Kudos to the Next Generation, TikTok crew, and Virginia Teen Democrats! They campaigned for people to flood the CRT tip line set up by Virginia's new Gov. Youngkin--by sending messages of how great the teachers are doing!
I don’t know why we can’t prosecute Carlson for sedition. O(f course, we are not at war with Russia (yet, and hopefully never) but with our European allies in miind, he seems at least as culpable as Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose. Thanks as always for keeping our chins up, Robert.
Our country is cursed by Trumpism without Trump! TFG did everything because it benefitted himself! He favored Putin for some reasons we know and some we'll never know. But it has to do mainly with personal financial gain! Now we have Tucker Carlson visiting Hungary and praising its autocratic leader; we have Carlson praising Putin, the worst autocrat of the world! What does Carlson hope to get by tying himself to Trump's slavish treatment of Russia and Putin? Carlson and Chamberlain share more than the first letter of their last names!
Tucker Carlson can be made to look the fool (or worse). All it would take is other media personalities (or FSM forbid..."reporters"!!!) to do some stories on Putin - the murders, his KGB history, his commitment to vengeance (see Fiona Hill's references) for the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Make no mistake about it, that is Putin's goal: establishing a new powerful Russia that can wreak havoc on the US. Payback is his goal.
And behind all this is his paranoia. Russia is only feeding it's people because of fossil fuel revenue. That is doomed as the world shifts away from it. He needs to gobble up larger populations to extract wealth from. Of course, he could have followed the example of Saudi Arabia and diversified. But that I guess that would not be a traditional Russian approach.
And I am applauding the administration's handling of this threat from the Russian bear. Isn't it nice to have an experienced hand in the WH who is surrounded by real experts?
While I don't feel powerless when it comes to helping save democracy - thanks to your regular opportunities and the great organizations I work with - I do feel powerless when it comes to Fox news. What they are doing is beyond dangerous, and being a puppet to Russia is a new and scary low.
Robert-Thanks especially for today's newsletter - I have forward the Podcast info on youth and references to the youth leaders here. You are such a help! Thanks! Bill Leeds
The reactionary response to Putin's maneuvers on Ukraine simply reflects back to the reactionary response to Hitler's maneuvers in Saar and in the Sudetenland. The sole take of Tucker Carlson, Paul Gosar and Saagar Enjeti is that power is king. If Putin's forces are, someday, occupying Berlin, Istanbul or Rome, the Coughlins and Lindberghs of our time will be nowhere to be found. That scenario won't happen as long as a responsible administration is in the White House, as is presently the case.
Jan 26, 2022·edited Jan 26, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
Robert, Before turning to my primary reason for writing, I would be remiss were I, first, not to express gratitude for your newsletter that increasingly has become a daily test of my own spirit.
Still, when you write, relative to voter suppression, that “Democrats are outraged (understandable) and panicked (unnecessarily),” I fear that your omission of the more egregious GOP state-level voter nullification measures diminishes the threat that election subversion legislation poses to protecting the key mechanisms of American democracy. On a personal note, I worry that downplaying the urgency of salvaging democracy could deflate emerging grassroots efforts to press for inclusion of safeguards against election subversion as part of the bipartisan endeavor currently underway to reform the Electoral Count Act. As always, thank you for listening.
It came to me like a proverbial light bulb going off in my mind: I believe you are dead wrong in your diagnosis of the situation with Russia. It's about oil, nothing less. Germany gets its oil from Russia. France gets theirs from north Africa. England and the USA get theirs from Saudi Arabia. England, France, and the USA do not want Russia to sell to German or anywhere in Europe. And Germany wants to continue getting theirs from Russia. Oil has a pretty bloody history. And I suspect someone is holding a gun to Biden's head to create this situation. Plus, in the past, all a president had to do to get the country to support him was start a war. This looks like nothing has changed.
Call me a pathetic excuse of a human, but I for make it a point to summon all of the schadenfreude I can muster whenever right-wing Texans mess on themselves. Yee-Haw! It's Hee-Haw time in Austin!
