What's goin' on?

New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait says Mueller’s investigation is in "mortal danger." E.J. Dionne Jr. of the Washington Post says the campaign to fire Mueller is pushing us "closer to the precipice" of lawlessness. 
-from this article

Make sure you know your protest spot if Mueller is fired.  If he's fired before 2pm the protest is at 5pm; if he's fired after 2pm we meet the next day at noon.  High noon.
I can't believe I have to tell my husband that we have to do this if Mueller is fired.  I can't believe I have to take my kids to protest against the dictatorship of Donald Trump.  But here it is.  So be it.  The fight continues.

Why did NPR call the MBS power grab in Saudi Arabia an economic restructuring?  Why don't they ever say that this purge started right after Jared Kushner took an unannounced trip and stayed up late with MBS?  Jared's idea for peace in the Middle East?  Why do NPR hosts nervously laugh about the terrible Trump things?  I say it all the time now, but they want normal so bad.  You know what?  It's okay to be outraged.

What are Cuties?  Depending on the season they are either Clementine mandarins or Murcott mandarins.  Clementine are a hybrid between a mandarin and sweet orange.  Murcott are the same, also called a tangor which is also called a temple orange.  A tangerine is a closely related or probable type of mandarin.

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— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) December 11, 2017

Harry Belafonte, you are a treasure

HARRY BELAFONTE: I must admit that I had far more commitment to the belief that in the final analysis, no matter how extreme things might be in America, that eventually our citizens would rise up and righteously stop the enemy at the gate, if not in fact put them in retreat. And each time certain events took place, we met the horror and the terror of not only what I referenced before—to some, I noticed when I mentioned the Fourth Reich, wasn’t quite sure what I was talking about. Just for clarity, as you know, the last great global torment was the Nazi era. It was called the Third Reich. And I thought that we had thoroughly cleansed ourself of that encounter and that we would be much more resilient. But I think, to a degree, we do reveal some resilience, but the real test has not yet come, until the inaugural transference has taken place. And what concerns me is that, beyond the mischief of Trump and all those in his Cabinet and the people that he’s appointed into roles of leadership, I had never quite understood that we had another severe, unattended enemy in our midst. And that was our species’ commitment or weakness in the face of absolute greed. And I think we have failed to come to certain solid conclusions, because we have been so contaminated with possessions and power that we have forgotten that we have destroyed our children, or set the tone for that. I would welcome Professor Chomsky’s point of view, and I hope he says something that will make me dance out of here.

from here

Strange. Red.

I'm so glad other people are able to adequately explain how I feel, since I have temporarily (hopefully) succumbed to "the dumbing".

Let’s call this PTSD post-Trump stress disorder, triggered by the election, to the most powerful office in the world, of a man who’s espoused wholesale exclusion of Muslim immigrants, deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, repealing Roe v. Wade, abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency, and encouraging Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear weapons, among other polarizing proposals. While post-Trump stress in no way equals the level of trauma experienced by combat veterans in Afghanistan, Iraq or Vietnam, this is an experience shared by tens of millions of Americans right now. 
--Jeff Gillenkirk, Alternet


Dear people that love me,
See the red?  I am not unhinged.  You should be seeing red too.
Love,
A person that loves you