If Biden and the Dems don’t act with complete clarity right now they will miss the thin time frame within which they can do anything to righteously protect all the people who deserve to be protected. Dithering about and trying to be the ethics police in the face of evil is both a horrific waste of time but also unethical. Hasn’t anyone ever studied Kohlberg’s Heinz dilemma on the study of Moral Development?
Biden has missed the mark on shutting down arms sales to Israel, and now both the UN and Amnesty International have declared the Gaza rampage a genocide. Helluva legacy, Brandon.
Sarah! I was just looking at the kohlberg thing last night and wondering where things went wrong...I said it before and will again, he needs to pardon till the cows come home and start yesterday. The fucking house is on fire, no more debating, let the maga lawyers twist in the wind for the next 2 yrs with SCOTUS trying to iron it out. Chaos from the dems is a much better defense for the country than just letting the clock run out and wait for the punishment to begin. Pardons are king per SCOTUS. Give them to every person who entered the US illegally for only that act, no other immunity. How fast can they issue them is the only question that matters.
Yes! What a great idea - blanket pardon to everyone who entered by crossing the border illegally. That will mess with those m*therfuckers heads while saving people’s lives. One of the best things about Kohlberg’s work is that it is a thought provoking and philosophical discussion about what is moral. He also tied people’s ethical interpretations to their cognitive stage of development. Apparently we have a lot of concrete thinkers making bad decisions in this country (not certain they’ve even reached that level of cognitive skill.)
When I look at the basic framework and try to discern where we are, I suspect Biden is actually somewhere at post-conventional - his stance that he wouldn't pardon his son because it goes against the principle regardless of consequences (for oneself) is definitely personal ethics. Felon factory is definitely pre-conventional in terms of motivation (self interest) where everything is graded and talked about as 'good for us' regardless of consequences for others, but consistently gets people to vote against their self-interest also, which seems to be the conundrum nobody is able to address. The country as a whole has backslid into debating right and wrong under conventional reasoning for decades (who owns the law and order label) and attempts to elevate the reasoning have been met by Pubes using the 'principles' to rationalize their positions under the guise of 'social contract' (culture wars) - but then you see the assassination attempts on trump and the killing of the UHC CEO - and the mob essentially cheering like this is the French revolution. We know what happens when you institute Nazism and post-conventional wisdom (Heinz dilemma) says 'steal the drug because human life is more important than prop rights' - it's possible this is where we are debating. The wealthy are saying property rights are the measure of power AND legitimacy. Dems are at social contract saying all people have intrinsic rights, Pubes are at self-interest and pretending to be at law and order/social contract to Dems chagrin so they keep getting caught in these stupid whataboutism conundrums per the outrage factory. It's mind-numhing to watch for people who are conscious observers. There's an obfuscation going on about where they are - if you believe you have the right position (ie Hitler) do you have to bamboozle the people about it to gain control (lying about project 25)? I think this is the real question, whether the con will hold well enough for them to swindle the whole country...
I agree. It hurts to write that, but when you can save people, you do it. Waving your principles about helps no one when the enemy is not principled or faithful to the same values. Trump is known for targeting people and ruining their lives. NEVER FORGET and learn from experience.
No, they will just rip him a new one just they have all week. They should get nothing but the opportunity to find out just how far Trump and Patel want to go.
Have you learned what the owner of the LA Times has decreed? Unfortunately, pardons, though the right idea, won’t affect the way a few feckless oligarchs have decided to behave.
They have bent the knee. Harry Litman on his Substack today said he had resigned from his position because of it as he did from Wa-Po. I’m sure he would appreciate a look-see if you feel like if.
My home state is a redneck abomination. Missouri sucks. Why does history have to repeat itself? Humans never learn and we all have to suffer. Pardon away Joe. Meanwhile I’m tired of living hour by hour wondering WTF is going to happen next. 😭
Like my wife said, I don't want to spend the next four years worrying and focusing on that asshole on a daily basis. There's a lot more things in life than that insane prick.
If we're lucky we'll only have to suffer for two years. By then the chaos, the corruption and the incompetence of these people will be apparent, and if the Dems are on the ball, the midterms will tell an interesting story.
