Given the honor and devotion to country required to make it to the top ranks of the U.S. Military, it’s hard to think of anything these people find satisfactory about Donald Trump as their Commander-in-Chief.
Shortly after the president bypassed the entire system of military justice and pardoned a convicted war criminal, I spoke with a few friends, including a close boyhood pal, a recently retired lawyer in the U.S. Marine Corps’ Judge Advocate General system. (more…)
To think that he could have gotten away scot free had we not had the pandemic. He would have sailed right past all the lies and the criminality, and probably won a second term and installed himself as absolute ruler had he not faced this specific type of challenge, i.e., one that requires honesty to address.
Pandemics don’t respond to lies, spin, or blaming others; they’re beaten by the honest and transparent application of science, and that is as far from Trump as the rings of Saturn.
What’s going to happen next is anyone’s guess, but at this point it seems clear that we’ll have a new president in January, and all because of a few strands of genetic material, encased in a thin layer of grease.
Some folks find the current crises too much to deal with. Pandemic raging due to criminal mismanagement, Trump breaking down rule of law and committing more impeachable acts on a daily basis, cops murdering black people, unmarked shock troops indiscriminately pulling protesters into custody–and these are just the recent ones.
Can’t we simply avert our vision if this becomes too much to bear?
No, and here’s why it is morally unacceptable, as told in this powerful and beautifully written article: “Why we must not look away in the current crisis,” by Baptist pastor Mark Wingfield (pictured).
Below is Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Trevor Noah’s show, addressing Trump’s botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic (see screen shot at left).
I’ve always found her to be an extremely impressive woman; hope she gets the nod as Biden’s running mate. (more…)
These two shoppers, shown here in a Minnesota Walmart, will be casting their ballots for Trump in November.
I’m not bananas about Biden, but he sure will be getting my vote; I hope yours too.
Btw, if these folks were in a store I owned or managed, I’d say, “Pardon me. This is private property, and I have the right to refuse service to anyone. If you pigs are still here in 60 seconds, I’ll have security remove you, assisted, as required, by the police.”
Seems like a solid approach to me. As we all know, viruses, as well as pathogens of all types, respond very well to right-wing extremism, torrential lies, and the belief system of Evangelical Christians.
The fact you have 415K COVID-19 cases, that you’re adding more that 10K/day, that you’re running out of ICU beds, and your state has a positivity rate of 14% are all immaterial.
Seriously, you’re the Republican governor of Florida. If you don’t follow Trump on key matters like this, those people will feed you to the alligators.
Here’s a short piece in Newsweek from José Ramos-Horta, former President of Timor-Leste and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
He begins: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany recently said, “the world is looking at us as a leader in COVID-19.” She is half right. The rest of the world is indeed looking, not with admiration for U.S. leadership, but with dropped jaws.
What’s going to be required to re-establish the legitimacy of the United States on the world stage is unknown at this point.
Are Americans impressed by hoards of heavily armed, unidentified thugs, using military tactics and weapons to pull people off their cities’ streets? How many of us believe that our local police aren’t up to the task of arresting the very few violent rioters?
It’s hard to imagine that this is going to work in Trump’s favor. (more…)