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A perennial feature of Trumpism is that Trump is constantly launching threats and shiny objects of all sorts. Some of those he’ll follow through on; most he won’t. They all put opponents back on their heels. And that is, of course, the point….
...Trump’s Treasury designee now says that he believes that at heart Trump is a free-trader and that those 10% tariffs are just a starting point for negotiations. Almost everywhere else people greatly overstate presidential power. Tariffs are the one case where the law gives Presidents a remarkably free hand. As Paul Krugman notes, the across-the-board tariffs are as likely as not to be less wholesale protectionism than a massive engine of corruption. Tariffs covering your industry or company’s imports — unless you’re nice to Trump, in which case you’re in the clear.
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published this fascinating article about how Apple CEO Tim Cook managed to develop an almost entirely private and personal channel and relationship to and with Donald Trump that served Apple extremely well. Apple will likely do well in any tariff scheme. I suspect Elon Musk’s DOGE’s entity, about which there’s currently so much hype, will end up being mostly just that...
...Above all else, Donald Trump’s superpower is his willingness to ignore anything he said yesterday or at any other point before now in the interests of what feels right today. That gives him an almost unimaginable flexibility. It goes all the way back to those last months of 2015 when he was dispatching one normie Republican candidate after another. He’d send up one flare and by the time the others figured out what he was saying, held a meeting and figured out how to react, he was already off to the next thing.
There’s no magic remedy or strategy for contending with how Trump operates. In some respects, simply a recognition of this fact is key to having the stamina to contend with him. But it probably means needing to be ready for different threats without running after them until they fully materialize. It also means opportunities to jump on as much as it means threats to guard against. Above all else, Donald Trump is someone who wants to be loved and in charge. For all the talk about a new and improved, more focused and practiced Trump, that’s still who he is.
As Democrats sift through the wreckage left behind by Donald Trump’s victory, it’s now beyond question that the party needs a major rebuilding effort with working-class voters. A new analysis from The New York Times finds that the problem has been numerous cycles in the making. From 2012 to 2024, Republicans enjoyed a 13-point swing among working-class whites and a 37-point swing among working-class nonwhites. Those are some pretty sobering numbers. Today, we’re fortunate to be talking to James Carville about what went wrong and where Democrats go next.
Sargent: ... What are you thinking right now about what the party needs to do to improve its ability to reach these voters? You mentioned that a lot of this is cultural, and a lot of this has to do with males. Young males are a problem for the Democratic Party, but again, lot of that’s communication. What are you thinking right now about all this?
Carville: First of all, with young voters, part of it is communication, but part of it is real. So for a person, an older person, say me, who is a net saver, who owns a house, doesn’t have a mortgage, doesn’t have to pay insurance, has money in the stock market, this is a great economy. But if I tell somebody 26 how great it is, they said, Man, what are you talking about? I no chance that I can buy a house with these interest rates. Every time I look, the tuition somewhere is $70,000 a year or whatever. Every time I even think about buying insurance on everything, I’m totally screwed. And it’s almost the more that you talk about it, the worse it gets.
...It’s supposed to that you could do any number of policies that are universally popular, that young people would embrace, that wouldn’t drive a whole lot of people away. But we didn’t do that. And we thought if we just talked about women’s reproductive health, and we talked about what an odious character Trump was, that that would completely turn them off. Well, it turned some off, but not near enough.
Sargent: I do want to point out, though, that Kamala Harris had a real agenda for costs, right?
Carville: Who knew about the agenda?
“Our results show the Atlantic overturning circulation is likely to become a third weaker than it was 70 years ago at 2°C of global warming,” says the research team.
“This would bring big changes to the climate and ecosystems, including faster warming in the southern hemisphere, harsher winters in Europe, and weakening of the northern hemisphere’s tropical monsoons.”
Think about that for a second. A weaker ocean current could mean colder winters in Europe and shifts in rainfall patterns that affect millions of people. It’s not just about the ocean; it’s about our daily lives.
...Places like Britain might start feeling more like their chilly counterparts at the same latitude, such as parts of Canada.
...“Our climate has changed dramatically over the past 20 years,” the researchers warn. “More rapid melting of the ice sheets will accelerate further disruption of the climate system.”
Let's have a parade! The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, one of the nation's most cherished holiday traditions, is getting ready to hit the streets of New York City.
...For almost 100 years, the magic of the holiday season has kicked off with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This year, the parade passes by for the 98th time, featuring its signature mix of whimsical elements and dazzling performances.
...This year’s Macy’s Parade will feature the biggest stars in entertainment, including Bishop Briggs, Kylie Cantrall, Chlöe, Dan + Shay, Dasha, Jimmy Fallon & The Roots, Coco Jones, Walker Hayes, Ariana Madix, Joey McIntyre, Idina Menzel, Natti Natasha, T-Pain, Rachel Platten, Lea Salonga, The Temptations, The War and Treaty, Alex Warren and Sebastián Yatra. Dance sensation Charli D’Amelio and ballet dancers Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia will join the lineup with captivating performances. Stars Jonathan Bennett, Liza Colón-Zayas, Tom Kenny, Ginna Claire Mason and members of WNBA Champions, New York Liberty with Ellie the Elephant will also make special appearances. Joining the celebration to cut the ribbon and kick off the Parade will be a special appearance by acclaimed actress Alison Brie, the star of the Macy’s 2024 holiday campaign.
This year’s official national broadcast will include performances from Death Becomes Her, Hell’s Kitchen and The Outsiders as well as the iconic Radio City Rockettes. NOTE: Broadway performances typically occur in the first half of the broadcast.
... I have pulled out this helpful item from the archive – expert advice on how to cook your turkey like a professional chef, offered up by a very good professional chef.
When we interviewed Eric Trites, he was chief cook and pheasant plucker at the storied Hermitage Inn in Wilmington, Vermont (Trites now runs his own joint, the Roadhouse). The Hermitage was a resort that specialized in the fare the pilgrim fathers (and mothers) laid on their tables: pheasants, wild turkeys, ducks, gamecocks, deer. And Trites figured he’d cooked around five hundred turkeys over the previous ten years.
...Just like the Pilgrims, you probably won’t have the right tools for this job.
You want to cook your bird covered, so it doesn’t dry out; your best bet for that is a full-size, covered, metal roasting pan. But if you don’t have one, you can make do – start with a large aluminum-foil roasting pan from the supermarket. Then, either cover the bird with an aluminum foil tent, or place the bird in a standard brown-paper grocery bag right in the pan (the moisture from the turkey keeps the bag from burning, while the bag hold the moisture in).
...“They’re a pretty simple bird to cook,” Trites concludes. “You can’t really go too far off. The worst that’s going to happen to you is you’re going to end up with dry turkey. Of course, that’s why everyone serves ’em with gravy and cranberry sauce.”
I’ll let you go out with this classic — a song by Bob Franke out of Marblehead, Mass., performed by Canada’s national treasure, the late Stan Rogers.
What can we do with our days but work and hope?
Let your dreams bind your work to your play
What can you do with each moment of your life but love til you’ve loved it away
Love til you’ve loved it away
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all. Keep doing the work.
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