This is some of the best writing I have seen on substack in a long time, so many quotable lines:
And this is what staring into the abyss looks like in practice. Not some abstract philosophical crisis, but the concrete collapse of the frameworks that make legal reasoning possible.
when appointment statutes become “technical” obstacles rather than constitutional constraints
the inevitable unfolding of corruption that cannot permit competence
the law as an obstacle to be gamed rather than a framework constraining power. Once you make that move, you’ve abandoned the rule of law entirely
destroying frameworks requires stupidity—not because the people involved lack intelligence, but because intelligent defense of the indefensible is impossible
The framework cannot cohere. So stupidity becomes the only option. Not chosen stupidity, but necessary stupidity—the epistemic collapse that corruption requires.
constitutional surrender dressed as principle
The difference wasn’t intelligence or analytical sophistication. It was willingness to take seriously what was being said explicitly.
Their framework assumed everyone operates within frameworks
sophistication that cannot recognize monsters when they tell you what they are isn’t sophistication at all
Eisenhower hated war. The Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, the general who planned D-Day, who wrote two speeches for that day—one for success, one for failure—who bore the weight of sending tens of thousands of young men to storm beaches where German panzer divisions waited, who carried those deaths with him for the rest of his life. He hated war.
acting like an asshole to everyone all the time, eventually it’s going to bubble up in terms of consumer preferences (quoting Galloway)
the petulant ignorance of someone who’s never borne responsibility for anything larger
The world is watching. Not with fear of American strength but with pity for American decline. They’re building alternatives to American brands, American payment systems, American technology, American alliances. They’re diversifying away from dollar dependence. They’re creating parallel institutions. And they’re doing it faster
completely incompatible understandings of what strength is for
nihilism dressed in camouflage
the replacement of virtue with violence, principle with power, strength with brutality
corruption has destroyed the conditions making thought possible
What remains is strategic silence, tribal defense without legal argument, linguistic manipulation where words mean whatever power declares them to mean, institutional cover for abandoning constitutional constraints, fracture into camps that cannot speak to each other because they no longer share even basic frameworks for evaluating whether something can be defended
This is how constitutional republics die. Not through formal coup or dramatic collapse but through making it dangerous to invoke constitutional protections
The center holds not because it is strong but because we choose to hold it.
And two plus two still equals four.
The circus continues. The wire still holds. And we continue with it, conscious beings choosing meaning against meaninglessness, law against will, truth against power, humanity against the abyss.
Because the alternative is unthinkable. And we are not done thinking yet.
"Not with fear of American strength but with pity for American decline" This is a line that hit home. An uncle and an aunt emigrated after WWII from Germany to the US and as children we always looked in admiration over the pond. The uncle in America was sth to brag about in school. Now I live in the US. Things have changed for sure.
Another looong post. I appreciate that you're knowledgeable about National Review, Federalist, Wall Street Journal, Heritage Foundation, Fox News, Truth Social, and X. I can't do that part. I greatly appreciate your analysis of Eisenhower's values and vision. My father would agree.
I'm perplexed by your pattern of writing very clear paragraphs and then haranguing paragraphs.
I always listen to the patient. The patient is my customer. I want to know how he feels about the service I provide to him or her. Listening to patients throughout my life channeled me into a focus on prostate cancer that has helped thousands of men and their families. Listening to one patient out of 400 who told me that there was a major problem in my front office billing, led me to discover I had been embezzled and was literally down and out and in Beverly Hills.
What other readers and I say about the length of your commentaries and at times the repetitious occurrences, are from those who are reading your commentaries-- not your opposition, but your fans. God man, you are a diamond, but you can sparkle brighter when you strongly consider the criticisms which seem to me to be consistent among those that actually read what you write.
For you to say this is "style" is bullshit. To say that I am tactful is also bullshit. But I admire the expanse of your wisdom and incredible work ethic. So accept this as constructive criticism from people who respect you, and are willing to pay for your wisdom. You might consider taking a commentary and submitting to an AI like Gemini Pro and ask for its opinion. I have done that with some of my writing, and I am blown away with the valuable input. Every person on E can grow, but only if they are open to the possibility.
Thank you for your ability to write about the insanity. The current government reveals that people with the loudest voices and biggest bank accounts are not the best people to be in government. This is why we all need to vote.
