The Insurrection Act and Trump's desire to use the military to quash dissent somehow got buried under all the recent crazy. Thank you, Heather, for focusing on the enormous threat it posed and reminding us of the actions taken to avert it by true patriots.
The connection between Eastman and Cruz in retrospect is terrifying. I had been won…
The Insurrection Act and Trump's desire to use the military to quash dissent somehow got buried under all the recent crazy. Thank you, Heather, for focusing on the enormous threat it posed and reminding us of the actions taken to avert it by true patriots.
The connection between Eastman and Cruz in retrospect is terrifying. I had been wondering why Cruz was so low-profile recently. Perhaps he has recognized the legal peril he may be in.
That brings up the possibility that there may be further rounds of charges and indictments related to a larger conspiracy of the politicians who participated. That notable lack of action to date on the Republican members of Congress is thought provoking. So is the lack of mention of the others involved in the January 6th War Room. Perhaps there will be another superseding indictment here as well as in the espionage indictments.
I wrote to the NYT in the spring of 2020 that I was concerned that Trump was going to stage a coup, and my worry was that he would use the military to do it because I knew that the military had a big problem with White Supremacists. This came up through my students' research for a Veterans Day Assembly we were presenting. The NYT refused to print what I had said, and I was talking about this with my friend that I walk with each morning. I was so worried about a coup, and no one was saying anything about it. Next thing I notice was that there were some political writers talking about it too. That made me even more angry that the Times would not print what I said about being worried that Trump was going to stage a coup. I mean he was telling us all that is what he was going to do early on. Trump is the worst USA president of all time, and Biden is the best.
I wince whenever I see the word "President" anywhere near that name. He was an embarrassing fake, a fraud, a very dirty trick, a piece of sabotage. It should never have happened, and when people like Linda tried to warn, they were treated like Cassandra.
I say that he was "installed." He never won the popular vote and he had a lot of
hostile domestic and foreign entities interfering. When he kept saying if he "did not win, the election is rigged," anyone who understands brainwashing projection knew he knew things were being rigged in his favor. I believe he was installed into position. Rachel Maddow had information on all of this early on who the oligarchs were who were positioning and funding Manafort, Bannon, Conway and Co.. I do hope someone has been investigating 2016 deeply. T'would be lovely to make the entire rethuglican party and their dictator's stain on our Oval office seat and all their actions for the past 7 years completely null and void. And as the party of the coup d'etat, they pay every penny back we/they spent on their skulduggery plus extra for pain, suffering and deaths caused by their actions.
And to make sure I used skulduggery correctly in this instance—I looked it up: "Skulduggery is dishonest words that are meant to trick people, like your brother's fast-talking that leaves you doing all of his chores and your own, plus giving him your allowance." He's a master of skulduggery. So perfectly fits the maga cult-leader and many of his propaganda cronies, no?
Yes. I agree that he did not win the popular election and the electoral college is some antiquated piece of garbage that gives voice to the rural over the urban. Bush and Trump were placed in by this horrendous tool, which Trump is poised to manipulate. When Gore did not win because of Florida, Dems did not go stop the steal, like we should have. Then Nader was the third party spoiler. I wonder if he is able to feel badly about the role he has played in the destruction of our environment. If Gore had become president we would have had a different environmental trajectory. Also, given how Tipper was so big into protecting children from television and songs, I would imagine there would have been much greater efforts made to protect us all from the technology running our lives. I do not consider the midterms legitimate, but have been analyzing the immigration patterns to see how a preponderance of immigrants from post Soviet European countries, and so called socialist Latin American countries has converged to make us much more conservative as a nation. Unfortunately not everyone who leaves a fascist country knows how to live in or understand a democracy.
Linda, I think about that travesty with Bush installed over Gore all the time, and how this climate tragedy would have been a priority for decades, now. It's heartbreaking. I agree 100%, we should have been all hands on deck to stop that steal.
I think it's more accurate to say that the Supreme Court stole the 2000 election for Bush2, but that's a quibble. I've been an activist on immigration for two decades, which I consider big biz' way of reducing wages, as well as a major environmental problem--the average immigrant's greenhouse emissions rise threefold after arrival in the US, as we're the major industrialized nation with the greatest per capita GH emissions and thus the worst place on the planet to put more people, and if you've come up with something solid suggesting that immigration is making us much more conservative, I'd be very interested to speak with you. The email I give out in public places is supernova1@aol.com--email me there and I'll give you my phone number.
Yes, Roger Stone created the chaos to enable the Supreme Court to steal the election after Federalist Society puppies, Brett and Amy, traveled to Florida to "help count" the ballots. It was all a scam. As to immigration issues, I am not up on the environmental impact of immigrant labor, but it makes sense. I do have 2 friends who are immigration lawyers and their stories are heartbreaking.
The Electoral College was part of the set of compromises that made the Union possible in the first place. Does messing with it risk undermining the Union?
