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marble falls's JournalDonald Trump is probably going to ghost us
Donald Trump is probably going to ghost us
Linette Lopez
Nov 6, 2020, 12:42 PM
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President Donald Trump. Pool/Getty Images
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-ghost-america-losing-election-joe-biden-inauguration-2020-11
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I think Trump wasn't really kidding when he told crowds at his rallies that if he lost, people would "never see" him again. He is not a man who can stomach losing. He has weaseled his way out of debt, ghosted contractors, failed to pay massive bills, and walked away from bankruptcy over and over again. He has been caught in lies, and he has reportedly gotten away with massive tax-avoidance schemes. I cannot imagine him clapping politely at the inauguration while Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States of America.
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It's not as if he feels he has pressing matters at the White House — he had an incredibly light schedule for a president anyway — and he never cared much for passing legislation. The work of the presidency has never interested him, just the power.
And if the power is fading, then what's the appeal? Do you think Donald Trump will enjoy being referred to as a "lame-duck president"?
Hell no. Watch him ghost us.
When push comes to shove, he always backs down.
The Woman Who Built Beethoven's Pianos
The Woman Who Built Beethoven’s Pianos
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/arts/music/beethoven-piano.html
Nannette Streicher has been marginalized by history, but she was one of Europe’s finest keyboard manufacturers.
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With a warehouse that produced 50 to 65 grand pianos a year, Nannette Streicher’s firm was considered by many to be the finest in Vienna.Credit...Bildagentur-online/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images
By Patricia Morrisroe
Published Nov. 6, 2020Updated Nov. 7, 2020, 9:31 a.m. ET
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Nannette Streicher’s marginalized place in history is encapsulated in these scribbled lines. While she was indeed one of the closest friends of Beethoven, whose 250th birthday will be celebrated this December, she was also one of the finest piano builders in Europe. She owned her own company — employing her husband, Andreas Streicher, a pianist and teacher, to handle sales, bookkeeping and business correspondence. But many Beethoven scholars, perhaps finding it inconceivable that an 18th-century woman could build a piano, have turned Andreas into the manufacturer and Nannette into his shadowy helpmate.
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Nannette had already expanded her keyboards’ range from five octaves to six and a half, but she was slow to make other major alterations to her father’s original design. It was a stressful time. By 1802, she was the mother of two small children, and a 6-year-old son had recently died. She was also engaged in a dispute with her brother; the siblings eventually decided to dissolve the company and strike out separately.
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By 1809, Nannette had considerably reworked her father’s design, turning out some of the largest, loudest and sturdiest pianos in Vienna. With a warehouse that produced 50 to 65 grand pianos a year, the Streicher firm was considered by many to be the finest in the city.
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A keyboard made by the company inherited by Nannette and her brother Matthäus from their father.Credit...The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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That would seem to have been the end of Nannette’s legacy. But her instruments live on, in museums around the world and in the strong, nimble hands of women she inspired. In the mid-1960s, as Margaret Hood, an artist and calligrapher, raised two young children, she started making harpsichords. After doing research in Europe, she began specializing in reproductions of Streicher pianos, producing them in her Platteville, Wis., workshop. She was building an 1816 Streicher six-and-a-half-octave grand when she died, in 2008.
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A replica of an 1816 Nannette Streicher piano, begun by Margaret Hood and finished by Anne Acker.Credit...Anne Acker
The piano — the work of three women over two centuries — had its debut at the Boston Early Music Festival in 2019. It was the year of Nannette’s 250th birthday.
Correction: Nov. 7, 2020
Sometimes the photo and title are all I need ...
Photo illustration by Bráulio Amado
Greta Thunberg Hears Your Excuses. She Is Not Impressed.
By David Marchese
Just in case its not enough for others:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/02/magazine/greta-thunberg-interview.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces_desk_filter&block=editors_picks_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=546055644&impression_id=375d5a70-2066-11eb-9aa6-ef90cb6d39cd&index=0&pgtype=Article®ion=footer&req_id=130029378&surface=home-featured
I hope Trump stays in the White House ...
So I can see him dragged out by the feet, maced and tased and four point handcuffed and mugshot in an orange suit.
Not really, but its an enjoyable image to consider.
Sarah Cooper is tired of being Donald Trump ...
This is an interesting podcast
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/opinion/sway-kara-swisher-sarah-cooper.html?action=click&module=audio-series-bar®ion=header&pgtype=Article
As the most powerful man in the country peddled hydroxychloroquine and disinfectant snake oil as cures for the coronavirus, the comedian Sarah Cooper scoured her kitchen cabinet for props, scouted her lockdown apartment for locations and angled her iPhone. The result: a series of lip-sync videos posted on TikTok and Twitter — and viewed by millions.
The viral clips starred her facial expressions and the president’s voice.
But Ms. Cooper’s voice quickly followed. She soon nabbed a headliner spot at the Democratic National Convention. Months later, she’s the star of the celebrity-packed Netflix special “Everything’s Fine.”
Ms. Cooper says, “My success is forever linked to this person that I absolutely hate.” But she hopes that after Nov. 3, she can put Trump behind her.
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Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) has been a contributing opinion writer for The Times since 2018. She is an executive producer of the Code Conference and editor at large at New York Media. She was a co-founder of Recode and The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital.
“Sway” is produced by Nayeema Raza, Heba Elorbany, Matt Kwong and Vishakha Darbha and edited by Paula Szuchman; fact-checking by Lora Kelley; music and sound design by Isaac Jones. Special thanks to Liriel Higa and Kathy Tu.
White Trumpers surround and bear mace two BLM supporters ...
https://www.bet.com/news/national/2020/11/03/trump-supporters-surround-black-lives-matter-activist-bakersfiel.html
Trump Supporters Surround And Harass Woman In Bakersfield, California
https://www.bet.com/news/national/2020/11/03/trump-supporters-surround-black-lives-matter-activist-bakersfiel.html
Written by Paul Meara
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In the footage, you can see the angry crowd approaching her car and demanding she get out while calling her explicit names. One man is even heard calling her the n-word.
As Harris leaves her vehicle, she’s confronted by a woman who appeared to try to take her phone. Another man, who appeared to be armed, told her to "come get it."
The video also shows a man spraying something into her car, which she later claimed was bear mace. When officers showed up, Harris, in the video, told them about the mace, but none appeared willing to help, with one officer claiming no crime was committed.
Harris claims pro-Trump folks have been protesting in her town for the past month, and to counter them, she decided to set up a Black Lives Matter demonstration nearby. Harris claims that was the reason she was targeted by the Trump-supporting group. In the video, you can hear many of them yelling at her about Black Lives Matter.
See what went down below.
Pt1 pic.twitter.com/JFImUNNdfd
— Erika Harris (@ErikaHa11772363) November 2, 2020
That's what I do ...
Am I the only one or does anyone else see a Frank Capra Movie about this election ...
when have we ever been given such a clear cut choice between good and evil?
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