I remember when the idea of democracy was important to a majority of Americans. Not that it ever worked perfectly for all of us, but that it was an ideal we aspired to and that we were willing to fight for. This wanton destruction of democratic policies and ideals is sickening and shocking.
I remember when the idea of democracy was important to a majority of Americans. Not that it ever worked perfectly for all of us, but that it was an ideal we aspired to and that we were willing to fight for. This wanton destruction of democratic policies and ideals is sickening and shocking.
It boggles my mind that Drump stole the election in 2016 and 2024, with putinтАЩs help, while we were fully aware, but simply sat by both times and let it happen. Why? Can anyone explain that to me?
Hillary and Kamala wouldтАЩve been good presidents.
There were two clues. First, he turned his appearances into - what? nothingburgers. Dancing around. Playing rude games with the microphone. Choosing songs. Second: Bannon's words: "He can't not win".
During a rally Trump said that his political ally Elon Musk had an advanced understanding of the voting machines used in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state that was key to Trump's victory in November.
"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers," Trump told the crowd. "And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."
"Did Donald Trump just say that Elon Musk helped him rig the election?" journalist David Leavitt asked. Jasmine Crockett of Texas also took to X to ask if Trump was "confessing to yet another damn crime." Another Democratic congressman, Daniel Goldman of New York, also called for an investigation.
Conservatively, hundreds of thousands of potential registered Democratic voters did not vote. This can be established via expert witness testimony. That conduct constitutes crimes -- election intereference under state and federal law.
California vote by mail is postage paid. Trump wants to require voter ID at the polls, will probably demand the end of vote by mail in order to give disaster funds.
The thing is, in California, you have to prove youтАЩre a citizen when you register to vote. Even California Republicans know this but they lie to the voters to defend their losses due to their policies of making citizens suffer.
the young people who voted for Trump were 1) lied to over and over and over again..then 2) have NO concept of an autocracy and what is in store...they just want to enjoy their lives...I understand the naivety .... they don't understand how Democracy can require work and protection so Autocracy does't replace it....as it has.
You are quite right Kathleen regarding what's going to happen without the CDC but they are going to deflect all responsibility by blaming Biden and by extension, all democrats.
That's what they are doing about the fires in California by denying all possibility of even climate change existence calling it an Hoax, but they still need someone to blame ,in this case, the governor and his whole democratic administration as if four huge fires ,one year with no rain in the area and weeks long 100 miles/ hour winds that kept pushing flying ambers miles away were their fault. Now Congrress is conditioning assistance on an investigation and never ending questioning by several committees similar to the one they conducted against Hillary Clinton about Bengahzi, remember? Hope Governor Newsom keeps his cool and refuse to be participant in this circus. Note: Newsom might be a leading candidate for president in 4 years. No wonder they are playing politics with a disaster affecting millions of Americans.
Ricardo, forget the price of eggs ! Start worrying about the availability of eggs ! Or chicken or duck or turkey. We have an avian flu epidemic going on !
I assume every kid has heard the Gettysburg Address (we had to recite it from memory) which hearkens to ideals stated at the founding our our country. Our execution of those ideals has been a very mixed bag, considering slaughter and displacement of native peoples and of slavery, among other things, but Lincoln, appealing to "the better angels of our nature" did what he could apply our founding democratic ideals in more tangible ways. From primary school to high school, I recall my teachers, in public schools in Northern Ohio, spoke with literal reverence of Lincoln; and Lincoln had his own national holiday, which was a stimulant for schoolroom discussions. Lincoln had helped to launch the "Republican" party. I can imagine he might have some choice words for what has become of it.
"The cynical dishonesty of the NazisтАЩ propaganda received a significant boost from the cult of irrationality that drove their followers: the contempt for, indeed the revolution against, Enlightenment standards of rationality."
"Few members of WeimarтАЩs insurgent groups wanted a lawless and barbaric dictatorship ruled over by someone like Hitler. They simply wanted the fastest and easiest solutions to their own particular problems."
- Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
"... so democratic politicians confronting aggressive threats from 'totalitarian' dictatorships are facing fundamentally new and very alarming problems --- and have to invent the strategy as they go along."
