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Robin Wright coined a perfect word for our dyspeptic times “thugocrat” in a New Yorker year end review.
Unbeknownst to me -or perhaps any of us- we were living in TFG’s “thugocracy” for lo those many years!
This is proven by his inciting a mob to support his big lie and storm the Capitol.
Did you ever imagine that we’d be saying that the trouble with the American economy was strong growth and high wages?
Perspectives change and the rules we grew to think were steadfast don’t always hold the line. Economics is an evolving science.
Yesterday’s conclusions from the J6 committee were welcome news. They worked hard to create a historic record of that dark day.
The conspirators deserve to be held to account. From top down.
The Former Guy is making threats of another coup in response to the revelations made by J6 Cmte.
The question for America’s next chapter is how well the republic will recover from what TFG has wrought.
BTW prices at the gas pump are down.
President Zelensky is heading to America’s capital. This is bravery!
When your resume is the best fiction you have ever written! No make that the best fiction you will ever write.
My commercial cable show had 3 of these offers in a row: due to supply chain issues, these items will soon be discontinued, limit two. Once the current inventory is gone….
Two for 29.95 just add a handling charge.
Math and reading scores dipped, I read today. I don’t imagine science and history knowledge improved. An already ignorant nation welcomes a new generation of bumkins to the world.
My parting word is about TFG: This guy will not make you rich. Give him your freedoms and he will make you his bitch!
#alt-right=alt-wrong. Take a lesson from history.
Is not misinformation, as I told the team behind NYT’s The Morning newsletter.
The correct word is lies. If it’s not true and you insist it is you are lying. This is especially so when you don’t believe the lie you are spreading.
Misinformation is too benign a code word. Could we stop pussyfooting around this?
We help keep this LIE alive when we mislabel it.
Hundreds of Republicans running for national and statewide offices have questioned or spread misinformation about the 2020 election, in some cases outright denying President Biden’s victory. To understand how thoroughly these views have seeped into American politics, my colleagues Karen Yourish and Danielle Ivory combed through statements from more than 550 Republican candidates. I spoke with them about what they found.
NYT The Morning by Ashley Wu (emphasis mine) Investigation by Karen Yourish and Danielle Ivory.
It is not misinformation when you knowingly mislead voters into believing that democracy is whatever you say it is. It’s fraud.
Republicans are defrauding voters when they have them believe that in our America a fair election has been stolen.
The BIG LIE is not just questioning the results, it is lying about how the democratic process works.
There is a real danger in giving this maniacal insurrectionist a forum and a platform.
An NYT writer feels that Biden didn’t make the ex-prez “small” enough by declaring against the threat to democracy he poses.
I contend that the press and the people did not take him seriously enough the first time around. We of the liberal persuasion laughed at his antics. Ha, who’s laughing now!
Is it just me or do you too find the investigation into the J6 Insurrection moving too slowly?
Fox non-News is taking the time to keep spreading The Big Lie. In the absence of immediate indictment, there is room to sow doubt.
And to be fair, just as my side [I hope you have joined me there and I can call it our side] is certain of its view of the Storming of the Capitol, so those who are partial to TFG see it differently. Some are cynically supporting the falsehood that TFG did not lose. Others sincerely believe what he and the folks at Fox have been telling them.
The Great Big Lie that an election was stolen may be illogical and implausible but as with other untruths repetition gives it legs. The greater truth that TFG and his co-conspirators were attempting to steal democracy from under our noses calls for prosecution.
There has been no rush to judgment. The extreme caution with which the DOJ has approached its target of investigation makes that clear.
We need to close in on those working to undermine America. Now.
Yup. That’s when things you wish didn’t happen happen. So there are Supreme Court justices who were laying the ground work to dismantle Constitutional rights for a long time.
This sort of exercise of jurisprudence against the people is usually the work of tyrants and their sycophants. (See Laphmans Back Matter as a commentary on this.)
When something has been codified as law for half a century, it must be deemed a precedent. Precedents are sacred to American law and each of the SC justices who now discarded them vowed to uphold precedent while being reviewed for their position on the Court.
Lying under oath is not a qualification for serving our American citizenry. It does seem to be a symptom of the last several political cycles dominated by TFG whose propensity towards untruth has brought dire results to our Great country.
Jan 6th is one outcome when Big Lies are perpetrated. A Supreme Court packed with partisan players is another.
These men and women who now wear the robes of our highest court warned us of their intent. They signaled very clearly that they had a regressive definition of our democracy.
We just weren’t paying attention.
Preserving what is Great about America requires we stay vigilant.
Have a happy 4th of July.
CNN alerted me to this and I suggest we all beware of a coming insurrection far more grievous than the January 6th riots:
“Former President Donald Trump teased a 2024 presidential run during a rally in Texas yesterday and said he would consider pardoning those who were charged in connection with the deadly attack on the US Capitol if he wins the White House again.” CNN 5 Things newsletter.
The suggestion of a pardon for the thugs of 1/6 is tantamount to inciting them to pick up arms again.
Seriously. TFG poses a major threat to the United States of America.
He remains both a clown/buffoon and a threat to be taken seriously. DOJ should take him out and make him pay for his crimes
Me, commenting to a friend
My focus in previous posts was on the absurdly named Proud Boys, but I should not have overlooked the so called Oathkeepers.
An oath can be a vow or a form of blasphemy. Those dedicated to the desecration of American democracy are not swearing allegiance to our flag. They are cursing at the American way of life.
Both these traitorous groups have made white privilege and white grievance their rallying points. This means they are simply toeing the party line 45 threw out to them.
Let’s stay on our toes. We need to be vigilant as there are vigilantes determined to undermine the fabric of American democracy.
Our country was made, like the patchwork quilts so popular on its frontier, of bits and pieces. Diversity is not a 21st century idea. It is the basis on which the USofA is founded.
Do not let it founder under the threat of lawless mobs.
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