You got me laughing out loud this morning, Gary, with these words: “ Republicans elected him and they need to find a home for him. Assisted living. Florida. A big patio looking at the Gulf of America.” Barbara
‘Enough’ is such an interesting word. In sentence structure it can be used as a pronoun, adjective, adverb, a determiner.
For example;
The destruction that continues to prevail from the Trump Administration has not been acknowledged by enough congressional Republicans. When will they have enough of the cruel and crazy edicts wreaking havoc upon the people who actually pay the bills to run this country? They could easily enough hold the president in check by simply exercising their legislative power. Curiously enough, they choose instead to remain silent, cowering behind their fealty to an ignorant and certainly dangerous narcissist. It is no longer enough for the rest of us to wait for the coming apocalypse. We must come together and cry, “ENOUGH!”
Love it! Cops on the beat, people out and about and feeling safe on the subway. Breaks all the evil big city stereotypes nurtured here in the heartland. A few years ago, here in central Illinois, we were discussing an upcoming union conference in NYC, and I recommended to everyone that riding the subway was the best way to learn the city. My cohorts were aghast -- "they push people off the platforms there. I will only take Uber!" COVID ended the conference, so they were all snug in their cornfield beds that week.
In 1976 I moved to St Paul for school, and began listening to Garrison during his morning radio show (6a-9a as I recall) on the local NPR station. And going to APHC (then the best $1.50 a student could spend) many Saturday evenings. I was astonished to watch him give the news from Lake Wobegon entirely extemporaneously. What a talent! Not long after I graduated and moved eight states away, APHC went national and I could still listen. Somewhere around 2013, my wife and I were dining in a St Paul restaurant when he and Jenny came in and sat nearby. As we exited, I stopped by the table, apologized for interrupting, and told him how much I had enjoyed his work over the 30+ years I had listened to him. He asked a question of me, to make conversation, but I insisted on keeping the interruption brief, just to give him my appreciation. I am very glad I was able to tell him that in person. And obviously, I am still following his work, now approaching 50 years.
Reminds me of a writing seminar I took in Brooklyn once, when we all jumped on a train and wrote about the people sitting across from us on the ride. It’s just not the same tooling up I-5 in a car, each fellow human surrounded by a steel cage.
El Salvador will take him, the contract: no golf, no balls, no gold, salad, reading 4 hours per day and then pass a test...”you want food or not?” Maybe he gets a tattoo to keep him company! Stormy…so when he flexes an arm it looks like she’s swatting his fat ass! Ah memories...
I remember on your radio show when you had the conductor calling out all the stops. This was pre-9/11 and included the WTC.
Even in my moderate-sized city Fort Wayne, IN, where I volunteer at the magnificent Embassy Theatre, friends and relatives who never go there, say, "Aren't you afraid at night?" In almost 30 years volunteering, I have never felt afraid or threatened.
Dear Garrison. You might one to say, IMO, when you make a political statement. It may be true for you but not so for many. Other than that, I enjoyed your blog. In less than a year I will be saying, "I told you so".
Some aspiring composer should set the Dow-Jones chart to music. Imagine the lilting tremolos as the market rises, followed by loud crescendos when it falls. On especially bad days, the score could include howling shrieks and groans of brass instruments and drums as the bottom falls out of the market and the short sellers consider suicide. An entire symphony could be created based on the wild market fluctuations of the last couple of weeks. To heighten the excitement, the conductor could run wildly around the stage as if in a panic. Bravo!
Oops! Embarrassing mistake. The short sellers would be drinking champagne. Being Democrats, they would have succeeded in driving the market down to both make a big profit and embarrass President Trump at the same time. The conductor, also being a Democrat, would be taking a bow.
All the world is a stage and Trump remains the biggest embarrassment on it. In case you haven't noticed, millions of citizens have been in the streets recently wanting him gone asap and more are joining daily.
Ah, yes. To the streets! The Bolsheviks are on the march again. Hold the red banners high! Utopia is just around the corner. Time for Yuri Zhivago to return to the family dacha beyond the Ural Mountains and write poetry again. But watch out, Yuri. Comrade Strelnikov is burning peasant villages nearby.
Leave it to William Case to show up with a silly conspiracy theory to distract our attention from his continued shameless support for a criminal president who is now appearing in the Oval Office with a tin-can dictator and sending people from the U.S. to that dictator's dangerous prison without due process, in defiance of court orders. Be sure to let us know when your Dear Leader goes too far for you, William. P.S. Be sure to keep your dogs and cats safe from Haitians, also.