I recommend Michael J. SandelтАЩs book, The Tyranny of Merit: WhatтАЩs Become of the Common Good? wherein he says the problem with Meritocracy, which has become the moral justification for unfettered capitalism, is that it divides society into winners (the rich) and losers (the poor and most of us). The тАЬlosersтАЭ feel humiliated and hopeless because they are told itтАЩs their own fault for not getting an education and bettering themselves. We who are educated (somewhat) know it is more complicated than that and the system is rigged. Propaganda does the job of directing their anger and frustration away from the legitimate targets toward scapegoats and phantom menaces (immigrants, non-whites, political opponents).
The cure? Sandel says we need to adjust our definition of success, honor the dignity of work, and restore self-worth, esteeming those тАЬlosersтАЭ as citizens contributing to the common good.
Raising the minimum wage would be a good start, but until we can change the value system of society it wonтАЩt happen. Until then, we do as Jesus instructed: Feed the poor. House the homeless. Comfort the afflicted.
I remember when the idea of democracy was important to a majority of Americans. Not that it ever worked perfectly for all of us, but that it was an ideal we aspired to and that we were willing to fight for. This wanton destruction of democratic policies and ideals is sickening and shocking.
It gets worse. I just read the Palast report. The Grand Old Party did steal the 2024 election.
The orange felon stopped campaigning except at rallies because he said he had the votes....now we know what he meant.
It boggles my mind that Drump stole the election in 2016 and 2024, with putinтАЩs help, while we were fully aware, but simply sat by both times and let it happen. Why? Can anyone explain that to me?
Hillary and Kamala wouldтАЩve been good presidents.
Some people are aware but not many. We need to take to the streets in mass and it doesnтАЩt happen.
There were two clues. First, he turned his appearances into - what? nothingburgers. Dancing around. Playing rude games with the microphone. Choosing songs. Second: Bannon's words: "He can't not win".
They ALWAYS tell you !!! like little children they can't help themselves ! now what ??
Once again doing exactly what he accused Biden of doing.
And # 3 Trump admitted on mike... Elon affected which state ???
Pennsylvania
During a rally Trump said that his political ally Elon Musk had an advanced understanding of the voting machines used in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state that was key to Trump's victory in November.
"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers," Trump told the crowd. "And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-elon-musk-voting-machine-2017657
"Did Donald Trump just say that Elon Musk helped him rig the election?" journalist David Leavitt asked. Jasmine Crockett of Texas also took to X to ask if Trump was "confessing to yet another damn crime." Another Democratic congressman, Daniel Goldman of New York, also called for an investigation.
Trump claimed that the 2020 election was stolen by Democrats. However, he has not made allegations against the results of the 2024 election. Musk openly said it was easy to rig election computers. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/114387655.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Election Truth Alliance (ETA), a self-described nonpartisan nonprofit organization that was founded in December 2024, said its analysis in Clark County, Nevada, produced results "consistent with vote manipulation." https://fox4kc.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/776992724/analysis-of-2024-election-results-in-clark-county-indicates-manipulation/
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
This does not include effects from Russian psy ops to intimidate, scare, threaten voters and election officials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2024_United_States_elections#:~:text=Russia's%20efforts%20represented%20the%20most,society%20and%20foster%20anti%2DAmericanism.
Conservatively, hundreds of thousands of potential registered Democratic voters did not vote. This can be established via expert witness testimony. That conduct constitutes crimes -- election intereference under state and federal law.
Hey Daniel, if this is the case, how did Biden get in there? Where are those 13 million votes come from and disappear
Thank you.
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
Wow, I love numbers.
California vote by mail is postage paid. Trump wants to require voter ID at the polls, will probably demand the end of vote by mail in order to give disaster funds.
The thing is, in California, you have to prove youтАЩre a citizen when you register to vote. Even California Republicans know this but they lie to the voters to defend their losses due to their policies of making citizens suffer.
Clicking just brings up junk ads.
I use Safari on iOS (iPhone) and iPadOS (iPad) and they have built-in adblockers. I donтАЩt see any ads at all. Sorry.
I have an ad blocker on my network.
To repeat another post here = Why are we letting this happen?!?
