Jimmy Kimmel is going back on the air tonight, after Disney lost $6 BILLION from people cancelling their accounts over his free speech censorship. I remind you, you vote with your dollars! I’m on the fence about re-subscribing to Hulu; I’ll have to wait and see how much they throttle him tonight.
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
We are not here to change the Earth’s environment. We will be available should it experience a nuclear war which most of you have to admit is close to happening. If you are to continue life on this planet after you will need our help.
We have terraformed thousands of planets. Life is so fragile; the right temperature, the right distance from the planet’s sun, and the measure of time needed by the support species to develop and change takes billions of years without our intervention. Leave one thing slightly off and there can be no life.
Every planet in order to support life needs some basic elements. In most cases those elements needs a core of heat from the planet has to churn those elements for millions of years. Evaporating, Harding, them into something that creates or supports life. So you guys know how to shorten that span, or even eliminate it and start life with a bang. Sort of like the short work of the Immortal. Does that mean IT isn’t needed any more.
Not necessarily. S*/~ provides that foreign element to the planet’s environment they are terraforming to achieve life that will support the life they intend to occupy the planet. But so far they are capable of only implanting elements that allow for nuclei acids to form.
The Immortal creates environments that supports life by causing nuclei acids and other compositions to start reacting and replicating into what becomes life that can survive in the environment IT has created. Big Difference. One creates an environment for a particular life to exist on a particular planet. The other creates a Universe that supports different forms of life without end.
Hence, if IT could be destroyed, the Universe would cease to exist because it would stop expanding. Only The GODS are more important.
It is a decision they(meaning the white bigots) made to “ avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.” What “tense situation?” Obviously they mean the feelings of the Right. The death of that racist pig didn’t upset the rest of us. Of course one wouldn’t know that with all the leading democrats rushing to apologize for the bastard’s death.
Where was the right when blacks or children or others on the Left are murdered? What flag was lowered to signal that one of those deaths was a moment for national reflection? The leaders of the Democratic Party signaled that the creep was of some importance when they all lined up to send apologies for his death as if that racist MF did something important while he lived to justify acknowledging his life’s work.
The “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson has proven to be prophetic again. Here we have a white death no matter how evil the live was to be judged to be more important than a non white death no matter how significant that live was.
This guy summed it up rather succinctly.
https://www.threads.com/@indyamoore/post/DOnO4N0DRK5?xmt=AQF02vrUpVhjATWf3fgI2d5tkWTgACj5-591rlliHg3xOA&slof=1
He was passionate. Good for him
It was suddenly no longer enough for us to lament Kirk’s untimely death, mourn for his family or shudder at the violence that took a young man’s life just as he was hitting his prime spreading hate, derision, racism and other maga bullshit. No, unless we also got on board with Kirk’s worldview and participated in his canonization, we would deserve whatever punishment the Trump Administration and the MAGA faithful would mete out.
That’s what the mainstream media is serving up every day now. Bullshit, we need to stop listening to this shit.
Now that we are safely back I have a story to tell you about the Immortal. My crew and him were supposed to go out to meet some members from the W^ mothership. The Immortal was tagging along because I promised to show him how to pilot the Dhulo that we were flying. Something prevented the three other crew members from arriving on time. Our D/o was flung out into an uncharted area of the Known Universe. I thought that we were still in the Milky Way Galaxy, just not within the coordinate details of my craft. In short we were lost in space.
Suddenly there appeared this huge MotherShip. They hailed us. We responded and they caught us with a tug and brought our vessel inside theirs. Then they proceeded to interrogate us concerning the nature of our origins. We told them that we were lost. They analyzed our ship’s log and threatened torture us unless we provided more details concerning our origins. The Immortal just started talking to me as if they weren’t there.
He said that he had to be back to meet someone and this was a big inconvenience. The aliens were not pleased. Their armada uncloaked and there were about a dozen visible MotherShips or at least ships the size of our MotherShips. We were passed along to different vessels until we were returned to our vessel with the distinct instructions to cooperate or face painful interrogation.
The Immortal became angry and just got rid of them. Since they had all vanished, I used a navigation tie-in with their system charts to get us back here. The Vessel that we returned in is being examined by my MotherShip. It seems their technology is so superior to ours that they may have been an exploratory party looking to invade this part of the Milky Way, if they were even part of the Milky Way.
