so, i'm going to try the sunflower seeds just a half-hour before the fruit bowl this time and see what happens.

we're going to make sure that donald trump's twitter feed is archived somewhere for historical record-keeping before we let twitter delete it, right?

that's his presidential library. it must be preserved.

if they have the votes, they should go ahead and impeach trump, now. sure. the election's been run, whatever that really means, nowadays. i have no principled objection to interfering with the will of the voters; they technically have a mandate to do it, even, i'd suggest. 

it's largely meaningless, but at this point, whatever - he wants to put on a show, go ahead and play along.

the left tells itself the lie that the populist movement was rooted in purer ideals and the way to win votes in the rural midwest is to refocus on those purer ideals, which are the ideals of the left.

if it was honest with itself, it would realize that the democratic policy in the south was always deeply racialized, and that the republican tactics in the south, post-nixon, are in truth exactly the same as the democratic tactics in the south during the late 19th century. the existing concept of a pan-racial working class is simply an anachronism when applied to that stage in history, and trying to see ourselves in any movement of the era is consequently almost impossible.

can we start looking forwards some time soon?

i think you need to understand the curfew as essentially a hefty tax. see, they could raise corporate taxes or something, but that's heretical to the prevailing neo-liberal dogma, which is that the middle class needs to pay all of the taxes. so, you'll get tracked down and acosted for a tax donation for the crime of walking your dog after dark. the real crime is making yourself available to be taxed; it's like declaring open war on the citizenry, decreeing that anybody who gets captured by the government's agents has to pay the tribute. 'cause they need the cash.

so, realizing that, what do you do?

you want to disobey. that's the natural reaction to a bullshit law; you ignore it. but, by doing so, you're just giving them what they want - a tax revenue source.

if enough people get together and say "no", it will crumble. but even relatively large protests are just a great revenue source, for the state.

one way to beat the curfew, i guess, is to start everything before dark, and then let it go late, until the morning.