6/20/2025
My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,
This world is a wild place. Variability creates unpredictability.
Today I am dizzy with news of fighting at the jade mines in Hpakant, Burma, bombing at the Soroka hospital in southern Israel, & drone attacks at eight districts of Kyiv, not to mention the Palestinians killed as they waited for aid trucks to deliver food. These atrocities are coupled with stories about celebrations of Juneteenth, a new TV show called, “American Sweethearts” & the FIFA World Cup Games. So much to wrap one’s head around, it’s hard to decide where to focus.
Do you ever just want to turn it all off & go back to bed?
As you discern whether to help Bibi, please remember, WINTA. Do you agree with Steve Bannon’s appraisal that your operating principle is “optionality?” If so, are you sure it’s prudent to keep everyone guessing all the time?
SoW, where do you stand on Juneteenth these days? Your post about us having too many paid holidays made me wonder if you’d lost your enthusiasm for it. I encourage you to return to the time when you promoted it & proclaimed things like “June reminds us of both the unimaginable injustice of slavery & the incomparable joy that must have attended emancipation. It is both a remembrance of a blight on our history & a celebration of our Nation’s unsurpassed ability to triumph over darkness.” Your silence yesterday made me wonder if you were turning your back on your African American friends.
Perhaps I am feeling dizzy because I am preoccupied about a conversation, I will be having today with a delusional undergraduate who seems to think he can con me into giving him a higher grade, despite his marginal performance. I fear he has learned to charm his way through academia. I am going to try to tickle his conscience by prompting him to engage in what Hannah Ardent (HA) called a “two-in-one” where he answers the questions that he came to ask me.
Have you read HA? I tried once but found it too dense. I’m going to give it another try. Her philosophy may be helpful for preventing the vertigo that is haunting me today.
BYBS,
