Judge Cannon, it's worth noting here, epitomizes the Federalist Society plant in the courts. Her interview documents for the Senate when going through confirmation were a farce and legal experience virtually nonexistent before her LIFETIME FRACKING APPOINTMENT. At some point, we must reform the courts, because otherwise, we will defeat Trump at the ballot box repeatedly and still find ourselves living in his tyranny
Steve Bannon is, at his core, a pathetic dude. Narcissistic, greedy, insecure.
And he's done such profound damage to our country, because his blundering existence put him in the right place at the right time to capitalize on decades of deliberate fermentation of paranoid insecurity among right wing voters. He connected with the power of the mob and channeled it into empowering another greedy, insecure narcissist.
The difference between Bannon and Trump is that Bannon at least has some intelligence, but he's still just another little grubby opportunist who made his place by loudly, angrily agreeing with people's fears and misguided rage.
I was going to thank you for treating the Queen's death with respect, Charlie, but then you just had to throw in snark about the black woman in her midst that has nothing to do with anything.
@cjaysykes... The comment about Meghan Markle... really? To whom was that comment targeted? Your former listeners? This is exactly the type of gratuitous dig that made you (makes you?) complicit in the Right losing its mind. It is just playing to people's worst instincts.
You complain about Biden going after MAGA and then you make this comment.
(And I suspect your response, if you do respond, will be defensive. As opposed to, "Gee, maybe my readers make a good point.")
While the cage is wrought from the finest materials, the British royals are essentially slaves. They exist for the purpose of connecting Britain to its past and for acting as symbols of the country's strength. They do not have the privilege of being individuals separate from that role.
QEII understood all this and faithfully executed her function honorably. She is now finally free.
My wife and I shared a dram of Glenmorangie in her honor last night.
I'm surprised how much the Queen's death has affected me. I've always been a bit of an Anglophile, but I don't think that's it. I'm also from New England, where we have an especially strong historical and cultural bond with old England, but that's not it either. I think, to your point, Charlie, it's because she represented a steadiness in unsteady times. The foundation continues to crumble.
If Bannon is jailed for theft, I think that's a good thing. I also think that Trump being jailed for his actions to be a good thing as well. I'd like all of his crew doing time but that may not stop the rage.
What I see the need for now is a concerted effort to make people show up at the polls and to vote for democracy as a general principle. Trump si difficult to deal with becaue he is a master of slipping through the fingertips of the legl system while claiming that he is being crucified.
So I went off to look at the Cook reprt and read Amy Walter on trends and turnout. It's worth noting that she concentrates on the general malaise in the democratic party but not so much on specifics. The general trend is good to see but I don't think it will push enough believers in democracy over the top and that's what we need right now. We need the house or we will have a tortured bungling by Kevin McCarty which will simply distract.
What motivates? I'm in day three now. There's no mention of the women's health issues hare and how that is affecting congressional politics. I am a voice that thinks it needs attention to help voters understand that they are not alone in their complete disgust with the far right.
In the midst of everything everyone says about Bannon - I agree with all of them - I enjoy the funny story of the best book promotion interview I ever did, for The Bridgebusters. The reviewer had obviously personally read the book (rare), really liked it to the point of quoting bits of it, and was a real, serious fan of it. Who was this amazing interviewer?
Steve Bannon, about three months before he became "Steve Bannon." The best interview I ever got, from the man whose head I would most like to kick.
Life's little oddities are what make things interesting.
That Bannon absconded with $1 million of the $25 million is not a surprise to me. What I would like to know is what in the world did they do with the other $24 million? They didn't build any wall with it, I'm pretty sure.
"Her success in maintaining the monarchy through such turbulent times was even more remarkable given that, at the time of her birth, no-one could have foreseen that the throne would be her destiny."
