I couldn’t disagree more. It is shocking. It’s shocking because 1 in 7 adult Americans believe a pure and utter fantasy. It’s shocking because I’m sure that number is solidifying as people are being fed hope by widening election reviews - Alabama, Georgia, Wisconsin. ..
It’s shocking because if emboldens the Republican Party to believe t…
I couldn’t disagree more. It is shocking. It’s shocking because 1 in 7 adult Americans believe a pure and utter fantasy. It’s shocking because I’m sure that number is solidifying as people are being fed hope by widening election reviews - Alabama, Georgia, Wisconsin. ..
It’s shocking because if emboldens the Republican Party to believe that they are on the right track in their continuing obeisance to a lunatic.
It’s shocking because it promotes the disease of lying outrageously without fear of consequence. Morality is decaying at least at the edges in America.
It’s shocking because that small group is perpetrating acts of violence against Asians because Trump vilified them repeatedly. Now that that genie is out of the bottle, American Jews are becoming targets of random, violent attacks. Who can know the motivation. Maybe the recent conflict. Maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ratshit comparison of mask mandates to the Holocaust stirs up an old irrational anger.
It’s shocking because other Republicans who don’t believe the election was stolen, do not appear to be speaking up against it.
This is a moment when those with primally inhuman, nihilistic instincts feel that it’s time to see *how far they can go* (emphasis) in giving vent to evil. So a Lukashenko simply outwaits protesters and then when they have been worn down, pulls off a shocking attack on a commercial plane. A Samoan leader, ousted in an election, simply locks Parliament. Can I get away with this, he thinks.
That beast is loose among you. There have been no consequences for 1/6. Arrests yes, but no significant convictions and penalties. No commission with authority to subpoena witnesses. If this holds the foundations will shudder.
We must endure this time of waiting. The fundamental question of the survival of American democracy at this moment rests on the indictment, trial, conviction and sentencing of Trump. I pray that that they are using this time to make an airtight case against, as opposed to temporizing and trying to make a case that will sell to the other whatever% as to why they just can’t bring him to justice.
Hitler took power with only 36% of the vote in 1932. He was a legitimate (sort of) candidate. Here we have 14% who think on *zero evidence* that Trump was cheated out of victory. What number will that rise to when the Arizona audit “proves” that he was cheated there? When a Georgia audit does? We know that other states will jump into the queue with their own audits, as they have with enacting Draconian and breathtakingly stupid new legislation to restrict the vote.
*This* is the consequential moment. The 2022 election will either confirm the Republican grab for power or they will be routed.
No offense intended, but if you’re reassured that really it’s only 14% and the media shouldn’t be scaring us with numbers like 53%, I think you’re hiding behind the thinnest of fig leaves.
“I pray that that they are using this time to make an airtight case against, as opposed to temporizing and trying to make a case that will sell to the other whatever% as to why they just can’t bring him to justice.”
I’m convinced it’s airtight case.
The Arizona political stunt is being widely panned everywhere, including inside the justice system. The voting machines they’ve touched have already been identified as contaminated and unusable.
In the 2022 election, I believe the Republicans will be routed. I’ve been watching the trend for a year and a half now. The Republican Party is becoming marginalized. They are moving towards the fate of the California Republican Party, permanent minority status. That is the direction of travel. The speed of travel is anybody’s guess, but 2022 does not look good for the Republican Party.
As Annette and others have said, you are speaking for many many people. Here and abroad. I certainly understand the anxiety, the panic, there is some of that within my own family. The most shocking thing of all was January 6. Now post-election and post-1/6 we are witnessing the fallout, the fiasco of the old white racist society’s last wild attempts to cling to power. Their hold on power is disintegrating, as is their political party of choice. Good riddance to bad rubbish, as the English say.
Well, I will say that as soon as I saw so many of the Republican leadership DENOUNCE the violence and then AMPLIFY the lie, it reinforced to me that only truth will defuse this ticking bomb they have created.