Kudos to the Next Generation, TikTok crew, and Virginia Teen Democrats! They campaigned for people to flood the CRT tip line set up by Virginia's new Gov. Youngkin--by sending messages of how great the teachers are doing!
https://twitter.com/CorceliusMusic/status/1486033463014793223?s=20
https://twitter.com/Out5p0ken/status/1486173242838638598?s=20
https://twitter.com/VATeenDems/status/1486025543363530758?s=20
I don’t know why we can’t prosecute Carlson for sedition. O(f course, we are not at war with Russia (yet, and hopefully never) but with our European allies in miind, he seems at least as culpable as Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose. Thanks as always for keeping our chins up, Robert.
Our country is cursed by Trumpism without Trump! TFG did everything because it benefitted himself! He favored Putin for some reasons we know and some we'll never know. But it has to do mainly with personal financial gain! Now we have Tucker Carlson visiting Hungary and praising its autocratic leader; we have Carlson praising Putin, the worst autocrat of the world! What does Carlson hope to get by tying himself to Trump's slavish treatment of Russia and Putin? Carlson and Chamberlain share more than the first letter of their last names!
Tucker Carlson can be made to look the fool (or worse). All it would take is other media personalities (or FSM forbid..."reporters"!!!) to do some stories on Putin - the murders, his KGB history, his commitment to vengeance (see Fiona Hill's references) for the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Make no mistake about it, that is Putin's goal: establishing a new powerful Russia that can wreak havoc on the US. Payback is his goal.
And behind all this is his paranoia. Russia is only feeding it's people because of fossil fuel revenue. That is doomed as the world shifts away from it. He needs to gobble up larger populations to extract wealth from. Of course, he could have followed the example of Saudi Arabia and diversified. But that I guess that would not be a traditional Russian approach.
And I am applauding the administration's handling of this threat from the Russian bear. Isn't it nice to have an experienced hand in the WH who is surrounded by real experts?
While I don't feel powerless when it comes to helping save democracy - thanks to your regular opportunities and the great organizations I work with - I do feel powerless when it comes to Fox news. What they are doing is beyond dangerous, and being a puppet to Russia is a new and scary low.
Robert-Thanks especially for today's newsletter - I have forward the Podcast info on youth and references to the youth leaders here. You are such a help! Thanks! Bill Leeds
The reactionary response to Putin's maneuvers on Ukraine simply reflects back to the reactionary response to Hitler's maneuvers in Saar and in the Sudetenland. The sole take of Tucker Carlson, Paul Gosar and Saagar Enjeti is that power is king. If Putin's forces are, someday, occupying Berlin, Istanbul or Rome, the Coughlins and Lindberghs of our time will be nowhere to be found. That scenario won't happen as long as a responsible administration is in the White House, as is presently the case.
Robert, Before turning to my primary reason for writing, I would be remiss were I, first, not to express gratitude for your newsletter that increasingly has become a daily test of my own spirit.
Still, when you write, relative to voter suppression, that “Democrats are outraged (understandable) and panicked (unnecessarily),” I fear that your omission of the more egregious GOP state-level voter nullification measures diminishes the threat that election subversion legislation poses to protecting the key mechanisms of American democracy. On a personal note, I worry that downplaying the urgency of salvaging democracy could deflate emerging grassroots efforts to press for inclusion of safeguards against election subversion as part of the bipartisan endeavor currently underway to reform the Electoral Count Act. As always, thank you for listening.
It came to me like a proverbial light bulb going off in my mind: I believe you are dead wrong in your diagnosis of the situation with Russia. It's about oil, nothing less. Germany gets its oil from Russia. France gets theirs from north Africa. England and the USA get theirs from Saudi Arabia. England, France, and the USA do not want Russia to sell to German or anywhere in Europe. And Germany wants to continue getting theirs from Russia. Oil has a pretty bloody history. And I suspect someone is holding a gun to Biden's head to create this situation. Plus, in the past, all a president had to do to get the country to support him was start a war. This looks like nothing has changed.
Am I wrong?
Mary Elgabalawi
Call me a pathetic excuse of a human, but I for make it a point to summon all of the schadenfreude I can muster whenever right-wing Texans mess on themselves. Yee-Haw! It's Hee-Haw time in Austin!