Nasty pieces of work. DeSantis is the most dangerous, Musk the biggest megalomaniac, and Kavanaugh the most disgraceful. We have a lot of work before us. Thank you for holding us to our pledges, Robert.
Respectfully. I must challenge the presumption that the mothers of these men are the cause of their stupidity and intransigence. I don't know too much about DeSantis, but Kavanaugh is a product of a church-related boys' school which doubtlessly taught him that he was/is God's preferred child. Musk inhereted racist, blood-stained South African family wealth. What seems to be true is that their supremacy was nurtured by authoritarian, white-entitled, religion-sanctioned historical beliefs and behaviors which are practiced by them since they are the benefactors. Very likely their mothers parroted the same traditions and creeds, but causality is imbedded by—simply—supremacy. Supremacy of gender, race, wealth, religion and political affiliation.
The good news in all this is that the Republicans are killing off their own voters with their insane campaign against science and the Covid vaccine. Since most Republicans are morons, this means we are losing more morons, which means there's a chance we're getting Darwinian evolution a chance to get back in operation, since we have plumb run out of sabretooth cats to eat the morons.
Republicans - Making America Great Again with their permanent departures. Speed it up there, you morons!
TFG is and always will be a racist. From refusing to rent to minorities, telling the first Black winner of the Apprentice he would have to share the win with the next participant (he refused), the full-page ads and calls for execution of The Exonerated Five, denigrating urban centers and African nations, the Birther conspiracy lie (obviously), his White House Cabinet (Ben Carson doesn't count) and judicial appointments, his treatment of long-time White House staff and assuming Congressional staffers were the wait staff for an event, on and on and on...
Yes, an outstanding article. Well-documented in spite of the word genocide in the title. As soon as statistics in April 2020 showed who mostly was dying, Trump came up with a new strategy.
Not long ago Florida really was a swamp and not a state. It was built on cocaine money and has always been a lawless strange place. Western Floridians are Baja Alabama and Eastern are a lot of Snowbirds...Still 41% of Floridians don't like DeSantis....It can always swing...
Remember the “Framers” were children of the Enlightenment, liberals for their time. They had open minds which our justices especially post WWll had in the past. The majority on the Court are from a different tribe, much like politicians like DeSantis, a dangerous one. Thanks Robert and all for calling this out every day. I wish the whole 5th Estate would call this out also.
But the latest crop of extremely radical "justices" are not real judges. They are puppets installed by Leonard Leo funded by the Oligarchs who are the true "deep state". When America stops worshiping money and guns we'll all be happier and safer. It won't happen in my lifetime...but maybe someday.
If one wants to make decisions as an “origins list” on the second amendment then we should confiscate all guns and replace them with Muskets. This theorem where justices claim on the “mindset” on the Framers is without one iota of
Principles within historical context that had no vision of the development of technologies in the 20th century, the development of institutions such as the police, Justice department and federal and state military and a claim that in essence they , like God, can see into the minds of the founding Fathers, which no one can. Why can’t the House pass an act to hold the Supreme Court accountable to Cannon 2 like every other Federal Judge. “ no judge is above the law”
I’m sorry but your first sentence has me laughing out loud. All I can think of is a drive by shooting with a musket. I know it’s really not funny and yet lololololo.
You mean you don’t agree that the Framers believed that every citizen, regardless of mental status or criminal history, has the inalienable right to walk around carrying more firepower than the king’s best battalion possessed in 1776? Obviously, you have not read the Constitution.
Yes, if SCOTUS is going to be originalists than the right to bear arms does not include rifles and automatic weapons since they didn't exist in colonial times.
Originalists? The right wing demigods occupying SCOTUS pick and chose when to apply such a bs theory, much like their disdain for any amendments passed after the civil war ended!
I keep having this dream. Joe Biden gave a nationally televised address. He said "The second amendment has to go. It's useless baggage, with no place in today's society and needs to put where it belongs, in the garbage bin of America's past just like we did with slavery." Wow, totally out of bounds, would never happen in a million years, thoughts that come crashing as I wake again to the stupor of living in the US. But is it really so farfetched? What if he actually did say it? What would he actually lose? Not my vote at least!
