I was hoping for an upset in Texas and I’m really disappointed that Gillum lost in Florida, but Democrats won over Kobach and Walker. Will take inventory of governors and state legislatures later, but it does look like some of the more extreme gerrymandering will come to an end. And on the upside, most of the Democrats who lost were the jellyfish anyway – particularly in Indiana and Missouri.
And I wish Kevin de Leon had another week.
But a clean sweep in Eureka! It turns out that Natalie Arroyo didn’t need the conservatives to split her vote. Everybody is wondering if she will challenge Supervisor Bass in four years, but come on that’s four years from now!
And I predict that when all of the votes are counted Leslie Castello will pass 50 percent. In a crowded four candidate race I would call that a mandate.
And speaking of mandates – Kim Bergel crushed it!
And the first ever Sanctuary measure to be passed by voters! That’s a big deal.
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November 7, 2018 at 8:48 am
Anonymous
🌎🌪🌊🌲🌊🌪🌎
November 7, 2018 at 9:01 am
Ted
John Chiv is having a meltdown on his blog
November 7, 2018 at 9:15 am
Henchman Of Justice
EK, the numbers don’t tell the whole story…
Need answers:
1) what was the total number of all eligible voters in Humboldt County who could vote on measure K?
2) what percentage of those eligible voters actually voted?
3) how many voters are Imports from the city areas outside of Humboldt that are predominantly liberal anyways?
4) what percentage of Outsiders cast their vote in Humboldt County as a newbie residents?
5) what data sources are available such that voters can break down the demographics of who actually voted on measure KKK as groups of people as identified by variables like, type of job, where they live, their ages, how long they’ve been living in Humboldt County… you know those kinds of things so that the Trojan Horse data can be available…
Personally, ain’t gonna change a thing as it is typical words on paper that appear helpful, but are not in the fold of it all.
Expect resistance that will do much of what MEASURE KKK inevitably attempts to avoid… there are many many many self-identified Sheriff’s in Humboldt County who don’t need to go through Han Solo to contact any federal agency to provide information… but what do you expect by a lot of Voters when they’re naive and they think that voting on something weather yes or no it doesn’t really matter they just believe that there will be a tangible positive effective result and there really never is with voting…
… think of it this way consider all the millions and millions and millions upon millions of votes over the years just by one area or region of Voters then take a look at what those votes have constructed or resolved or created and the reality is voting doesn’t do much for Change and it doesn’t do much for sustainability it’s an eye candy show of naivety…
November 7, 2018 at 9:30 am
jtimmons88
I’m content with the outcome.
November 7, 2018 at 9:35 am
Henchman Of Justice
Personally content with Eureka Mayor only…
November 7, 2018 at 9:46 am
Mitch
Thanks, Eric, for the sanctuary work you’ve done.
November 7, 2018 at 10:15 am
coffee blogger
Post mid-term truths:
1. Trump should be in jail.
2, No one listens to HOJ.
3. Eric’s antipathy towards DiFi is unhelpful.
4. Eureka’s Measure P worked. Chet, Joe, John, Marian – goodnight.
November 7, 2018 at 10:30 am
W.o.P.
All in all, it doesn’t matter. Eureka is doomed, has been for years. Humboldt County too.
November 7, 2018 at 11:08 am
Not A Native
Yep, Best results since Nov. 2008.
November 7, 2018 at 11:32 am
Mitch
W.o.P.,
Then you really ought to leave, right?
November 7, 2018 at 12:22 pm
W.o.P.
I did !
November 7, 2018 at 1:37 pm
Mitch
Wow, and yet you’ve noted that some people on here must be obsessive.
November 7, 2018 at 3:04 pm
Just Watchin
Jeff Sessions gets fired, and Trump appoints a AG that doesn’t have to recuse himself. Mueller will be submitting his report to the new AG. Brilliant….
November 7, 2018 at 3:43 pm
Just Watchin
And if anyone wondered why Trey Gowdy didn’t run for his seat, this probably answered it….
November 7, 2018 at 4:47 pm
Anonymous
“Mueller will be submitting his report to the new AG”
I suspect we’re going to see a lot of indictments unsealed in the near future.
