Today’s big story was the increasing spread of the coronavirus across America. Yesterday, Dr. Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC) said in an interview that the virus is spreading too fast and too far for the United States to bring it under control.
I mentioned yesterday in several tweets that Dr. Fauci was too polite to quote Isaac Asimov to the optimistically ignorant Rand Paul:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
This, BTW is the root of our problem; the reason we have this unqualified, inept TV reality show host posing as POTUS and still adored by his ignorant cult base.
The constitution defines only one crime. ONE. and that crime is treason. It defines it as "...levying War against [the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort,..." It goes on to say "No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
Other than reading this letter, I'm taking a break from the news today. I've had enough, but the quotes from Susan Rice make me happy to know that someone is really pointing a damning finger at tRump and his band of thugs. Thank you, Heather, for giving me all the news I needed today in one letter.
We are under the control right now of a traitor and a cabal of spineless scum whose crimes in allowing him to continue - as shown in the action of the Confederate scum in the Senate stripping out the warning to the traitor about committing more treason - are the equal of his. The Republican Party today is a far greater threat to this country than the Confederacy ever was.
I live in NE Florida and I don’t even have the words to describe what’s happening here. I’m losing all hope and joined this morning to try to restore that. Out of all the people I know, there are 2 that understand what is happening.
...and my husband wonders why I curse like a sailor these days. (Actually he knows and concurs.) Thank you, HCR, for somehow boiling the daily tsunami of news down to a brimming cup.
When it comes to Russia, we MUST NOT forget the lengthy behind closed door, no record, conversation Donald Trump had with Vladmir Putin shortly after taking office.
As a Kentuckian, I find Rand Paul a total embarrassment. He thinks he is independent in his thinking and actions, but really is just trying to be loved. And please don't get me started on Mitch McConnell. This whole administration reminds me of cliques in high school with 45 (I don't even like to say his name) and McConnell as the mean girls and Paul pathetically trying to be part of the clique. But at some point high school ends and so does the importance of the clique.
Trump doing nothing about the Russian bounty on American soldiers, by itself, is just terrible. Considered as part of the pattern of Russian-Trump collusion (yes, using the word intentionally) over the past 4 years, there’s little doubt that Trump is committing treason (yes, using the word intentionally). We all know the story - of Trump calling for the Russians to hack Hillary, and Russians doing the same (DNC), of coordination of email dumps with Wikileaks (for which, indirectly, Roger Stone is going to prison) of handing Trump’s polling info to Russians for the social media disinformation campaign (for which, indirectly, Manafort is in prison), of Flynn’s illegal meetings with the Russians (for which Flynn has pled guilty), of Junior’s meeting(s) with Russians at Trump tower, of Trump’s push to drop Russian sanctions for Ukraine, of Trump’s seizure of notes from his private meetings with Putin, of Trump hiding his financial information which is suspected to show evidence of Trump, Inc. loans from and money laundering for Russian oligarchs (for which Trump’s bank, Deutsche bank, has already been convicted and fined)...I haven’t even mentioned the dossier, or Trump’s Ukraine blackmail, or Lev Parnas and Rudy. With a pattern like this, it seems like there’s more than enough to prosecute and convict. This certainly would be if this was a Democratic president. It would be great to see HCR do a more detailed and documented version of the full case against the Manchurian Trump.
What bothers me most is how weak and scared we have allowed ourselves, the populace, to become. "Independence Day" my eye. It needs to be changed to "Enslavement Day." We have allowed ourselves to become enslaved one spoonful at a time.
We are "this close" to a repeat of the French Revolution. What will be the tipping point? I mean damn... I just want to holler "Let's get this over and done with!" Because IMO that will be the only way to get their attention.
What do we do with a treasonous family (not just Trump himself) like that? I think we all have our own ideas. I wouldn't bother giving them their due process. They've already had it, in a very public way. They should be brought down in the same manner. Very publicly for the whole world to see. Then and only then will America get some of it's dignity back.
Sen. Rad Paul is a physician. His response to Dr. Fauci seems to be strong evidence of what Dr. Richardson has been telling us about how ideology obscures reality.
Distraction, thy name is Trump. The White House knows they need more and better outrageous stories to knock COVID19 deaths and Russia's targeting of our troops out of the news. Defend the statues! Don't rename the military bases! It would be sad if it weren't so awful
I know this could be asked of many Trump enablers but how can Kayleigh McEnany sleep at night when every day she has to twist herself in knots trying to defend the indefensible?
Is there a gene that people like that are missing or is it just “politics” and we should be used to it?
Considering that yet again, the Federal Elections Commission is without a quorum required to do business after the Republican chairperson resigned abruptly, is doesn't really matter that there's already a law that prevents foreign interference, considering that the FEC is disabled and essentially toothless at the best of times. Perhaps I'm too cynical, but this looks like yet another example of Republican officials deliberately stripping away our defenses so they can either underhandedly seize power for themselves or simply sell it to the highest bidder.
I had wondered how Trump would handle this. I thought he was caught in a pincer, being shown as either traitorous or incompetent, with no easy way out. Fake News! Should have seen that one coming. This is the payoff (one of them anyway) of his deliberate strategy of attacking one of the pillars that makes our country strong, the free press. Frightening.
