-beee-133900cc17d1?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64); text-decoration:underline">https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9066#transcript</a></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/b4f52c75-4b0c-4e67-bd40-d6a98d8661e0?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64); text-decoration:underline">https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/pioneerlife/id/15297</a></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/d6bf5beb-2d81-4258-9012-34946cf9f239?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64); text-decoration:underline">https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/artifact/h-r-40-naturalization-bill-march-4-1790</a></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/b79c2e0f-b2fb-486c-88f8-393ce29f1654?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64); 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font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Thanks, Juan, for sharing this article and marking the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. Because of its history with this issue, Japanese American community organizations such as Tsuru for Solidarity are mobilized to resist any attempts to round up migrants and place them in detention camps. Americans cannot allow what happened to Japanese Americans in World War II to repeat itself.</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Gary Oba</div> <div id="appendonsend"></div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> ppdialogues@googlegroups.com <ppdialogues@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Juan Matute <juanma2t@gmail.com><br> <b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 19, 2024 7:51 PM<br> <b>To:</b> AndyUdis Gmail <andyudis@gmail.com>; Juan Matute <juanma2t@gmail.com>; Panerians <panerians@googlegroups.com>; juanpercent blog <juanma2t.blogit@blogger.com>; ppdialogues <ppdialogues@googlegroups.com><br> <b>Subject:</b> [ppdialogues] Fwd: February 19, 2024</font> <div> </div> </div> <div> <div dir="auto">Fresh off the press. HCR as I get her work. Seas are calmer now that we are one day out to HNL.<br clear="all"> <br clear="all"> <div> <div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from Gmail Mobile</div> </div> </div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> <div class="x_gmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br> From: <strong class="x_gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:heathercoxrichardson@substack.com">heathercoxrichardson@substack.com</a>></span><br> Date: Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 17:39<br> Subject: February 19, 2024<br> To: <<a href="mailto:juanma2t@gmail.com">juanma2t@gmail.com</a>><br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="font-kerning:auto"><img alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" style="height:1px!important; width:1px!important; border-width:0!important; margin-top:0!important; margin-bottom:0!important; margin-right:0!important; margin-left:0!important; padding-top:0!important; padding-bottom:0!important; padding-right:0!important; padding-left:0!important" src="https://eotrx.substackcdn.com/open?token=eyJtIjoiPDIwMjQwMjIwMDMzNzM5LjMuMGI5MGIyYWY1NzcyY2Y0YUBtZzEuc3Vic3RhY2suY29tPiIsInUiOjEwMjA0NzUyLCJyIjoianVhbm1hMnRAZ21haWwuY29tIiwiZCI6Im1nMS5zdWJzdGFjay5jb20iLCJwIjoxNDE4NDk4MjEsInQiOiJuZXdzbGV0dGVyIiwiYSI6ImV2ZXJ5b25lIiwicyI6MjA1MzMsImMiOiJwb3N0IiwiZiI6ZmFsc2UsInBvc2l0aW9uIjoidG9wIiwiaWF0IjoxNzA4NDAwMzU5LCJleHAiOjE3MTA5OTIzNTksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0wIiwic3ViIjoiZW8ifQ.Lyah1Oc7vRzUU9OUmgywEG19V1KWE-gQe22WsJKtd-g"> <div style="display:none; font-size:1px; color:#333333; line-height:1px; max-height:0px; max-width:0px; opacity:0; overflow:hidden"> Today is the anniversary of the day in 1942, during World War II, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 enabling military authorities to designate military areas from which "any or all persons may be excluded." 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line-height:26px; padding:16px 0 0 0"> <div dir="auto" style="font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin-bottom:16px; text-align:initial; width:100%; word-break:break-word"> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0; margin-top:0"> Today is the anniversary of the day in 1942, during World War II, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 enabling military authorities to designate military areas from which "any or all persons may be excluded." That order also permitted the secretary of war to provide transportation, food, and shelter "to accomplish the purpose of this order." </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> Four days later a Japanese submarine off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, shelled the Ellwood Oil Field, and the Office of Naval Intelligence warned that the Japanese would attack California in the next ten hours. On February 25 a meteorological balloon near Los Angeles set off a panic, and troops fired 1,400 rounds of antiaircraft ammunition at supposed Japanese attackers.</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> On March 2, 1942, General John DeWitt put Executive Order 9066 into effect. He signed Public Proclamation No. 1, dividing the country into military zones and, "as a matter of military necessity," excluding from certain of those zones "[a]ny Japanese, German, or Italian alien, or any person of Japanese Ancestry." Under DeWitt's orders, about 125,000 children, women, and men of Japanese ancestry were forced out of their homes and imprisoned in camps around the country. Two thirds of those incarcerated were U.S. citizens.</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> DeWitt's order did not come from nowhere. After almost a century of shaping laws to discriminate against Asian newcomers, West Coast inhabitants and lawmakers were primed to see their Japanese and Japanese-American neighbors as dangerous. </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <span>Those laws reached back to the 1849 arrival of Chinese miners in California and reached forward into the twentieth century. Indeed, on another February 19—that of 1923—the Supreme Court decided the case of </span><em>United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind</em><span>. It said that Thind, an Indian Sikh man who identified himself as Indo-European, could not become a U.S. citizen. Thind claimed the right to United States citizenship under the terms of the Naturalization Act of 1906, which had put the federal government instead of states in charge of who got to be a citizen and had very specific requirements for citizenship that he believed he had met. </span></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> But, the court said, Thind was not a "white person" under U.S. law, and only "free white persons" could become citizens.</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <span>What were they talking about? In the </span><em>Thind</em><span> decision, the Supreme Court reached back to the case of Japan-born Takao Ozawa, decided a year before, in 1922. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that Ozawa could not become a citizen under the 1906 Naturalization Act because that law had not overridden the 1790 naturalization law limiting citizenship to "free white persons." The court decided that "white person" meant "persons of the Caucasian Race." "A Japanese, born in Japan, being clearly not a Caucasian, cannot be made a citizen of the United States," it said. </span></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> As the 1922 case indicated, Asian Americans could not rely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, to permit them to become citizens, because a law from 1790 knocked a hole in that amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment provided that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." But as soon as that amendment went into effect, the new states and territories of the West reached back to the 1790 naturalization law to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship on the basis of the argument that they were not "free, white persons." </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> That 1790 restriction, based in early lawmakers' determination to guarantee that enslaved Africans could not claim citizenship, enabled lawmakers after the Civil War to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship. </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> From that exclusion grew laws discriminating against Chinese immigrants, including