Anne-Louise Luccarini; I wish Trump had never been elected. IMO and of others, if Hillary had won, there would have been no Covid Crap. There would not have been four years of "Russian Interference" BS and two impeachments.
Sure, Hillary might have started WW III sooner than Biden but so what?
All Trump did was delay the shit coming by four years. I'm not getting any younger and the past three years were total shite.
It is helpful to try to look at where we are today as a positive in that every brick in the foundation of America has dark, smelly issues etched into them and we are now having to finally face their impacts in these modern times. It is our turn to look at ourselves as country and do some soul-searching in who we are and who we want to be. We must face our shadows of racism, bigotry, misogyny, xenophobia, gender phobias, immature narcissism, white privilege and corporate domination and invasive algorithms. All of this impacts what we are taught and intentionally not taught. How we live in this century of rapid technology whose impact and control upon us is barely beginning to be understood on a mass level. We need to re-create America and bring her up to date with stricter laws, swifter justice, facts, and educate people on our real history, hone critical thinking skills and our responsibilities to one another and to a planet that cannot sustain this level of greed. The old days of white, colonial, corporate domination and the days of keeping women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen are over.
We are hearing the screams and smelling the stinking lies of the dominators who feel the death knell of those days and desperately want them back. We must deal with all our isms in this huge melting pot of multi-tinted citizens. Our form of democracy may have to look different if people cannot mutually respect rules, laws, one another and this sphere we live upon. I have no interest to return to the wild west nor to some fearful, apocalyptic vision of the future where everyone has concealed weapons and fights like hell for scraps. Let's move towards a future of decency instead of scarcity, fear and ignorance.
Pensa, this assessment is accurate. Until we (as a country) address that our rise to power (which was meteoric for the times) has as its foundation the theft of Indigenous Lands and the near genocide of the Indigenous Peoples combined with the kidnapping and enslavement of Black Africans, we cannot move forward through the sludge of presumed white supremacy and Christian dogma (as adopted by Christian Nationalists). Then we can address the other "isms" of gender, class, and orientation.
My brother and his family just moved to Singapore where safety is extremely important and they give up certain rights to maintain that safety. I am in the process of studying how they have no crime and poor behavior is checked swiftly. I would like to understand their system since they are a huge melting pot of people from around the world. (rather wealthy). I would give up certain rights if we could stop the constant massacres of American children... and abuses of the 1st Amendment that has now moved into mass brainwashing.
Pensa_VT: I agree with most of your comment. Unfortunately every country on Earth has bricks with dark smelly issues etched in them.
Saying you are against racism and then mentioning "white privilege" and "white...domination" just feeds the fire. Race is a myth, a lie, developed by the eugenicists.
You are defeating your own arguments by putting "white" or any other skin color in your arguments. I try hard not to do that. It sometimes slips in anyway. So many people use color of skin to describe people. It's eugenics propaganda.
I agree with you that Americans need to learn about the past. Don't destroy it or bury. Don't tear down statues and cancel history. How do we learn where we came from?
Oliver Cromwell sent 50,000 Irish slaves to the American colonies during his invasion of Ireland in 1649-52. The Irish slaves were free. The African slaves cost money. But all people hear and read about are the African slaves.
Free Africans in the colonies owned both Irish and African slaves. In the Caribbean the Irish and African slaves united in slave revolts. The first person to petition the Virginia House of Burgess to make the buying of African slaves legal in Virginia was a free African man himself who also owned Irish slaves.
And this myth about male domination keeping women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen is something I've never run into. I agree with Terry Thomas in the film "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World". America is the biggest matriarchy on the planet. Women sit under hair dryers eating bon-bons gabbing away while their husbands work themselves to death and die early from heart attacks.
That was one of life's worst shocks. She had outclassed him in absolutely every field. He'd displayed himself as an ignorant oaf. How could it have happened? Then we started finding out.
Anne_Louise Luccarini: Barrack Obama chastised Hillary for not going to Wisconsin, Michigan, and the other swing states in 2016. Hillary believed the polling data. She got lazy. Trump is a lot of things but he isn't lazy. The guy is a dynamo of energy. Trump campaigned hard.
Plus, all the media coverage (hatred) of Trump just gave him millions of dollars of free advertising.
The Democrats lost that election through stupidity and hubris.
His "I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any votes" was NO JOKE.
Forget "pro-life." The Federal government had put a hold on executions for a myriad of important reasons (to scratch the surface - killing of innocent people, inequities in sentencing with rich people rarely being held to account, pharmaceutical companies refusing to have products affiliated with the practice, refusal of medical societies from participating the killing of individuals, and on and on). Yet djt had called for the execution of the Exonerated Five when they were initially falsely arrested, and he NEVER apologized nor acknowledged his error. So in addition to making plans for the use of the military against civilians, he incited white supremists like Nazis, confederates, anti-government militias and domestic terrorists by calling them "fine people" and promising to give blanket pardons.
During the Trump administration, the Federal government was directed to resume executions. He had THIRTEEN PEOPLE executed - FIVE AFTER HE LOST THE 2020 ELECTION, in the time between the November Election Day until the January 21 Inauguration Day. That is homicidal, NOT pro-life.