I mentioned yesterday in several tweets that Dr. Fauci was too polite to quote Isaac Asimov to the optimistically ignorant Rand Paul:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
This, BTW is the root of our problem; the reason we have this unqualified, inept TV reality show host posing as POTUS and still adored by his ignorant cult base.
The constitution defines only one crime. ONE. and that crime is treason. It defines it as "...levying War against [the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort,..." It goes on to say "No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
Who wants to join me as a witness?
Other than reading this letter, I'm taking a break from the news today. I've had enough, but the quotes from Susan Rice make me happy to know that someone is really pointing a damning finger at tRump and his band of thugs. Thank you, Heather, for giving me all the news I needed today in one letter.
We are under the control right now of a traitor and a cabal of spineless scum whose crimes in allowing him to continue - as shown in the action of the Confederate scum in the Senate stripping out the warning to the traitor about committing more treason - are the equal of his. The Republican Party today is a far greater threat to this country than the Confederacy ever was.
I live in NE Florida and I don’t even have the words to describe what’s happening here. I’m losing all hope and joined this morning to try to restore that. Out of all the people I know, there are 2 that understand what is happening.
...and my husband wonders why I curse like a sailor these days. (Actually he knows and concurs.) Thank you, HCR, for somehow boiling the daily tsunami of news down to a brimming cup.
When it comes to Russia, we MUST NOT forget the lengthy behind closed door, no record, conversation Donald Trump had with Vladmir Putin shortly after taking office.
As a Kentuckian, I find Rand Paul a total embarrassment. He thinks he is independent in his thinking and actions, but really is just trying to be loved. And please don't get me started on Mitch McConnell. This whole administration reminds me of cliques in high school with 45 (I don't even like to say his name) and McConnell as the mean girls and Paul pathetically trying to be part of the clique. But at some point high school ends and so does the importance of the clique.
Trump doing nothing about the Russian bounty on American soldiers, by itself, is just terrible. Considered as part of the pattern of Russian-Trump collusion (yes, using the word intentionally) over the past 4 years, there’s little doubt that Trump is committing treason (yes, using the word intentionally). We all know the story - of Trump calling for the Russians to hack Hillary, and Russians doing the same (DNC), of coordination of email dumps with Wikileaks (for which, indirectly, Roger Stone is going to prison) of handing Trump’s polling info to Russians for the social media disinformation campaign (for which, indirectly, Manafort is in prison), of Flynn’s illegal meetings with the Russians (for which Flynn has pled guilty), of Junior’s meeting(s) with Russians at Trump tower, of Trump’s push to drop Russian sanctions for Ukraine, of Trump’s seizure of notes from his private meetings with Putin, of Trump hiding his financial information which is suspected to show evidence of Trump, Inc. loans from and money laundering for Russian oligarchs (for which Trump’s bank, Deutsche bank, has already been convicted and fined)...I haven’t even mentioned the dossier, or Trump’s Ukraine blackmail, or Lev Parnas and Rudy. With a pattern like this, it seems like there’s more than enough to prosecute and convict. This certainly would be if this was a Democratic president. It would be great to see HCR do a more detailed and documented version of the full case against the Manchurian Trump.
What bothers me most is how weak and scared we have allowed ourselves, the populace, to become. "Independence Day" my eye. It needs to be changed to "Enslavement Day." We have allowed ourselves to become enslaved one spoonful at a time.
We are "this close" to a repeat of the French Revolution. What will be the tipping point? I mean damn... I just want to holler "Let's get this over and done with!" Because IMO that will be the only way to get their attention.
What do we do with a treasonous family (not just Trump himself) like that? I think we all have our own ideas. I wouldn't bother giving them their due process. They've already had it, in a very public way. They should be brought down in the same manner. Very publicly for the whole world to see. Then and only then will America get some of it's dignity back.
Sen. Rad Paul is a physician. His response to Dr. Fauci seems to be strong evidence of what Dr. Richardson has been telling us about how ideology obscures reality.
When repeated execution of The Broken Clock Theorem is all you've got, you have no choice but to have it define your foreign policy.
God preserve and save us all.
Distraction, thy name is Trump. The White House knows they need more and better outrageous stories to knock COVID19 deaths and Russia's targeting of our troops out of the news. Defend the statues! Don't rename the military bases! It would be sad if it weren't so awful
I know this could be asked of many Trump enablers but how can Kayleigh McEnany sleep at night when every day she has to twist herself in knots trying to defend the indefensible?
Is there a gene that people like that are missing or is it just “politics” and we should be used to it?
Considering that yet again, the Federal Elections Commission is without a quorum required to do business after the Republican chairperson resigned abruptly, is doesn't really matter that there's already a law that prevents foreign interference, considering that the FEC is disabled and essentially toothless at the best of times. Perhaps I'm too cynical, but this looks like yet another example of Republican officials deliberately stripping away our defenses so they can either underhandedly seize power for themselves or simply sell it to the highest bidder.
I had wondered how Trump would handle this. I thought he was caught in a pincer, being shown as either traitorous or incompetent, with no easy way out. Fake News! Should have seen that one coming. This is the payoff (one of them anyway) of his deliberate strategy of attacking one of the pillars that makes our country strong, the free press. Frightening.