the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act that prohibited Chinese workers from migrating to the United States. Then, when Chinese immigration slowed and Japanese immigration took its place, the U.S. backed the so-called Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 under which Japanese officials promised to stop emigration to the United States. The United States, in turn, promised not to restrict the rights of Japanese immigrants already in the United States, although laws prohibiting "aliens" from owning land meant Japanese settlers either lost their land or had to put it in the names of their American-born children, who were citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment. </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <span>After the 1923 </span><em>Thind</em><span> decision, the United States stripped the citizenship of about 50 South Asian Americans who had already become American citizens. One of them was Vaishno Das Bagai, an immigrant from what is now Pakistan who came from wealth and who settled in San Francisco in 1915 with his wife and three sons to start a business. Less than three weeks after arriving in the United States, Bagai began the process of naturalization. He became a citizen in 1920. </span></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <span>The </span><em>Thind</em><span> decision took that citizenship away from Bagai, making him fall under California's alien land laws that said he could not own land. He lost his home and his business. In 1928, explicitly telling the </span><em>San Francisco Examiner</em><span> that he was taking his life in protest of racial discrimination, Bagai committed suicide. His widow, Kala Bagai, became a community activist.</span></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> World War II changed U.S. calculations of who could be a citizen as global alliances shifted and Americans of all backgrounds turned out to save democracy. From Japanese-American concentration camps, young men joined the army to fight for the nation. In 1943 the War Department authorized the formation of Japanese-American combat units. One of those units, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, became the most decorated unit for its size in U.S. military history. Their motto was "Go for Broke." </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> Congress overturned the Chinese exclusion laws in 1943 and, in 1946, made natives of India eligible for U.S. citizenship. The last Japanese internment camp closed in March 1946, and Japanese immigrants gained the right to become U.S. citizens in 1952. </p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford officially repealed Executive Order 9066 and noted that it was a "setback to fundamental American principles." "We now know what we should have known then," he said. "[N]ot only was that evacuation wrong, but Japanese Americans were and are loyal Americans…. I call upon the American people to affirm with me this American Promise—that we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to treasure liberty and justice for each individual American, and resolve that this kind of action shall never again be repeated."</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> But now so-called "internment camps" are back in the news.</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> Trump has promised his supporters that in a second term he would launch "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history." To deport as many as ten million of what he called "foreign national invaders," Trump advisor Stephen Miller explained on a November podcast, the administration would federalize National Guard troops from Republican-dominated states and send them around the country to round people up, moving them to "large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas," that would serve as internment camps.</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> —</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> Notes:</p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/e12bcbd4-552d-473a-beee-133900cc17d1?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64); text-decoration:underline">https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9066#transcript</a></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/b4f52c75-4b0c-4e67-bd40-d6a98d8661e0?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64); text-decoration:underline">https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/pioneerlife/id/15297</a></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/d6bf5beb-2d81-4258-9012-34946cf9f239?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64); text-decoration:underline">https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/artifact/h-r-40-naturalization-bill-march-4-1790</a></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/b79c2e0f-b2fb-486c-88f8-393ce29f1654?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64); text-decoration:underline">https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/260/178/</a></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/db3402c1-6534-43b2-a000-6f93cb139bd1?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64); text-decoration:underline">https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/261/204/</a></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/57ab17d1-9fb3-470c-976a-af32b1771e43?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64); text-decoration:underline">https://www.saada.org/tides/article/united-states-of-america-vs-vaishno-das-bagai</a></p> <p style="color:rgb(64,64,64); font-size:16px; line-height:26px; margin:0 0 20px 0"> <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/da240373-456d-463a-875e-0d362182a281?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64); 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HCR as I get her work. Seas are calmer now that we are one day out to HNL.<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from Gmail Mobile</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:heathercoxrichardson@substack.com">heathercoxrichardson@substack.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 17:39<br>Subject: February 19, 2024<br>To: <<a href="mailto:juanma2t@gmail.com">juanma2t@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="font-kerning:auto"><img src="https://eotrx.substackcdn.com/open?token=eyJtIjoiPDIwMjQwMjIwMDMzNzM5LjMuMGI5MGIyYWY1NzcyY2Y0YUBtZzEuc3Vic3RhY2suY29tPiIsInUiOjEwMjA0NzUyLCJyIjoianVhbm1hMnRAZ21haWwuY29tIiwiZCI6Im1nMS5zdWJzdGFjay5jb20iLCJwIjoxNDE4NDk4MjEsInQiOiJuZXdzbGV0dGVyIiwiYSI6ImV2ZXJ5b25lIiwicyI6MjA1MzMsImMiOiJwb3N0IiwiZiI6ZmFsc2UsInBvc2l0aW9uIjoidG9wIiwiaWF0IjoxNzA4NDAwMzU5LCJleHAiOjE3MTA5OTIzNTksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0wIiwic3ViIjoiZW8ifQ.Lyah1Oc7vRzUU9OUmgywEG19V1KWE-gQe22WsJKtd-g" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" style="height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important"><div style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#333333;line-height:1px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;opacity:0;overflow:hidden">Today is the anniversary of the day in 1942, during World War II, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 enabling military authorities to designate military areas from which "any or all persons may be excluded." That order also permitted the secretary of war to provide transportation, food, and shelter "to accomplish the purpose of this order."</div><div style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#333333;line-height:1px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;opacity:0;overflow:hidden">͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ </div><table role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td></td><td width="550"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td align="left" width="550"><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 auto;max-width:550px;width:100%"><table role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" 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That order also permitted the secretary of war to provide transportation, food, and shelter "to accomplish the purpose of this order." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Four days later a Japanese submarine off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, shelled the Ellwood Oil Field, and the Office of Naval Intelligence warned that the Japanese would attack California in the next ten hours. On February 25 a meteorological balloon near Los Angeles set off a panic, and troops fired 1,400 rounds of antiaircraft ammunition at supposed Japanese attackers.