My cousin was to turn in her official retirement notice this past Monday. However, her 401K has taken such a hit she is forced to rethink her timeline. She is 67 and had hoped to wait until 70 to be able to collect the maximum for Social Security-which she has paid into over 50 years-as that stipend will be a large part of her income. DOGE and the inane attacks on the federal workforce, including SS, have left her petrified that everything she has worked for and toward has evaporated before her eyes. She has done nothing wrong. She, like so many, are the forgotten casualties of Trump’s insidious attempts of becoming America’s first autocrat. Perhaps if people such as yourself, Mr. Case, have some real financial pain inflicted on them, you would not be so callous. My experience has taught me that unless someone has some skin in the game, it is easy to remain indifferent to another’s pain. Your posts speak volumes about your shallow nature.
Regarding the short sellers, look no further than MTG, who most likely should be investigated for insider trading based on Trump’s daily whims regarding tariffs. I suspect there are several in Trump’s inner circle who should be added to that list, corrupt as they all are.
You are right that there are innocent people who will be hurt by the economic decoupling with China, the repatriation of non-citizens, and the downsizing of the federal government. Just as many, if not more, were hurt by the dismantling of American industry, the invasion by “Biden’s Barefoot Army”, and the expansion of government to grossly obese dimensions by Trump’s predecessors, Democrat and Republican alike. I don’t remember any tears being shed by Democrats for the latter group. What Trump is doing would not have been necessary if his predecessors had not done what they did. Something needs to be done to restore the health and vitality of the country if it is to have any future at all. What would you do differently if you were President?
You use words like "vitality and health" as if Trump is full of both when in bold face type his character is anything but. If you are so blinded by your own absurd political hatred, you're blind to this putrid emperor with no clothes as well. The rest of us aren't and know you don't improve a nation by dismantling it with not a whit of empathic common sense - neither of which are anywhere near within Trump's hideous character.
Aw, come on, Dana. I know it’s you hiding behind the name Dave Miller. I would recognize that potty-mouth anywhere. “Hatred,” “Putrid,” “Hideous.” But you are a bit off your game today. I’ve seen a lot more ad hominem abuse from you in the past. Give it another try with more fanatical zeal this time.
How strange that you seem to think I'm the only one here who would notice and respond to your periodic ejaculations of racism and other assorted far-right BS in these comments. I don't have a potty mouth, but I frequently refer to Trump as an asshole and to your twisted version of the Republican party as the party of fascist assholery. Why you think I'd create a separate profile to respond to you I have no idea.
Again, please watch the Bill Moyers documentary Rosedale: The Way It Is. It's about people like you, and it's available to watch for free on YouTube.
"Putrid" and "hideous" are not words I recall having used before on this site. Nor do they qualify as potty-mouth words. Dave has had his own presence here for quite some time, and from what I've seen he tends to be far more polite to fascists than I.
Ad hominem abuse? I suppose that's how you'd take it, but you've shown me who you are and I think it's way past time American patriots stopped worrying about being polite to people like you. Fanatical zeal? You're the one supporting the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene, QAnon, North Carolina's self-proclaimed "black Nazi" lieutenant governor, RFK Jr., the Big Lie, birtherism, "they're eating the dogs and cats," and so very much more unconscionable garbage.
I thought of Jenny today when I was weeding my saffron crocus garden. You have mentioned that she enjoys weeding. I don’t, but it is fun to harvest saffron crocuses for about two weeks in late October and early November. Each blossom has 3 tiny orange saffron threads (and sometimes a bee). I live midway between Providence, RI and the Cape Cod Canal, where they grow very well, so they also should do well in southern CT where she does her weeding. You can buy the bulbs online to plant in the spring.
"A person believes that the discipline and passion that go into creating those memorable twelve minutes, or creating memorable music or poetry or theater, will see us through the gyrations of the Dow." You do that too, so thank you. Such things get us through more than just the gyrations of the Dow.
Oh, yes!!
"...Assisted living. Florida. A big patio looking at the Gulf of America...." ALWAYS LOOKING RAVEN-LIKE!" YES! AND NEVER MORE!
I love you Garrison. You really are a national treasure. Thank you for your human insight. It’s a blessing for us all♥️🇺🇸
You got me laughing out loud this morning, Gary, with these words: “ Republicans elected him and they need to find a home for him. Assisted living. Florida. A big patio looking at the Gulf of America.” Barbara
‘Enough’ is such an interesting word. In sentence structure it can be used as a pronoun, adjective, adverb, a determiner.
