Shabbat Shalom, Stroock's Books kibbutzim.
We had a bout of rain last night with some more rain this morning.
We caught three or four innings of the Phillies game yesterday while folding laundry. Just something to do in the afternoon after writing.
We'll be touring Rutgers campus today for one of the school orientations. Go knights!
Well, the stock market took one on the chin yesterday. We've seen a lot worse, actually. Covid, the Financial Crisis, the market opening after 9/11, the 1987 crash, etc etc. We are amused by all these conservative pundits extolling the virtues of tariffs after decades of extolling the virtues of free trade. Come on, guys. Our stance? Same as yesterday, we don't know. One thing, though. Why would MAGA hats worry about corporations and Wall Street? Know your class enemies.
World War 1990: Thatcher's War political machinations...What's happening in the rest of the world while Ingham is running around New York? Political machinations of some kind. But what kind? And we still haven't figured out who's going to be the Veep after Dan Quayle takes the Secretary of Defense portfolio. The new Veep must be loyal to the admin and someone who doesn't want to run for president in 1992.
Remember, James Baker is trying to manage the president, pick the new Veep and prevent Quayle from getting the GOP nomination in 1992. Nobody in the Bush administration in 1990 is going to be capable of making an interesting Veep pick, someone like Al Gore* or Sarah Palin or JD Vance, or even Nelson Rockefeller. Baker's gonna pick a real loyal party man, right? And remember, this pick is just serving out the term. Scowcroft?
Hmmm...when Bush decides not to run in 1992, which GOPs jump into the primary? Bob Dole for certain. Sorry Bob, you're losing this primary too. Kemp? He's been at HUD for four years and will certainly have lost some cache with the Reagan supply-side types. Pat Buchanan is surely running. Who else? Yes, Quayle is going to win the GOP nomination. We don't yet know who's winning the election of 1992. Exit question: who will be Quayle's Veep choice?
Here's the World War 1990 series from the beginning.
Machinations indeed.
DOGE report: more editing of World War 1990: Thatcher's War. We didn't make much progress yesterday. But ideas did percolate.
We read the missile silo chapter in War Night. Three more chapters