I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Trill1943 - Fumigation? Believe it or not, one person in State government here, an anti-masker,is proposing spending the CARES money the state got on fumigation booths. Never mind that the virus is air borne spread through droplets, not clothing or the bottoms of our shoes.
IllinoisLady - sadly Trump is now encouraging voters to vote in the Senate run-off in Georgia. It would have been great if none of the people supporting the republican candidates showed up. But these swtiches and his continued denial and tirades, tantrums further illustrate his instability. Not only that but he is planninng on holding a campaign event during the inauguration
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I have a friend who is a retired history professor. She still lectures to senior groups, church groups etc about women's history, and she especially loves the first ladies especially Eleanor Roosevelt. She told me today, that she is excited to have a "real" first lady in the WH again, she is already planning the lecture in her mind, and she will NEVER offer a lecture about Melania! After all, what is there to say?
I've watched most of the First Ladies series on CNN, but somehow missed Lady Bird Johnson. I hope they repeat it. I keep looking for it.
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Lady Bird's focus was to beautify America. When we lived in Texas, landowners next to highways were given blue bonnet and Indian paintbrush seeds to plant where they could be seen. It sure made for some spectacular displays.
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It will be interesting to see if Melania even stays with him. I believe she renegotiated her pre-nup before she would even move into the White House. A lecture about Melania would take about two minutes.
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Trump -- he can't even figure out how to lose decently:
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We shall see. It's possible:
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Imo, Ethel Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson were two women whose star power and incredible accomplishments didn't get as much attention as they deserve because they fell in the shadow of the incomparable Jackie Kennedy. Jackie just eclipsed them. It's said that LBJ married Lady Bird because she came from a wealthy family, he had no money. She was highly educated for a woman for the time. When they were married, she inherited money, invested $41,000 of it in tv and radio properties and a couple of banks and became the first president's wife to have become a millionaire in her own right before her husband was elected to office. Oh, and LBJ didn't think she should invest that money, but she told him she could spend her inheritance however she wanted. She was the first 1st Lady to have a chief of staff and press secretary. And of course, her Highway Beautification Act paved the way to help keep America beautiful.
So apparently Mel isn't showing off the WH decorations this year. A statement was put out: the Office of the First Lady will host a preview of the 2020 holiday décor at the White House," but Trump herself "will not be in attendance." How can she ever live down her f bomb about Christmas.
Glennie, I feel the same way as your lecturer friend (good for her for never giving a talk on Mel), how great it will be to have a “real" first lady. I've read a couple books on the WH Christmas themes over the years and the creativity and inclusivity of all 50 states almost makes me weep, it is so well thought out and celebratory of all we are in the U.S. Melania makes me think she'd rather be spending her days in the spa.
I'm not sure she'll divorce Don, I will be very surprised if Donald does prison time. I just don't see it happening. I'd love to be wrong.
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I watched the Lady Bird episode of "First Ladies;" LBJ proposed to her on their first date! She was the original "steel magnolia."
I read an op-ed in the NYT by David Brooks (an ex-Republican who has become a centrist) about "The Rotting of the Republican Mind." Essentially, it's due to the culture wars, which is what I've been saying all along. As recently as the 1970s, it was possible for those without college degrees to get good jobs (especially unionized) with benefits, lucrative enough to buy a house & health care and support a family. But over the past few decades the most highly-educated Americans were hired in jobs (especially STEM & finance) that tended to be concentrated in & around larger cities. Those without college degrees in exurbs and rural towns fell further behind economically, especially as factories closed (due to recessions, focus of business shifting from products to investors, downsizing & outsourcing) and states increasingly kneecapped labor unions via misnamed "right-to-work" laws.
An entire generation grew up never having had the opportunity to get work in a "union shop," so resentment festered against those fortunate enough to be union members. Resentment and anomie were the fuel for the fire of polarization, and so right-wing conspiracy theories were a Godsend to those exploiting the sentiments of the poorly-educated and disaffected whites; and these theories (especially QAnon) were empowering to those who had perceived themselves to be otherwise powerless. Possessing "information" to which the better-educated were not privy fueled a sense of moral and intellectual superiority among the non-degreed. Being straight, white and Christian conferred a societal advantage (the accurate term "white privilege" drives them batshit) that could not be revoked so long as they were in the majority. Trump was their savior, Trumpism their spirituality. Trump rallies are their new church services, especially when their houses of worship are unavailable to them.