The throne became her destiny because of the actions of another semi-fascist in another low, dishonest decade. I mean Edward VIII in the 1930's. As it happens, I had a relative on the periphery of this story. My grandfather's first cousin's third wife was a Broadway actress who obtained a "Reno divorce" from him and immediately married a French aviator who's ex was the women who played the "other woman" in the marriage of Ernest and Wallis Simpson, so Wallis could get a divorce on the grounds of adultery, clearing the path for her to marry Edward. Not sure how much of an act the "other woman" thing was in that she soon became the third Mrs. Simpson. Recognize the smell of decadence in our own time?
I work as a prosecutor in Canada, so in my legal pleadings I'm literally representing the Crown in the form of the current monarch. The passing of Queen Elizabeth is certainly the death of an era.
However, evern though Queen Elizabeth herself managed to avoid being embroilled in personal scandals, it should still be noted that the moral character of the royals as a whole is less than admirable, including the Queen.
Fun fact: did you know that "servants" aren't allowed to walk down the middle of stairways, lest their servant feet wear down the carpets?
Second fun fact: per royal protocol if you're dinning with the Queen, you cannot start eating until the Queen begins, and the second the Queen stops eating, you have to stop eating as well.
I had the fortune of meeting a retired police officer who was in charge of training police dogs for the London police service, and so he personally met most of the royals while sweeping events for bombs.
He does not have a single kind word to say about any of them. They are all apparently rude, self-absorbed jerks. But is that hardly surprising? They've lived their entire lives in priviledge, surrounded by sycophants.
With the exception of perhaps the Spanish monarchy, the remaining royal families in Europe are far more humble normal human beings.
I personally think we in Canada should ditch the English monarchy, but remain with an "appointed" monarchy in the form of the Governor General who performs all of the duties demanded of the Queen in Canada. Only the GG isn't appointed by the Queen, the GG is appointed by our Prime Minister.
Judge Cannon, it's worth noting here, epitomizes the Federalist Society plant in the courts. Her interview documents for the Senate when going through confirmation were a farce and legal experience virtually nonexistent before her LIFETIME FRACKING APPOINTMENT. At some point, we must reform the courts, because otherwise, we will defeat Trump at the ballot box repeatedly and still find ourselves living in his tyranny
Steve Bannon is, at his core, a pathetic dude. Narcissistic, greedy, insecure.
And he's done such profound damage to our country, because his blundering existence put him in the right place at the right time to capitalize on decades of deliberate fermentation of paranoid insecurity among right wing voters. He connected with the power of the mob and channeled it into empowering another greedy, insecure narcissist.
The difference between Bannon and Trump is that Bannon at least has some intelligence, but he's still just another little grubby opportunist who made his place by loudly, angrily agreeing with people's fears and misguided rage.
What a contemptible little man.
I was going to thank you for treating the Queen's death with respect, Charlie, but then you just had to throw in snark about the black woman in her midst that has nothing to do with anything.
What's the deal with swipe at Meghan Markle? Did Piers Morgan ghostwrite this?
@cjaysykes... The comment about Meghan Markle... really? To whom was that comment targeted? Your former listeners? This is exactly the type of gratuitous dig that made you (makes you?) complicit in the Right losing its mind. It is just playing to people's worst instincts.
You complain about Biden going after MAGA and then you make this comment.
(And I suspect your response, if you do respond, will be defensive. As opposed to, "Gee, maybe my readers make a good point.")
While the cage is wrought from the finest materials, the British royals are essentially slaves. They exist for the purpose of connecting Britain to its past and for acting as symbols of the country's strength. They do not have the privilege of being individuals separate from that role.
QEII understood all this and faithfully executed her function honorably. She is now finally free.
My wife and I shared a dram of Glenmorangie in her honor last night.
I'm surprised how much the Queen's death has affected me. I've always been a bit of an Anglophile, but I don't think that's it. I'm also from New England, where we have an especially strong historical and cultural bond with old England, but that's not it either. I think, to your point, Charlie, it's because she represented a steadiness in unsteady times. The foundation continues to crumble.
Thank God it won’t be Trump going to the funeral, or the coronation of King Charles III.