My MotherShip is providing access to this vessel to alert those in and outside the Gate of the possible danger of invasion.
ITS first instinct is to kill.
I’m not sure its instinct as much as boredom.
Maybe you forgot to mention that the immortal was talking to them nicely and you were the one who was a little bit aggressive with them at first.
Did you forget to mention that they tried to take all the data that you guys have and where you came from so they could invade and conquer.
Interesting! We too will ask these questions.
Thanks for the info. I’m starting to believe this ????? Can’t be as bad as the aliens claim it to be.
If you are who we think you are, thank you for going off the standard and revealing more than N[4’s mothership is willing to reveal.
Thank you. It was astonishing to discover there was a lot more to the tale than was presented.
They’re always is!
After attending a black-tie dinner at Windsor Castle with King Charles last week, the idiot in chief said, “I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating Antifa, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” he wrote on social media. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Nearly every word in the president’s post was a lie. Antifa isn’t an organization. There is no legal statute with which to declare antifa a “major terrorist organization.” Nor does antifa have a network of rich, shadowy benefactors who can be unmasked.
In the wake of Kirk’s shooting, NBC news reported that there is absolutely zero evidence linking Kirk’s assailant to left wing ideology or left-wing groups, radical or otherwise. Zero. But Donald Trump is not one to let facts get in the way of a good story. He has his narrative and he’s sticking to it regardless of how dangerous it is, and regardless of how it will increase the temperature. In fact, that’s what he wants.
Donald, of course, was not the only member of his regime engaging in hateful and violent rhetoric. White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, was positively apocalyptic. I expect nothing from Miller. He is a vile Nazi and white nationalist, but the speech he gave was something Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of.
The light will defeat the dark. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble, and to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us. What do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy. You are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing. We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity.
Indeed, these words are eerily reminiscent of Goebbels’ 1932 speech, “The Storm Is Coming.” So not only is Stephen Miller a vile Nazi, he’s also a plagiarist, but that’s literally the least bad thing you can say about him.
It’s a matter of small importance that Donald Trump has created nothing in his miserable life. This Republican fascist party is similarly incapable of building anything good. All they have done in the first eight months of the Trump regime is destroy American values, American standing, American institutions, Americans’ rights. Miller’s speech and its tenor is right out of the Nazi playbook. He’s dehumanizing people on the left to advance an anti-American agenda. It is horrific that Charlie Kirk was murdered, and I had nothing to do with it. I’m certain none of you did either.
As far as I’m aware, it was the work of one man whose motives we don’t yet even know.
Republican leadership is using Charlie Kirk’s death to further their fascist agenda. They’re using the death of a man they claim to care about to make America an increasingly dangerous place–at least if you don’t agree with them. They’re using Kirk’s murder to chill free speech and to put all of us who are on the other side on notice. Consider us warned.
Did You Know
In 1992, an Australian gambling ring purchased $5 million worth of tickets in the Virginia state lottery in a bid to secure almost every possible winning combination; their gamble paid off, and they walked away with $27 million, a 540 percent return on their investment.
Did You Know
A beaver can hold its breath under water up to an impressive 15 minutes (the average human can hold their breath between 30 – 90 seconds).
Why Alcohol Wipes Can Damage Your Screen
To understand why wet wipes can damage screens, it helps to look at the coatings on them—these top layers are what get affected. Although an alcohol wipe is super unlikely to permanently ruin your screen. Most screens have two fairly common types of coatings: anti-glare and oleophobic.
Anti-glare (or sometimes anti-reflective, which is similar but more expensive) coatings are common on all types of screens, including monitors, TVs, and laptops. This thin layer is applied directly to the surface to reduce glare and reflections from light sources like the sun and indoor lights, making the screen easier to see.
Oleophobic coatings are common on touchscreens such as laptops, tablets, and phones. Their purpose is to repel oil and dirt, making the surface easier to clean. Note that the two coatings are not mutually exclusive, and many screens use both an anti-glare coating and, on top of that, an oleophobic coating.
Unfortunately, both types of coatings are rather delicate and can be damaged by chemicals commonly found in wet wipes. Alcohol, which is present in most wet wipes, is strong enough to dissolve both anti-glare and oleophobic coatings. While using a wet wipe just once is unlikely to cause permanent damage due to the relatively low concentration, frequent use can gradually dissolve and strip the coatings over time.
