Winners, Losers and Links
It’s Friday, so let’s recap the game
Winners
San Francisco Residents - For a brief moment, their city looked clean and orderly.
Xi - Good sign when the likely next figurehead of your rival kisses your ass.
Noticers - Elon Musk made a few tweets. Things were noticed.
Losers
ADL - It is not going anywhere but it will be a target going forward.
California infrastructure - A fire at a homeless encampment ruined a highway. How many soft targets does California have?
Sec. Blinken - Whenever he leaves, his tenure will be remembered as a tumultuous and awful era.
Links
One state GOP apparatus learned lessons and applied them.
Trump plans for deportations. Nationalists can dream.
Watch Israel’s northern front.
Hemophiliacs suffered greatly. The late '80s-early '90s was their Holocaust.
It’s getting serious. The West is moving towards using nuclear power.
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Nuclear reactors in Africa.
I can’t endorse this concept enough.
In Africa.
“The US sees such technology as possibly helping slash Africa’s emissions, while also adding more flexible generation capacity. The US is discussing nuclear cooperation agreements with Kenya and Ghana, and renewing a pact with South Africa..”
GOP CT Win; That’s great news for GOP in Greenwich.
The problem is the interests of the Republicans in government are with government and government money, contracts, and keeping the bureaucracy happy. This is why the GOP caves, to elect the GOP to do what it supposedly stands for means a grave reduction in power and money. The last President to reduce government was Harry Truman’s cuts to New Deal Bureaucracy, on the heels of WW2, contraction and the rise of the National Security state as counterweight.
It’s possible to be Rudy Giuliani or Fiorello La Guardia and simply rule more honestly, better, efficiently and above all trim crime and street disorder and so make progress. The very instant times are good then “Progress” returns. Look at what happened in NYC; 2 GOP mayors made the city so safe and secure that.... Progressives started voting Democrat again. NYC is now in the Detroit spiral and no election will reverse the results, as Finance slowly moves on and out.
Nor will urban office real estate recover.
All it takes is for more kids to come out of college and the machine will never really be defeated.