1/. Andrew Sullivan is a conservative commentator, but in this article he articulates what many Democrats, including myself, are thinking....
Biden should retire on a high note and leave the field to someone younger.
The danger of Biden doing a Feinstein or a Ginsburg [overstaying their time] is that Trump has a chance to win.....
Unless he steps down, THAT disaster could be his legacy....
Halfway through a ceremony this past week, without saying anything, the president just wandered off the stage through the crowd to somewhat stunned silence. The same thing happened in an MSNBC interview on live television not so long ago. He just stood up stiffly — and meandered away.
Every time you see Biden walk, he seems, well, in his eighties: he’s slow, careful, stilted. Every time you hear him speak, he’s also just a little off, eyes now barely visible in the ancient, botoxed, fillered face, words often slurred, a ghostly white mane peeking over his collar in the back, occasionally rallying to the point, or strangely loud-whispering.
2/. Now this is interesting - Americans are losing faith that going to college is worth it.
Some new facts show they may be right.....
3/. Thom Hartmann says the gutting of the middle class in this country was deliberate, and intended to
create a nation of rulers and wage slaves which is close to where we are now.....
As we stand on the edge of the end of the Reagan Revolution, an end signaled by one particular phrase in President Biden‘s speech in early March (which I’ll get to in a minute), its really important that Americans understand the backstory.
Reagan and his conservative buddies intentionally gutted the American middle class, but they did so not just out of greed but also with what they thought was a good and noble justification.
As I lay out in more granular detail in my new book The Hidden History of American Oligarchy, back in the early 1950s conservative thinker Russell Kirk proposed a startling hypothesis that would fundamentally change our nation and the world. https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-the-reagan-revolution-scheme
4/. "Billie Jean" played on one guitar....amazing......
5/. Despite the reprieve this year the West is in serious trouble because of a shortage of water.....
The solutions are clear, but politically impossible because of Big Ag.....
I FIRST VISITED the Grand Canyon in 1967 with two school friends and an elderly teacher who filled his summers by taking young students on long road trips, camping across the country. I mostly remember the color of the sky and the immensity of the chasm, with the Colorado River as seen from the canyon rim just a dirt thread lying across the bottom of the world. The nearest we got to the river was a mule ride down the Bright Angel Trail, three hours that left us sunburnt and swarming with ticks. Of the greater forces at play that summer, we were as oblivious as our teac
6/. Everything is branded.....
7/. What was this company thinking? Insane idea, the "one chip challenge".....
What could possibly go wrong after trying the Paqui One Chip Challenge? This is the challenge where you are supposed to eat one tortilla chip dusted with two of the hottest peppers in the world—the Carolina Reaper and the Naga Viper—and then try to go as long as possible without eating or drinking anything to ease the anguish. Well, over the past year, there have already been reports of kids suffering all sorts of bad effects and even being hospitalized after trying this challenge. And on September 1, Harris Wolobah, a 14-year-old sophomore at Doherty Memorial High School in Massachusetts, tragically died soon after partaking in this challenge.
8/. Red state women are losing access to maternity care, as doctors are moving
out because of the new abortion laws.
But do the Republicans care? No, because it's a woman problem.....
One by one, doctors who handle high-risk pregnancies are disappearing from Idaho — part of a wave of obstetricians fleeing restrictive abortion laws and a hostile state legislature. Dr. Caitlin Gustafson, a family doctor who also delivers babies in the tiny mountain town of McCall, is among those left behind, facing a lonely and uncertain future.
9/. Can't wait for the video.....
10/. Two Texas billionaires are behind a lot of the Christian nationalism that has devoured t
he Republican Party.....dangerous people.....
Two billionaire Texas brothers whose fortunes derive from oil and gas fracking have pumped millions of dollars into rightwing media outfits that have promoted climate-crisis denialism and sent more big checks to back an array of evangelical projects and conservative Texas politicians.
The fracking billionaires Farris and Dan Wilks have each doled out millions of dollars through separate foundations over the last decade to a number of high-profile conservative and religious groups including the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family.
11/. Interesting story, unverified but sounds convincing, on the corruption of the Trump
family and the Hunter Biden laptop issue being a Russian op.....
1. Jared Kushner leveraged his White House position to get a bailout for his terrible 666 Fifth Avenue investment. This could be a violation of federal law.
2. Kushner traded top secret documents and/or information from the White House to help MBS take over Saudi Arabia (and to excuse his murder of Jamal Khashoggi) and was paid over $2 billion for his efforts. If true, this is a violation of federal law.
3. Both Putin and MBS want Trump back in office so he can end American democracy and have us join the growing number of autocratic nations, giving them support rather than the antagonistic relationship they have with the Biden administration. To that end, they’ve engineered a cut in oil production that will show up as higher gas prices by election time.