Without the oleophobic coating, your screen will attract more fingerprints, and without the anti-glare coating, you’ll see stronger reflections from sunlight and indoor lighting, making it harder to see the content. Damage that occurs unevenly can arguably be even worse, as it leaves areas with more reflections and a patchy appearance.
Alcohol isn’t the only ingredient in wet wipes that can damage these coatings. Ammonium compounds, mild acids (usually citric acid), and various other solvents and surfactants can also slightly degrade the protective layers. Even wipes marketed as safe for electronics contain many of these chemicals, though typically at lower concentrations.
Wipes Can Damage Keyboards and Other Plastics, Too
When people clean their laptop screens or monitors, they don’t usually stop there. The keyboard, mouse, and trackpad often get the same alcohol-wipe treatment. In fact, it’s even more tempting to clean and disinfect these surfaces since they’re touched constantly and tend to get even dirtier.
However, alcohol and other solvents commonly found in wet wipes are very harsh on some types of plastics, rubber, and soft-touch coatings. Keyboard letters can wear off, colors can fade, and plastics or rubber can dry out and take on a dull, faded appearance. This significantly accelerates the wear on those materials, so it’s best to avoid alcohol wipes altogether.
My wife used wipes every day to clean her laptop, and in addition to damaging the screen and drying out the keyboard, the soft-touch finish on the trackpad eventually started peeling off entirely.
While it’s possible the trackpad would have peeled eventually anyway, the wipes likely accelerated the process by several years. I actually had the same laptop, and my touchpad didn’t peel at all because I didn’t use wet wipes.
Acetone wipes, like those used for removing nail polish, are particularly harmful—they can completely melt polymers. Just look at what happened to my Logitech G502’s side buttons when I foolishly tried using acetone to remove glue residue!
If the wet wipes are particularly, well, wet, they can cause even more harm. If liquids seep through the keys and reach the motherboard underneath the keyboard, they can cause a short circuit. Admittedly, this is extremely unlikely, as it would require a large amount of liquid, but it could theoretically happen.
You Don’t Even Need Alcohol to Clean
While alcohol wipes can do a better job of cleaning screens and keyboards because alcohol dissolves fingerprints and dirt more easily, they’re absolutely not necessary for cleaning your monitor or laptop.
All you really need is a soft microfiber cloth and some tap water—or even better, distilled water, so you don’t leave hard water marks. Microfiber cloths have superfine fibers that won’t scratch the surface but will still wipe off almost anything, even if it’s greasy or sticky.
They pull dust and oils into the fibers, leaving you with a squeaky-clean surface. Paper towels or toilet paper can be tempting, but they’re far too harsh and can scratch the screen while leaving lint behind, and they don’t even clean nearly as well as microfiber.
Turn the monitor off completely, then dab a bit of water onto the microfiber cloth and wipe the screen. You can use a circular motion, side to side, or up and down—it doesn’t really matter, though circular motions are better at removing tough stains like soft drink splashes. The water will dissolve most stains with a little elbow grease. It’s important to use a very light touch, as pressing too hard can damage the screen internally.
Immediately after using the damp microfiber cloth, wipe the screen down with a dry one. This minimizes the risk of water seeping into the monitor while also removing any potential streaks or lint. That’s really all you need to clean a monitor.
For a mouse and keyboard, I typically use a hard-bristle brush to get into the grooves and crevices as much as possible, then follow up by wiping the surface down with a very slightly damp microfiber cloth, immediately followed by a dry one. For smaller crevices, a slightly damp cotton swab works well.
For mechanical keyboards, you can simply remove the keycaps and wash them with warm water and a mild soap, such as liquid hand soap or dish soap. Just leave them to dry for a couple of days afterwards or longer, as water gets deep into the stems and could potentially end up in the switches.
While wet wipes are perfectly safe for your skin, don’t use them on your monitor, laptop, TV, phone, or pretty much any other surface they weren’t designed for. They can strip off the anti-glare and oleophobic coatings on your screen. The risk may not be huge, but it’s completely unnecessarily and you can easily avoid it by using a microfiber cloth and a bit of distilled water instead.
