As soon as Trump was sworn in to serve the American people, he got busy eliminating any agency crucial to good governance, including Obama's pandemic office created in response to Ebola. He serves no one but himself.
No one can explain how the governor of FL, which is extremely experienced in the impacts of hurricanes,
can turn away a call from the government offering help which will sorely be needed after the “hurricane
of a century” hits FL very soon. It is incomprehensible to me that politics takes precedence over human lives. Ron DeSantis is doing just that and will have blood and untold misery on his hands forever. Shame on him.
As for the orange man, I have no words. The person who describes him best (besides Harris with Howard Stern) is his niece,
Mary Trump, who also is on Substack.
Thank you Alex for an excellent but sobering piece.
Just like the missery DeSantis created by using illegal migrants from Texas by transporting them to Massachusetts two years ago. It cost Florida taxpayers around $600,000, drawn from a fund intended for relocating unauthorized immigrants from Florida.
Thanks for this. I only hear bits and pieces of what's going on. At this point mostly from people I trust on Substack. I often wonder how they can get away with this behavior. It seems that it's being called out and highlighted more by the media and that's a good sign and a move in the right direction.
Again, thank you for putting this together and keeping those of us who are staying away from the news informed.
I hope everybody in Florida and other affected areas can get somewhere safe. This one is scary.
Filling out my early mail in ballot for Az; voting starts today. The path to the White House runs through this beautiful, stunning and wide-open state. While the world holds its collective breath, the reality of this moment is getting real. Thinking of all my fellow Americans in harm's way; about what's at stake here; and all those voices of freedom raising the clarion call here and around the world, how much we owe all of you.
America is indeed in turmoil. In push to the election, Kamala is on a media blitz -- MAGA's are melting down. Lara T is syphoning funds from RNC for Trump's legal woes while Mike Johnson indicating a no on additional FEMA Package. Florida is running out of gasoline, Port of Tampa in danger of losing oil tanker access. You should have picked up the phone, Ron.
The choice here seems so obvious, so logical, and ethical. I am flummoxed and saddened by America's embrace of the calloused and cruel former President. But while filling out my ballot, I see hope. I see shining blue dots spread across our country. We remember. We vote.
"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second." Our world can change in a heartbeat. We are running out of time for Democracy, for Climate Change for our children's future. Listen to the voices of reason, of wisdom. Listen to your gut. Vote.
‘It was another day of America in Turmoil, with 28 days until the election. And still, after some ten years of one Trump scandal following the next, American voters still need help deciding who of the two candidates has the best resume to improve their lives and American society.’
This seems so obvious, but there is so much lying going on, and so much false equivalency, it’s hard for people to understand or know what’s true, if they don’t have the time, inclination or the critical thinking skills to understand through the fog…
They are tending to take the easy route believing what aligns with their feelings, and you cannot have a democracy that way. When you give up educating people in civics (like it matters), moral reasoning, public discourse, and turn them over to social media, and both sides have a history of murkiness (think continuing to, seemingly unconditionally, support Israel right now) the tendency to polarization and confusion sky rockets…
The messaging here in the US is truly Orwellian at this point 💔 and the outcome is really in the hands of too few people in the Republic due to the electoral college process…people can’t feel secure, so they just tune it all out and act as best they can figure out to act based on what they actually do attend to…
It’s hard to imagine, but America isn’t a secure established seat of democracy, and it has happened by both design, and inattention. 💔💔💔
Yes, it's sad to see how fragile US democracy is, even though it can easily be explained by diving into its history. But somehwere in these past two-and-a-half centuries, it would have helped to set the step to a more truely representative democracy. One where California has more votes in the Senate than Montana, where districts are abolished and thus no more gerrymandering, and were ultimately each vote counts as one vote. I don't know when that would have been possible but this structure is one of the past and seems for me, far away in another country, as unfair to many voters.
Yeah, that’s what many people think here too! But our system is built more or less on an assumption of human morality/integrity remaining stronger than a will to power-and over and over again we’ve had to face it isnt so…but generally we rise up out of our own ashes and we can only hope that’s true again. If not, many of us will be hoping to join you, living far from this distortion…
As soon as Trump was sworn in to serve the American people, he got busy eliminating any agency crucial to good governance, including Obama's pandemic office created in response to Ebola. He serves no one but himself.
