Trump mob update 11/5/22

I am glad these people are going to jail but the people who incited the rally need to be charged too. I don’t think Trump will go to jail but I believe he belongs there.

Bruce Catton has been added to the Library of America

I am glad that The Library of America has published the Army of the Potomac trilogy by Bruce Catton. Non-fiction Civil Wat books were the first adult books I read. I had the Pocket Books paperbacks which are probably in my basement somewhere. Our family took a vacation in 1963, right before I turned 10, which included stops at Gettysburg and several Virginia Civil War battlefields. When we came back, I found I could read adult books about the Civil War and never went back to books for kids or adolescents. Catton wrote a second trilogy. Someone (I think it was the father of one of my sister’s classmates) gave me his hardback copy of one of them. Catton also wrote the text for The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War.

I owe a big debt to Catton and other authors of Civil War books for increasing my already strong interest in reading.

Two excellent columns on Kanye West

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter unleashed an avalanche of bigotry

Right-wing extremists spewed racism and anti-semitism

Greedy oil companies

High profits, giving money to shareholders instead of reducing prices

Another example of bad New York Times coverage

More tweets on Trump’s antisemitism

Disturbing response to my tweet on Trump’s antisemitism

I was alarmed by the response to my tweet below. I can’t understand why any Jew would support Trump who is clearly a terrible antisemite. As usual, they don’t respond to my concern about the GOP but try to point at Democrats.

Good riddance to Larry Hogan

He admits Biden won and doesn’t support the Trump cult member running to replace him. That’s good. He’s still very conservative and anti-Baltimore. I’ll never forgive him for killing the Red Line.

The White House condemns Trump’s antisemitism. Republicans are quiet

As far as I can tell, the media hasn’t even asked Republicans what they think.