I agree that this is a brilliant tactic.
Yet the Trump base is desperate to maintain the fiction that the charges against their hero are politically motivated, regardless of how indefensible that claim may be.
There isn’t a whole hell of a lot of reasoning going on there.
Here’s a popular narrative: a civil war is brewing in the United States.
It’s possible to imagine that a large and heavily armed collection of Trump supporters who believe the Big Lie gets news that their hero has been charged with treason and go immediately on the attack.
Here’s what’s not credible, however: the majority of affluent Americans, people of sanity and intelligence, allow it to happen.
For a moment, try to forget about the hateful morons, and think about the real prosperity in this land of ours, the reasonably well educated businesspeople, shoppers, Little League coaches, soccer moms, country clubbers, and the like.
Their fathers fought and won WW2, and know they’re going to lose their liberty to people who can’t spell the word “liberty?” It’s simply not going to happen.
Of course, it’s not quite all.
This is going to make tens of millions of hateful morons very angry, but that’s a price that we, as a nation, must be willing to pay.
A country that supposedly loves liberty but doesn’t serve up justice to a leader who attempts to become an authoritarian ruler is not a free nation; it’s not a place where decent people want to live.
Kudos to the artist, Steve Funk.
I’m amazed he’s still in the country. It looks certain he’ll be charged at this point, after which he’ll be unable to leave.
Sure, there will be those who claim indicting him is political vengeance, and that it sets a precedent whereby all future presidents can be similarly attacked, but attempting to overthrow the U.S. government, i.e., committing treason, is not something that can be dismissed.
It’s been too long since I wrote a post that simply combines the imperative to plant trees and a piece of art by my favorite modern-day Italian impressionist, Maurizio Rega.
Virtually all the mass in our trees comes from atmospheric CO2.
Here’s an accurate list of what Trump has lost vis-a-vis the 2020 presidential election.
But keep in mind that so much action has yet to take place.
With each passing day it’s looking increasingly hard to believe that Trump will not be indicted on charges that add up to treason, the crime of betraying one’s country, especially by attempting to overthrow the government.
What will he lose as this process unfolds? Well, first, the support of many of the tens of millions of current racist morons still behind him. Ultimately, his freedom (that is, unless he flees the country).
If one has a soft enough heart, I suppose it’s possible to feel sorry for Trump supporters who collectively donated $250 million to a) a cause that was never the recipient of the money, and b) was fraudulent in the first place.
The best we can hope for here is that Trump is exposed as a conman, and that his erstwhile supporters figure all this out, learn from their mistakes, and move on with their lives.
Wait! What?
Well, those us of old enough to remember Watergate will recall how Nixon had the support of Republicans–until he didn’t. It looks like we have something similar going on here.
It appears that Congressional Republicans, tragically born without spines, have suddenly realized that their allegiance to Trump has shifted from an asset to a liability, and just that quickly, we have statements like the one here.
Recently, Justice Clarence Thomas voted against a Supreme Court decision to compel the release of Donald Trump’s records regarding the January 6 insurrection and attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
His wife has actively attempted to overthrow the U.S. government.
I know we have a lot “on our plates” when it comes to matters like these, but this is glaring. Every vote he casts holds the potential to cause a monumental miscarriage of justice.
A reader asks what I know about axial flux electric motors. He says:
For some time, they have been recognized as having potential to reduce motor weight, cut costs, and improve motor efficiency, however there was a problem – how to lose unwanted heat.
An Oxford based company Yasa – recently bought by Mercedes-Benz has changed that by working out how to keep these motors cool. Their latest motor weighs 24 kg and is capable of delivering 590lb ft of torque, 480 hp of power, has reached 98% efficiency.
I have some familiarity with the subject, and I just watched a cool video on it, but I’m not a go-to person on axial vs. radial flux motors. If there is some significant improvement in power/weight and/or torque/weight, that is a distinct advantage.
Keep in mind, however, that the total efficiency of charging and discharging batteries through our current-day electric motors is already very high, which means there is very little area for even theoretically possible improvement.
