Wednesday Open Thread

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1. Today's Teleprompter News – You can't make it up. Heather Cox-Richardson

   Yesterday, just after House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced that delegates were formally nominating Trump as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, the teleprompter failed. Unable to continue without it, Johnson quickly left the stage. This was awkward, since two weeks ago, Johnson said on the Fox News Channel of President Joe Biden: “Unless the president is reading off the teleprompter, I don’t think he’s capable of making these big decisions and that is something that should alarm all of us….” 

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   1. The dogs have caught the car.

      Between all the back slapping and high fives and professions of love and devotion, the knives are being drawn…the deals are being made.

      One of the immutable facts about Republicans is their tendency to overreach. Trumps' new army of Christian soldiers is preparing to usurp and reformulate the federal government, with loyalists in every office and leadership position

      The Heritage Foundations' project 2025 is a plan to remake our Constitution. If one were to wonder if the Chicago School of Economics and the "Free Market Experiment" were wound through this attack on the working class, one would be correct in doing so, I suggest.

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2. Hannah Arendt on Lies:

   "This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

   A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

   And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule

   of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

   – Hannah Arendt,

   (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German historian and philosopher.

   The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

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