If Trump’s hope is that by getting rid of Sessions he can derail the investigation either by firing Mueller or interfering with his work, he should have done so a year or so ago.
Even if Mueller was fired tomorrow, the investigations and prosecutions would just be passed off to other career prosecutors at the federal level, and to state prosecutors wherever state crimes are involved (which Trump has no pardon power over).
Trump is panicking — he knows he’s about to face real oversight from the Democratic House, subpoenas and all. He knows his tax returns will probably be made public in a couple months. And he knows that Mueller was holding back in advance of the election, but no longer has any reason to hold back.
So he’s blustering and threatening and bitching and moaning and lashing out in impotent rage. Firing Sessions doesn’t solve his problems, and neither would firing Mueller. But firing Sessions probably did give him the illusion of being in control and thus eased his anxiety for a little while.
If you want to know when that illusion wears off and his anxiety kicks back in, all you’d have to do is watch his Twitter feed for the next angry tweet about “witch hunts” and “deep state” conspiracies, and so on — because people who are feeling confident about their situation don’t have to engage in nonsense like that.
November 7, 2018 at 5:01 pm
Just Watchin
Yep…..an angry tweet would be very uncharacteristic, and therefore tell a lot….
November 7, 2018 at 5:59 pm
Anonymous
LOL…that’s a fair point. Seriously though, it’s not hard to tell from his Twitter feed when he’s getting worried by the Mueller investigation…but yeah, it’s not just one isolated tweet.
November 7, 2018 at 6:38 pm
Henchman Of Justice
Some “it”… (like a diminished minor chord) … is…hearing sounds again… when… HOJ… just… reads and writes…
November 7, 2018 at 10:15 am
coffee blogger
Post mid-term truths:
1. Trump should be in jail.
2, No one listens to HOJ.
3. Eric’s antipathy towards DiFi is unhelpful.
4. Eureka’s Measure P worked. Chet, Joe, John, Marian – goodnight.
November 8, 2018 at 5:32 am
W.o.P.
Coffee Blogger, just curious but what should Trump be in jail for? A specific crime or just because you don’t like him in general?
November 8, 2018 at 6:23 am
Just Watchin
https://www.foxnews.com/us/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-fractures-3-ribs-in-fall
November 8, 2018 at 6:24 am
Just Watchin
Looks like the new senate will have some business to address…..
November 8, 2018 at 6:50 am
W.o.P.
It appears so.
November 8, 2018 at 6:58 am
Eric Kirk
Has anyone ever died from fractured ribs?
November 8, 2018 at 7:15 am
Just Watchin
At her age, and with her health history, of course complications can kill her…..
November 8, 2018 at 7:23 am
Just Watchin
This from the Mayo Clinic …..”About 19 percent of older adults who sustained fractures of three or four ribs died from complications, according to one study.”
November 8, 2018 at 7:26 am
W.o.P.
Yes they have Eric. Fractured ribs can mean punctured lungs, pneumonia (especially in older people) that can cause death. I would hope RBG can enjoy some retirement years
November 8, 2018 at 7:33 am
Just Watchin
Instead of retiring and letting Obama appoint her replacement, RBG rolled the dice that Hillary would win the election. You win some….you lose some….
November 8, 2018 at 7:39 am
W.o.P.
and some get rained out ……. as the saying goes
November 8, 2018 at 7:40 am
Eric Kirk
I wouldn’t be writing her epitaph just yet.
November 8, 2018 at 7:42 am
Anonymous
RBG has beaten cancer twice and had a stent put in her heart and never even missed a single day on the bench. She’s one tough lady.
So I wouldn’t count her out yet. Not by a long shot.
November 8, 2018 at 7:47 am
W.o.P.
All true PA, but falling at work is not a good sign. Didn’t she fall and sustain an injury in 2012 ?
November 8, 2018 at 7:53 am
Anonymous
No one said falling was good. Just saying that you and JW are gloating too soon.
(Not to mention how grotesque such gloating is in the first place.)
November 8, 2018 at 8:09 am
Just Watchin
Not gloating. Just can’t help but think back to when Scalia died, and eric said it made him smile….