This is a dead-on analysis of where we find ourselves. I wonder, too, if part of the underlying rationalization for refusing to believe reality is the legacy of decades of propaganda mainlining the belief into conservatives' brains that Democrats pose an existential evil and any action taken to stop them is justified? It makes it easy to be lazy and blame your lack of critical thinking and intellectual honesty on the heinousness of your opponents. It absolves you of any requirement to actually think about you're arguing for/against.
The Geneva Conventions are a legal treaty submitted to and ratified by the Senate. Hence they constitute national law. Either we live under the rule of laws democratically established or we don’t. Will it be chaos, the rule of the strong over the weak, rule by force? Or will everyone submit to rule by our laws? By undermining the Geneva Conventions, George W. Bush did permanent damage to our traditions and values. Shame on him!
You would not expect a Mafia "Don" and his "organization" to obey the law. If they did, they would go by another name, like "corporation." What the People have allowed is to turn a relative silk purse of a country into a sow's ear.
▶︎ “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” — Thomas Jefferson
A chef, a virtuoso in the kitchen, tastes as they go along. A real physician, get feedback from his patients to ensure that benefit is far outweighing side effects. A great gardener plants his garden, but tends to it to optimize his harvest. The way we make our bed is how well we sleep in it.
America, you've grown not only fat but lazy. You have before you what you deserve. Your food sucks, your healthcare is mediocre at best, and your garden has gone to weeds. What you have sown is what you have reaped. As Forrest Gump said, "Stupid is as Stupid does."
Let me say that the vast majority does not need a university education to know what is right vs what is flagrantly way off the rails. I am really good in my profession of medicine because I observe very well, I look for clues, I do not exclude information for no reason, I follow up to see the results of any intervention. Isn't that what all of us who perform our job real well do?
There is right and wrong. There is the rule of law. And without that nothing else matters. And to this regime neither of those matter. Great piece Mike. Sharing with my subscribers tomorrow.
Lionel Hutz is a better lawyer than all the lawyers that trump hires also when this moment is over alot people especially Pamela Blondie is gonna lose her Bar card
As Rick Wilson says ETTD especially that last part
I have tried to make the people in my life understand the psychological mechanics at play here with the magas. If you want to be openly corrupt you must first remove anyone with integrity from a position of power who could potentially stop you. The safest thing to do historically has always been to fill those roles with idiots or equally corrupt folks who will look the other way for a piece of the pie. The Death of Stalin is one of my favorite movies because it shows how absurd this actually looks in practice, right down to the idiots constantly back stabbing each other to court the dictators favor and their pathological disregard for the public they are ostensibly working for.. To see the same dynamics play out every day on the news here in America is very depressing, to say the least.
In Chicago we lost over 600 people to ICE’s domestic terror!The vast majority were hard-working families looking for a better life for their kids!
“Due process,” was just a technicality, not a Constitutional right!
Only one story told of a courageous policeman who threatened arrest if ICE crashed its van into a street of protesters!
Numerous stories tell of ordinary citizens blowing whistles, honking horns and otherwise protecting each other from violent assaults and kidnapping!
Many businesses refused ICE service! The City forbade ICE on its property!
But over 600 souls were still lost, 30 people deported!
A simple State law requiring these agents to register their identities with the local community could protect us!
It hasn’t happened!
I wonder why not!
Are too many of us sheep, herded in the comfort of thoughtless routines?
Or are too many sleepwalking through their day, in a thoughtless daze?
We are those who chose to see the facts as they are - terrible!We have the conscious desire to save the Republic, the rule of law, the rights we hold dear to our hearts!
Thanks for the factual framework and the comfort of community!
PS If you have not yet read Jean Edward Smith’s “Eisenhower in War and Peace” biography, I recommend it highly (Random House, 2012!)
“You would need to explain why, after the judge ruled the appointment unlawful, the White House ‘stands with’ Halligan and Bondi says the ruling ‘does not’ affect her role. This isn’t defending a good-faith legal position—it’s doubling down on the violation itself.”
Precisely. And therefore, the only rational conclusion is that the DOJ is lawless and because it is lawless, it has lost legal legitimacy to pursue its lawless agenda. Just as the six senators warned the rank and file members of the military not to follow illegal orders, so must those who are pursuing prosecutions in the federal district court where Halligan continues to preside to refuse to assign their names to indictments she assigns her name to. Aiding and abetting unlawful and unconstitutional process for the DOJ is the equivalent of a soldier carrying out an illegal order of the commander in chief. Remember Nuremberg before instant karma gets you.
