Good to see Kishida at the U.S. Congress on the vital roles many countries still need from the U.S.
So it becomes all the more vexing, as Heather's piece today moves on to how U.S. Republicans have turned as perverse as they have. Servants of Putin. Slaves to the orange or orange-brown paste-encrusted face of the U.S. fat one.
Good to see Kishida at the U.S. Congress on the vital roles many countries still need from the U.S.
So it becomes all the more vexing, as Heather's piece today moves on to how U.S. Republicans have turned as perverse as they have. Servants of Putin. Slaves to the orange or orange-brown paste-encrusted face of the U.S. fat one.
The degree to which Trump is of course a moral leper begs attention even more now, because of how Republicans in Arizona just this week reaffirmed their commitment to legislation dating back to 1864. One aspect of that stands out most -- white men ordering the lives of all women.
But our look at moral leprosy wouldn't be complete if we stopped just as what the patriarchs arrogate over women. Look, too, at the Speaker of that Arizona House then -- one William Claude Jones. Nearing 50 years old at the time, he took as his second wife a local 12-year-old girl. He'd have five wives over his lifetime, two whose ages are unknown, but two more whose ages are known to have been 14 and 15, in addition to the 12-year-old.
Perversity anyone? Remember, that 1864 Arizona code put into law the legal age of consent for girls at ten. Remind anyone of Trump strolling into a beauty contest dressing room for teen girls? Remind anyone of him bragging of his grabbing women in most private of places?
The Clarence court has also grabbed American women in most private of places. Of course it would. Those justices think not in terms of respect for privacy, or freedom -- but in terms that William Claude Jones could grab girls, that Trump could, that Putin could grab whole countries (with mass murder doing that).
Yes, good of Kishida to remind these U.S. Republican thugs, lepers, and perverts of our higher angels. Good of Heather to be as vexed yet as to how far we've fallen.
Good to see Kishida at the U.S. Congress on the vital roles many countries still need from the U.S.
So it becomes all the more vexing, as Heather's piece today moves on to how U.S. Republicans have turned as perverse as they have. Servants of Putin. Slaves to the orange or orange-brown paste-encrusted face of the U.S. fat one.
The degree to which Trump is of course a moral leper begs attention even more now, because of how Republicans in Arizona just this week reaffirmed their commitment to legislation dating back to 1864. One aspect of that stands out most -- white men ordering the lives of all women.
But our look at moral leprosy wouldn't be complete if we stopped just as what the patriarchs arrogate over women. Look, too, at the Speaker of that Arizona House then -- one William Claude Jones. Nearing 50 years old at the time, he took as his second wife a local 12-year-old girl. He'd have five wives over his lifetime, two whose ages are unknown, but two more whose ages are known to have been 14 and 15, in addition to the 12-year-old.
Perversity anyone? Remember, that 1864 Arizona code put into law the legal age of consent for girls at ten. Remind anyone of Trump strolling into a beauty contest dressing room for teen girls? Remind anyone of him bragging of his grabbing women in most private of places?
The Clarence court has also grabbed American women in most private of places. Of course it would. Those justices think not in terms of respect for privacy, or freedom -- but in terms that William Claude Jones could grab girls, that Trump could, that Putin could grab whole countries (with mass murder doing that).
Yes, good of Kishida to remind these U.S. Republican thugs, lepers, and perverts of our higher angels. Good of Heather to be as vexed yet as to how far we've fallen.
Are we still falling?
Did Congress applaud him?
I'm sure Dems did, Anne-Louise.
Sigh. I deliberately chose the word "Congress", meaning "Duma" as well as "Dems". Together.