Oct 3, 2022·edited Oct 3, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
I imagine we all observed that Robert’s entire roster of engagement options rested on our retaining control of both Congressional chambers. While I don’t advise, before the midterms, dwelling on the real possibility we could lose 1, probably not both, chambers, I simply would note, were that to happen, I don’t imagine that this community would submit to the view that a fatal weakening of American civic institutions invariably would follow.
While nothing more about this need be said this morning, I merely would underscore that virtually all of America’s most meaningful social movements met with repeated frustration and failure before people, who believed their individual efforts mattered, made significant progress towards achieving their goals.
Just an observation. DeSantis is not dealing with the aftermath of Ian well at all. I talked to a friend in St Pete tonight who works for fish and wildlife. They haven't even been able to locate all their employees from SW FL. Alive? Dead? They do not know. Also Gaetz voted against aid for FL. Scott and Rubio want money for FL when they voted agaisnt it for Sandy. Hypocrites all.
1) Thank you for your "shoot for the moon" message. Over time, I tend to pare back my expectations. Your words today energized me to push for these bills.
2) I think we've become used to Trump's offensive attacks on people, most recently Elaine Chao. But I'll never get used to a spouse hearing that attack on his/her partner and saying...nothing. Someone with no courage to defend his own spouse is not someone who should be in any leadership position. Pathetic.
Well put!! 'Judge Cannon can then go back to deciding which font size and paper color to use for her application to be a Supreme Court justice if Trump is re-elected'.
Nicknames? For Rick Scott, how about “Admitted Thief?” Oh, wait, that’s not a nickname, it’s a statement of fact. (Scott’s former company admitted to stealing more than $2 billion (with a “b”) from Medicare.)
Ron DeSantis is incapable of showing empathy or, for that matter, any emotion other than pique. He cannot even look you in the eye. Here is a perfect example...giving out supplies with his wife while they wear campaign gear. https://twitter.com/jcp717/status/1576658228921782272
Thanks for stepping up to the plate again with this clear explanation of the situation. Today's Edition Newsletter is a "great act of citizenship," a courageous dissemination of truth in a political climate of suffocating mendacity. Evidence-based information is essential for citizens in a democracy in their efforts to understand the issues, an ingredient sadly missing amongst the dominant players in this country that comprise what was once a functional "Fourth Estate." Your newsletter fills that void, and I'm grateful to be counted as another ardent reader in the company of "Hubbell's Warriors" in the fight for "liberty and justice for all," aided of course by the work of Heather Cox Richardson and many other inspiring Substack writers. Before I discovered this Internet platform I was cynical, passive, and pessimistic about neoliberal politics and the prospects for democracy. Today, my mechanisms of perception have been radically adjusted, especially by the sanguine vision delivered to my inbox every morning filtered through your "lens of hope." A las barricadas!
Re 303 Creative v Elenis, I could use some guidance. As in the wedding cake case of a few years back, clearly the law is on the side of the party seeking services. But in both cases, a great outcome requires the contractor to engage fully, bringing both technical expertise and emotional energy to the effort. I know this as someone who’s had a career in creative services. Why would anyone want someone making a wedding cake or building a website under duress? Why not let these bigoted creatives live their sad, narrow lives and move on to a more enlightened contractor? You may say, “What about my rights?” Doesn’t picking fights in cases like this accomplish little, other than providing grist for the MAGA crowd and the anti-woke politicians who feed off them? We’re winning. Why rub their noses in it and further harden their hearts?
Governor DeSantis immediately started a "hurricane fund" that he will control. I cannot begin to imagine the corruption that will accompany this unfettered money. Please do NOT give any money to that fund. There are established non-profits like World Kitchen and Red Cross that deserve the funds.
I'm so glad you're a friend of Deval Patrick! He is an amazing orator who speaks with heart and without a single cliche directly to our core values of democracy and community. It was wonderful to campaign for Deval in Massachusetts. I hope that he supports us now in our ballot campaign to make our state tax system fairer and to provide much deserved funding for better roads and transit systems and public education in towns all across Massachusetts!
Another thing we can do is push for a constitutional amendment to undo Citizens United decision that corporations are people. Here is a link to Move To Amend where you can add your name to a petition.
Oct 3, 2022·edited Oct 3, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
Thank you for all your work but today particularly for the important messages of today’s edition of your newsletter. To your suggestions I can only respond with the urging from a recent campaign, “Yes We Can.”
Let’s get these suggested actions done, every damn one of them and ASAP. Please.
Todays Edition did a superb job of outlining 6 things and changes that have to be made to preserve and protect Democracy. Your right it does start with the filibuster and unless the Democrats add a few more Senate seats and hold the House it has no chance of happening. Every day I ask myself why voters and legislators don’t believe enough to take actions against the onslaught of attacks against Democracy by MAGA. Just read what Trump and Majorie Taylor Greene say at rallies and ask yourself do you want these people governing our country?. Ask yourself how they would handle disasters like Ian or the war in Ukraine or inflation and climate change and do you have confidence in their abilities to honestly handle these situations. The bottom line is Trump’s attack on Mitch McConnell’s wife is an example to all Republicans what happens when you cross Trump and they are scared of the blowback and attacks by avid followers. The reality is if Trump and MAGA gain control their lives will be held hostage. The only salvation is not locking up Trump but passing long over due laws that protect all of us including Republicans from all parties who want to destroy Democracy. That’s why we need to win the midterms.
We're all lucky we have at least one crazy optimist to read here.
Thanks for the analysis in this post.
