Thomas Friedman: Democrats, here’s the sure-fire way to defeat Donald Trump: My Comment: Read, heed and share

By Thomas L. Friedman 

 

If this election turns out to be just between a self-proclaimed socialist and an undiagnosed sociopath, we will be in a terrible, terrible place as a country. How do we prevent that?

That’s all I am thinking about right now. My short answer is that the Democrats have to do something extraordinary — forge a national unity ticket the likes of which they have never forged before. And that’s true even if Democrats nominate someone other than Bernie Sanders.

What would this super ticket look like? Well, I suggest Sanders — and Michael Bloomberg, who seems to be his most viable long-term challenger — lay it out this way:

“I want people to know that if I am the Democratic nominee these will be my Cabinet choices — my team of rivals. I want Amy Klobuchar as my vice president. Her decency, experience and moderation will be greatly appreciated across America and particularly in the Midwest. I want Mike Bloomberg (or Bernie Sanders) as my secretary of the Treasury. Our plans for addressing income inequality are actually not that far apart, and if we can blend them together it will be great for the country and reassure markets. I want Joe Biden as my secretary of state. No one in our party knows the world better or has more credibility with our allies than Joe. I will ask Elizabeth Warren to serve as health and human services secretary. No one could bring more energy and intellect to the task of expanding health care for more Americans than Senator Warren.

“I want Kamala Harris for attorney general. She has the toughness and integrity needed to clean up the corrupt mess Donald Trump has created in our Justice Department. I would like Mayor Pete as homeland security secretary; his intelligence and military background would make him a quick study in that job. I would like Tom Steyer to head a new Cabinet position: secretary of national infrastructure. We’re going to rebuild America, not just build a wall on the border with Mexico. And I am asking Cory Booker, the former mayor of Newark, to become secretary of housing and urban development. Who would bring more passion to the task of revitalizing our inner cities than Cory?

“I am asking Mitt Romney to be my commerce secretary. He is the best person to promote American business and technology abroad — and it is vital that the public understands that my government will be representing all Americans, including Republicans. I would like Andrew Yang to be energy secretary, overseeing our nuclear stockpile and renewable energy innovation. He’d be awesome.
“I am asking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to serve as our U.N. ambassador. Can you imagine how our international standing would improve with youth worldwide with her representing next-gen America? And I want Sen. Michael Bennet, the former superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, to be my secretary of education. No one understands education reform better than he does. Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna would be an ideal secretary of labor, balancing robots and workers to create “new collar” jobs.

“Finally, I am asking William H. McRaven, the retired Navy admiral who commanded the U.S. Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014 and oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, to be my defense secretary. Admiral McRaven, more than any other retired military officer, has had the courage and integrity to speak out against the way President Trump has politicized our intelligence agencies.

Only last week, McRaven wrote an essay in The Washington Post decrying Trump’s firing of Joe Maguire as acting director of national intelligence — the nation’s top intelligence officer — for doing his job when he had an aide brief a bipartisan committee of Congress on Russia’s renewed efforts to tilt our election toward Trump.

“Edmund Burke,” wrote McRaven, “the Irish statesman and philosopher, once said: ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’”

If Bernie or Bloomberg or whoever emerges to head the Democratic ticket brings together such a team of rivals, I am confident it will defeat Trump in a landslide. But if progressives think they can win without the moderates — or the moderates without the progressives — they are crazy. And they’d be taking a huge risk with the future of the country by trying.

And I mean a huge risk. Back in May 2018, the former House speaker John Boehner declared: “There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump party. The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap somewhere.”

It’s actually not napping anymore. It’s dead.

And I will tell you the day it died. It was just last week, when Trump sacked Maguire for advancing the truth and replaced him with a loyalist, an incompetent political hack, Richard Grenell. Grenell is the widely disliked U.S. ambassador to Germany, a post for which he is also unfit. Grenell is now purging the intelligence service of Trump critics. How are we going to get unvarnished, nonpolitical intelligence analysis when the message goes out that if your expert conclusions disagree with Trump’s wishes, you’re gone?

I don’t accept, but can vaguely understand, Republicans’ rallying around Trump on impeachment. But when Republicans, the self-proclaimed national security party — folks like Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton — don’t lift a finger to stop Trump’s politicization of our first line of defense — the national intelligence directorate set up after 9/11 — then the Republican Party is not asleep. It’s dead and buried.

And that is why a respected, nonpartisan military intelligence professional like Bill McRaven felt compelled to warn what happens when good people are silent in the face of evil. Our retired generals don’t go public like that very often. But he was practically screaming, “This is a four-alarm fire, a category 5 hurricane.” And the GOP response? Silence.

Veteran political analyst E.J. Dionne, in his valuable new book, “Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country,” got this exactly right: We have no responsible Republican Party anymore. It is a deformed Trump personality cult. If the country is going to be governed responsibly, that leadership can come only from Democrats and disaffected Republicans courageous enough to stand up to Trump. It is crucial, therefore, argues Dionne, that moderate and progressive Democrats find a way to build a governing coalition together.

Neither can defeat the other. Neither can win without the other. Neither can govern without the other.

If they don’t join together — if the Democrats opt for a circular firing squad — you can kiss the America you grew up in goodbye.

When a Pandemic Meets a Personality Cult The Trump team confirms all of our worst fears.

A MUST READ!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/opinion/coronavirus-trump.html

Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s Early Rhetoric and Policies

This link was sent to me by a political ally.  The parallels between Hitler's rise to power and Trump's attempt at seizing, keeping and controlling power are too close to be coincidental.  It has been said that Trump kept a copy of Hitler's speeches and modalities on his bedside for nighttime reading.  If nothing else this should persuade you that a Hitlerian template has been used by Trump to ensure his electoral success.   We must by all means necessary stop him from gaining unlimited control and overthrowing all manner of institutional democracy that was once the hallmark of our nation and the envy of the world.  We must ensure the candidate Democrats nominate can win and electorally crush the con man charlatan, evil and cruel beast who currently occupies and besmirches the sanctity of the oval office and our nation.

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The Fragility of Democracy

When I was young I became aware that in this nation I could say anything I wanted, ask any question I desired and did not have to agree with something if I did not want.  I knew the extent of free speech was nearly unlimited.  I determined the nature of the culture in which I lived as one that would always protect one's right to free speech as well as the right to read anything I chose.  I thought I was lucky to have been born in a nation whose very foundational documents I would learn were enshrined in the Constitution since 1789 by the nation's prescient Founders.

As I matured and attended a university I learned to question everything including all those things which power mandated I must accept as truth.  I became smitten with many of the protest events of the late 60's because they provided me an insight into many of those things I later learned to be untrue.  I first then became acquainted with the history of persons of color in this nation and the so called Jim Crow laws a person of color in the south was required to follow.  I was shocked and revolted when a black professor told us that he fought in World War II only to return unable to sit at a lunch counter with whites or that he was mandated to sit at the back of the bus giving up a seat in the front because only a person of white privilege could sit there.  I became aware of poll taxes, grandfather clauses and literacy tests as a tools whites in the south used to deny persons of color the right to vote.  If one thought in the north those discriminatory practices would not happen one need only look to de facto segregation in the northern cities, or in the many schools which were separate and still unequal. 

My experience told me, too, that in war this nation was always right.  I then, however, read books like J. William Fulbright's "Arrogance of Power" or listened to lectures by Howard Zinn or Noam Chomsky only to learn that the US was not always on the side of right but was often on the side of international political self interest denying rights to those who were too weak to resist.  Vietnam, for example, or the removal of the Iranian democratically elected and beloved Mosaddegh replacing him with the US friendly Shah and his brutal repressive police force Savak were examples of US power mandating results it did not have, in my opinion, the right to make.

Maturity dictates, though, once strongly held beliefs need from time to time to be reassessed.  If I have learned nothing from this evil Trumpian time I have learned to value what this nation had before his corrupt rule and how easy it can be to subvert democracy.  Edmund Burke, the 18th century philosopher said "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" and so good men in our Republican Senate have snipped at their own balance of power rights bestowed constitutionally on them to allow this corrupt con man, charlatan and malignant narcissist to keep his seat when they could have removed this cancer from our body politic when they had the chance. 

Trump has subverted our democracy, placed in power other men who are loyal only to him and not to the Constitution.  Our Founders would be aghast. He is vicious in act, word and deed locking up children in cages, polluting our once pristine waters, denying climate change and articulating all manner of vicious appellations on many innocent others whose only crime is possessing a brain to think and question all that he does. He has maligned our allies, turned his back on our friends and advocated for our enemies.  He has become a Russian asset in that he has allowed Russian power in Ukraine to go unchecked even conducting a hot war in the Donbas section and annexing Crimea.  He refuses to release his taxes leaving us to question why.  The worst subjugation of democracy, though, comes with his annihilation of the Congressional balance of power by the attorney general declaring in jack boot agreement with Trump that the president can do anything he wants, subvert any principle of a free state because the president has the Article II right to do it.  He is emulating a banana republic by firing all those who do not agree with him and replacing those eliminated with so called "acting" authorities giving him the freedom to remove and replace them at will.  Moreover, he interfered in an ongoing trial to lighten the sentence of his pal Roger Stone found guilty on seven counts of lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction. It is the first time a president with the attorney general's blessing has interfered in an ongoing trial.  This is unconscionable.