I had not heard of Palast. Wow, what an article.
the young people who voted for Trump were 1) lied to over and over and over again..then 2) have NO concept of an autocracy and what is in store...they just want to enjoy their lives...I understand the naivety .... they don't understand how Democracy can require work and protection so Autocracy does't replace it....as it has.
Shauna, you are forgetting the price of eggs in this equation. It's the price of ignorance that we all will pay.
And without the CDC to help fight the bird flu, the price of eggs may be the least of our worries.
You are quite right Kathleen regarding what's going to happen without the CDC but they are going to deflect all responsibility by blaming Biden and by extension, all democrats.
That's what they are doing about the fires in California by denying all possibility of even climate change existence calling it an Hoax, but they still need someone to blame ,in this case, the governor and his whole democratic administration as if four huge fires ,one year with no rain in the area and weeks long 100 miles/ hour winds that kept pushing flying ambers miles away were their fault. Now Congrress is conditioning assistance on an investigation and never ending questioning by several committees similar to the one they conducted against Hillary Clinton about Bengahzi, remember? Hope Governor Newsom keeps his cool and refuse to be participant in this circus. Note: Newsom might be a leading candidate for president in 4 years. No wonder they are playing politics with a disaster affecting millions of Americans.
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Ricardo, forget the price of eggs ! Start worrying about the availability of eggs ! Or chicken or duck or turkey. We have an avian flu epidemic going on !
Joan, you are so right!!! ЁЯШД
I assume every kid has heard the Gettysburg Address (we had to recite it from memory) which hearkens to ideals stated at the founding our our country. Our execution of those ideals has been a very mixed bag, considering slaughter and displacement of native peoples and of slavery, among other things, but Lincoln, appealing to "the better angels of our nature" did what he could apply our founding democratic ideals in more tangible ways. From primary school to high school, I recall my teachers, in public schools in Northern Ohio, spoke with literal reverence of Lincoln; and Lincoln had his own national holiday, which was a stimulant for schoolroom discussions. Lincoln had helped to launch the "Republican" party. I can imagine he might have some choice words for what has become of it.
Oddly, I donтАЩt think my grandkids have.
"The cynical dishonesty of the NazisтАЩ propaganda received a significant boost from the cult of irrationality that drove their followers: the contempt for, indeed the revolution against, Enlightenment standards of rationality."
"Few members of WeimarтАЩs insurgent groups wanted a lawless and barbaric dictatorship ruled over by someone like Hitler. They simply wanted the fastest and easiest solutions to their own particular problems."
- Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
.https://www.benjamincarterhett.com/.
Subject: Benjamin Hett - The Death of Democracy
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Subject: How to Confront a Dictator: Benjamin Carter Hett
я╗┐https://youtu.be/h5vciFhBzM0?si=JFuSFrLSNbWMKYr3
"... so democratic politicians confronting aggressive threats from 'totalitarian' dictatorships are facing fundamentally new and very alarming problems --- and have to invent the strategy as they go along."
Miriam, somehow trump convinced millions of voters that trading democracy for cheaper eggs was a good deal. The question is, how do we fix this ЁЯдФ?
I recommend Michael J. SandelтАЩs book, The Tyranny of Merit: WhatтАЩs Become of the Common Good? wherein he says the problem with Meritocracy, which has become the moral justification for unfettered capitalism, is that it divides society into winners (the rich) and losers (the poor and most of us). The тАЬlosersтАЭ feel humiliated and hopeless because they are told itтАЩs their own fault for not getting an education and bettering themselves. We who are educated (somewhat) know it is more complicated than that and the system is rigged. Propaganda does the job of directing their anger and frustration away from the legitimate targets toward scapegoats and phantom menaces (immigrants, non-whites, political opponents).
The cure? Sandel says we need to adjust our definition of success, honor the dignity of work, and restore self-worth, esteeming those тАЬlosersтАЭ as citizens contributing to the common good.
Raising the minimum wage would be a good start, but until we can change the value system of society it wonтАЩt happen. Until then, we do as Jesus instructed: Feed the poor. House the homeless. Comfort the afflicted.
And afflict the comfortable, as needed.
SB, I have posted this Marge Piercy poem before, and probably will againтАФit is my criteria for public service: To Be Of Use https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use