By Lambert Strether of Corrente
Bird Song of the Day
Common Loon, Redstone Lake, Ontario, Canada. “A few calls and some splashes; quiet background of good quality alarm calls.”
Readers, I hadn’t planned on a Water Cooler today, but suddenly my timeline was overwhelmed by the phrase “unburdened by what has been.” Left, right, center, all sides “unburdened by what has been.”
Here is the origin, and I might as well deal with the matter now:
Four straight minutes of “what can be, unburdened by what has been.” It’s incredible. I had no idea she used it this much. pic.twitter.com/TClfC1EyH6
— John Cooper (@thejcoop) June 29, 2024
(I have made it my rule never to cite to DNC or RNC “research,” but I’m breaking it this one time. I assume they’re not faking it because they don’t have to.)
• But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
• I, as leader, will use power like a drum, and leadership like a violin. Take out any idea. Compare ideas, with the one idea left we are left you have no doubt and without a doubt we have enthusiasm!
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The only way I can understand her words would be that the descendants of slaves should look forwards to the opportunities the US affords them, rather than backwards to the horrors that were visited upon them. In other words a hopeful message? Or does this expression have some other meaning I am unaware of?
That’s clearly how Ms. Harris means it, but as a catch phrase it makes her sound stupid. It also doesn’t make any sense. What is currently will always be linked to what has been. People supporting her believe that the past burdens of our society’s failure to give people like Kamala a chance are healed by electing her to office. Similarly, her opponents who claim that what used to be makes the burden of today that much worse is also something that can’t be ignored. It’s a vapid statement that only has meaning within the memory free zone known as a typical US campaign season. See all the people praising Joe for student debt relief for another example.
“What is currently will always be linked to what has been…”
Thank you for carefully explaining; an important explanation. We are after all, morally free to decide our course.
When the Wizard used it, it meant, “Don’t hold me to my promises of accountability for war crimes, because I have war crimes of my own to pursue.”
I believe her ancestors owned slaves in Jamaica so perhaps the ‘unburdened’ part is a little more profound than that.
This is the origin of all that: Reflections of a Jamaican Father, Donald Harris, Jamaica Global Online. It’s well worth a read, and not just for Kamala:
How Kamala ended up as Kamala… Hard to see.
i also hear echoes of Pol Pot….(and i know, i know…all dems are radical commies is a sillt RW trope…still)
Year Zero, and all.
that said…i have related here before how she reminds me of a chick i used to roll in the hay and party with on occasion…long,long ago…(cant recall her name…one too many mint juleps?)
her looks, diction(sic), cackle….
so if she wants a real, useful life-course…i can more than likely provide her one that will cause much less harm to the world than the one she’s fixin to be at least a placeholder in.
theres weeds to pull…and a back that needs rubbin…and that ol hogleg aint gon light itself, hon.
happy fourth, Peeps…fweiw.
She’d be a fool not to take the offer.
i know, right?
(as Tam would say)
but chicks like assholes, for some reason, it seems,lol…
been my experience, at least.
As someone who is not *that* much younger than Kamala, I will say…
The opportunities to be a lefty academic were not nearly as good as they were for us as when her father was coming of age.
Thanks, I have enjoyed reading Haitian history but haven’t seen Jamaican history about.
Many southern blacks (and others adversely impacted by our justice system) would understand this phrase as a much-needed call for a biblical “clean slate.” The message likely resonates with her audience far more than John Cooper realizes. Her staff likely understands its impact and has her using it frequently.
Glad that our always context-cognisant humble blogger clearly didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree
Yes, that seems to be the other one. Apparently, KHive is putting the band back together.
Adding, I went looking for clips from the Marx (dread word) Brothers’ The Cocoanuts and found this. At least it’s appropriate for July 4:
I saw a comment online somewhere that you can tell Harris is a Marxist because these quotes show she thinks dialectically and is not daunted by contradiction.
Wow. If Harris is a Marxist, then Saint Ronnie died for our sins.
