Mika B. just read Joe's mea culpa in the Washington Post (not up when I looked online) about
how terribly wrong he was about being a republican. He still thinks we care. We know he's an Independent now. What the hell is this?
When Mika started reading I thought Joe was gonna say something starltling, like "i have Covid" but no, he of course made it all about him.
But nothing was new in his confession. Does anybody care why he stopped being a Republican?
Please, someone publish it here when the WP has it up on their website...
I know we don't like him but lots of people watch that show so we deal with what we got, even tho we may not watch, lots of people do (perhaps less than he thinks, tho).
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Other babies in that NICU would die over the next month, but Jack improved steadily until we could finally bring him home. But the aura of invincibility that I had soaked in since childhood was gone; any remaining illusions would be dashed over the next decade with the death of my parents, a second divorce, the loss of friends to cancer and the fears faced by any father of four. I now spend my days praying for those children, nervously crossing myself when I speak of good things and knocking on wood whenever the surface is within reach.
But I know I am blessed to have had the luxury of living fearlessly though the first four decades of my life. Unlike my Post colleague Eugene Robinson, I never had to warn my teenage boys how to behave when stopped by a police officer. And unlike the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, I did not know the fear that arises from being born of “a people who control nothing, who can protect nothing.” As Coates told his son, “Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.”
The streets of West Baltimore do not allow a child to walk through life carrying a sense of invincibility. Instead, parents harbor an unremitting dread when their child does something as mundane as walking to school.
Fathers across the South Side of Chicago cannot assure their children that a faith in God, a love of country and a life filled with hard work will lead them to The Dream. For millions of Americans, that dream appears to be little more than a white man’s conjuring, designed to conceal a country’s sins and hold its citizens harmless for crimes committed against black humanity over the past 400 years.
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the compromises of democracy as unprincipled always seem to imagine they'd get to rule the virtuous autocracy they long for.
I prefer to view sausage making by a bunch of only somewhat satisfied people as a noble endeavor.
"By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great." ~ Emerson