November 8, 2018 at 8:27 am
Mitch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lawsuits_involving_Donald_Trump
November 8, 2018 at 8:29 am
Eric Kirk
I never said it made me smile. Give me a break!
November 8, 2018 at 8:54 am
Just Watchin
I remember being shocked when you said it….
November 8, 2018 at 9:05 am
Mitch
There is a search field on this blog.
It goes back at least to 2009.
Anyone can attempt to verify JW’s recent allegation, by typing in the word smile. If that fails to verify the allegation, I’d suggest looking for a list of synonyms and misspellings, and potential metaphors for smiling.
November 8, 2018 at 9:07 am
Mitch
Now that I think about it, I also recall Eric at a White House press conference, punching a disabled baby whale intern who tried to take his mic.
November 8, 2018 at 9:12 am
Anonymous
I don’t actually remember, but it’s quite possible that I would have reacted to Scalia’s death with this (probably apocryphal) quote attributed to Mark Twain (and sometimes to others:…
“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
Again, I’m not sure if I actually posted that in response to Scalia’s death, but I know I have posted it a few times when a public figure I despised has passed away.
Which could certainly count as gloating over someone’s death…but it’s also a pretty funny line.
Either way, longtime vicious racist troll and hypocritical newly-self-appointed Tone Policeman JW doesn’t have a leg to stand on in criticizing anyone else’s civility or lack thereof. 😉
November 8, 2018 at 9:15 am
Mitch
I was overjoyed when Scalia died, Anonymous. Overjoyed. I’ll be celebrating when Trump is dead.
November 8, 2018 at 9:21 am
Mitch
Until Trump came on the scene, it would be difficult to imagine anyone who has done more damage to the supreme court or, by knock-on effect, the world, than Antonin Scalia, may he rot in hell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
November 8, 2018 at 9:40 am
Eric Kirk
JW – it should be easy to find.
November 8, 2018 at 9:57 am
Just Watchin
And equally easy for you to have already scrubbed….
November 8, 2018 at 10:16 am
Mitch
Perhaps someday there will be holidays in which, whenever Trump or Scalia’s name is mentioned, all the children are encouraged to scrub the names out with noisemakers.
I certainly hope so. Their damage to the world far exceeds that of Haman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haman
November 8, 2018 at 10:23 am
Just Watchin
It was easy to find eric. From you thread “Scalia Gone” on Feb. 13, 2016. I suppose you’ll say…”see….I never said the word smile”……
“Scalia gone. I hate to admit this, but I was happy to hear the news – not that I hate the guy. If I could have prevented his death I would have. But this is an opportunity to reverse 3 to 4 decades of stupid and harmful s—! Now I feel guilty that this was my first reaction. The peril of being a bleeding heart liberal.”
November 8, 2018 at 10:44 am
Mitch
I hope JW withdraws his accusation that Eric would have enough time on his hands and poor enough ethics to waste time scrubbing his old comments, especially ones so reasonable as the one JW just posted.
A good argument could be made that Scalia destroyed the supreme court’s legitimacy, and given that he prevented Al Gore from taking office, that he is the single human being most responsible for the millions (possibly hundreds of millions) of human deaths and trillions of dollars of losses that will needlessly take place over the next few decades due to our ending up with a government more interested in corporate profits than in humanity.
November 8, 2018 at 10:52 am
Henchman Of Justice
Politics is great it’s breaking down America… showing people that politics has no worth whatsoever…
November 8, 2018 at 11:10 am
Eric Kirk
Okay, that’s a bit different from what you suggested, and I was trying to honestly report an impulse reaction. And yes, it’s much different to say that I “smiled.”
November 8, 2018 at 11:10 am
Eric Kirk
In the meantime, Florida may not be over!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gillum-florida-recount-governor-race
November 8, 2018 at 11:11 am
W.o.P.
Enlightening reading. Mitch seems to be just as much of a hateful POS as Purple Rain ! Both who seem to be rather ignorant of everyday life/reality. * Scalia responsible for Millions or hundreds of millions of human deaths?! Can you really be that demented?! Are you still planning on buying weapons? I hope not.