When it comes to disregarding and disrespecting law, treating it as an obstacle to the naked exercise of power, at least Donald and his cronies are consistent.
Example 1: Pete Hoekstra has declared that "we don't go through that slicing and dicing" in explaining why all of Canada must be punished for an action taken by the Government of Ontario that the current US administration disliked, showing clear disrespect for Canada's federal structure. ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/us-ambassador-trade-9.6985050 )
Example 2: The US has engaged in persistent attempts to pry Greenland away from Denmark ( https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo ), even attempting to arrange direct meetings with the Prime Minister of Greenland ( https://x.com/OJoelsen/status/1992339716839239697 ) without Danish involvement, even though Greenland's constitutional arrangement give Denmark control over defence policy, foreign policy and security policy in Greenland. (It should be noted that Greenland has two seats in the Folketing and both of its members support the current Government of Denmark.) Greenland has refused such overtures, having no authority to accept them.
An ad Carney and his government had nothing to do with.
An ad that accurately quoted Ronald Reagan as being against tariffs.
An ad that Donald claimed was a lie despite Reagan's clear stance against Trump's signature economic policy.
An ad for which Donald incorrectly blamed all of Canada instead of just Ontario (and an Ontario government for whom, thanks to our asinine electoral system, a solid majority of Ontarians didn't vote, never mind nobody else in Canada having a say).
And Mark Carney, that man you praised for quietly standing up to Trump, FUCKING APOLOGISED for something he had nothing to do with and something for which he had no responsibility, instead of reminding Donald that we are federal and it was Ford's decision, not his.
Really? That’s what put a feather up your ass? WTF? When Zelensky praised Trump for sticking with Ukraine after dressing him down at the WH when he knew Trump would fuck him in the end makes him some kind of turncoat? Fuck man, grow up.
I'm Canadian, as my post stated multiple times. My country is under direct threat of invasion and annexation by the United States. The constant disrespect from the US ambassador has me seeing red; the regular taunts of "51st state" are utterly infuriating. So yes, I'm going to be mad as hell about my Prime Minister apologising to the man who's threatened my country's sovereignty for something he had nothing to do with.
Yes, well, your PM is an astute and sophisticated operator, someone who deserves respect for moving your country away from the two bit conman running my country and making alliances with Europe and beyond. He’s playing the long game. Give him thanks. Jesus.
I am glad that he's working to decouple our economy from that of the United States. We assumed Americans would never elect someone who would betray us so swiftly and thoroughly ( https://www.joeydevilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/there-is-no-enemy-like-a-friend-betrayed-2.jpg ) and now we're moving to insulate ourselves against any further such betrayals. (There is even serious talk of acquiring our own nuclear deterrent, to fend off threats from down south.)
I'm also mad that he effectively acceded to Donald's mischaracterisation of our constitutional arrangement by apologising for something that a different government did, and my point to begin with was that Donald's blaming Canada for what Ontario did is symptomatic of his administration's disregard for law both in the domestic realm and the international sphere, both international law and the laws of other nations, such as their constitutional structures. Carney's apologising for the actions of Doug Ford's government only reinforces Donald's notion that he can get away with such blatant ignorant disrespect (if anyone should apologise, it's Ford, and I don't think he should have either, nor do I think he should have pulled the ad, but I am not Ontarian), as also demonstrated by his continued overtures to Greenland without the involvement of Denmark, and that's what I'm mad about.
I love your insights and analysis in all your posts. Please find a good editor. I have thought of this with previous articles. If “well written” refers to your insights, I agree, if to the writing itself, I suggest you get professional editing input. This is 7,300 words and covers many topics — likely at least two probably more articles here. You cycle back to previously proven points multiple times which I find tedious and frustrating. I would LOVE to share this article but can’t because people new to reading you I think will get turned off by the writing.
This is quite an astute analysis of where we sit. We better get off our asses and walk the wire with each other. It is necessary.
Well said!