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">On March 2, 1942, General John DeWitt put Executive Order 9066 into effect. He signed Public Proclamation No. 1, dividing the country into military zones and, "as a matter of military necessity," excluding from certain of those zones "[a]ny Japanese, German, or Italian alien, or any person of Japanese Ancestry." Under DeWitt's orders, about 125,000 children, women, and men of Japanese ancestry were forced out of their homes and imprisoned in camps around the country. Two thirds of those incarcerated were U.S. citizens.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">DeWitt's order did not come from nowhere. After almost a century of shaping laws to discriminate against Asian newcomers, West Coast inhabitants and lawmakers were primed to see their Japanese and Japanese-American neighbors as dangerous. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>Those laws reached back to the 1849 arrival of Chinese miners in California and reached forward into the twentieth century. Indeed, on another February 19—that of 1923—the Supreme Court decided the case of </span><em>United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind</em><span>. It said that Thind, an Indian Sikh man who identified himself as Indo-European, could not become a U.S. citizen. Thind claimed the right to United States citizenship under the terms of the Naturalization Act of 1906, which had put the federal government instead of states in charge of who got to be a citizen and had very specific requirements for citizenship that he believed he had met. </span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">But, the court said, Thind was not a "white person" under U.S. law, and only "free white persons" could become citizens.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>What were they talking about? In the </span><em>Thind</em><span> decision, the Supreme Court reached back to the case of Japan-born Takao Ozawa, decided a year before, in 1922. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that Ozawa could not become a citizen under the 1906 Naturalization Act because that law had not overridden the 1790 naturalization law limiting citizenship to "free white persons." The court decided that "white person" meant "persons of the Caucasian Race." "A Japanese, born in Japan, being clearly not a Caucasian, cannot be made a citizen of the United States," it said. </span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">As the 1922 case indicated, Asian Americans could not rely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, to permit them to become citizens, because a law from 1790 knocked a hole in that amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment provided that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." But as soon as that amendment went into effect, the new states and territories of the West reached back to the 1790 naturalization law to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship on the basis of the argument that they were not "free, white persons." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">That 1790 restriction, based in early lawmakers' determination to guarantee that enslaved Africans could not claim citizenship, enabled lawmakers after the Civil War to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">From that exclusion grew laws discriminating against Chinese immigrants, including the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act that prohibited Chinese workers from migrating to the United States. Then, when Chinese immigration slowed and Japanese immigration took its place, the U.S. backed the so-called Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 under which Japanese officials promised to stop emigration to the United States. The United States, in turn, promised not to restrict the rights of Japanese immigrants already in the United States, although laws prohibiting "aliens" from owning land meant Japanese settlers either lost their land or had to put it in the names of their American-born children, who were citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>After the 1923 </span><em>Thind</em><span> decision, the United States stripped the citizenship of about 50 South Asian Americans who had already become American citizens. One of them was Vaishno Das Bagai, an immigrant from what is now Pakistan who came from wealth and who settled in San Francisco in 1915 with his wife and three sons to start a business. Less than three weeks after arriving in the United States, Bagai began the process of naturalization. He became a citizen in 1920. </span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><span>The </span><em>Thind</em><span> decision took that citizenship away from Bagai, making him fall under California's alien land laws that said he could not own land. He lost his home and his business. In 1928, explicitly telling the </span><em>San Francisco Examiner</em><span> that he was taking his life in protest of racial discrimination, Bagai committed suicide. His widow, Kala Bagai, became a community activist.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">World War II changed U.S. calculations of who could be a citizen as global alliances shifted and Americans of all backgrounds turned out to save democracy. From Japanese-American concentration camps, young men joined the army to fight for the nation. In 1943 the War Department authorized the formation of Japanese-American combat units. One of those units, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, became the most decorated unit for its size in U.S. military history. Their motto was "Go for Broke." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Congress overturned the Chinese exclusion laws in 1943 and, in 1946, made natives of India eligible for U.S. citizenship. The last Japanese internment camp closed in March 1946, and Japanese immigrants gained the right to become U.S. citizens in 1952. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford officially repealed Executive Order 9066 and noted that it was a "setback to fundamental American principles." "We now know what we should have known then," he said. "[N]ot only was that evacuation wrong, but Japanese Americans were and are loyal Americans…. I call upon the American people to affirm with me this American Promise—that we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to treasure liberty and justice for each individual American, and resolve that this kind of action shall never again be repeated."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">But now so-called "internment camps" are back in the news.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Trump has promised his supporters that in a second term he would launch "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history." To deport as many as ten million of what he called "foreign national invaders," Trump advisor Stephen Miller explained on a November podcast, the administration would federalize National Guard troops from Republican-dominated states and send them around the country to round people up, moving them to "large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas," that would serve as internment camps.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">—</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0">Notes:</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 20px 0"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/e12bcbd4-552d-473a-beee-133900cc17d1?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9066#transcript</a></p><p 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Take this you MAGA freaks.<br clear="all"><br><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18/2224293/--Christian-family-moves-to-Russia-to-escape-LGBTQ-and-now-can-t-get-out-of-their-living-hell?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web" target="_blank" style="font-size:1.125rem;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(66,133,244);color:rgb(66,133,244)">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18/2224293/--Christian-family-moves-to-Russia-to-escape-LGBTQ-and-now-can-t-get-out-of-their-living-hell?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web</a></div></div><br><br><br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from Gmail Mobile</div></div> 1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-79139735381743273022024-02-18T08:07:00.001-08:002024-02-18T08:07:26.347-08:00Something to Know - 18 February<div dir="auto">We are a day's sailing east of the Hawaiian Islands. Hoping this message gets through the limited bandwidth of the Viking Star's capability. We have been rocking and rolling for four days now. Feels like a constant 4.8 earthquake with burst of 8.0. It's kind of like a 24X7 balance class. I hope the image I copied gets to you. It is a view of the storm system we are going through that is heading your way, from the west coast and most points east.