Notices by Holiday's Over, 👀 Patty. (pattykimura@beige.party)

Jeezus Cripes Hakeem Jeffries can you sound less like you care about the destruction of our nation? He has no passion evident. His response to frightened targeted constituents is "We are forming A Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group".
He has no idea how to stop speaking in generalities, and use individual names and personal stories.
#hakeemjeffries

@petergleick Farmers need water in the Summer, not the winter. Did crazy Trump declare we're now in Summer?

Water now flowing to the Central Valley that Trump's bragging will put out fires in Southern California actually terminate in the San Francisco Bay and then into the Pacific Ocean, 381 miles north of LA.

Evangelical conservative antisemitic, Hitler-supporting, Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller didn't write his famous poem "First they came for ..." as a warning to liberals and centrists, but for hard-right conservative Christian Hitler-voting Germans like himself who never believed the poison of Nazism they wished upon others would ever touch him, and it did.

Please understand the poem's breathtaking warning in that context. That warning was meant for the smug supporters of a fascist dictator, the rest of us should already understand we're already in the crosshairs, but their time, too, is coming.

The good Nazi supporting Pastor Niemoller was arrested and imprisoned because he refused to agree with the mandated Nazification of his Lutheran Church, to turn his conservative Protestant church into the Church of the Nazi State. Many others capitulated.

@benroyce So a group of masked men in unmarked cars WITHOUT LICENSE PLATES pulling a woman out of her car on a public street, putting her in another car and disappearing, then one of them drives away with her car. Is any woman safe from predatory gangs of men pretending to be LEOs? Is your daughter or granddaughter or wife or mother or sister safe?

It was required that cops wear identifiable numbers or name plates. Until now. Until Trump. This is lawlessness.

President Button Mushroom canceled his outdoor inauguration because of shrinkage.

I've withheld criticism of Merrick Garland for four years. I have only this left to say: He would have made a shitty Justice, he has no backbone, no courage of his convictions. He, like Bob Mueller, did not have what the moment required to meet the unusual challenges of the all out brutal and relentless attack on our democracy. Garland failed our nation, and his failures enabled ruthless fascists. Garland's tenure was no profile in courage. Garland is no Ketanji Brown Jackson.

@JL_Lycette
I once appealed a denial of pay for a radiologist to read an approved x-ray. I laughed and said "Does this even make sense to you: You pay for an x-ray you won't allow anyone to read?"

It was approved after I appealed.

On this day, December 7th, I remember my Uncle Bob who was a member of the Hawai'ian Territorial Guard in their WW1 surplus Tin Hat helmets and rifles in the 1930s and 40s. They were mustered as first responders to save sailors and marines from the burning waters of Pearl and transport to Tripler immediately at the attack.

His sister, my mother, watched the horrific attack from Manoa where she worked as a live-in nanny as she attended secretarial school in town. Her employers told her to rush home to the North Shore. She said the explosions and fires were shocking and scary. When she got home, they learned Bob was at Pearl with the Guard but had no contact.

Meanwhile, at Pearl, after hours of diving into the burning waters and transporting the wounded, by about 6pm, Uncle Bob and his fellow Guard troops who were Americans of Japanese ancestry found themselves under arrest at bayonet-point as spies, under the orders of a white Mainland General. They were held for days by US troops with guns trained on them until local officials intervened and they were released.

Bob rejoined his Guard unit reformed as the 100th Battalion, then volunteered to fight in Europe as part of the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most highly decorated US military unit in US military history for its size. They knew they were going to be used as racist cannon fodder, and they fought valiantly despite it. Because, for guys like my Uncle Bob (and three other Uncles and my cousin Buster) they were fighting for their home, Hawai'i, and for democracy. In one battle, a short company of 110 was left with only 8 standing. Bob was wounded multiple times, and received Bronze Stars and commendations which we did not know about until after he died and was given a military funeral with 21 gun salute.

The fight for democracy is a relentless and continuing fight. This is why I fly the American flag, to honor those who willingly sacrificed, with full knowledge of their beloved, complicated, and imperfect America. Uncle Bob was a devout Buddhist, and war and killing were antithetical to his personal religious beliefs, and this was his greatest sacrifice, one that left him in absolute quiet moral agony till he died in 2008, at Tripler.

He was the sweetest, kindest, gentlest, soft-spoken quiet man. RIP.