The NYT also did not publish it when I wrote in to an article about Trump's son getting covid that Child Welfare should have removed Barron from the home for neglect.
Mine was about the unmitigated gall of Casey DeSantis in imitating Jackie's style (and JFK the brave promoter of civil rights), to sell their sick Fascist agenda. I didn't add that the south murdered our beloved president or that his nephew is a spoiled spoiler if there ever was one and brings shame upon the whole family.
Judy Dyer - tfg hated President Barack Obama so much that he fully intended for the line of succession of Presidents to END at 45.
He refused to believe he could lose to Joe Biden and not go on to be the despot he always envisioned, a la Putin or the one he kept love letters from, Kim Jong Un.
This week happens to be the anniversary of Hitler becoming the absolute dictator (Fuhrer) of Germany - August 2, 1934.
I loved Barack Obama so much! But, darn close to hating white people ...and, I'm one of them. I really REALLY hate white supremacists. THE MOST unAmerican thing one can be.
Linda Weide: Woodrow Wilson and Abraham Lincoln are the worst Presidents. Wilson was a bigot who re-segregated the Army and Navy. He gave us the Income Tax, Federal Reserve, and involved the USA in WWI which led to WWII and Communism etc. Wilson was a disaster.
Abraham Lincoln's war killed more Americans than any other war in the country's history.
Do you have proof of this "White Supremacist" policy in the Armed Forces? Last I looked all the leaders of the US military were African-Americans.
Timmy, when we were doing a presentation on the military I had different students researching the history of different groups in the military, like women, Asians, Native Americans. One of my students wanted to do "White Men," so we looked them up. Every single article was on how White Supremacy is a big problem in the military. Then we read that at least 1/3 of the people in the military say they know someone in the military who is a White Supremacist and how that is a problem. Here are some articles on it.
It was reading these stats that had me worried about Trump staging a coup. I was not sure whether the military would stand up to him or support him in his coup desires. We now see that they stood up to him.
I have been talking about presidents in my lifetime. I was not alive for Wilson or Lincoln. However, Wilson is not alone in being a bigot, so that is not a criteria I use, but he did not have the global environmental impact that Trump has had. By following the Reagan playbook (the second worst president in my lifetime and perhaps the globally more important problem) putting industry insiders into regulatory agencies and filling the court with people who are destroying any environmental protections we have, Trump will have more negative impact on the USA and the planet than any president prior to him at a point in time when these actions are now irreversible. Biden is attempting to undo this. I certainly feel the government is responsible for our well being. We are global players and a president needs to be making sure we have strong alliances with other countries who back us up against our enemies.
Linda Weide: Thanks for the reply. I'm no fan of the military so I'm not surprised by your research results. IMO the US military should be disbanded. The National Guard in each state and the Coast Guard is all we need for self defense.
Biden has already undone all of Trump's executive orders. Biden can't control much. The government debt is out of control and getting worse. Each President has increased the debt since Clinton. The last President in my lifetime who was any good was JFK and look what happened to him.
Timmy we are going to have to disagree. We are not Costa Rica, who can get away without a military it seems. We can not. My daughter was living with a family in Costa Rica recently who live in a small town. Their 5 year old son has asthma and the medical center does not have an asthma specialist, so when he is having asthma problems he has to lie down and take it easy. This is not true for my daughter who also has asthma that has been controlled by medications until she outgrew the need to take regular ones, and now just has emergency ones like I do. So, Costa Rica probably cannot afford to have a military. I posit that we can afford to have one. People are in poverty in this country not because the money is going to the military, although I would like to get rid of the waste, but because we don't manage our nation in a way that ensures people and children will not be in poverty. The money is here in this country to take care of people, but we don't. We could be giving more money in welfare for example, but policies have taken that away. One of my aunts in Germany explained to me that the reason people there get more money from the government is that they don't want them to fall into a depression while they are getting it together. Wish that were the attitude here, but try telling that to Joe Manchin. We need to tax the wealthy at a higher percent, and we can start with billionaires and millionaires. We should not allow dual citizenship with countries that allow Americans to hide their money from taxation. Let Clarence Thomas' billionaire pal Crow move to the Caribbean Island where he has become a citizen to shelter his money. Biden has not yet undone all of Trumps and Reagans destruction of the government. We have enemies, and until they are gone, I think we do need a military.
Linda Weide: The Founders of the uSA hated standing armies. They knew that a federal military was a threat to liberty. The Army will be used against the people of America. It has been used before. Look at what happened to the Bonus Army in DC. Or look at the Coal Wars or the Draft Riots in NYC.
People don't get money from the government. The government has no money. Every dime the government has is taken from the workers of the USA.
Sure, the Fed prints currency to fund the government, but then we all pay the Inflation Tax to pay for that currency printing.
The USA can't afford to have a military. The Federal Government will pay $1 trillion in interest on the debt this year alone. That's $1 trillion going right to the people you want to tax even more.