I imagine we all observed that Robert’s entire roster of engagement options rested on our retaining control of both Congressional chambers. While I don’t advise, before the midterms, dwelling on the real possibility we could lose 1, probably not both, chambers, I simply would note, were that to happen, I don’t imagine that this community would submit to the view that a fatal weakening of American civic institutions invariably would follow.
While nothing more about this need be said this morning, I merely would underscore that virtually all of America’s most meaningful social movements met with repeated frustration and failure before people, who believed their individual efforts mattered, made significant progress towards achieving their goals.
Just an observation. DeSantis is not dealing with the aftermath of Ian well at all. I talked to a friend in St Pete tonight who works for fish and wildlife. They haven't even been able to locate all their employees from SW FL. Alive? Dead? They do not know. Also Gaetz voted against aid for FL. Scott and Rubio want money for FL when they voted agaisnt it for Sandy. Hypocrites all.
I had two thoughts after reading today's column.
1) Thank you for your "shoot for the moon" message. Over time, I tend to pare back my expectations. Your words today energized me to push for these bills.
2) I think we've become used to Trump's offensive attacks on people, most recently Elaine Chao. But I'll never get used to a spouse hearing that attack on his/her partner and saying...nothing. Someone with no courage to defend his own spouse is not someone who should be in any leadership position. Pathetic.
Well put!! 'Judge Cannon can then go back to deciding which font size and paper color to use for her application to be a Supreme Court justice if Trump is re-elected'.
Nicknames? For Rick Scott, how about “Admitted Thief?” Oh, wait, that’s not a nickname, it’s a statement of fact. (Scott’s former company admitted to stealing more than $2 billion (with a “b”) from Medicare.)
Ron DeSantis is incapable of showing empathy or, for that matter, any emotion other than pique. He cannot even look you in the eye. Here is a perfect example...giving out supplies with his wife while they wear campaign gear. https://twitter.com/jcp717/status/1576658228921782272
Thanks for stepping up to the plate again with this clear explanation of the situation. Today's Edition Newsletter is a "great act of citizenship," a courageous dissemination of truth in a political climate of suffocating mendacity. Evidence-based information is essential for citizens in a democracy in their efforts to understand the issues, an ingredient sadly missing amongst the dominant players in this country that comprise what was once a functional "Fourth Estate." Your newsletter fills that void, and I'm grateful to be counted as another ardent reader in the company of "Hubbell's Warriors" in the fight for "liberty and justice for all," aided of course by the work of Heather Cox Richardson and many other inspiring Substack writers. Before I discovered this Internet platform I was cynical, passive, and pessimistic about neoliberal politics and the prospects for democracy. Today, my mechanisms of perception have been radically adjusted, especially by the sanguine vision delivered to my inbox every morning filtered through your "lens of hope." A las barricadas!
Re 303 Creative v Elenis, I could use some guidance. As in the wedding cake case of a few years back, clearly the law is on the side of the party seeking services. But in both cases, a great outcome requires the contractor to engage fully, bringing both technical expertise and emotional energy to the effort. I know this as someone who’s had a career in creative services. Why would anyone want someone making a wedding cake or building a website under duress? Why not let these bigoted creatives live their sad, narrow lives and move on to a more enlightened contractor? You may say, “What about my rights?” Doesn’t picking fights in cases like this accomplish little, other than providing grist for the MAGA crowd and the anti-woke politicians who feed off them? We’re winning. Why rub their noses in it and further harden their hearts?
Governor DeSantis immediately started a "hurricane fund" that he will control. I cannot begin to imagine the corruption that will accompany this unfettered money. Please do NOT give any money to that fund. There are established non-profits like World Kitchen and Red Cross that deserve the funds.
I'm so glad you're a friend of Deval Patrick! He is an amazing orator who speaks with heart and without a single cliche directly to our core values of democracy and community. It was wonderful to campaign for Deval in Massachusetts. I hope that he supports us now in our ballot campaign to make our state tax system fairer and to provide much deserved funding for better roads and transit systems and public education in towns all across Massachusetts!
#CitizenshipIsAnAct These are just the words I needed to start this week. Thank you for the inspiration!
https://twitter.com/ElvinBen/status/1576886357796216833?s=20&t=9SCGzNikOtNropuhJ0HOpQ
Another thing we can do is push for a constitutional amendment to undo Citizens United decision that corporations are people. Here is a link to Move To Amend where you can add your name to a petition.
https://www.movetoamend.org/
Thank you for all your work but today particularly for the important messages of today’s edition of your newsletter. To your suggestions I can only respond with the urging from a recent campaign, “Yes We Can.”
Let’s get these suggested actions done, every damn one of them and ASAP. Please.
Todays Edition did a superb job of outlining 6 things and changes that have to be made to preserve and protect Democracy. Your right it does start with the filibuster and unless the Democrats add a few more Senate seats and hold the House it has no chance of happening. Every day I ask myself why voters and legislators don’t believe enough to take actions against the onslaught of attacks against Democracy by MAGA. Just read what Trump and Majorie Taylor Greene say at rallies and ask yourself do you want these people governing our country?. Ask yourself how they would handle disasters like Ian or the war in Ukraine or inflation and climate change and do you have confidence in their abilities to honestly handle these situations. The bottom line is Trump’s attack on Mitch McConnell’s wife is an example to all Republicans what happens when you cross Trump and they are scared of the blowback and attacks by avid followers. The reality is if Trump and MAGA gain control their lives will be held hostage. The only salvation is not locking up Trump but passing long over due laws that protect all of us including Republicans from all parties who want to destroy Democracy. That’s why we need to win the midterms.
You make me happy that I can grow almost anything in a garden and can kill any potted plant.
I am saving your podcast for my afternoon cuppa.