This past week's commentaries
Thanks to everyone who sent photos from No Kings rallies across the country. What a day! I’ll share your photos in a separate post later today.
I was thrilled to see such a large turnout in Iowa City. I share some additional thoughts below, including more wise words from Thomas Paine:
And, in case you want to catch up on this past week’s news, here is just some of what I covered…
Thank you Iowa City!
I made a suggestion to someone who was pushing impeachment, almost as a joke, but I am thinking today that the idea could really take off, assuming some major financial backing to rent the spaces/real estate/boards and set up the national programing and maintenance of the outside digital monitors. It could go on cooperating business walls, etc. as freebie space. This is what I said:
"How about we begin a National Digital Clock Count Down in every hamlet and major city in the U.S. reminding us all of important deadlines - i.e., next voter registration deadline, next election date, and finally, the date we get to say goodbye to the big evil crook living in our White House on our taxpayer dollar, scamming the Federal Treasury every chance he gets, while he never misses a moment to be cruel to those born less fortunate than he was. I think that coast-to-coast visual could do more to rally the troops against Trump and his MAGA crew than any impeachment could at this stage. Get those digital billboards up!"
Indivisible can handle the management on this, and people like you and your like-minded colleagues can drive specific information and data to it in a succinct fashion for inclusion. Run it 24/7 and include the good, the bad, and the ugly - but most important, provide hope and information to voters and on voting in general as the elections come around. Sort of like a Citizen Board for all Americans, in the way that Wall Street uses "The Dow" only bigger, better, and slower - much slower. Yes, I like this idea. Someone please steal it and run with it.
Not exactly your reading of Paine to the Troops, but . . . . Watching and listening to you Steve is what gave me the idea to expand my original thought on election information availability.