And PA your lovely remarks of kindness and caring … “longtime vicious racist troll and hypocritical newly-self-appointed Tone Policeman JW doesn’t have a leg to stand on in criticizing anyone else’s civility or lack thereof”.
November 8, 2018 at 11:12 am
Just Watchin
“enough time on his hands”. Now that’s funny Mitch. I often wonder if his firm knows how much time he wastes a day on his blog….
November 8, 2018 at 11:40 am
Mitch
From those wild and crazy liberals at the International Actuarial Association:
Click to access REWG_CCandMortality_final_Nov2017.pdf
“In a review of 783 cases of excess mortality observed from the experience of 164 cities in 36 countries as documented in papers published between 1980 and 2014, Mora et al. (2017) identified a global threshold beyond which daily mean surface temperature and relative humidity becomes lethal. About 30% of the world’s population is currently exposed to conditions in excess of this threshold. They projected that by 2100 this percentage would increase to about 48% in a world with drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and about 74% where there was a growing level of emissions. This suggests that a warmer earth may lead to a far greater level of mortality risk due to heat stressed conditions than in the recent past.”
Of course, mortality from heat waves may turn out to be minor in comparison with mortality due to displacement of poor populations from coastal areas, or the collapse of food chains.
Things might be different if Gore had taken office after winning the Presidential election.
November 8, 2018 at 12:15 pm
W.o.P.
Seek help Mitch. It might not hurt to get a life! Maybe a career?
November 8, 2018 at 2:41 pm
Eric Kirk
I often wonder if his firm knows how much time he wastes a day on his blog….
I have to bring in money – not paid by the hour and I work into the night. Although I’ve timed it and the most I spend here is about 20 minutes a day collectively.
However, I have had to cut back in recent years. One night I called my wife to say I needed to work late because I hadn’t finished something up. She was silent for a minute and then said, “You’ve been arguing with idiots again haven’t you?”
Busted.
November 8, 2018 at 2:44 pm
Just Watchin
LOL…..now that was funny
November 8, 2018 at 6:08 pm
Anonymous
“And PA your lovely remarks of kindness and caring … “longtime vicious racist troll and hypocritical newly-self-appointed Tone Policeman JW doesn’t have a leg to stand on in criticizing anyone else’s civility or lack thereof”.
Unkind? Perhaps.
Accurate? Yup, 100%.
JW has spent years here insulting other commenters, public figures and whole demographic groups, with various racist, sexist and homophobic slurs, including repeatedly calling Mexicans “beaners” and calling women “c_unts.”
So feel free to cry some more crocodile tears, or move on…fine with me either way.
November 8, 2018 at 6:28 pm
Just Watchin
You really do miss the old JW, don’t you Anon? But you have to let it go. You have to evolve. Anger and hate will eat at you….
November 8, 2018 at 6:37 pm
Just Watchin
And besides, I didn’t really bash, or even comment, on eric’s civility. I merely restated a sentiment that eric himself had posted. Then I was accused of posting “fake news”, and it turned out that I was right. Not a big deal. It was 2 1/2 years ago, and could easily have been forgotten…..
November 8, 2018 at 7:47 pm
Anonymous
No, I’m curious to see how long you keep up the new act.
And for the record, I don’t feel hatred towards you. No offense, but you’re not worth it.
I do have a low opinion of you based on your years of hateful racist, sexist and homophobic slurs on this blog, and it’s gonna take more than a couple weeks of superficial change in tone to change my opinion of you.
Of course if you were sincere about being more civil and less hateful, you’d understand that, and would have begun by apologizing for your past behavior, rather than hypocritically attacking others.
But that’s not surprising, because you’re not sincere. And that’s something that hasn’t changed one bit between the “old” JW and the alleged “new” JW of the past couple weeks. Insincerity — the key ingredient in trolling.
In other words: new facade, same old troll.
November 8, 2018 at 8:56 pm
W.o.P.
And PA (Purple Anonymous) is sincere ?!!! Now that is funny.
November 8, 2018 at 9:31 pm
Anonymous
I believe you’re sincere, W.o.P. That’s the difference between you and JW — you’re a true-believer cult member type, you actually believe Trump’s many lies, whereas JW is just trolling. JW knows Trump is lying his ass off, and he approves of that as a strategy, because he knows that’s a good way to manipulate gullible rubes like you.