The latest most egregious action came by his firing of the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, because Maguire did the right thing by briefing Congress about 2020 Russian election meddling on Trump's behalf.  Trump was livid at Maguire for doing the right thing, fired him and placed in that vital-to-national-security position Richard Grenell, a man of zero intelligence experience but a loyal Trump supporter nonetheless.  There are, of course, so many more examples of Trumpian usurpation of powers he does not have.  The founding fathers put in order of importance the legislative branch as Article I and the executive branch as Article II.  The Founders did not want a king but Donald J. Trump does and is using his acquittal of impeachment by the Republican majority Senate as a permission slip to do anything he wants.  Acquittal does not mean innocence and he is, indeed, not innocent.  The House found enough guilt to impeach him for asking a foreign power to investigate his presumed election rival, Joe Biden. 

Donald J. Trump is creating an authoritarian despotic tyranny before our very eyes and God forbid is poised to have the electorate give him four more years.   Benjamin Franklin when a woman asked what form of government the Founders had created said "a Republic if you can keep it" because he feared the fragility of a democracy and man's proclivity to be seduced by power and subvert it.  Donald J. Trump is doing just that!

Unitary all powerful chief executive above the law -- I have a question

I have a question for Bill Barr which no one seems to have asked yet. Barr's legal, judicial and constitutional philosophy is one of a strong all powerful chief executive.  The nation has long debated that ideological question.  For decades it has been the subject in the formulation of our Constitutional republic, through the institution of slavery, to the 20th century's Great Depression and beyond.  I, too, when formulating my political opinions wrestled with the concept of a strong chief executive. I did so because those on the right were decrying, for example, FDR's New Deal and John Kennedy's actions on behalf of civil rights, as well as Lyndon Johnson's advocacy for human rights.  The right wing for years thought it was a breach of the balance of power the Founders created for the president to stray into areas which either belong to other branches of Congress or more properly reside in the states.  Many viewed FDR's New Deal as tyrannical. 

What is the role of the Chief Executive when working to ameliorate the effects of a Great Depression, waging war, or even providing health insurance?  Up until FDR the president thought his powers were limited and that there was nothing more that could be done during the Great Depression by Herbert Hoover except to let the economy adjust on its own.   Meanwhile millions were starving and millions were sick.  Later persons of color who served the nation in war were not let into all white colleges and universities or drink from water fountains labeled "white."  These mammoth injustices which since FDR called out for strong executive power.  I advocated for a strong executive when justice had to prevail or when the existential life of the nation was in question.

Since Trump the trajectory of that power for which I once advocated can be seen through his plethora of executive orders that come down heavy not for the least of these but against those who have the least.  He has relegated those seeking protection from tyranny to mandating a new Trumpian tyranny.  He has relegated children vying for safety in this nation to cages, he has signed Muslim bans, he has cozied up to the worst of world dictators, celebrated with Russian ambassadors over a firing of an FBI director, encroached through eminent domain on private property for his wall to keep desperate immigrants out, imposed economically destructive tariffs, advocated for the attorney general to lower sentencing on a convicted felon in a case where the defendant was his friend.  This has never happened before.  He has nominated judges who do not meet even the standards of the American Bar Association. He has sent federally empowered ICE into states which have sanctuary cities to arrest those who have been given state protection.  He lowered pollution standards in streams and waterways that provide drinking water.  He eliminated standards for fossil fuel drilling and for the extraction of dirty coal.  He cancelled the nuclear proliferation agreement with Iran which was working, and he denies the scientific certainty of climate change while our nation drowns in floods and suffers along with other nations many other catastrophic weather related disasters.  Ask Australians if they believe in climate change.

Much of the power which the president thinks he has and Mr. Barr thinks lives within his presidential right to wield is dedicated to undoing the justice of many decades of injustice.  Trumpian power is inhumane, cruel, vicious and is dedicated to inflate his bank accounts and maintaining power while he existentially destroys our nation.

I therefore ask Bill Barr if he believes in a strong chief executive does he do so if the the president were a Democrat?  Does he think a unitary strong executive should prevail only if the president is Republican advocating for the richest in the nation and above the law our Founders feared?

