Candie Hill
@chilly69.bsky.social
Opps, they shouldn't have voted for a felon.
March 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Opps, they shouldn't have voted for a felon.
Follow you all anywhere. :)
February 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Follow you all anywhere. :)
The Nielsen Co. said viewership was down from Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, which reached 33.8 million, and Trump’s first move into the White House, seen by 30.6 million in 2017. Millions of viewers watched some portion of Trump’s inauguration on streaming platforms but he still lost in ratings.
January 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The Nielsen Co. said viewership was down from Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, which reached 33.8 million, and Trump’s first move into the White House, seen by 30.6 million in 2017. Millions of viewers watched some portion of Trump’s inauguration on streaming platforms but he still lost in ratings.
And who will have the backing of their patron in Washington.
“All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.”
“All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.”
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
And who will have the backing of their patron in Washington.
“All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.”
“All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.”
“All of this will wash over Canada in various ways – some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
“All of this will wash over Canada in various ways – some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it
There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things.
“Some won’t, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
“Some won’t, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything.
Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing “tough things” to “restore order?"
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing “tough things” to “restore order?"
“We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change?
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
“We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change?
“Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants – finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so – will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
“Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants – finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so – will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late.
but will fill it with holes – and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
but will fill it with holes – and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation.
“Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fuelled by his ill-judged tax policies – he won’t replace the income tax, as he promised,
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
“Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fuelled by his ill-judged tax policies – he won’t replace the income tax, as he promised,
by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful.
“The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect – that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
“The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect – that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and
It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there.
“At some point someone – a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin – will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
“At some point someone – a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin – will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest.
“At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional – the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be … atmospheric.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
“At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional – the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be … atmospheric.
We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe – the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry – before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe – the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry – before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions.
“The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
“The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock.
The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do – to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world – is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do – to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world – is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero.
“There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
“There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies.