But first: PRKR closed at $1.33 last night, up tenfold in 14 months. I’ve sold 10% (no taxes in an IRA) but plan to buy back on dips. Success in its May court case could loft the stock above $5. It could thus trade toward $2 as the trial approaches and more people decide to gamble on its outcome.
Second: This much-shared story from the New York Times — 77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election.
And now the brain teaser.
In a recent IPSOS poll, fully 83% of Americans — and 64% of Republicans — were good with President Biden’s “prohibiting workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”
It was his most popular of the 14 first-week presidential actions polled.
(Just 27% of Republicans were okay with our rejoining the Paris Climate Accord.)
It’s amazing how far we’ve come on LGBT issues.
With that background . . .
Pennsylvania state rep Brian Sims gave “the most important speech of his career” last week.
“Non-discrimination came up for the first time in nearly eight years and I begged my colleagues to support it.”
Watch the speech and then try to guess the outcome.
What was the final vote?
(Hint: there are 203 members of the Pennsylvania House.)
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“In the end,” Sims reports, “every Democrat voted yes and every Republican voted no.”
The measure was defeated.
Fearful of a primary challenge from their right, elected Republicans often seem to be more extreme and unyielding than their constituents.
On a lot of topics — like insisting that climate change is a hoax and that Trump won by a landslide — they seem to mis-lead rather than lead.
Which leads me back to 77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election. Riveting.