Your support of the US Military and the debt it causes is making the rich richer.
I think South Carolina attacked Fort Sumpter. The south succeeded. Do you wish that would have been successful? Should slavery still exist, and if not when should it have ended?
Christopher D Austin: No one was injured or died in the bombing of Ft. Sumter. The Federal troops in the fort were allowed to leave a few days later after they surrendered.
The War Between the States was not about slavery, at least not at first. It was about tariffs and taxes. Abe Lincoln did not abolish slavery in Kentucky, Maryland, or West Virginia (the border states that stayed neutral). Lincoln also did not abolish slavery in the northern states. His famous Emancipation Proclamation only abolished slavery in the Confederacy over which he had no authority.
You end slavery the same way the British Empire did. Buy the slaves from the slave owners and set them free. Lincoln could have done this but he didn't. Lincoln wanted a strong central government. Lincoln was a railroad man. He supported Wall Street and the Big Boys in NYC. They wanted to rape the South and they did.
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Regarding Ted Cruz, I think his makeover as a MAGA crusading knight was well-performed, if you can think of contemporary American politics as a real-life horror movie featuring Trump as the reincarnation of Godzilla and Biden as Dracula.
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Georgia, I think no stone will be left unturned by SC Smith. They will all have their comeuppance. They were all out in the open and STILL are. Lock them up, eventually. But get them out of the Congress now.
When a misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood, smothers truth under indifference or insults, a nation turns its back on progress, and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe (Frédéric Bastiat).
This is what the conspirators of Donald Trump have been engaging since 2020 elections. If they realize that their claims are under constant scrutiny, they hid behind the First Amendment and manufacture another version of truth to appear as if they are victims of political persecutions. They really wanted to benefit from violence to find a door to introduce military into the elections and quote even Insurrection Act to appear as using the constitution but behind their back, they wanted to overturn every unimaginable claim into their favor and select which part of the law to butter with.
I agree Edwin with one exception. I think the orange blob and his co-conspirators have been engaging in and disrupting everything they can since LONG before 2020. Their crusade began in 2015 and blossomed like a nuclear bomb throughout his first reign of terror.
Georgia we’re on the same track. Yesterday I wrote:
Will there be indictments for the Republican members of the House and Senate who were in on (part of) the conspiracy/ conspiracies? After all 147 of them voted against certifying the election results!
No doubt! That was the undeniable and very public indicator that they were absolutely committed to doing whatever was necessary to hold onto power even at the expense of vacating principles and expectations of a well run democracy.
The DOJ has emphasized the fact that it is non-political, however, it is aware of the political calendar. The scope of Smith's January 6th indictment is narrow to eliminate as many procedural delays as possible in order to get these charges to trial as soon as possible. The other actors, inside and outside of Congress, should have their day in court if we have a functioning democracy after November 2024, but only if Trump is tried first.
Jack Smith did say that investigations are ongoing, which gives me hope that he will eventually reach into the House and Senate Members who participated. I doubt a superseding indictment since it's probably best to keep Trump's trial separate from the Co-conspirators, but that does not eliminate the possibility of more indictments.
From your mouth to God's ear. I too have been wondering when the hammer would come down on the co-conspirators in Congress. Many made no effort to hide their actions. If Cruz gets caught up in the net of his own making, good riddance to bad rubbish. All of America should celebrate, not just Texans.
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So, no policy disagreements? The “grabbing” issue is paramount in your mind? Or, do you suspect that the “locker room talk” comment was a lie? (You know that it is not illegal to lie, right, John?)
At the time I had already decided that I could never again vote for blood-soaked Hillary, the Butcher of Libya, who pressured a reluctant Obama to go far beyond the U.N. mandate and break the country with regime change, creating an ongoing festering wound out of the country that had once been the financial pillar of the African Union.
In 2020, I supported Tulsi Gabbard, who condemned Hillary as the "corrupt queen of the war-mongers."
The Insurrection Act and Trump's desire to use the military to quash dissent somehow got buried under all the recent crazy. Thank you, Heather, for focusing on the enormous threat it posed and reminding us of the actions taken to avert it by true patriots.
The connection between Eastman and Cruz in retrospect is terrifying. I had been wondering why Cruz was so low-profile recently. Perhaps he has recognized the legal peril he may be in.
That brings up the possibility that there may be further rounds of charges and indictments related to a larger conspiracy of the politicians who participated. That notable lack of action to date on the Republican members of Congress is thought provoking. So is the lack of mention of the others involved in the January 6th War Room. Perhaps there will be another superseding indictment here as well as in the espionage indictments.
I wrote to the NYT in the spring of 2020 that I was concerned that Trump was going to stage a coup, and my worry was that he would use the military to do it because I knew that the military had a big problem with White Supremacists. This came up through my students' research for a Veterans Day Assembly we were presenting. The NYT refused to print what I had said, and I was talking about this with my friend that I walk with each morning. I was so worried about a coup, and no one was saying anything about it. Next thing I notice was that there were some political writers talking about it too. That made me even more angry that the Times would not print what I said about being worried that Trump was going to stage a coup. I mean he was telling us all that is what he was going to do early on. Trump is the worst USA president of all time, and Biden is the best.
