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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Matt Davies :: Shirk. http://Newsday.com/matt

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 24, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

Nov 25, 2024

Since the night of the November 5, election, Trump and his allies have insisted that he won what Trump called “an unprecedented and powerful mandate.” But as the numbers have continued to come in, it’s clear that such a declaration is both an attempt to encourage donations— fundraising emails refer to Trump’s “LANDSLIDE VICTORY”—and an attempt to create the illusion of power to push his agenda. 

The reality is that Trump’s margin over Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris will likely end up around 1.5 points. According to James M. Lindsay, writing for the Council of Foreign Relations, it is the fifth smallest since 1900, which covers 32 presidential races. Exit polls showed that Trump’s favorability rating was just 48% and that more voters chose someone other than Trump. And, as Lindsay points out, Trump fell 4 million votes short of President Joe Biden in 2020. 

Political science professor Lynn Vavreck of the University of California, Los Angeles, told Peter Baker of the New York Times: “If the definition of landslide is you win both the popular vote and Electoral College vote, that’s a new definition” On the other hand, she added, “Nobody gains any kind of influence by going out and saying, ‘I barely won, and now I want to do these big things.’”

Trump’s allies are indeed setting out to do big things, and they are big things that are unpopular. 

Trump ran away from Project 2025 during the campaign because it was so unpopular. He denied he knew anything about it, calling it “ridiculous and abysmal,” and on September 16 the leader of Trump’s transition team, Howard Lutnick, said there were “Absolutely zero. No connection. Zero” ties between the team and Project 2025. Now, though, Trump has done an about-face and has said he will nominate at least five people associated with Project 2025 to his administration. 

Those nominees include Russell Vought, one of the project's key authors, who calls for dramatically increasing the powers of the president; Tom Homan, who as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) oversaw the separation of children from their parents; John Ratcliffe, whom the Senate refused in 2019 to confirm as Director of National Intelligence because he had no experience in intelligence; Brendan Carr, whom Trump wants to put at the head of the Federal Communications Commission and who is already trying to silence critics by warning he will punish broadcasters who Trump feels have been unfair to him; and Stephen Miller, the fervently anti-immigrant ideologue.

Project 2025 calls for the creation of an extraordinarily strong president who will gut the civil service and replace its nonpartisan officials with those who are loyal to the president. It calls for filling the military and the Department of Justice with those loyal to the president. And then, the project plans that with his new power, the president will impose Christian nationalism on the United States of America, ending immigration, and curtailing rights for LGBTQ+ individuals as well as women and racial and ethnic minorities.

Project 2025 was unpopular when people learned about it. 

And then there is the threat of dramatic cuts to the U.S. government, suggested by the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, headed by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. They are calling for cuts of $2 trillion to the items in the national budget that provide a safety net for ordinary Americans at the same time that Trump is promising additional tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. Musk, meanwhile, is posturing as if he is the actual president, threatening on Saturday, for example: “Those who break the law will be arrested and that includes mayors.”  

On Meet the Press today, current representative and senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) reacted to the “dictator talk,” with which Trump is threatening his political opponents, pointing out that "[t]he American people…voted on the basis of the economy—they wanted change to the economy—they weren’t voting for dictatorship. So I think he is going to misread his mandate if that’s what he thinks voters chose him for.”

That Trump and his team are trying desperately to portray a marginal victory as a landslide in order to put an extremist unpopular agenda into place suggests another dynamic at work. 

For all Trump’s claims of power, he is a 78-year-old man who is declining mentally and who neither commands a majority of voters nor has shown signs of being able to transfer his voters to a leader in waiting. 

Trump’s team deployed Vice President–elect J.D. Vance to the Senate to drum up votes for the confirmation of Florida representative Matt Gaetz to become the United States attorney general. But Vance has only been in the Senate since 2022 and is not noticeably popular. He—and therefore Trump—was unable to find the votes the wildly unqualified Gaetz needed for confirmation, forcing him to withdraw his name from consideration. 

The next day, Gaetz began to advertise on Cameo, an app that allows patrons to commission a personalized video for fans, asking a minimum of $550.00 for a recording. Gaetz went from United States representative to Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general to making videos for Cameo in a little over a week. 

It is a truism in studying politics that it’s far more important to follow power than it is to follow people. Right now, there is a lot of power sloshing around in Washington, D.C. 