If he did say this then those with guns would arise and start their revolution. They would begin shooting to protect “their liberty and freedom from the tyranny of the left.” Sadly there are many that believe the text in quotation (literally) and believe it with all their hearts. How to get through to those who believe this…. I wish I knew. Perhaps speaking truth to power will eventually win over, but this could take years, even a generation or more…
Violence begets violence. I was a conscientious objector during Viet Nam and have never touched or fired a gun let alone owned one. But I wouldn’t be unhappy if some right wing extremists were cut down by the very same war time weapons they insist on defending. Even as a conscientious objector I did not have an answer for what I’d do if someone attacked my beloved wife or one of my children. And right now the thought of an attack like Sandy Hook or Parkland or Uvaldi generates severely violent energies in my pacifist soul.
Dec 15, 2022·edited Dec 16, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
The age of the billionaire oligarchs needs to end. Biden has been taking steps to turn the government away from supply-side economics, but the billionaires are doing their best to resist. Since Reagan the government has been structuring our economy in such a way that income is transferred (more accurately, redistributed) from the middle class to the wealthy, leading to the overwhelming concentration of wealth and political power at the top of society. I am hopeful that we are only witnessing a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful effort by the likes of Trump, Musk, the GOP and their lackeys on the supreme court to hold on to the Reagan era status quo. A similar scenario took place during the 1930s when the tycoons tried and failed to turn back the clock against FDR and the New Deal.
The Federal Reserve also needs to be reined in. Their 2% inflation goal is unreasonable and will likely lead to a recession and throwing people out of work.
I interviewed Dr. Fauci for a book I co-authored back in 2017. He is always gracious and brilliant. I am sickened by what the right-wing mob is doing to him and other heroes.
I was living in my hometown, Provincetown, when the AIDS epidemic hit. I remember the fear and the not knowing what was causing it. When company would come we would beach dishes and eating utensils cause we just did not know. To this day you say Fauci and people that I went through this with weep at how much Fauci has done for all of us. Yes; sickening is the word for the feeling when you hear what right wing nut jobs are trying to do to him (and yes, other heroes).
Musk is a neo-Nazi. He is allowing Andrew Anglin of Daily Stormer back. Anglin, not only a supporter of white nationalist Richard Spencer, but he and his 300,000 followers trolled and doxed my friend Tanya Gersh in Whitefish, MT. There is an arrest warrant for Anglin because he has not paid a penny on the $14 million judgement he owes her. Not only did he disrupt her life, but her family, and this community too. MS Gersh is not reacting well to this.
We need to shine a light on folks like Musk. Get rid of his stock and his car. He deserves to be nothing more than space debris.
Dec 15, 2022·edited Dec 15, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
Where's the "Bring it on, m-f?"
We need to have some public figure, probably not President Biden, willing to project not worry but eagerness for this COVID-Fauci battle that the loons are lusting for. I find myself in the late stages of the COVID virus, having first tested positive a week ago, now basically symptom-free but still testing positive. I was visiting New York City, quarantined in a Queens hotel, then flew back to my home in Arizona Tuesday. It was a mild case, similar to a bad cold. I am grateful to Fauci, and the vaccine-makers, and the Paxlovid makers for making this possible.
COVID is real, it's not a conspiracy theory. I felt like crap the first two days and I know I'm not completely out of the woods yet. So I say, bring it on, M-Fs. I think there are millions of people who know they're probably alive because of the people you want to blame for this, and more public figures should be expressing this, LOUDLY.
Steve, you make a very good point. Democrats need to respond to DeSantis not by expressing outrage, but by expressing confidence in the facts and painting him as a nutcase.
Another clarifying post. Thanks! DeSantis and Musk (along with Trump and a few others) are only the very tip. Of the proverbial iceberg. Our native fascists are now everywhere blatantly preening, posturing, strutting, and frothing at the mouth threatening mayhem and the installment of autocratic rule. And like DeSantis et al., they continue to take new authoritarian ground and hold it. But, of course, that’s not all. Just in the last few days, we learned from the Meadows texts that 30+ members of Congress, not to mention uncounted others in the Republican ecosphere, all actually, demonstrably colluded with and through Trump to overturn the 2020 election, and therewith, our democracy. And there they all sit in their various poses and posses, still itching -- even demanding -- to get on with it.
When are the rest of us and those who represent us and are sworn to protect the Constitution, going to put a stop to this risen and ever-growing tide of fascistic intimidation and sedition? We can’t wait to simply vote every two years while, in the meantime, our native fascists are conquering new territory in law, election manipulation, school book banning, assaults on corporate support for any sort of “liberal” policy, etc., etc.