If Bannon is jailed for theft, I think that's a good thing. I also think that Trump being jailed for his actions to be a good thing as well. I'd like all of his crew doing time but that may not stop the rage.
What I see the need for now is a concerted effort to make people show up at the polls and to vote for democracy as a general principle. Trump si difficult to deal with becaue he is a master of slipping through the fingertips of the legl system while claiming that he is being crucified.
So I went off to look at the Cook reprt and read Amy Walter on trends and turnout. It's worth noting that she concentrates on the general malaise in the democratic party but not so much on specifics. The general trend is good to see but I don't think it will push enough believers in democracy over the top and that's what we need right now. We need the house or we will have a tortured bungling by Kevin McCarty which will simply distract.
What motivates? I'm in day three now. There's no mention of the women's health issues hare and how that is affecting congressional politics. I am a voice that thinks it needs attention to help voters understand that they are not alone in their complete disgust with the far right.
Day three and not a peep.
In the midst of everything everyone says about Bannon - I agree with all of them - I enjoy the funny story of the best book promotion interview I ever did, for The Bridgebusters. The reviewer had obviously personally read the book (rare), really liked it to the point of quoting bits of it, and was a real, serious fan of it. Who was this amazing interviewer?
Steve Bannon, about three months before he became "Steve Bannon." The best interview I ever got, from the man whose head I would most like to kick.
Life's little oddities are what make things interesting.
Americans in 1783: "Fuck King George and death to all monarchs."
Americans in 2022: "OMG! The world's richest and most decadent woman is dead at the fermented age of 96! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
That Bannon absconded with $1 million of the $25 million is not a surprise to me. What I would like to know is what in the world did they do with the other $24 million? They didn't build any wall with it, I'm pretty sure.
Greasy Grifter! I'd like to buy the woman yelling that at the guy formerly known as Steve Bannon a coffee, tea, beer or wine - her choice.
"Her success in maintaining the monarchy through such turbulent times was even more remarkable given that, at the time of her birth, no-one could have foreseen that the throne would be her destiny."
The throne became her destiny because of the actions of another semi-fascist in another low, dishonest decade. I mean Edward VIII in the 1930's. As it happens, I had a relative on the periphery of this story. My grandfather's first cousin's third wife was a Broadway actress who obtained a "Reno divorce" from him and immediately married a French aviator who's ex was the women who played the "other woman" in the marriage of Ernest and Wallis Simpson, so Wallis could get a divorce on the grounds of adultery, clearing the path for her to marry Edward. Not sure how much of an act the "other woman" thing was in that she soon became the third Mrs. Simpson. Recognize the smell of decadence in our own time?
She did it best. And corgis too.
The monarchy should retire with her.
I work as a prosecutor in Canada, so in my legal pleadings I'm literally representing the Crown in the form of the current monarch. The passing of Queen Elizabeth is certainly the death of an era.
However, evern though Queen Elizabeth herself managed to avoid being embroilled in personal scandals, it should still be noted that the moral character of the royals as a whole is less than admirable, including the Queen.
Fun fact: did you know that "servants" aren't allowed to walk down the middle of stairways, lest their servant feet wear down the carpets?
Second fun fact: per royal protocol if you're dinning with the Queen, you cannot start eating until the Queen begins, and the second the Queen stops eating, you have to stop eating as well.
I had the fortune of meeting a retired police officer who was in charge of training police dogs for the London police service, and so he personally met most of the royals while sweeping events for bombs.
He does not have a single kind word to say about any of them. They are all apparently rude, self-absorbed jerks. But is that hardly surprising? They've lived their entire lives in priviledge, surrounded by sycophants.
With the exception of perhaps the Spanish monarchy, the remaining royal families in Europe are far more humble normal human beings.
I personally think we in Canada should ditch the English monarchy, but remain with an "appointed" monarchy in the form of the Governor General who performs all of the duties demanded of the Queen in Canada. Only the GG isn't appointed by the Queen, the GG is appointed by our Prime Minister.