From Hamlet: What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!
Really? Trump supporters are “godlike” in their “apprehension?”
Here’s a thought from historian Will Durant, best known for his 11-volume series The Story of Civilization, written in the middle of the 20th Century.
It’s a horrifying thing to watch a nation whose government, designed to be “of, by, and for the people,” attacked from within by a man bent to usurping power from the American people. And, as Durant noted, it happens in the blink of an eye.
I don’t think anyone, even the people who voted for him twice, believe that Trump hires the “best” people in the sense of their being decent and honorable human beings. Roger Stone prides himself of his “dirty tricks.”
By the time this is over, it’s possible that many dozens of those who participated in the coup attempt (on top of perhaps 1000 foot-soldiers) will go up the river. Think not only of Trump, Eastman, Giuliani and the other top strategists, but all the fake electors who knowingly violated their oaths.
Identifying all these people as felons is one thing. Now it’s time to send them all to prison.
The reason I normally don’t make political contributions is that I don’t believe most of the claims being made in the candidates’ appeals.
Might the idiot Hershel Walker win in Georgia? No. Georgia is conservative, but they really don’t like pathologically lying morons.
Could the fascist Doug Mastriano prevail in Pennsylvania? Sorry. There is a lot of real estate between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but not enough to elect another Ron DeSantis as PA’s governor.
I’m less familiar with the scene described at left in Wisconsin. Ron Johnson, one of the biggest ass****s in the nation, is the incumbent, and so I have to think he has a real chance to win another term.
For that reason, I’m thinking about sending Mandela Barnes a few bucks. The alternative is a Senate full of people who want to help Donald Trump overthrow the U.S. federal government, and I’m not too keen on that idea.
I suppose that a case could be made that Dodge is an auto brand specially targeted at morons. Think Budweiser, Trump.
But most people don’t like to look stupid. Speaking strictly for myself, I would feel like an absolute idiot driving a car that make artificial noise, especially lots of it.
That’s on top of the fact that EV buyers are willing to pay extra for a quiet ride.
Sitting at my wife’s desk with the sliding doors open, I just read this headline (above), and shouted, “Oh ****!!” loud enough for our neighbors to hear. Glad they don’t have kids.
Upon reading further, however, this really isn’t that bad of news. Graham successfully appealed the court’s ruling that he must testify on the basis that certain types of questions are forbidden under the U.S. Constitution’s speech and debate clause, which prohibits asking lawmakers about their legitimate legislative functions.
It strikes me that no one could possibly care about anything Graham did as a “legitimate legislative function”; he’s going to have trouble convincing a judge that helping Trump overthrow the U.S. government has a great deal of legitimacy.
In this edition of Glenn Kirschner’s Justice Matters (see below), we learn what we had long suspected about then-Attorney General Bill Barr, i.e., that he’s a bald-faced liar who grossly and deliberately mischaracterized the “Mueller Report.” The document had laid out numerous instances in which Donard Trump obstructed the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, all of which were ignored in Barr’s presentation to Congress and to the American people.
Where will this take us in our prosecution of Trump for his number crimes since he came to power? Probably nowhere, since the investigation into the coup attempt and the theft of government documents has already come such a long way.
Having said that, it be great to send Barr up the river for perjury.
The reason we don’t tax religions isn’t that we think they need to be subsidized. Rather, it’s that we don’t want what the Supreme Court (in its better days) deemed to be “excessive entanglement” between the church and state. The thinking: keep Congress a million miles away from the affairs of our churches. Seems legit, IMO.
True, this means that churches have that much more power to prey upon idiots, which is regrettable in the extreme. But we prefer that to an assault against our First Amendment.
The author of the meme poses a good question.
The answer is that it’s essentially like everything else in American life: It’s all about me.
Public schools have to deliver education to everyone, regardless of their IQ, learning disabilities, and whatever poor values the kids’ families may suffer from. Charter schools, formed in relatively affluent neighborhoods, are not bound by these laws, and can scrape the cream off the top, making public schools that much worse off in terms of the average academic quality of the remaining students, condemning the children who must remain there to even lower educational standards.
Again, the American ethos is one of: Who cares? I’ve got mine. Everyone else can go to hell.
This is simply one more example.
Allen Weisselberg, former Trump Organization CFO who pleaded guilty to 15 felony counts of fraud and could have been sentenced to 15 years in prison, will spend only 100 days behind bars.
If anyone has a theory behind the ultra-lenient treatment here, other than that our justice system deals with rich, well-connected white men in a fundamentally different way than it addresses low-level pot vendors, I’d certainly like to hear it.
Trump will go down, but it seems very unlikely that the decades of fraud he and his organization committed in New York will be the vehicle by which that happens.
