"Everyone feels the same weariness and occasional disappointment. But we are on an eight-year winning streak."
I so appreciate your trademark blend of empathy, realism and evidence-based optimism -- a quality shown also by Jess Craven (Chop Wood, Carry Water), Simon Rosenberg, Rebecca Solnit, Heather Cox Richardson, and several other key writers. We readers and activists need your steadfast support in these struggles for human rights, justice and democracy!
Here is an idea for the “Less-extreme” GOP members in the House, and maybe in the Senate.
Seven Steps to avoid disaster and set our country back on the rails:
For those who have a remnant of a conscience and haven’t yet sold their soul, there is a way out.
First, reconnect with your spine.
Second, find others like you in the House. Third, call for a vote on McCarthy. Thanks to the “Loss of Freedom Caucus” it only takes one of you to call for the vote.
Fourth, be absent for the first roll call vote. Fifth, when they go around a second time to pick up the stragglers, vote for Rep Jeffries.
Sixth, immediately call a press conference and declare that you are leaving the Republican Party. If you don’t feel good about joining the party of sanity (Democrats) then become Independent. Seventh, when asked with whom you will caucus……say Democrats. And watch the insane howl and the weak-hearted drop.
May 2, 2023·edited May 2, 2023Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
Bear in mind, as of 2022, CNN is now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery - a major stockholder of which is John Malone: big media guy, Cato institute supporter, and major Trump booster.
Every word you speak is treasured by me. My comment is that I never go to sleep without reading you except when you don’t publish. And every night after reading you I feel
less worked up and depressed. And motivated to read Jessica Craven and make phone calls and postcard. We need your truth though your moral and hopeful lens. Bless you .
You haven't been paying attention to "media news." CNN has been under orders for a year, ever since Chris Licht took over, to "center" CNN and provide programming that attracts conservatives as well as "lib'ruls." Which they haven't accomplished, pissing off their overlords at Warner Brothers Discovery. Plus they are stuck as #3 in ratings and in danger of being overtaken by Newsmax now that Phucker's gone from Faux. So, they're doing what they did in 2016: give Trump free airtime and "he's great for ratings," as Zucker The Fuqqer used to say.
There's a reason why it's known as the Cretin News Network.
Biden told the leaders – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and McCarthy – that he wants to discuss on May 9 the need to pass a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling. Sure seems like the date is cutting it too close to June 1! However, I think this is a good move on President Biden's part because Mitch McConnell is against what McCarthy is trying to do. So it will be four against one and hopefully McCarthy will give in. But then can McCarthy get the MAGA caucus to help pass a clean debt ceiling bill? Sounds like President Biden will still have to take executive emergency action. Then we get to see if the reactionary Court will uphold the 14th amendment Section 4 that "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."
It’s great that you point out the advancement of democracy in the last 8 years. But your “reclaiming democracy” etc. is the perspective of a white man. For the rest of us it is progress towards social justice and democracy. We aren’t there yet, & there is still a long struggle until it is democracy for everyone.
Right again Robert: hold ‘em - don’t fold em. We have the right cards. Honesty and integrity will always win even if the game takes longer than we’d like. Thanks for the unwavering reminders!!
Thank you for these bullets of rightwing determination to destroy democracy in America. This morning my husband came back from his morning walk and told me that there is red paint on buildings everywhere here as Spain's elections are soon coming. In the midst of all that democracy is facing around the world, for people to harangue you over calling grebes ducks indicates the pettiness of those who preen their righteousness. Quack. ❤️
Great recap, Robert and I am trying to stay positive for as long as I can. I will not be watching or listening to anything that Fake 45 has or will say. I can’t stand the crap that he spews. I don’t want to witness audience members clapping and praising his lyin’ ass. Nope, can’t and won’t.
As a devoted subscriber, having turned 89 in April, I recall as a child another dummy named McCarthy who was friendly and humorous, spoken for by a ventriloquist named Edgar Bergen. Instead of wasting your time and mine by criticizing bird’s titles, perhaps our readers need to focus more carefully on who speaks for the current dummy named McCarthy.
Once again Robert reminds us of the extraordinarily high stakes presented almost daily in the battle against MAGA extremism. While I remain confident that the forces of light will win, I live in deep Blue New York City and thus do not have to face directly those worse-than-reactionary attitudes as do my friends in Texas, Tennessee and, sadly, Ohio. Much as I loathe every aspect of Trumpism, I have to hope that the GOP will continue to take wild positions and choose extreme MAGA candidates so that the distinction between them and simple decency remains truly vivid.
"(Slides from the training presentation [according to the Salon article] noted that enslaved people in the U.S. only accounted for 4% of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which both minimizes the number of people ultimately enslaved in America and suggests that other countries' slavery practices were worse.)" https://www.theroot.com/how-many-slaves-landed-in-the-us-1790873989 So, yeah, about 388,000 out of 10-12 million landed in the US, according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. But that does not account for the increase in population over the years born into slavery.
Ya see, it doesn't take teachers much time for a bit of research from reliable sources. All I did was google - well, actually duck duck go-ed. (No grebes encountered) 😉
If I were attending the CNN town hall (and I won't even be watching) I would want to ask that lying piece of sh*t why anyone should vote for a man who falsely swore on two Bibles that he would defend and protect the Constitution of the US when he so often didn't. To me, oaths must be honored. There should be no second chance on that one.
"Everyone feels the same weariness and occasional disappointment. But we are on an eight-year winning streak."
