As I reported last night, the Trump campaign announced that the president’s personal attorney would meet with the media in Philadelphia to discuss legal challenges to the vote count. The announcement said the event would be held at the Four Seasons; the press assumed that meant the plush Four Seasons Hotel. Wrong. It was quickly rescheduled in front of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping in north Philadelphia, in a gritty neighborhood. No one could explain why.
Dan Zak and Karen Heller wrote in the Washington Post: “It began on a gold escalator. It may have ended at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.”
PHILADELPHIA — The end came in all the places you’d expect, in all the ways you’d expect, with all the people you’d expect. When news broke Saturday that Donald Trump’s reign was ending, the president was on a golf course that he owns in Virginia, playing his last round as a non-loser. In Washington, about 125 of his worshipful supporters gathered on the stoop of the Supreme Court to “stop the steal,” then circumnavigated the U.S. Capitol seven times, because that’s how the Israelites conquered Jericho, according to the Book of Joshua.
And a pair of Trump’s most loyal surrogates made a defiant stand on the gravelly backside of a landscaping business in an industrial stretch of Northeast Philadelphia, near a crematorium and an adult-video store called Fantasy Island, along State Road, which leads — as being associated with Trump sometimes does — to a prison.
Rudolph Giuliani, America’s mayor turned Trump’s sloppy fixer, squinted into the autumnal sun at journalists who had assembled outside Four Seasons Total Landscaping — a choice of location that multiple Trump staffers could not account for, saying that it was the work of the campaign’s Pennsylvania advance team. Literally anywhere else would have conveyed more legitimacy on the enterprise, but legitimacy did not seem a high priority for one of the last battles of a lost war.
“Joe Frazier is still voting here — kind of hard, since he died five years ago,” Giuliani said in a meandering monologue, referring to the champion boxer who died in 2011 as an example of Philadelphia’s unproven election malfeasance. “But Joe continues to vote. If I recall correctly, Joe was a Republican. So maybe I shouldn’t complain. But we should go see if Joe is voting Republican or Democrat now, from the grave. Also Will Smith’s father has voted here twice since he died. I don’t know how he votes, because his vote is secret. In Philadelphia, they keep the votes of dead people secret.”
No, this was not The Onion or Mad Magazine.
And Joe Biden’s term began in front of Chase Bank. Also very fitting.
dienne77, Joe Biden doesn’t have a term yet. 😐
Also right behind him at this gala event was Bernard Kerik, Rudy’s former NYPD Commissioner. He went to jail as a convicted felon.
Ahh, the two are worth their weight in manure as they stand outside Four Seasons Landscaping in close proximity to a crematorium and adult-video store.
Right down the road from a closed prison
Astonishingly weird, antics of deranged minds; was told about this incident by a neighbor but had trouble believing or visualizing such a bizarre scene until I logged onto the WAPO item. Wondering what craziness is next…
Will Smith’s father? What is Rudy talking about? I did a quick look and there are living Willard Smiths in Philadelphia and even more outside of Philadelphia. There are many, many Will Smiths and William Smiths. The Republicans have spent a lot of time and effort to get legitimate voters struck off the voting rolls for having the same common name as someone else. But then again, the guy who thinks the Four Seasons Landscaping was the perfect symbolic venue for a Trump campaign press conference is not known for having any wisdom at all.
(Of course there are also other Joe Fraziers, too)
I think he has gone off the rails
This was no accident.
Somebody within the Trump campaign not only has a sense of civic duty but also has a sense of humor, both of which are lacking in their boss.
Probably some admin. go-fer who knows he/she is going to be leaving soon, & wanted to have one last fun venture!
Hahahahahahaha! Perfect, SomeDAM.
Perhaps that was Kate McKinnon playing Rudy at the landscaping company and actually Rudy on the SNL news last night?
lol
“America’s mayor” has become America’s sad joke. He was considered a hero during 9/11. Now he’s just Trump’s clueless sidekick.
Not just a “clueless sidekick.” Someone who appears to have lost of his marbles. Don’t we all look at him & ask, “What was he thinking?!”
Is it possible to lose something one never had?
Rudy should reflect for a moment on what happened to Trump’s last fixer, Michael Cohen.
