Your last paragraph describes exactly why I dropped my “paid” subscriptions to the NYT and WaPo and upgraded my Substack subscriptions to “paid” for HCR, JV, and your daily post. These are my first reads every morning. Your historical/legal perspectives are insightful and appreciated.
It's such a wonderful day for the justice system and democracy itself. Judge Cannon and the Arizona commissioners were not just merely wrong; the key point was whether the Courts might cave in -- just as the Legislative and Executive leaders had done, overwhelmingly blatantly corrupt, not doing what they know is right. Would many Repub judges blow with a political wind, instead of actually caring about Law? How fragile our courts would be? It was so pivotal and most definitely not to be taken for granted. But that pillar has held up so well for democracy, and the checks and balances (of course with the singular exception of the Supreme Court). More justice to come. Yay.
President Biden in his meeting with President Macron recalled that President Putin had said he wanted to be another Peter the Great. I find this amusing because Ukraine was not part of Russian Empire under Peter. It wasn't until Catherine the Great that Ukraine became part of the Russian Empire!
So glad to see you calling out Rolling Stone for their DeSantis reporting. About a month ago someone commenting on a NY Times story wrote “Remaining objective is not the same as refusing to report the objective truth”.
Dec 2, 2022·edited Dec 2, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
Thank you for boiling the decision down. Especially liked, "not so special." I'm guessing that there's more than a tablespoon of Heinz on the orange man's breakfast nook walls.
You covered so much today, Robert, and I was able to follow everything you said. Your thinking and your writing are indeed exceptional. Hence, you are an excellent teacher! For some reason I am thinking about my now 57-year old son's explanation as to why he so liked his fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Sacks. "She explains things and she's fair." It's you, Mr. Hubbell! A+. Oh, and this adult student of yours also appreciates your pithy descriptions/evaluations. For example, your latest: "Ron DeSantis is a calculating coward." This Florida girl for the past 50 years could not have said it better herself.
Robert, I write to expand upon your concluding thoughts as to why Republican politicians are intent on distancing themselves from extremism wrapped in a Kanye or Fuentes.
Though I imagine it’s rarely, if ever, stated in the mainstream, the policies white supremacists advance and the policies Republicans advance are strikingly similar. For example, Founding Dir. of Boston Univ. Ctr. for Antiracist Research Ibram X. Kendi observes that 1) white supremacists support voter suppression and Republicans generally do too 2) white supremacists support anti- immigration rhetoric and policies and Republicans do too 3) white supremacists support rolling back reproductive health and so do Republicans.
I would imagine it nearly impossible to eradicate the virus of white supremacy from the Republican Party when the Party’s policy itself nears that of white supremacist policy. I also would imagine it important, particularly for white Americans, who largely are the target of these Republican elected officials and certainly of white supremacists, to know that one of the oldest white supremacist talking points is that white people are the true victims and that diversity, multiculturalism, and anti-racism are anti-white.
Additionally, I expect we would agree that ultimately when one looks at the core of this issue one would find it’s really an issue about power and policy and about white supremacists and even Republicans who are using bigoted ideas to gain power so they can institute policy that benefits people like them.
As a final point, I would note Professor Kendi frequently invokes novelist Toni Morrison, who oftentimes discussed the importance, particularly for those who feel oppressed and marginalized, of not becoming distracted by these bigoted, racist ideas. Rather, Kendi says, they need to figure out and see the true source of their harm, which is not people who don’t look like them. It’s typically, oftentimes people who they’re voting for, who have taught them that they are their saviors.
My friends already condemn Judge Cannon. If the remedy is impeachment, please tell us how that process works and what we can do to help make it happen. Thank you -- as always!
Robert, thank you for tackling head-on the apparent pervasiveness of antisemitism in the GOP; when they tolerate it from Ye, Fuentes, Marjorie Taylor Green, Trump, and others, they implicitly endorse it.
