I've never been a fan of Mr. McCartney's music (nor the Beetles, in large measure, for that matter). If I ever have to listen to Band On The Run again it would only be because I've been strapped in a chair and forced to do so under threat of torture.
Don't get me wrong re: The Beetles. There are some pieces that I like, but I've always thought they were over rated.
Went out to do Easter dinner shopping this afternoon and filled the car with gas. $4.69 for 'plus'.
He has a lot of flaws but lack of love of country is not one of them.
Trump's love of Trump trumps his love of country. He only cares about this country if it can serve him; his actions are ignoble. It's hard to understand how--for over a decade in public life--his vile, demeaning statements and actions, lawlessness, self aggrandizement, and self enrichment, not to mention trampling the US Constitution, are somehow trumped by his love of country. Hitler loved Germany.
Trump is kicking decades of hell down the road. He is doing nothing to help American citizens. His national debt increase, gutting of essential services, alienation of allies, ignoring the climate crisis, stomping out medical research, installing a clown car cabinet, etc. etc. It's going to be a long, hard road to recovery when that asswipe is finally gone.
@Daniel I second a general strike. We just have to be careful not to do something that Trump can use as an excuse for martial law or some other 'emergency' action.
I disagree with John Pavlovitz on this one,
Thinking about the event I was reminded about something I read by John Pavlovitz recently on how they are most important for those protesting, not so much about making any change to the minds on the other side.
Trump is more unpopular than ever before (36% approval from Reuters, and 68% disapprove of the illegal war in Iran being waged by two war criminals), special elections continue to wipe the floor with republicans by large margins (mostly). Things are changing. As Daniel posted, even The Villages had what looks like a huge turnout yesterday. The mere fact that the turnout for No Kings has grown is also a good indication that things are changing.
The fact that Trump hunkers down and sinks ever lower and lower (and there is no low too low for him when it comes to the Constitution) is quite possibly one indication of how cornered he sees himself regarding his games with Netanyahu. He knows he's in a pickle. Look at how many times times his story has changed. It's so utterly transparent. The whole thing was built on a pack of lies and everyone knows it. Look at the infighting now taking place in maga world. Some of the pictures coming out of CPAC this week are pathetic.
I think I know what John Pavlovitz is getting at: We aren't seeing mass demonstrations affecting politics very much. I got back from the march yesterday to discover that 3 House Democrats voted for the DHS funding bill put up by little Mikey, and that 8 were absent! That news was a bit deflating. Why bother if our elected reps are just going to ignore us? Well, they can't ignore us forever. These marches, in my mind, are as much about sending a message to fence-sitting (or worse: Fetterman) Democrats as much as it is a show of solidarity against the christian nationalist white supremacist program of 2025. Also, there are a number of vulnerable gop congress critters up for re-election this fall. I believe this No Kings momentum can help get people out to vote.
@Daniel The turnout at The Villages looks large...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWb3BPQkY8L/
It was 17 F here yesterday morning, 21 F in the valley where I attended a rally. Didn't want to get out of bed, to be honest, but I did and I'm glad I did. I don't think there were quite as many as at the first rally (I missed the 2nd one), but it was a good turnout anyway, considering a town of 5,000. We marched from the armory to the town square where there were speakers and music.
Robert Mueller.
My last car, the one that was totalled late last summer, was a 2014 Hyundai Accent. I liked it a lot. It was old enough to not have ridiculous and annoying features.
My current car is a Hyundai Elentra and I like it a lot as well. For a '25 model, it's not terribly laden with intrusive software. I love the auto headlight dimming feature, but I hate that in the middle of a sunny day, if I drive into the shade of a few trees for a few seconds, it beeps and flashes "You're headlights are off". I haven't figured out how to turn that off yet. Another bad feature is that the only interface to the stereo is Bluetooth. Period.
What CHAS said. There is no low that's too low for the republicans.
Considering where CBS is now, good riddance.
@Daniel Political shenanigans and bad decisions.
The USPS was giving $12 billion in annual discounts to private mailers for pre-sorting. Sounds like a good business plan. /s
Even though the USPS does not get tax money to run its operations, thanks to G.W. Bush, money that USPS collected for future health and pensions for its workers has been used to reduce the federal deficit.
If the USPS dies, it's because politicians--totally lacking in vision and pride for this country, and totally beholden to private interests--wanted it to die.
I guess I'm getting old, I've never heard of them. But I just discovered that if you Google 'BTS' they hijack the screen and redirect you to a video even though you clicked on the wikipedia link. Not nice.
That's cool. I rarely translate F to C but often translate C to F with a few simple mental math steps. (C * 10) - .1(C *10) + 32 (ie, ten times C, minus 10% of that, plus 32). Although approximate, it comes very close.
Even a white supremacist, Christian nationalist, misogynistic, bigoted, antisemitic turd like Nick Fuentes.
“MAGA was always a farce. It didn’t exist. It was vaporware. It’s true. Sadly and horribly, it was always bound up with the cult of personality of Trump. And for a lot of people, this is the last step they need to take. It is him. He is the problem.
“And this is when you need to realize it’s not his advisers. It’s not his personnel. It’s not the bad advice or whatever. It’s him. He’s the problem. The buck stops with him. He’s the president. He’s the movement. And if there ever were principles or promises, he’s betrayed all of them. And that is what is left.
“All these people that are still trusting the plan, Republicans, MAGA supporters, this is what is left. Trump, Mark Levin, Laura Loomer, Randy Fine, and your war with Iran. That’s what you got. And I know a lot of people are not happy about that and that’s why they’re coping.
“And they’re saying, ‘Well, you know, there’s actually a five-dimensional plan.’ Or, you know, ‘We need to convince Trump otherwise. There’s people working on the inside.’ People are saying all these things.
“He needs to go. Like, I really believe that he needs to be impeached under the Democrats. And I don’t even want him to be removed from office because I don’t want Vance to become president either. I want Vance to burn down with all of it. But it just needs to be shut down. This guy is totally insane.” – Nick Fuentes, on today’s podcast.
This was in the East Village on Ave B before it became as I'm sure it has by now become more gentrified.
Alphabet City. I lived on 3rd between B and C for about a year. Rough place back then. We were broken into... not that it mattered all that much because we had slim pickings in those days. A small black-and-white tv was all they could take. It was unnerving, though, because I was asleep in the apartment during the break-in. Around 10:30 am (I worked into the late evenings) someone opened the door to my bedroom and closed it. I thought it was strange that my roommate would do that, but also he was usually gone to NYU by then. So when I got out of bed I phoned him and he said he was not in the apartment at that time. When I went out to the living room, I saw the window wide open, the tv gone, and the front door wide open.
Haven't used earplugs since I left NYC.
Unbelievable. It's a hell of a time to be saying 'maybe we shouldn't be there'. What a crackpot, untethered administration.
Trump draws backlash for comment on Iran war: ‘Maybe we shouldn’t even be there’
“Really, I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory – because it is their territory,” he said.
“They should come and they should help us protect it. You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all, because we don’t need it. We have a lot of oil. We’re the number one producer anywhere in the world times two.”
SOB starts an ill-advised, unnecessary, illegal war, replete with war crimes, (Did you hear Hegseth this weekend? Total war crime mind set.) and expect the nations that he's screwed to bail him out?
He's in a pickle now and I suspect he knows it. Dangerous times.
OMG! They are so cool! I love the large octave one. How nice!
