bob nichols

Farm, flyover country guy, with a worldview. See, Philosophical Travels with Carl: Freedom in the Oregon Outback (link below, and B&N)

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

@hippotuits @Majora__Z @histories_arch Yes, for sure. Here, the object (e.g. rainbow) is the same, but the meaning exported to it is variable. But as to why that variability, might it be that a universal form is expressed: e.g., aspiration (good omens), fear (bad omens), w/omens as portents of good & bad.

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

@Majora__Z @histories_arch With both being biological beings, yet 100% separated from cross cultural influence, might there be something in common nonetheless: why humans in different places engage in common activities: facial scarification, tattoos, face paint, etc.). Is there something universal?

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

@TaraBull808 X says "FCC" not FCC Commissioner Carr.

Nothing on Trump-Fox?

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

@KTmBoyle What's the deal with "Democrat" party vs. "Democratic" party? It's consistent R lingo. Is it that the Rs regard themselves as Democratic (party of the people), and the Ds are not?

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

A reader in Philly has flagged another mysterious new monument that has magically appeared in a public park to "honor" Trump.

It looks a lot like the ones popping up in DC.

Titled "In Honor Of A Lifetime Of Sexual Assault," it features Trump's "grab em by the pu**y" comment.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Take a shot every time Trump calls Americans who don't support him “garbage."

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

@BillKristol So far, great w/Harris. Still don't understand polls saying 50/50. Election is Phase I. If she gets electoral majority, Phase II begins - big time: dual elector slates, House's role, and Supreme Court. D's have a game plan I presume.

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

@BGrueskin If WaPo tanks on the single most important issue in this election, nay, in country's democratic history, it's lost all credibility. Re digging up stories that need to be reported? How does that work if Trump doesn't like them? WaPo - that's the name of that tune.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Since people seem to have missed this one, unsealed in the Smith filing:

-Trump used a burner phone, routed through a foreign country to contact Michigan house speaker.

-He tried to pressure the speaker in this off book call.

-Speaker McCarthy knew about the burner phone line.

-The phone showed up as “Spam Risk Egypt” on caller ID.

If the President thought his attempt to overturn the election and forge elector documents were legitimate “official acts” why was he using an insecure, foreign routed burner phone for these calls?

How many other sensitive calls did the former President have on this unencrypted line with coconspirators, that could now be used as blackmail against him, by any foreign nation which may have tapped that line?

(And before the reply bots get here, let me remind them: Trump’s own legal team did not dispute the authenticity of *anything* unsealed from the Smith filing)

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

Link works. Agree - best nutshell summary of fascism I've seen.

[Ian Petrie @ian_petrie]

Don't know if this link will work for everyone but an outstanding substack on fascism written by historian Heather Cox Richardson... we've been down this path before... https://t.co/p1sK9LJP2L

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

Best nutshell summary - US Gov't, 1945 via H.C. Richardson 10/26/24: Fascism...is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” #2024Election #Trump #Fascism

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

@WagnerTonight Doesn't Musk have security clearances, and wouldn't that mean that FBI, etc. would be watching this closely?

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

@CarolLeonnig @washingtonpost No way to finesse this. Democracy literally on the line, and WaPo takes a walk? Newsroom independence in a Trump presidency? This is the time to show how serious this is - quit, quit, all of you. Honor? Integrity? Cancel, cancel, all of us. Your sub-banner is PR BS.

[Erin Burnett @ErinBurnett]

“This is clearly an effort by Bezos to curry favor with Donald Trump.” “We are-in fact-bending the knee to Donald Trump.” Hear why Robert Kagan, Editor at Large @washingtonpost resigned after Bezos refused to allow #WaPo Harris endorsement. ⁦@JeffBezos https://t.co/ULXaMKCajx

[Eugene Robinson @Eugene_Robinson]

This is the text of the Post columnists' statement, for those hitting the paywall:
The Washington Post’s decision not to make an endorsement in the presidential campaign is a terrible mistake. It represents an abandonment of the fundamental editorial convictions of the newspaper that we love. This is a moment for the institution to be making clear its commitment to democratic values, the rule of law and international alliances, and the threat that Donald Trump poses to them — the precise points The Post made in endorsing Trump’s opponents in 2016 and 2020. There is no contradiction between The Post’s important role as an independent newspaper and its practice of making political endorsements, both as a matter of guidance to readers and as a statement of core beliefs. That has never been more true than in the current campaign. An independent newspaper might someday choose to back away from making presidential endorsements. But this isn’t the right moment, when one candidate is advocating positions that directly threaten freedom of the press and the values of the Constitution.

Signed by: Perry Bacon Jr., Matt Bai, E.J. Dionne Jr., Lee Hockstader, David Ignatius, Heather Long, Ruth Marcus, Dana Millbank, Alexandra Petri, Catherine Rampell, Eugene Robinson, Jennifer Rubin, Karen Tumulty.

[Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell]

🚨NEW AD🚨

We all know Donald Trump belongs in a home. Just not the White House.

#APlaceForTrump

#harriswalz #voteblue

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

@drakefromtx This is her best response to her 2019 problem. Agree - she nailed this one.

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

@donlemon (un) kind of a set-up interview to make her look silly. It's the type of disrespect-disdain that get Ds in trouble with voters. What does "woke" even mean is not a nonsense answer - it's a general sense that some are superior to others, like many Ds & the interviewer here.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Wow.

This ad is very powerful. Puts into perspective the historic danger that Trump poses to America.

Please watch and share 🎥 from @VoteVets:

[bob nichols @BobNich88]

Now this is one great ad -

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

EXCLUSIVE: New ad from Eric Swalwell depicts Donald Trump in the ‘home’ where he really belongs