I'm displaying a Chanukah menorah in my front window this month and hope others, Jewish or not, will join me in solidarity against hate and for this holiday, which celebrates the first-known battle for religious freedom.
Regardinging Governor De Sadist. Many historians of Hitler's rise to power have observed that it was the silence of the decent people that allowed the loud supporters of Hitler to win.
Gov. De Sadist's decision to keep silent, shows his support for the shouts of the anti-semites, the Catholic white supremacist Fuentes, and the pro-Hitler Kanye West.
Democrats continuous reliance on the "we would have helped the working class more but the other guys blocked us" tactic is what has lead to races with total nitwits like Herschel Walker coming down to the wire. Democrats need to seriously roll up their sleeves and get busy pushing meaningful legislation, raise or eliminate the debt ceiling, and get aggressive calling out Republican hypocrisy. Democrats need to make the contrast between them and the Republicans so stark even readers of the Rolling Stone can see the difference.
"The story about Ron DeSantis’s silence in the face of Trump’s antisemitism is not how that decision will affect DeSantis’s chances of becoming president—it is that DeSantis is a calculating coward who will condemn antisemitism only if and when it benefits him politically—which makes him unfit to hold any public office. That’s the story Rolling Stone missed."
Excellent comments on Rolling Stone’s failure to call out DeSantis!
Your last paragraph describes exactly why I dropped my “paid” subscriptions to the NYT and WaPo and upgraded my Substack subscriptions to “paid” for HCR, JV, and your daily post. These are my first reads every morning. Your historical/legal perspectives are insightful and appreciated.
Thank you, Robert, for the in depth look at Judge Cannon's incompetence/corruption.
News update: Musk suspended Kanye West's Twitter account for the post of the swastika and Star of David:
https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/1598590901399552000?s=20&t=UMGmZA63VJwKP4-CuNls0Q
Now enjoy two palate cleansers, Obama in Georgia and Ukrainian singers in Grand Central Station:
https://twitter.com/truthjusticehph/status/1598557927522324480?s=20&t=UMGmZA63VJwKP4-CuNls0Q
https://twitter.com/USAmbKyiv/status/1598412003034406920?s=20&t=UMGmZA63VJwKP4-CuNls0Q
And bookmark this lovely graphic by Banksy: "If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."
https://twitter.com/MMBrussell/status/1598466421549371392?s=20&t=UMGmZA63VJwKP4-CuNls0Q
I say check Cannon’s bank account.
It's such a wonderful day for the justice system and democracy itself. Judge Cannon and the Arizona commissioners were not just merely wrong; the key point was whether the Courts might cave in -- just as the Legislative and Executive leaders had done, overwhelmingly blatantly corrupt, not doing what they know is right. Would many Repub judges blow with a political wind, instead of actually caring about Law? How fragile our courts would be? It was so pivotal and most definitely not to be taken for granted. But that pillar has held up so well for democracy, and the checks and balances (of course with the singular exception of the Supreme Court). More justice to come. Yay.
From Denialad: donbialostosky.substack.com
Still Special
Th’Eleventh Circuit’s issued its decree,
And, as expected, the judges agree
With DOJ against the special master.
They found Judge Cannon’s ruling a disaster
That made a former prez a special case
When before the law there is no place
For such an exception. Nor is it wise
That special exception to generalize
And give to everyone who has been searched
Delay while special masters do research.
This judgment must be difficult for Trump,
In legal peril and down in the dumps.
He has to think he’s special and this hurts:
Equality before the law subverts
His narcissisitic need to stand above
All others and be object of their love.
But the three-month’s delay this case has won
Found a new way to make him number one.
For though his special master has been neutered,
He now can claim a special prosecutor!
President Biden in his meeting with President Macron recalled that President Putin had said he wanted to be another Peter the Great. I find this amusing because Ukraine was not part of Russian Empire under Peter. It wasn't until Catherine the Great that Ukraine became part of the Russian Empire!
So glad to see you calling out Rolling Stone for their DeSantis reporting. About a month ago someone commenting on a NY Times story wrote “Remaining objective is not the same as refusing to report the objective truth”.