Is this “fixing” elections addressed in Project 2025? Didn’t that gross baby-poo colored Convict promised we would never have to be botheted with having to vote again
Here's how to get back at Missouri. Send brown American citizens into town, pretending to be illegals. “No speeka ingles!” When they get arrested, sue the hell out of Missouri. When they go low, we get legal.
Your suggestion of “going legal“ presumes rule of law will be maintained in Missouri after Trump. Missouri authorities could lynch a whole bunch o’ people and burn the bodies before any legal protections might break out.
Who is willing to bet that MO is going to give "illegals" due process? Who is willing to bet that MO will care if this person or that may or may not be a citizen?
HP you clearly don't know much about the legal system. These folks would have lawyers lined up in advance who would bring their citizen papers to court and prove that there was a false arrest. There is a Hispanic civil rights organization called LULA C that might be interested in doing these kinds of things, or maybe a new organization could be set up.
The first lawsuit that Donald Trump was ever involved in was in Queens where an organization proved that he and his father were unwilling to rent to black people. They did this by sending black people to run an apartment, who were told that nothing was available, but then 5 minutes later white people come and are rented an apartment. Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump had to pay millions to settle a civil suit.
I know how fascism and fascist governments work. And that is what we are about to have. Do I think everything we have had for 250 years will be gone on 1/21, no I do not. But a year later? Yeah, I do. Maybe not for "normal" crimes, but with regard to the deportations I believe that there will be no due process, and yes, a substantial amount of murder along the way. And none of those murders will be solved because they are not meant to be. They also will not be widely known, because they are not meant to be.
Trumps first lawsuit means nothing. Hell, his last one means nothing too. This is gonna be different from anything any of us have ever seen, except in a documentary.
Well, we will see. So a complete transformation of the United States in a year. Not even Walmart can do that and they are much better organized than Trump.
Hitler became German Chancellor on Jan 30, 1933. The Enabling Act was passed in either March or early April, 1933.
As for a complete transformation, I would direct you to the following line in my comment above: "But a year later? Yeah, I do. Maybe not for "normal" crimes, but with regard to the deportations I believe that there will be no due process..."
I am sure that were I to rob a bank in say May of 2026, I would be caught because I am not really a crook, but more to the point, I would probably get due process. They guy who mows my lawn, probably no due process for him, citizen or not. That is what I think. That is what I learn from history.
That first lawsuit was a half century ago. The US legal system has decayed considerably since then. How much consequences has Trump had from any of his more recent cases, which involved far worse misconduct, up to treason and espionage?
I have zero faith that he will ever suffer the slightest consequence. Henry Kissinger lived a long long time, and died in his bed never having spent one day in prison.
For the next four years, the goal is to impede the Trump Administration in the same way that the Muslim ban was reversed and the wall never got built in the first administration.
If a Democrat is elected in 2028, it will be time to convict trump of as much as we possibly can.
I don't think that Trump can learn lessons. But we just may be able to deprive him of his freedom and luxuries.
that aint how a maga dictatorship works.... Dear leader wants to be the commander of law enforcement, courts and all things justice... he would kill those lawsuits with just a phone call.
These would be civil lawsuits filed in Missouri courts for false arrest or in federal courts for violation of civil rights. Trump cannot stop a civil lawsuit. He can only stop his Justice Department from participating in the suit.
I just think Trump will be able to do or stop anything he wants , civil or federal,
as already proven by his getting away with everything...
And that is a sickening thought.
If the judge and jury and appeals court judge are left leaning and luck is on their side with everything is lined up perfect, then yes there could possibly be some justice in civil suits.. I'd be impressed if they'd pull it off.
Clearly, you were not there for the original civil rights movement as I was. The city of Houston TX is currently paying off a number of big settlements for police misbehavior. Sorry to hear you're ready to give up before we even start fighting. During the original civil rights movement I know of at least two white people who posed as minorities so they could report how differently they were treated. If you're convinced it's all hopeless, Don't you have a better use for your Time then sharing comments with people who are actually going to make this a fight?
THAT IS THE TRUTH! Those who don't read history, and are too young to remember (which is virtually everyone in the United States), have no clue what is actually going on, or what the ultimate consequences (final solution) may be. It's horrifying to realize this.
