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What is the Trumpocalypse?

What is the Trumpocalypse,
and is there a way out?

In his second book on the Trump era,
David Frum just wants this to end.

TRUMPOCALYPSE: Restoring American Democracy
By David Frum. Harper. 261 pp. $28.99.

In early 2018, as the first anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration approached, David Frum published “Trumpocracy,” a full-scale assault on a president and a party that, in the author’s view, had launched their own assault against American democracy. Trump and his Republican accomplices were forging a new U.S. regime type, Frum argued, one that challenged long-established political norms and mixed government, family and business “in the style of authoritarian Third World kleptocrat.” With a brand-obsessed president in the Oval Office, it seemed fitting that the system would carry his name.

Now Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, has published a sequel, “Trumpocalypse” — an apropos title during a deadly pandemic that the president has struggled to counter. In the introduction, Frum notes how Trump played down the threat of the coronavirus, squandered critical time during the early days of the crisis and, typically, deflected accountability. “The Trumpocalypse of the title,” Frum asserts, “is now a Trumpocalypse in reality.”

Considering “Trumpocalypse” and “Trumpocracy” together is an instructive exercise, and not just as potential bookends for an administration or a chart of how the views of an influential Trump critic have shifted or hardened. If the first book described a system of governance, the second surveys the outcome of that system after nearly a full presidential term. One is prediction, the other, assessment.

Frum today is less concerned about presidential corruption, more pessimistic about the Republican Party’s future and far less sanguine about the country’s ability to bounce back from the world Trump has created — mainly because there is no going back, only a groping forward into a reality that, with or without this president, will look little like the before times. Even should Trump lose the next election, Frum cautions, “Trumpism will not be so easily removed from American national life.” He seems to believe that the president will be defeated, but it’s a belief born as much out of exhaustion as analysis.

From: The Washington Post

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His Love is Made Complete

No one
has ever seen
God;

but
if we love
one another,

God
lives
in us and

his love is
made complete
in us.

1John 4: 12

어느 때나
하나님을
본 사람이 없으되

만일
우리가 서로
사랑하면

하나님이

우리 안에
거하시고

그의
사랑이
우리 안에

온전히
이루느니라

요한일서 4: 12

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빛

빛이
스며드는 곳에는
기쁨이 있다.

빛이
스며들지 않는 곳에는
미래를 꿈꾸는
희망이 있다.

빛을 찾아가는
나그네길에는
저물지 않는
태양이 있다.

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Jonas Family Donation Supports
Pediatric Research Into COVID-19

Kevin and Danielle Jonas,
Joe Jonas and his wife, Sophie Turner,
and Nick Jonas and his wife,
Priyanka Chopra Jonas,
have donated $500,000 to
the Mindich Child Health and
Development Instituteat
the Icahn Schoolof
Medicine at Mount Sinai,
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Sonnet 116
Let me not to
the marriage of true minds

Let me not to
the marriage of
true minds

Admit
impediments.

Love is not love
Which alters when
it alteration
finds,

Or
bends
with the remover
to remove.

O no!
it is an ever-fixed
mark

That looks on
tempests and is
never shaken;

It is the star
to every wand’ring
bark,

Whose worth’s
unknown,

although
his height be
taken.

Love’s not
Time’s fool,

though
rosy lips and
cheeks

Within his bending
sickle’s compass
come;

Love
alters not
with his brief hours
and weeks,

But
bears it out
even to the edge of
doom.

If
this
be error
and upon me
prov’d,

I never writ,

nor
no man
ever lov’d.

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE-

쏘넽 116
진실한 사람들의 결혼에
방해를 용납하지 않으리라

변화가 생길 때
변하고

변심자와 같이
변심하는 사랑은
사랑이 아니로다

아, 아니로다!
사랑은 영원히
변치 않는
지표라,

폭풍을 겪고도
동요를 모르는 사랑은
모든 방황하는 배의
북두성이로다,

그 고도는
측량할 수 있어도
그 진가는 알 수
없는

사랑은
세월의 놀림감은
아니라

장밋빛
입술과 뺨은
세월에 희생되더라도,

사랑은
짧은 시일에
변치 않고

심판일까지
견디어 나가느니라

이것이
틀린 생각이라
증명된다면,

나는
글을 쓰지
않으리라,

인간을
결코 사랑하지
않으리라

-윌리엄 셰익스피어-
(피천득 옮김)

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GOODNESS KNOWLEDGE PERSEVERANCE … LOVE

For
this very
reason,

make
every effort
to add to your
faith

goodness;
and to goodness,
knowledge;

and
to knowledge,
self-control;

and
to self-control,
perseverance;

and
to perseverance,
godliness;

and
to godliness,
brotherly
kindness;

and
to brotherly
kindness,
love.