And these people--ill-informed as they may be--are highly motivated voters, whom GOP officeholders are deathly afraid of alienating by dissing Trump and renouncing Trumpism. Trumpism may lose its steam only if Trump is imprisoned, or dies in a manner not subject to even more conspiracy theories. The QAnon-ers in Congress & state legislatures will be more than happy to dedicatedly take up that banner.
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And let us not revel in Trump's vulnerability to criminal prosecution under NYS law. NYS has more stringent statutory and judicial-precedent protections for the accused than does the Federal justice system (and most other states). Alone among the states, it considers prosectution on state charges arising from the same circumstances as Federal prosecution to be double-jeopardy; and requires a substantial difference between the acts supporting state prosecution and those supporting a failed (or insufficiently-punitive) Federal prosecution in order for the state prosecution to go forward. And remember, the burden of proof on the prosecution in a criminal case is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" (which jurors are unlikely to find against a white person, powerful or not). So there is a distinct chance that NYCounty (Manhattan) D.A. Cyrus Vance may be unable to obtain a conviction--in which case Trump would be even more emboldened than he was after the fawning GOPers in Senate obsequiously failed to convict him after impeachment. BUT a pardon (either self-granted or more likely from an extremely short-term Pres. Mike Pence) would not immunize him against unspecified Federal charges not yet sought as of the date he leaves office, and certainly not against Federal charges for acts committed after the pardon.
His ruin is likelier in the civil cases, in which the plaintiff's burden of proof of acts & omissions underlying liability is "preponderance of the evidence:" in lay terms, "more likely than not," even only 50.00001% more likely than not. In which case, the plaintiffs need to hammer home to (and make sure the judge instructs) jurors inured to police/trial procedural TV shows that "beyond a reasonable doubt" has utterly no place in a civil case--and that every element of the tort or contract violation need only be proven by the standard of "more likely than not." (You wouldn't believe how many plaintiffs' civil suits are lost because jurors improperly apply the "reasonable doubt" standard to one or more of those elements--which is why in many countries, Canada included, a defendant's right to trial-by-jury is limited to criminal cases).
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Nice to have a president inspiring kids again.
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I expect Trump to continue being treasonous and break the criminal code even after Jan 20. He's his own worst enemy and his ego is too much of a hinderance to smooth operation of a fully-grown man who has his interests in mind.
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As we weave the tapestries of our lives, we gradually begin to see our designs from a wider angle of years. We may or may not be pleased with what we see. Yet, no design--not in the living world--is carved in stone. We have the gift of free will to change our designs as we wish. We are each a thread in the tapestry of our human family. Our outcome is woven of endless possibilities, because we can choose from a universe of endless possibilities. Every person can make a difference. Each thread is a possibility, chosen by the design of divine imagination. Our life-time designs arise from our divine gifts, unique talents, desires, thoughts, choices, and actions. At times, old choices--old threads--wear out. We see the past while we live in the present, and we can replace the old...with new ideas, new choices, and new actions. We can view the future through today's eyes, and time blends all experiences, dark and light, into an awareness of authentic joy. May you live joyfully and abundantly today and throughout every season of life! -Steve Brunkhorst
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Hope this link works: https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119126 . It is mainly about the destructive time period after Trump lost and until he finally started the transfer of power to Biden.
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I checked it out and it does open for me -- so hopefully all of you. Since this last four yrs. of a presidency that never should have been and the horror and antics that have been allowed mainly through the Reps. rt. side of things who can say how this will ultimately play out. The arc of what is right, fair and good did its job and bent mightily for justice. So, that is mainly how I will continue to look at things. Whether Trump is allowed to do as he wishes and start a campaign for 2024 who knows. It would be a way for him to upstage the Biden inauguration but there are millions upon millions of people whose enthusiasms to build back better that will be refusing attempts to thwart what was hard fought and hard won.
If Trump is prosecuted and it sure sounds like there is a big heaviness on possibility it is hard to say. I do think a lot needs to happen here. Mainly, we need to PROVE that we won't allow the rule of law to be toyed with and trashed to the benefit of one person. We need Trump and his enablers along with anyone else who may wish to bring down democracy to know that many of the U.S. people have no willingness to give up what so many died for or to give up our shining place in the city on the hill. WE wish to remain a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
So, I do hope Trump is prosecuted as much as he can be and if by chance federal chgs. could come, all the better. I think the time has come to reestablish our Constitution -- to modernize it for today and to give it strength and purpose. I am hoping for a great choice for AG who won't shy away from returning to all of us a reason to have faith and hope that no one is above the law -- not Trump, not Barr, nor any of those who broke the law enabling a derelict mentally incompetent person to ride roughshod over all we hold dear.
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