President Joe Biden is currently in England, participating in a meeting of the G7, an informal group of wealthy democracies including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Today, the participants issued a statement reinforcing their shared commitment to “democracy, freedom, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights to answer the biggest questions and overcome the greatest challenges.” They promised to value individuals and promote equality, especially gender equality.
"...Trump’s people secretly investigated journalists, Democratic lawmakers and their families and staff… and the president’s own lawyer and his wife, apparently out of concerns about leaks."
Leaks? In a pig's eye!
The former president was looking for anything he could use to damage, blackmail, or otherwise coerce his percieved enemies, Adam Schiff being at the top of that list. In Don McGahn's case, there was likely added the question of loyalty to dear leader.
This is how dictators operate, especially the paranoid, megalomanic ones.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall to hear the conversation that must have been going on when Joe Biden showed up with the Jill on his arm, smiling and waving and ostentatiously elbow-bumping. It would be like coming to a family gathering where your favorite uncle shows up after a very messy divorce, and where he got all of the community property; he has a story to tell, and everyone is ready to drop everything to hear all the dirty details! And Joe Biden is an Irish storyteller of the first-order. He will tell stories about Trump and his sleazy band of crooks that will make everybody's hair stand on end, and Trump's inconceivable stupidity that brought him down. There will be lots and lots of laughter, but everybody knows that Trump and those who believe and act like him are not going away anytime soon. Trump's ridiculousness does not detract the least from his dangerousness.
But, as we well know, the points that Joe wants to make come with the story; and undoubtedly, the point of Joe Biden's story is going to be about saving democracy and having us all pull together. Everything else is secondary. He will emphasize his points to highlight his concerns about democracy's vulnerabilities, noting that Trump failed because of his own personal incompetencies. The take away will be that a more savvy scoundrel, like Vladimir Putin, would have avoided Trump's mistakes, to Western culture's collective disadvantage. As the saying goes, we can hate Trump, but we cannot hate his supporters, because they are us. Pulling together will mean having to change some of our assumptions, and taking proactive measures to ward off abuse of political rights and social norms. I am confident that Joe Biden, along with Jill Biden, will make for entertaining, as well as sobering discussion about what we need to do. Like the President and Ms. Biden, we can take the problem seriously without taking ourselves too seriously. There are reasons why these things happened, and it took decades for the rot to set in that undermined our democratic institutions. For most of us, this is entirely new territory, and it will test our strengths and ability to think outside the box before we even begin to think this might be over soon.
Historical analogies are always inexact, and it is important to clearly differentiate what we see are similarities from what are clearly differences, and that the decisions made are likely to depend on those differences. The analogy that comes to mind is the meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in April 1941, aboard the USS Augusta, anchored off the Newfoundland coast, when the United States and Great Britain joined together to formulate what was called the Atlantic Charter. Recently, we saw on the news that an updated version of that statement of principle has been agreed to between President Biden and Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister. I confess to not having read the revised and updated version, but I certainly know what the original Atlantic Charter stood for: no territorial aggrandizement; respect for the rights of all people to choose the form of government under which they would live; for all states to trade on equal access and on equal terms; improving the global standard of living; and freedom of the seas. This was a unified response to an external threat back by military force. Our situation today is no less dire, but the elements constituting an existential threat to our way of life are different, and far more subtle: internal subversion; a corrosive populism that destroys trust among people; a tidal wave of disinformation and anti-democratic propaganda emanating from Russia; and the de facto declaration of war by the Trump Republican Party against our constitutional form of government. Time will tell how this will turn out, but it looks to me that President Biden is off to a good start.
Perhaps it is the 14th Amendment Section 3 of the US Constitution that is the reason the Republicans in Congress are not voting for a special commission to study the Jan. 6th Insurrection:
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Sessions, Rosentein, and Barr deny any knowledge of the subpoenas. It seems unlikely that all three are lying, especially because Department of Justice experts have said there would be a detailed paper trail. So it raises the possibility of a Trump-authorized secret op within DOJ, an op unknown to the top officials in the department. Regardless, what's been disclosed so far likely is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Considering the seriousness and breadth of this still-building scandal, I don't see how DOJ can use an inspector general to investigate. Appoint of a special counsel seems in order.
