The news that NBC News reconsidered its invitation to former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to become a paid contributor has buried the recent news about some of the other participants in Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
It's important for all to understand that this has been a multi-generational fight for the soul of America. I earlier published that I, among many, tracked it back to the Lewis Powell memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in August of 1971 -a memorandum that everyone should be familiar with at this point. The Powell memo defined the roadmap for a right-wing takeover of the United States. With that as a starting point, the pardoning of Nixon, Reagan's implementation of economics policy intended to concentrate wealth to the top, and purveyors of propaganda like Heritage (the so-called 'Think tank' behind the sinister Project 2025) and people can understand that January 6th, 2021 was simply a flash point in a generations long battle.
While we continue to do short-term monumental work, sprinting election cycle to election cycle, our short term focus has largely compromised our ability to fund and develop a competing framework to what Lewis Powell set forth upon our political and economic system.
Project 2025 is a natural and comprehensive framework which, at its core, assumes the complete elevation of organized (extremely concentrated) wealth and authoritarianism over organized people and aspirations of democracy. It is a framework defining how to operate and maintain status quo.
We the people must not only do all we can to elevate elected members to State legislature, Congress, and the Executive Branch, we must also fund and develop a lowest common denominator framework for the long-term (Our response to Project 2025 focused on justice, equity, and democracy). Even if we emerge with a fragile democracy in November, there will be a Project 2029 and so on, each time we will be fighting against greater wealth and power.
“Eastman’s lawyer said it was unfair to take Eastman’s law license because he needs to make money to fight the criminal charges against him in Georgia…”
Chutzpah!
A child convicted of murdering his parents asks for mercy at sentencing because he’s an orphan.
I can't help wondering why the disbarment of so many of the lawyers surrounding Trump hasn't received more attention in the mainstream press and why their actions that led to disbarment have not also led to criminal prosecution. The refusal of so many of Trump's supporters, from those closest to the multiple deceits to those in his base, to acknowledge wrong-doing despite all of the evidence is astonishing. Why and how have so many lost the ability to take responsibility for their actions? While it is reassuring to know that justice is prevailing, however slowly, it is alarming that election denialism retains its power.
This is a great Letter From An American, Dr. Richards. It's amazing how you have packaged the goings on behind the scenes of these criminals. Somebody or "sombodies" are pulling the strings and have been doing so for a long time. All these folks like Lindell, Lake, Eastman and others are playing with Truth and Justice ! It's comforting to hear that they are beginning to face some real resistance !
" Ford issued a preemptive pardon for any crimes the former president might have committed against the United States while in office. "
From the day the news announced this, I never understood how a "pardon" can be preemptive. It is not a pardon, and certainly not a reconsideration of a conviction that might not have been justified in the light of hindsight, the only legitimate reason I can think of for a pardon to be granted. It is blanket immunity: A repudiation of equal justice under law to accomplish a political end. Well intentioned or not, it blew a huge hole in the accountability of those we entrust with dangerous-when-misused governmental powers.
Thank you, Dr Richardson. I'd shed a tear for these "poor misguided souls" if I wasn't laughing so hard at their ridiculous self pity. It really is too bad that Gerald Ford set the precedence for eternal innocence of criminal liability by pardoning Nixon. Nixon did indeed set the stage for the trumpster and his deplorables.
Ronna McDaniel, Mike Lindell, Kari Lake, John Eastman—-what a disgusting collection of rotten fish.
This is only the appetizer in a meal that could include Trump Turd, Giuliani a la Ukraine, Stephen Miller Himmleresque, and other blobs of #2.
I am appalled by some of the names that are being associated with Project 2025, a blue print for a second Trump presidency. I am tempted to call it the ‘Pardon Me Project,’ since a number of the folks pardoned by Trump are on his 2025 White House runway.
Mike Flynn, whose moments as National Security Advisor swiftly ended and whose rap sheet should had resulted in years of slammer time, is representative of Trump’s proposed ‘Pardon Me’ Praetorian Guard.
I find that the character of a person is reflected in who he/she associates with. The Trumpian personnel bouillabaisse is the most rotten in American history except, perhaps for some Mafia gang.
