First Charge, Trump Scare, Martyr, Rally, Ron v Mickey, Guns, Forgiveness

  • Kevin Drum has one reservation. A non-trivial possibility.
     
  • Reacting to next week’s prospective arrest of mr Trump, Julian Sanchez has his own modest suggestion, despite a moral reservation.

  • The polling was done earlier in the week, before news broke of the actual indictment. Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the numbers. 98% of Americans had already made up their minds about mr Trump.
     
  • Vixen Strangely, at Strangely Blogged, watches mr Trump’s Waco rally that became a mini‑rally, pays attention to the speech, and concludes that the massive‑evil‑to‑be‑feared has withered to a shriveled sort of evil. The movement has spiraled into a constricted scale model of its former bitter self. Still dangerous, but diminished.
     
    Key description:
    The power of the movement is in things like the sneaky little white powder envelope with a death threat left for Alvin Bragg, and scores of telephonic death threats and associated stupid angry shenanigans. What sad lives these people have that this is how they express themselves.
     
  • Green Eagle is amazed at the deterioration of Republican public truthfulness, as evidenced by Republican leaders insisting on their 5th Amendment rights. The large green bird has a suggestion.
     
  • Andy Borowitz reports as Tucker Carlson submits a doctor’s note claiming he would be unable to raise his right hand in court.
     
    Key satiric orthopedic excuse:
    Any attempt to raise said hand would result in excruciating, unbearable pain
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life goes issue by issue to demonstrate that the MAGA movement represents the OPPOSITE of Follow‑the‑Leader politics.
     
  • A critic of Dave Dubya takes a swing at defining Wokeness as a group who follow Karl Marx. Dave takes a swing at those who think like his critic.
     
    Key observation:
    Everything the radical Right hates is “woke” “CRT” or “Marxism” because they will ALWAYS unilaterally redefine anything they hate as “woke” “CRT” and “Marxism”.
     
  • The continuous destruction generated by school shootings brings to my mind the words of a grieving child in Nashville:


    But Hackwhackers points out that there are even more victims than those children injured or killed and their grieving families, illustrated by what is becoming an iconic photo from Nashville: a face in a school bus window.

  • Broadway actor PJ Adzima knows what it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun:
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit makes the case that guns don’t kill people, gun magazines kill people. No, it is not a silly argument.
     
    Key conclusion:
    For slaughtering lots of people, it’s not the rifle. It’s not the cartridge. It’s the magazines, which allow for shooting lots of rounds without having to reload. But good luck with doing anything about them. There are probably a hundred million of them out there, if not more.
     
  • Dave Columbo conducts his own Congressional investigation into TikTok:
     
  • Infidel753 celebrates Ukrainian victories, but cannot celebrate Russian deaths. Hard for me to disagree.
     
    Key conclusion:
    The Ukrainians must strive to kill as many Russian soldiers as possible, just as they strive to destroy weapons and equipment. They are in a position where they have no alternative. It is part of the horror of war. But most of the dead Russian soldiers in Ukraine, like the Ukrainians they have been made to kill, are innocent victims of Putin’s monstrous criminality and arrogance.
     
  • At The Moderate Voice, retired U.S. Air Force Major and former aerospace/defense executive, Dorian de Wind focuses on the current crisis in Israel. It is as serious as the Yom Kippur war, when Prime Minister Golda Meir guided the nation through a coordinated attack in 1973 from surrounding countries. The difference now is that the danger comes from within, the current Prime Minister, and Bibi Netanyahu is no Golda Meir.
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce explores the remarkable differences as Christian groups regard rules from the Old Testament.
     
  • Nan’s Notebook has questions for readers about varying religious concepts of human souls.
     
  • I have had difficulty with this even before I became a Christian.
     
    North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz makes the emotional case for applying forgiveness to ourselves.
     
    Key guidance:
    Don’t let the you in this moment crucify your former self for what that person did or failed to do. You’ve now had time and distance that version of you simply didn’t have.
     
  • Sarah Cooper has written a book:

  • The Strategic Studies Book Club examines A History of Warfare by the late historian John Keegan. Keegan rejects, at least in part, the Clausewitz formula that war is politics by other means. He proposes that war is more a product of culture.
     
  • In Happiness Between Tails da-AL hosts German author Valeska RĂ©on who has completed a work of historical fiction about a real French duchess during the strange reign of Charles VIII. The synopsis is entertaining and informative, but the accompanying video, in German, is especially worth a listen for the background music, especially composed for the book.
     
  • The Journal of Improbable Research warns about misleading titles, with research that is definitely not a Dahmer menu guide for American cannibals.
     
  • Legal analyst Imani Gandy also has other abilities:

  • YellowDog Granny has insights into exercise, attitude, self‑image, and life on the highway.
     
  • @whiskeywhistle98 has trouble paying attention (I can relate):
     
  • Clickbait satirist Reductress has valuable advice for any new parent: how to bond with your newborn even though you don’t watch the same shows.
     
  • If you are pathologically happy, with joy interfering with your life: M. Bouffant at Web of Evil is ready to help with a day‑by‑day preview of the week ahead.
     
  • SilverAppleQueen watches an old episode of Perry Mason while hanging out with her cat.
     

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One thought on “First Charge, Trump Scare, Martyr, Rally, Ron v Mickey, Guns, Forgiveness”

  1. tx again for linking my site here & your kind words. sadness doesn’t cover the school slayings – always kid upon kid…

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