Trump is trying to convince the country that he has scooped up all that power. But in fact, he has won reelection by less than 50% of the vote, and his vice president is not popular. The policies Trump is embracing are so unpopular that he himself ran away from them when he was campaigning. And now he has proposed filling his administration with a number of highly unqualified figures who, knowing the only reason they have been elevated is that they are loyal to Trump, will go along with his worst instincts. With that baggage, it is not clear he will be able to cement enough power to bring his plans to life.

If power remains loose, it could get scooped up by cabinet officials, as it was during a similarly chaotic period in the 1920s. In that era, voters elected to the presidency former newspaperman and Republican backbencher Warren G. Harding of Ohio, who promised to return the country to “normalcy” after eight years of the presidency of Democrat Woodrow Wilson and the nation’s engagement in World War I. That election really was a landslide, with Harding and his running mate, Calvin Coolidge, winning more than 60% of the popular vote in 1920.

But Harding was badly out of his depth in the presidency and spent his time with cronies playing bridge and drinking upstairs at the White House—despite Prohibition—while corrupt members of his administration grabbed all they could. 

With such a void in the executive branch, power could have flowed to Congress. But after twenty years of opposing first Theodore Roosevelt, and then William Howard Taft, and then Woodrow Wilson, Congress had become adept at opposing presidents but had split into factions that made it unable to transition to using power, rather than opposing its use.

And so power in that era flowed to members of Harding’s Cabinet, primarily to Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who put into place a fervently pro-business government that continued after Harding’s untimely death into the presidency of Calvin Coolidge, who made little effort to recover the power Harding had abandoned. After Hoover became president and their system fell to ruin in the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took their lost power and used it to create a new type of government. 

In this moment, Trump’s people are working hard to convince Americans that they have gathered up all the power in Washington, D.C., but that power is actually still sloshing around. Trump is trying to force through the Senate a number of unqualified and dangerous nominees for high-level positions, threatening Republican senators that if they don’t bow to him, Elon Musk will fund primary challengers, or suggesting he will push them into recess so he can appoint his nominees without their constitutionally-mandated advice and consent. 

But Trump and his people do not, in fact, have a mandate. Trump is old and weak, and power is up for grabs. It is possible that MAGA Republicans will, in the end, force Republican senators into their camp, permitting Trump and his cronies to do whatever they wish. 

It is also possible that Republican senators will themselves take back for Congress the power that has lately concentrated in presidents, check the most dangerous and unpopular of Trump’s plans, and begin the process of restoring the balance of the three branches of government.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[toxifoxx]

i need anxiety meds so bad jesus christ

[vietnamoutsourcing]

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[thesaurus]

// we really do hope this snow storm ish situation does not fuq with the 8$ matinee ticket I already paid for

// because I have to make myself go do things and the thing I most want to do is have a 9$ beer and 8$ small popcorn and not think about my life for ~2 hours

// I sent an actual timer* to do interview prep for a call I have tomorrow where I have to fake present to a fake company (my least favorite homework project, but at LEAST I didn't have to make a goddamn powerpoint)

// because I feel really unqualifed given the information they gave me to prep

// so setting a hard start and hard stop time helped me be less freaked about it and compartmentalize a lil

// will combine my notes later this afternoon into what I think I'll actually have to stress/ talk about

// but I didn't want the thiing to take up 5 days of my time just because I have... 5 days of my time to spend lol

// (*an actual hourglass, because going analogue is helpful for my brain... I have 2, I think the big one was an hour, and the little one is like 5/10 minutes or something)

[renatedagmarmilada]

over fifty notebooks of Fekete's stolen by lab. St Barths human Research, stolen..

Sally Turnbull re Brown/Mankovitz/ super sadistic lab mental care assistant, took over 20 books home. Black woman calls herself E-Sure puts her debts, /doesn't pay / onto Fekete bank account, daren't give her name, prostitute, took 3.. Bernice niece of unqualifed former dr Meyer, of Edgeware rd London, took heaps and heaps of books and stuff ..