Which I think sums it up nicely.
Thank you for boiling the decision down. Especially liked, "not so special." I'm guessing that there's more than a tablespoon of Heinz on the orange man's breakfast nook walls.
You covered so much today, Robert, and I was able to follow everything you said. Your thinking and your writing are indeed exceptional. Hence, you are an excellent teacher! For some reason I am thinking about my now 57-year old son's explanation as to why he so liked his fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Sacks. "She explains things and she's fair." It's you, Mr. Hubbell! A+. Oh, and this adult student of yours also appreciates your pithy descriptions/evaluations. For example, your latest: "Ron DeSantis is a calculating coward." This Florida girl for the past 50 years could not have said it better herself.
Robert, I write to expand upon your concluding thoughts as to why Republican politicians are intent on distancing themselves from extremism wrapped in a Kanye or Fuentes.
Though I imagine it’s rarely, if ever, stated in the mainstream, the policies white supremacists advance and the policies Republicans advance are strikingly similar. For example, Founding Dir. of Boston Univ. Ctr. for Antiracist Research Ibram X. Kendi observes that 1) white supremacists support voter suppression and Republicans generally do too 2) white supremacists support anti- immigration rhetoric and policies and Republicans do too 3) white supremacists support rolling back reproductive health and so do Republicans.
I would imagine it nearly impossible to eradicate the virus of white supremacy from the Republican Party when the Party’s policy itself nears that of white supremacist policy. I also would imagine it important, particularly for white Americans, who largely are the target of these Republican elected officials and certainly of white supremacists, to know that one of the oldest white supremacist talking points is that white people are the true victims and that diversity, multiculturalism, and anti-racism are anti-white.
Additionally, I expect we would agree that ultimately when one looks at the core of this issue one would find it’s really an issue about power and policy and about white supremacists and even Republicans who are using bigoted ideas to gain power so they can institute policy that benefits people like them.
As a final point, I would note Professor Kendi frequently invokes novelist Toni Morrison, who oftentimes discussed the importance, particularly for those who feel oppressed and marginalized, of not becoming distracted by these bigoted, racist ideas. Rather, Kendi says, they need to figure out and see the true source of their harm, which is not people who don’t look like them. It’s typically, oftentimes people who they’re voting for, who have taught them that they are their saviors.
My friends already condemn Judge Cannon. If the remedy is impeachment, please tell us how that process works and what we can do to help make it happen. Thank you -- as always!
Robert, thank you for tackling head-on the apparent pervasiveness of antisemitism in the GOP; when they tolerate it from Ye, Fuentes, Marjorie Taylor Green, Trump, and others, they implicitly endorse it.
I'm displaying a Chanukah menorah in my front window this month and hope others, Jewish or not, will join me in solidarity against hate and for this holiday, which celebrates the first-known battle for religious freedom.
Regardinging Governor De Sadist. Many historians of Hitler's rise to power have observed that it was the silence of the decent people that allowed the loud supporters of Hitler to win.
Gov. De Sadist's decision to keep silent, shows his support for the shouts of the anti-semites, the Catholic white supremacist Fuentes, and the pro-Hitler Kanye West.
Democrats continuous reliance on the "we would have helped the working class more but the other guys blocked us" tactic is what has lead to races with total nitwits like Herschel Walker coming down to the wire. Democrats need to seriously roll up their sleeves and get busy pushing meaningful legislation, raise or eliminate the debt ceiling, and get aggressive calling out Republican hypocrisy. Democrats need to make the contrast between them and the Republicans so stark even readers of the Rolling Stone can see the difference.
"The story about Ron DeSantis’s silence in the face of Trump’s antisemitism is not how that decision will affect DeSantis’s chances of becoming president—it is that DeSantis is a calculating coward who will condemn antisemitism only if and when it benefits him politically—which makes him unfit to hold any public office. That’s the story Rolling Stone missed."
Exactly right, Robert.