This is some of the best writing I have seen on substack in a long time, so many quotable lines:
And this is what staring into the abyss looks like in practice. Not some abstract philosophical crisis, but the concrete collapse of the frameworks that make legal reasoning possible.
when appointment statutes become “technical” obstacles rather than constitutional constraints
the inevitable unfolding of corruption that cannot permit competence
the law as an obstacle to be gamed rather than a framework constraining power. Once you make that move, you’ve abandoned the rule of law entirely
destroying frameworks requires stupidity—not because the people involved lack intelligence, but because intelligent defense of the indefensible is impossible
The framework cannot cohere. So stupidity becomes the only option. Not chosen stupidity, but necessary stupidity—the epistemic collapse that corruption requires.
constitutional surrender dressed as principle
The difference wasn’t intelligence or analytical sophistication. It was willingness to take seriously what was being said explicitly.
Their framework assumed everyone operates within frameworks
sophistication that cannot recognize monsters when they tell you what they are isn’t sophistication at all
Eisenhower hated war. The Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, the general who planned D-Day, who wrote two speeches for that day—one for success, one for failure—who bore the weight of sending tens of thousands of young men to storm beaches where German panzer divisions waited, who carried those deaths with him for the rest of his life. He hated war.
acting like an asshole to everyone all the time, eventually it’s going to bubble up in terms of consumer preferences (quoting Galloway)
the petulant ignorance of someone who’s never borne responsibility for anything larger
The world is watching. Not with fear of American strength but with pity for American decline. They’re building alternatives to American brands, American payment systems, American technology, American alliances. They’re diversifying away from dollar dependence. They’re creating parallel institutions. And they’re doing it faster
completely incompatible understandings of what strength is for
nihilism dressed in camouflage
the replacement of virtue with violence, principle with power, strength with brutality
corruption has destroyed the conditions making thought possible
What remains is strategic silence, tribal defense without legal argument, linguistic manipulation where words mean whatever power declares them to mean, institutional cover for abandoning constitutional constraints, fracture into camps that cannot speak to each other because they no longer share even basic frameworks for evaluating whether something can be defended
This is how constitutional republics die. Not through formal coup or dramatic collapse but through making it dangerous to invoke constitutional protections
The center holds not because it is strong but because we choose to hold it.
And two plus two still equals four.
The circus continues. The wire still holds. And we continue with it, conscious beings choosing meaning against meaninglessness, law against will, truth against power, humanity against the abyss.
Because the alternative is unthinkable. And we are not done thinking yet.
Very kind words. Thank you.
"Not with fear of American strength but with pity for American decline" This is a line that hit home. An uncle and an aunt emigrated after WWII from Germany to the US and as children we always looked in admiration over the pond. The uncle in America was sth to brag about in school. Now I live in the US. Things have changed for sure.
Yes! Brock’s writing is the best I’ve read here, too!
And SubStack has some very good writing !
Well written.
Thanks.
Another looong post. I appreciate that you're knowledgeable about National Review, Federalist, Wall Street Journal, Heritage Foundation, Fox News, Truth Social, and X. I can't do that part. I greatly appreciate your analysis of Eisenhower's values and vision. My father would agree.
I'm perplexed by your pattern of writing very clear paragraphs and then haranguing paragraphs.
My style isn't for everyone.
It’s the repetition that enforces the messsge! Prose as poetry, I’d say!
I always listen to the patient. The patient is my customer. I want to know how he feels about the service I provide to him or her. Listening to patients throughout my life channeled me into a focus on prostate cancer that has helped thousands of men and their families. Listening to one patient out of 400 who told me that there was a major problem in my front office billing, led me to discover I had been embezzled and was literally down and out and in Beverly Hills.
What other readers and I say about the length of your commentaries and at times the repetitious occurrences, are from those who are reading your commentaries-- not your opposition, but your fans. God man, you are a diamond, but you can sparkle brighter when you strongly consider the criticisms which seem to me to be consistent among those that actually read what you write.
For you to say this is "style" is bullshit. To say that I am tactful is also bullshit. But I admire the expanse of your wisdom and incredible work ethic. So accept this as constructive criticism from people who respect you, and are willing to pay for your wisdom. You might consider taking a commentary and submitting to an AI like Gemini Pro and ask for its opinion. I have done that with some of my writing, and I am blown away with the valuable input. Every person on E can grow, but only if they are open to the possibility.
Thank you for your ability to write about the insanity. The current government reveals that people with the loudest voices and biggest bank accounts are not the best people to be in government. This is why we all need to vote.
This is a dead-on analysis of where we find ourselves. I wonder, too, if part of the underlying rationalization for refusing to believe reality is the legacy of decades of propaganda mainlining the belief into conservatives' brains that Democrats pose an existential evil and any action taken to stop them is justified? It makes it easy to be lazy and blame your lack of critical thinking and intellectual honesty on the heinousness of your opponents. It absolves you of any requirement to actually think about you're arguing for/against.
