I have not kept up my reports these past three days. Sorry. I have been sick. Yesterday, I went to the doctor and got antibiotics. Today, the nausea is under control, so is my ability to stand without the room moving like the floor is one of those air-inflated bouncy things.
But work did wear me out. I came home and slept after eating a snack and watching a little of Ozark. I am finishing with the show now.
I made the post office, finally. Mailed a letter.
After napping and overcoming my lethargic body, I went down to he convenience store. I got a personal pizza and warmed it up. That was about an hour ago.
Email pruning, as always.
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Politics and economics, how the past is never the past: How The 1980s Engineered the Collapse of the Working Class, The writer sounds to be about my age. From Anderson and Muncie, I never bought the Reagan/Friedman ideas.
Friedman was the key spokesperson for the Chicago School, a group of counterrevolutionaries—and members of the economics department at the University of Chicago—who pushed this fundamentalism to its hardest conclusion. They openly challenged the economic consensus on which the post–World War II economy had been based: that a balance of public and private interest was essential for creating a prosperous society. Instead, they argued that the only business of business was to make as much money as possible, with none of the hindrances of social responsibility. Democratically elected governments needed to be limited to the function of providing tax breaks for the wealthy while cutting public spending and stripping regulations.
This was a total repudiation of the factors that had made the great economic miracle of postwar North America possible. The American labour movement tagged the birth of the twentieth-century middle class to the famous sit-down strike by auto workers in Flint, Michigan, in 1936/37. The strike galvanized workers across the country and signalled an end to the days when the working class would accept precarious employment and low wages. The subsequent union victories were backed up by the progressive idealism of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, which put in place a slate of public programs to guard against a repetition of the economic disaster of the Great Depression. The improvements for blue-collar workers could be easily measured—strong wages and solid pension plans. The working class achieved unprecedented social mobility as workers gained the ability to own a house, send their children to university, and retire with dignity.
The postwar era represented the golden age of American life and social advancement, but Friedman derided this economic miracle as the road to “tyranny and misery.” His attack on the New Deal, government investment, and workers’ rights made him a fringe economic figure for much of the 1960s and early ’70s. But in 1975, Friedman was given a chance to try out his theories when he was invited to give advice to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. It is ironic that Friedman’s experiments in “economic freedom” were undertaken against a backdrop of brutal repression and terror that came in the wake of a CIA-manufactured coup. And the experiments didn’t go well. Under Friedman’s direction, Chile’s economy went into free fall. Inflation spiralled to 375 percent, and more than 177,000 jobs were lost in the manufacturing sector between 1974 and 1983. Both the middle and working classes suffered a huge loss of economic stability.
But how do we get away from these poisonous ideas?
12/2/24
Home, a little under the weather. A sinus infection has gone to my ears. Again.
I have been up at 4, 5, 9, and 11. I can walk without staggering; although when I just walked down to the convenience store, I do not think I would have passed a drunk driving test.
Why do men need to have their guns? I am not a gun hater. They do not worry. What worries me about guns are the insecure men who need them to justify their masculinity. Now, we, that is Hoosiers, have to worry about gun-toting morons at polling places: Rhetoric almost boils over at Indy vote center; leaders must turn down the heat.
Earlier this year Secretary of State Diego Morales urged local election officials to “blow the whistle on election interference.” I urge all elected officials in Indiana to abandon their dog whistle messaging on election security and instead work to ensure that all Hoosiers can cast their ballot in person without fear of intimidation or violence. Banning guns from Indiana polling places would be the place to start.
Indiana does not have a problem with ineligible voters casting ballots; our problem is getting eligible voters to participate. Banning guns from Indiana polling places would reassure voters our elections are safe, secure and accessible to all.
On a lighter note: President Benjamin Harrison’s personal copy of ‘very rare’ inaugural address goes on sale
I finished last night by revising a story that I had hanging around for 2 years.
Trump Responds to Potential Trade War With Bonkers Joke
Fox News’s Peter Doocy reported Monday that destroying global economies is just one big joke to Trump.
“When Trudeau told President-elect Trump that new tariffs would ‘kill’ the Canadian economy, Trump joked to him that if Canada can’t survive without ripping off the U.S. to the tune of $100 billion a year, then maybe Canada should become the fifty-first state and Trudeau should become its governor,” Doocy said.
Sources told Fox News that when someone at the table reminded Trump that Canada would be a liberal state, the president-elect conceded that Canada could be split into two states: a liberal one and a conservative one.