Which literally shocks me beyond words. It's like it never happened... No wonder Jews continue to repeat: "Never again." Those words are generally used in regards to what happened to the 6,000,000 Jews who were slaughtered in the Holocaust. But they should be equally important to all thinking people re what happens in war. How many people realize that FIFTY-THREE MILLION PEOPLE DIED IN WW II, of which two-thirds were CIVILIAN?
That's what my dad (who helped liberate the camps) said. He went home, to the states, and had what was politely termed a "nervous breakdown" afterward, because he saw such horrible things. He couldn't speak about it for forty years. He would be a hundred if he were still alive.
My father, who I think was just 16 or 17 at the time, was with the US Army in France and Germany after D-Day. I wrote about him when the Supreme Court betrayed our WWII dads (and moms)...https://mindsitenews.org/2024/07/03/__trashed/
About 15 years ago I had a conversation with a survivor of the concentration camps. Her fiancé was murdered. She said she still had nightmares of those years.
My dad only saw the aftermath, but the piles of dead humans and mass burial sites, and the poor survivors who he described as “walking skeletons that we all turned our pockets out to try and feed.” absolutely broke him.
Almost every kid I knew in grade school had a father that served. And most came back and never talked about the War at all. I asked my dad what it was like and he just said "You don't want to know."
Imho, everyone who ever crossed the felon should be pardoned. DAs, prosecutors, judges, witnesses, and others responsible for holding him to account. Also, political figures who have spoken out against him. It would be a very long list, but worth it for the continuation of democracy in this country.
Packing a bag in case of emergency would be a good idea Susan! Putting this neo-feudalistic concept in your rear view mirror by leaving the country another!!
All sane women, know how important reproductive care is, and reproductive emergencies happen to republican women, too. There is only a very small group of fanatics that are crazy enough to jeopardize every woman's health by banning abortion care.
Having worked in reproductive healthcare clinics, though not in MO. I can tell you Catholic and republican women have procedures as, if not slightly more often.
I just wrote about this for a larger piece I hope to publish tomorrow.
While “news” organizations and pundits are “up in arms” about President Biden pardoning his surviving son, President Biden understands the vindictive nature of the coming storm. Trump has no interest in justice. His interests, which are manifest in his appointments thus far, are in pursuing retribution through absolute loyalists who will do what they are told. If Trump wants Hunter Biden convicted and imprisoned -he will be indicted by Pam Bondi, put in front of Aileen Cannon and be sentenced to as many years in prison that Trump should now be serving. Trump doesn’t like an investigative journalist “enemy of the state” at ProPublica, The Guardian, or Grist? Trump doesn’t like a political opponent, a whistleblower, or a witness? Well, the Supremely Corrupted Court of the U.S. has given him immunity for “official acts”. No witness, no crime.
The fact that frenzied “news” organizations are headlining the pardon is just another symptom of the legacy media disease. It is “sanewashing” because they are effectively creating a frame that the Justice department under Trump appointees Pam Bondi and Kash Patel will remain a fair system representing the interests of the people of the United States. This is a preposterous frame. They are Trump loyalists bought and paid for just as Aileen Cannon was. While I don’t like “whataboutism”, nevertheless here are five Trump pardons for context (notwithstanding that the GOP would never bring “gun charges” against anyone). Hunter was also indicted for a scheme to avoid $1.4 million in federal taxes, and he repaid the entire amount due.
By comparison, let’s quickly look at five of Trump’s pardons:
Joe Arpaio: The former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, was convicted of criminal contempt for defying a court order to halt racial profiling practices. In August 2017, Trump pardoned Arpaio, a move that drew widespread criticism for endorsing discriminatory law enforcement tactics.
Michael Flynn: Trump's former National Security Advisor pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with the Russian ambassador while undermining sanctions on Russia for annexing Ukraine’s Crimea. In November 2020, Trump granted Flynn a full pardon, raising concerns about undermining accountability for misleading federal investigators.
Roger Stone: A longtime political adviser to Trump, Stone was convicted on charges including obstruction of justice and witness tampering related to the Russia investigation. In July 2020, Trump commuted Stone's 40-month prison sentence, a decision that many viewed as an abuse of presidential power to protect an associate.
Paul Manafort: Trump's former campaign chairman was convicted of tax and bank fraud, as well as failing to disclose foreign lobbying activities. In December 2020, Trump pardoned Manafort, prompting criticism that the pardon was intended to shield a political ally from legal consequences.