So I believe their duplicity is their downfall. I feel it in the depths of my love for this country that our current president will do what is necessary to assure passage of the voting bills, the infrastructure bills.....basically all the action to guardrail and move our democracy out of the swamp, will happen. I’m actually pretty excited about it all.
Pres Biden strategically will always go bipartisan first, but don’t think for a minute he will get stuck there with a Dem majority to do the work and, as important, the majority of people that voted for him and are firmly behind him. A rather formidable group, if this stream serves as an example of that.
I choose to put my faith behind that. It’s my fuel for all the things we must do. There’s a lot of people to bring into the circle and off the caste ladder. Imagine the shame of it....400+ yrs.
I’ll repeat what I think was and is the original download from the Creator.
“We are all in this together. There is enough to go around.”
Roland, thank you for the link. It proves that there are at least some Republicans in the legislature who have decent intentions. My hopes for any moderation in the Republican party are quite low, but I still predict that the majority of voters will be able to place the blame squarely where it belongs, and that Biden will fulfill our confidence that he'll unequivocally support any and all efforts to eviscerate Trump and his acolytes, including Bill Barr, formerly described as "a lawyer's lawyer," prior to his elevation to AG. Quite the joke, right?
That’s OK. As I said, members of my family don’t feel it either. Maybe that’s why I’m around. I am fortunate to be seeing an optimistic trend.
Do I understand Eric’s feeling of being shocked? Hell yes. Do I understand the anxiety and the concern? Hell yes. We wouldn’t all be here on this channel otherwise.
Eric, you have aptly described how many of us are feeling. Shocked, yes, but outraged too. I am outraged at all the things you described. I am outraged that my local county's election supervisor and his family received such death threats (after saying that the election was not stolen) that he had to work with the county sheriff and Homeland Security for protection. I am outraged that my newspaper is covering pablum stories about construction in downtown instead of raising the alarm. I am outraged that all of these proposed election laws are designed with one purpose, to keep Republicans in power. I could go on and on.
I couldn’t disagree more. It is shocking. It’s shocking because 1 in 7 adult Americans believe a pure and utter fantasy. It’s shocking because I’m sure that number is solidifying as people are being fed hope by widening election reviews - Alabama, Georgia, Wisconsin. ..
It’s shocking because if emboldens the Republican Party to believe that they are on the right track in their continuing obeisance to a lunatic.
It’s shocking because it promotes the disease of lying outrageously without fear of consequence. Morality is decaying at least at the edges in America.
It’s shocking because that small group is perpetrating acts of violence against Asians because Trump vilified them repeatedly. Now that that genie is out of the bottle, American Jews are becoming targets of random, violent attacks. Who can know the motivation. Maybe the recent conflict. Maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ratshit comparison of mask mandates to the Holocaust stirs up an old irrational anger.
It’s shocking because other Republicans who don’t believe the election was stolen, do not appear to be speaking up against it.
This is a moment when those with primally inhuman, nihilistic instincts feel that it’s time to see *how far they can go* (emphasis) in giving vent to evil. So a Lukashenko simply outwaits protesters and then when they have been worn down, pulls off a shocking attack on a commercial plane. A Samoan leader, ousted in an election, simply locks Parliament. Can I get away with this, he thinks.
That beast is loose among you. There have been no consequences for 1/6. Arrests yes, but no significant convictions and penalties. No commission with authority to subpoena witnesses. If this holds the foundations will shudder.
We must endure this time of waiting. The fundamental question of the survival of American democracy at this moment rests on the indictment, trial, conviction and sentencing of Trump. I pray that that they are using this time to make an airtight case against, as opposed to temporizing and trying to make a case that will sell to the other whatever% as to why they just can’t bring him to justice.
Hitler took power with only 36% of the vote in 1932. He was a legitimate (sort of) candidate. Here we have 14% who think on *zero evidence* that Trump was cheated out of victory. What number will that rise to when the Arizona audit “proves” that he was cheated there? When a Georgia audit does? We know that other states will jump into the queue with their own audits, as they have with enacting Draconian and breathtakingly stupid new legislation to restrict the vote.