Can we/you talk about this? Where should we all be putting our time and resources to best use in fighting back beyond elections?
Yes; I ill address. The volume of the texts is a bit overwhelming, so I am waiting for Josh Marshall to highlight the most serious and explicit threats.
"DeSantis seeks division and discord in place of trust because that is the only path to the White House for a small, petty man with limited ability and no conscience."
I will be quoting you often, Robert. This Floridian is out of her own words for describing this governor. . . ". . . a small petty man with limited ability and no conscience." Perfect. Ten easy words. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing Katelyn Jetelina's post. I've subscribed to her since I found out about her. You suggested that I might write something about mistrust in science but when I read hers, I realized anything I could write would pale in comparison.
I too appreciate Katelyn Jetelina's post, and have now subscribed. And Lisa, seems to me, if you have something meaningful to contribute on the matter of mistrust in science, please do. We're in dire need, and as Dr. Jetelina suggests, our lives are dependent upon the conversation.
And from one who speaks from experience, maybe we ought to consider putting forward what we have to offer, however imperfect it, or we, may be. "If not now, when?"
Nasty pieces of work. DeSantis is the most dangerous, Musk the biggest megalomaniac, and Kavanaugh the most disgraceful. We have a lot of work before us. Thank you for holding us to our pledges, Robert.
Hmmm. A trio of self-absorbed, power-hungry, white males, raised by women who nurtured those traits - and we get left holding the bag.
Respectfully. I must challenge the presumption that the mothers of these men are the cause of their stupidity and intransigence. I don't know too much about DeSantis, but Kavanaugh is a product of a church-related boys' school which doubtlessly taught him that he was/is God's preferred child. Musk inhereted racist, blood-stained South African family wealth. What seems to be true is that their supremacy was nurtured by authoritarian, white-entitled, religion-sanctioned historical beliefs and behaviors which are practiced by them since they are the benefactors. Very likely their mothers parroted the same traditions and creeds, but causality is imbedded by—simply—supremacy. Supremacy of gender, race, wealth, religion and political affiliation.
The good news in all this is that the Republicans are killing off their own voters with their insane campaign against science and the Covid vaccine. Since most Republicans are morons, this means we are losing more morons, which means there's a chance we're getting Darwinian evolution a chance to get back in operation, since we have plumb run out of sabretooth cats to eat the morons.
Republicans - Making America Great Again with their permanent departures. Speed it up there, you morons!
TC, what popped into my mind is the renewal of an old saying -
"Florida: where old people go to die." But who would have thought it's a political strategy?
Actually, they're killing us all, then own kin included.
COVID actually killed Blacks and Latinos (generally front line "essential" workers) at a higher rate, with some saying the excess deaths in those groups was up to 400,000. See Thom Hartmann's article, calling TFG's decisions on the COVID response a genocide. https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/is-america-blind-to-trumps-genocide?r=1ghl6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Thank you for citing this article.
TFG is and always will be a racist. From refusing to rent to minorities, telling the first Black winner of the Apprentice he would have to share the win with the next participant (he refused), the full-page ads and calls for execution of The Exonerated Five, denigrating urban centers and African nations, the Birther conspiracy lie (obviously), his White House Cabinet (Ben Carson doesn't count) and judicial appointments, his treatment of long-time White House staff and assuming Congressional staffers were the wait staff for an event, on and on and on...
Yes, an outstanding article. Well-documented in spite of the word genocide in the title. As soon as statistics in April 2020 showed who mostly was dying, Trump came up with a new strategy.
Not long ago Florida really was a swamp and not a state. It was built on cocaine money and has always been a lawless strange place. Western Floridians are Baja Alabama and Eastern are a lot of Snowbirds...Still 41% of Floridians don't like DeSantis....It can always swing...
The odds are that the morons will go first. They really are cult crazy.
I always think/hope that they are the ones most negatively affected, but I wonder what the statistics are.
Remember the “Framers” were children of the Enlightenment, liberals for their time. They had open minds which our justices especially post WWll had in the past. The majority on the Court are from a different tribe, much like politicians like DeSantis, a dangerous one. Thanks Robert and all for calling this out every day. I wish the whole 5th Estate would call this out also.