Nitwityahoo accused Biden (with regard to the Iranian nuclear deal) of allowing Jews to be killed the way they were when Roosevelt wouldn't order the bombing of Auschwitz in 1944. As the resident WW2 technical expert here, I guess it's up to me to point out that, in 1944, US bombers based in the UK didn't have the range to fly to Auschwitz with a useful load of bombs, unless t he Soviets would have allowed them to fly a shuttle mission, landing in Soviet territory as they did in Operation Frantic. I doubt Uncle Joe would have agreed. As it was, during the Warsaw Rising that August, the RAF and USAAF sent planes to drop supplies to Warsaw. Each plane was able to carry approximately 200 pounds of supplies, with an overload of fuel for the round trip, since the Soviets wouildn't allow shuttle missions (since Stalin had ordered the Red Army to sit on the other side of the Vistula and let the Germans kill the people he knew would oppose what he had planned for Poland). 200 pounds as a bombload wouldn't have amounted to one bomb.
But Nitwityahoo, like any other far right moron, never lets truth get in the way of another chance to mislead the rubes.
Yes it was good to welcome President Biden onto our soil. Quite a large crowd turned out at RAF Mildenhall (65 miles from where we live - a mere stone's throw to you Americans) to see him land. However most of those interviewed on local television admitted that they had come to see Air Force One, not who was inside it. Yet it was so reassuring to see the avuncular figure of Biden emerging (I wasn't there by the way!) and calmly telling us that America is back.
The scenes in Cornwall were also encouraging with the great and good descending on one of our most picturesque counties and installing themselves in a hotel that had a faint resemblance to the one in Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (though much posher). Then 3 generations of the Royal Family showed up (that must be a first), and the Queen made a joke.
Justin Trudeau needs a haircut. Macron should restrain himself from putting his arm round everyone and we still need to sort out the Northern Ireland problem.
Good to get a faint feeling of optimism. Thanks as usual Heather.
PS I am still no relation of William Barr (apart from the one who is my brother).
“There are lots of moving pieces in the world right now.”
The Grandparent of understatements, Professor.
As is often the case, there is a line in your Letters that drives directly to the heart of things that concern this reader.
Politicians - elected, self-appointed, autocratic – you name the stripe, bring to mind a group of powerful people scrambling to garner support for their vision of the future – some sincerely trying to do good as they see it, others trying to avoid prison or irrelevance, others filling their coffers with treasure, and those simply enamored with the maintaining control (whatever they might mean today).
Many people look to these “leaders” for solutions, others reject them as illegitimate or untrustworthy, and still others, simply tolerate them as they move through their daily lives putting one foot in front of the other in an attempt to get through the day without losing ground.
All this while our planet tumbles toward climatic catastrophe; hunger, disease and violence run rampant, and billionaires compete for seats on rockets to spin them away from it all.
I would have to agree there are many moving pieces in the world right now, but for all the movement, there is little that looks like hope for solutions comprehensive enough to give us a chance to survive much less thrive. And by “us” I mean all of us – the global us, because nations matter to the same extent that fingers and toes matter to the survival of the body: They are instrumental only when part of a unified whole.
The nagging question is: Where, what, or is there, a brain – collective or otherwise – to marshal the resources of the planet to deal with the existential issues before us?
“Today, Israel’s legislature, the Knesset, voted 60 to 59 to support a new coalition and oust right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been in power for 12 years and who is currently under indictment for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. The session was heated, with people yelling and at least seven members escorted out. In Netanyahu’s final speech, he pledged to ‘topple this dangerous government and return to lead the country in our way.’”
Netanyahu’s words and actions are reminiscent of Trump’s following his November election loss. Much like Trump, he too faces legal peril for various crime and corruption charges held at bay only by having his hands on the levers of executive power. Without access to those levers his legal peril may well find him now worse than merely deposed from office.
It is important for the future of the Rule of Law in both Israel and the U.S. to demonstrate that those who break the law will be held accountable regardless of what levers of power they may have previously held. No one should be beyond being subject to the Rule of Law.