I wince whenever I see the word "President" anywhere near that name. He was an embarrassing fake, a fraud, a very dirty trick, a piece of sabotage. It should never have happened, and when people like Linda tried to warn, they were treated like Cassandra.
I say that he was "installed." He never won the popular vote and he had a lot of
hostile domestic and foreign entities interfering. When he kept saying if he "did not win, the election is rigged," anyone who understands brainwashing projection knew he knew things were being rigged in his favor. I believe he was installed into position. Rachel Maddow had information on all of this early on who the oligarchs were who were positioning and funding Manafort, Bannon, Conway and Co.. I do hope someone has been investigating 2016 deeply. T'would be lovely to make the entire rethuglican party and their dictator's stain on our Oval office seat and all their actions for the past 7 years completely null and void. And as the party of the coup d'etat, they pay every penny back we/they spent on their skulduggery plus extra for pain, suffering and deaths caused by their actions.
And to make sure I used skulduggery correctly in this instance—I looked it up: "Skulduggery is dishonest words that are meant to trick people, like your brother's fast-talking that leaves you doing all of his chores and your own, plus giving him your allowance." He's a master of skulduggery. So perfectly fits the maga cult-leader and many of his propaganda cronies, no?
Yes. I agree that he did not win the popular election and the electoral college is some antiquated piece of garbage that gives voice to the rural over the urban. Bush and Trump were placed in by this horrendous tool, which Trump is poised to manipulate. When Gore did not win because of Florida, Dems did not go stop the steal, like we should have. Then Nader was the third party spoiler. I wonder if he is able to feel badly about the role he has played in the destruction of our environment. If Gore had become president we would have had a different environmental trajectory. Also, given how Tipper was so big into protecting children from television and songs, I would imagine there would have been much greater efforts made to protect us all from the technology running our lives. I do not consider the midterms legitimate, but have been analyzing the immigration patterns to see how a preponderance of immigrants from post Soviet European countries, and so called socialist Latin American countries has converged to make us much more conservative as a nation. Unfortunately not everyone who leaves a fascist country knows how to live in or understand a democracy.
Linda, I think about that travesty with Bush installed over Gore all the time, and how this climate tragedy would have been a priority for decades, now. It's heartbreaking. I agree 100%, we should have been all hands on deck to stop that steal.
A well orchestrated parade in 2000 in Florida has Canadian forests burning in 2023.
2000 Florida recount: How the 'Brooks Brothers Riot' killed the Bush-Gore ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/15/its-insanity-how-brooks-brothers-riot-killed-recount-miami/
I think it's more accurate to say that the Supreme Court stole the 2000 election for Bush2, but that's a quibble. I've been an activist on immigration for two decades, which I consider big biz' way of reducing wages, as well as a major environmental problem--the average immigrant's greenhouse emissions rise threefold after arrival in the US, as we're the major industrialized nation with the greatest per capita GH emissions and thus the worst place on the planet to put more people, and if you've come up with something solid suggesting that immigration is making us much more conservative, I'd be very interested to speak with you. The email I give out in public places is supernova1@aol.com--email me there and I'll give you my phone number.
Yes, Roger Stone created the chaos to enable the Supreme Court to steal the election after Federalist Society puppies, Brett and Amy, traveled to Florida to "help count" the ballots. It was all a scam. As to immigration issues, I am not up on the environmental impact of immigrant labor, but it makes sense. I do have 2 friends who are immigration lawyers and their stories are heartbreaking.
The Electoral College was part of the set of compromises that made the Union possible in the first place. Does messing with it risk undermining the Union?
“Skulduggery!” I’ll have to remember that one to apply within any future reference to tfg. Thank you!
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In addition to our home grown oligarchs "installing tRump", Putin and his fellow Russian Yacht Brigade contributed to the coronation.
Anne-Louise Luccarini; I wish Trump had never been elected. IMO and of others, if Hillary had won, there would have been no Covid Crap. There would not have been four years of "Russian Interference" BS and two impeachments.
Sure, Hillary might have started WW III sooner than Biden but so what?
All Trump did was delay the shit coming by four years. I'm not getting any younger and the past three years were total shite.
It is helpful to try to look at where we are today as a positive in that every brick in the foundation of America has dark, smelly issues etched into them and we are now having to finally face their impacts in these modern times. It is our turn to look at ourselves as country and do some soul-searching in who we are and who we want to be. We must face our shadows of racism, bigotry, misogyny, xenophobia, gender phobias, immature narcissism, white privilege and corporate domination and invasive algorithms. All of this impacts what we are taught and intentionally not taught. How we live in this century of rapid technology whose impact and control upon us is barely beginning to be understood on a mass level. We need to re-create America and bring her up to date with stricter laws, swifter justice, facts, and educate people on our real history, hone critical thinking skills and our responsibilities to one another and to a planet that cannot sustain this level of greed. The old days of white, colonial, corporate domination and the days of keeping women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen are over.