#JapaneseAmerican #WW2 #pearlharbor #442RCT #december7th #USHistory #hawaii

Look at the labels of things you buy or like. I just saw a Costco food supplement I use daily is "A product of France." Tariffs.

Don't bother alerting Trump voters, they'll find out at checkout. Just remember to loudly complain to them when gas is over $2 a gallon.

Is $2 gas coming before or after Mexico pays for the wall and the tariffs?

@patrickcmiller This is US Corporate leadership. 🎯 Partially informed, supremely over- confident, and ready to move fast break things.

Can we get a correction here, folks? The "covid tests" Trump took from scarce US supplies to send to Putin were not the two-to-a-box OTC kits you can get at CVS today. What Trump sent were the scarce Abbott Labs Covid Testing Machines (plural), not cardboard boxed kits; These 2020 Abbott machines were Emergency Authorization early approved state-of-the-art 6.6 pound molecular point-of-care testing machines the size of a toaster. Hospitals and clinics desperately needed these rapid (5 minute) test machines to determine who was or wasn't infected to stop the spread. Americans likely died because they were denied access to US machines that Trump was stealing from US supplies to send to his KGB handler.

#Putin #Trump #Traitor

@AppleFanboy I'm an old lady, so my advice may not be useful.

Do something anonymously kind for someone else. Expect no thanks, seek none out.

And keep the secret of your kindness or generosity to yourself. It becomes a bright glowing secret that is all your own. I find it brightens up the foul dark days.

Go outside, into the sunlight or the starlight. Breathe in the air. Focus on it. This moment is yours, only yours. To keep for yourself.

Best wishes.

@AppleFanboy Oh, so a romantic foul mood. Again, not my forte. I will say I unexpectedly met someone when I was in my 50s and that was it! She lived states away. We figured it out. Have been happily together and married now for years, and time has flown by. Geography doesn't have to be determinative.
Good luck.

@VeroniqueB99 No joke. My dad died in 1980. My mother had no idea on how to bank, so from 1974 to 1980, my dad (who was blind and dying - but who was man, so had a bank account) would talk her through how to write a check, make a deposit, balance the checkbook, and calculate interest. He knew he has dying and wanted her to be self-suffcient. It's why there remains a legacy of gender-based financial illiteracy among older women.

Lol. "Gov Walz and I are both gun owners, so you can stop lying.."

She shocked the shit out of him.

#harris_walz2024

@taxorubio @jeffowski Thanks, reply guy. That was such a critical fact in this story of an elderly Nobel Prize physicist who had to hock his prize to pay for his medical care because medical care is not a human right. I get it, it wasn't sad and tragic because he didn't die the day after he sold it, he died 3 years later. It was a wonderful feel good story. How could we have missed it.

Feel smart? Nobel Prize smart?

@JugglingWithEggs

In the US Trump called that "very fine people, on both sides" after the torch burning Nazis murdered an anti-fascist protester in Charlottesville, Virginia.

I just sent a text of support to Joe Biden. You can, too.
302.404.0880
It's a Delaware area code, and goes to a Biden managed site.

Let's do something to counter the profit and ambition driven media narrative that will tie up our party in court, cause chaos, delay certification, and gut our ability to mount an effective pro-democracy pro-peoples rights campaign to defeat the Nazi Billionaires' candidate.

This race will be decided by average women around this nation whose reproductive rights are up on the Trump chopping block with his hand on the bloody cleaver.

Don't believe it? Florida. New poll showing Trump is losing support among women in Florida. Biden has a shot to win Florida. Florida. Smh.

We can do this.

Trump donor Peter Thiel invests in Polymarket, a political betting site. Polymarket hires Nate Silver.

Wonder why Silver's NYT polls were so generous to Trump at the beginning of the year? Silver later reveals his polls included those not likely to vote. Why would an experienced pollster do that?

Silver FAMOUSLY blew 2016. He says he uses "predictive" modeling now, not simply statistical analysis. He became the boy genius of baseball stats to the boy genius of elections to the boy genius giving financial advice. He admits he has lost millions of dollars in a financial scam, as a gullible mark.

It appears Nate Silver may the ENRON of polling.

Dream last night: I am surrounded by sweet happy dogs who all want a boop. I am booping this nose and that nose, happy wiggling dogs all rushing up for a boop. I realize slipped in among the dogs are a porpoise, an alien, and a lizard, each happy and wiggly, all wanting a boop. I happily oblige. Boop!