Charles Kushner: The father of Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was convicted of tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions, and witness tampering. Trump's December 2020 pardon of Kushner was controversial due to the severity of the crimes and the personal connection to the president.
The minute he named Kash every fucking person in the crosshairs should’ve received a preemptive pardon. Goddam it hurts to write that.
If Biden and the Dems don’t act with complete clarity right now they will miss the thin time frame within which they can do anything to righteously protect all the people who deserve to be protected. Dithering about and trying to be the ethics police in the face of evil is both a horrific waste of time but also unethical. Hasn’t anyone ever studied Kohlberg’s Heinz dilemma on the study of Moral Development?
Biden has become the ditherer in chief, like Garland. I doubt he'll do the needful here. Hope I'm wrong.
Biden has missed the mark on shutting down arms sales to Israel, and now both the UN and Amnesty International have declared the Gaza rampage a genocide. Helluva legacy, Brandon.
Yeah there is that.
We don't really know what the WH plans. They usually don't telegraph pardons.
If they have, it's been conveniently forgotten.
Poignant Sarah!
Sarah! I was just looking at the kohlberg thing last night and wondering where things went wrong...I said it before and will again, he needs to pardon till the cows come home and start yesterday. The fucking house is on fire, no more debating, let the maga lawyers twist in the wind for the next 2 yrs with SCOTUS trying to iron it out. Chaos from the dems is a much better defense for the country than just letting the clock run out and wait for the punishment to begin. Pardons are king per SCOTUS. Give them to every person who entered the US illegally for only that act, no other immunity. How fast can they issue them is the only question that matters.
Yes! What a great idea - blanket pardon to everyone who entered by crossing the border illegally. That will mess with those m*therfuckers heads while saving people’s lives. One of the best things about Kohlberg’s work is that it is a thought provoking and philosophical discussion about what is moral. He also tied people’s ethical interpretations to their cognitive stage of development. Apparently we have a lot of concrete thinkers making bad decisions in this country (not certain they’ve even reached that level of cognitive skill.)
When I look at the basic framework and try to discern where we are, I suspect Biden is actually somewhere at post-conventional - his stance that he wouldn't pardon his son because it goes against the principle regardless of consequences (for oneself) is definitely personal ethics. Felon factory is definitely pre-conventional in terms of motivation (self interest) where everything is graded and talked about as 'good for us' regardless of consequences for others, but consistently gets people to vote against their self-interest also, which seems to be the conundrum nobody is able to address. The country as a whole has backslid into debating right and wrong under conventional reasoning for decades (who owns the law and order label) and attempts to elevate the reasoning have been met by Pubes using the 'principles' to rationalize their positions under the guise of 'social contract' (culture wars) - but then you see the assassination attempts on trump and the killing of the UHC CEO - and the mob essentially cheering like this is the French revolution. We know what happens when you institute Nazism and post-conventional wisdom (Heinz dilemma) says 'steal the drug because human life is more important than prop rights' - it's possible this is where we are debating. The wealthy are saying property rights are the measure of power AND legitimacy. Dems are at social contract saying all people have intrinsic rights, Pubes are at self-interest and pretending to be at law and order/social contract to Dems chagrin so they keep getting caught in these stupid whataboutism conundrums per the outrage factory. It's mind-numhing to watch for people who are conscious observers. There's an obfuscation going on about where they are - if you believe you have the right position (ie Hitler) do you have to bamboozle the people about it to gain control (lying about project 25)? I think this is the real question, whether the con will hold well enough for them to swindle the whole country...
I agree. It hurts to write that, but when you can save people, you do it. Waving your principles about helps no one when the enemy is not principled or faithful to the same values. Trump is known for targeting people and ruining their lives. NEVER FORGET and learn from experience.
Yes it does✌🏻💙
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How to get Biden off his butt and so something before its too late. My frustration is growing.
No, they will just rip him a new one just they have all week. They should get nothing but the opportunity to find out just how far Trump and Patel want to go.
Yes, this 👆👆👆👆🎯
Have you learned what the owner of the LA Times has decreed? Unfortunately, pardons, though the right idea, won’t affect the way a few feckless oligarchs have decided to behave.
They have bent the knee. Harry Litman on his Substack today said he had resigned from his position because of it as he did from Wa-Po. I’m sure he would appreciate a look-see if you feel like if.
