Armand, I really appreciate you posting that interview ... Jen Rubin is just brilliant and so is Norm. Their enthusiasm is wonderful....as so many of us are very upset about whats happening. Something has got to give...I think it will. I truly believe the Republican party is done after this. They're the party of extremists. As their base begins to figure it out, hopefully they will lose steam. And the Democrats MUST get their messaging straight and be vocal and assertive. Thanks for a great column.
Susan Niemann: You are really generous, thank you.
What you say is so important.
We MUST get our messaging straight.
My hope is that Kamala Harris will win in 2026 the California gubernatorial race.
Even if that is her zenith, that is a real, weighty accomplishment. Governor of one of the most heavily industrialized, industrial states, with the status of many nations.
We must get back a Democratic House, at a minimum, because Hakeem Jeffries would be THIRD IN LINE to the Presidency, and I think Hakeem Jeffries has the potential to develop into one of our really great statesmen.
A certain combination of events -- Kamala Harris, California Governor; Hakeem Jeffries, House Speaker; Charismatic Democratic Leadership -- could lead to some of our best days.
Lorraine Evanoff: You have the good sense to recognize Jennifer Rubin for what she is: One of our truly great journalists, a wonderful person of integrity and backbone.
Hmm. Sounds a little like how I would describe a dear friend: YOU.
Thank you for posting the interview. It's very hard not to lose hope. Over the weekend, I learned that a former student of mine whom I'd helped get degree credit for her work in DEI and social justice has been fired via Executive Order. A long-time friend of mine who's a social worker who works in elder services texted me for a good two hours about how worried he is about his vulnerable clients. We can't go on like this.
Liz Gauffreau: This is very, very hard. Very difficult. I have a dear, dear friend in USAID, who is one of the best professionals I had worked with during my 41 year career with Department of Defense.
This is very hard.
Like you, I do all I can to oppose and to stay spiritually strong for tomorrow's fight.
The litigation and appeals cheer me, because I think this strategy has the best legitimacy and is not only highly ethical and proper, but the best remedy to enjoin against harmful executive action.
I think the growth of the Executive Power in the 20th and 21st centuries is the evil that makes today's takeover so threatening to our democratic foundation.
I want power to devolve to the States and to Congress.
They are crazy, too.
But at least they are more spread out, and a diffusion of power is the best foundation for our liberties.
Liz Gauffreau: Wow, you say it exactly right. "It helps that the sane people are actively supporting each other."
I feel like pinching myself and hoping to awaken and find -- it was all a nightmare. Kamala Harris WAS elected, and now we can put the dream (er, nightmare) behind us.
Jim Sanders: Subtle difference. Not a cup of "Morning Joe" -- the show. Rather, in the morning, a cup of Joe.
I kind of anticipated that my final sentence could be so read, so I was, in this case, careful about the word order.
Now, an apocryphal story has it that the expression "cup of Joe" originated in the Royal Navy.
The sailor is out long to sea and wants relief from drudgery so will drink some grog. (Doesn't sound appetizing, really, but apparently the King's Sailors like grog.) Well, in the 19th century, one admiral, a teetotaler, forbade grog in his fleet. So, instead, the sailors were treated to inexhaustible stores of coffee. One cup after another. Also, apparently the admiral's first name was "Joseph." (This is all apocryphal, but I will complete the story, nevertheless.) SOOOO . . . As one sailor would pour the umpteenth cup of coffee for his mate (this is the 19th c., so all sailors, so far as we know, were men who peopled the Queen's Navy -- the Queen, of course, being then Victoria). So the disgruntled sailor, pouring yet the 20th cup of coffee for his mate would sarcastically, bitterly observe, "Well, here is another cup of Joe for you."
Hmmm.
Even in this version, you might not want a cup of Joe. I bet the sailor's Joe was rather foul in the Royal Navy.
So, have a morning cup of Tea instead!
Or 4-Roses Bourbon (in the spirit of the Royal Navy), though the morning might be rather too early to start that!).
Something others have always told me and has been proven true over and over, is that when anyone makes a statement of any kind I see multiple possible meanings.
Logically, I knew what you meant. However, because I find Mika And Joe so disgusting with their lips on Trump’s ass, that was all I could see.
Jim Sanders: Oh, I understood what you meant! LOL!
My narrative forced me to think how awful the Joe must have been in the Royal Navy.
Or, for that matter, the grog.
But at any rate, I love the idea of litigation against the Musk/Trump Administration, and the appeals, while the time gradually runs out on the Administration and in 2028 there are new elections.
