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This apparently is the new portrait of President 47 which will DIS grace the White House.

I have nothing to say about it worth delaying my filing for the Duluth School Board on this last day of filing. I do have something to say about the New York Times.

Since Trump the NYT is my go-to space for news of the world followed by the Washington Post which, despite its owner’s craven kowtowing to Trump, still manages to be a good source of honest news in the era of a Trumpian assault on anything that gives him the side eye.

For six or seven years I kept forwarding NYT story links to put on this blog for my readers to check out. I usually didn’t because they would require some explanation on my part and many people don’t have the subscriptions to the Times to get behind their internet paywall.

I woke today after a dead sleep without much dreaming according to my fit bit. I don’t sleep well. I haven’t since the Red Plan twenty years ago. Last night my send off to bed was the post about filing for the school board. Its spare. It was written after I tried to write three soaring flyers for my upcoming double campaign. (described briefly in the previous post)

This morning I was not energized like I usually am on a day I’m about to file for office. Rather, I woke up feeling that my calling really is the School Board more than Congress which is an unlikely target for a candidate like me. I am facing a likely stop to my weekly columns because of the Duluth Reader’s unwritten policy of not letting candidates for public office be a weekly contributor. In past campaigns this has afforded me a holiday. Its a holiday I’m not eager to take as Donald Trump moves us closer to tyranny.

But this post is about the Times and I’ll give you two examples from today’s NYT to show you why.

First up: I read a column by Nate Cohn, a peerless election analyst, that was thought provoking. It asked how Republicans would have done in the last election if they hadn’t been saddled with an unpopular Donald Trump as their presidential candidate. Cohn concluded, I think correctly, that they would have done much better. All the recent reports of the continuing fall of Democrats into a very deep cellar seem to confirm that Nate Cohn is right. In a way that answers my question about the future of the GOP. Its not going away. And if that is true its probably more important than ever for NYT Republicans like me to burrow back under its skin as little Abe Lincoln pellets to strengthen the GOP’s withering empathy, conscience and common sense.

Secondly: there is a second article which I will read after I return from filing for the School Board. It describes how the current Emperor of China Xi the son of a liberal man who was cast out of the Communist party during Mao’s Cultural Revolution could become China’s new Mao.

I think that one of the few bright spots for American liberals is that our two long running enemies are trending toward dictatorship. If we can keep our heads above Trump and return to the ethos of Lincoln in this bizarre hallucinatory world of Artificial Intelligence….. Just maybe we can salvage our reputation as a beacon showing what Earth needs to do to save the planet and its sentient inhabitants. That requires good school board leadership across America under the glare of its ugly, hateful president.

About the author

Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:
https://duluthreader.com/contributors/h/84/284-harry-welty