dcarlton.bsky.social
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Actually, the Israelites were grateful to the Persians for defeating the Babylonians and then restoring their homeland. That's why Trumpist evangelicals compare their idol to Cyrus.
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They don't approve of Trump's goals; they approve of their own goals and attribute them to Trump. One thing we know is that a large proportion of voters think Trump only wants to deport criminals--not realizing that he considers all undocumented immigrants criminals.
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Max Boot has an interesting column in today's WaPo saying he *enjoyed* the parade. Turns out it was because the Army organized it as a celebration of itself and its history, not a celebration of Trump. Soldiers in period dress, diverse, smiling, and waving at the crowd. No wonder DJT was grumpy.
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Actually, it depends on how the question is phrased. As David French points out in today's NYT, approval for deportations is strong; but approval for what Trump is *doing* about deportations is strongly negative--and that's in the *same poll*! People just don't think things through.
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Trump would love that!
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Allison Krause (not the bluegrass singer) was doing that at Kent State--before she was gunned down.
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Oh, I dunno--These numbers are still too close for comfort. And the continuing massive GOP support for what he's doing keeps the GOP Congress from doing anything about it--or even (if the BBB passes) underwriting a huge expansion.
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The Mellon tax cuts were made in the 1920s.
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Cassian Andor: "It would be you, wouldn't it?"
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So--civil disobedience a la MLK will always be a failure? Not how I remember it (and I was alive and living in the South then).
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My congressman--thanks to a GOP gerrymander that split Nashville in three. His replacement is likely to be worse.
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Who are "they," and what are you claiming they failed to do? I'm not aware that any of them regard undocumented people as expendable. But you have to get the public on your side; I don't see the Bluesky cosplayers at "resistance" making any effort to do that.
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Remember Ghorman? The Empire goaded them into demonstrating so that they could come up with an excuse to massacre them. The "lecturers" are simply warning people against falling into a trap. But if feeling good about yourself is more important to you than being effective . . . .
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Like the Empire’s propaganda leadup to Gorman?
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Do you really think they were paying attention? Most people don't. After all, a lot of *Hispanics* voted for Trump because they thought he'd only go after the bad guys; are you gonna pile on to *them*? The truth about Trump is difficult for even a lot of *informed* folk to grasp; it's too crazy.
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All this judgmentalism ignores something big: these people are reacting because they're actually decent folk who are confronting consequences that they didn't think through when they voted. Like most people, they voted their tribe. But there's an opening, and being censorious will squander it.
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Color me a little skeptical about the significance of the Ukrainian strike. It took a year and a half of preparation; while it's astounding that the Russians could miss something going on on their own territory all that time, it's vanishingly unlikely that it's replicable.
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Gentleman's Cs--in law school? Uhuh.
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For Trumpsters, undocumented immigration *itself* as a crime. Because the public understanding of immigrants is beset with confusion, they figure that demonizing all immigrants with the "criminal" label is a winner. But it only works when native-born Americans don't actually *know* them.
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Grover Norquist?
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Oh? Ever try shape note? There's a continuing tradition in NC around your beloved Montreat--and within a day trip of DC.
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Sigh. Vance is well aware of the contributions of Jewish and German scientists to the US spac3e program, and *said it* in this interview. Greg Kelly cut that out of the interview in this clip. I've no use for Vance, but let's not spread falsehoods.
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You're misrepresenting the claim. Soldiers *do* fight for something--but it's commonly for their buddies, or for protecting their homes, families, and communities. Y'all think that because *you're* obsessed with politics and ideology, everybody is. Most fight for things closer to them.
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The *church* is Primitive Baptist, but this is a Sacred Harp singing, not a worship service. Quite a few of those singers aren't Primitive Baptists; I've sung there myself, and I'm PCUSA.
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Gee, I'm a Yale Ph.D., and I eat at Mickey D's and drive a Ford Escape (OK, a plug-in hybrid).
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I thought they'd actually taken possession. Not?
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BTW, Winger's Violin Concerto was premiered by the NSO just this month, with NSO Concertmaster Peter Otto doing honors. I take it that's news to you, Radley?
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I went on Friday; Radley's assessment is right. I was also gratified at the turnout, which the NSO really needs more of, Local folks.
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Did they get to take the plate home?
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I'd state it differently; their religion has always been a tribal identity. The sociologist John Shelton Reed used to argue that white southerners were an ethnic group, and that they understood both faith and politics as intrinsic to their ethnic identity. That's now spread beyond the South.
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Careful with the reactions. Krugman points out that preliminary GDP estimates are *extremely* noisy.
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What about the papal role as theological gatekeeper? Can one imagine this theological illiterate doing that?
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Actually, I think he's on to what lots of people want--not well-paying union jobs (virtually nonexistent when I was growing up in the 1950s Piedmont) but stable jobs--jobs that allowed people to stay anchored to family and community. Not realistic, of course, but a world many remember lovingly.
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But note how many of them call themselves constitutional conservatives and carry around little pocket-sized copies of the Constitution like lucky charms.
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Note that this incident occurred *six years* ago.
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News to me, and I'm well connected there
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I grew up in Spartanburg, back of a cotton mill, and spent my career studying southern industrialization. What drove this vote wasn't economic, but intense religious conservatism. It's culture wars, purely and simply.
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Deindustrialization has devastated communities and left people adrift, and many fancy that reindustrialization can bring back that sort of stable community life--thought now the pace of economic change makes that an unattainable fantasy.
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I think the nostalgia is for a time when people didn't have to invest a lot in the *job*--no need for education or a break from your nurturing community. The job was stable and underwrote what you really cared about--family, old friends, etc.--what Kenny Rogers sang about in "The Factory."
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Dorothy Parker: “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
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Reminds me of when I first started educating myself on investing, and hung out on stock bulletin boards listening to people shouting that "this stock is gonna go to the Moon!" I decided Jack Bogle was a better guide.
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Great program this evening! Thanks to you, Russell Moore, and Fred Gray for hitting it out of the park!
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This is getting confusing. The administration lawyers are calling the USIP an "independent agency," which they can control because Trump doesn't like anything independent of him. But it's also been described as an independent nonprofit. If the latter, how can Trump fire the Board?
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These guys are ex-officio members; they're nowhere near a majority of Board members, unless somehow Trump has claimed the right to fire the Board of an independent nonprofit.
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Sort of like a Minsky moment--a long period of little consequence for risk-taking encourages risk-taking to the point that the whole thing blows up.
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Not to mention Charles Ives's evocation of "The St. Gaudens on Boston Common" as one of his "Three Places in New England." Allen Guelzo captures the Civil-War-haunted Ives here. theamericanscholar.org/battle-hymns/
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"No visitor or immigrant truly has a First Amendment right to free speech until the second after he has taken his formal oath of citizenship." The notion that a right endowed to humans by one's Creator is limited to citizens would surprise Jefferson and Madison.
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Can you move to a larger venue? I got registered (I live just up the street), but a lot of people I know couldn't.
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The women tend to be almost exclusively devoted to philanthropic enterprises--the men treat their media holdings as subsidiaries of their other businesses, and throw them under the bus if they fear Trump will go after their other businesses.
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Concerned about exploited foreign workers? Here's an idea; take away their jobs! Give them to American workers and force their fellow countrymen to pay higher prices for what they buy! That way everybody benefits--amirite?