This story continues to sound more and more like an election comedy of errors. The guy Rudy called on to confirm election wrongdoing in Philly is a convicted New Jersey sex offender.https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/11/09/man-featured-at-giuliani-press-conference-is-a-sex-offender-1335241
Of course, meant to write, “lost all of his marbles.”
Anyone notice the wraparound hose in the background? Descriptive of the last four years–we got hosed!
The president is “going to get that miracle that he needs because God will not let this nation fall into chaos,” said Bethesda resident Karen Simon, carrying a huge Trump flag.
A marcher said the “Hail Mary” over and over again.
They were joined by a small group carrying a tapestry of Jesus Christ.
These people are wacko. Hallelujah the Chosen One has flopped.
[Is is possible that someone booked the Four Seasons Total Landscaping purposely to make Trump look like a fool? I’d love the thought.]
What is with the ‘religious people’ and their constitutionally endowed sense of freedom? Following the Chosen One has consequences.
Why are casinos allowed to run at 50% capacity?
Justices to rehear church’s petition
A rural Nevada church is headed back to the U.S. Supreme Court in a second attempt to overturn the state’s 50-person cap on attendance at religious gatherings.
The high court denied Calvary Chapel Dayton Valleys’ request for an emergency injunction in July. A new petition filed last week asks the justices to consider the challenge of Nevada’s COVID-19 restrictions as a test case for others brought by churches across the country arguing their religious freedoms are being violated.
Calvary Chapel argues the 50-person cap is an unconstitutional violation of religious freedoms, partly because casinos and other businesses are allowed to operate at 50% of capacity.
I agree with the Supreme Court on this.
A cap of just 50 on casinos would be blasphemy.
I think they just wanted to give the press conference from a place they visit frequently in incognito.
Which? The adult book store or the crematorium?
Or both?
It would be even funnier if Four Seasons Total Landscaping turned out to be merely a front.
I can see Trumpkin standing in the aisles of the adult store, flipping through the pages of playboy searching for any article about him while his million dollar personal security is covering all entrances. Rudy is sitting in one of the booths, mesmerized by whatever he is viewing, Eric and Jared are competing for the attention of one of the lapdancers.
We can also imagine why doing business in a crematorium may be necessary for our shady characters, but I leave the details up to your poems, SDP.
Landscape businesses often have wood chippers.
Trifecta : Imagination Breaking Bad
While folks peruse
The dirty books
The “cremer’s” used
By dirty crooks
And chippers chip
And shredders shred
And rippers rip
The newly dead
Here we go! Who said, the muse has to be a beautiful woman?
The Muse
A muse is amusing
At language enthusing
It’s not always huggly
But sometimes quite ugly
A muse can be crass
Or planter of grass
Or sad politician
With Landscape position
It’s even for those
Who lose, I suppose
A marcher said the “Hail Mary” over and over again.”
Aren’t you supposed to try the Hail Mary before the game is over?
Soon, the Trumpkins will give their press conferences from prison.
Thought we needed some GOOD news. I’m sure all of those “holey religious” Trump lovers will disagree.
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Nevada Is the First US State to Protect Gay Marriage in Its Constitution
By Carter Sherman, VICE
08 November 20
Voters in the Silver State had previously passed a constitutional amendment that banned gay marriage.
hile the rest of the U.S. eagerly waits for Nevada to finish counting its 2020 election votes, the Silver State has quietly achieved a major milestone: It’s the first state in the country to enshrine protections for gay marriage in its constitution, reversing an older amendment that had banned it.
More than 60 percent of Nevada voters on Tuesday decided in favor of a ballot measure requiring the state to issue marriage licenses to couples regardless of gender and to treat their marriages as equal.
“It feels good that we let the voters decide,” Chris Davin, president of Equality Nevada, told NBC News. “The people said this, not judges or lawmakers. This was direct democracy—it’s how everything should be.”
