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Just catching up with mail. Tonight I am watching the Brandi carlile Elton John production. It is largely a step back but at the same time a step forward since the man had all but given up his career due to a sight/vision related malady and possibly age. This woman who has dragged old timers out of their senescence deserves an award because she gives us another round of Elton, Joanie Mitchell and others. Her voice is great, perhaps a bit too much vibrato, but what the hell, bring on the song. AND, it just goes to prove that if you play the piano for 70 years, it doesn’t f*ing matter what you can “see” with your eyes. Those piano keys are still in the same place and your fingers still move. I love it!

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The Strongman Republicans and Nazis

The American electorate after being lied to by a wanna be dictator who wanted to use the presidency as a get out of jail free card got a Fuhrer modeled after Hungary's Orban

Rand Paul(R Ten) said it best yesterday “After Republicans put the US into a Depression in 1930 with a tariff war Americans didn’t trust us with power for 60y” The Nazis have used the American electorate like a big experiment Test out a theory and see if it works

Nixon theorized that going off the gold standard would create unlimited government support and it has now led to a currency crisis at the height of a credit cycle and runaway inflation

Reagan theorized “trickle down economics” which by studies didn’t work and created the greatest wealth gap in history

George W theorized “weapons of mass destruction” and that got us the long Middle East War Under his watchful eye the Nazis created the real estate mortgage crisis which triggered the Great Recession in 2008

Now the Nazis and SCOTUS theorize that the Unitary Executive(UE) which gave us a Nazi strongman who will lead us to the Promised land or so Germany thought in the 1930’s But the UE has turned out to be a charlatan who will by most observers throw the country into a recession and possibly another depression 1930 is beginning to sound eerily reminiscent “You have to burn the whole thing down” says Curtis Yarvin and parroted by JD Vance with his wealthy billionaire cronies

Unfortunately the American electorate has a bad case of amnesia until catastrophe strikes Then everyone remembers the past

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Perhaps McMorrow will follow Obama’s path of time in the Senate followed by the Presidency. I saw her speech in 2022 and wanted to cheer. Watched it again today for inspiration. The Democratic Party needs her voice.

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Well done

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Great piece Robert!

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We have a long ways to go. A long fight. It's good to know we can win.

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