trump can order that the U.S. arsenal of nukes be launched. You cannot say, “That’s silly - he’d never do that.” This afternoon his mouth piece to the media, Karoline Leavitt, was asked if trump also had the authority to tear down the rest of the White House. In “trump speak”? 1/7

Employees of trump cannot give definitive answers that limit his authority. Leavitt said that other Presidents have carried out renovations without prior approval from anyone. Her answer, unless you are a…

Whether X distracts us from Y can be tough. [FN1] X derives strategic value by being so obvious that we cannot see Y. Today there are a lot of X’s, a ton of Y’s & they seem interchangeable. Example: demolition of a big chunk of the White House is in our faces, w/funding > 1/9

detailed, but still opaque, today. [FN2] It’s a crap shoot. Given trump’s failures at running the “house” (i.e., casinos), the outcome bodes ill for us. And then there’s what most people would agree tops…

Pyramids = Egypt. Eiffel Tower = Paris. Washington, DC? The Capitol, Washington Monument and White House are in DC and are our history. Congress established a site for “the District.” It was built from scratch, much of it by slave labor. In 1800, Congress met in an unfinished 1/8

Capitol & John Adams moved into an unfinished White House. [FN2] [FN3] In 1846, work on the Washington Monument began. In 1861, when Southern States seceded, Pres Lincoln [FN4] in the White House and…

How to solve a problem [FN1]:

A) Determine what’s broken; and B) Figure out how to fix it. [FN2]

There are a lot of directions from which people arrive to that “broken” part. [FN3] 1/10

trump holds office in violation of the Constitution in at least two ways:

1) Elections of 2016 & 2024 were hacked for his benefit [FN4]; and

2) trump participated in an insurrection on January 6, 2021. [FN5]

You may believe only one of these points and not the other.…