*This* is the consequential moment. The 2022 election will either confirm the Republican grab for power or they will be routed.
No offense intended, but if you’re reassured that really it’s only 14% and the media shouldn’t be scaring us with numbers like 53%, I think you’re hiding behind the thinnest of fig leaves.
I’m shocked.
Hello Eric. Your concerns are well founded.
“I pray that that they are using this time to make an airtight case against, as opposed to temporizing and trying to make a case that will sell to the other whatever% as to why they just can’t bring him to justice.”
I’m convinced it’s airtight case.
The Arizona political stunt is being widely panned everywhere, including inside the justice system. The voting machines they’ve touched have already been identified as contaminated and unusable.
In the 2022 election, I believe the Republicans will be routed. I’ve been watching the trend for a year and a half now. The Republican Party is becoming marginalized. They are moving towards the fate of the California Republican Party, permanent minority status. That is the direction of travel. The speed of travel is anybody’s guess, but 2022 does not look good for the Republican Party.
As Annette and others have said, you are speaking for many many people. Here and abroad. I certainly understand the anxiety, the panic, there is some of that within my own family. The most shocking thing of all was January 6. Now post-election and post-1/6 we are witnessing the fallout, the fiasco of the old white racist society’s last wild attempts to cling to power. Their hold on power is disintegrating, as is their political party of choice. Good riddance to bad rubbish, as the English say.
Well, I will say that as soon as I saw so many of the Republican leadership DENOUNCE the violence and then AMPLIFY the lie, it reinforced to me that only truth will defuse this ticking bomb they have created.
So I believe their duplicity is their downfall. I feel it in the depths of my love for this country that our current president will do what is necessary to assure passage of the voting bills, the infrastructure bills.....basically all the action to guardrail and move our democracy out of the swamp, will happen. I’m actually pretty excited about it all.
Pres Biden strategically will always go bipartisan first, but don’t think for a minute he will get stuck there with a Dem majority to do the work and, as important, the majority of people that voted for him and are firmly behind him. A rather formidable group, if this stream serves as an example of that.
I choose to put my faith behind that. It’s my fuel for all the things we must do. There’s a lot of people to bring into the circle and off the caste ladder. Imagine the shame of it....400+ yrs.
I’ll repeat what I think was and is the original download from the Creator.
“We are all in this together. There is enough to go around.”
I affirm it every day.
And this is why we love you Christine. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, Roland. I agree. Hopefully, we're correct.
Time will tell. Here’s some evidence:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/13/nancy-pelosi-gop-capitol-insurrection-denial-488039
Roland, thank you for the link. It proves that there are at least some Republicans in the legislature who have decent intentions. My hopes for any moderation in the Republican party are quite low, but I still predict that the majority of voters will be able to place the blame squarely where it belongs, and that Biden will fulfill our confidence that he'll unequivocally support any and all efforts to eviscerate Trump and his acolytes, including Bill Barr, formerly described as "a lawyer's lawyer," prior to his elevation to AG. Quite the joke, right?
From your lips Roland, but, I’m not feeling it right now, much as I want to.
That’s OK. As I said, members of my family don’t feel it either. Maybe that’s why I’m around. I am fortunate to be seeing an optimistic trend.
Do I understand Eric’s feeling of being shocked? Hell yes. Do I understand the anxiety and the concern? Hell yes. We wouldn’t all be here on this channel otherwise.
Eric, you have aptly described how many of us are feeling. Shocked, yes, but outraged too. I am outraged at all the things you described. I am outraged that my local county's election supervisor and his family received such death threats (after saying that the election was not stolen) that he had to work with the county sheriff and Homeland Security for protection. I am outraged that my newspaper is covering pablum stories about construction in downtown instead of raising the alarm. I am outraged that all of these proposed election laws are designed with one purpose, to keep Republicans in power. I could go on and on.