Part II: why all the Katie’s crying over Kirk and wtf does TPUSA do?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO7EVVdDFuM/?igsh=MXR4amVnMDFkbTExbg==
That was eye opening. We are in trouble because the Right has no boundaries they won’t cross to win. We need politicians and speakers who will counter their BS messages with truth that calls them what they are. Gov Newsom is a start with his counter to their gerrymandering, but we need more, much more.
“… while people might be loath to admit it, ambition in a woman is too often viewed with a combination of ambivalence and disdain. Ambition can be interpreted as undue aspiration and when that happens, the math in that zero sum game never works. When a woman is expected to dim her light to make others feel more comfortable, it’s not just the woman who loses. The same holds true when she has to downplay her story — or her justifiable anger.”
“ The structure of the book is a day-by-day diary. The chapters are often short, some just a page or two.
The countdown structure makes for a breezy read while revealing the strange inner workings of a campaign, Harris’ sense of humor, and her occasional penchant for profanity. When Trump questions whether she is really Black while speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists, her campaign staff suggests that Harris respond by delivering a treatise on race, much like Barack Obama did in the run-up to his first campaign.
Her chosen response: “Are you f—— kidding me?”
“I was not about to take Trump’s bait. He lies all the time,” Harris writes. “He throws out outrageous statements to distract from real issues. Today he wants me to prove my race. What next? He’ll say I’m not a woman and I’ll need to show my vagina?”
That was the end of that discussion.”
Harris has said she tried hard not write an “I told you so” book. But she did tell us. Clearly. Repeatedly. Eloquently. Urgently. Her book is required reading for anyone who wants to better understand the most consequential election of our lifetime that was won not by a mandate but by one of the closet margins in a century.
Of all the things she knew and expected to come, the one thing she said she didn’t know would happen was the capitulation.
September 24, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
Hours after delivering his delusional and offensive speech to the United Nations yesterday, President Donald J. Trump did an about-face on his previous support for Russia in its war against Ukraine. After he met with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, his social media account posted: “I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” which would be before Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea. Trump noted the profound toll the war is taking on Russia’s economy and speculated that Ukraine might even be able to take Russian land. “In any event,” Trump posted, “I wish both Countries well. We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them. Good luck to all!”
As Nick Paton Walsh of CNN noted, this statement doesn’t actually change much on the ground in the war. What it does, though, is suggest that Trump has lost interest in the conflict and is attempting to wash his hands of it.
The president made a similar escape from a planned meeting with Democratic leaders scheduled for Thursday to talk about keeping the government open. Yesterday he canceled the meeting by posting on social media that “[a]fter reviewing the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive.”
He went on to claim that Democrats want to shut down the government “unless they can have over $1 Trillion Dollars [sic] in new spending to continue free healthcare for Illegal Aliens,” and then detoured into unrelated attacks on Democrats over immigration and transgender athletes and claimed that his “HISTORIC LANDSLIDE” in the 2024 presidential election means the Democrats have to agree to his demands.
Ben Johansen and Meredith Lee Hill of Politico report that, in fact, Trump decided to cancel the meeting at the urging of House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD). Sources told the journalists that the Republican lawmakers were afraid meeting with Democrats would erode Republicans’ leverage in the struggle over funding the government.
That funding runs out on September 30, and Congress has not yet passed appropriations bills to keep it going. On September 19 the House passed a continuing resolution to keep the government funded at current levels through November 21 and to provide additional money for security for congress members. The 217–212 vote was largely along party lines, with one Democrat voting for the measure and two Republicans voting against it. Congress is not meeting this week, and after the measure passed, Speaker Johnson informed members that the House would not meet on the scheduled days of Monday, September 29, or Tuesday, September 30, thus jamming the Senate into accepting the House measure or shutting down the government.
The Senate failed to pass the House measure on the 19th, with two Republicans voting no and Democrats saying they would refuse to support any measure that did not extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies that Republicans cut in their budget reconciliation bill of July and roll back some of that act’s cuts to Medicaid. That budget reconciliation law, which Republicans call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, allows the enhanced premium tax credits that made ACA coverage more affordable for households between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level to lapse at the end of this year. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that this change will mean 4.2 million Americans will become uninsured in the next ten years (on top of those who are expected to lose Medicaid coverage). As healthier people opt to go without insurance, premiums on those who stay in the markets are skyrocketing.
