Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 5:35 AM and sunset 8:06 PM for 14h 31m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 63% of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater Aquatic and Fitness Center Subcommittee meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1997, Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
And so, and so, the CNN town hall with Trump went as we of Never Trump expected it would: the spectacle of a lying autocrat and his braying supporters. It’s worth watching in full, every word, every gesture, every audience response.
Trump is predictable and so are his extreme supporters. Not a word Trump uttered, not a claim he made, was one he had not made many times before.
As it turns out, this means that a reasonable person can accurately predict Trump’s fate:
Trump is what Trump was: a thug, crook, and head case.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 11, 2023
CNN is what CNN was: partner in a sick dynamic as both Trump scold and Trump publicist
What matters: are *you* what *you* were? You beat Trump before. Now you must do it again. Dispiriting, yes. But you can – and you will.
Oh yes — so very many of us can — and we will.
Safer skies: Romania’s fourth Patriot missile air defense battery goes into service:
CNN is eating a lot of shit for putting Trump, unvarnished, on the air for an hour in front of a crowd of MAGA diehards. I, however, think it was a public service. We are all now reminded what a lying, misogynistic, fascist, bullshit artist he truly is. He reprised all of his greatest hits that lost him the last election, and made absolutely no attempt to convince anyone not already drinking his Kool-Aid to vote for him. He did a lot for Biden last night. Trump didn’t gain a single vote, and he needed to gain at least 7 million.
It was an event guaranteed to fire up Democrats and sane independents. Not a bad thing to do…
Yes, very much agree. Better to see than not see, better to know than not know. This is what he is; this is what this movement is. Unthinking, unrepentant, unchanged.