I live in California. There’s a reason she was polling 1% in the California democratic primary before they yanked her.
So the Demoncratic billionaire owners are going through that always traumatic experience of firing the hired help in the WH only to get one of the few nationally recognized hired hands that will LOOSE to Trump?
The irony is that the primary voters would have picked a better candidate if they had been allowed to actually, you know, have primaries.
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I don’t think so, really. There’s no depth to the Democrat bench other than the one billionaire governor who is available but too smart to mess with it this year. And considering the choice supposedly made by the primary voters in 2016 and 2020, history doesn’t support the idea that voters would have picked a better candidate.
How did she win statewide office? Machine clear the field?
Willie Brown had the machine clear the field, yes. Harris was inserted into AG and Senate races by the “party”, when seats were open, and other candidates “discouraged” from running.
I* was unburdened by what has been a slip @ the Lodgepole car campground and then I crashed, sprawled on the ground and wearing sandals, got a nasty gashing of skin removed on the cheap from the underside of my big toe, stopping repetitive motion of moving one leg in front of the other and alternating while schlepping a pack up the side of a mountain.
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That’s what you get for “looking upward, not forward”.
A friend yelled out:
‘Careful it’s awfully flat there!’
…but it was too late
I hope you’re on the path to recovery. The trail will beckon another day.
Who is this Kamala creature? Don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos!
The Dem ticket was the Zombie and the Robot.
Forget Rocky and Bullwinkle. At this point I’d vote for Boris and Natasha! (We need a side by side comparison screen shot of the two pairs of evildoers.)
Maybe our economy, “unburdened” of Student and Credit Card debt, and while we’e at it, the insane cost of empire, and rule by capital.
Jubilee!
I always laugh when I hear Kama-lala speaking. Not just her screw ups but anything. She could be announcing martial law and I’d have a giggle.
The passage of time doesn’t seem to have significantly enhanced her gravitas.
Harris used to speak in complete sentences properly connected in verbal paragraphs in comprehensible speeches. She was never good, but she was still still semi competent. What we see here is a shambolic version of the old Kamala.
This is all just a bad dream, right?
Just click your heels three times and sing the Ashli Babbitt Leid. An alternative is to click the heels three times, (I tell you three times,) and chant; “There is no place like Homeland. There is no place like Homeland.”
Otherwise it all gets severely Meta fast.
Giggle! The Wizard of Oz – how appropriate. The guy behind the curtain and all that.
Kamala sure ain’t Dorothy. I can’t imagine her at the helm of all this, and she may be at some point in the future.
Then there is the Wicked Witch of the West and the flying monkeys…
Actually, since she is originally from the Chicago area, Hillz is the Wicked Witch of the Mid-West.
My thought as well. Imagine casting our political pukes into the Wizard of Oz movie. The possibilities…
Hillary still rides a broom.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep/index.html
Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.
So Jill has the evening shift, and Hunter works the graveyard shift. Sounds about right….
From the article: “The comment left several of the governors in the room frustrated, sources told CNN, and is one of the reasons that some of the participants have been rankled by the statement of loyalty and enthusiasm from them distributed by the Biden campaign on Thursday.”
The fracturing is getting real.
LOL. If Trump’s people have any sense of style they’ll schedule several campaign events to start at 8:01 PM.
In the nursing/medical world, it’s known as “sundowning.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundowning
Sad, but horrid, that the front-row kids have brought us all to this low estate…
In other news, did Rishi get thrown out on his jug-handle ear?
GO Multipolarity!
I only saw an exit poll, but it looks like a total annihilation of the Tories.
I either read or heard a theory that Sunak sees a major war being engineered into existence and Britain being guided into it and he said he does not want to be a wartime Prime Minister.
So he called for this snap election in order to lose it. Actually, he seems to have thrown it to Labor like it was a flaming bobcat on meth.
In a year or so, we will see if that theory makes sense.