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-17/storm-forecast">https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-17/storm-forecast</a></div><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from Gmail Mobile</div></div></div> 1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-32379718630665565052024-02-14T07:08:00.000-08:002024-02-14T07:09:17.128-08:00Something to Know - 14 February<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><b>HCR puts all the issues on the line for us to see in a confrontation with Trump and his hijacked political party. This time, each and every Republican who is in favor of following the Vladimir Putin agenda will be noted and called out from today and all through coming political campaigns and beyond. Take care of business while some of us are gone on a vacation. Also, attached is the video of Jon Stewart's return to The Daily Show. You should make a plan to watch this show every night, as it rips irreverently into our dysfunctional political world. 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He warned "Republicans in Congress who think they can oppose funding for Ukraine and not be held accountable" that "[f]ailure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will never be forgotten."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">At about 5:00 this morning, the Senate passed a $95 billion national security supplemental bill, providing funding for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and humanitarian aid to Gaza. Most of the money in the measure will stay in the United States, paying defense contractors to restock the matériel the U.S. sends to Ukraine. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The vote was 70–29 and was strongly bipartisan. Twenty-two Republicans joined Democrats in support of the bill, overcoming the opposition of far-right Republicans.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">The measure went to the House of Representatives, where House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he will not take it up, even though his far-right supporters acknowledged that a majority of the representatives supported it and that if it did come to the floor, it would pass. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Yesterday, House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner (R-OH)—who had just returned from his third trip to Ukraine, where he told President Volodymyr Zelensky that reinforcements were coming—told <em>Politico's</em> Rachel Bade: "We have to get this done…. This is no longer an issue of, 'When do we support Ukraine?' If we do not move, this will be abandoning Ukraine." </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"The speaker will need to bring it to the floor," Turner said. "You're either for or against the authoritarian governments invading democratic countries.… You're either for or against the killing of innocent civilians. You're either for or against Russia reconstituting the Soviet Union."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Today, Biden spoke to the press to "call on the Speaker to let the full House speak its mind and not allow a minority of the most extreme voices in the House to block this bill even from being voted on—even from being voted on. This is a critical act for the House to move. It needs to move."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Bipartisan support for Ukraine "sends a clear message to Ukrainians and to our partners and to our allies around the world: America can be trusted, America can be relied upon, and America stands up for freedom," he said. "We stand strong for our allies. We never bow down to anyone, and certainly not to Vladimir Putin."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"Supporting this bill is standing up to Putin. Opposing it is playing into Putin's hands."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"The stakes were already high for American security before this bill was passed in the Senate last night," Biden said. "But in recent days, those stakes have risen. And that's because the former President has sent a dangerous and shockingly, frankly, un-American signal to the world" Biden said, referring to Trump's statement on Saturday night that he would "encourage [Russia] to do whatever the hell they want" to countries that are part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)—the 75-year-old collective security organization that spans North America and Europe—but are not devoting 2% of the gross domestic product to their militaries. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Trump's invitation to Putin to invade our NATO allies was "dumb,…shameful,…dangerous, [and] un-American," Biden said. "When America gives its word, it means something. When we make a commitment, we keep it. And NATO is a sacred commitment." NATO, Biden said, is "the alliance that protects America and the world."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"[O]ur adversaries have long sought to create cracks in the Alliance. The greatest hope of all those who wish America harm is for NATO to fall apart. And you can be sure that they all cheered when they heard [what] Donald Trump…said."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"Our nation stands at…an inflection point in history…where the decisions we make now are going to determine the course of our future for decades to come. This is one of those moments.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">And I say to the House members, House Republicans: You've got to decide. Are you going to stand up for freedom, or are you going to side with terror and tyranny? Are you going to stand with Ukraine, or are you going to stand with Putin? Will we stand with America or…with Trump?"</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"Republicans and Democrats in the Senate came together to send a message of unity to the world. It's time for the House Republicans to do the same thing: to pass this bill immediately, to stand for decency, stand for democracy, to stand up to a so-called leader hellbent on weakening American security," Biden said. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"And I mean this sincerely: History is watching. History is watching."</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">But instead of taking up the supplemental national security bill tonight, House speaker Johnson took advantage of the fact that Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA) has returned to Washington after a stem cell transplant to battle his multiple myeloma and that Judy Chu (D-CA) is absent because she has Covid to make a second attempt to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for "high crimes and misdemeanors" for his oversight of the southern border of the United States. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Republicans voted to impeach Mayorkas by a vote of 214 to 213. The vote catered to far-right Republicans, but impeachment will go nowhere in the Senate.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">"History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games," Biden said in a statement. He called on the House to pass the border security measure Republicans killed last week on Trump's orders, and to pass the national security supplemental bill.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has said he will use every possible tool to force a vote on the national security supplemental bill. In contrast, as Biden noted, House Republicans are taking their cue from former president Trump, who does not want aid to Ukraine to pass and who last night demonstrated that he is trying to consolidate his power over the party by installing hand-picked loyalists, including his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, who is married to his son Eric, at the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC). </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">This move is likely due in part to outgoing RNC chair Ronna McDaniel's having said the RNC could not pay Trump's legal bills once he declared himself a presidential candidate. After his political action committees dropped $50 million on legal fees last year, he could likely use another pipeline, and even closer loyalists might give him one. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">In addition, Trump probably recognizes that he might well lose the protective legal bulwark of the Trump Organization when Judge Arthur Engoron hands down his verdict in Trump's $370 million civil fraud trial. New York attorney general Letitia James is seeking not only monetary penalties but also a ban on Trump's ability to conduct business in the New York real estate industry. In that event, the RNC could become a base of operations for Trump if he succeeds in taking it over entirely. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">But it is not clear that all Republican lawmakers will follow him into that takeover, as his demands from the party not only put it out of step with the majority of the American people but also now clearly threaten to blow up global security. "Our base cannot possibly know what's at stake at the level that any well-briefed U.S. senator should know about what's at stake if Putin wins," Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) told his colleagues as he urged them to vote for the national security supplemental bill.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Politicians should recognize that Trump's determination to win doesn't help them much: it is all about him and does not extend to any down-ballot races. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Indeed, the attempt of a Republican minority to impose its will on the majority of Americans appears to be sparking a backlash. In today's election in New York's Third Congressional District to replace indicted serial liar George Santos, a loyal Trump Republican, voters chose Democrat Tom Suozzi by about 8 points. CNN's Dana Bash tonight said voters had told her they voted against the Republican candidate because Republicans, on Trump's orders, killed the bipartisan border deal. The shift both cuts down the Republican majority in the House and suggests that going into 2024, suburban swing voters are breaking for Democrats. </p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">As Trump tries to complete his takeover of the formerly grand old Republican Party, its members have to decide whether to capitulate.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">History is watching.</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">—</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">[If you prefer to hear me read this letter, it will be available tomorrow, at about noon, at these sites (for free):<br><br>On Substack: <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/96109be4-4221-42cd-b8c9-09549c192c6f?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64)">https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/podcast</a><br>On Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/bef76837-ea72-4e23-99a4-23b3ba9afee3?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64)">https://podcasts.apple.com/.../letters-from.../id1730358737</a> ]</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">—</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px">Notes:</p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/55f0a198-3be9-4af5-b815-3237f5086e48?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64)">https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minority/senator-collins-makes-case-for-national-security-supplemental</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/3e96fd26-2f35-4298-b17e-56e5ce927569?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64)">https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/06/border-bill-ukraine-aid-military-00139870</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/bd6e0df5-2c82-4d82-a751-7f67662ec22d?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(64,64,64)">https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/12/mike-turner-ukraine-funding-00140924</a></p><p style="color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 20px"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/5568da60-72c6-4da9-b641-49ad11b07b1f?j=eyJ1IjoiNjJxMWMifQ.dR175X4hKidjeUQqIEukO6McQkt0_Q7sT8A6No4UuWw" rel="" target="_blank" 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class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div><div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:roboto,sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin-bottom:1rem"><div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:xx-large"><b>3D printer creates brain tissue that acts like the real thing</b></span></div><div style="font-size:xx-large;text-align:center"><b>Advance could improve studies of brain development and neurological diseases</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><ul><li role="listitem" style="color:inherit;font-size:0.625rem;letter-spacing:0.02em;text-transform:uppercase;box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:0px;padding-top:0.25rem;padding-bottom:0.25rem"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">9 FEB 2024</span></li><li role="listitem" style="color:inherit;font-size:0.625rem;letter-spacing:0.02em;text-transform:uppercase;box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:0px;padding-top:0.25rem;padding-bottom:0.25rem"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">2:45 PM ET</span></li><li role="listitem" style="color:inherit;font-size:0.625rem;letter-spacing:0.02em;text-transform:uppercase;box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-top:0.25rem;padding-bottom:0.25rem"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-right:0.25rem">BY</span><a href="https://www.science.org/content/author/claudia-lopez-lloreda" title="Claudia López Lloreda" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">CLAUDIA LÓPEZ LLOREDA</a></li></ul><br></div></div></div></div> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br> </p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">By squirting cells from a 3D printer, researchers have created tissue that looks—and acts—like a chunk of brain. In recent years, scientists have learned how to load up 3D printers with cells and other scaffolding ingredients to create living tissues, but making realistic brainlike constructs has been a challenge. Now, one team has shown that, by modifying its printing techniques, it can print and combine multiple subtypes of cells that better mimic signaling in the human brain.</font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">"It's remarkable that [the researchers] can replicate" how brain cells work, says Riccardo Levato, a regenerative medicine researcher at Utrecht University who was not involved with the study. "It's the first demonstration that, with some simple organization [of cells], you can start getting some interesting functional [responses]."</font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">The new technology, described last week in Cell Stem Cell, could offer advantages over existing techniques that neuroscientists use to create 3D brain tissues in the lab. One common approach involves using stem cells to grow miniature brainlike blobs called organoids. But researchers can't control the types of cells or their precise location in these constructs. Each organoid "is unique," making it difficult to reproduce research results, says neuroscientist Su-Chun Zhang of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an author of the new study. With the right kind of 3D printing, however, "you can control where different cell types are placed," says developmental biologist Francis Szele of the University of Oxford.</font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><font size="4"><br></font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><font size="4"><br></font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">Past studies have used 3D printers to construct brain tissues that allowed researchers to study how the cells matured and made connections, and even integrate printed tissue into mouse brains. But those constructs had limited functionality. And efforts that produced more functional printed tissue used rat cells, not human cells.</font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">In the new study, Zhang's team printed separate horizontal lines of human neural and glial progenitor cells, which can develop into multiple brain cell types. They also tinkered with the composition of the "ink"—called hydrogel—which functions as a glue between the cells. Their novel hydrogel recipe lent support to the tissue, but wasn't so stiff that it prevented the cells from moving or forming connections, as they do in a real brain. The resulting 3D structures mimicked developing brains, with the cells forging connections with cells in their own band, as well as extending links toward other bands. That activity allowed researchers to observe how the progenitor cells mature and link up.