The Geneva Conventions are a legal treaty submitted to and ratified by the Senate. Hence they constitute national law. Either we live under the rule of laws democratically established or we don’t. Will it be chaos, the rule of the strong over the weak, rule by force? Or will everyone submit to rule by our laws? By undermining the Geneva Conventions, George W. Bush did permanent damage to our traditions and values. Shame on him!
You would not expect a Mafia "Don" and his "organization" to obey the law. If they did, they would go by another name, like "corporation." What the People have allowed is to turn a relative silk purse of a country into a sow's ear.
▶︎ “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” — Thomas Jefferson
A chef, a virtuoso in the kitchen, tastes as they go along. A real physician, get feedback from his patients to ensure that benefit is far outweighing side effects. A great gardener plants his garden, but tends to it to optimize his harvest. The way we make our bed is how well we sleep in it.
America, you've grown not only fat but lazy. You have before you what you deserve. Your food sucks, your healthcare is mediocre at best, and your garden has gone to weeds. What you have sown is what you have reaped. As Forrest Gump said, "Stupid is as Stupid does."
Let me say that the vast majority does not need a university education to know what is right vs what is flagrantly way off the rails. I am really good in my profession of medicine because I observe very well, I look for clues, I do not exclude information for no reason, I follow up to see the results of any intervention. Isn't that what all of us who perform our job real well do?
There is right and wrong. There is the rule of law. And without that nothing else matters. And to this regime neither of those matter. Great piece Mike. Sharing with my subscribers tomorrow.
Lionel Hutz is a better lawyer than all the lawyers that trump hires also when this moment is over alot people especially Pamela Blondie is gonna lose her Bar card
As Rick Wilson says ETTD especially that last part
I have tried to make the people in my life understand the psychological mechanics at play here with the magas. If you want to be openly corrupt you must first remove anyone with integrity from a position of power who could potentially stop you. The safest thing to do historically has always been to fill those roles with idiots or equally corrupt folks who will look the other way for a piece of the pie. The Death of Stalin is one of my favorite movies because it shows how absurd this actually looks in practice, right down to the idiots constantly back stabbing each other to court the dictators favor and their pathological disregard for the public they are ostensibly working for.. To see the same dynamics play out every day on the news here in America is very depressing, to say the least.
Good points. A bit long. Consider an editor.
Mike, the daily horror rolls on!
Thanks for helping us get through this tragedy!
In Chicago we lost over 600 people to ICE’s domestic terror!The vast majority were hard-working families looking for a better life for their kids!
“Due process,” was just a technicality, not a Constitutional right!
Only one story told of a courageous policeman who threatened arrest if ICE crashed its van into a street of protesters!
Numerous stories tell of ordinary citizens blowing whistles, honking horns and otherwise protecting each other from violent assaults and kidnapping!
Many businesses refused ICE service! The City forbade ICE on its property!
But over 600 souls were still lost, 30 people deported!
A simple State law requiring these agents to register their identities with the local community could protect us!
It hasn’t happened!
I wonder why not!
Are too many of us sheep, herded in the comfort of thoughtless routines?
Or are too many sleepwalking through their day, in a thoughtless daze?
We are those who chose to see the facts as they are - terrible!We have the conscious desire to save the Republic, the rule of law, the rights we hold dear to our hearts!
Thanks for the factual framework and the comfort of community!
PS If you have not yet read Jean Edward Smith’s “Eisenhower in War and Peace” biography, I recommend it highly (Random House, 2012!)
“You would need to explain why, after the judge ruled the appointment unlawful, the White House ‘stands with’ Halligan and Bondi says the ruling ‘does not’ affect her role. This isn’t defending a good-faith legal position—it’s doubling down on the violation itself.”
Precisely. And therefore, the only rational conclusion is that the DOJ is lawless and because it is lawless, it has lost legal legitimacy to pursue its lawless agenda. Just as the six senators warned the rank and file members of the military not to follow illegal orders, so must those who are pursuing prosecutions in the federal district court where Halligan continues to preside to refuse to assign their names to indictments she assigns her name to. Aiding and abetting unlawful and unconstitutional process for the DOJ is the equivalent of a soldier carrying out an illegal order of the commander in chief. Remember Nuremberg before instant karma gets you.