quote To give them a beginning on Fekete's University work BEd BA MA etc and life's work../on sound, no one admitting it Alf Turnbull and some of Allan Lieberman Cross's 86 illeg kids, a dozen of whom are in the lab-- His mother and stepfather were in the lab in the past and his mother took copies of my work and wrote a booklet from them-- the next generation .. .... are going to be so ashamed, as so much of Jewish work turns out to be dud- an austrian-hungarian refugees life.. as indeed Fay Fielding Goldsteins.. Anna former prostitute Jean Clark of Peckham, former bosses' idea was that her cronies get paid large sums of money for my robbed work, /to pay for the local thieves she employed and the payment for the stolen stuff/ she had all my work checked on her science computer and she wanted to ensure it was no longer 'mine' alone, to get her staff who had been copying it straight off the illegal computer at St barths Human research as soon as Fekete wrote it and sent it off to COSMOPOLITAN etc , out of trouble./

Bernice was made manageress of the lab years ago, because she had told her uncle Meyer all her sex life. Back then, she took loads of stuff and had printed as her own work, a load of my work ..

West indian cued Sheffield thief quote- I wanted some paint books, I couldn't find any so I stole Fekete's paints--'why were you crawling under her bed?' I thought she had something hidden.. it was only my family's Baptismal Certs. John Turnbull wanted them. That has changed, under ANNA's leadership, the lab were not permitted to rob my paints etc. though they took other stuff.They have some 27 of my favourite paint brushes /aproz£6-10 each/ and a few paints and books, but that was post they took to the lab illegally from the post office and travel firms, aeroplanes etc when I was teaching abroad.

LADY ASTON has taken a load of Fekete work to print as her own.

[thedevilsrain]

THEY WERE SELLING EVERYTHING BECAUSE THEY WERE JOBLESS AND UNQUALIFED FOR EVERYTHING IN THE NEW CAPITALIST REGIME YOU PIECE OF SHIT

call that From Propaganda With Love

[detstabler]

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[joskippy]

!!! ARCHIVIST MARTIN HEADCANONS PLS !!!

OHOHOH FELLA YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH HCS I HAVE FOR THIS AU

Literally all of this is going under a read more because I have this entire au mapped out in detail but basically I find the idea of Archivist!Martin very interesting because it's just changing one detail of the entire podcast and it completely alters the story.

(Under the read more is basically my entire idea for this au from season one to season four)

What happens in this au is that Elias hires and appoints Martin as head archivist because of the fact he was already deeply alligned with the lonely and was a interests of the webs. He lacked any real connection outside of the archives and was already of interest of two entities, he's basically a perfect candidate to become archivist. Tim, Sasha, and especially Jon are hesitant to be working under someone who they don't know and hold a slight grudge against Martin at the start for being obviously unqualifed for his job. Tim and Sasha, of course, immediately become more understanding when finding out about Martin's cv and just assuming he got unlucky and winded up with the role as the head archivist. Jon, on the other hand, still doesn't know about Martin's cv and continues holding the grudge against Martin.

Which leads us to season 1

In season one, Jon's opinion on Martin is "Oh lord this man I don't know is obviously unqualifed for his job and the role of archivist should've gone to my friend Sasha. I don't like this man but he is my boss so I will keep my mouth shut." Jon though, is still very passive agressive to Martin but is less of an ass to him in this au. Martin is very open about his opinion on statements and believes alot of them but similar to jon, will only record the ones that he knows have to be real. I still think Martin get's trapped in his flat by prentiss in this au, wanting to get more info for the case but not wanting to inconvenience any of his co-workers. While trapped in his flat, Jon takes over for him and records statements for Martin (Not in a "I want to impress my boss" matter but more of an "I'll show this twerp how it's really done") and realizes how much of toll it takes on him and how difficult the job is. When Martin comes back from his little worm adventure, Jon is much more nicer and understanding of him. Martin records what happened with him and prentiss and Jon offers him to stay in the little room he made for when he overstays at work. (Martin of course, is not happy with the fact Jon stays past work hours finishing up stuff but that doesnt matter). Y'know how the rest of s1 goes with the prentiss attack (Jon and Martin still share the heart to heart, Jon loses him and Tim in the tunnels) Jon finds Gertrude's body and it sparks his paranoia finding out she was shot to death and then we get to