</font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><font size="4"><br></font></p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:roboto,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><img src="https://www.science.org/do/10.1126/science.z260klq/files/_20240209_on_3_d_brain_printing.jpg" alt="Printed neural tissue with a green-red layered pattern" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-style:none;vertical-align:middle;width:412.005px;height:auto;max-width:100%;margin-bottom:0.5rem"></div> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">Researchers used a printer and different types of human brain cells to create a thin sheet of tissue that functioned similarly to a developing brain.YAN ET AL., 2024, CELL STEM CELL 31, 260–274</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4"><br></font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">The team then created different constructs by printing a variety of cells with specific ratios of each. One construct, for example, combined inhibitory and excitatory neurons that communicate using different types of signaling molecules, called neurotransmitters. The researchers then added astrocytes, an important type of supporting cell. In many cases, neurons produced electrical signals and astrocytes performed their job soaking up the neurotransmitter glutamate, suggesting they were making functional connections, similar to those in the brain. When researchers combined two cell types seen in the brain's outer cortex and deeper striatum, they found the cortical cells extended projections toward the striatal cells, but not the other way around, just as seen in the human brain. This told researchers that the constructs could replicate how the brain is organized.</font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><font size="4"><br></font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><font size="4"><br></font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">"It's really cool that despite [the simplicity of the constructs], they got proper connectivity," Szele says. And Levato says that although previous studies involving 3D printing of brain tissue had observed some functionality, they involved constructs that were "nowhere near the type of quality of tissue that they get here."</font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">Some experts, however, note that the printed tissues are still relatively thin—about 50 microns, or the diameter of a human hair—so they don't fully mimic the 3D complexity of a real brain. "The disadvantage is that they can only print one layer and stack them together, so it's more like 2.5D," says Oxford bioengineer and chemical biologist Linna Zhou, who was not involved in the study.</font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><font size="4"><br></font></p> <p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">Still, researchers say the technology could improve studies of brain development and diseases. For example, when Zhang and his group printed cells that had a mutation associated with a neurodegenerative condition called Alexander disease, they saw that the cells formed fewer connections, echoing observations in humans. Printing techniques like this one could "make bioengineered tissue more compatible with disease modeling," Zhou says. Eventually, researchers envision printing tissue that is fit for transplanting into patients who have lost brain tissue because of stroke, neurodegeneration, or a traumatic brain injury.</font></p> <div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Zhang and his team still think there is a lot of room to improve the technology, such as adding more cell types to mimic and better understand their interactions. Eventually, "Tissue by design," he says, "could help decode our human brain."</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">--- I</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><i> will be away for over two weeks. Finally get a good long boat ride to Hawaii and back. Kind of what cruising was like before the pandemic.</i></font></span></span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">****</div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Juan Matute</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#1155cc" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDZ-cLvEiM&t=5s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDZ-cLvEiM&t=5s</a></u></b></span></font><br></div><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#222222" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> (click on it)<br></span></font><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">― </span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold">The Lincoln Project</span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> 1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-68458184944806895302024-02-11T08:39:00.000-08:002024-02-11T08:40:19.981-08:00Another Example of IA ChatGP - 11 February<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>Formatting what the app sends back needs to be refined before it can be sent out, which I have learned from the first try. So, here is another attempt where ChatGP is asked to <span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-contextual">Write a biography of Rudy Giuliani in the style of Hunter S Thompson:</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-contextual"><br></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">Alright, strap yourselves in, folks, because this ain't your grandma's bedtime biography. We're gonna dive into the fever dream that is the life of Rudy Giuliani, America's one-time Mayor, a man who would make a hyena blush and a coyote howl with laughter.<br>Picture this: New York City, a simmering cauldron of sweat, sleaze, and ambition in the roiling 1980s. Rudy, a ball of manic energy in a cheap suit, is a federal prosecutor with a taste for the spotlight and a hunger for power sharper than a crack addict's broken tooth. He's got that wild-eyed preacher's gleam, a voice like a buzzsaw, and a moral compass that spins like a roulette wheel.<br><br>Rudy takes on the Mafia, those cockroaches of the concrete jungle, with a vengeance. He's a one-man wrecking crew, smashing wiseguys left and right with indictments and RICO charges. The cameras love him – he's the cowboy sheriff cleaning up Dodge City. But under the surface, something's festering, a darkness taking root. He's got a taste for the theatrical, for the roar of the crowd, and it ain't gonna be satisfied with just putting mobsters in the slammer.<br><br>Politics, that's the next fix. Rudy slithers into City Hall, promising law and order with a side of moral grandstanding. Yeah, he cleans up Times Square, chasing out the hookers and porn shops, but there's always a cost. The homeless disappear, the squeegee men vanish, and anyone who doesn't play by Rudy's rules gets the jackboot treatment. Dissent? Yeah, you can forget about it.<br><br>Now, here's where things get truly batshit crazy. 9/11 drops like an anvil from the sky and Rudy, bless his twisted soul, is in the spotlight again. He's "America's Mayor," stumbling through the ashes with a face stained in soot and a hunger in his eyes. It's his finest hour, maybe his only decent one, and he milks it for all it's worth.<br><br>But, like a junkie, he can't handle the comedown. His marriage? Up in flames. His reputation? Tarnished. His thirst for power? Unquenchable. He hitches his broken-down wagon to a failed reality TV star named Donald Trump, becoming his rabid bulldog, barking conspiracies and spewing bile. The further Rudy descends into this vortex of delusion, the crazier his rants become. Hair dye melts down his face like tar, he yells about Venezuelan voting machines and stolen elections, and the country looks on in horror.<br>So, this is the story of Rudy Giuliani: a man consumed by the spotlight, devoured by his own ambition. A crusader turned charlatan, a hero turned heel. There's a lesson in here somewhere, about the corrupting nature of power maybe, or how easy it is to lose your grip on reality in this madhouse of a world. Or maybe it's just a damn cautionary tale about giving into your darkest instincts. Buckle up, kiddies, it's a wild ride.