The push to get this measure in front of voters started back in 2017, when the Nevada state legislature originally approved it. The state constitution’s 2002 ban on same-sex marriage has not been enforced for years, thanks to the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015. But the idea of a state constitutional amendment took on new urgency when the late, liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was replaced by conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
LGBTQ rights supporters now fear the court’s 2015 landmark decision may be in danger, as there is now a new 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
Nevada’s new constitutional amendment would make sure that even if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Obergefell, erasing federal protections for same-sex marriage, gay couples in Nevada will still be able to marry. (Religious organizations and clergy members can still decline to marry gay couples.)…
https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/66111-nevada-is-the-first-us-state-to-protect-gay-marriage-in-its-constitution
Video: You Can Do This, Donald Trump [You can concede.] Children in sports and former presidents and presidential candidates show how.
By Chai Dingari•November 7, 2020
It’s hard to concede. But voters have spoken.
It is a good video showing how children act when they lose in sports…and has videos of several major sports stars, McCain, Hillary, HW Bush and Al Gore conceding.
Nixon said, “Once the decision is made, we unite behind the man who was elected.”
“And now its your turn, Donald. You can do it. …It’s time to be a good loser.”
You know things have reached a low point when people are looking to Nixon for advice on the ethical thing to do.
WSJ is reporting that Kool-Aid is likely to go into Chapter 11 this morning, as Republican senators line up to dump their shares. Lindsey Graham says he hated to drink it every day.
There goes my retirement.
To be a citizen of the world over the last four years has been to show up at an adult dinner party and end up stuck at the table with a spoiled, defective child who refuses go to bed and keeps screeching “Look at me!” at ever-increasing volumes as his emotional state unravels…
The psychological toll of the Trump era [Perspective from Canada]
Shannon Proudfoot: With his election loss, Trump’s rule by chaos is drawing to a close. And with it our role as unwilling audience members in his drama.
By Shannon Proudfoot
November 7, 2020
If what you wanted was a resounding Election Night repudiation of Donald Trump and Trumpism as compensation for the last four years of never-ending chaos and malice, this week was one extended sad trombone. But if what you wanted was simply for the bad man to go away, the eccentric and constipated American electoral system delivered, eventually.
Joe Biden was declared the winner on Saturday morning after Pennsylvania was called for him by the Associated Press, securing him the 270 Electoral College votes required to become the next U.S. president.
It has been a long, punishing 10 or 12 years since that centaur-on-an-elevator ride back in 2015. It’s difficult now to even conjure up the sense memory of a time when the news cycle would contain just one tragedy or scandal in a week, as opposed to a constant wind tunnel of malfeasance that basically erased itself as it went along.
“It’s really just exhausted the citizens,” says Kimberly Rose Clark, founding partner of Bellwether Citizen Response, a New Hampshire-based consultancy that uses behavioural, cognitive and emotional research to shape political and advocacy campaigns. “They don’t see them anymore, they don’t feel them anymore, they don’t have the capacity to feel anymore and think rationally about what’s being exchanged in terms of policy and communications.”
Politics is always all-consuming for partisans who care a lot, or for people directly affected by the policies that result, but the sheer velocity and volume of the Trump era has trapped tens of millions of unwilling audience members far beyond the borders of the United States. To be a citizen of the world over the last four years has been to show up at an adult dinner party and end up stuck at the table with a spoiled, defective child who refuses go to bed and keeps screeching “Look at me!” at ever-increasing volumes as his emotional state unravels…
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/washington/the-psychological-toll-of-the-trump-era/
CNN:
Joe Biden already has big plans for his first day in office. The Democratic President-elect plans to issue a series of executive orders to undo many of the policies that Donald Trump put into place. His transition team has outlined Covid-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change as priorities. Biden’s first focus is likely to be the pandemic, with his team just announcing the people who will make up his coronavirus advisory board. He has also previously said he would rejoin the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization on his first day. But despite Biden’s promises of a bold agenda, Democrats worry that his administration will only be able to go as far as Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell lets him.
“But despite Biden’s promises of a bold agenda, Democrats worry that his administration will only be able to go as far as Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell lets him.”
It’s time for dems stop giving before even trying. Mitch is not their daddy.
giving up
It’s not giving up when you never intended to do something in the first place.
The Democrats excuse used to be “we need 60 votes”.
Now its apoarently We need Mitch mcConnell’s blessing.
It sure didn’t take long for the apologists to come out of the woodwork to set up the low expectations.