Season 2

Jon's immediate assumption is that Martin killed Gertrude to get his job because like, he still doesn't know Martin well and then finds out this dude's predecessor got murdered so of course mr jon sims is going to go "oh so Martin for SURE murdered this lady." For the first half of the season, Jon pretends to be buddy buddy with Martin to see if anything's off with him and somewhere along the line Jon finds the noted Martin was writing to his mom in the trash and immediately assumes its about the murder. He catches Martin in his office and immediately corners Martin like "HEY I KNOW YOU KILLED GERTRUDE AND I GOT THE PROOF" and Martin just sighs and tells him about his cv and mother and Jon's opinion of Martin goes from "incompetent murderer who killed his predecessor to get his job and might kill me." to "highschool drop out whos just trying to make a living might end up being murdered too". With the not-sasha stuff it's sorta the same but Martin let's Jon in on some details of his suspicions on her. Martin get's framed for Jurgen's death and NOW WE ARE AT

Season 3

So since Martin obviously doesn't have a place to hide it at the start of season 3 so Jon offers him to stay at his place. Jon knows that Martin didn't kill Jurgen and is willing to take the risk of giving Martin a  place to stay. Martin, of course, is hesitant but takes the offer because he's been crushing on Jon for the past forever and definitely will take his chances in staying in hot guy's flat. You know the shenanigans of s3 (Martin get's burned by Jude, kidnapped by Daisy, kipdnapped by Nikola) and FINALLY get's back into the archives to apologize to Jon for being gone from the flat for so long and apologizes again cause he's about to go off to america. Martin get's kidnapped again, comes back to london, and now it's time to stop an apocalypse! ( Before the unknowing happens, Jon and Martin share a heart to heart and confess that they both share feelings for another and get together the day before 118 happens then shit goes DOWN ). Martin of course, goes off to the unknowing and Jon stays behind at the archives to distract Elias. Elias tries and fails to use Jon's feelings for Martin against him, then switches to what happened with Georgie and the dead women walking incidents against him, pinning it on him because of his connection with the web. Martin stops the unknowing, Jon comes home to the empty apartment and gets the news that Martin is in a coma. (He immediately blames it on himself) and now it's time for

Season 4

Jon losing Martin right after realizing that they both love each other absolutely tears him apart. He moves flats and he begins to separate himself from the rest of the archives and works with peter. Martin wakes up from his coma without anyone by his side and is told the news to him about his mom right the day after. S4 basically goes the same with Martin seeing Jon again finally after the coma and goes to hug him and tell him how much he missed him but Jon just stares at him like he saw a ghost and leaves without saying a word to him. Alot of their interactions are sparse, usually with Martin trying to spark a convo with Jon resulting in usually no response or just a head shake as he scutters off.  Then Martin finally is able to actually talk to Jon and tells him that he misses him and that maybe they could catch up sometime but Jon just laughs and tells him that hes busy. Martin later on finds out about how to cut off the connection with the eye and goes to tell Jon that they could leave the archives but Jon tells him that he can't and tells Martin he doesn't want to see him anymore and kicks Martin out his office. You know what happens in 158 and 159, it's basically the same and Jon and Martin settle down at the safehouse.

I don't have much for season 5 but I really like the idea that Martin is still optimistic even after the change and that he reassures Jon that he's gonna find a way to fix it when it reality he has no clue and it terrified to think about what is going to happpen to them. They don't stay in the cabin that long soon after since Martin is very eager to go to the pannopticon and ya! Yknow how it goes.

Im so sorry I wrote a whole essay worth of shit but this au means alot to me and i get very excited when people ask me about it!!

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[antiqueart212]

The bottom line: He is an illegitimate President, PERIOD. He lacks intellgence, is way over his head in every apacity to undestand anything except Mara Lago. He is a perfect example of (leveraged) money with NO CLASS. (white trash from Queens). He has ZERO integrity. He has "CONED" America and the only people stupid enough to stillinl believe in him are those that voted for him.