Armand, I really appreciate you posting that interview ... Jen Rubin is just brilliant and so is Norm. Their enthusiasm is wonderful....as so many of us are very upset about whats happening. Something has got to give...I think it will. I truly believe the Republican party is done after this. They're the party of extremists. As their base begins to figure it out, hopefully they will lose steam. And the Democrats MUST get their messaging straight and be vocal and assertive. Thanks for a great column.
Susan Niemann: You are really generous, thank you.
What you say is so important.
We MUST get our messaging straight.
My hope is that Kamala Harris will win in 2026 the California gubernatorial race.
Even if that is her zenith, that is a real, weighty accomplishment. Governor of one of the most heavily industrialized, industrial states, with the status of many nations.
We must get back a Democratic House, at a minimum, because Hakeem Jeffries would be THIRD IN LINE to the Presidency, and I think Hakeem Jeffries has the potential to develop into one of our really great statesmen.
A certain combination of events -- Kamala Harris, California Governor; Hakeem Jeffries, House Speaker; Charismatic Democratic Leadership -- could lead to some of our best days.
Is it really too much to hope?
I hope it isn’t too much… because the current path will lead to our undoing.
When Jen Rubin finally left WaPo was when I finally followed her. Bravo!
Lorraine Evanoff: You have the good sense to recognize Jennifer Rubin for what she is: One of our truly great journalists, a wonderful person of integrity and backbone.
Hmm. Sounds a little like how I would describe a dear friend: YOU.
Thank you for posting the interview. It's very hard not to lose hope. Over the weekend, I learned that a former student of mine whom I'd helped get degree credit for her work in DEI and social justice has been fired via Executive Order. A long-time friend of mine who's a social worker who works in elder services texted me for a good two hours about how worried he is about his vulnerable clients. We can't go on like this.
Liz Gauffreau: This is very, very hard. Very difficult. I have a dear, dear friend in USAID, who is one of the best professionals I had worked with during my 41 year career with Department of Defense.
This is very hard.
Like you, I do all I can to oppose and to stay spiritually strong for tomorrow's fight.
The litigation and appeals cheer me, because I think this strategy has the best legitimacy and is not only highly ethical and proper, but the best remedy to enjoin against harmful executive action.
I think the growth of the Executive Power in the 20th and 21st centuries is the evil that makes today's takeover so threatening to our democratic foundation.
I want power to devolve to the States and to Congress.
They are crazy, too.
But at least they are more spread out, and a diffusion of power is the best foundation for our liberties.
Thank you, Armand. It helps that the sane people are actively supporting each other.
Liz Gauffreau: Wow, you say it exactly right. "It helps that the sane people are actively supporting each other."
I feel like pinching myself and hoping to awaken and find -- it was all a nightmare. Kamala Harris WAS elected, and now we can put the dream (er, nightmare) behind us.
Alas!
If only . . .
I’m confused—maybe just slow. Why would I ever want a cup of Morning Joe?
Jim Sanders: Subtle difference. Not a cup of "Morning Joe" -- the show. Rather, in the morning, a cup of Joe.
I kind of anticipated that my final sentence could be so read, so I was, in this case, careful about the word order.
Now, an apocryphal story has it that the expression "cup of Joe" originated in the Royal Navy.
The sailor is out long to sea and wants relief from drudgery so will drink some grog. (Doesn't sound appetizing, really, but apparently the King's Sailors like grog.) Well, in the 19th century, one admiral, a teetotaler, forbade grog in his fleet. So, instead, the sailors were treated to inexhaustible stores of coffee. One cup after another. Also, apparently the admiral's first name was "Joseph." (This is all apocryphal, but I will complete the story, nevertheless.) SOOOO . . . As one sailor would pour the umpteenth cup of coffee for his mate (this is the 19th c., so all sailors, so far as we know, were men who peopled the Queen's Navy -- the Queen, of course, being then Victoria). So the disgruntled sailor, pouring yet the 20th cup of coffee for his mate would sarcastically, bitterly observe, "Well, here is another cup of Joe for you."
Hmmm.
Even in this version, you might not want a cup of Joe. I bet the sailor's Joe was rather foul in the Royal Navy.
So, have a morning cup of Tea instead!
Or 4-Roses Bourbon (in the spirit of the Royal Navy), though the morning might be rather too early to start that!).
Something others have always told me and has been proven true over and over, is that when anyone makes a statement of any kind I see multiple possible meanings.
Logically, I knew what you meant. However, because I find Mika And Joe so disgusting with their lips on Trump’s ass, that was all I could see.
Jim Sanders: Oh, I understood what you meant! LOL!
My narrative forced me to think how awful the Joe must have been in the Royal Navy.
Or, for that matter, the grog.
But at any rate, I love the idea of litigation against the Musk/Trump Administration, and the appeals, while the time gradually runs out on the Administration and in 2028 there are new elections.