Most people around the world, including the majority of Americas, find their heads spinning at the level of corruption that is spreading through the United States like a metastasizing cancer that appears to have beaten all the patient’s treatment options.
Defeating Trump’s immunity case is the last chance this country has to remain any different, in the sense that the people are empowered to govern themselves, than Russia or China.
Leguizamo brings up a good point: How is it possible for any of the ethnic minorities that Trump and his supporters are so desperately anxious to harm want to see the former president back in the White House?
One in eight black voters will cast their ballots for Trump. That’s not huge, but it’s not nothing, either. If I were black, I’d have one hell of a tough time voting for a man who consistently refuses to condemn white nationalism when it appears in places like Charlottesville, VA and incites the insurrection shown below.
From the candidate herself:
FWIW, I agree with the author of the meme here. The reason most of us refrain from committing harmful acts isn’t that we think we’ll be rewarded by some sort of force that pervades the universe. Nor is our motive an eternity in heaven vs. hell.
Decent people do good in the world simply because it’s good. It’s the right thing to do, and most of us behave accordingly.
From this article on former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro:
(Navarro) has been ordered to report to a Miami prison on March 19 to begin serving a four month sentence for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee.
Navarro, who is urging a federal appeals court to stay the sentence while he attempts to overturn his conviction, faces the prospect of becoming the first top adviser to Donald Trump to serve jail time for an offense related to the effort to subvert the 2020 election.
It’s easy to see why a person of Navarro’s stature would thumb his nose at the criminal justice system when it comes to the prosecution of Trump and his top people after their attempts to overthrow the U.S. government. After all, what’s Steve Bannon doing just now? He’s a convicted felon whose crime was nearly identical to Navarro’s, and Bannon’s out there drinking fine wine, while planning how to re-install Trump into the presidency.
From last night’s Oscars:
Trump posts on his social media page, which Kimmel read aloud: “Here’s something I just got on my phone. Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars. His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up, but cheap, ABC “talent,” George Slopanopoulos. He would make everybody on stage look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous.”
To which Kimmel, hosting the Academy Awards, for the fourth time. responds, “Ok now, see if you can guess which former president just posted that on Truth Social. Anyone? No? Well, thank you President Trump. Thank you for watching, I’m surprised you’re still – isn’t it past your jail time?” Prompting cheers and laughs from the audience.
Obviously, it’s Trump’s nature to be combative with his political enemies; in fact, I think it’s fair to say that he’s powerless to do otherwise, regardless of the consequences. This is why he’s still defaming E. Jean Carroll, even as the size of the judgement against him continues to rise.
I guess he’s thinking that this compulsive/obsessive behavior has always worked for him in the past. That’s true, and Trump has tens of millions of supports for this and his other neuroses.
Everything’s true here except the conclusion. You are anything but irrelevant.
Let’s go with Gandhi on this one:
“Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it because you can’t know. You can’t ever really know the meaning of your life. And you don’t need to. Every life has a meaning, whether it lasts one hundred years or one hundred seconds. Every life, and every death, changes the world in its own way. You can’t know. So don’t take it for granted.”
Yesterday, a conservative friend asked me what I thought was going to happen in November.
I responded that I don’t have any insight into this that isn’t available to the rest of the world, but, if we’re simply extrapolating the future from the present, i.e., barring anything unforeseeable, it looks like a Biden victory.
I base this on:
• A starting point: Biden’s 7 million vote win in 2020.
• The president’s accomplishments, albeit not well publicized.
• The 91 felony charges against Trump, and the likely path of progress in the criminal trials between now and November.
• The probable effect of public perception of Biden’s advancing age.
• The results of the GOP primaries, in which an average of about 40% of Republicans voted against Trump.
It seems that Trump has hit a hard limit in terms of his appeal to angry, easily persuaded, uneducated people. There are tens of millions of them, but their numbers can’t grow much further.
Let me ask this about the meme above. Yes, there are some voters who regard this garbage as a fair and meaningful representation of the issue at the southern border, but, if we were guessing at a percentage of their numbers, what would we estimate? It really couldn’t be more than about 25%.
Most people understand that illegal immigration is a serious, though complicated issue. There are laws, both domestic and international, that must be complied with. This is seen as the ultimate political football to some; as we all know, Republicans have no interest in resolving the issue prior to the November elections. But there are people on both sides of the aisle who are working to resolve the situation with intelligence and compassion.
If you’re Liz Cheney or Mitt Romney, Trump needs you gone, so that his cronies, e.g., folks like his codefendants in the Fulton County RICO case (see below), along with Steve Bannon, Mike Lindell, and the other pieces of scum can come to prominence.
“Theological heresy” may be too strong a phrase, but the point made here is a strong one.
The idea that God favors American endeavors above those of the French or the Croatians is just plain stupid.
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