For example;
The destruction that continues to prevail from the Trump Administration has not been acknowledged by enough congressional Republicans. When will they have enough of the cruel and crazy edicts wreaking havoc upon the people who actually pay the bills to run this country? They could easily enough hold the president in check by simply exercising their legislative power. Curiously enough, they choose instead to remain silent, cowering behind their fealty to an ignorant and certainly dangerous narcissist. It is no longer enough for the rest of us to wait for the coming apocalypse. We must come together and cry, “ENOUGH!”
Enough! Enough! Enough!
Drag him out if necessary!
And they (pretend to) wonder why they are perceived as fascists!
Love it! Cops on the beat, people out and about and feeling safe on the subway. Breaks all the evil big city stereotypes nurtured here in the heartland. A few years ago, here in central Illinois, we were discussing an upcoming union conference in NYC, and I recommended to everyone that riding the subway was the best way to learn the city. My cohorts were aghast -- "they push people off the platforms there. I will only take Uber!" COVID ended the conference, so they were all snug in their cornfield beds that week.
As most-usually, you're right: we have a deranged president. I wish a trip on the subway would provide me with a sense of sureness, missing now.
In 1976 I moved to St Paul for school, and began listening to Garrison during his morning radio show (6a-9a as I recall) on the local NPR station. And going to APHC (then the best $1.50 a student could spend) many Saturday evenings. I was astonished to watch him give the news from Lake Wobegon entirely extemporaneously. What a talent! Not long after I graduated and moved eight states away, APHC went national and I could still listen. Somewhere around 2013, my wife and I were dining in a St Paul restaurant when he and Jenny came in and sat nearby. As we exited, I stopped by the table, apologized for interrupting, and told him how much I had enjoyed his work over the 30+ years I had listened to him. He asked a question of me, to make conversation, but I insisted on keeping the interruption brief, just to give him my appreciation. I am very glad I was able to tell him that in person. And obviously, I am still following his work, now approaching 50 years.
One of your best, GK. Thanks for sharing.
Reminds me of a writing seminar I took in Brooklyn once, when we all jumped on a train and wrote about the people sitting across from us on the ride. It’s just not the same tooling up I-5 in a car, each fellow human surrounded by a steel cage.
Here’s to mass transit!
El Salvador will take him, the contract: no golf, no balls, no gold, salad, reading 4 hours per day and then pass a test...”you want food or not?” Maybe he gets a tattoo to keep him company! Stormy…so when he flexes an arm it looks like she’s swatting his fat ass! Ah memories...
Iran might be another option, and I'm sure they'd take him for free. Or maybe he could get asylum (one of his favorite words) in Pyongyang.
I remember on your radio show when you had the conductor calling out all the stops. This was pre-9/11 and included the WTC.
Even in my moderate-sized city Fort Wayne, IN, where I volunteer at the magnificent Embassy Theatre, friends and relatives who never go there, say, "Aren't you afraid at night?" In almost 30 years volunteering, I have never felt afraid or threatened.
Dear Garrison. You might one to say, IMO, when you make a political statement. It may be true for you but not so for many. Other than that, I enjoyed your blog. In less than a year I will be saying, "I told you so".
I dare say, Graham, in less than a year you will be saying, “What was I thinking?!”
Heidi, you're always so kind.
Some aspiring composer should set the Dow-Jones chart to music. Imagine the lilting tremolos as the market rises, followed by loud crescendos when it falls. On especially bad days, the score could include howling shrieks and groans of brass instruments and drums as the bottom falls out of the market and the short sellers consider suicide. An entire symphony could be created based on the wild market fluctuations of the last couple of weeks. To heighten the excitement, the conductor could run wildly around the stage as if in a panic. Bravo!
Oops! Embarrassing mistake. The short sellers would be drinking champagne. Being Democrats, they would have succeeded in driving the market down to both make a big profit and embarrass President Trump at the same time. The conductor, also being a Democrat, would be taking a bow.
All the world is a stage and Trump remains the biggest embarrassment on it. In case you haven't noticed, millions of citizens have been in the streets recently wanting him gone asap and more are joining daily.
Ah, yes. To the streets! The Bolsheviks are on the march again. Hold the red banners high! Utopia is just around the corner. Time for Yuri Zhivago to return to the family dacha beyond the Ural Mountains and write poetry again. But watch out, Yuri. Comrade Strelnikov is burning peasant villages nearby.
