Bob Bradley
@bobbradley
Retired software engineer & German Lit PhD. Entwickeln, nicht schaden. Ist es selbstständig? Gibt es verschiedene Wahrheitsschichten? Follow the Hannah Arendt Center: @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social 🚫 DMs from strangers
The rest of the world has decided any country that chooses Trump as their leader is either irrelevant or a hazard.
This was a favorite climb. You can pick an easy route over talus up to the gracier, then follow the ridge to the peak. I met a professor from Davis up there and we discussed Schiller. A fun day.
A big shift in American political sentiment started about 2000 right after Bush moved into the White House.
This is Lyell. It is the highest peak in the Cathedrals. I took this route before leaving to study in Berlin. The glacier was much bigger then. The Sierra Nevada is holy ground for me.
This is Banner Peak in the Sierra Nevada. In the foreground is Thousand Island Lake. This was my playground when I was in college. This is what makes America great. It made America great before we Europeans showed up.
Since the withdrawal of troops from Germany is in the news, here's a chart showing the number of American military in Europe since WW2.
This graph shows consumer prices jumping after Trump initiates two illegal, unconstitutional actions that are the privilege of the Congress: tariffs and the Iran war. Trump is a liar, a criminal, convicted of rape by a jury of his peers, a menace to us and the world. Remove the bastard now.
Obama's Presidential Library is open in Chicago. Here are the entry ticket prices for all the presidential libraries from the Wall Street Journal.
Trump says he was elected to goose the stock market. But look at this map from the St. Louis fed. It shows the exact opposite. The states with the least amount of stock market investment were the strongest Trump voters--Utah, Louisiana, Mississippi. Nebraska and Kansas are maybe the exceptions.
Tomahawk missiles cost $3.5 million a piece. We have already shot off more than we manufacture in 8 years.
Some big moves in the futures market just before Trump's announcement. The blatant corruption and criminality of this administration is so offensive. The fact nothing is done to stop it is even more offensive.
If Trump and the Republicans force through their voting law, it would stop the entire Western US and Vermont from voting in the next election.
I just finished a number of essays that Hannah Arendt published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books on people she knew and appreciated. Next up is Salka Viertel’s Memoirs of Her Life in Hollywood.