November 8, 2018 at 10:24 pm
W.o.P.
Please PA, tell this rube what Trump is lying about? His many lies? Is it about the economy? The extra money I got from the tax cuts each month? His appreciation for the military and law enforcement? Moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem? Enlighten me please? Articulable facts?!
Are you like Eric (and his Dad) and think everyone not from the east or west coast is a dumbfuck from “Dumbfuckistan” and they don’t count? Aren’t hip enough, smart enough cool enough? What have you done so far in your life that makes you think you are so superior? Your education? Maybe you’re a Harvard or MIT grad?? Probably not. Have you created work for other people, been an employer? Probably not. Have you served in the military, the Peace Corps? Probably not. Can you replace a water heater by yourself? Probably not. Have you designed a better toothbrush? How about just having a job, paying all your own bills, and being a decent citizen/neighbor? Tell me, what makes you think you are so superior that you do little else but call anyone not in lock step with you names?.
November 9, 2018 at 5:51 am
Anonymous
“Please PA, tell this rube what Trump is lying about? His many lies?”
Here are a few of them. There are many more…but of course as a weak-minded cult follower, you will ignore, deny, change the subject, look the other way, do whatever it takes not to face up to the constant lying of your precious dear leader. Because that’s what dimwitted cultists do.
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/
November 9, 2018 at 5:58 am
Anonymous
“Tell me, what makes you think you are so superior that you do little else but call anyone not in lock step with you names?”
LOL…still can’t see your own hypocrisy, eh? Like JW, you’re in no position to complain about name-calling.
The difference is that he knows he’s a complete hypocrite, and is just playing a little trolly game. Whereas you’re so clueless you really believe you’re some innocent victim of incivility.
But like I said, at least you’re sincere in your moronic beliefs. As half-wit cult suckers always are.
November 9, 2018 at 6:30 am
W.o.P.
Whatever, I shouldn’t have expected more. Seek help
November 9, 2018 at 7:36 am
Mitch
W.o.P.,
This is not a “who’s the alpha” game. When you ask Anonymous for facts, she offers them. You then find a reason to ignore them, whether tone or source or something else.
Trump has charisma, and he’s no fool. He’s played you, as he’s played smart people throughout his career. He knows what a powerful force resentment is. He knows what a powerful force greed is. And he knows how easily people can be convinced to ignore facts they don’t want to know about.
Your Fox bubble is comfortable, but you owe it to yourself and your country to pop it. Fox is the propaganda arm of the 0.01%, aimed directly at you. It exists to convince enough people to vote for the interests of the 0.01% and for no other reason.
November 9, 2018 at 7:45 am
Mitch
Here is a column by the man who wrote The Art of the Deal, the book that put Trump on the map. (No one, including Trump, questions that the book was ghost-written.)
https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2018/jan/18/fear-donald-trump-us-president-art-of-the-deal
“I alone can do it.” These five extraordinary words kept coming back to me as I reflected on Donald Trump’s first year as president of the US. He made this claim during his speech accepting the Republican nomination in July 2016. At the time, it struck me simply as a delusional expression of his grandiosity. Looking back, I also hear the plaintive wail of a desperate child who believes he is alone in the world with no one to care for him. “I alone can do it” is Trump’s survival response to: “I must do it all alone.”
There are two Trumps. The one he presents to the world is all bluster, bullying and certainty. The other, which I have long felt haunts his inner world, is the frightened child of a relentlessly critical and bullying father and a distant and disengaged mother who couldn’t or wouldn’t protect him.
“That’s why I’m so screwed up, because I had a father who pushed me so hard,” Trump acknowledged in 2007, in a brief and rare moment of self-awareness.
Trump’s temperament and his habits have hardened with age. He was always cartoonish, but compared with the man for whom I wrote The Art of the Deal 30 years ago, he is significantly angrier today: more reactive, deceitful, distracted, vindictive, impulsive and, above all, self-absorbed – assuming the last is possible.
