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Zonkerbl wrote:Ok I have a question. Doesn't the tassel normally come out the top? Is Trump HOLDING THE BIBLE UPSIDE DOWN?!?!?!?! (oh the horror)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52890650
Presidents seeking reelection bask in chants of “Four more years!” This year, however, most Americans — perhaps because they are, as the president predicted, weary from all the winning — might flinch: Four more years of this? The taste of ashes, metaphorical and now literal, dampens enthusiasm.
Every crisis the United States now faces has been made worse by Trump’s limits as a leader and a man. We needed a president who could imagine what the American experiment looks like from the perspective of those who find its promises fraudulent. We got someone incapable of empathy. We needed a president who would be data driven in matters of public health policy. We got someone driven by irrational enthusiasms and the advice of cronies. We needed a president who could calm destructive passions. We got someone who now urges the militarization of his fight against the left. We needed a president capable of speaking across differences. We got someone whose only authentic public communications are expressions of rancor.
bsilver wrote:I never thought I'd see the day. George Will, in today's Washington Post, is calling for the defeat of all Senate Republicans that support Trump. These days, that's all but George Romney. A excerpt below. Bolding is mine.
The measures necessary for restoration of national equilibrium are many and will be protracted far beyond his removal. One such measure must be the removal of those in Congress who, unlike the sycophantic mediocrities who cosset him in the White House, will not disappear “magically,” as Eric Trump said the coronavirus would. Voters must dispatch his congressional enablers, especially the senators who still gambol around his ankles with a canine hunger for petting.
In life’s unforgiving arithmetic, we are the sum of our choices. Congressional Republicans have made theirs for more than 1,200 days. We cannot know all the measures necessary to restore the nation’s domestic health and international standing, but we know the first step: Senate Republicans must be routed, as condign punishment for their Vichyite collaboration, leaving the Republican remnant to wonder: Was it sensible to sacrifice dignity, such as it ever was, and to shed principles, if convictions so easily jettisoned could be dignified as principles, for . . . what? Praying people should pray, and all others should hope: May I never crave anything as much as these people crave membership in the world’s most risible deliberative body.
A political party’s primary function is to bestow its imprimatur on candidates, thereby proclaiming: This is who we are. In 2016, the Republican Party gave its principal nomination to a vulgarian and then toiled to elect him. And to stock Congress with invertebrates whose unswerving abjectness has enabled his institutional vandalism..."
dckingsfan wrote:badinage wrote:And ... a message to all the right-wingers and Trumpians out there:
It’s not that we want him out. Not anymore. It’s not that we want to push for some form of socialism. We’re beyond that. We want to take it down now. It. The whole shebang. It has to come down. To come down the way the statues of the Lost Cause are coming down. The way the statue of Saddam came down. The way the statue of Lenin came down. You have created or contributed to or been complicit in the making of a society that is brutal and inequitable and in which too many are in pain and struggling. And it doesn’t just have to stop — oh no, it’s stopping NOW, muthafukkers. It’s coming down NOW.
But peacefully, right? Let's follow MLK on this one...
A handful of Republicans criticized Mr. Trump's behavior. Senator Ben Sasse released a statement saying he was "against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop." Senator Lisa Murkowski told reporters that "I did not think that what we saw last night was the America that I know."
nate33 wrote:
LOL. One guy, probably in Europe (where Evropa is based) starts a new fake Twitter account (which presumably had virtually no followers) and makes a tweet and THAT'S how you're going to tie all this rioting and looting to a white supremacist movement? This is all the evidence you have? At least find me one protester on the ground, or better yet, one guy committing actual violence, that is part of a white supremacist movement.
The Minneapolis mayor implied that nearly all of those arrested were out-of-town white supremacist agitators and you come up with a single tweet from a random guy with a new Twitter account.
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Zonkerbl wrote:Ok I have a question. Doesn't the tassel normally come out the top? Is Trump HOLDING THE BIBLE UPSIDE DOWN?!?!?!?! (oh the horror)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52890650
payitforward wrote:For those who didn't click on all he images in Klippenstein's tweet, please note the 3d item on this one:
Ruzious wrote:2 Republican Senators deserve praise for showing some integrity and guts by speaking out:A handful of Republicans criticized Mr. Trump's behavior. Senator Ben Sasse released a statement saying he was "against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop." Senator Lisa Murkowski told reporters that "I did not think that what we saw last night was the America that I know."