“I either read or heard a theory that Sunak sees a major war being engineered into existence and Britain being guided into it and he said he does not want to be a wartime Prime Minister”
I believe this originated with hard right wing politician Andrew Bridgen. He’s not a voice I have much trust in at all, but I noted it away as an interesting data point. Somehow, Sunak’s early campaign announcement of future National Service seems to fit with this story.
Original Bridgen interview:
https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1793568491456668057
Exit polls in UK are (usually!) accurate.
Labour 410 seats (out of 650 total)
Conservative 131
Liberal democrats 61
Reform (farage) 13
Green 2
Noteworthy: the Labour share of the vote is actually lower than in 2017 when they lost the election under Corbyn, due to reduced Tory votes and the system being weird and unrepresentative.
Given the circumstances, to poll lower than Corbyn in 2017 is an utter indictment of Starmer and his bucket of scabs.
Labour will be lucky to get 130 seats in 2029, given their direction of travel.
Reform coming second in seat after seat, they’ll be able to position themselves as the opposition, as well as hoover up Tory defectors and by-elections. They’re coming second in many Labour seats also, which will push Starmer’s junta even further to the right to chase them.
Gross.
Labour already ousted George Galloway. I hope Jeremy Corbyn hangs on, and Craig Murray gets in.
Looks like Corbyn won.
So has Nigel Farage. Should be a fun Parliament.
This nugget buried in the article. How not to read the room….
“Biden also made a joke to the governors that didn’t go over well: “I’m fine — I don’t know about my brain, though.”
Having the debate at 9 pm was just one of the mistakes Biden’s people made, given what they seem to have known about his “good hours”. The other big one was the mike muting. Trump sounds a lot more articulate when he is cut off after 2 minutes. No audience was weird too. Scared much?
So what time is the September 10 debate set for?
Would I be amiss in mentioning that Kamala speaking on politics is an example of Brownian Motion?
Not at all!
I just have to say that making a decent speech is not that fricking hard. A competent, workmanlike, intelligible one idiots and fools do it all the time and this has included me. Kamala Harris has a staff and the resources of the Oval Office, she could have an excellent team to teach and guide her, but noooooo, she just will not do it.
Just wait until she gives her first State of the Union speech as President.
BWA-HA-HA-HA!!!!Totally. This is a family blog.Fair enough. I guess I’m family blogged then. (A common occurrence, metaphorically speaking.)
How would one portray Kamala in the long running, anodyne newspaper cartoon feature “The Family Circus?” That would be family blogging fun.
“How would one portray Kamala in the long running, anodyne newspaper cartoon feature “The Family Circus?”
Perhaps, a la ‘Pulp Fiction’ she would be the Gimp living under the floorboards.
Lambert, I believe that the current political situation in the US and much of the West can be qualified as overly dynamic.
Your country went through a few decades of Franco. Thus, your older population cohort can give we Americans some pointers on how to “weather the storm” when it happens over here.
Stay safe and as cool as you can. [Looking it up, I see that Madrid is having weather very similar to what we here in the North American Deep South are having. The main difference might be the humidity. Today, we have high humidity. Madrid? Isn’t it semi-desert there? {I’ve never been there. Forgive my ignorance.}]
Humidity in Madrid is low. Heat like in the desert. The Guadalquivir valley and specifically Seville is more humid and qualifies as Mordor.
As the Devil remarked to the Politico when welcoming said public servant to the Infernal Region; “But no, it is a dry heat.”
Be safe always.
You too! And please celebrate the 4th of July. Do not forget that there is a past that merits celebration no matter how the politicians try to reshape history to their own interests.
aye. humidity matters!
currently around 20%…finally!!!…here at the wilderness bar.
but not for long.
cold front bringin rain from the north…and Beryl’s still indeterminant path.
i dig it greatly when i can hang out in the shade of the bar of an afternoon and chill with yall when its like this.
run the big sprinkler, mounted on one of the telephone poles that are the uprights…and its like A/C.
get in the pool when im waterin somewheres else…same thing…water evaporates in minutes…and then the hot wind.
i love this time of year, so long as the well is working.
big lizard on a rock.