This is the narrative I’ve been advancing for the past 18 months. With the recent publication of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, it turns out that even those closest to Trump recognise his utter lack of fitness to be president, even if they are too cowed and cowardly to do anything about it.
Fear is the hidden through-line in Trump’s life – fear of weakness, of inadequacy, of failure, of criticism and of insignificance. He has spent his life trying to outrun these fears by “winning” – as he puts it – and by redefining reality whenever the facts don’t serve the narrative he seeks to create. It hasn’t worked, but not for lack of effort.
In his first year in office, Trump has lambasted any facts he dislikes as “fake news”, while making nearly 2,000 false or misleading claims of his own – more than five a day. In a single half-hour interview with the New York Times in late December, he made 24 such claims. This is the very definition of gaslighting – lying until you get people to doubt their own reality – and it is both frightening and disturbing. Because the office Trump now occupies makes him the most powerful man on Earth, his fears, and the way he manages them, have necessarily become ours.
The Trumpian world view is narrow, dark and deficit-driven
We fear Trump because he is impulsive, irrational and self-serving, but above all because he seems unconstrained by even the faintest hint of conscience. Trump feels no more shame over his most destructive behaviours than a male lion does killing the cubs of his predecessor when he takes over a pride.
Trump has made fear the dominant emotion of our times. This, I believe, is his primary impact on the body politic after a year in office. He began his campaign by describing immigrant Mexicans as rapists, Muslims as terrorists, and more recently all black and brown people, and entire countries, as inferior. Trump skilfully exploited the fears of supporters who felt powerless and disenfranchised by presenting himself as their angry champion, even though the policies he has since pursued are likely to make their lives worse.
About the only thing Trump truly has in common with his base is that he feels every bit as aggrieved as they do, despite his endless privilege. No amount of money, fame or power has been enough to win him the respect he so insatiably craves. His anger over this perceived injustice is visceral and authentic. Trump’s unwinding of government programmes such as Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act will fuel yet more fear among the millions of people will lose their health care in the year ahead. The tax plan Trump pushed through most benefits him, his family and his fellow billionaires and provides the least relief to those who need it most. In both cases, the victims of these policies will include millions of his supporters who may find someone else to blame, but whose suffering will inexorably increase.
The fearful divide Trump has exacerbated is not simply between his supporters and his detractors, the rich and the poor, or Democrats and Republicans, but between the best and the worst in each of us.
In the face of fear, it is a physiological fact that our most primitive and selfish instincts emerge. Control of our behaviour shifts from the prefrontal cortex to the emotionally driven amygdala – sometimes referred to as “fear central”. As we move into fight-or-flight mode, we become more self-centred, and our vision narrows to the perceived threat, which in the modern world is less to our survival than to our sense of value and worthiness. We lose the capacity for empathy, rationality, proportionality and attention to the longer-term consequences of our actions.
This is the reactive state Trump has tapped into with his followers and which he has prompted in his opponents. It serves none of us well. Think for a moment about the immense difference between how you feel and behave at your best and your worst. It is when we feel safest and most secure that we think most clearly and expansively. It’s also when we are most inclined to look beyond our self-interest, and to act with compassion, generosity, consideration and forgiveness.
I have never observed any of these qualities in Trump. Over the past year I have frequently been asked whether he has any redeeming qualities. I’ve thought about this as objectively as I can, and the only one I’ve come up with is his relentless drive. But because Trump uses this quality solely in the service of his self-aggrandisement and domination, it scarcely qualifies as a virtue.
So what does resistance to Trump look like? This is a question that has preoccupied me and millions of other Americans this past year. If fear gets sufficiently intense, or persists for long enough, we eventually move into “freeze” – meaning numbness and submission. This is my own greatest fear. As Trump violates one norm after another day after day, the risk is that we lose our sense of outrage and our motivation to speak out.
The challenge we face is to resist our own fear without sacrificing our outrage. That requires widening our perspective beyond Trump’s, and beyond Trump himself. The future is ours to shape, not his. Dispiriting as I found it to write The Art of the Deal with a man I progressively came to view as a black hole, the experience prompted me to redirect my life in almost complete opposition to the values and world view that he represents. My own path over the past two decades – prompted in reaction to my experience with him – has been to help business leaders become more wholly human, and to humanise workplaces.