Extending the subsidies as the Democrats want is popular even among many Republicans, who recognize how hard Americans are going to be hit by rising healthcare costs. But other Republicans who continue to oppose the Affordable Care Act refuse even to consider such a change and are pushing off such a divisive issue. Taken together, the Democrats’ demands would cost around a trillion dollars, but those benefits would not go to “Illegal Aliens.”
Unless they nuke the filibuster, Republicans will need eight Democratic votes to get to the sixty votes they need to pass a continuing resolution, but they are refusing even to talk to the Democrats. In a Fox News Channel interview on September 12, Trump said of Democrats, “There is something wrong with them.… [T]hey want to give away money to this or that and destroy the country.” “Don’t even bother dealing with them,” he advised Republican lawmakers. “We will get it through because the Republicans are sticking together for the first time in a long time.”
Despite their determination to go it alone and their control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency, Republican leaders are working hard to pin a looming shutdown on the Democrats. The Democrats want no part of that storyline: “For a guy who claims to understand ‘The Art of the Deal,’ Donald Trump is awfully scared of negotiating one,” Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker said. “Trump and Congressional Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the White House. But they’d rather shut down the government, tank the economy, and cut healthcare benefits than do their jobs.”
Rather than engaging in the hard work of negotiation, Trump appears to want to use the government for his own ends.
After the outcry over the use of the Federal Communications Commission to strongarm ABC into suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s television show, many Republicans insisted that the suspension was simply a business decision. Trump torpedoed that argument today when he took to social media to complain that Kimmel is back on the air.
Trump did not mention Kimmel’s reference to Charlie Kirk’s murder—allegedly the reason for Kimmel’s suspension—when he complained: “He is yet another arm of the [Democratic National Committee] and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution.” He continued: “I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.”
Over the weekend, acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik Siebert, a career prosecutor, resigned after he concluded there was not enough evidence of a crime to charge New York attorney general Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud or former FBI director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress. Siebert’s refusal to prosecute drew Trump’s wrath. On Monday, White House aide and Trump’s former personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan—who is leading the administration’s review of exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution museums—took over the job. She has no experience as a prosecutor.
Today, Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonnig of MSNBC reported that three sources have said they expect Halligan to try to get a grand jury to indict Comey before the five-year statute of limitations on lying to Congress runs out in six days. Chris Strohm of Bloomberg reports that the Department of Justice is also pushing forward with the case against Attorney General James.
While Trump persecutes those he perceives as enemies, administration figures who have called for slashing spending both at home and for foreign aid are using taxpayer money to push their own priorities overseas. Daniel Flatley and Patrick Gillespie of Bloomberg reported today that the U.S. is preparing a $20 billion rescue package to bail out Argentina’s right-wing leader Javier Milei, an ally of Donald Trump, before October elections.
They are offering this financial support despite the fact Argentina recently suspended its grain export tax, undercutting the U.S. soybean farmers who have lost their huge Chinese market because of Trump’s tariff war. Within hours, China bought up Argentina’s soybeans.
Administration officials are also ignoring the laws Congress passed to fund foreign aid and are instead funding their own priorities. In August, the administration told Congress it was not going to spend almost $5 billion Congress had appropriated for foreign aid, prompting Susan Collins (R-ME), the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, to warn that “[a]ny effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.”
Today, Noah Robertson of the Washington Post reported that the State Department has informed Congress it intends to redirect $1.8 billion of foreign aid funding toward “America First” projects like countering “Marxist, anti-American regimes” in Latin America, supporting “U.S. immigration policies” in Africa, and pursuing investments in Greenland and Ukraine, although the language of the announcement is vague enough that it is not entirely clear what these programs will do.
Robertson identifies this announcement as a dramatic change from the previous, bipartisan U.S. focus on promoting national security by promoting democracy and health and higher standards of living around the world through investments in institutions like the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which the Trump administration dismantled as soon as it took office.
Top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire told Robertson said the Trump administration is “attempting to raid programs that Congress has authorized and appropriated to strengthen democracy, advance peace and support vulnerable communities and instead funnel that money into an unaccountable slush fund.”
Although Jimmy Kimmel Live! was preempted in about 23% of the homes that use television, ABC said 6.26 million people tuned in to watch. Kimmel’s usual television audience is about 1.42 million. ABC says another 26 million people watched his monologue on social media, including YouTube.