In both countries we will be tested on this for the world to observe if we are truly committed to this principle. Those Israeli and U.S. citizens of good conscience must support this principle and it’s application to former leaders now exposed or the principle will lose its meaning, not only in the U.S. and Israel, but for all the world. We will be tested. Let us hope we are prepared for those tests and will pass.
And it's incredible that the so-called checks and balances of power in our government seem to have failed so miserably under 45's reign of lawlessness and moral bankruptcy, in that he had so many so willing to cater to his demands. Truly frightening in that if nothing changes significantly, in a future election there may be a candidate with 45's narcissistic autocratic intentions but with higher intelligence, charisma and eloquence.
It seemed suspicious to me that Lindsey Graham did such a 180 on Trump, and that was early on. I know it sounds paranoid or whatever, but I always wonder if Trump had dug around and gotten some kind of dirt on Graham and was holding it over his head. Ditto Mitch. Ditton others. Definitely seems like something Trump and his thug buddies would do.
Good morning everyone! As I was reading this letter, I was also perusing the news from other outlets and bring you a news update from the utterly unhinged state of Missouri. This past weekend was the Ghastly Oh-So-Racist Party's convention--hilariously called the "Lincoln Days"--featuring that super appalling hank of hair Joshy Hawley. They hold every state-wide seat except that of MO State Auditor, held by the very talented and able Nicole Galloway. So they are gunning for her, especially because she put the scare in the mumblefest governor Mike Parson (more on him later) when she ran against him in 2020. They are also concerned about the open senate seat so they plan on doing everything they can to suppress the vote in the two major metro areas (where the only two Dem congresspeople serve) in order to "sweep" Missouri. https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2021-06-13/missouri-republicans-craft-messages-they-hope-lead-to-statewide-sweep-in-2022
On Saturday the resembles-a-box-of-rocks governor signed a bill that invalidates ALL federal gun laws "past, present, and future" and also bars local law enforcement from assisting in the enforcement of any gun control laws and makes it permissible to sue individuals in law enforcement for "failure to protect the 2nd Amendment rights of citizens." https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-06-12/missouri-law-enforcement-no-longer-required-to-enforce-federal-gun-laws
Now, mind you, the cops in Missouri are all about being protected from prosecution and maintaining the "qualified immunity" status of individual cops. So this looks like it could be a super interesting confrontation between the MO state legislature and the police unions. Why bother to investigate gun crimes if you're a cop in Missouri? It's just citizens exercising their 2nd Amendment rights after all. I think the (I have so many expletives in my head right now) white boyz who think this is going to be a way that they can kill non-white folks with impunity are going to be in for a surprise. They think that this is going to protect their caches of AR-15s? Well, when the locals in the rural counties start shooting each other and the cops don't come to restore order because some szlub of a cop could get sued, there could be a change of heart. Or maybe the (more expletives) will just hope and pray.
I have no doubt that papers have been filed in court this morning to put a stop to this utterly imbecilic piece of legislation but if this doesn't provide a stark example of why we need to have an overwhelming response against these forces of evil, then I don't know what is. At least the superior court put a stop to the appalling MO anti-female law the white boyz tried to get past them. Small comfort if people "exercising" their "rights" consider women to be expendable and start shooting their wives and girlfriends because they could be, y'know, insurrectionists.
The last guy has spread a contagion through his party, nation, and throughout the world, to poison free elections at the very least. It is time to pull our nation back together and stand against him and his minions. Stop dithering and begin charging these people for their crimes!
So what happens now? Will anyone be held accountable? Bill Barr? trump? Or is this just another un-democratic act that becomes precedent just as the memo that claims “no sitting President can be indicted” has basically been treated as law of the land? Any one of these breaking news stories over the past week would have taken down a party just 6 years ago. Not so with the party of trump.
I hope good, positive news is not too much for US citizens and Republicans.
What can we do to rid our air waves of FOX? We need better standards for truth in broadcasting across all media, air and internet. The First Amendment should not be a garbage can, dump site or pollution source for lies and conspiracy theories. How can we fix this?