When it comes to disregarding and disrespecting law, treating it as an obstacle to the naked exercise of power, at least Donald and his cronies are consistent.
Example 1: Pete Hoekstra has declared that "we don't go through that slicing and dicing" in explaining why all of Canada must be punished for an action taken by the Government of Ontario that the current US administration disliked, showing clear disrespect for Canada's federal structure. ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/us-ambassador-trade-9.6985050 )
Example 2: The US has engaged in persistent attempts to pry Greenland away from Denmark ( https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo ), even attempting to arrange direct meetings with the Prime Minister of Greenland ( https://x.com/OJoelsen/status/1992339716839239697 ) without Danish involvement, even though Greenland's constitutional arrangement give Denmark control over defence policy, foreign policy and security policy in Greenland. (It should be noted that Greenland has two seats in the Folketing and both of its members support the current Government of Denmark.) Greenland has refused such overtures, having no authority to accept them.
Oh, and Mike, I know you've praised Mark Carney in the past, but he apologised to Donald for the ad Doug Ford's government ran.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-carney-apology-reagan-ad-9.6962225
An ad Carney and his government had nothing to do with.
An ad that accurately quoted Ronald Reagan as being against tariffs.
An ad that Donald claimed was a lie despite Reagan's clear stance against Trump's signature economic policy.
An ad for which Donald incorrectly blamed all of Canada instead of just Ontario (and an Ontario government for whom, thanks to our asinine electoral system, a solid majority of Ontarians didn't vote, never mind nobody else in Canada having a say).
And Mark Carney, that man you praised for quietly standing up to Trump, FUCKING APOLOGISED for something he had nothing to do with and something for which he had no responsibility, instead of reminding Donald that we are federal and it was Ford's decision, not his.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/mark-carney-goes-to-washington
Really? That’s what put a feather up your ass? WTF? When Zelensky praised Trump for sticking with Ukraine after dressing him down at the WH when he knew Trump would fuck him in the end makes him some kind of turncoat? Fuck man, grow up.
I'm Canadian, as my post stated multiple times. My country is under direct threat of invasion and annexation by the United States. The constant disrespect from the US ambassador has me seeing red; the regular taunts of "51st state" are utterly infuriating. So yes, I'm going to be mad as hell about my Prime Minister apologising to the man who's threatened my country's sovereignty for something he had nothing to do with.
Yes, well, your PM is an astute and sophisticated operator, someone who deserves respect for moving your country away from the two bit conman running my country and making alliances with Europe and beyond. He’s playing the long game. Give him thanks. Jesus.
I am glad that he's working to decouple our economy from that of the United States. We assumed Americans would never elect someone who would betray us so swiftly and thoroughly ( https://www.joeydevilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/there-is-no-enemy-like-a-friend-betrayed-2.jpg ) and now we're moving to insulate ourselves against any further such betrayals. (There is even serious talk of acquiring our own nuclear deterrent, to fend off threats from down south.)
I'm also mad that he effectively acceded to Donald's mischaracterisation of our constitutional arrangement by apologising for something that a different government did, and my point to begin with was that Donald's blaming Canada for what Ontario did is symptomatic of his administration's disregard for law both in the domestic realm and the international sphere, both international law and the laws of other nations, such as their constitutional structures. Carney's apologising for the actions of Doug Ford's government only reinforces Donald's notion that he can get away with such blatant ignorant disrespect (if anyone should apologise, it's Ford, and I don't think he should have either, nor do I think he should have pulled the ad, but I am not Ontarian), as also demonstrated by his continued overtures to Greenland without the involvement of Denmark, and that's what I'm mad about.
Yes. And you are there and I am here. Be grateful for living in a vibrant democracy. It can end swiftly when you live among cretins.
I love your insights and analysis in all your posts. Please find a good editor. I have thought of this with previous articles. If “well written” refers to your insights, I agree, if to the writing itself, I suggest you get professional editing input. This is 7,300 words and covers many topics — likely at least two probably more articles here. You cycle back to previously proven points multiple times which I find tedious and frustrating. I would LOVE to share this article but can’t because people new to reading you I think will get turned off by the writing.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/on-my-writing-style
Yup, I’ve read this, which is why I’ve resisted previously. Will continue to read. Thank you
Thanks so much Mike, I picked out a few quotes to restack and could have kept it up, this entire essay perfectly describes this Regime