And you might remind them that Biden has surrounded himself with competent people. Secretary of State Blinken puts everyone in the T administration to shame, for example. Mark Milley, as head of the Joint Chiefs, stood between us and chaos. Linda Thomas-Greenfield has served us nobly at the United Nations, fighting hunger around the worl…
And you might remind them that Biden has surrounded himself with competent people. Secretary of State Blinken puts everyone in the T administration to shame, for example. Mark Milley, as head of the Joint Chiefs, stood between us and chaos. Linda Thomas-Greenfield has served us nobly at the United Nations, fighting hunger around the world and skillfully skirting the Russians when she can. Deb Haaland has demonstrated at the Interior Department that our public lands are for everyone. A competent leader surrounds themselves with competent people, not sycophants, and Biden has chosen many.
Agree and I do say that constantly. The caliper of the people in Biden's administration is second to none and is exactly what we should all be looking for from a president (but it is rare)! A lesser known public example is Ambassador (China) Nick Burns (his brother was in my high school class) who I heard and was able to speak with few years ago at a presentation in Boston-at the time he was one of Biden's campaign advisors on foreign affairs. He is a brilliant, life long diplomat, also teaches/taught at Harvard-we won't hold that against him :) - and has been my "go to" on international policy for many years.
The bottom line is trump's occupation of the WH was a total shit show and a so-called administration filled with the most incompetent, nasty people. Those with some functioning brain cells (albeit not without ideas of self enrichment) who thought they might be able to keep a lid on things (and I get that), quickly left. The lessons from the rise of Hitler tell us how that type of strategy works out!
If anyone knows how to find or have shown the piece of newsreel showing a mass of German soldiers pledging their loyalty to Hitler, please make it known to a journalist. I saw it years ago and it would make a powerful statement to MAGAs.
So it’s a true Fascist cult. I knew our failure to teach history was/is serious, but this is a jolt. Thank you for reminding me how far we’ve fallen. Having lived through the whole political scene since Eisenhower (my first vote, last Republican) and having voted, marched and rallied faithfully for Dems and democratic principles ever since, watching my fellow Americans getting fatter and glued to boring TV sitcoms while I was doing music, I now see that it’s worse than I could have believed. (First clue: at 89 I MUST be diabetic. Not yet. Maybe never.)
I am only 84, but after spending a month in France last August and learning a lot of what happened there during German occupation. in WWII [things not emphasized here except for what the Allies were doing]...it gives me more motivation to march and do whatever I need to do in my remaining years!! By the way, many French we spoked with are seeing the same divide and issues we are seeing here...they are scared and remind us they live only a few hundred miles from Ukraine.
Virginia, you have certainly seen it all. . . . I'm almost a generation behind but Vietnam and Nixon were my wake up calls. Unfortunately, I wasn't paying as much attention in the 80's (not an excuse but reality-for all of life's reasons) but I also couldn't understand why the democrats constantly let their message get swallowed and too often "shot themselves in the foot" so to speak. Many ups and downs. When my parents (stanch republicans but of the Eisenhower kind) pulled the lever for Obama (twice), I called my brothers and said either hell has frozen over and/or pigs can fly! :) My father in particular could not get his head around Sarah Palin as a VP choice! While I still think Hillary should have been the candidate, Obama (while making some rookie mistakes) did a tremendous job (like Biden) under the most adverse of conditions (inheriting a mess from the republican predecessor) and being the right person at the appropriate time.
It saddens me too that people spend more time picking out a pair of shoes, getting tickets to and watching a football game, etc. than paying attention to the things that are really going to make a difference in their lives.
Yes! I watched all of this from a WWII, UN, Marshall Plan perspective, while voting and doing music, and trusting in what I thought I knew about America and Americans. Iraq was my big shock, then recognizing the power of money and oil to corrupt absolutely while living climate change on a boat. But until I saw “fat is a disease” as a subject title in a UCLA health letter I just thought it ugly and stupid. It’s also a story of corrupt agricultural decisions and practices, not condemned by a corrupt AMA.
