July 27, 2024
It’s been a long week. Let’s take the night off and pick it all back up tomorrow.
[Photo, “Sundog,” by Peter Ralston.]
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Notes:
You can find Peter and his wife Terri at his gallery in Rockport, Maine, or here: https://www.ralstongallery.com/
Debate of the Decade Part VII Last Call: The Bar is Closing, Forever
“Christians, get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore, you know what? Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.” DJ Trump, Palm Beach FL , 26 July 2024.
Take Note: Bill Barr and you, too Supremes. Did you think that your patronizing and grooming of a dangerous insurrectionist was a game or something? When Colorado pursued the reality of insurrection, you denied them the right of self-protection and for what? Perhaps Standing? It is only a fool who, when given information of a clear and present danger, would pause at a ceremony of Standing. Why is not your proactive protection of Trump not TREASON? You worry about your reputation when you should be worrying for our United States of America. Your reputation of bias and ineptitude is earned, not merely granted because of your lifetime lofty status. I now wonder: What is in it for you? Your extraconstitutional excursion into immunity for Trump may put us all into irreversible fascism.
You got your “gratuities”; your lavish trips and your grand RV and hobnobbing with billionaires and Trump fans. What do we get? A dictatorship with a rubber stamp Supreme court? But you gave us that already! Your incipient memory loss could have been balanced by reading histories; those of Italy, Germany and our own USA that led to the civil war and the14th Amendment which fell from that tree. What are you thinking? You are schooled and specially chosen, so you have no excuse of ignorance. You are of the age of reason, so you have no excuse of immaturity. You have no excuse of hidden behavior. Insurrection and violence has been in the open. Trump’s message of the Last Call for voting by Americans is well past your first call to duty. YOU, the cohort of six partisans, deserve the disdain and condemnation that future American generations will shower upon you. You had the responsibility and the power to do something useful for the nation, but you chose party over country; violence over peace and justice; self over commonwealth. Did you not take an oath to defend our Constitution?
George N. Giacoppe
We all need one. But it's been a better week than most.