My home state is a redneck abomination. Missouri sucks. Why does history have to repeat itself? Humans never learn and we all have to suffer. Pardon away Joe. Meanwhile I’m tired of living hour by hour wondering WTF is going to happen next. 😭
Like my wife said, I don't want to spend the next four years worrying and focusing on that asshole on a daily basis. There's a lot more things in life than that insane prick.
Totally agree. It’s madness - the humans who wanted this are dangerously dumb.
And they continue to get dumber.
If they get any lower we will have to water them twice a week.
Nice one. (If only...)
I K, R?
Say it again Susan, but louder!!
Like extinction event level dumb.
If we're lucky we'll only have to suffer for two years. By then the chaos, the corruption and the incompetence of these people will be apparent, and if the Dems are on the ball, the midterms will tell an interesting story.
If the people who run elections aren't all in camps by then.
Is this “fixing” elections addressed in Project 2025? Didn’t that gross baby-poo colored Convict promised we would never have to be botheted with having to vote again
We can only vote and hope.
Here's how to get back at Missouri. Send brown American citizens into town, pretending to be illegals. “No speeka ingles!” When they get arrested, sue the hell out of Missouri. When they go low, we get legal.
Your suggestion of “going legal“ presumes rule of law will be maintained in Missouri after Trump. Missouri authorities could lynch a whole bunch o’ people and burn the bodies before any legal protections might break out.
And the national media will be there to film it as they did during the old civil rights era of the 1960s.
The media of today does not have the same level of bravery, to say the least.
There is so much non MSM media out there. That's who I'm counting on.
George Orwell's book, 1984 called those events Hate Days- when people were killed in a public square while others cheered and scowled at them.
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Possibly, yet could end badly Kathleen!
Who is going to volunteer to be sent to Miusouri as “bait” ?
I can’t imagine anyone here with their hand raised Dave!!
Not too many brown people read Jeff. But there is LULAC the Hispanic civil rights organization
Yeah, Ken Paxton in TX is already harassing the shit out of LULAC grandmothers
Pay them to be disrupters, and possibly the recipients of mega$ lawsuit settlements?
Who is willing to bet that MO is going to give "illegals" due process? Who is willing to bet that MO will care if this person or that may or may not be a citizen?
HP you clearly don't know much about the legal system. These folks would have lawyers lined up in advance who would bring their citizen papers to court and prove that there was a false arrest. There is a Hispanic civil rights organization called LULA C that might be interested in doing these kinds of things, or maybe a new organization could be set up.
The first lawsuit that Donald Trump was ever involved in was in Queens where an organization proved that he and his father were unwilling to rent to black people. They did this by sending black people to run an apartment, who were told that nothing was available, but then 5 minutes later white people come and are rented an apartment. Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump had to pay millions to settle a civil suit.
I know how fascism and fascist governments work. And that is what we are about to have. Do I think everything we have had for 250 years will be gone on 1/21, no I do not. But a year later? Yeah, I do. Maybe not for "normal" crimes, but with regard to the deportations I believe that there will be no due process, and yes, a substantial amount of murder along the way. And none of those murders will be solved because they are not meant to be. They also will not be widely known, because they are not meant to be.
Trumps first lawsuit means nothing. Hell, his last one means nothing too. This is gonna be different from anything any of us have ever seen, except in a documentary.
Well, we will see. So a complete transformation of the United States in a year. Not even Walmart can do that and they are much better organized than Trump.
Hitler became German Chancellor on Jan 30, 1933. The Enabling Act was passed in either March or early April, 1933.
As for a complete transformation, I would direct you to the following line in my comment above: "But a year later? Yeah, I do. Maybe not for "normal" crimes, but with regard to the deportations I believe that there will be no due process..."
I am sure that were I to rob a bank in say May of 2026, I would be caught because I am not really a crook, but more to the point, I would probably get due process. They guy who mows my lawn, probably no due process for him, citizen or not. That is what I think. That is what I learn from history.
That first lawsuit was a half century ago. The US legal system has decayed considerably since then. How much consequences has Trump had from any of his more recent cases, which involved far worse misconduct, up to treason and espionage?
The US legal system is incredibly slow, but Trump did not win, he simply ran out the clock. We have the rest of his life to get back at him.
