On this day in 1954, the Supreme Court handed down the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision, which declared the segregation of public schools unconstitutional. Today, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, where ten Americans were murdered and three wounded at a grocery store by a white supremacist on Saturday.
Aaron Salter Jr. should be awarded posthumously the Congressional Medal of Honor for Conspicuous Gallantry and bravery for defending citizens who came under assault rifle terrorist attack in Buffalo, NY. The 55 year old retired policeman and security guard who was not wearing body armor, outgunned and knew it, armed only with his service pistol, and alone in defense, engaged the Buffalo shooter who did have body armor, an assault rifle with multiple high capacity magazines, and other weapons. Officer Salter left safety of cover to engage and shoot the suspect multiple times in an attempt to shield innocent shoppers at deadly risk to himself. Officer Salter’s actions of selfless courage and bravery saved lives and bought time for some to escape until more help could arrive. Alone, Aaron’s quick action, made in the heat of battle, without regard for his own safety, cost him his life, a willing and costly sacrifice to the people of Buffalo, New York, United States of America.
Defending a country means you defend its citizens, the people, and that’s exactly what Arron Salter Jr did this past weekend. President Biden should present him posthumously with the highest military honor for bravery on behalf of our country.
Elise Stefanik says mourn, don’t politicize. Does her party regret politicizing Covid public health measures? Do they mourn the unnecessary deaths that caused? So far no, and, no.
I am glad Biden named each Buffalo shooting victim and told something about each one. White Americans need to see Black Americans just being ordinary grocery-buying people. Black Americans are regular Americans. By the way, they are Legacy Americans, too, Tucker Carlson. They go way back, some as far back as 1619.
The Republican house of cards is on fire. Silence ads fuel to the fire. The fire can destroy our democracy and bring fascism to rule instead. DOJ is moving to investigate and indict. January 6 is heading to court. Trump is being investigated for criminal intent Re January 6. No man is above the law. Let us pray.
“In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday,” he wrote, “it’s become glaringly obvious that my party no longer represents conservative values but in fact poses a threat to them—and to America.”
Duuhhh... what was your first clue?
Richard Hofstadter figured out these traitors 68 years ago:
"It can most accurately be called pseudo-conservative — I borrow the term from the study of The Authoritarian Personality published five years ago by Theodore W. Adorno and his associates — because its exponents, although they believe themselves to be conservatives and usually employ the rhetoric of conservatism, show signs of a serious and restless dissatisfaction with American life, traditions and institutions. They have little in common with the temperate and compromising spirit of true conservatism in the classical sense of the word, and they are far from pleased with the dominant practical conservatism of the moment as it is represented by the Eisenhower Administration. Their political reactions express rather a profound if largely unconscious hatred of our society and its ways — a hatred which one would hesitate to impute to them if one did not have suggestive clinical evidence.
"From clinical interviews and thematic apperception tests, Adorno and his co-workers found that their pseudo-conservative subjects, although given to a form of political expression that combines a curious mixture of largely conservative with occasional radical notions, succeed in concealing from themselves impulsive tendencies that, if released in action, would be very far from conservative. The pseudo-conservative, Adorno writes, shows “conventionality and authoritarian submissiveness” in his conscious thinking and “violence, anarchic impulses, and chaotic destructiveness in the unconscious sphere. . . . The pseudo conservative is a man who, in the name of upholding traditional American values and institutions and defending them against more or less fictitious dangers, consciously or unconsciously aims at their abolition.”
Just WOW! This was one day packed with revelations and truths. However, it only hit hard on those of us fighting to save our sacred democracy.
Biden’s words were potent and powerful. Once again, they were only heard by us. It was, in fact, another case of preaching to the choir.
It’s time to take action! Schumer’s letter to Rupert & Friends will fall on deaf and more than likely racist ears. It’s up to us to contact the advertisers of Tucker’s show and let them know we will boycott whatever they are hawking. It worked with Bill Riley. It will work again. When their bankrolls are threatened they react. Just look back on how effective the Lincoln Project was with Toyota.
Biden’s words forcefully cut to the heart of the matter. But will the offenders and enablers pay heed? We know the answer. They will continue to divide and inflame. It’s beyond shameful.
Join me won’t you: So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye. That jackass Cawthorne in North Carolina couldn’t win his primary - why? Because he isn’t qualified and shouldn’t have been there in the first place. I tend to not look in the rear view mirror but I can’t wait to hear what this nobody is doing in 5 years - which won’t be a heavy lift for me because I’m sure he will be doing nothing. Excuse me while I go write a check to John Fetterman’s campaign for Governor in PA.