"...Trump’s people secretly investigated journalists, Democratic lawmakers and their families and staff… and the president’s own lawyer and his wife, apparently out of concerns about leaks."
Leaks? In a pig's eye!
The former president was looking for anything he could use to damage, blackmail, or otherwise coerce his percieved enemies, Adam Schiff being at the top of that list. In Don McGahn's case, there was likely added the question of loyalty to dear leader.
This is how dictators operate, especially the paranoid, megalomanic ones.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall to hear the conversation that must have been going on when Joe Biden showed up with the Jill on his arm, smiling and waving and ostentatiously elbow-bumping. It would be like coming to a family gathering where your favorite uncle shows up after a very messy divorce, and where he got all of the community property; he has a story to tell, and everyone is ready to drop everything to hear all the dirty details! And Joe Biden is an Irish storyteller of the first-order. He will tell stories about Trump and his sleazy band of crooks that will make everybody's hair stand on end, and Trump's inconceivable stupidity that brought him down. There will be lots and lots of laughter, but everybody knows that Trump and those who believe and act like him are not going away anytime soon. Trump's ridiculousness does not detract the least from his dangerousness.
But, as we well know, the points that Joe wants to make come with the story; and undoubtedly, the point of Joe Biden's story is going to be about saving democracy and having us all pull together. Everything else is secondary. He will emphasize his points to highlight his concerns about democracy's vulnerabilities, noting that Trump failed because of his own personal incompetencies. The take away will be that a more savvy scoundrel, like Vladimir Putin, would have avoided Trump's mistakes, to Western culture's collective disadvantage. As the saying goes, we can hate Trump, but we cannot hate his supporters, because they are us. Pulling together will mean having to change some of our assumptions, and taking proactive measures to ward off abuse of political rights and social norms. I am confident that Joe Biden, along with Jill Biden, will make for entertaining, as well as sobering discussion about what we need to do. Like the President and Ms. Biden, we can take the problem seriously without taking ourselves too seriously. There are reasons why these things happened, and it took decades for the rot to set in that undermined our democratic institutions. For most of us, this is entirely new territory, and it will test our strengths and ability to think outside the box before we even begin to think this might be over soon.
Historical analogies are always inexact, and it is important to clearly differentiate what we see are similarities from what are clearly differences, and that the decisions made are likely to depend on those differences. The analogy that comes to mind is the meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in April 1941, aboard the USS Augusta, anchored off the Newfoundland coast, when the United States and Great Britain joined together to formulate what was called the Atlantic Charter. Recently, we saw on the news that an updated version of that statement of principle has been agreed to between President Biden and Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister. I confess to not having read the revised and updated version, but I certainly know what the original Atlantic Charter stood for: no territorial aggrandizement; respect for the rights of all people to choose the form of government under which they would live; for all states to trade on equal access and on equal terms; improving the global standard of living; and freedom of the seas. This was a unified response to an external threat back by military force. Our situation today is no less dire, but the elements constituting an existential threat to our way of life are different, and far more subtle: internal subversion; a corrosive populism that destroys trust among people; a tidal wave of disinformation and anti-democratic propaganda emanating from Russia; and the de facto declaration of war by the Trump Republican Party against our constitutional form of government. Time will tell how this will turn out, but it looks to me that President Biden is off to a good start.
Perhaps it is the 14th Amendment Section 3 of the US Constitution that is the reason the Republicans in Congress are not voting for a special commission to study the Jan. 6th Insurrection:
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Sessions, Rosentein, and Barr deny any knowledge of the subpoenas. It seems unlikely that all three are lying, especially because Department of Justice experts have said there would be a detailed paper trail. So it raises the possibility of a Trump-authorized secret op within DOJ, an op unknown to the top officials in the department. Regardless, what's been disclosed so far likely is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Considering the seriousness and breadth of this still-building scandal, I don't see how DOJ can use an inspector general to investigate. Appoint of a special counsel seems in order.