We are hearing the screams and smelling the stinking lies of the dominators who feel the death knell of those days and desperately want them back. We must deal with all our isms in this huge melting pot of multi-tinted citizens. Our form of democracy may have to look different if people cannot mutually respect rules, laws, one another and this sphere we live upon. I have no interest to return to the wild west nor to some fearful, apocalyptic vision of the future where everyone has concealed weapons and fights like hell for scraps. Let's move towards a future of decency instead of scarcity, fear and ignorance.
Pensa, this assessment is accurate. Until we (as a country) address that our rise to power (which was meteoric for the times) has as its foundation the theft of Indigenous Lands and the near genocide of the Indigenous Peoples combined with the kidnapping and enslavement of Black Africans, we cannot move forward through the sludge of presumed white supremacy and Christian dogma (as adopted by Christian Nationalists). Then we can address the other "isms" of gender, class, and orientation.
Unresolved national trauma which is now showing its' 'shadow side.'
Thank you for your inspiring vision of a renewed nation.
My brother and his family just moved to Singapore where safety is extremely important and they give up certain rights to maintain that safety. I am in the process of studying how they have no crime and poor behavior is checked swiftly. I would like to understand their system since they are a huge melting pot of people from around the world. (rather wealthy). I would give up certain rights if we could stop the constant massacres of American children... and abuses of the 1st Amendment that has now moved into mass brainwashing.
Pensa_VT: I agree with most of your comment. Unfortunately every country on Earth has bricks with dark smelly issues etched in them.
Saying you are against racism and then mentioning "white privilege" and "white...domination" just feeds the fire. Race is a myth, a lie, developed by the eugenicists.
You are defeating your own arguments by putting "white" or any other skin color in your arguments. I try hard not to do that. It sometimes slips in anyway. So many people use color of skin to describe people. It's eugenics propaganda.
I agree with you that Americans need to learn about the past. Don't destroy it or bury. Don't tear down statues and cancel history. How do we learn where we came from?
Oliver Cromwell sent 50,000 Irish slaves to the American colonies during his invasion of Ireland in 1649-52. The Irish slaves were free. The African slaves cost money. But all people hear and read about are the African slaves.
Free Africans in the colonies owned both Irish and African slaves. In the Caribbean the Irish and African slaves united in slave revolts. The first person to petition the Virginia House of Burgess to make the buying of African slaves legal in Virginia was a free African man himself who also owned Irish slaves.
And this myth about male domination keeping women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen is something I've never run into. I agree with Terry Thomas in the film "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World". America is the biggest matriarchy on the planet. Women sit under hair dryers eating bon-bons gabbing away while their husbands work themselves to death and die early from heart attacks.
But I agree with most of your comment.
Beautifully said and facing facts of what we have become.
That was one of life's worst shocks. She had outclassed him in absolutely every field. He'd displayed himself as an ignorant oaf. How could it have happened? Then we started finding out.
Anne_Louise Luccarini: Barrack Obama chastised Hillary for not going to Wisconsin, Michigan, and the other swing states in 2016. Hillary believed the polling data. She got lazy. Trump is a lot of things but he isn't lazy. The guy is a dynamo of energy. Trump campaigned hard.
Plus, all the media coverage (hatred) of Trump just gave him millions of dollars of free advertising.
The Democrats lost that election through stupidity and hubris.
I have never called him president. Not once.
You were right on target.
His "I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any votes" was NO JOKE.
Forget "pro-life." The Federal government had put a hold on executions for a myriad of important reasons (to scratch the surface - killing of innocent people, inequities in sentencing with rich people rarely being held to account, pharmaceutical companies refusing to have products affiliated with the practice, refusal of medical societies from participating the killing of individuals, and on and on). Yet djt had called for the execution of the Exonerated Five when they were initially falsely arrested, and he NEVER apologized nor acknowledged his error. So in addition to making plans for the use of the military against civilians, he incited white supremists like Nazis, confederates, anti-government militias and domestic terrorists by calling them "fine people" and promising to give blanket pardons.
During the Trump administration, the Federal government was directed to resume executions. He had THIRTEEN PEOPLE executed - FIVE AFTER HE LOST THE 2020 ELECTION, in the time between the November Election Day until the January 21 Inauguration Day. That is homicidal, NOT pro-life.
It is in Orwell-Double-Speak
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The Times has a tendency to censor left-wing comments, based on my personal experience.
The NYT also did not publish it when I wrote in to an article about Trump's son getting covid that Child Welfare should have removed Barron from the home for neglect.
Good idea. No excuse to censor.
Mine was about the unmitigated gall of Casey DeSantis in imitating Jackie's style (and JFK the brave promoter of civil rights), to sell their sick Fascist agenda. I didn't add that the south murdered our beloved president or that his nephew is a spoiled spoiler if there ever was one and brings shame upon the whole family.
