Notations On Our World (Special M-End Edition): #RandomThoughts On the Week That Was

As we went the press, the 2020 Republican National Convention was coming to a close.    We hereby present a sampling of the discourse we curated over the course of the past week as we look forward to the privilege to serve:

Notations From the Grid (Mid-Week Edition) : #RandomThoughts On the US Political Scene

The 2nd Day of the Republican National Convention is now History--it featured the First Lady, Tiffany Trump, Eric Trump, Rand Paul along with Nick Sandman  who was embraced by the Conservative Pundits Over Twitter.   There is also an alternative convention going on which has featured conservative opposition to President Trump: 

 

In less than two days, we'll be kicking off the Convention on Founding Principles and we know what your #1 question is — how do we watch? We have answers! There are a few ways to watch CFP: ✓ On our website ✓ On our YouTube channel ✓ On Facebook Live via the CFP page Don't worry if you miss out on the livestream — we'll be posting each and every speech along with other highlights every evening for you to watch and share! We're so excited for you to join us on Monday for this historic moment!  Thank you! —Team CFP2020 This is as the following guidance was noted over the course of the week at hand as the debate over the future gets under way:   Economy Pandemic shows US must make vital products at home Tax reforms will help reshore production of medicine and technology AUGUST 23, 2020 by Kevin McCarthy A Lot of People Want Lindsey Graham Retired. Jaime Harrison Thinks He’s the Man to Do It. Around the town of Orangeburg, in the Midlands of South Carolina, the days had retractable fangs, like the copperheads in the woods and the water moccasins in the river. The fangs came out at night, gleaming in the moonlight through the canopies of Spanish moss. Jaime Harrison heard the story from his grandmother Jimmie Lou, who, with his grandfather Willie, helped raise him. Jimmie Lou told him about what it was like when she was coming up in and around Orangeburg, where the family home was, and where the fangs of the night were ever present, and where nocturnal menace was as general as the still, humid air. “It was a fear that I’d never seen in my grandma’s eyes before,” said Harrison, forty-four, a Democrat running to take Lindsey Graham’s seat in the United States Senate. “She told me about this time when she was a little girl. She was playing in the house with her sisters and brothers, and all of a sudden her mom told them all to come to the one room in the middle and to shush, be quiet. She said she had never saw her mom that serious before. “She said they sat there, and it was only probably a few minutes, but it felt like hours. And afterward she asked her, ‘Mom, what was wrong?’ And her mom said the KKK was marching down the street with their torches, and she huddled them together. It was a pain that I saw in my grandma. It’s that type of thing that is passed on from generation to generation. When I hear stories about the Orangeburg massacre—that’s a pain that Black folks have been living with for generations.” On February 8, 1968, three Black students from South Carolina State University, one of two historically Black colleges in Orangeburg, were gunned down by state highway patrolmen for the crime of trying to desegregate a local bowling alley. The unarmed students had lit a bonfire on the edge of campus, and the police opened fire in the darkness. Twenty-eight people were wounded, including Cleveland Sellers, the father of future South Carolina state legislator and CNN pundit Bakari Sellers. Nine of the sixty-six patrolmen on the scene were brought to trial. All were acquitted. Only Cleveland Sellers went to prison, for “participating in a riot” outside the bowling alley. (He was pardoned a quarter century later.) This is South Carolina, after all, the home office of American sedition, the place where secession was born. “Here is where treason began,” declared a Union soldier under William Tecumseh Sherman, as his Army of the Tennessee prepared to march on the state, “and by God, here is where it shall end.” Of course, the fight did not end. It just changed form. To provide for the maintenance of white supremacy, one side exchanged Confederate gray for Klan white and turned away from armed revolt and back toward working within the institutions of government. To impress upon Black citizens the iron reality of this new old order, they put up statues of their fallen leaders and ran up the bygone battle flag at the state capitol. And at night, the riders with their torches came, and people huddled in their kitchens, hushed their children, and hoped that the shadows would pass on by. Read the Full Story

Notations On Our World (Weekly Edition): As the Republican National Convention Has Begun....

 

As we went to press, the Republican National Committee officially nominated the Trump-Pence Ticket.   This is as the Trump Campaign officially released its second term agenda :

 This is as a number of Republican Luminaries came out against Donald Trump in addition to the Former Officials who released an open letter last week: 

This is as a number of very interesting events occurred that might cause a number of challenges for the President courtesy the Team at the Washington Post Today: 

By Amber Phillips

It’s the first day of Republicans’ national convention, and they have already officially nominated President Trump to be their party’s nominee for 2020. Other than that, Trump isn’t having the best few days. Let’s count down the most recent troubling events for him.

President Trump addresses the first day of the Republican National Convention after delegates voted to confirm his nomination Monday during the day, before the prime time events. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

4. A notable number of top Republicans won’t appear at the four-night convention this week, like the only living former Republican president (George W. Bush), many Senate Republicans who will be on the ballot with Trump and some senators who might be considering a 2024 run. It suggests the party is seriously considering what life might be like without Trump if he loses in November. Some are calculating that Trumpism won’t be a major part of it.

3. One of his top advisers, who has been with him since his 2016 campaign, is leaving the White House. Kellyanne Conway cited a need to focus on her family, which certainly many American families with school-age children understand. But to leave just months before Trump is up for reelection again?

Kellyanne Conway. (ERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

2. Remember that Trump’s niece recently published a book about the president and how dysfunctional she thinks the Trump family is? Well, turns out she got some of her info about his childhood from conversations with the president’s sister, conversations she secretly recorded — and then shared it with The Washington Post. Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, is a retired federal judge who doesn’t speak much about him publicly, yet she privately told her niece Mary Trump that you can’t trust the president and that “Donald is cruel.” Also that she really doesn’t like his tweets.

1. Trump’s business could be in legal trouble. The New York attorney general’s office confirmed Monday that it’s investigating whether the Trump Organization inflated the worth of some of its properties to get other loans. Prosecutors also want to interview one of the president’s sons, Eric. A prosecutor in New York City is trying to get Trump’s tax returns, potentially to look into the Trump Organization as well, and got a step closer last week. These both appear to be serious legal investigations with no indication they’ll be over or stop if the president loses his reelection bid.