The Who’s Who on Kash Patel’s Crazy Enemies List
But enough commentary. Here’s Patel’s list:
Michael Atkinson (former inspector general of the intelligence community)
Lloyd Austin (defense secretary under President Joe Biden)
Brian Auten (supervisory intelligence analyst, FBI)
James Baker (not the former secretary of state; this James Baker is former general counsel for the FBI and former deputy general counsel at Twitter)
Bill Barr (former attorney general under Trump)
John Bolton (former national security adviser under Trump)
Stephen Boyd (former chief of legislative affairs, FBI)
Joe Biden (president of the United States)
John Brennan (former CIA director under President Barack Obama)
John Carlin (acting deputy attorney general, previously ran DOJ’s national security division under Trump)
Eric Ciaramella (former National Security Council staffer, Obama and Trump administrations)
Pat Cippolone (former White House counsel under Trump)
James Clapper (Obama’s director of national intelligence)
Hillary Clinton (former secretary of state and presidential candidate)
James Comey (former FBI director)
Elizabeth Dibble (former deputy chief of mission, U.S. Embassy, London)
Mark Esper (former secretary of defense under Trump)
Alyssa Farah (former director of strategic communications under Trump)
Evelyn Farkas (former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia under Obama)
Sarah Isgur Flores (former DOJ head of communications under Trump)
Merrick Garland (attorney general under Biden)
Stephanie Grisham (former press secretary under Trump)
Kamala Harris (vice president under Biden; former presidential candidate)
Gina Haspel (CIA director under Trump)
Fiona Hill (former staffer on the National Security Council)
Curtis Heide (FBI agent)
Eric Holder (former FBI director under Obama)
Robert Hur (special counsel who investigated Biden over mishandling of classified documents)
Cassidy Hutchinson (aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows)
Nina Jankowicz (former executive director, Disinformation Governance Board, under Biden)
Lois Lerner (former IRS director under Obama)
Loretta Lynch (former attorney general under Obama)
Charles Kupperman (former deputy national security adviser under Trump)
Gen. Kenneth Mackenzie, retired (former commander of United States Central Command)
Andrew McCabe (former FBI deputy director under Trump)
Ryan McCarthy (former secretary of the Army under Trump)
Mary McCord (former acting assistant attorney general for national security under Obama)
Denis McDonough (former chief of staff for Obama, secretary of veterans affairs under Biden)
Gen. Mark Milley, retired (former chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Lisa Monaco (deputy attorney general under Biden)
Sally Myer (former supervisory attorney, FBI)
Robert Mueller (former FBI director, special counsel for Russiagate)
Bruce Ohr (former associate deputy attorney general under Obama and Trump)
Nellie Ohr (wife of Bruce Ohr and former CIA employee)
Lisa Page (former legal counsel for Deputy Director Andrew McCabe at FBI under Obama and Trump; exchanged texts about Trump with Peter Strzok)
Pat Philbin (former deputy White House counsel under Trump)
John Podesta (former counselor to Obama; senior adviser to Biden on climate policy)
Samatha Power (former ambassador to the United Nations under Obama, administrator of AID under Biden)
Bill Priestap (former assistant director for counterintelligence, FBI, under Obama)
Susan Rice (former national security adviser under Obama, director of the Domestic Policy Council under Biden)
Rod Rosenstein (former deputy attorney general under Trump)
Peter Strzok (former deputy assistant director for counterintelligence, FBI, under Obama and Trump; exchanged texts about Trump with Lisa Page)
Jake Sullivan (national security adviser under President Joe Biden)
Michael Sussman (former legal representative, Democratic National Committee)
Miles Taylor (former DHS official under Trump; penned New York Times op-ed critical of Trump under the byline, “Anonymous”)
Timothy Thibault (former assistant special agent, FBI)
Andrew Weissman (Mueller’s deputy in Russiagate probe)
Alexander Vindman (former National Security Council director for European affairs)
Christopher Wray (FBI director under Trump and Biden; Trump nominated Patel to replace him even though Wray’s term doesn’t expire until August 2027)
Sally Yates (former deputy attorney general under Obama and, briefly, acting attorney general under Trump)
We have let childish, small-minded people take power.
12/2/24
I called into work. I have a headache, glands in my neck bulging, dizzy, and nauseous.
Mostly, I have slept. One trip for smokes and RC Cola.
I revised another story. I got through Monsieur Spade. I started Ozark. We watched all but the final season at Fort Dix.
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