The details on France today sounded a lot like the runup to ’36 in Spain. Maybe barricade-building lessons for the residents of French cities would be in order, but I don’t think the French lefties have the toughness either of the French Resistance or the Spanish CNT.
A blast from 2019.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/joe-biden-biting-jill-biden-finger/
> joe-biden-biting-jill-biden-finger/
I thought I’d unseen this. Why did you post it?!
I thought this was a sound analysis. And it correctly identifies the problem with the Biden “had one bad night” framing – that means Biden can’t have any more bad nights.
It just occurred to me that Kamala is our modern-day version of Mrs. Malaprop.
VP of Mr Magoo
> unburdened by what has been.
The Great Unconformity: On heading to a future with a deleted past. [Sarah Kendzior]
>> We are heading into a future without a past.
>> “Why there’s nothing instead of something. Or how. How nothing replaced something.”
>> The archives of Comedy Central followed, including the shows that had informed my generation about the Iraq War and Bush administration corruption: The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. They were gone, and their real-time documentation of war crimes was gone too.
>> They are deleting the American experience, snapping the strands that have held Americans together regardless of geography or age or race or political predilection.
Very in-line with ‘The Politics of Exhaustion’ from Aurelian.
and, again
Taleb: Rationally progressive means embracing progress by accepting a certain rate of change deemed optimal. Too high a rate of change cancels the gains from previous mutations; while too slow a change leads to misfitness.
After chatting with Janet, and adding to this mornings post:
Somewhere along to way, Rule_2 (“Go die“) turned into “They’re trying to kill us.” From negligence to intent.
Likewise, we’ve gone from Link Rot to deliberate erasure. Sarah Kendzior: >> The archives of Comedy Central followed, including the shows that had informed my generation about the Iraq War and Bush administration corruption: The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. They were gone, and their real-time documentation of war crimes was gone too.
yeah, Aurelian’s latest about exhaustion(echoes Douthat and especially Barzun’s work on Decadence) is well worth yer time.
as for the rest…disappearing history….well, the internet/digitisation made it easy…been predicted from early on that this would be fragile and easily manipulated/deleted.
one of the main reasons i tried so hard(when i had a book budget) to build a physical library, with physical books.
sadly, few of them are acid free paper, etc.
but i tried…including learning how to make paper and ink from what i can obtain nearby…for the eventual (secular) monastic order that builds a scriptorum out here.
strategic thinking,lol.
(i wrote the recipes down…theyre in the library, and elsewhere)
Thinking about the Pioneer Plaque, there are now CNC machines for the long game.
see Tom Pfotzer, around here.
meanwhile, i wrestled a giant snake over an egg and won.
so theres that…
While I know we’re totally screwed, schadenfreude remains one of the few pleasures left to us, so I gotta say there’s deep soul satisfaction in seeing all the @McResistance heads explode, especially since it’s the cumulative result of their deluded/denialist/vain/morally superior and hypocritical behavior.
They truly don’t know what to do: maintain their omertà about D dysfunction and misdeeds, and continue headlong toward the Party’s demise, or possibly delay that demise by riskily admitting they’ve/we’ve been gaslit and dumping Uncle Joe. Russell Dobular at the Due Dissidence podcast likened rank-and-file #McResistance D’s to dumb money retail traders on Wall St, confused but holding on to a doomed company, with the smart money (electeds and high-level operatives) strategizing on how to get Biden out and what to do afterward.
Not only are we not a serious country, we’re a cringingly embarrassing country… but then again, that’s in part what empires in decline look like.
Thought experiment: what if America is now a Financial Empire. Regular run of the mill political empires have crises and struggle steadily downward. It’s a process. Financial empires on the other hand often collapse quickly when stresses become too great.
I’m wondering which fate America will suffer.