Yes. Agreed.
But the latest crop of extremely radical "justices" are not real judges. They are puppets installed by Leonard Leo funded by the Oligarchs who are the true "deep state". When America stops worshiping money and guns we'll all be happier and safer. It won't happen in my lifetime...but maybe someday.
Not in mine either, hope my grands will fight for their lives. We have failed them. Not all of us, but way too many
I hope someday it will too, Bill, but I also won't be around since it may take many decades to undo the damage.
If one wants to make decisions as an “origins list” on the second amendment then we should confiscate all guns and replace them with Muskets. This theorem where justices claim on the “mindset” on the Framers is without one iota of
Principles within historical context that had no vision of the development of technologies in the 20th century, the development of institutions such as the police, Justice department and federal and state military and a claim that in essence they , like God, can see into the minds of the founding Fathers, which no one can. Why can’t the House pass an act to hold the Supreme Court accountable to Cannon 2 like every other Federal Judge. “ no judge is above the law”
I’m sorry but your first sentence has me laughing out loud. All I can think of is a drive by shooting with a musket. I know it’s really not funny and yet lololololo.
My reaction as well, makes sense in this upside down world
You mean you don’t agree that the Framers believed that every citizen, regardless of mental status or criminal history, has the inalienable right to walk around carrying more firepower than the king’s best battalion possessed in 1776? Obviously, you have not read the Constitution.
-->> "...confiscate all guns and replace them with Muskets." <<-- ✅
Yes, if SCOTUS is going to be originalists than the right to bear arms does not include rifles and automatic weapons since they didn't exist in colonial times.
Originalists? The right wing demigods occupying SCOTUS pick and chose when to apply such a bs theory, much like their disdain for any amendments passed after the civil war ended!
Hypocrites in expensive robes!
I keep having this dream. Joe Biden gave a nationally televised address. He said "The second amendment has to go. It's useless baggage, with no place in today's society and needs to put where it belongs, in the garbage bin of America's past just like we did with slavery." Wow, totally out of bounds, would never happen in a million years, thoughts that come crashing as I wake again to the stupor of living in the US. But is it really so farfetched? What if he actually did say it? What would he actually lose? Not my vote at least!
If he did say this then those with guns would arise and start their revolution. They would begin shooting to protect “their liberty and freedom from the tyranny of the left.” Sadly there are many that believe the text in quotation (literally) and believe it with all their hearts. How to get through to those who believe this…. I wish I knew. Perhaps speaking truth to power will eventually win over, but this could take years, even a generation or more…
Ike knew
Violence begets violence. I was a conscientious objector during Viet Nam and have never touched or fired a gun let alone owned one. But I wouldn’t be unhappy if some right wing extremists were cut down by the very same war time weapons they insist on defending. Even as a conscientious objector I did not have an answer for what I’d do if someone attacked my beloved wife or one of my children. And right now the thought of an attack like Sandy Hook or Parkland or Uvaldi generates severely violent energies in my pacifist soul.
Mine too Ned, why I think no punishment is to beyond the pale for Alex Jones.
The age of the billionaire oligarchs needs to end. Biden has been taking steps to turn the government away from supply-side economics, but the billionaires are doing their best to resist. Since Reagan the government has been structuring our economy in such a way that income is transferred (more accurately, redistributed) from the middle class to the wealthy, leading to the overwhelming concentration of wealth and political power at the top of society. I am hopeful that we are only witnessing a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful effort by the likes of Trump, Musk, the GOP and their lackeys on the supreme court to hold on to the Reagan era status quo. A similar scenario took place during the 1930s when the tycoons tried and failed to turn back the clock against FDR and the New Deal.
The Federal Reserve also needs to be reined in. Their 2% inflation goal is unreasonable and will likely lead to a recession and throwing people out of work.
Look what it took to derail that train…
I interviewed Dr. Fauci for a book I co-authored back in 2017. He is always gracious and brilliant. I am sickened by what the right-wing mob is doing to him and other heroes.
I was living in my hometown, Provincetown, when the AIDS epidemic hit. I remember the fear and the not knowing what was causing it. When company would come we would beach dishes and eating utensils cause we just did not know. To this day you say Fauci and people that I went through this with weep at how much Fauci has done for all of us. Yes; sickening is the word for the feeling when you hear what right wing nut jobs are trying to do to him (and yes, other heroes).
