In the Black community there is a derogatory retort directed at black folks who aren’t sensitive to the centuries of horrible abuse inflicted upon our people. Those who refuse to recognize the impact of what this kind of ancestral pain does to the very construct of families and people. They are told they are not “Black enough”, to feel nor understand the pain. Or worse they have chosen to “unremember” because it’s not convenient.
I have come to this conclusion: Trump isn’t “American enough”. He doesn’t appreciate what this nation has been through, the wars both external and internal. He and his followers aren’t “American enough” to fully embrace the extraordinary striving for justice and honesty that could make this a noble nation. They’re not “American enough’ to allow full participation in a truly diverse country in which all might participate to make it a great democracy.
I started reading the intro to the report last night. I don't attend church anymore, but the next time I have an opportunity, I will light a candle for Liz Cheney. Just as "only Nixon could go to China," only a rock-ribbed Republican like Liz Cheney could have pulled this off and reached the finish line of the Committee's work. It matters not to me that she and I disagree on most public policy. We agree on this one thing, that FPOTUS and his gang are a threat to the Republic and the rule of law that has sustained us since 1791.
Precisely my thoughts. I don't agree with anything of or about Liz Cheney's conservative approach to the world, but that doesn't stop me from admiring her bravery and her love of the Constitution.
No one person is above the law, EXCEPT this head of the crime family who is more slippery than an eel swimming in oil. In the words of Lt. General (I plead the 5th) Flynn, "LOCK him up!"
Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture on Twitter) said that there is no way a former president will be incarcerated in the US prison system, and while I hadn't thought about that before I saw, as I read it, that she was right.
It is still vitally important to hold him responsible, to try him publicly and with no restraint other than the confines of fine and reasonable inference, and oh, I hope convict him and clip the wings of his powers as much as can be done, within legal and civil rights.
My bets are on Garland waiting on Raskin's (David, not Jamie) investigation of the Mar-a-Largo stuff. Whether that is a delay tactic on Garland's part or a wise legal and/or political move, I don't know. I have to believe that DOJ already knows pretty much everything they are about to get from the committee. Spit balling here, I'll say people like Eastman and maybe Meadows will get indicted well ahead of Trump. And then there's the Georgia investigation.
The last thing any of us want to hear right now is "be patient" but I don't know the alternative. Maybe things will move quickly and surprise us but quickly compared to what?
No way. Not in a million years. It was a mistake when Ford did it, but it would be the death of the Republic if Biden or -- god forbid -- the next Republican president did it.
In the Black community there is a derogatory retort directed at black folks who aren’t sensitive to the centuries of horrible abuse inflicted upon our people. Those who refuse to recognize the impact of what this kind of ancestral pain does to the very construct of families and people. They are told they are not “Black enough”, to feel nor understand the pain. Or worse they have chosen to “unremember” because it’s not convenient.
I have come to this conclusion: Trump isn’t “American enough”. He doesn’t appreciate what this nation has been through, the wars both external and internal. He and his followers aren’t “American enough” to fully embrace the extraordinary striving for justice and honesty that could make this a noble nation. They’re not “American enough’ to allow full participation in a truly diverse country in which all might participate to make it a great democracy.
They are just not American enough!
Idk about "American" enough given our history but he definitely is guilty enough
I started reading the intro to the report last night. I don't attend church anymore, but the next time I have an opportunity, I will light a candle for Liz Cheney. Just as "only Nixon could go to China," only a rock-ribbed Republican like Liz Cheney could have pulled this off and reached the finish line of the Committee's work. It matters not to me that she and I disagree on most public policy. We agree on this one thing, that FPOTUS and his gang are a threat to the Republic and the rule of law that has sustained us since 1791.
Precisely my thoughts. I don't agree with anything of or about Liz Cheney's conservative approach to the world, but that doesn't stop me from admiring her bravery and her love of the Constitution.
No one person is above the law, EXCEPT this head of the crime family who is more slippery than an eel swimming in oil. In the words of Lt. General (I plead the 5th) Flynn, "LOCK him up!"
Did you SEE that clip? What an embarrassment. He pled the 5th on whether violence on Jan. 6th was justified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyg60yZhdy0
Let’s hope that Donnie trading card gets an NFT for his presidential campaign
No Frigging Thanks
The wheels are grinding so slowly. I hope the DOJ puts the prosecutorial pedal to the metal before 2024 election campaigning is fully underway.
Amen and amen.
Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture on Twitter) said that there is no way a former president will be incarcerated in the US prison system, and while I hadn't thought about that before I saw, as I read it, that she was right.
It is still vitally important to hold him responsible, to try him publicly and with no restraint other than the confines of fine and reasonable inference, and oh, I hope convict him and clip the wings of his powers as much as can be done, within legal and civil rights.
Put him in one of those country-cub prisons. I don't care. Put him away.
Oh, I agree. Surely some Elba can be found.
My bets are on Garland waiting on Raskin's (David, not Jamie) investigation of the Mar-a-Largo stuff. Whether that is a delay tactic on Garland's part or a wise legal and/or political move, I don't know. I have to believe that DOJ already knows pretty much everything they are about to get from the committee. Spit balling here, I'll say people like Eastman and maybe Meadows will get indicted well ahead of Trump. And then there's the Georgia investigation.
The last thing any of us want to hear right now is "be patient" but I don't know the alternative. Maybe things will move quickly and surprise us but quickly compared to what?
No way. Not in a million years. It was a mistake when Ford did it, but it would be the death of the Republic if Biden or -- god forbid -- the next Republican president did it.
It really WAS a mistake, despite Ford's plea that we all needed to heal.
A scabbed-over abscess festers and grows in that shelter.
It DOES appear he's skated past a few graveyards in his time. I hope this isn't another one of those instances.