There's a lot of food for thought in tonight's Letter.
One thing that stood out is that for several of Trump's legal advisors the most formal retribution they see appears to be disbarment from their lawyer's guild. That seems *deeply* inadequate.
It's amusing that the defense for one of them was to say that if the defendant is disbarred he can't work, and therefore won't be able to afford to defend himself in court later on when his case comes to trial. Isn't that tantamount to admitting that their client has no other abilities or social utility besides being a lawyer? That's pretty damning...
A sobering reminder that, despite recent progress in the polls and courts, Trump and his allies are fundamentally unrepentant, and remain an enormous, fanatic, if clownish, threat to our nation and to democracy.
I hope all Arizona voters run away from Kari Lake. She appears devoid of either humility or decency and is solely motivated by raw ambition. This won't end well for Arizonans or the rest of us if her ascent up the power ladder succeeds. Can you imagine if Trump wins what will be her next act? VP is on the table, but other important jobs as well. Can anyone believe that "national good" would ever take priority over "Trump good" or "Lake good"?
I must say, my first reaction is a MASSIVE EYEROLL to the news of Eastman still maintaining that he has done nothing wrong, similar to Nixon's, Giuliani's and tffg's claims, while they all proclaim loudly that they have been/are being unjustly accused and persecuted "for no reason."
I am pretty disgusted by constantly hearing about these MAGAts (and my sympathies to anyone with that pejorative as their legal last name).
Stalking the children of his enemies is as heinous as his as his more blatant crimes. He is a predator, a schoolyard bully. How is it possible that this subhuman is permitted to run for one of the most prestigious positions in the world? Maybe we should begin to consider making changes as to whom may hold office and those requirements must mean an understanding of ethics, not rules based on religious beliefs. My last sentence sounds naive even to me, but I post it anyway in the spirit of optimism.
Thank you Heather.
It's important for all to understand that this has been a multi-generational fight for the soul of America. I earlier published that I, among many, tracked it back to the Lewis Powell memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in August of 1971 -a memorandum that everyone should be familiar with at this point. The Powell memo defined the roadmap for a right-wing takeover of the United States. With that as a starting point, the pardoning of Nixon, Reagan's implementation of economics policy intended to concentrate wealth to the top, and purveyors of propaganda like Heritage (the so-called 'Think tank' behind the sinister Project 2025) and people can understand that January 6th, 2021 was simply a flash point in a generations long battle.
While we continue to do short-term monumental work, sprinting election cycle to election cycle, our short term focus has largely compromised our ability to fund and develop a competing framework to what Lewis Powell set forth upon our political and economic system.
Project 2025 is a natural and comprehensive framework which, at its core, assumes the complete elevation of organized (extremely concentrated) wealth and authoritarianism over organized people and aspirations of democracy. It is a framework defining how to operate and maintain status quo.
We the people must not only do all we can to elevate elected members to State legislature, Congress, and the Executive Branch, we must also fund and develop a lowest common denominator framework for the long-term (Our response to Project 2025 focused on justice, equity, and democracy). Even if we emerge with a fragile democracy in November, there will be a Project 2029 and so on, each time we will be fighting against greater wealth and power.
I initially read the statement by Lake’s senior advisor to be: “Kari Lake maintains she’s always been awful.”
“Eastman’s lawyer said it was unfair to take Eastman’s law license because he needs to make money to fight the criminal charges against him in Georgia…”
Chutzpah!
A child convicted of murdering his parents asks for mercy at sentencing because he’s an orphan.
Georgia has public defenders I’m sure.
I can't help wondering why the disbarment of so many of the lawyers surrounding Trump hasn't received more attention in the mainstream press and why their actions that led to disbarment have not also led to criminal prosecution. The refusal of so many of Trump's supporters, from those closest to the multiple deceits to those in his base, to acknowledge wrong-doing despite all of the evidence is astonishing. Why and how have so many lost the ability to take responsibility for their actions? While it is reassuring to know that justice is prevailing, however slowly, it is alarming that election denialism retains its power.