</font><br></div><span class="gmail-J-J5-Ji" style="display:inline-flex;min-height:28px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:22px"><div class="gmail-pG" aria-label="Important mainly because it was sent directly to you." role="switch" aria-checked="true" tabindex="0" style="font-size:0px;padding:0px;width:20px;height:20px;display:inline-block;margin:0px 8px 0px 0px"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">****</div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Juan Matute</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#1155cc" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDZ-cLvEiM&t=5s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDZ-cLvEiM&t=5s</a></u></b></span></font><br></div><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#222222" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> (click on it)<br></span></font><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">― </span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold">The Lincoln Project</span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> 1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-69409756853752494322024-02-11T07:03:00.000-08:002024-02-11T07:04:01.746-08:00Something to Know - 11 February<div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><b>To those who are unfamiliar with ChatGPT, and similar programs, this might help. I asked my son and his wife (both savvy computer geeks) last night at dinner to explain to me about all this ChatGPT stuff. It is very simple to understand, but confusing since many people are bandying the term around, without telling what it is and how it works. Well, the story below gives you a short example. Over dinner, between pizza and salad, I was given an example. Here it is, my first one, and maybe the first of many more as I acquire more techniques and sophistication. Question to ChatGPT - "Give me a story of Donald Trump in the view(s) of Hunter S. Thompson" - This is the resulting unedited piece within one minute:</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji""><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;height:832.925px;overflow:auto"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;padding-bottom:2.25rem;padding-top:0.5rem;line-height:1.25rem"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;width:2103.33px"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;margin:auto;padding:0.5rem 1rem;line-height:1.5rem"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;display:flex;line-height:1.5rem;max-width:48rem"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;max-width:100%"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;min-height:20px;overflow-x:auto"><div style="text-align:left;border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4">Write a biography of Donald j Trump in the style of Hunter Thompson</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;width:2103.33px"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;margin:auto;padding:0.5rem 1rem;line-height:1.5rem"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;display:flex;line-height:1.5rem;max-width:48rem"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.125rem"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;height:1.5rem;width:1.5rem;overflow:hidden;border-radius:9999px"><div style="text-align:left;border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;height:24px;width:24px;border-radius:0.125rem;padding:0.25rem;background-color:rgb(25,195,125)"></div></div></div></div></div><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex"><div style="text-align:left;border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600"><font size="4">ChatGPT</font></div><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;max-width:100%"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;min-height:20px;overflow-x:auto"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none;line-height:1.75;width:652.995px"><p style="text-align:left;border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.25em"><font size="4">In the savage carnival of American politics, where reality morphs into a grotesque funhouse mirror, emerged Donald J. Trump – a flamboyant disruptor, a maverick with a golden façade. Fear and Loathing in the White House, the surreal tale of a New York tycoon turned Commander-in-Chief.</font></p><p style="text-align:left;border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.25em 0px"><font size="4">Trump, a swaggering showman, wielded words like weapons, hurling them like Molotov cocktails into the political arena. A maestro of chaos, he orchestrated a symphony of tweets that echoed through the hallowed halls of power. His candidacy, an audacious rampage through the establishment, left seasoned pundits dazed and confused.</font></p><p style="text-align:left;border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.25em 0px"><font size="4">With a bouffant of gold and a swagger that could only be described as larger than life, Trump surfed the zeitgeist like a madman on a magic carpet ride. The campaign trail became a psychedelic journey, with Trump at the helm, careening through the American psyche in a blaze of red hats and populist fervor.</font></p><p style="text-align:left;border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.25em 0px"><font size="4">In the Oval Office, Trump's reign was a rollercoaster of executive orders and diplomatic dalliances. The man who once fired "You're fired!" on reality TV now wielded the power to reshape nations. It was a gonzo presidency, where tweets were policy proclamations, and the White House press briefings resembled circus acts more than sober declarations.</font></p><p style="text-align:left;border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.25em 0px 0px"><font size="4">Yet, beneath the bombast and bluster, Trump's narrative was as enigmatic as the man himself. The billionaire with a taste for glitz and glamour reveled in the gritty realm of politics, a ringmaster in a circus of his own making. Love him or loathe him, he left an indelible mark on the American tapestry, a chapter in the nation's story that will forever be written in bold, brash strokes.</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="border:0px solid transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:medium"><div style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;width:2103.11px;padding-top:0.75rem"><a href="https://chat.openai.com/auth/login?next=%2Fshare%2Fd8ef782d-7ca4-44a6-9364-b98f8648402d" style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:inherit;display:flex;border-radius:0.75rem;padding:0.875rem 1.25rem" target="_blank"><br></a></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"> </div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">****</div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Juan Matute</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#1155cc" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDZ-cLvEiM&t=5s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDZ-cLvEiM&t=5s</a></u></b></span></font><br></div><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#222222" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> (click on it)<br></span></font><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">― </span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold">The Lincoln Project</span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> 1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178035685461409246.post-68614186564844376122024-02-10T11:27:00.000-08:002024-02-10T11:28:31.420-08:00RESEND to Correct a very serious typo - Something to Know - February 10 (thanks to my son for pointing it out)<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-aju" style="font-size:medium;display:flex;float:none;height:80px;padding:0px 16px;min-width:40px;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-aCi" style=""><img id="gmail-:180_1-e" name="gmail-:180" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocLpE6kFEWFIv6MbZIx-v1KsOs83uni3W7DdiHZxoRaPGac=s80-p" class="gmail-ajn" aria-hidden="true" style="width: 40px; 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A great example is what seems to be driving the Trump camp into apoplectic fits is the rise in social popularity by Taylor Swift. Why, you may ask, is why she is such a pivotal power in this game. Well, first of all, she commands much more attention on social media platforms than Trump. You name the internet program or format, and she dominates over Trump by BIG numbers (see below). Also, she has encouraged young females from the teens to the late 30s to register to vote, and they have been doing so. Isn't that a nice patriotic gesture?. The </font>problem<font size="4" style="font-size:small"> for Camp Orange Bully Bluster is that she wants all of her followers to vote for Biden. #45 is absolutely furious that his fake tan makeup is glorious Crimson Red. Camp Trump has taken the low road (why not, that is what they do), and </font>attack<font size="4" style="font-size:small"> the messenger, rather than explain why Trump would be a better choice. Anything Swift does needs to be denigrated and ripped up. It just so happens that her boyfriend plays for the Kansas City Chiefs, which has nothing to do with a political campaign. So her boyfriend and the entire Kansas City Chiefs football team is "the enemy". The Chief's opponent in the Superbowl Game tomorrow, the team known as the San Francisco 49ers, so Camp MAGA is rooting </font><font style="" size="6">for the 49ers. </font><font size="4" style="font-size:small"> This rooting match rates a first-rate study by Social Psychologists and </font>analyzing<font size="4" style="font-size:small"> the juxtaposition in having the image of a mid-Western, rural state with macho cowboys smoking Marlboros playing against the image of a LaLa Land bunch of Castro Street West Coast Intellectuals. I think it would be fitting if there was a Gay Pride float in Las Vegas (the venue for playing the game) under a large banner reading "We welcome the Trump MAGA fans for joining hands with the notorious SF Bay </font><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexuals who are rooting for the San Francisco 49ers". Touchdown!