Axios:
A senior Republican who talks often to Trump told me the president is “angry … volatile … disconsolate.”
The backdrop: Alayna Treene scooped in Axios Sneak Peek last evening that most people close to Trump know the race is over, although no one wants to tell him.
Trump plans to hold rallies focused on the litigation, and brandish obituaries of people who were recorded as voting but are dead, Trump advisers told her.
Even the dead obviously have more sense than Trump voters.
Then again, maybe they voted for Trump. Not sure how one would determine whom they actually voted for without asking them. And even then, I’m not sure they would admit to voting for Trump.
this is reminiscent of Joe McCarthy with his list of communists late in his career, or Maximillian Robespierre coming into the Assembly with an unknown list of enemies of the state.
Except i bet they had live people on their lists.
I doubt even Stalin worried about people after they were dead.
That is actually the analogy. I am not sure about Robespierre’s list. Since no one knew who might be on it, or whether there were any names on it, they banded together to arrest the whole lot of his group and sent the ones who did not commit suicide to the guillotine, including Robespierre himself.
As for McCarthy, his list was almost surely blank. Soon he was censored by the senate, a political death-knell in those days.
After that, the analogy breaks down. In our divided world, neither side of the presidential race would benefit from the other side being perceived as fair. Democrats certainly benefit from the narrative that the Republicans are suppressing the urban vote. Voter suppression is a big issue with these voters. Republicans are certainly holding on to the idea that the urban areas have invented votes.
Who can bridge this gap?
No need to bridge artificially, the gap will get narrower by the minute once Trumpkin’s knife is pulled out from it.
Trump’s favorite movie:
The Night of the Walk-In Dead
Ha ha ha.
Or maybe the sequel
Night of the Voting Dead
Night of the Voting Dead
The dead are voting everywhere
From Boston to LA
And all of them are Dems, I swear
What more is there to say?
You stay classy, Donald Trump!
The Lawn Order President (I had to steal that)
Donald is classy
Yes, my friend
Classy and grassy
To the end
Ah! Perfect. No improving here, but gassy as well?
The word miasma comes from the Greek. Etymologically, it refers to a pollution, a defilement of the kind that obtains at the beginning of the play Oedipus Rex. There is a curse upon the land because the person in charge has committed grave sins. This archetype of the accursed land is found in other literatures and oratures of the world as well–in the legend of the medieval legend of the Fisher King and the Waste Land, for example, appropriated by Eliot for his great poem. All are memories of times of extreme trouble–the time of the plague or of the flood or the drought or the fires or the pestilence that destroyed all the crops.
And here’s how those stories end: the curse is lifted from the land.
That’s how we on the winning side of this election are feeling, isn’t it?
Bye, bye Barr and Miller, Ivanka and Jared, Donnie and Eric. Ding, dong, the wicked witch. . . .
But this we must remember: after the utter incompetence and ignorance and racism and sexism and environmental destruction and scientific illiteracy and wannabe fascism of the Trump maladministration, almost half (47.7 percent as of Saturday) of the voting population of the country STILL looked upon Trump and said, “Ooooo. Give me more of that.”
So, there is a sickness in the land that has not been healed. And doubtless, the NEXT Trump will not be as incompetent or inarticulate or ignorant, will not be JUST an opportunist who saw playing Super Repugnican on TV as a viable brand strategy.
We must address this sickness in the land, or it will destroy us. The next Trump will have a honeyed tongue and good looks an charisma and youth and actually believe in the horrific precepts that Trump trumpeted and came, sort of, to believe. Hamlet says,
My tables—meet it is I set it down
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain
That’s what the next Trump will look like.
The Second Wave of Trumpism will be worse. We need some pandemic preparedness there.
cx: in the medieval legend of the Fisher King and the Waste Land, for example
There was an incomplete correction in my post, there. Appropriate that that should be the case.
Thanks.
That “legend of the legend” would have really bothered me forever.
Trump ll ?
It all assumes
That country survives
As more than fumes
Before he arrives
In believing there will be another Trump, you have more optimism than I have.
We can survive a lot as a country, but the denial of science and reality itself which has become rampant is not something we can survive.
I agree, SomeDAM. So, if ever there was a need for teachers, . . .
