Maggie's Farm

Re Push for Classical Buildings: Brutalism 'works' from an efficiency standpoint. Used to be buildings needed windows for ventilation - but with HVAC systems not so much, so... if energy efficiency is what you're looking for - big cubes are the way to go. Or build underground, but since DC is built on swampy ground that might be a bit difficult. But I'm for decentralizing a lot of the DC administration at this point, so distribution to shopping malls works for me.

Re Nuclear Family: Societies change and evolve. I was raised in a nuclear family environment, cut off from a lot of relatives, and my lovely bride wasn't. Son got a mix of both. People are adaptable, they'll form the families that suit them. There ain't no one 'right' way to family.

Re Nancy Pelosi - she's a nasty piece of work, a bottle of vile and vitriol who looks out at the President and believes she could do a better job. Definitely a poster girl for term limits.

Re Holdovers in NSC and Pentagon - I think Trump's let them hang themselves. They all serve at his pleasure, he's displeased, therefore - boot 'em, Dano. Long overdue to clean out that mess.

The failed coup: The distressing thing to me is that all these people are going "We must do this to save our Republic! To save the Constitution!" where anyone with half a brain can see it's to save THEIR stature, perks and privileges because they've been effectively incompetent the last decade or two. You can tell me all you want about how OBama and Clinton were tremendously effective administrators, and I'll just laugh at you. Media luuve at the press conference does not a good politician make - they may get applause and fluffing for a few minutes when they announce the Latest Greatest Thing, but they're always mysteriously absent with the analysis whenever the excrement hit the air impeller and things 'unexpectedly' went wrong. Bad performance is bad performance, no matter how much you shine it up.

Re Trump's re-election - I'm going to vote for him because he's done a good job for the last 4 years. RESULTS MATTER. And the rhetoric from the D side has me convinced that they really hate anyone who doesn't automatically sign onto their ideology. They aren't even trying to be convincing for the uncommitted - they're playing to their radical base, telling everyone that things haven't been worse so they need to elect Dems to fix things, and we must immediately implement the Green New Deal or the planet will DIE. (Which there's really not much evidence for.) So... there's no way I'm going to vote to impoverish the US by electing apocalyptic doom-mongers who haven't a clue about how to fix things, but just INSIST they're the only ones who can.