25 thoughts on “On the Road to Sedition”

  1. “Rosebud”?  more like pose-bud or gross-bud, maggie.

    Maggie Haberman on Trump: ‘He’s become a Charles Foster Kane character’ | Donald Trump | The Guardian

    The word ‘Rosebud’ is maybe the most significant word in film, and what we all watch. The wealth, the sorrow, the unhappiness, the happiness just struck lots of different notes. Citizen Kane was really about accumulation and, at the end of the accumulation, you see what happens and it’s not necessarily all positive.”
    These words were spoken in 2008 by an unlikely film critic named Donald Trump. Perhaps he glimpsed himself as if in a mirror. Like Kane in Orson Welles’s masterpiece, Trump was a swaggering capitalist and media star who forayed into politics, was brought down by hubris, and now rattles around a gilded cage in Florida.
    “He’s become something of a Charles Foster Kane-like character down in Mar-a-Lago these days,” observes Maggie Haberman, a Pulitzer-winning reporter for the New York Times, political analyst for CNN and author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, which has a black-and-white photo of Trump on its cover.
    Her analogy raises the question: what is Trump’s Rosebud, the childhood sled that symbolised Kane’s lost innocence? “His father is Rosebud, and I don’t think it’s one particular moment,” Haberman replies. “There’s no single childhood memory that is the key. It’s a series of moments that interlock and they point back to his father.”
    Fred Trump was a property mogul who had been disappointed by his eldest son Fred Jr’s lack of commitment to the family business. Donald Trump, by contrast, impressed his father by cultivating a brash “killer” persona and became heir apparent. Decades later, in the first weeks of his presidency, Trump had one photo on the credenza behind him in the Oval Office: his father, still watching.
    Speaking by phone from her car in midtown Manhattan, Haberman reflects: “His father basically created this endless competition between Trump and his older brother Freddie ,and pitted them against each other. Donald Trump spent a lot of time seeking his father’s approval and that became a style of dealing with people, which was certainly better suited for a business than for a household.”
    “But it became one that Trump recreated in all aspects of his life. It became how he dealt with his own children. It became how he dealt with people who worked for him and then, in the White House, you read a number of stories about these battles that his aides would have. A lot of it was was predetermined by lessons from his father.”
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  2. merriam webster:

    down the road/path to perdition
    idiom
    old-fashioned
    to something very dangerous or harmful
    It’s this kind of selfishness that leads down the road/path to perdition

    the road to perdition is a pernicious highway trod by the magaTs emulating the words of
    Isa 40:3-4 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

  3. a big bump on that rocky road for liz yesterday

    ‘That’s Humiliating’: Trevor Noah Spots Saddest Part Of Liz Truss’ Epic Failure (msn.com)

    “Boris Johnson had COVID parties that were longer than that,” said “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah, referring to one of the multiple scandals that brought down Truss’ predecessor.

    “If this was a relationship, I feel like at this point Britain’s friends would be sitting down with it like, ’Listen, honey, you’ve been through four prime ministers in six years. They can’t all be the problem, huh?” he added. 

    Noah also spotted what might be the worst part of the experience of Truss ― and it involves a head of lettuce. Last week, The Daily Star tabloid launched a livestream of an unrefrigerated head of lettuce with a blunt question for the title: “Can Liz Truss outlast a lettuce?”

    “Oh, that’s humiliating,” Noah said. “Imagine being so bad at your job that you lose a joke contest. Because at first, people were like, ‘Ha ha! I bet she can’t last longer than a head of lettuce!’ And then by the end of it, they were like, ’Should the lettuce be prime minister?’” 

  6. Good day legally yesterday. Federal judge kicks 6-state challenge to Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness, Amy Coney Barrett denied a request by the conservative legal outfit Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, working on behalf of a taxpayer’s association, to pause the program, and a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit tells Lindsey Graham to shut up, sit down and answer Fani Willis’ questions. And today, Bannon gets sentenced. Hope he gets the max

  8. One of Randy’s best parodies.

    Patd has me looking up Corinthians

    Pogo constructs a great paragraph.

    So may reasons to love this blog Craig has built.

     

     

  9. Bannon’s wrist slapping will redound to his benefit.  6 months he could do without much fuss, and then he’s a fareaking Hero. 

  10. when one goes into a fed lockup (the “country club” kind for the non-violent), does that include mandatory haircut, clean shave and only 1 shirt at a time in addition to limiting outside communications?  

  13. Hey… the big question for Steve Bannon is can he have his Irish whisky?  I bet it’s hard for him to imagine going without it for 6 minutes… let alone 6 months.

  17. wapo:

    The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob issued a subpoena Friday for testimony and documents from former president Donald Trump, requesting that he testify under oath on or about Nov. 14.
    The committee also is seeking documents by Nov. 4.
    The subpoena was widely expected after the committee voted unanimously Oct. 13 in its final hearing that provided new evidence and testimony to bolster the bipartisan panel’s argument that the deadly violence on Jan. 6 was the direct and predictable result of Trump’s choices in the weeks after he lost his bid for reelection.
    “As demonstrated in our hearings, we have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multipart effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power,” Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and vice chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in a statement, part of a 10-page letter to Trump.
    Cheney and Thompson outlined 19 document requests, in which they are seeking Trump’s communications with Roger Stone, former Secret Service agent Anthony Ornato, attorneys John Eastman and Sidney Powell, and more than a dozen other people and members of extremists groups.
    The committee is requesting the “information sufficient to identify every telephone or other communications device” that Trump used from Nov. 3, 2020, to Jan. 20, 2021. They also specifically requested communications conducted on Signal, an encrypted phone messaging application, on any personal devices, or communication conducted by any other means.

  19. note especially on page 3 the committee letter reminds him that other former presidents have been subpoenaed and testified before congress after leaving office.

  21. Lock all of them up and throw away the keys  or just forget they are there.
     
    I predict a Democratic pick up in PA because Fetterman is the better man.
    Someone asked the other day how could Walker get the nomination  Because Tommy Tuberville got elected in Alabama
     

  22. The aircraft that SFB uses as a backdrop is back in Florida.  It spent a few years in New York, sitting around falling into disrepair and worse.  Somehow it got a ferry permit, which meant one of the engines which was not working was allowed to spin up so it could fly to Louisiana for repairs and getting legal.  The POS is repainted and sports an American flag, something SFB must despise, he probably wanted the Red White and Blue to be in three stripes and without stars.
     
    My biggest question is who is paying for this?  Who paid for the fuel?  Who paid for the repairs?  Who paid for the landing fees and storage fees?  We can be sure that the moron did not.  Hopefully some young reporter will get embedded into the mob and find out.

  23. Dirty tricks time from the hate America, white supremacists/nationalists.  This happened to someone I know well back in Colorado.  Someone turned in a change of address which resulted in the carrier asking if they really did it since the carrier knew they still lived in their home.  Not surprising is that it was done just before ballots were mailed out in Colorado.  Colorado is a mail ballot state so there are  no voting stations.  The gqp are very dirty and will do all sorts of things because they know if people are allowed to vote they do not vote republican.

  24. This whole issue with algorithms and what you watch is getting quite irritating.  So what if I read German content, it does not mean I need to see German versions of advertisements.

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