The next Trump will not be simply the man with no plan and the tan in a can. He (or she) will “not be just a nothing, head all full of stuffin’/[and neediness and] pain.”
This comes from Word Press and has no link.
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Biden and Democrats Turn Away from Two Decades of Test-Based Public School Accountability and Privatization
by janresseger
Joe Biden’s education plan and the Democratic Platform on education this year should be recognized as a significant development. Biden’s plan embodies something new for Democrats—a turn away from two decades when Democrats bought into neoliberal experimentation in education. Biden supports expanding opportunity for children through better federal funding of public schools and at the […
Biden’s 2020 Public Education PlanToday
Today Joe Biden and other Democrats are responding to the growing evidence that the past two decades of test-based school accountability and experiments with neoliberal school privatization have not accomplished what was originally promised. Today millions of the nation’s poorest children continue to be left behind. Biden has released an education planwhich sets out to improve the public schools which serve 90 percent of America’s children and prioritizes equity in the public schools. Biden’s plan promises that if Biden is elected, he will ensure the federal government: “Invests in our schools to eliminate the funding gap between white and non-white districts, and rich and poor districts. There’s an estimated $23 billionannual funding gap between white and non-white school districts today, and gaps persist between high- and low-income districts as well. Biden will work to close this gap by nearly tripling Title I funding, which goes to schools serving a high number of children from low-income families. This new funding will first be used to ensure teachers at Title I schools are paid competitively, three- and four-year olds have access to pre-school, and districts provide access to rigorous coursework across all their schools, not just a few. Once these conditions are met, districts will have the flexibility to use these funds to meet other local priorities. States without a sufficient and equitable finance system will be required to match a share of federal funds.’” Biden also pledges to, “Make sure children with disabilities have the support to succeed. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act… promised to provide 40% of the extra cost of special education required by the bill. Currently, the federal government only covers roughly 14% of this cost, failing to live up to our commitment. The Biden Administration will fully fund this obligation within ten years. We must ensure that children with disabilities get the education and training they need to succeed.”
2020 Democratic Platform on Public Education
And Biden is not merely some kind of maverick among Democrats. There has been a significant turn across the Democratic Party, which has left test-based accountability and school privatization behind. The Democratic Party Platform declares the following principles as its educational priority: “As Democrats, we believe that education is a critical public good—not a commodity—and that it is the government’s responsibility to ensure that every child, everywhere, is able to receive a world-class education that enables them to lead meaningful lives, no matter their race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability status, language status, immigration or citizenship status, household income, or ZIP code…
Our public schools are bedrock community institutions, and yet our educators are underpaid, our classrooms are overstuffed, and our school buildings have been
neglected, especially in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. Roughly six in 10 jobs require at least some education beyond high school, and yet the ever-rising cost of college tuition and fees leaves higher education out of reach—or saddles students with a lifetime of debt… Democrats believe we can and must do better for our children, our educators, and our country. We are committed to making the investments our students and teachers need to build equity and safeguard humanity in our educational system and guarantee every child can receive a great education. To this end, we support K-12 instruction in civics and climate literacy. We will support evidence-based programs and pedagogical approaches, including assessments that consider the well-being of the whole student and recognize the range of ways students can demonstrate learning. We will reimagine our education system guided by the stakeholders and qualified, first-class, well-trained, passionate educators who know these issues best: young people, educators, parents, and community leaders. Democrats fundamentally believe our education system should prepare all our students—indeed, all of us—for college, careers, lifelong learning, and to be informed, engaged citizens of our communities, our country, and our planet.”
I hope so.
The DFERS are so wrong and I hope they all know this.
The DEMS need to support public schools and public school teachers, both National treasures.
At least Biden attended public universities … thank goodness.
I am hopeful, but ….
Let’s see what happens with this:
THE BIDEN PLAN FOR EDUCATORS, STUDENTS, AND OUR FUTURE
https://joebiden.com/education/
Carol, I plan to post Jan’s statement. These are her hopes, not a report on what Biden will actually do.
Thanks for the planned reposting, and the comment about a difference between wish lists and policies.
Congratulations, Kamala Harris! And Emily Harrington!
Kamala Harris looks like she weathered the storm better than Emily Harrington.