I so appreciate your trademark blend of empathy, realism and evidence-based optimism -- a quality shown also by Jess Craven (Chop Wood, Carry Water), Simon Rosenberg, Rebecca Solnit, Heather Cox Richardson, and several other key writers. We readers and activists need your steadfast support in these struggles for human rights, justice and democracy!
CNN…….The new Fox?
As for Biden hanging tough, I totally agree.
Here is an idea for the “Less-extreme” GOP members in the House, and maybe in the Senate.
Seven Steps to avoid disaster and set our country back on the rails:
For those who have a remnant of a conscience and haven’t yet sold their soul, there is a way out.
First, reconnect with your spine.
Second, find others like you in the House. Third, call for a vote on McCarthy. Thanks to the “Loss of Freedom Caucus” it only takes one of you to call for the vote.
Fourth, be absent for the first roll call vote. Fifth, when they go around a second time to pick up the stragglers, vote for Rep Jeffries.
Sixth, immediately call a press conference and declare that you are leaving the Republican Party. If you don’t feel good about joining the party of sanity (Democrats) then become Independent. Seventh, when asked with whom you will caucus……say Democrats. And watch the insane howl and the weak-hearted drop.
Bear in mind, as of 2022, CNN is now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery - a major stockholder of which is John Malone: big media guy, Cato institute supporter, and major Trump booster.
Every word you speak is treasured by me. My comment is that I never go to sleep without reading you except when you don’t publish. And every night after reading you I feel
less worked up and depressed. And motivated to read Jessica Craven and make phone calls and postcard. We need your truth though your moral and hopeful lens. Bless you .
You haven't been paying attention to "media news." CNN has been under orders for a year, ever since Chris Licht took over, to "center" CNN and provide programming that attracts conservatives as well as "lib'ruls." Which they haven't accomplished, pissing off their overlords at Warner Brothers Discovery. Plus they are stuck as #3 in ratings and in danger of being overtaken by Newsmax now that Phucker's gone from Faux. So, they're doing what they did in 2016: give Trump free airtime and "he's great for ratings," as Zucker The Fuqqer used to say.
There's a reason why it's known as the Cretin News Network.
Biden told the leaders – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and McCarthy – that he wants to discuss on May 9 the need to pass a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling. Sure seems like the date is cutting it too close to June 1! However, I think this is a good move on President Biden's part because Mitch McConnell is against what McCarthy is trying to do. So it will be four against one and hopefully McCarthy will give in. But then can McCarthy get the MAGA caucus to help pass a clean debt ceiling bill? Sounds like President Biden will still have to take executive emergency action. Then we get to see if the reactionary Court will uphold the 14th amendment Section 4 that "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."
It’s great that you point out the advancement of democracy in the last 8 years. But your “reclaiming democracy” etc. is the perspective of a white man. For the rest of us it is progress towards social justice and democracy. We aren’t there yet, & there is still a long struggle until it is democracy for everyone.
Right again Robert: hold ‘em - don’t fold em. We have the right cards. Honesty and integrity will always win even if the game takes longer than we’d like. Thanks for the unwavering reminders!!
Thank you for these bullets of rightwing determination to destroy democracy in America. This morning my husband came back from his morning walk and told me that there is red paint on buildings everywhere here as Spain's elections are soon coming. In the midst of all that democracy is facing around the world, for people to harangue you over calling grebes ducks indicates the pettiness of those who preen their righteousness. Quack. ❤️
Great recap, Robert and I am trying to stay positive for as long as I can. I will not be watching or listening to anything that Fake 45 has or will say. I can’t stand the crap that he spews. I don’t want to witness audience members clapping and praising his lyin’ ass. Nope, can’t and won’t.
As a devoted subscriber, having turned 89 in April, I recall as a child another dummy named McCarthy who was friendly and humorous, spoken for by a ventriloquist named Edgar Bergen. Instead of wasting your time and mine by criticizing bird’s titles, perhaps our readers need to focus more carefully on who speaks for the current dummy named McCarthy.
Once again Robert reminds us of the extraordinarily high stakes presented almost daily in the battle against MAGA extremism. While I remain confident that the forces of light will win, I live in deep Blue New York City and thus do not have to face directly those worse-than-reactionary attitudes as do my friends in Texas, Tennessee and, sadly, Ohio. Much as I loathe every aspect of Trumpism, I have to hope that the GOP will continue to take wild positions and choose extreme MAGA candidates so that the distinction between them and simple decency remains truly vivid.
"(Slides from the training presentation [according to the Salon article] noted that enslaved people in the U.S. only accounted for 4% of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which both minimizes the number of people ultimately enslaved in America and suggests that other countries' slavery practices were worse.)" https://www.theroot.com/how-many-slaves-landed-in-the-us-1790873989 So, yeah, about 388,000 out of 10-12 million landed in the US, according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. But that does not account for the increase in population over the years born into slavery.
Ya see, it doesn't take teachers much time for a bit of research from reliable sources. All I did was google - well, actually duck duck go-ed. (No grebes encountered) 😉
If I were attending the CNN town hall (and I won't even be watching) I would want to ask that lying piece of sh*t why anyone should vote for a man who falsely swore on two Bibles that he would defend and protect the Constitution of the US when he so often didn't. To me, oaths must be honored. There should be no second chance on that one.
Stand firm, Joe! "I ran out of things I could even imagine asking for." ~~ Matt Geatz. Let's remind ourselves about how Republicans negotiate: https://www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.businessinsider.com/gaetz-mccarthy-house-speaker-vote-flip-present-freedom-caucus-2023-1?amp=&_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16830019267024&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fgaetz-mccarthy-house-speaker-vote-flip-present-freedom-caucus-2023-1
Wrote my letter to CNN. Lost another viewer.