In it, Kimmel said: “This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.” He called the administration’s attempt to take him off the air “un-American.”
So what caused tRump to change his mind on Ukraine. In February, President Donald Trump brusquely told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “You don’t have the cards” to defeat Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
But yesterday he was declaring on Truth Social that Russia is a “paper tiger” and claiming that Ukraine has “great spirit” and “is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form” with the support of NATO.
Trump’s startling new pivot caught both Moscow and Kyiv by surprise, and prompted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to fire back on Wednesday: “Russia is more compared with a bear. There are no paper bears.”
From Robert Reich via Substack. Could he be right?
Friends,
I can’t tell you exactly how I know, but after 60 years in and around politics I’ve developed a sixth sense, and my sixth sense tells me the tide is now turning on Trump.
This past week did it.
On Monday, he sued the Times in a lawsuit that, as CNN put it, read “like a pro-Trump op-ed, with page after page of gushing praise for the president.”
On Tuesday, he accused reporter Jonathan Karl and his employer, ABC News, of engaging in hate speech against him and warned that Pam Bondi, the attorney general, might go after them.
On Wednesday, after Brendan Carr, his lapdog chair of the FCC, pressured ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel, he claimed that Kimmel being “CANCELLED” was “Great News for America” and urged NBC to fire Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers next.
On Thursday, he said broadcast networks have been mean to him and that Brendan Carr might have to start taking their licenses away. “When you have a network and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump,” he said, “they’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that. They’re an arm of the Democrat Party.”
On Friday, he suggested that negative coverage about him is “really illegal.” Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office he said: “They’ll take a great story and they’ll make it bad. See, I think that’s really illegal,” adding, “Personally, you can’t take, you can’t have a free airwave if you’re getting free airwaves from the United States government.”
On Saturday, he demanded that Bondi prosecute several of his political rivals even though grand juries and federal prosecutors couldn’t find any evidence of wrongdoing. He demanded that she do it “NOW!!!”
On Sunday, at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, he said that he disagreed with Kirk’s supposed leniency toward his ideological foes, adding: “I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them.”
You could almost feel the great sleeping giant of America open an eye and frown, then blink both eyes and sit up and stretch, and then roar, “What the hell is going on here?”
Immediately after Kimmel’s suspension, Disney viewers and customers began to cancel their subscriptions to Disney+ and Hulu and threaten a broader consumer boycott.
According to Strength in Numbers, the Disney boycott quickly became four times as large as any boycott over the last five years.
Disney’s stock dipped about 3.5 percent and continued to trade lower in subsequent days — a loss in market value amounting to some $4 billion.
Even Ted Cruz — Ted Cruz! — began issuing grave warnings about censorship.
By then the giant was roaring and stomping.
By Monday, Disney decided to put Kimmel back on the air.
Trump’s poll numbers were dipping even before last week’s explosion of authoritarianism. Now they’re in free fall.
I’m old enough to have witnessed the great sleeping giant of America awaken before.
Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunt destroyed countless careers before the giant roared: “Have you no sense of decency?”
McCarthy melted almost as quickly as the Wicked Witch of the West. His national popularity evaporated. Three years later, censored by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy drank himself to death, a broken man at the age of 48.
The giant roared again a decade later, after television showed civil rights marchers getting clobbered by white supremacists. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act.
It roared again after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in the jungles of Vietnam, finally bringing to an end one of the nation’s costliest, deadliest, and stupidest wars.
It roared again at Richard Nixon after Nixon was heard on tape plotting the cover-up of Watergate — then being forced to exit the White House by helicopter on his way back to California.
It is starting to roar again now — at the sociopathic occupant of the Oval Office who won’t tolerate criticism, who in one wild week revealed his utter contempt for the freedom of Americans to criticize him, to write or speak negatively about him, even to joke about him.
Maybe I’m being too optimistic, but I’ve seen a lot. I know the signs. The sleeping giant always remains asleep until some venality becomes so noxious, some action so disrespectful of the common good, some brutality so noisy, that he has no choice but to awaken.
And when he does, the good sense of the American people causes him to put an end to whatever it was that awakened him.
Who is and why are you taking my forks? It started about 2-3 years ago. Jan replaced about 10 of them when I first noticed. And now now most have disappeared again. I live alone. They aren’t walking away…..