This performance by Yo-Yo Ma can best be described as the end of a musical marathon. He has already played his way through the Bach’s first 5 cello suites and has been playing for over 2 hours when this video starts. It is an incredible performance of a beautiful piece of music.
Enjoy, Jack
and the crowd screams “go go, yo-yo!”
thanks, Jack, a veritable tour de force.Ā
Attribution:Ā Dictator For A Day by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com
the loser’s plan on day one is to invoke the insurrection clause, call out the military and declare he’s extending that dictator-for-a-day deal to dictator for life
GOP commentator Scott Jennings: “Downplaying Jan. 6 is political poison for my party. Understand, independents in this country who might otherwise be unhappy with Joe Biden really do not like anything about what happened on January 6th. And they do not like these explanations in the aftermath to try to rationalize it. It’s why you see Joe Biden talking about it, he knows independents don’t like what happened on that day” (CNN)
another thing that might drive away the indies is the cult that continues to bow down to the fools-gold god
Lovely music for my morning news read. Thanks jack
From Trump rally yesterday, What is he talking about here? On The Civil War: “Iām so attracted to seeing it. There was something that couldāve been negotiatedā¦ Abraham Lincoln, if he negotiated it, we wouldnāt know who Lincoln was. He wouldnāt have been the Abraham Lincoln. But that wouldāve been ok.”
‘Trump, Confused’: Biden Camp Fires Back at Trump Over Energy Remarks (businessinsider.com)
I donāt remember how long or what Yo Yo Ma played when we saw him perform, but I know it was him-and-only-him and that time stood still.Ā
WTAF was Dictator Delulu talking about? Ā Any Republican and/or Christo-fascist propping up this dangerous lunatic should be ashamed of themselves.Ā
Thank you Jack
Yo-Yo Ma is a global treasureĀ
There simply aren’t enough words for the mastery of Yo-Yo Ma. And the joy he exhibits while he plays is simply wonderful.
Hope Everyone fared well with the storm – we got rain.
i speak dipshit so iāll translate for you, and i swear this is what he means:
ā¦he is suggesting that after his inevitable defeat in the general election, the states that vote for him should secede and make him president of a new confederacy
One of his evil minions is feeding him lines and heās flubbing them.
i was never here š«„
I think I know now why Dumbass skipped all the Repug debates – even he knows that he has no idea what he’ll say when he opens his mouth.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/07/politics/pence-reflects-on-trumps-reckless-january-6-rhetoric-three-years-later/index.html
āI just must tell you, having been there that day, to see people literally breaking windows, ransacking the Capitol, it just infuriated me. I remember thinking ānot this, not here, not at the United States Capitol,āā he said.
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PenceĀ added he is āvery gratefulā for the efforts of the FBIās efforts to arrest to arrest those who āransacked our Capitol and did violence against police officers that day,ā demanding those who participated in the attack be held toĀ āthe fullest extent of the law.ā
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The Whitest Man doing as little as possible in order not to infuriate Orange Fuhrer. Ā āRansackingā democracy. Ā MAGAts going through our collective underwear drawer to overthrow the government. Ā Call it what it was, Mike. Ā Violent insurrection. Ā They wanted to unalive you. Ā Some of them probably still do.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/07/us/dei-attacks-experts-warn-of-consequences-reaj/index.html
āMany corporate leadersĀ pledged to hire more people of color,Ā removed branding perceived to beĀ racistĀ andĀ invested in historically Black colleges.ā
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āAt the time, the efforts were largely met with public support,Ā amid a so-called āracial reckoningā that laid bare a slew of systemic inequities in American society, including theĀ workplace.ā
āAmong the most vocal of these critics pushing back against DEI is billionaire investor Bill Ackman, whoĀ in the wake of Gayās departureĀ posted aĀ 4,000-word opusĀ on X,Ā the platform formerly known as Twitter,Ā that blasted DEI as āinherentlyĀ aĀ racist andĀ illegal movementĀ in its implementation even if it purports to work on behalf of the so-called oppressed.ā
āAckmanās lengthy thesis was later retweeted by billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who now owns the social media platform.ā
āDEI is just another word for racism. Shame on anyone who uses it,ā Musk wrote in hisĀ postĀ sharing Ackmanās screed on Wednesday. In a follow-up post, the worldās wealthiest personĀ doubled down, adding, āDEI, because it discriminates on the basis of race, gender and many other factors, is not merely immoral, it is also illegal.ā
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We are living in the upside-down. Ā
I wonder what wouldāve changed had Orwellās 1984 not been published, and New Speak had never tickled the evil brain cells of so-called conservatives?Ā
Is there anything that SFB did as president that all Americans could feel good about?Ā Ā
All? Nope.
OMG, KC! Ā Itās the freakinā Chargers.Ā
In KC’s defense, they were already locked into the #3 seed. The outcome of tonight’s Bills vs. Dolphins game is the only thing that matters to KC. A Dolphins win means that KC will host Pittsburgh next weekend. A friend of mine went to KC on a business trip this week. I recommended KC Joe’s for BBQ. He went there and said it was some of the best BBQ he’s ever had. As for Trump saying, “You have to let it go.”…who better than Trump to tell people to “Let things go.”? He’s an expert at letting things go since November of 2020!
He very seldom did anything that all REPUBLICANS could feel good about.Ā
Heās a loser.
Well, KC was saving the A-team for a bigger game, but still.
Telling shooting victims and the loved ones of the dead to āget over it.ā Ā Thatās tRUMPsky in a nutshell.Ā
They donāt like him much either but they believe heās the only one who can save them from whatever it is theyāre scared of.Ā
Thereās an element that wants to hurry up the apocalypse so Jesus can get here quicker. Godās not moving fast enough for them.Ā
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/09/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-loans-227914
I just keep thinking of that scene in āThe Eyes of Tammy Faye,ā with Falwell Sr., at some point he lands on abortion as an issue to be exploited. ( ps- The Bible says no such thing about abortion or homosexuality, but now we have a plague of white nationalists.)
āLong before his May 2007 death, the Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr.āthe Baptist preacher who founded Liberty University and whose creation of the Moral Majority marked the emergence of white evangelical conservatives as a national political forceāmade clear how he wanted the empire heād built to be divided when the time came.ā
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/07/politics/elise-stefanik-january-6-prisoners-liz-cheney/index.html
āGOP Rep. Elise Stefanik on Sunday echoed Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump as she referred to those sentenced to prison for their roles in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol as āhostages.ā
āI have concerns about the treatment of January 6 hostages. I have concerns, we have a role in Congress of oversight over our treatment of prisoners, and I believe weāre seeing the weaponization of the federal government against not just President Trump, but weāre seeing it against conservatives,ā the New York Republican said on NBCās āMeet the Press.ā
WTAF?!? Shouldnāt be surprised, though. Look at her cold, dead eyes. No soul.
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