Trump’s actions over the past year have already prompted an extraordinary wave of new activism among people in their 20s and 30s, who are now the biggest segment of the US electorate, and represent the next generation of leaders. The 19 women who stepped forward to accuse Trump of sexual assault have helped to galvanise a rapidly growing, worldwide movement to empower women and to call out sexual abuse in the workplace. Thanks in large part to Trump, hundreds of new female candidates are now running for political office.
Trump himself has become the embodiment of the limits of traditional masculinity. “We raise boys,” writes the author Terrence Real, “to live in a world in which they are either winners or losers, grandiose or shame-filled, … perpetrators or victims. Society shows little mercy for men if they fail in the performance of their role. But the price of that performance is an inward sickness.”
Trump represents an extreme version of a sickness from which most men suffer, to some extent. The most powerful stand we can take in opposition to Trump’s values and behaviour is to pursue a higher purpose every day, seek more common ground amid our differences, and find better ways to take care of others and add value wherever we can. As he looks backward, we must look forward.
The Trumpian worldview is narrow, dark and deficit-driven. Each of us shares some of those instincts: the fear of inadequacy is uniquely and universally human. But we are also capable of so much more. My hope and belief is that Trump will no longer be president by this year’s end. My personal commitment is to pay much less attention to him, and more to making a difference to others affected by his policies. Whatever happens, may the worst of Trump inspire the best in us.
We, together, can do it.
• Tony Schwartz is the chief executive of The Energy Project. In addition to The Art of the Deal, his bestselling books include The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working and The Power of Full Engagement
November 9, 2018 at 8:04 am
Henchman Of Justice
Mitchy,
Anonymous’s aren’t the only ones on the face of the planet who provide facts or lies, but it is true that they do so looking from the dark and are scared to be transparent… such role models… sure glad that all over all those centuries that authors of books never signed their name and kept everything anonymous… really shows confidence…
November 9, 2018 at 9:46 am
W.o.P.
Wow
November 9, 2018 at 12:33 pm
Mitch
Another day, another bit of so-called “fake” news, this time from the Wall Street Journal…
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/wsj-bombshell-report-details-trump-role-in-daniels-and-mcdougal-pay-offs
November 9, 2018 at 3:34 pm
Anonymous
Another piece on Trump’s many lies — this one focused on the most recent flurry of whoppers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/23/donald-trumps-fast-furious-campaign-lies
Of course W.o.P. won’t read it, because he can’t handle the truth.
November 9, 2018 at 7:01 pm
W.o.P.
Maye you should seek help too? Admission is the first step to cure
November 9, 2018 at 7:49 pm
Anonymous
Thanks for proving my point.
You demanded examples of Trump’s lies. I happily supplied plenty, and predicted you would ignore them. Which you did. Which is exactly what one would expect from a brainwashed idiot.
So if you’re not a brainwashed idiot, you sure are doing a great impression of one!
November 10, 2018 at 4:48 am
W.o.P.
You have a point?
November 10, 2018 at 7:53 am
Mitch
It’s impossible for me to understand how W.o.P. thinks.
It’s somewhat crazy for Anon and myself to, in the words of Eric’s wife, argue with idiots, but I can understand why we do what we do.
I think it’s something along the lines of “there’s a small chance that *this* will cause the person to rethink something, so what the hell, I’ll put this additional piece of information up where they can see it if they want.”
Certainly a small chance, but to some people it feels worth doing, given that the time investment is low.
What I can’t make sense of is someone who, as best I can tell, just wants to offer dismissive one-liners like “ha ha ha” or “you have a point” rather than explain why the offered facts have no effect on them, even with something as straightforward as “you say this, but on Fox I heard the opposite.”
My best guess is that it’s low level sadistic behavior, and I certainly reached that conclusion w/r/t JW some time back. I figure that’s the case with W.o.P. as well, even though I agree with Anon that W.o.P.’s persona is different.
Of course, given the choice to switch around JW’s persona, and given the inherent anonymity here, another possible conclusion would be that it’s the same low level sadist operating both personas.