2Peter 1: 5-7

이러므로
너희가 더욱 힘써
너희 믿음에
덕을,

덕에 지식을,

지식에
절제를,

절제에
인내를,
인내에 경건을,

경건에
형제 우애를,
형제 우애에

사랑을
공급하라

베드로 후서 1: 5-7

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구부러진다는 것

잘 마른
핏빛 고추를
다듬는다

햇살을
차고 오를 것 같은
물고기에게서

반나절 넘게
꼭지를 떼어내다
보니

반듯한
꼭지가 없다,
몽땅 구부러져
있다

해바라기의
올곧은 열정이
해바라기의 목을
휘게 한다

그렇다,
고추도 햇살 쪽으로
몸을 디밀어 올린
것이다

그 끝없는
깡다구가 고추를
붉게 익힌
것이다

햇살
때문만이
아니다,

구부러지는 힘으로
고추는 죽어서도
맵다

물고기가
휘어지는 것은
물살을 치고 오르기
때문이다

그래, 이제,
말하겠다

내 마음의
꼭지가, 너를 향해
잘못 박힌 못처럼
굽어버렸다

자, 가자!

굽은 못도
고추 꼭지도
비늘 좋은 물고기의
등뼈를 닮았다

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Can Trump shut down Twitter?

Can Trump regulate or
shut down Twitter or Facebook?

Trump threatens to shut down
Twitter for fact-checking him

But legal experts told
Business Insider the president has
“absolutely no legal authority”
to carry

President Donald Trump’s tweet
response to Twitter’s fact-checks of
some of his postings on Wednesday.

By William Goldschlag and Dan Janison
william.goldschlag@newsday.com, dan.janison@newsday.com
Updated May 28, 2020 5:39 AM

* President Donald Trump threatened to “strongly regulate” or entirely shut down social-media companies shortly after Twitter fact-checked two of his tweets pushing conspiracy theories about mail-in voting.

* But legal experts told Business Insider the president has “absolutely no legal authority” to carry out his threats and described Trump’s efforts as “empty virtue signaling to his base.”

* “It’s very clear that what he is really doing is trying to bully Twitter into continuing to allow him to broadcast whatever he wants to, however false it is, with complete impunity,” a Drexel University law professor told Business Insider.

President Donald Trump struck
a forceful tone this week when
he threatened to “strongly regulate”
or entirely shut down social-media companies
for what he perceived as an anti-conservative bias.

But legal experts say
he has “absolutely no legal authority”
to carry out his threats.

The president’s early-morning tantrum was catalyzed by Twitter’s decision on Tuesday to add fact-checking links to two of his tweets, in which he alleged mail-in voting in California would be “substantially fraudulent” and lead to a “Rigged Election.”
Twitter’s alert — the first of its kind on the site — linked to a “Moments” page titled “Trump makes unsubstantiated claim that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud” that listed a series of facts contradicting his claims.

Soon after, Trump accused the social-media platform of “interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election” and said he wouldn’t allow Twitter to stifle free speech.
“Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning. “We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.”
The president said his administration would take “big action” against the tech company.
Ken White, a First Amendment lawyer and criminal-defense attorney at Brown White & Osborn (and also a blogger at the popular legal site Popehat), told Business Insider that Trump’s tweets were “empty virtue signaling to his base.”

“The government has no power to close down social media, and social-media programs have both statutory and First Amendment rights to moderate and comment as they see fit,” he said.
Notably, a federal court last year found that the president violated the First Amendment by blocking Twitter users, thus depriving them of participating in a public forum.
‘This isn’t China’
It’s not the first time the Trump administration has threatened legal action against social-media companies who make decisions the president disagrees with. Last year, the White House drafted a proposal to regulate social-media platforms to confront allegations of bias against conservatives.
The proposal asked the Federal Communications Commission to create new regulations about how social-media companies are allowed to moderate speech on their platforms. It also called for the Federal Trade Commission to keep a public list of complaints from users who believe their rights have been violated by online moderation.

But Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives social-media companies broad authority to moderate speech.
And though members of Congress have threatened legislation on the issue for years, the threats seem “more like culture-war posturing than substance,” White said.
Hannah Bloch-Wehba, a law professor at Drexel University who specializes in civil liberties and cyber issues, called Trump’s threats against Twitter “totally asinine.”
“They completely lack any kind of legal foundation whatsoever, and it’s very clear that what he is really doing is trying to bully Twitter into continuing to allow him to broadcast whatever he wants to, however false it is, with complete impunity,” she told Business Insider.

From: Business Insider

Jack Dorsey’s response after US President Donald Trump threatened to shut down all social media.

A day after United States President Donald Trump threatened to shut down all social media platforms, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took a dig at both the President and Mark Zuckerberg as he doubled down on the platform’s stance against fake news.
Taking to Twitter, Dorsey doubled down on Twitter’s stance on fake news and said that though the platform was not an “arbiter of truth”, it would still work toward eradicating fake news by connecting “the dots of conflicting statements and show the information in dispute so people can judge for themselves”.

Jack Dorsey to donate $1 billion to fund COVID-19

Jack Dorsey to donate $1 billion
to fund COVID-19 relief and other charities
He’s putting $1 billion toward his Start Small fund

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of both Twitter and digital payments platform Square, said on Tuesday that he will donate $1 billion worth of equity in Square to his Start Small LLC to fund COVID-19 relief around the world. Dorsey made the announcement in a tweet, revealing that the sum equates to roughly 28 percent of his current net worth, or about $3.6 billion. The announcement marks the most significant philanthropic effort from the 43-year-old tech executive in his career.

From: The Verge

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