</font></span></b><br><br><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><div style="height:36px;text-align:right;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><div style="height:0px;clear:both"></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><div style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;font-family:headFont;margin:0px 0px 25px;font-size:39px"><p style="margin:0px 8px 0px 0px;display:inline-block">Taylor Swift's best bet for</p><p style="margin:0px 8px 0px 0px;display:inline-block">sending haters into a meltdown</p></div><div style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;font-family:headFont;margin:0px 0px 25px;font-size:39px"><div style="background-color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:400;text-align:start"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="https://misc.pagesuite.com/3630c326-c935-42f5-b0da-daebc36b7646/images/fbfe7d0f-97c2-47bc-aff5-83b86edf06c5.jpg" alt="" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(255,255,255);padding:5px 8px;font-size:17px">THE MAGA-SPHERE'S unhealthy obsession with Taylor Swift has reached critical mass. If the pop star encourages her army of fans to register to vote, it could affect the election. (Nick Wass Associated Press)</div></div></div><div style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:19px;font-weight:400;text-align:start"><p style="margin:0px;display:inline-block;padding-right:8px;font-family:bodyFont"><span name="byline_name">By Kurt Bardella</span></p></div><div style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:19px;font-weight:400;text-align:start"><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont"><span name="drop_initial-c__05">T</span><span name="stylechange__03">he right wing's </span>unhealthy obsession with Taylor Swift has hit critical mass in the run-up to this weekend's Super Bowl match-up between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">We'll set aside the strategic virtue of alienating a public figure who can single-handedly break the internet and focus instead on how Swift should seek revenge. And oh, by the way, if you don't think she understands a thing or two about revenge, just take a listen to "Reputation" or ask Scooter Braun or David Mueller.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">Taylor commands a social media army: 280 million followers on Instagram, 95.1 million on X, 23.9 million on TikTok, 80 million on Facebook and 56.3 million on YouTube. By comparison, Donald Trump has 23.7 million followers on the 'gram, 87.4 million on X, 24.5 million on Facebook, and 2.8 million on YouTube.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">The numbers speak for themselves. And there's more. A survey conducted last year by the Morning Consult found that avid Swift fans skew suburban, Democratic and, not surprisingly, female. They're mostly 18 to 39 years old. In the post-Dobbs political landscape, these are among the demographics President Biden most needs to turn out in order to pull off a November win.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">So while the obvious response to the MAGA hysteria might be to endorse Biden — something the president's team is hoping will happen — it's not Swift's best move. She endorsed Biden in 2020. Another endorsement isn't going to move the needle.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">Instead, the single most effective thing Taylor Swift could do to influence the presidential election is use her celebrity, exposure and platforms to get her army of Swifties registered to vote.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">A recent poll conducted by the Harvard Institute of Politics revealed that after record turnout in the 2020 elections, only half of 18-to-29-year-olds who voted then are planning to participate in the 2024 election. A poll conducted by NBC News showed young voters souring on Biden. A USA Today/Suffolk University poll had Biden losing the youth vote to Trump.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">If this election is going to be as close as the polls and prognosticators would have us believe, activating Swift's army of fans could be a difference maker. Without openly endorsing a candidate, she could launch her own voter registration effort and send the right-wing MAGA-sphere into meltdown mode.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">Imagine if Swift announced even a handful of relatively modest acoustic concerts in the swing states (Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin) where the price of admission was proof that you were registered to vote. Voter registration booths would be set up in front of the venue. The only problem would be dealing with the crowds.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">In September, Swift's voter registration superpower went on display. In an Instagram post, she pointed her followers toward the nonpartisan, nonprofit Vote.org website, which reported a 35,000 new-registration surge. In the run-up to the 2018 midterms, a post urging her followers to register to vote was linked to 100,000 new voter registrations in the 18-to-29 demographic.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">If this is the kind of engagement she generated from single posts, imagine the impact of a swing-state tour in support of voter registration.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">Trump's MAGA army has made a critical mistake waging open warfare against Taylor Swift. She could very well choose to ignore them. To stay above the fray. To spend 2024 selling out stadiums worldwide via the Eras Tour. To let the conspiracy theorists continue to dissemble.</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:bodyFont">If I were Taylor Swift, I wouldn't dignify the MAGA world with a response or reaction anytime soon. Instead, I'd let the campaigns unfold. Then, come fall, when it would matter most, when MAGA has moved on, when everyone has forgotten the insanity of the past few weeks, in a few strategic states that will decide the next election, maybe, just maybe, Swift should extract her revenge.</p><p style="margin:0px;display:inline-block;padding-right:8px;font-family:bodyFont"><span name="byline_name"><span name="endnote_contrib"></span></span></p><p style="margin:15px 0px"><span name="stylechange__03">Kurt Bardella</span> is a contributing writer to Opinion. @KurtBardella</p></div></div></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix" style="font-size:small"><div style="text-align:center">--</div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">****</div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Juan Matute</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#1155cc" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDZ-cLvEiM&t=5s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDZ-cLvEiM&t=5s</a></u></b></span></font><br></div><div style="padding:0px 5px 10px 0px;line-height:24px"><font color="#222222" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> (click on it)<br></span></font><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">― </span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold">The Lincoln Project</span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> 1ma2thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725468451433538168noreply@blogger.com0