4. Also to that end, Russia engineered the “Hunter laptop” scandal, which Republicans are now running with to try to damage Biden’s chances in the 2024 election (as Kevin McCarthy bragged that they’d done with Hillary prior to 2016).
12/. The US Navy predicted we will have 4 degrees of warming by 2040.
I found this site called "collapse", which weekly summarises bad news from around the world.
If you are prone to depression, don't read it....if you want some facts, go ahead....
This is Last Week in Collapse, a weekly newsletter bringing together some of the most important, timely, useful, depressing, ironic, stunning, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse.
This is the 89th newsletter. You can find the August 27-September 2 edition here if you missed it last week
13/. AI cartoon of the week.....
14/ Naomi Klein, the climate activist, has a new book out - "Doppelganger".....
I’ve been raving about Naomi Klein’s “Doppelganger” since I read an advance copy this summer, and when I tell people about it, some of them are baffled: You mean Klein wrote a whole book about being confused with the writer Naomi Wolf? The central conceit of “Doppelganger” sounds more like the premise for a surreal Charlie Kaufman film than a work by an earnest lefty who usually writes about overweening corporate power. Klein herself is apologetic about it. “In my defense, it was never my intent to write this book,” she says in its first line.
15/. The Times gives us the 50 best shows on Netflix....
Netflix adds original programming at such a steady clip that it can be hard to keep up with which of its dramas, comedies and reality shows are must-sees. And that’s not including all the TV series Netflix picks up from broadcast and cable networks. Below is our regularly updated guide to the 50 best shows on Netflix in the United States. Each recommendation comes with a secondary pick, too, for 100 suggestions in all. (Note: Netflix sometimes removes titles without notice.)
Today's rock video
Arcade Fire with "Ready to Start", nothing fancy, just an excellent live pereformance.....audience freaking out, a lady drummer in a prom dress, good geetar......
A couple of jokes for married people......
A woman is sitting at home on the veranda enjoying a bottle of wine with her husband and she says, "I love you."
He asks, "Is that you or the wine talking?"
She replies, "It's me............. talking to the wine."
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A husband and wife were sitting watching a TV program about psychology and explaining the phenomenon of mixed emotions.
The husband turned to his wife and said, "Honey, that's a bunch of crap. I bet you can't tell me anything that will make me happy and sad at the same time.
And she said, "Out of all your friends you have the biggest pecker."
Today's short drunk joke
Two drunk guys are sitting at a bar when one looksat the other and says,
"I had sex with your mother last night".
The other guy gets up, grabs his coat and says,
"OK dad, it's time to go".
Today's Polish joke
Two Polish hunters got a pilot to fly them into the Canadian wilderness, where they managed to bag two big bull moose.
As they were loading the plane to return, the pilot said the plane could take only the hunters, their gear and one moose.
The hunters strongly objected saying, "Last year we shot two, and the pilot let us take them both... and he had exactly the same airplane as yours."
Reluctantly the pilot, not wanting to be outdone by another bush pilot, gave in and everything was loaded. However, even under full power, the little plane couldn't handle the load and went down, crashing in the wooded wilderness.
Somehow, surrounded by the moose, clothing and sleeping bags, Yanush and Stashek survived the crash.
After climbing out of the wreckage, Yanush asked Stashek, "'Any idea where we are?"
Stashek replied, "I think we're pretty close to where we crashed last year!"
Another married joke
A husband had just finished reading a new book entitled; You Can Be the Man of Your House.
Finding new courage that he never knew he had, he stormed into the kitchen and announced to his wife, "From now on, you need to know that I am the man of this house and my word is the 'Law.' You will prepare me a gourmet meal tonight, bring it to me, and when I am done eating my meal, you will clear the dishes and serve me a scrumptious dessert. After dinner, you are going to go upstairs with me and we will make love the way I want!"
"Afterwards, you are going to draw me a bath so I can relax. You will put on soothing music, wash my back and towel me dry and bring me my robe. You will massage my feet and hands to relieve any last bit of tension so that I can sleep like a baby. Then tomorrow, guess who's going to dress me and comb my hair?"
The wife replied, "The funeral director would be my first guess, unless I have your ass cremated."
Today's OP joke....
A seventy-four-year-old man is sitting on a park bench, sobbing, when a young man walks by and asks him what's wrong.
Through his tears, the old man answers, "I'm in love with a twenty-two-year-old woman."
"What's wrong with that?" asks the young man.
Between his sobs and sniffles, he answers, "You don't understand, every morning before she goes to work, we make love.
At lunchtime, she comes home and we make love again, and then she makes my favorite meal.
In the afternoon when she gets a break, she rushes home and gives me oral sex, the best an old man could want.
And then at suppertime, and all night long, we make love."
He breaks down, no longer able to speak.
The young man puts his arm around him.
"I don't understand. It sounds like you have the perfect relationship. Why are you sitting here on this park bench crying?"
The senile old man answers, again through his tears, "I forgot where I live."
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