Agree. Strongly.
Musk is a neo-Nazi. He is allowing Andrew Anglin of Daily Stormer back. Anglin, not only a supporter of white nationalist Richard Spencer, but he and his 300,000 followers trolled and doxed my friend Tanya Gersh in Whitefish, MT. There is an arrest warrant for Anglin because he has not paid a penny on the $14 million judgement he owes her. Not only did he disrupt her life, but her family, and this community too. MS Gersh is not reacting well to this.
We need to shine a light on folks like Musk. Get rid of his stock and his car. He deserves to be nothing more than space debris.
I don't know whether he is a neoNazi; I do know that Musk has gone out of his way to give a global platform to a neoNazi. The effect is the same.
from MOTHER NIGHT by Kurt Vonnegut "you are what you pretend to be."
He is more dangerous than Goebbels
Expand the court and put journalist and Republican members of congress on the spot concerning gun safety.
Where's the "Bring it on, m-f?"
We need to have some public figure, probably not President Biden, willing to project not worry but eagerness for this COVID-Fauci battle that the loons are lusting for. I find myself in the late stages of the COVID virus, having first tested positive a week ago, now basically symptom-free but still testing positive. I was visiting New York City, quarantined in a Queens hotel, then flew back to my home in Arizona Tuesday. It was a mild case, similar to a bad cold. I am grateful to Fauci, and the vaccine-makers, and the Paxlovid makers for making this possible.
COVID is real, it's not a conspiracy theory. I felt like crap the first two days and I know I'm not completely out of the woods yet. So I say, bring it on, M-Fs. I think there are millions of people who know they're probably alive because of the people you want to blame for this, and more public figures should be expressing this, LOUDLY.
Steve, you make a very good point. Democrats need to respond to DeSantis not by expressing outrage, but by expressing confidence in the facts and painting him as a nutcase.
Another clarifying post. Thanks! DeSantis and Musk (along with Trump and a few others) are only the very tip. Of the proverbial iceberg. Our native fascists are now everywhere blatantly preening, posturing, strutting, and frothing at the mouth threatening mayhem and the installment of autocratic rule. And like DeSantis et al., they continue to take new authoritarian ground and hold it. But, of course, that’s not all. Just in the last few days, we learned from the Meadows texts that 30+ members of Congress, not to mention uncounted others in the Republican ecosphere, all actually, demonstrably colluded with and through Trump to overturn the 2020 election, and therewith, our democracy. And there they all sit in their various poses and posses, still itching -- even demanding -- to get on with it.
When are the rest of us and those who represent us and are sworn to protect the Constitution, going to put a stop to this risen and ever-growing tide of fascistic intimidation and sedition? We can’t wait to simply vote every two years while, in the meantime, our native fascists are conquering new territory in law, election manipulation, school book banning, assaults on corporate support for any sort of “liberal” policy, etc., etc.
Can we/you talk about this? Where should we all be putting our time and resources to best use in fighting back beyond elections?
Yes; I ill address. The volume of the texts is a bit overwhelming, so I am waiting for Josh Marshall to highlight the most serious and explicit threats.
Great newsletter this evening, Rob. It always amazes me how you pull this off nightly. :)
"DeSantis seeks division and discord in place of trust because that is the only path to the White House for a small, petty man with limited ability and no conscience."
I will be quoting you often, Robert. This Floridian is out of her own words for describing this governor. . . ". . . a small petty man with limited ability and no conscience." Perfect. Ten easy words. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing Katelyn Jetelina's post. I've subscribed to her since I found out about her. You suggested that I might write something about mistrust in science but when I read hers, I realized anything I could write would pale in comparison.
I too appreciate Katelyn Jetelina's post, and have now subscribed. And Lisa, seems to me, if you have something meaningful to contribute on the matter of mistrust in science, please do. We're in dire need, and as Dr. Jetelina suggests, our lives are dependent upon the conversation.
And from one who speaks from experience, maybe we ought to consider putting forward what we have to offer, however imperfect it, or we, may be. "If not now, when?"
re; Desantis...Colbert showed clips of him last night encouraging people to take the jab as it would save lives and hospitalizations
Looks like videos would help, but they look at them and deny. Just your lying eyes, they say…
Crisis actors, probably - NOT!