Nitwityahoo accused Biden (with regard to the Iranian nuclear deal) of allowing Jews to be killed the way they were when Roosevelt wouldn't order the bombing of Auschwitz in 1944. As the resident WW2 technical expert here, I guess it's up to me to point out that, in 1944, US bombers based in the UK didn't have the range to fly to Auschwitz with a useful load of bombs, unless t he Soviets would have allowed them to fly a shuttle mission, landing in Soviet territory as they did in Operation Frantic. I doubt Uncle Joe would have agreed. As it was, during the Warsaw Rising that August, the RAF and USAAF sent planes to drop supplies to Warsaw. Each plane was able to carry approximately 200 pounds of supplies, with an overload of fuel for the round trip, since the Soviets wouildn't allow shuttle missions (since Stalin had ordered the Red Army to sit on the other side of the Vistula and let the Germans kill the people he knew would oppose what he had planned for Poland). 200 pounds as a bombload wouldn't have amounted to one bomb.
But Nitwityahoo, like any other far right moron, never lets truth get in the way of another chance to mislead the rubes.
Yes it was good to welcome President Biden onto our soil. Quite a large crowd turned out at RAF Mildenhall (65 miles from where we live - a mere stone's throw to you Americans) to see him land. However most of those interviewed on local television admitted that they had come to see Air Force One, not who was inside it. Yet it was so reassuring to see the avuncular figure of Biden emerging (I wasn't there by the way!) and calmly telling us that America is back.
The scenes in Cornwall were also encouraging with the great and good descending on one of our most picturesque counties and installing themselves in a hotel that had a faint resemblance to the one in Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (though much posher). Then 3 generations of the Royal Family showed up (that must be a first), and the Queen made a joke.
Justin Trudeau needs a haircut. Macron should restrain himself from putting his arm round everyone and we still need to sort out the Northern Ireland problem.
Good to get a faint feeling of optimism. Thanks as usual Heather.
PS I am still no relation of William Barr (apart from the one who is my brother).
“There are lots of moving pieces in the world right now.”
The Grandparent of understatements, Professor.
As is often the case, there is a line in your Letters that drives directly to the heart of things that concern this reader.
Politicians - elected, self-appointed, autocratic – you name the stripe, bring to mind a group of powerful people scrambling to garner support for their vision of the future – some sincerely trying to do good as they see it, others trying to avoid prison or irrelevance, others filling their coffers with treasure, and those simply enamored with the maintaining control (whatever they might mean today).
Many people look to these “leaders” for solutions, others reject them as illegitimate or untrustworthy, and still others, simply tolerate them as they move through their daily lives putting one foot in front of the other in an attempt to get through the day without losing ground.
All this while our planet tumbles toward climatic catastrophe; hunger, disease and violence run rampant, and billionaires compete for seats on rockets to spin them away from it all.
I would have to agree there are many moving pieces in the world right now, but for all the movement, there is little that looks like hope for solutions comprehensive enough to give us a chance to survive much less thrive. And by “us” I mean all of us – the global us, because nations matter to the same extent that fingers and toes matter to the survival of the body: They are instrumental only when part of a unified whole.
The nagging question is: Where, what, or is there, a brain – collective or otherwise – to marshal the resources of the planet to deal with the existential issues before us?
“Today, Israel’s legislature, the Knesset, voted 60 to 59 to support a new coalition and oust right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been in power for 12 years and who is currently under indictment for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. The session was heated, with people yelling and at least seven members escorted out. In Netanyahu’s final speech, he pledged to ‘topple this dangerous government and return to lead the country in our way.’”
Netanyahu’s words and actions are reminiscent of Trump’s following his November election loss. Much like Trump, he too faces legal peril for various crime and corruption charges held at bay only by having his hands on the levers of executive power. Without access to those levers his legal peril may well find him now worse than merely deposed from office.
It is important for the future of the Rule of Law in both Israel and the U.S. to demonstrate that those who break the law will be held accountable regardless of what levers of power they may have previously held. No one should be beyond being subject to the Rule of Law.
In both countries we will be tested on this for the world to observe if we are truly committed to this principle. Those Israeli and U.S. citizens of good conscience must support this principle and it’s application to former leaders now exposed or the principle will lose its meaning, not only in the U.S. and Israel, but for all the world. We will be tested. Let us hope we are prepared for those tests and will pass.