Heather, your recap of todays new stories brings us to one of the most important possibilities: that people who have worked against our democracy will be held accountable. Further, that some republicans finally see the light:
“Today, in the wake of the Buffalo shooting, Miles Taylor—a member of Trump’s administration who warned anonymously of how dangerous Trump was—announced he was leaving the Republican Party and called on others to do the same. “In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday,” he wrote, “it’s become glaringly obvious that my party no longer represents conservative values but in fact poses a threat to them—and to America.” How long before elected repubs leave their party en mass? Join together and embrace the Truth?
Miles Taylor’s eloquent justification for leaving the Republican Party merits applause and our recognition that some examples of integrity still survive among the truly conservative. Taylor’s opinion, “After Buffalo, saving the GOP means leaving the GOP” (subtitled “I thought the Republican Party could be saved. I was wrong.”) is a direct denunciation of his former party’s role in leading our nation to its current fractional and perilous state, and is worthy of a viral dissemination. Read his full commentary here:
"Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who represents Buffalo, today wrote a letter to Rupert Murdoch, chair of the Fox Corporation, along with another three of the corporation’s leaders, to urge them to stop “the reckless amplification of the so-called ‘Great Replacement’ theory on your network’s broadcasts.”"
Wrote a letter? Is that how powerless our government of these United States is now??
Tucker Carlson, daily, commits sedition and treason on his show and our United States Government writes a letter to beg Rupert Murdoch to stop?
The only outcome of a letter from Schumer to Rupert?
Peals of laughter in the hallways of Fox News headquarters. I mean hearty, loud, big time laughter.
As I watched President Biden speak today in Buffalo, I very much realized that he could have been standing at a podium delivering the same speech 3 hours east of Buffalo in Syracuse where I was sitting.
There isn't a magic wand that he can wave over this country to stop this unthinkable behavior. This Country isn't ready to move away from this narrative not because they can't. It's because they won't.
As long as there are people who willingly accept the principles of White Supremacist theology, there will always be another City to divide. There is not a slowing down of this doctrine, the GOP are ramping it up everytime the Sedation Caucus opens its mouth.
What City will the President be talking about next week?
Aaron Salter Jr. should be awarded posthumously the Congressional Medal of Honor for Conspicuous Gallantry and bravery for defending citizens who came under assault rifle terrorist attack in Buffalo, NY. The 55 year old retired policeman and security guard who was not wearing body armor, outgunned and knew it, armed only with his service pistol, and alone in defense, engaged the Buffalo shooter who did have body armor, an assault rifle with multiple high capacity magazines, and other weapons. Officer Salter left safety of cover to engage and shoot the suspect multiple times in an attempt to shield innocent shoppers at deadly risk to himself. Officer Salter’s actions of selfless courage and bravery saved lives and bought time for some to escape until more help could arrive. Alone, Aaron’s quick action, made in the heat of battle, without regard for his own safety, cost him his life, a willing and costly sacrifice to the people of Buffalo, New York, United States of America.
Defending a country means you defend its citizens, the people, and that’s exactly what Arron Salter Jr did this past weekend. President Biden should present him posthumously with the highest military honor for bravery on behalf of our country.
Elise Stefanik says mourn, don’t politicize. Does her party regret politicizing Covid public health measures? Do they mourn the unnecessary deaths that caused? So far no, and, no.
I am glad Biden named each Buffalo shooting victim and told something about each one. White Americans need to see Black Americans just being ordinary grocery-buying people. Black Americans are regular Americans. By the way, they are Legacy Americans, too, Tucker Carlson. They go way back, some as far back as 1619.
The Republican house of cards is on fire. Silence ads fuel to the fire. The fire can destroy our democracy and bring fascism to rule instead. DOJ is moving to investigate and indict. January 6 is heading to court. Trump is being investigated for criminal intent Re January 6. No man is above the law. Let us pray.
“In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday,” he wrote, “it’s become glaringly obvious that my party no longer represents conservative values but in fact poses a threat to them—and to America.”
Duuhhh... what was your first clue?
Richard Hofstadter figured out these traitors 68 years ago:
"It can most accurately be called pseudo-conservative — I borrow the term from the study of The Authoritarian Personality published five years ago by Theodore W. Adorno and his associates — because its exponents, although they believe themselves to be conservatives and usually employ the rhetoric of conservatism, show signs of a serious and restless dissatisfaction with American life, traditions and institutions. They have little in common with the temperate and compromising spirit of true conservatism in the classical sense of the word, and they are far from pleased with the dominant practical conservatism of the moment as it is represented by the Eisenhower Administration. Their political reactions express rather a profound if largely unconscious hatred of our society and its ways — a hatred which one would hesitate to impute to them if one did not have suggestive clinical evidence.