Leave it to William Case to show up with a silly conspiracy theory to distract our attention from his continued shameless support for a criminal president who is now appearing in the Oval Office with a tin-can dictator and sending people from the U.S. to that dictator's dangerous prison without due process, in defiance of court orders. Be sure to let us know when your Dear Leader goes too far for you, William. P.S. Be sure to keep your dogs and cats safe from Haitians, also.
That bell still has a crack in it.
Yes, it's the Liberty Bell.
My cousin was to turn in her official retirement notice this past Monday. However, her 401K has taken such a hit she is forced to rethink her timeline. She is 67 and had hoped to wait until 70 to be able to collect the maximum for Social Security-which she has paid into over 50 years-as that stipend will be a large part of her income. DOGE and the inane attacks on the federal workforce, including SS, have left her petrified that everything she has worked for and toward has evaporated before her eyes. She has done nothing wrong. She, like so many, are the forgotten casualties of Trump’s insidious attempts of becoming America’s first autocrat. Perhaps if people such as yourself, Mr. Case, have some real financial pain inflicted on them, you would not be so callous. My experience has taught me that unless someone has some skin in the game, it is easy to remain indifferent to another’s pain. Your posts speak volumes about your shallow nature.
Regarding the short sellers, look no further than MTG, who most likely should be investigated for insider trading based on Trump’s daily whims regarding tariffs. I suspect there are several in Trump’s inner circle who should be added to that list, corrupt as they all are.
You are right that there are innocent people who will be hurt by the economic decoupling with China, the repatriation of non-citizens, and the downsizing of the federal government. Just as many, if not more, were hurt by the dismantling of American industry, the invasion by “Biden’s Barefoot Army”, and the expansion of government to grossly obese dimensions by Trump’s predecessors, Democrat and Republican alike. I don’t remember any tears being shed by Democrats for the latter group. What Trump is doing would not have been necessary if his predecessors had not done what they did. Something needs to be done to restore the health and vitality of the country if it is to have any future at all. What would you do differently if you were President?
You use words like "vitality and health" as if Trump is full of both when in bold face type his character is anything but. If you are so blinded by your own absurd political hatred, you're blind to this putrid emperor with no clothes as well. The rest of us aren't and know you don't improve a nation by dismantling it with not a whit of empathic common sense - neither of which are anywhere near within Trump's hideous character.
Aw, come on, Dana. I know it’s you hiding behind the name Dave Miller. I would recognize that potty-mouth anywhere. “Hatred,” “Putrid,” “Hideous.” But you are a bit off your game today. I’ve seen a lot more ad hominem abuse from you in the past. Give it another try with more fanatical zeal this time.
How strange that you seem to think I'm the only one here who would notice and respond to your periodic ejaculations of racism and other assorted far-right BS in these comments. I don't have a potty mouth, but I frequently refer to Trump as an asshole and to your twisted version of the Republican party as the party of fascist assholery. Why you think I'd create a separate profile to respond to you I have no idea.
Again, please watch the Bill Moyers documentary Rosedale: The Way It Is. It's about people like you, and it's available to watch for free on YouTube.
"Putrid" and "hideous" are not words I recall having used before on this site. Nor do they qualify as potty-mouth words. Dave has had his own presence here for quite some time, and from what I've seen he tends to be far more polite to fascists than I.
Ad hominem abuse? I suppose that's how you'd take it, but you've shown me who you are and I think it's way past time American patriots stopped worrying about being polite to people like you. Fanatical zeal? You're the one supporting the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene, QAnon, North Carolina's self-proclaimed "black Nazi" lieutenant governor, RFK Jr., the Big Lie, birtherism, "they're eating the dogs and cats," and so very much more unconscionable garbage.
Again a winner. Republicans didn't elect President Trump, Americans elected him. AJK
I thought of Jenny today when I was weeding my saffron crocus garden. You have mentioned that she enjoys weeding. I don’t, but it is fun to harvest saffron crocuses for about two weeks in late October and early November. Each blossom has 3 tiny orange saffron threads (and sometimes a bee). I live midway between Providence, RI and the Cape Cod Canal, where they grow very well, so they also should do well in southern CT where she does her weeding. You can buy the bulbs online to plant in the spring.
"A person believes that the discipline and passion that go into creating those memorable twelve minutes, or creating memorable music or poetry or theater, will see us through the gyrations of the Dow." You do that too, so thank you. Such things get us through more than just the gyrations of the Dow.