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James S's avatar

Steven, that you produce such articulate and incisive essays, given the grievous subject matter, has to be difficult as your head must surely be spinning the entire time. Thank you for your dedication to the worthiest cause of our lifetime. Enjoy your travels, you deserve it.

Steven Beschloss's avatar

I much appreciate your kind words. Thanks, James.

JennSH from NC's avatar

It is important to take some time away from all this horrendous chaos. Enjoy just being.

Claudia J Bouffard's avatar

The Felon's insistence that the reflecting pool was the result of vandals, aligns with the Felon's insistence that the Central Park 5 remain guilty, even when DNA and and the an another individual confessed to the attack. The Felon is simply incapable of admitting to any incorrect accusations.

Cicada's avatar

Safe travels, Steven, to you and yours.

Steven Beschloss's avatar

Thx, Claudia.

Leigh Horne's avatar

It's been blatantly (and I emphasize that word) obvious for months that Trump is paranoid, delusional, and impulsive--crazy and reckless in normal-speak. Not to mention careless and a convicted felon. He needs to be removed now, not later, or we might pay an even higher price than tainted water.

Sharon C Storm's avatar

You have certainly earned some time away from the chaos to relax and refresh. You have been here with information on the corruption in this regime constantly.

Everyone is emotionally drained by the felon and his yes men and women, it will probably get worse before it gets better. We all need to practice self care, but we will get through this together.

Steven Beschloss's avatar

Thanks, Sharon. And yes, we will.

Hans Flikkema's avatar

I have the impression that more and more politicians and media across the globe believe that we people prefer to be governed by known selfish cheaters, lairs, haters, discriminators, billionaires and even known criminal fraudsters.....WTF do they get this idea from?.....we need to be much louder and more effective in telling them that they have the wrong end of the stick and that we consider them complicit in the crimes these governments conduct against their own people and others..... and this is not just in America............

Steven Beschloss's avatar

Right you are, Hans.

Maggie Turlington Cat Aunt's avatar

OMG, even the sycophant cabinet members including Pete Hegseth have a WTF? expression. Have a fabulous vacation, Steven.

Steven Beschloss's avatar

True. Thx, Maggie.

Helen Stajninger's avatar

Thank you Steven. We will really miss your insight the next few weeks, but you certainly deserve some time off. Please enjoy “just being”.

Steven Beschloss's avatar

Thanks, Helen. I hope to share a few earlier pieces that are worth your time.

Generally Speaking's avatar

Rest up… plenty of work awaits, but we need to husband our energy for the tasks to come.

Susan Benton's avatar

“This is not normal” is an understatement! A president who cannot accept factual info, much less deal with it, is an immediate danger to our lives and everything we hold dear. It means there is no one —actually worse than no one —running things. The person who is supposed to be running the show is out of touch with reality, and that should terrify you.

It begs the question, do his “handlers” have

contingency plans for who will make decisions in the event that several missiles with nuclear warheads are on their way to New York City

and Washington DC? Or, if DT blames it on Gov.

Walz will they simply dispatch the fbi to arrest Gov. Walz because they’ve been trained to accept and react to DT’s delusions?

That’s what U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro did.

It’s also what Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has done several times. I seriously doubt Secretary Hegseth has the knowledge and experience to respond appropriately to an imminent threat. Will Vice President Vance be in charge, or will he call his benefactor and conduit to God Peter Thiel for advice first?

The American people would like to know & deserve to know the answers to those questions, because the only reasonable conclusion at this point is, we are not safe.

Karen Kendra's avatar

But he doesn’t live there all by himself—he has the support, or rather the adoration of a gang of slobbering sycophants!

KBinPNW's avatar

You’re right, Steven, nothing in this country is normal. It hasn’t been since 2015, when an obviously unfit sociopathic narcissist was normalized by the press as a viable political candidate and accepted by the Republican Party as its standard bearer because his outrageous views garnered them votes among previously unreachable disenfranchised voters. The rest is a direct consequence of those disastrous failures, as many of us woke up on Weds morning 2016 knowing would be the case. Now the entire world is experiencing the consequences of our actions.

Thank you for continuing to speak the truth and shed light in the darkness. Enjoy your rest.