How come the Separate Entity called the “City of London” just keeps rolling it up and rolling along? Or are there cracks in the walls there,?too?
I really, really don’t want Biden to make it to election day because I don’t want to watch tens of millions of Americans shamelessly wakeup and vote for a man with late stage dementia and authorize him to handle hundreds of nuclear bombs.
I also don’t want him to win said election then die in office as they will try to compare him to FDR.
A slight and unfortunate correction. We are long past the First Cold when capital cities like Moscow could be and sometimes were targeted by over a dozen nuclear weapons, but it still is a horrifyingly world destroying number.
“embarrassing” is the word of the month.
that people are shocked that i use it is even more embarrassing.
A beautiful part of the spectacle which seems to be utterly invisible within the bubble is the obvious, unabashed politics-first theme of the drama. The dems are busy openly fretting about what to do because Biden is not (cognitively) fit to run for president. Why are they not more concerned that Biden is not currently fit to serve as president? Is the race more important than the job? Is the presidency itself an irrelevant sham?
nah, silly…thats caitlinoz’ take….so its suspect, at best…if not outright heresy…’
believe harder.
…said he who has just wrestled and 8 foot snake over an egg, and won,lol
In Juxtaposition …
☀️👀
@zei_squirrel
a Zionist fanatic at the Oxford Union angrily asks George Galloway if he is racist because of his opposition to the genocidal Israeli occupation, and is applauded by the audience. Here’s Galloway’s response that gets the audience to applaud him by the end:
https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1808558635695444230
That was a powerful video. Thanks for sharing.
Never knew any of that about Galloway’s history and he really took that smug kid down. Thanks for that video.
How many actually do their due diligence on people or groups – these days – when the Bernays sauce is thicker than the thing its on about – underneath it. These kids and the families they come from for the most part are all just one big environmental mishmash of Meritocracy via money and social networks = socially inbreeds.
All it takes is key word or phrases a to elicit a group response when presented and how it could effect them, down the road, for not having the same group thought/s. Just simple Bernays units[tm].
What Galloway reminds them is of history lived, aspects that fly in the face of the currant people trying to “OWN” what being Jewish – is – past and present and the deeds of Jews in history that are contra to what the Z people are selling[tm].
My own Grandfather would be appalled by all this as a trauma surgeon that cut his teeth in the Air Force during WWII as a Jewish man. So much so, that he took me in my early teens to a place in the desert near Chandler Air Force base to observe pass over, step grand father IMO. Two dwarf Jews that survived the Nazis and moved to the U.S. and living in a trailer next to a big rock where then farmed Turkeys. Totally biblical, Husband was a Rabbi, that was his way of showing his love for me.
Whilst Zionism might have older roots it seems like everything else to have been corrupted by Neoliberalism.
Great speech. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder if Galloway ever met Biden while marching with Mandela in South Africa? :)
Seriously though, these people weaponizing “racism” against people like Galloway (or Corbin, Bernie, etc) have done so much to erase the power those labels held and have turned them into a badge of honor. and in turn have enabled real racism (and sexism, anti-semetic, etc) to flourish because there is no shame being labelled such things in public anymore.
“What kind of people would applaud that?” is a perfect response to the audience reaction to that dork’s question.
Great response by Galloway. Good point Geo, about the, I think it is a Rovian strategy, of the guilty hurling accusations of the crime they’ve committed at those who might hold them accountable.
As an Afrikaans-born South African still (maybe permanently) heart broken after losing faith in “the gods and goodness” of “my people” because of the betrayal I felt as a kid learning about the terrible monstrousity that lurked below the surface of my childhood.. And still pretty much an outsider that never really managed to find my way back to some kind of cultural home… (sadly most of my peers from school, especially the men, are still racist, though fortunately curtailed in their capacity to wreak havoc) — I drink up the life giving words by anyone, especially ‘whities’ who speak of their resistance in the past, and it continues to give me hope for the future. It helps to renew my conviction that my relative cultural alienation is a small price to pay for the wholeness of my soul. Thank you for sharing. *apologies if sounding overdramatic
Did Harris moonlight as a crossing guard?
Do you mean like Norbert the Narc?
(Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers reference.)
As the cosmic Crossing Guard, she gives the universal gesture for “stop” to the imagined motorist seeking progress (“what we can be”) and then “unhindered” deploys the universal gesture for directing the flow of school children back into what is denoted as the darkness of the past, using gesture to essentially invert or negate the literal script. Structurally, it resembles elements of the ritual conduct of a Black Mass, if we look at the speech in its totality as a performative gesture. Is she clever enough to come up with this on her own? Is this some kind of Masonic ritual they taught her at Davos? While Norbert the Narc is a goofy clown, Harris is closer to an evil clown of the neoliberal imagination.
Listen. I’ve been commenting here for a while and Lord knows I’m not a fan of any Democrats or Republicans. But I have a vote in the beautiful state of Wisconsin and if it’s Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket… I’m just saying, if it’s her…against Trump? I think I’ll vote for her.
In my little hamlet in Normandy, it’s the RN vs a Macronist on Sunday. It’s pretty obvious that I’ll put a blank paper in the envelope. Neither deserves my vote.
Different contests, different stakes.
Harris is just another lying, thieving, grifting, conniving, incompetent, corrupt Democrat hack.
The only real solution is the natural solution — death — and it can’t happen soon enough.
No votes for them from me.
Cut off their oxygen. Let the cards fall where they may, millions of TDS-addled brains entering meltdown, whatever.
Dementia Joe’s favorite film: Chariots of Fire.
Trump’s favorite: Citizen Kane.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/conspiracy-of-silence-to-protect-joe-biden.html
The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden
(Observations from a journalist that’s been around Biden all year)
“…Up close, the president does not look quite plausible. It’s not that he’s old. We all know what old looks like. Bernie Sanders is old. Mitch McConnell is old. Most of the ruling class is old. The president was something stranger, something not of this earth.
This was true even in 2020. His face had then an uncanny valley quality that injectable aficionados call “low trust” — if only by millimeters, his cosmetically altered proportions knocked his overall facial harmony into the realm of the improbable. His thin skin, long a figurative problem and now a literal one, was pulled tightly over cheeks that seemed to vary month to month in volume. Under artificial light and in the sunshine, he took on an unnatural gleam. He looked, well, inflated. His eyes were half-shut or open very wide. They appeared darker than they once had, his pupils dilated. He did not blink at regular intervals…..”
‘We all know what old looks like. Bernie Sanders is old. Mitch McConnell is old. Most of the ruling class is old.’
And that is the problem right there. That there is what amounts to a gerontocracy. And all of them are fighting fiercely to keep their places.
A gerontocracy of psychopathic kleptocrats. Could it get much worse?
Interesting. Lots of worry in DC, though I wonder if “conspiracy” is really the best trope for this.
We’re seeing the effects of gaslighting and denial on a mass scale — and the media has played a willing role in this —, but there may be a better concept to express this situation.
Good stuff and a serious article, not a jape. And yet at the end the author reveals why she is not a good reporter even if a good writer.
“I always thought — and I wrote — that he was a decent man. If ambition was his only sin, and it seemed to be, he had committed no sin at all by the standards of most politicians”
Of course if you step outside the personality interaction level and look at the things Biden has done he’s a monster. Our tunnel vision press are the real reason he was able to get away with it. Outside their particular beat they know nothing.
It’s Biden’s “sins” that are the problem. Most presidents are figureheads anyway. He is one of our worst.
Yeah, I gagged on that passage as well. The journo, Olivia Nuzzi, helps make it clear how we’ve arrived at this point. She sounds like a fan, not a reporter, going on about her personal connection to the Bidens, etc. This is the press doing their job? Still, the article is worth a read.