I have zero faith that he will ever suffer the slightest consequence. Henry Kissinger lived a long long time, and died in his bed never having spent one day in prison.
And I they definitely learned their lesson ——— Susan Collins
Not sure which remark you're commenting on.
For the next four years, the goal is to impede the Trump Administration in the same way that the Muslim ban was reversed and the wall never got built in the first administration.
If a Democrat is elected in 2028, it will be time to convict trump of as much as we possibly can.
I don't think that Trump can learn lessons. But we just may be able to deprive him of his freedom and luxuries.
Cheech Marin did a movie similar to that, in which he got deported to Mexico. His line was "I don't even speak Mexican!"
that aint how a maga dictatorship works.... Dear leader wants to be the commander of law enforcement, courts and all things justice... he would kill those lawsuits with just a phone call.
These would be civil lawsuits filed in Missouri courts for false arrest or in federal courts for violation of civil rights. Trump cannot stop a civil lawsuit. He can only stop his Justice Department from participating in the suit.
Trump can have the plaintiff murdered. That would stop the law suit.
Not every murder gets solved but enough of them would to make the a scandal that would make Watergate look like a picnic.
I love your confidence that the system will hold. I truly wish that I too had been asleep for the past several years.
i hear you... I really do...
I just think Trump will be able to do or stop anything he wants , civil or federal,
as already proven by his getting away with everything...
And that is a sickening thought.
If the judge and jury and appeals court judge are left leaning and luck is on their side with everything is lined up perfect, then yes there could possibly be some justice in civil suits.. I'd be impressed if they'd pull it off.
Clearly, you were not there for the original civil rights movement as I was. The city of Houston TX is currently paying off a number of big settlements for police misbehavior. Sorry to hear you're ready to give up before we even start fighting. During the original civil rights movement I know of at least two white people who posed as minorities so they could report how differently they were treated. If you're convinced it's all hopeless, Don't you have a better use for your Time then sharing comments with people who are actually going to make this a fight?
"Sorry to hear you're ready to give up before we even start fighting." It is kind of late to start fighting now.
yes, clearly you are pushing your own opinion and narratives on others it's too early to start fighting now. Please accept other people's opinions -
I respected yours
History repeats itself when the living memory of the past dies. We who read history are the extension of that memory.
THAT IS THE TRUTH! Those who don't read history, and are too young to remember (which is virtually everyone in the United States), have no clue what is actually going on, or what the ultimate consequences (final solution) may be. It's horrifying to realize this.
The tHROUGH all of this, I know that 88 percent of Americans have NO clue of what happened in WWII
Which literally shocks me beyond words. It's like it never happened... No wonder Jews continue to repeat: "Never again." Those words are generally used in regards to what happened to the 6,000,000 Jews who were slaughtered in the Holocaust. But they should be equally important to all thinking people re what happens in war. How many people realize that FIFTY-THREE MILLION PEOPLE DIED IN WW II, of which two-thirds were CIVILIAN?
Poisoned by ignorance Terri!
And that’s exactly why the Department of Education is the first one on the chopping block. Trump loves the poorly educated.
I remember when he said that. I thought he had to be joking. He wasn't, and they stood up and cheered. It was nauseating.
What you are saying is, “never again.“
That's what my dad (who helped liberate the camps) said. He went home, to the states, and had what was politely termed a "nervous breakdown" afterward, because he saw such horrible things. He couldn't speak about it for forty years. He would be a hundred if he were still alive.
My father, who I think was just 16 or 17 at the time, was with the US Army in France and Germany after D-Day. I wrote about him when the Supreme Court betrayed our WWII dads (and moms)...https://mindsitenews.org/2024/07/03/__trashed/
Thanks for sharing, I look forward to reading it.
About 15 years ago I had a conversation with a survivor of the concentration camps. Her fiancé was murdered. She said she still had nightmares of those years.
My dad only saw the aftermath, but the piles of dead humans and mass burial sites, and the poor survivors who he described as “walking skeletons that we all turned our pockets out to try and feed.” absolutely broke him.
Almost every kid I knew in grade school had a father that served. And most came back and never talked about the War at all. I asked my dad what it was like and he just said "You don't want to know."
Yeah, those who brag about serving and how great war is, are always poseurs, who never saw combat.
