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Colorado takes Trump off the ballot because of the insurrection. The headlines are that Congress is upset. You can't have it both ways, either you like state rights or you don't like states rights. I thought the right liked states rights. ( NY Times ) Mike Johnson think it's a partisan move. Everything that far right wing Christian nationalist does is partisan so of course he thinks that. And he helped and was complicit in the insurrection, so he's also going to be against being held accountable for that day's actions. The lower court ruling was partisan and that's why it went to the state supreme court. How can a centrist work with someone so blatantly hypocritical and corrupt? I know I'm on the right track when Lindy Li agrees with me. "The case was filed by six Republicans, and the Colorado Supreme Court cited a previous ruling by Justice Gorsuch in their decision. Trump's own party did this, not Democrats." ( Cole ) Thus making Mike Johnso...

I really appreciate this article, which I disagree with:  The Secret of Trump’s Appeal Isn’t Authoritarianism by Matthew Schmitz. He suggests that the excessive claims and other noise hides the fact that Trump mostly is a pragmatic negotiator, and he suggests that gets us the best deals.  It's true that people can take exaggerated stances publically to make space for negotiation.  It's more complicated than that, and if the rhetoric is accompanied with insurrection attempts and a rise in hate crimes, that even if the rhetoric provides softer negotiation grounds, that it's still the wrong thing to do. That it dismisses white supremacy and other hate rhetoric is convenient. That is overlooks so much is convenient. Humans are quite limited and simplifying appeals to people. My political orientation sees Schmitz's orientation as quite a threat. But I really appreciate the articulation of the position for Trump because honestly to me, he's so obviously evil, I need that...

I'm trying to read more but my daughter has been under the weather, and so I've been watching TV because I can pause, and the interruptions don't jar as much as reading interruptions where I really need to concentrate.  Now why do I need to say I'm trying to read more? I suppose there's something about watching the idiot box that makes me want to compensate. No commercials though, that's such a relief. I really like TV without commercials. I say TV, but I'm streaming on my laptop. I watched the Archer final movie, or whatever it's called. I really liked that show and I've watched it over and over, but a few months ago, it flipped on me, and I wasn't as interested. And for some reason this last movie didn't interest me. It wasn't bad, I just don't remember much from watching it. There are a few funny lines like Glarry Poppins for the new character. And the resolution was ambiguous. There could be more.  Then I watched Leave The World ...

“114. But now think of the Dutch expression: "Dat zin maar blauwe bloempjes" - “Those are nothing but blue flowers." In which case "blue flowers" means a pack of bald-faced lies.” - from Bluets by Maggie Nelson . It's an odd little book, which is part of it's charm. She's personal, confessional, literary, historical.  "You cannot step into the same river twice" heartening anthem, without a doubt. But really this is but one version of the fragment left behind by Heraclitus, who was justly nicknamed "The Riddler" or "The Obscure." Other versions: "On those stepping into rivers staying the same other and other waters flow"; "We step and do not step into the same river; we are and we are not"; "You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others, go flowing on." It seems that something is staying the same here, but what?" (p. 80).

One plot device is to not tell someone something and then the other person gets upset. That's a huge plot device. Nobody runs around and informs their friends of every little detail, but of course it does sign some hesitancy in romantic relationships. I think it's OK to have some hesitancy in intimate relationships. I can't help but think of Secrets and Lies by Mike Leigh (1996) Plot devices can irk people, that's not realism. But if Hamlet kills his uncle the play is over, or a quite different play. In fact there is a lot of what if fiction. I remember once someone was irked that Cheryl Strayed was a heroin addict for a time. She square community disapproved. There's a lot more on heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophies.  The other plot device is being threatened by rivals, and triangles. If things get bogged down, introduce a romantic rival.  I love how passive aggressive Emily Gilmore is. There's a real problem of respecting other people'...

Some quotes first: "I went to the peace office and instead of typing letters for the peace boys I wrote to newspapers saying I had been hurt and it was bad and not all right and because I didn't know sophisticated words I used the words I knew and they were very shocked to death; and the peace boys were in the office and I refused to type a letter for one of them because I was doing this and he read my letter out loud to everyone in the room over my shoulder and they all laughed at me, and I had spelled America with a 'k' because I knew I was in Kafka's world, not Jefferson's, and I knew Amerika was the real country I lived in." P.xvi “ "The worst immorality," she wrote, "is in living a trivial life because one is afraid to face any other kind of life-a despairing life or an anguished life or a twisted and difficult life."” p. xix. "man' and 'woman' are fictions, caricatures, cultural constructs ... reductive, totalitar...

That is the question. NY Times op ed piece suggested that ignoring all the shenanigans actually promotes acceptance, ignoring. I'm done with Trump, DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Cruz, MTG, Bobo, Gertz, Santos and Christofascist Mike Johnson. These people are beneath America. It's crazy when a Cheney, Chisty and Romney are the sane ones. They're worse than carnival barkers. Dante has the deepest level of hell for them. The strategy is to overwhelm the parent with bad behavior so some slips through. Never mind it's being in the child position as a leader. The body rots from the top, we need a better system for finding politicians besides who is the most grandiose and venial. The far right wing Christofascist are trying to sneak in behind the grifter wingbats. It's a void, and that's where revolutions come. Not amplifying their grifts does make space for some of it to sneak by. But I don't have time to be the policeman of America, it's a crowd sourcing job. It's...