Meanwhile, I see that even since yesterday Joe has dropped in the prediction markets, e.g.:
https://polymarket.com/event/presidential-election-winner-2024?tid=1720139585234
Yesterday, Kamala was at 14% and Joe 12%. Today, she’s inched up to 20%, with Joe dropping to 9%. Also, looks like another USD 2 million in bets have piled in.
I think the market for dem nominee is a better guage as the Pres election market includes calculations/guesses on how each would do versus Trump.
A few hours ago Biden was on 41%, Harris on 34%
As of right now: Biden 34%, Harris 47% which is by far the lowest I’ve seen Biden.
Still unsure how much value these markets are for prediction purposes.
The decision is in the hands of one man.
dont remebmber from where i snagged this, today(may have been links, or WC)…but damn.
reminds me of annie dillard.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-great-unconformity
Great interview about the tech industry (crapification), A.I., and the economy if you’re interested:
The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ByoAt5gCA
It’s about an hour long but very thorough, thoughtful and funny.
Apartments Could Be the Next Real Estate Business to Struggle
What interests me is the way she divides time with her gestures. If she were truly skilled and trying to be covert she would reverse the sides so that the past would be to the viewers left and the future to the right. ( Per Neuro-Linguistic Programming, -blast from the past, this is how a normally organized right handed person divides present and past spatially. As evidenced with eye movements when processing.)
Then, having done it skillfully, it would be interesting to see what she did next.
What subsequent issues would she mark in her speech as over and done with and therefore to be discarded and not further considered?
But alas, this was not skillful.
From Wikipedia, sigh, But does give the gist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogs_into_Princes
12 score and 8 years ago, when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one party to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, what can be, unburdened by what has been, means a clean start for Kamala, and thankfully expectations are on the way down low, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
the Due Dissidence guys. utube. ~12+ minutes.
Journalist REVEALS Biden Team KNEW of His Decline LONG BEFORE DEBATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRTRV5B4eDE
Because I love my country. Ya know? What the heck? Happy 4th of July.
I realize in Lambert-time on WC its only a few months since the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, but if we could turn the clock back 20 years-was that when we started wearing the black Stetson?
for all you fans of Amfortas’ continuing adventures…
i literally just stole an egg from the mouth of an 8foot texas rat snake(we call them Jormangandr)…bitch started to wrap herself around my arm ere she let go/i pulled out(they’re constrictors)
didnt even know she was there, i just grabbed the half-seen egg….
and there she was!
im rather keyed up, atm,lol.
biggest one ive ever met.(the span in that chicken house is 10 foot…she was shy of that…stretched out, tryin to find a hole)
Pictures or it didn’t happen, Amfortas! Kidding!
Holy smokes it’s stuff like that that make me glad to live in northern NE.
Pics or it didn’t happen!
Covid:
Friends driving home to WI from San Diego County were to stop here in Flyover for dinner tonight after spending a few days on the road. Our male friend had a “bad cold” last week and female friend phoned this morning sounding like she had a terrible cold. She said they were in NE and she felt terrible and they would not be coming for dinner but would call later. Late in the day she texted from an ER in NE and said she had a confirmed case of Covid and a possible “brain bleed”. Very worrying. Stay safe out there!
Good thoughts to your friend
Absolutely nothing to see here people! Just a man so concerned with checking boxes that he forgets the necessary verbal cues to tell listeners that he is not, in fact, a black woman.
Going by election trends in UK , France , USA I fear of incumbent know someone bad coming down road and they are handing over power to opponents to deal with it. If Germany also calls snap election with Olaf as head whole thing will neatly fall in place.
know someone bad coming down road
someone, or something?
I had the same thought in the form of they botched it so bad they don’t want to clean up the mess,
that I can believe…
If you did mean some one, there is no single individual who can stand up to the institutional powers that got us into this ridiculous state.
No one. .
I am inclined to major war or global sovereign debt crisis. Every where tensions are rising geopolitical, economy, brewing pandemic, forgotten pandemic, climate..great reset doesn’t sound far fetched anymore