Fortunately, it doesn’t matter in the slightest.
November 10, 2018 at 8:13 am
Just Watchin
Interesting how many times I get mentioned. I guess I never realized to what extent that I was living in people’s heads. Might be time to retire the “JW” moniker, and re-emerge as a “Anonymous”….
November 10, 2018 at 8:19 am
Mitch
Scalia, Trump, and Hitler live in my head, too. Past time for a housecleaning. Thanks!
November 10, 2018 at 8:22 am
Mitch
Last comment of the day: the only rational reason I can think of for JW is that he seeks to disrupt any organizing potential in blogs. The problem with that theory is that I don’t see any organizing potential in blogs that allow anonymity, but perhaps s/he does. Bye.
November 10, 2018 at 9:24 am
Just Watchin
One last thought before I go poof….it will be interesting to watch the reaction new posters get. Some will be new to the blog….some will be me. Will everyone with an opposing view be called a nazi and a racist and run off? Oh…and I won’t always be a “Anonymous”. I’ve already put together a list of future names….
November 10, 2018 at 2:13 pm
Anonymous
I think you’re overthinking it, Mitch. JW is here for the same kind of reasons trolls are trolls wherever they are — lack of imagination, loneliness, bitterness, nothing better to do, etc.
November 10, 2018 at 4:51 pm
W.o.P.
Oh, I finally get it ! Mitch and PA are normal and anyone not it lockstep with their FU thought process is crazy! OK, same as the saying ….. a thief thinks everyone else is a thief, a crazy person thinks everyone else is crazy. And of course …..a troll (anonymous) thinks everyone else is a troll. You two are tooooo funny. Maybe you should hook up so you could have some kind of a social life ?.
When I saw Mitch’s line “Scalia, Trump, and Hitler live in my head, too” I had to really laugh out loud! I was going to say something fairly rude but changed my mind, but I do wonder what other thoughts are in your head?
Amusing that PA call make a reference to anyone else’s ” lack of imagination, loneliness, bitterness, nothing better to do, etc “.
November 11, 2018 at 8:00 am
Count Every Vote ‼️🗳✅🧛♂️
W.o.P. , you racist Rapepublican troll, go suck on that BLUE WAVE! 🌊
P.S. — IT’S ALMOST MUELLER TIME AGAIN! 🇺🇸👍🏿🏌️♂️🐘💩🔥😆🤣⚖️🚿
November 11, 2018 at 8:02 am
Henchman Of Justice
It was obvious before Trump was president that his style is very hitleresque when it comes to his speeches and how he draws people’s attentions… but then again any person that stands up and talks about a certain culture or certain types of people stand to be accused of being hitleresque…
… so what culture does the Democrat Party not support…
… the American culture fools….
November 11, 2018 at 8:04 am
Henchman Of Justice
So the two party system has been evolved into one party is for non America while the other party is for America such a Divergence…
November 11, 2018 at 9:29 am
Mitch
French President Emmanuel Macron:
“The old demons are rising again, ready to complete their task of chaos and of death…”
“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism,” he said. “In saying ‘Our interests first, whatever happens to the others,’ you erase the most precious thing a nation can have, that which makes it live, that which causes it to be great and that which is most important: Its moral values.”
Trump, ostensibly the main target of Macron’s message, sat stony-faced. The American president has proudly declared himself a nationalist.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/remembering-wwi-macron-warns-nationalism-is-a-betrayal-of-patriotism
November 11, 2018 at 12:41 pm
W.o.P.
Seems like TDS is alive and growing in Mitch’s head along with “Scalia, Trump, and Hitler”.
November 11, 2018 at 3:57 pm
Anonymous
November 11, 2018 at 5:29 pm
W.o.P.
Once again PA …. you made my point! Is an exorcism in order?
November 11, 2018 at 7:19 pm
Anonymous
I don’t know if you need an exorcism or not. But you could definitely use some help…
https://people.howstuffworks.com/cult6.htm
Sadly, you’re probably too far gone to realize how far gone you are.
November 12, 2018 at 6:03 am
W.o.P.
Somebody is too far gone for sure !!! TDS !!