And you might remind them that Biden has surrounded himself with competent people. Secretary of State Blinken puts everyone in the T administration to shame, for example. Mark Milley, as head of the Joint Chiefs, stood between us and chaos. Linda Thomas-Greenfield has served us nobly at the United Nations, fighting hunger around the world and skillfully skirting the Russians when she can. Deb Haaland has demonstrated at the Interior Department that our public lands are for everyone. A competent leader surrounds themselves with competent people, not sycophants, and Biden has chosen many.
Agree and I do say that constantly. The caliper of the people in Biden's administration is second to none and is exactly what we should all be looking for from a president (but it is rare)! A lesser known public example is Ambassador (China) Nick Burns (his brother was in my high school class) who I heard and was able to speak with few years ago at a presentation in Boston-at the time he was one of Biden's campaign advisors on foreign affairs. He is a brilliant, life long diplomat, also teaches/taught at Harvard-we won't hold that against him :) - and has been my "go to" on international policy for many years.
The bottom line is trump's occupation of the WH was a total shit show and a so-called administration filled with the most incompetent, nasty people. Those with some functioning brain cells (albeit not without ideas of self enrichment) who thought they might be able to keep a lid on things (and I get that), quickly left. The lessons from the rise of Hitler tell us how that type of strategy works out!
If anyone knows how to find or have shown the piece of newsreel showing a mass of German soldiers pledging their loyalty to Hitler, please make it known to a journalist. I saw it years ago and it would make a powerful statement to MAGAs.
Unfortunately, the most violent of MAGA’s would think that is a call to arms - they really are of that evil mindset!
So it’s a true Fascist cult. I knew our failure to teach history was/is serious, but this is a jolt. Thank you for reminding me how far we’ve fallen. Having lived through the whole political scene since Eisenhower (my first vote, last Republican) and having voted, marched and rallied faithfully for Dems and democratic principles ever since, watching my fellow Americans getting fatter and glued to boring TV sitcoms while I was doing music, I now see that it’s worse than I could have believed. (First clue: at 89 I MUST be diabetic. Not yet. Maybe never.)
I am only 84, but after spending a month in France last August and learning a lot of what happened there during German occupation. in WWII [things not emphasized here except for what the Allies were doing]...it gives me more motivation to march and do whatever I need to do in my remaining years!! By the way, many French we spoked with are seeing the same divide and issues we are seeing here...they are scared and remind us they live only a few hundred miles from Ukraine.
I can only imagine the fear many Europeans must feel with what is going on in Ukraine and politically here and in their countries.
Virginia, you have certainly seen it all. . . . I'm almost a generation behind but Vietnam and Nixon were my wake up calls. Unfortunately, I wasn't paying as much attention in the 80's (not an excuse but reality-for all of life's reasons) but I also couldn't understand why the democrats constantly let their message get swallowed and too often "shot themselves in the foot" so to speak. Many ups and downs. When my parents (stanch republicans but of the Eisenhower kind) pulled the lever for Obama (twice), I called my brothers and said either hell has frozen over and/or pigs can fly! :) My father in particular could not get his head around Sarah Palin as a VP choice! While I still think Hillary should have been the candidate, Obama (while making some rookie mistakes) did a tremendous job (like Biden) under the most adverse of conditions (inheriting a mess from the republican predecessor) and being the right person at the appropriate time.
It saddens me too that people spend more time picking out a pair of shoes, getting tickets to and watching a football game, etc. than paying attention to the things that are really going to make a difference in their lives.
Yes! I watched all of this from a WWII, UN, Marshall Plan perspective, while voting and doing music, and trusting in what I thought I knew about America and Americans. Iraq was my big shock, then recognizing the power of money and oil to corrupt absolutely while living climate change on a boat. But until I saw “fat is a disease” as a subject title in a UCLA health letter I just thought it ugly and stupid. It’s also a story of corrupt agricultural decisions and practices, not condemned by a corrupt AMA.