Much easier bring a politician than a rock climber.
https://www.outsideonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/img_850-width_flex-height/public/2020/11/06/harrington-golden-gate_s.jpg?itok=_IKNWTtj
Should correct one misstatement by CNN and some others though.
Harrington is actually not the first woman to climb El Cap in a day.
Three other women did it before her, including Lynn Hill, who did it in 1994 before anyone else (female or male) had free climbed El Cap in ANY amount of time. Hill had actually become the first PERSON ever to free climb El Cap the year before.
This is not meant to detract from Harrington’s accomplishment, just to correct some misinformation.
Harrington IS the first woman to free climb in a day the particular route on El Cap (Golden Gate), which had only been done by 3 men before in a day.
Then what did Alex Honnold do on El Capitan? First free solo?
Alex Honnold not only climbed El Cap without a rope to catch him if he fell (free solo), but did it in under 4 hours. He has also climbed El Cap with partner Tommy Caldwell in under 2 hours.
But though he looks the part , Honnold is not human.
He was developed in the robotics lab at MIT and programmed to have no fear (after all, even robots would fear their own demise, so they have to be specifically programmed not to)
I know this for a fact because I know a person who knows a person who knows THE person who built Honnold.
Honnold does know fear. Just watch the documentary Free Solo. This fact makes his stuff even scarier.
I left out a person
I know a person who knows a person who knows a person who knows THE person who built Honnold.
Free climbing is different than free solo, by the way.
Free climbing uses a rope to catch you if you fall, but you don’t use the role to pull yourself up (which is called aid climbing).
If Emily Harrington had not been using a rope, she would have looked much worse than she does in that photo.
Free solo uses nothing. You fall. You die.
Ironically, free soloing is usually not scary when you are doing it because you feel totally in control.
But it’s a false sense of comfort, of course.
And another irony is that it becomes even more dangerous the second you do feel scared.
Honnold doesn’t usually know fear when he is soloing.
In fact, he has stated that the worst times soloing were when he did know fear.
I can relate to that because I have done soloing myself, although at nowhere near the difficulty or exposure level of Honnold (though I once climbed a 600 foot cliff in Utah solo)
The key is actually doing something that is well within your ability so that you can at least feel you are in control, so that you actually don’t feel fear.
It might actually seem counterintuitive, but that’s the way it is.
I saw Free Solo, and my heart was thumping with terror the whole time.
Same for me, Diane. The revealed vulnerabilities of Honnold made the film so dramatic.
I have no problem jumping off a 30 foot cliff into deep water but I would not look down from that height if it’s dry land underneath.
I admit I have acrophobia. I’m terrified of heights. Even when I see a movie where someone is teetering on a high ledge, my heart beats faster.
And BTW, once you are more than about 50 feet off the ground, it doesn’t really matter how high you are when soloing
It’s just a matter of how wide the blood splat will be.
I guess size doesn’t matter
When it comes to blood spatter. (ugh)
I also used to do a lot of roped rock climbing and mountaineering and the times when I felt most afraid were nkt when I was soloing in good conditions but times when I felt least in control of the situation, eg, because of unknown territory, weather, avalanche danger, etc.
The thing about free solo is that you can choose where and when you do it and can actually control a lot of the variables. For example, before Honnold ever did Free Rider on El Cap solo he rehearsed it many times with a rope so that he was confident that he could do it flawlessly. Of course, that was no guarantee, but it made him feel like it was, which can often make all the difference .
It’s kind of hard to explain this to people who have never done it before and they usually just think you are crazy, so most of the time you never even say anything.
Needless to say, I never said a word to my parents about most of my climbing. Certainly never told them I sometimes climbed without a rope.
To this day (35 years later) they don’t know about the latter.
I have no problem jumping off a 30 foot cliff into deep water but I would not look down from that height if it’s dry land underneath.”
That’s actually a fundamentally irrational fear if you have no plan to jump when there is just ground below.
It’s really no different from standing on a sidewalk on a city street
You don’t worry about falling off into traffic, do you?
I have been around cliffs enough not to worry at all when I am standing over a 1500 foot sheer drop. It’s literally like standing on a sidewalk.
Fear is a very strange thing and a lot of it actually IS irrational.