"A lot of moving pieces," indeed!
And it's incredible that the so-called checks and balances of power in our government seem to have failed so miserably under 45's reign of lawlessness and moral bankruptcy, in that he had so many so willing to cater to his demands. Truly frightening in that if nothing changes significantly, in a future election there may be a candidate with 45's narcissistic autocratic intentions but with higher intelligence, charisma and eloquence.
Anti democracy seems to be another pandemic. Like Covid-19 wasn’t bad enough.
It seemed suspicious to me that Lindsey Graham did such a 180 on Trump, and that was early on. I know it sounds paranoid or whatever, but I always wonder if Trump had dug around and gotten some kind of dirt on Graham and was holding it over his head. Ditto Mitch. Ditton others. Definitely seems like something Trump and his thug buddies would do.
Good morning everyone! As I was reading this letter, I was also perusing the news from other outlets and bring you a news update from the utterly unhinged state of Missouri. This past weekend was the Ghastly Oh-So-Racist Party's convention--hilariously called the "Lincoln Days"--featuring that super appalling hank of hair Joshy Hawley. They hold every state-wide seat except that of MO State Auditor, held by the very talented and able Nicole Galloway. So they are gunning for her, especially because she put the scare in the mumblefest governor Mike Parson (more on him later) when she ran against him in 2020. They are also concerned about the open senate seat so they plan on doing everything they can to suppress the vote in the two major metro areas (where the only two Dem congresspeople serve) in order to "sweep" Missouri. https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2021-06-13/missouri-republicans-craft-messages-they-hope-lead-to-statewide-sweep-in-2022
On Saturday the resembles-a-box-of-rocks governor signed a bill that invalidates ALL federal gun laws "past, present, and future" and also bars local law enforcement from assisting in the enforcement of any gun control laws and makes it permissible to sue individuals in law enforcement for "failure to protect the 2nd Amendment rights of citizens." https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-06-12/missouri-law-enforcement-no-longer-required-to-enforce-federal-gun-laws
Now, mind you, the cops in Missouri are all about being protected from prosecution and maintaining the "qualified immunity" status of individual cops. So this looks like it could be a super interesting confrontation between the MO state legislature and the police unions. Why bother to investigate gun crimes if you're a cop in Missouri? It's just citizens exercising their 2nd Amendment rights after all. I think the (I have so many expletives in my head right now) white boyz who think this is going to be a way that they can kill non-white folks with impunity are going to be in for a surprise. They think that this is going to protect their caches of AR-15s? Well, when the locals in the rural counties start shooting each other and the cops don't come to restore order because some szlub of a cop could get sued, there could be a change of heart. Or maybe the (more expletives) will just hope and pray.
I have no doubt that papers have been filed in court this morning to put a stop to this utterly imbecilic piece of legislation but if this doesn't provide a stark example of why we need to have an overwhelming response against these forces of evil, then I don't know what is. At least the superior court put a stop to the appalling MO anti-female law the white boyz tried to get past them. Small comfort if people "exercising" their "rights" consider women to be expendable and start shooting their wives and girlfriends because they could be, y'know, insurrectionists.
Give me strength.
The last guy has spread a contagion through his party, nation, and throughout the world, to poison free elections at the very least. It is time to pull our nation back together and stand against him and his minions. Stop dithering and begin charging these people for their crimes!
The far right wing around the world taking up the Trump cry of election fraud. He has infected democracies around the entire planet.
So what happens now? Will anyone be held accountable? Bill Barr? trump? Or is this just another un-democratic act that becomes precedent just as the memo that claims “no sitting President can be indicted” has basically been treated as law of the land? Any one of these breaking news stories over the past week would have taken down a party just 6 years ago. Not so with the party of trump.
I hope good, positive news is not too much for US citizens and Republicans.
What can we do to rid our air waves of FOX? We need better standards for truth in broadcasting across all media, air and internet. The First Amendment should not be a garbage can, dump site or pollution source for lies and conspiracy theories. How can we fix this?