Linda Weide: That's kidnapping by the government. You crossed a red line there. Not cool.
Worst?
His “Presidency “ was a big mistake.
I refuse to recognize it.
Judy Dyer - tfg hated President Barack Obama so much that he fully intended for the line of succession of Presidents to END at 45.
He refused to believe he could lose to Joe Biden and not go on to be the despot he always envisioned, a la Putin or the one he kept love letters from, Kim Jong Un.
This week happens to be the anniversary of Hitler becoming the absolute dictator (Fuhrer) of Germany - August 2, 1934.
I loved Barack Obama so much! But, darn close to hating white people ...and, I'm one of them. I really REALLY hate white supremacists. THE MOST unAmerican thing one can be.
Linda Weide: Woodrow Wilson and Abraham Lincoln are the worst Presidents. Wilson was a bigot who re-segregated the Army and Navy. He gave us the Income Tax, Federal Reserve, and involved the USA in WWI which led to WWII and Communism etc. Wilson was a disaster.
Abraham Lincoln's war killed more Americans than any other war in the country's history.
Do you have proof of this "White Supremacist" policy in the Armed Forces? Last I looked all the leaders of the US military were African-Americans.
Timmy, when we were doing a presentation on the military I had different students researching the history of different groups in the military, like women, Asians, Native Americans. One of my students wanted to do "White Men," so we looked them up. Every single article was on how White Supremacy is a big problem in the military. Then we read that at least 1/3 of the people in the military say they know someone in the military who is a White Supremacist and how that is a problem. Here are some articles on it.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/deep-history-white-supremacy-within-us-military
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/09/white-supremacist-group-patriot-front-one-in-five-applicants-tied-to-us-military
It was reading these stats that had me worried about Trump staging a coup. I was not sure whether the military would stand up to him or support him in his coup desires. We now see that they stood up to him.
I have been talking about presidents in my lifetime. I was not alive for Wilson or Lincoln. However, Wilson is not alone in being a bigot, so that is not a criteria I use, but he did not have the global environmental impact that Trump has had. By following the Reagan playbook (the second worst president in my lifetime and perhaps the globally more important problem) putting industry insiders into regulatory agencies and filling the court with people who are destroying any environmental protections we have, Trump will have more negative impact on the USA and the planet than any president prior to him at a point in time when these actions are now irreversible. Biden is attempting to undo this. I certainly feel the government is responsible for our well being. We are global players and a president needs to be making sure we have strong alliances with other countries who back us up against our enemies.
Linda Weide: Thanks for the reply. I'm no fan of the military so I'm not surprised by your research results. IMO the US military should be disbanded. The National Guard in each state and the Coast Guard is all we need for self defense.
Biden has already undone all of Trump's executive orders. Biden can't control much. The government debt is out of control and getting worse. Each President has increased the debt since Clinton. The last President in my lifetime who was any good was JFK and look what happened to him.
Timmy we are going to have to disagree. We are not Costa Rica, who can get away without a military it seems. We can not. My daughter was living with a family in Costa Rica recently who live in a small town. Their 5 year old son has asthma and the medical center does not have an asthma specialist, so when he is having asthma problems he has to lie down and take it easy. This is not true for my daughter who also has asthma that has been controlled by medications until she outgrew the need to take regular ones, and now just has emergency ones like I do. So, Costa Rica probably cannot afford to have a military. I posit that we can afford to have one. People are in poverty in this country not because the money is going to the military, although I would like to get rid of the waste, but because we don't manage our nation in a way that ensures people and children will not be in poverty. The money is here in this country to take care of people, but we don't. We could be giving more money in welfare for example, but policies have taken that away. One of my aunts in Germany explained to me that the reason people there get more money from the government is that they don't want them to fall into a depression while they are getting it together. Wish that were the attitude here, but try telling that to Joe Manchin. We need to tax the wealthy at a higher percent, and we can start with billionaires and millionaires. We should not allow dual citizenship with countries that allow Americans to hide their money from taxation. Let Clarence Thomas' billionaire pal Crow move to the Caribbean Island where he has become a citizen to shelter his money. Biden has not yet undone all of Trumps and Reagans destruction of the government. We have enemies, and until they are gone, I think we do need a military.
Linda Weide: The Founders of the uSA hated standing armies. They knew that a federal military was a threat to liberty. The Army will be used against the people of America. It has been used before. Look at what happened to the Bonus Army in DC. Or look at the Coal Wars or the Draft Riots in NYC.
People don't get money from the government. The government has no money. Every dime the government has is taken from the workers of the USA.
Sure, the Fed prints currency to fund the government, but then we all pay the Inflation Tax to pay for that currency printing.
The USA can't afford to have a military. The Federal Government will pay $1 trillion in interest on the debt this year alone. That's $1 trillion going right to the people you want to tax even more.
Your support of the US Military and the debt it causes is making the rich richer.
Lincoln war? WTF
Christopher D Austin: Lincoln attacked the Confederacy. The states had a right to secede.