This is a great Letter From An American, Dr. Richards. It's amazing how you have packaged the goings on behind the scenes of these criminals. Somebody or "sombodies" are pulling the strings and have been doing so for a long time. All these folks like Lindell, Lake, Eastman and others are playing with Truth and Justice ! It's comforting to hear that they are beginning to face some real resistance !
" Ford issued a preemptive pardon for any crimes the former president might have committed against the United States while in office. "
From the day the news announced this, I never understood how a "pardon" can be preemptive. It is not a pardon, and certainly not a reconsideration of a conviction that might not have been justified in the light of hindsight, the only legitimate reason I can think of for a pardon to be granted. It is blanket immunity: A repudiation of equal justice under law to accomplish a political end. Well intentioned or not, it blew a huge hole in the accountability of those we entrust with dangerous-when-misused governmental powers.
Thank you, Dr Richardson. I'd shed a tear for these "poor misguided souls" if I wasn't laughing so hard at their ridiculous self pity. It really is too bad that Gerald Ford set the precedence for eternal innocence of criminal liability by pardoning Nixon. Nixon did indeed set the stage for the trumpster and his deplorables.
Ronna McDaniel, Mike Lindell, Kari Lake, John Eastman—-what a disgusting collection of rotten fish.
This is only the appetizer in a meal that could include Trump Turd, Giuliani a la Ukraine, Stephen Miller Himmleresque, and other blobs of #2.
I am appalled by some of the names that are being associated with Project 2025, a blue print for a second Trump presidency. I am tempted to call it the ‘Pardon Me Project,’ since a number of the folks pardoned by Trump are on his 2025 White House runway.
Mike Flynn, whose moments as National Security Advisor swiftly ended and whose rap sheet should had resulted in years of slammer time, is representative of Trump’s proposed ‘Pardon Me’ Praetorian Guard.
I find that the character of a person is reflected in who he/she associates with. The Trumpian personnel bouillabaisse is the most rotten in American history except, perhaps for some Mafia gang.
There's a lot of food for thought in tonight's Letter.
One thing that stood out is that for several of Trump's legal advisors the most formal retribution they see appears to be disbarment from their lawyer's guild. That seems *deeply* inadequate.
It's amusing that the defense for one of them was to say that if the defendant is disbarred he can't work, and therefore won't be able to afford to defend himself in court later on when his case comes to trial. Isn't that tantamount to admitting that their client has no other abilities or social utility besides being a lawyer? That's pretty damning...
A sobering reminder that, despite recent progress in the polls and courts, Trump and his allies are fundamentally unrepentant, and remain an enormous, fanatic, if clownish, threat to our nation and to democracy.
I hope all Arizona voters run away from Kari Lake. She appears devoid of either humility or decency and is solely motivated by raw ambition. This won't end well for Arizonans or the rest of us if her ascent up the power ladder succeeds. Can you imagine if Trump wins what will be her next act? VP is on the table, but other important jobs as well. Can anyone believe that "national good" would ever take priority over "Trump good" or "Lake good"?
FYI
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-integrity-trap Once you work for him, you’re trapped ROBERT REICH MAR 28
An aside, an encouraging announcement:
Oath Keepers' son emerges from traumatic childhood to tell his own story in a long shot election bid
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/oath-keepers-son-emerges-traumatic-childhood-story-long-108442264
I must say, my first reaction is a MASSIVE EYEROLL to the news of Eastman still maintaining that he has done nothing wrong, similar to Nixon's, Giuliani's and tffg's claims, while they all proclaim loudly that they have been/are being unjustly accused and persecuted "for no reason."
I am pretty disgusted by constantly hearing about these MAGAts (and my sympathies to anyone with that pejorative as their legal last name).
Stalking the children of his enemies is as heinous as his as his more blatant crimes. He is a predator, a schoolyard bully. How is it possible that this subhuman is permitted to run for one of the most prestigious positions in the world? Maybe we should begin to consider making changes as to whom may hold office and those requirements must mean an understanding of ethics, not rules based on religious beliefs. My last sentence sounds naive even to me, but I post it anyway in the spirit of optimism.
Kari Lake is proof you should never allow a New Age Hoo-Hah outside without adult supervision.
Mike Lindell is proof that "once a crackhead, always a crackhead."