It's so hard to understand why half of the voters doesn't see something that is so obvious.
No one can explain how the governor of FL, which is extremely experienced in the impacts of hurricanes,
can turn away a call from the government offering help which will sorely be needed after the “hurricane
of a century” hits FL very soon. It is incomprehensible to me that politics takes precedence over human lives. Ron DeSantis is doing just that and will have blood and untold misery on his hands forever. Shame on him.
As for the orange man, I have no words. The person who describes him best (besides Harris with Howard Stern) is his niece,
Mary Trump, who also is on Substack.
Thank you Alex for an excellent but sobering piece.
Just like the missery DeSantis created by using illegal migrants from Texas by transporting them to Massachusetts two years ago. It cost Florida taxpayers around $600,000, drawn from a fund intended for relocating unauthorized immigrants from Florida.
Thanks for this. I only hear bits and pieces of what's going on. At this point mostly from people I trust on Substack. I often wonder how they can get away with this behavior. It seems that it's being called out and highlighted more by the media and that's a good sign and a move in the right direction.
Again, thank you for putting this together and keeping those of us who are staying away from the news informed.
I hope everybody in Florida and other affected areas can get somewhere safe. This one is scary.
Thanks, Evelyne. Yes this one is very scary and may be hitting a very vulnerable area.
Filling out my early mail in ballot for Az; voting starts today. The path to the White House runs through this beautiful, stunning and wide-open state. While the world holds its collective breath, the reality of this moment is getting real. Thinking of all my fellow Americans in harm's way; about what's at stake here; and all those voices of freedom raising the clarion call here and around the world, how much we owe all of you.
America is indeed in turmoil. In push to the election, Kamala is on a media blitz -- MAGA's are melting down. Lara T is syphoning funds from RNC for Trump's legal woes while Mike Johnson indicating a no on additional FEMA Package. Florida is running out of gasoline, Port of Tampa in danger of losing oil tanker access. You should have picked up the phone, Ron.
The choice here seems so obvious, so logical, and ethical. I am flummoxed and saddened by America's embrace of the calloused and cruel former President. But while filling out my ballot, I see hope. I see shining blue dots spread across our country. We remember. We vote.
"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second." Our world can change in a heartbeat. We are running out of time for Democracy, for Climate Change for our children's future. Listen to the voices of reason, of wisdom. Listen to your gut. Vote.
Gracias, Alex, por todo.
‘It was another day of America in Turmoil, with 28 days until the election. And still, after some ten years of one Trump scandal following the next, American voters still need help deciding who of the two candidates has the best resume to improve their lives and American society.’
This seems so obvious, but there is so much lying going on, and so much false equivalency, it’s hard for people to understand or know what’s true, if they don’t have the time, inclination or the critical thinking skills to understand through the fog…
They are tending to take the easy route believing what aligns with their feelings, and you cannot have a democracy that way. When you give up educating people in civics (like it matters), moral reasoning, public discourse, and turn them over to social media, and both sides have a history of murkiness (think continuing to, seemingly unconditionally, support Israel right now) the tendency to polarization and confusion sky rockets…
The messaging here in the US is truly Orwellian at this point 💔 and the outcome is really in the hands of too few people in the Republic due to the electoral college process…people can’t feel secure, so they just tune it all out and act as best they can figure out to act based on what they actually do attend to…
It’s hard to imagine, but America isn’t a secure established seat of democracy, and it has happened by both design, and inattention. 💔💔💔
Yes, it's sad to see how fragile US democracy is, even though it can easily be explained by diving into its history. But somehwere in these past two-and-a-half centuries, it would have helped to set the step to a more truely representative democracy. One where California has more votes in the Senate than Montana, where districts are abolished and thus no more gerrymandering, and were ultimately each vote counts as one vote. I don't know when that would have been possible but this structure is one of the past and seems for me, far away in another country, as unfair to many voters.
Yeah, that’s what many people think here too! But our system is built more or less on an assumption of human morality/integrity remaining stronger than a will to power-and over and over again we’ve had to face it isnt so…but generally we rise up out of our own ashes and we can only hope that’s true again. If not, many of us will be hoping to join you, living far from this distortion…