I think South Carolina attacked Fort Sumpter. The south succeeded. Do you wish that would have been successful? Should slavery still exist, and if not when should it have ended?
Christopher D Austin: No one was injured or died in the bombing of Ft. Sumter. The Federal troops in the fort were allowed to leave a few days later after they surrendered.
The War Between the States was not about slavery, at least not at first. It was about tariffs and taxes. Abe Lincoln did not abolish slavery in Kentucky, Maryland, or West Virginia (the border states that stayed neutral). Lincoln also did not abolish slavery in the northern states. His famous Emancipation Proclamation only abolished slavery in the Confederacy over which he had no authority.
You end slavery the same way the British Empire did. Buy the slaves from the slave owners and set them free. Lincoln could have done this but he didn't. Lincoln wanted a strong central government. Lincoln was a railroad man. He supported Wall Street and the Big Boys in NYC. They wanted to rape the South and they did.
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Cruz needs to be headlined, but there are so many evil weasels. He is clever, greedy and without a shred of moral fiber.
I'm inclined to view Jeri Chilcott as a toxic, foul-mouthed troll, but in this case I'm inclined to actually agree with her.
Rude!
Also... rude.
Will,
Rude Jeri Chilcutt had it coming.
Regarding Ted Cruz, I think his makeover as a MAGA crusading knight was well-performed, if you can think of contemporary American politics as a real-life horror movie featuring Trump as the reincarnation of Godzilla and Biden as Dracula.
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SOMEone just had to go on the record with a sneer.
Still trying to make friends John?
No need to try.
Georgia, I think no stone will be left unturned by SC Smith. They will all have their comeuppance. They were all out in the open and STILL are. Lock them up, eventually. But get them out of the Congress now.
Get them out of Congress, indeed!
When a misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood, smothers truth under indifference or insults, a nation turns its back on progress, and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe (Frédéric Bastiat).
This is what the conspirators of Donald Trump have been engaging since 2020 elections. If they realize that their claims are under constant scrutiny, they hid behind the First Amendment and manufacture another version of truth to appear as if they are victims of political persecutions. They really wanted to benefit from violence to find a door to introduce military into the elections and quote even Insurrection Act to appear as using the constitution but behind their back, they wanted to overturn every unimaginable claim into their favor and select which part of the law to butter with.
I agree Edwin with one exception. I think the orange blob and his co-conspirators have been engaging in and disrupting everything they can since LONG before 2020. Their crusade began in 2015 and blossomed like a nuclear bomb throughout his first reign of terror.
Sure. Because I remember that's when Trump started the campaign
Georgia we’re on the same track. Yesterday I wrote:
Will there be indictments for the Republican members of the House and Senate who were in on (part of) the conspiracy/ conspiracies? After all 147 of them voted against certifying the election results!
No doubt! That was the undeniable and very public indicator that they were absolutely committed to doing whatever was necessary to hold onto power even at the expense of vacating principles and expectations of a well run democracy.
The DOJ has emphasized the fact that it is non-political, however, it is aware of the political calendar. The scope of Smith's January 6th indictment is narrow to eliminate as many procedural delays as possible in order to get these charges to trial as soon as possible. The other actors, inside and outside of Congress, should have their day in court if we have a functioning democracy after November 2024, but only if Trump is tried first.
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Jack Smith did say that investigations are ongoing, which gives me hope that he will eventually reach into the House and Senate Members who participated. I doubt a superseding indictment since it's probably best to keep Trump's trial separate from the Co-conspirators, but that does not eliminate the possibility of more indictments.
From your mouth to God's ear. I too have been wondering when the hammer would come down on the co-conspirators in Congress. Many made no effort to hide their actions. If Cruz gets caught up in the net of his own making, good riddance to bad rubbish. All of America should celebrate, not just Texans.
Oh! Intrigued! I bet you are right.
Georgia Fisanick,
Are you buying into the Biden administration's weaponized partisan conspiracy theory about Trump?
Please understand that I will never vote for Trump, but I think that Biden is even worse.
I have shared my own thoughts on Trump's Jan. 6 indictment here:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-2-2023/comment/21789709
Lol. You may want to actually read the indictment. From this nonsensical comment it’s obvious you’ve not bothered.
I’m curious, John, why will you never vote for Trump?
It was the Billy Bush tape, with Trump's "locker room talk."
Never.
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So, no policy disagreements? The “grabbing” issue is paramount in your mind? Or, do you suspect that the “locker room talk” comment was a lie? (You know that it is not illegal to lie, right, John?)
Paul,
At the time I had already decided that I could never again vote for blood-soaked Hillary, the Butcher of Libya, who pressured a reluctant Obama to go far beyond the U.N. mandate and break the country with regime change, creating an ongoing festering wound out of the country that had once been the financial pillar of the African Union.
In 2020, I supported Tulsi Gabbard, who condemned Hillary as the "corrupt queen of the war-mongers."
AMEN!
So, no policy disagreements with Trump? Just “grabbing”?