[theorizer-sleepyhead]

Edelgard: I want to create a system where everyone is free to get an education regardless of social status, and from then on be able say and think what they want, and to choose their own representatives from a pool of qualified individuals that actually have the capacity to be good rulers

Some dude on youtube: Edelgard is bad because her system only benefits the strong

Me: How is it bad? How does it only benefit the strong if everyone is allowed an education and only the people who ACTUALLY SHOW TALENT AT GOVERNING get chosen to rule? Unless you wanna chose some unqualifed random guy to be emperor

Some dude on youtube: Look it's just bad okay

[podcastpalace]

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[itsthesawofthetable]

I Attended Maxine Waters's Town Hall

I saw Maxine Waters on Saturday, and started a writeup on Sunday, and I came back to finish it on Wednesday, and it all seems so quaint. It was going to be matter-of-fact and informational, but I can't even deal with that now. On Friday, I was feeling super stressed about politics, and getting out into the community and hearing my new Congressperson talk frankly about the appalling nature of the current administration, including calls for investigation and impeachment, was heartening. I was really hoping for that feeling to last for at least a workweek, but nope. Anyway, the Town Hall was held in Inglewood, representing the core of Waters' district demographic: mostly Black, with some Latino. There were less than a handful of pro-Trump protestors, who got loud and then quickly left, presumably after they got the shot they felt they needed for their YouTube video. The session was mostly informational, with an extremely limited Q&A at the end. Key points were healthcare, housing, and the incompetence of the administration. Most of the healthcare stuff I knew, but I hadn't been aware of all of the ways federal funding affected local efforts to combat the housing shortage in Los Angeles. Waters also brought a member of the Los Angeles Times editorial board to discuss the paper's recent series Our Dishonest President, and she spent time detailing the unqualifications of several administration members and cabinet appointees, including racism, sexism, inexperience, and foreign influence. I know that Waters has been getting national attention for having a consistent anti-Trump message since the primaries, as I've been seeing her in tweets and comments from friends far away from the district. In her closing speech, she seemed not only cognizant of the issues facing young Americans of color, but excited to help amplify those concerns. comments Crossposted from Tablesaw! http://ift.tt/2rtnUpO

[bloomngloom]

Okay, yes and no honey.

To be fair to John Adams, Trump is 100% worse and if he were to try and pass anything similer to the Alien and Sedition Acts it would be 100% worse. John Adams’ presidency was a mess, and the Alien and Sedition Acts sucked ass, but he was actually qualified for the job. Adams also wasn’t 100% to blame for the A&S Acts. Did he choose to sign them? Yes absolutely. Should we forgive him for them? God no. But it is important to remember that Alexander Hamilton had a very influential role in their passing— as did many Federalists at the time. In that regard, we can compare Trump & the Republicans. One president who’s party members don’t like and may even publically speak out against, but agendas they all push through. However, it is important to remember that John Adams, a man who was president in the 1790s, with all of his out of date ideas and goals, would be exponentially better than Donald Trump. Trump is not the new John Adams. He is not the new anything. He is something we’ve never seen before; at a level of unqualification and despicablness that cannot be compared to any president before him. The sentiment is appreciated, but Trump should never be normalized in this way. What is happening is crazy! We should never forget how strange and nutso it is— lest we get used to it.

alert

i was doing some research on john adams bc that’s the kind of girl i am.. and i found out that he was deeply unpopular because of an act he passed. they were called the alien and sedition acts. i didn’t think much of it until i read the article and this is what i found.

in the alien and sedition acts, john adams:

did not allow people to protest the government

did not allow immigrants into the US

did not allow freedom of the press

jailed lawmakers

deported foreigners

fined and imprisoned those who would “write, print, utter, or publish… any false, scandalous and malicious writing” agains the government

violated personal rights

RESTRICTED FREEDOM OF SPEECH

and it made me think… wow… i’m glad that the United States has come far so we don’t have to worry about all this….

and then i realized… this is exactly what Donald Trump is doing.

history is repeating itself. donald trump is the new john adams. spread the mf word.

[tk1tairu]

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[v171]

Dr. Cassidy, I want to express my deep disappointment in your support for Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary. As a former educator at LSU I feel that you should absolutely know better than to support a person with no experience and no knowledge of the education system. She is embarrassingly unqualified for this position, which has been made quite apparent to you and the rest of the committee. It deeply disturbs me that you would choose to overlook her gross unqualification in favor of partisan support. There is no reason to believe Mrs. DeVos would ever be nominated for such a position if she had not donated a large sum of money to the GOP, and I truly think you agree with me. Yet your support for your political party superseded your duty to serve the American people. Never forget that it was the people that hired you and it is the people that you serve. This action will reflect poorly on both you and the state of Louisiana in the present and in history books. Given the Senate approval of Mrs. DeVos, education will surely suffer throughout America. Remember that you contributed to this outcome. Andrew F

A letter I wrote to Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. (Am I mad? I might be mad.)