"From clinical interviews and thematic apperception tests, Adorno and his co-workers found that their pseudo-conservative subjects, although given to a form of political expression that combines a curious mixture of largely conservative with occasional radical notions, succeed in concealing from themselves impulsive tendencies that, if released in action, would be very far from conservative. The pseudo-conservative, Adorno writes, shows “conventionality and authoritarian submissiveness” in his conscious thinking and “violence, anarchic impulses, and chaotic destructiveness in the unconscious sphere. . . . The pseudo conservative is a man who, in the name of upholding traditional American values and institutions and defending them against more or less fictitious dangers, consciously or unconsciously aims at their abolition.”
Just WOW! This was one day packed with revelations and truths. However, it only hit hard on those of us fighting to save our sacred democracy.
Biden’s words were potent and powerful. Once again, they were only heard by us. It was, in fact, another case of preaching to the choir.
It’s time to take action! Schumer’s letter to Rupert & Friends will fall on deaf and more than likely racist ears. It’s up to us to contact the advertisers of Tucker’s show and let them know we will boycott whatever they are hawking. It worked with Bill Riley. It will work again. When their bankrolls are threatened they react. Just look back on how effective the Lincoln Project was with Toyota.
This is our fight.
Biden’s words forcefully cut to the heart of the matter. But will the offenders and enablers pay heed? We know the answer. They will continue to divide and inflame. It’s beyond shameful.
Join me won’t you: So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye. That jackass Cawthorne in North Carolina couldn’t win his primary - why? Because he isn’t qualified and shouldn’t have been there in the first place. I tend to not look in the rear view mirror but I can’t wait to hear what this nobody is doing in 5 years - which won’t be a heavy lift for me because I’m sure he will be doing nothing. Excuse me while I go write a check to John Fetterman’s campaign for Governor in PA.
Heather, your recap of todays new stories brings us to one of the most important possibilities: that people who have worked against our democracy will be held accountable. Further, that some republicans finally see the light:
“Today, in the wake of the Buffalo shooting, Miles Taylor—a member of Trump’s administration who warned anonymously of how dangerous Trump was—announced he was leaving the Republican Party and called on others to do the same. “In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday,” he wrote, “it’s become glaringly obvious that my party no longer represents conservative values but in fact poses a threat to them—and to America.” How long before elected repubs leave their party en mass? Join together and embrace the Truth?
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Maybe the question is which billionaire donors WERE NOT acting as foreign lobbyists to TFG?
Beto speaking with clarity, presenting comprehensive common sense gun policy with Texas voters. I feel hopeful.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cdq7OkClZdY/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Miles Taylor’s eloquent justification for leaving the Republican Party merits applause and our recognition that some examples of integrity still survive among the truly conservative. Taylor’s opinion, “After Buffalo, saving the GOP means leaving the GOP” (subtitled “I thought the Republican Party could be saved. I was wrong.”) is a direct denunciation of his former party’s role in leading our nation to its current fractional and perilous state, and is worthy of a viral dissemination. Read his full commentary here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/rcna29266
Thank you Heather.
Wow, what a day and what a time we’re living in - and will hopefully push through.
“This is work that requires all of us—presidents and politicians, commentators, citizens. None of us can stay [on] the sidelines.”
Absolutely correct.
Perhaps the saddest "Letters from an American" I can recall. Not much more to say. Perhaps I will be more hopeful and optimistic tomorrow.
"Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who represents Buffalo, today wrote a letter to Rupert Murdoch, chair of the Fox Corporation, along with another three of the corporation’s leaders, to urge them to stop “the reckless amplification of the so-called ‘Great Replacement’ theory on your network’s broadcasts.”"
Wrote a letter? Is that how powerless our government of these United States is now??
Tucker Carlson, daily, commits sedition and treason on his show and our United States Government writes a letter to beg Rupert Murdoch to stop?
The only outcome of a letter from Schumer to Rupert?
Peals of laughter in the hallways of Fox News headquarters. I mean hearty, loud, big time laughter.
Thank you Heather.
As I watched President Biden speak today in Buffalo, I very much realized that he could have been standing at a podium delivering the same speech 3 hours east of Buffalo in Syracuse where I was sitting.
There isn't a magic wand that he can wave over this country to stop this unthinkable behavior. This Country isn't ready to move away from this narrative not because they can't. It's because they won't.
As long as there are people who willingly accept the principles of White Supremacist theology, there will always be another City to divide. There is not a slowing down of this doctrine, the GOP are ramping it up everytime the Sedation Caucus opens its mouth.
What City will the President be talking about next week?
Be safe. Be well.
In more hopeful news, doing a happy dance here, Cawthorn has lost his primary bid in NC. That's one down !!!