Better than nothing but I still strongly believe that trump should be held accountable in some way for his incitement (and other wrongs) or this will be perpetuated.
Btw, Stuart, I live in VT which votes mostly Democrat despite being very rural with lots of struggling farmers. We do have white supremacy groups, 200 of whom inculding a state trooper took buses to the Capitol. I know, "'tis a puzzlement..."
Hi Sally, I too live in VT. I was so concerned about our republican Governor Scott replacing Sen Leahy with a republican if he became too ill to serve. Looks like he is back in the saddle. Wishing him, and all of us, good health while we tackle...EVERYTHING before us.
Gov. Scott has said he'd replace Leahy and Sanders with Dems if they were incapacitated, but an election would have to happen within 6 months, not the end of the term of office.
Glad to hear about Leahy, Penelope. I remember many moons ago seeing a newly elected Leahy at subcommittee hearings. So funny, he's among the very few I do remember from those days!
There's something about the abundance of old Volvo' and Saab's on the roads. I always love coming to Vermont. I often used to "drop down" to Burlington; buying textiles, towels and sheets at the factory outlets.
I truly hope all the lawsuits being discussed for the past couple of years come to fruition. Bleed him dry of money, opportunities, a voice. Sure I would love to see him be convicted so that he can never hold office again and so that he is not privy to a pension, SS protection, or a travel allowance. But that's not going to happen. My prediction is that the moment the senate votes not to convict he will announce his presidential run for 2024 and we'll all be thrown back into his sh*t show again.
I would give you a "like" but I do not want that last sentence to be manifested ever! Shooosh! Visualize him in a small room surrounded by four walls like any other criminal most deserving.
And if we begin burning effigies in this country, it should represent all seditionists that who are Nazis, KKK, alt right (Reich), white supremacists, and looney tune Q'ers. Include, of course, the current trumplicans who signed on to overthrowing our fair election, use slave-era gerrymandering and are suppressing votes. In essence, anti-democracy pinheads with guns and bombs.
Gerrymandering: I read a letter to Judge Santelle by Samuel Isscharoff a few days ago (Racial Gerrymandering in a Complex World: A Reply to Judge
Sentelle, Catholic University Law Review, 1996) that the racial argument against gerrymandering... "From Nazi Germany to South African apartheid-and, by implication to the Jim Crow South as well-the defining feature of these odious forms of oppression always has been: a nasty, brutish power grab." I agree with his ideas that redistricting is racist, oppressive and with computers is odious. Tuskegee, Alabama has one district that has 32 sides!!!
Issacharoff states that white supremacists' officials goals in gerrymandering are twofold:
1. "Cracking" (i.e. diluting the voting power of the opposing party's supporters across many districts) and "packing" (concentrating the opposing party's voting power in one district to reduce their voting power in other districts).
Isn't it time for a cool change for our citizens of color? Have they and our indigenous people paid a very high price? Is it not their turn for us to right the wrongs of our colonial ancestors? Do they not deserve for all of us to stand up and fight for them to be equal? To have equal opportunities in voting, jobs, and feeling safe driving or walking down the street in our country and not profiled and bullied by police and peers?
Let's end our 200+ year old American Apartheids. We can be much better than our colonial history. (And that history must be taught to our people, in honesty).
What we will do is sue the pants off of him in civil and ordinary courts.
Better than nothing but I still strongly believe that trump should be held accountable in some way for his incitement (and other wrongs) or this will be perpetuated.
Btw, Stuart, I live in VT which votes mostly Democrat despite being very rural with lots of struggling farmers. We do have white supremacy groups, 200 of whom inculding a state trooper took buses to the Capitol. I know, "'tis a puzzlement..."
Hi Sally, I too live in VT. I was so concerned about our republican Governor Scott replacing Sen Leahy with a republican if he became too ill to serve. Looks like he is back in the saddle. Wishing him, and all of us, good health while we tackle...EVERYTHING before us.
Gov. Scott has said he'd replace Leahy and Sanders with Dems if they were incapacitated, but an election would have to happen within 6 months, not the end of the term of office.
Glad to hear about Leahy, Penelope. I remember many moons ago seeing a newly elected Leahy at subcommittee hearings. So funny, he's among the very few I do remember from those days!
Patrick Leahy is a bulwark of the republic. To his health!
There's something about the abundance of old Volvo' and Saab's on the roads. I always love coming to Vermont. I often used to "drop down" to Burlington; buying textiles, towels and sheets at the factory outlets.
And I miss going across the border, still closed due to Covid, to Quebec and love Montreal...
I truly hope all the lawsuits being discussed for the past couple of years come to fruition. Bleed him dry of money, opportunities, a voice. Sure I would love to see him be convicted so that he can never hold office again and so that he is not privy to a pension, SS protection, or a travel allowance. But that's not going to happen. My prediction is that the moment the senate votes not to convict he will announce his presidential run for 2024 and we'll all be thrown back into his sh*t show again.
I would give you a "like" but I do not want that last sentence to be manifested ever! Shooosh! Visualize him in a small room surrounded by four walls like any other criminal most deserving.
And if we begin burning effigies in this country, it should represent all seditionists that who are Nazis, KKK, alt right (Reich), white supremacists, and looney tune Q'ers. Include, of course, the current trumplicans who signed on to overthrowing our fair election, use slave-era gerrymandering and are suppressing votes. In essence, anti-democracy pinheads with guns and bombs.
Gerrymandering: I read a letter to Judge Santelle by Samuel Isscharoff a few days ago (Racial Gerrymandering in a Complex World: A Reply to Judge
Sentelle, Catholic University Law Review, 1996) that the racial argument against gerrymandering... "From Nazi Germany to South African apartheid-and, by implication to the Jim Crow South as well-the defining feature of these odious forms of oppression always has been: a nasty, brutish power grab." I agree with his ideas that redistricting is racist, oppressive and with computers is odious. Tuskegee, Alabama has one district that has 32 sides!!!
Issacharoff states that white supremacists' officials goals in gerrymandering are twofold:
1. "Cracking" (i.e. diluting the voting power of the opposing party's supporters across many districts) and "packing" (concentrating the opposing party's voting power in one district to reduce their voting power in other districts).
Isn't it time for a cool change for our citizens of color? Have they and our indigenous people paid a very high price? Is it not their turn for us to right the wrongs of our colonial ancestors? Do they not deserve for all of us to stand up and fight for them to be equal? To have equal opportunities in voting, jobs, and feeling safe driving or walking down the street in our country and not profiled and bullied by police and peers?
Let's end our 200+ year old American Apartheids. We can be much better than our colonial history. (And that history must be taught to our people, in honesty).