Same with my Dad. He never spoke about it.
Well said Charlie
Excellent Susan, hopefully you won’t have a need to use it, but I’m not holding my breath!!
True Charles, time is a flat circle!
Imho, everyone who ever crossed the felon should be pardoned. DAs, prosecutors, judges, witnesses, and others responsible for holding him to account. Also, political figures who have spoken out against him. It would be a very long list, but worth it for the continuation of democracy in this country.
Packing a bag in case of emergency would be a good idea Susan! Putting this neo-feudalistic concept in your rear view mirror by leaving the country another!!
Believe me, I'm ready.
I lived in MO. And I have to say I was shocked that marijuana and abortion passed in such a deep red state. Any thoughts on how that happened?
All sane women, know how important reproductive care is, and reproductive emergencies happen to republican women, too. There is only a very small group of fanatics that are crazy enough to jeopardize every woman's health by banning abortion care.
MO is loaded with fanatics that are that crazy. But I am happy for all the women in MO that it passed.
Having worked in reproductive healthcare clinics, though not in MO. I can tell you Catholic and republican women have procedures as, if not slightly more often.
Me too Susan
*already*
*hugs* if you want them. Me too, and he's not even in yet! Karma, you're late!
Why? there's nothing you can do about it, anyway.
Thank you Jeff.
I just wrote about this for a larger piece I hope to publish tomorrow.
While “news” organizations and pundits are “up in arms” about President Biden pardoning his surviving son, President Biden understands the vindictive nature of the coming storm. Trump has no interest in justice. His interests, which are manifest in his appointments thus far, are in pursuing retribution through absolute loyalists who will do what they are told. If Trump wants Hunter Biden convicted and imprisoned -he will be indicted by Pam Bondi, put in front of Aileen Cannon and be sentenced to as many years in prison that Trump should now be serving. Trump doesn’t like an investigative journalist “enemy of the state” at ProPublica, The Guardian, or Grist? Trump doesn’t like a political opponent, a whistleblower, or a witness? Well, the Supremely Corrupted Court of the U.S. has given him immunity for “official acts”. No witness, no crime.
The fact that frenzied “news” organizations are headlining the pardon is just another symptom of the legacy media disease. It is “sanewashing” because they are effectively creating a frame that the Justice department under Trump appointees Pam Bondi and Kash Patel will remain a fair system representing the interests of the people of the United States. This is a preposterous frame. They are Trump loyalists bought and paid for just as Aileen Cannon was. While I don’t like “whataboutism”, nevertheless here are five Trump pardons for context (notwithstanding that the GOP would never bring “gun charges” against anyone). Hunter was also indicted for a scheme to avoid $1.4 million in federal taxes, and he repaid the entire amount due.
By comparison, let’s quickly look at five of Trump’s pardons:
Joe Arpaio: The former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, was convicted of criminal contempt for defying a court order to halt racial profiling practices. In August 2017, Trump pardoned Arpaio, a move that drew widespread criticism for endorsing discriminatory law enforcement tactics.
Michael Flynn: Trump's former National Security Advisor pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with the Russian ambassador while undermining sanctions on Russia for annexing Ukraine’s Crimea. In November 2020, Trump granted Flynn a full pardon, raising concerns about undermining accountability for misleading federal investigators.
Roger Stone: A longtime political adviser to Trump, Stone was convicted on charges including obstruction of justice and witness tampering related to the Russia investigation. In July 2020, Trump commuted Stone's 40-month prison sentence, a decision that many viewed as an abuse of presidential power to protect an associate.
Paul Manafort: Trump's former campaign chairman was convicted of tax and bank fraud, as well as failing to disclose foreign lobbying activities. In December 2020, Trump pardoned Manafort, prompting criticism that the pardon was intended to shield a political ally from legal consequences.
Charles Kushner: The father of Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was convicted of tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions, and witness tampering. Trump's December 2020 pardon of Kushner was controversial due to the severity of the crimes and the personal connection to the president.
And Charles Kushner? Now named as Ambassador to France by the criminal Trump. (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/charles-kushner-nominated-france-ambassador)
And yes, I still deplore “whataboutism” -but I’ll get over it.
Great job, George.
Thank you!
There’s “whataboutism” and there’s providing context, George. Thank you.