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They want a future. They know that current policies are denying that to them.

reviling them “stupid” if they vote for Mamdani.

This just goes on and on with him; remember how Trump told us a year ago that if he lost it would be the fault of Jews?

And let’s not forget that, as Robert Reich says today, Hitler is Trump’s “role model.”

Vote NO on ballot questions 2-3-4.

It was a pleasure to hear actual human voices articulate from the stage of the Studio 54 Theatre during Almeida Theatre’s Oedipus, a clever contemporary transposition of Sophocles’ 2,500 year old tragedy. Actors really knew how to project back then in the open-air Theatre of Dionysus. If today’s crew were miked, the miking was so subtle that you could have fooled me. Some of the sound effects, on the other hand, are little over loud. But you could hear every word the actors spoke, and the audience seemed extra attentive as they acclimated to the fact that they really needed to listen up.

you did warn us about what another term for Trump would mean.

But your decision to pardon the banisters in 1008 and then let the foreclosed hang out to dry ushered in the conditions that made Trump or a Trump inevitable.

And your decision not to fight Mitch McConnell as he assaulted the Constitution and refused to give Merrick Garland a hearing helped lead to the totalitarian, totally corrupt John Roberts majority.

I have yet to hear one corporate Democrat express any remorse over the neoliberal policies that helped bring us to this point, although Biden has expressed some regret over his total lack of messaging.

But Hillary Clinton says she lost only because she is a woman.

Kamala Harris says she lost only because her campaign didn’t. have enough time.

Isn’t interesting that this morning the Washington Post was reporting on the Center in freefalll, when this afternoon Trump LieSocial’d a post about how supposedly gorgeous his Marie Antoniette redecoration scheme there is. True to form, in the process of killing KC, Trump posts that before him it “was dead as a doornail.”

The classic Trump formula: lie and smear an institution as you illegitimately assume leadership. Destroy said institution, while you lie and claim that you’ve saved it.

She was a joy to interview about Diana Sands, Hal Ashby, and The Landlord back in 2016. Glad to finally now see her words in print. Steve and I can assure you that you’ve never read them before!

She’s very playful: she asked me questions about Diana, and at the end of our telephone conversation said, “It was lovely talking to you. I loved interviewing you.”

Needless to say, she’s had a fabulous career and was the most smashing actress. I haven’t seen any of the films she’s directed, but I mean to.

But one thing she proved on Piers Morgan: there are rarely any surprises with MAGA. Miller pulled out the entire, predictable arsenal of MAGA rhetorical tricks–the screaming, the cries of victimization, the pouting, the lying, the hectoring, the manic repetition, the frenetic accusatory gestures. Most appalling was her insistence that any criticism of her loathsome husband is an attack on all Jews.

And it blasts out his sociopathology on a regular basis. Their defense of Trump’s demolishing the East Wing shows how nutsville they’ve become, thanks to their multi-multi-multi billionaire overlord. And it goes on:

Today they/he tell us that health care subsidies are “costly” and thus not worth drawing a red line over.

I’ll tell you what’s costly: the determination of Bezos and the likes of Bezos not to pay their fair share in taxes while they pump the U.S. treasury for more and more subsidy.

They/he sneeringly refer ro something called the “Mamdani wing” of the Democratic Party. Their bizarre, incessant attacks on Mamdani, who’s running in a race that’s really out of their purview, shows that they/he care more about ensuring the wealthy don’t pay taxes than about ensuring a viable American society.

How did we allow America to be turned over to people like Jeff Bezos?

His various attempts to slow walk an investigation into Trump’s coup attempt–so as to project what he viewed as impartiality–aren’t preventing the Republicans from targeting him for investigation.

Garland epitomizes the fever dream of delusion that engulfed the Democrats after Biden’s election, enalbing them to ignore the threat that Trump continued to pose.

It was part of that “look forward not back” mind glitch that prevented them from looking at what was staring them right in the face.