Bill Barr Must Resign -- By Donald Ayer Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General under George H. W. Bush

The attorney general is working to destroy the integrity and independence of the Justice Department, in order to make Donald Trump a president who can operate above the law.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/donald-ayer-bill-barr-must-resign/606670/

Former Deputy Attorney General Shares Dire Warning If William Barr Does Not Resign--By Josephine Harvey

Donald Ayer, a deputy attorney general under George H.W. Bush, predicts a grim outcome for America if Barr continues to serve Trump. 

A former deputy attorney general in George H.W. Bush’s administration has warned that the integrity of the Justice Department has been compromised by the current attorney general, William Barr, paving the way for “virtually autocratic” leadership by President Donald Trump.

In an op-ed for The Atlantic published Monday, Donald Ayer, who has known Barr for more than four decades and once worked with him at the Department of Justice, warned of a grim future if his former colleague is not removed from office.

Reflecting on Barr’s first year of service, Ayer concluded that he has “appeared to function much more as the president’s personal advocate than as an attorney general serving the people and government of the United States.”

Any optimism that Barr would stand strong against attempts to inject politics into the department’s work was misplaced, Ayer wrote, highlighting a series of “disturbing” events beginning with his “public whitewashing of Robert Mueller’s report, which included powerful evidence of repeated obstruction of justice by the president,” and ending with the “worst of all”: Barr’s reported intervention in the criminal prosecution of Trump’s friend Roger Stone. 

“For whatever twisted reasons, he believes that the president should be above the law, and he has as his foil in pursuit of that goal a president who, uniquely in our history, actually aspires to that status.”

The fundamental reason that Barr is unfit for office, according to Ayer, is that he does not believe in the central tenet of America’s democracy: that “no person is above the law.” 

“Bill Barr’s America is not a place that anyone, including Trump voters, should want to go,” Ayer concluded.

“It is a banana republic where all are subject to the whims of a dictatorial president and his henchmen. To prevent that, we need a public uprising demanding that Bill Barr resign immediately, or failing that, be impeached.”

Ayer is just one of more than 2,000 former prosecutors and DOJ officials to call for Barr’s resignation in the wake of the extraordinary events of the past week. Last Tuesday, four career prosecutors withdrew from the Stone case after top Justice Department officials overruled their sentencing recommendation. Seemingly confirming concerns that Barr had intervened on his behalf, the president openly applauded Barr for “taking charge” of the case on Twitter. Later in an interview, Barr said that constant tweets and commentary were complicating his job.

Barr’s push back was faulted widely as an attempt to cover up what critics suggested was a coordinated attempt between him and Trump to defuse the firestorm over the preferential treatment given Trump’s longtime ally.

The Enablers

Although Trump's unethical and immoral behavior was known from the beginning the true uprooting of our democracy took 3 years to develop. Now we face an abyss. Few could have predicted his egregious lawlessness would have gotten exponentially worse since he was impeached and acquitted in the Senate. He was not found not guilty mind you but acquitted which does not mean not guilty. For his base, though, who cultishly worship Trump as a god-like figure, know little and will see it as a not guilty verdict. Not only was he monumentally guilty he is increasingly even guiltier of more impeachable offenses.

It is illegal to go after witnesses who have testified before Congress if they are telling the truth which all of them were. Sondland, a former ambassador to Ukraine, paid one million dollars to get the Ukraine ambassador position by contributing to the Trump campaign fund. In the end, he had to protect himself from perjury by telling the truth before Congress then the so called "president" fired him. 


Trump is ruining careers and maybe even the lives of those ethical witnesses who testified on oath to the truth. He even fired the Lt. Colonel Vindman, the recipient of the Purple Heart when wounded in Iraq. Trump has even gone after Vindman's twin brother as well who was guilty of nothing except being Vindman's twin brother. These heinous actions are the actions of a mafia don by not only going after those who in the don's mind betrayed him but his family as well. These are not the actions of a once democratic nation.


He, of course, fired Ambassador Marie Yovanovich whose spotless record for over 15 years at the State Department can only be lauded. Georgetown University bestowed upon her the 2020 J. Raymond Trainor Award for Excellence in the Conduct of Diplomacy. Not only did he fire her but he dragged her reputation through the mud sullying this upstanding woman of invaluable experiential excellence. Her crime? She told the truth. At the bestowal of this award at Georgetown University the audience filled with people of intellectual heft gave her a loud cheer and a lengthy sanding ovation. She deserved that and more. She deserved to keep her job! 


How our nation survives this frontal attack on its institutions I do not know but I do know the Republican Party were the enablers of this presidential monstrosity just like the Weimer Republic bestowed upon Hitler the Enabling Act which enabled him to enact decrees absent the consent of the Reichstag (Germany's Congress.) Trump now thinks he can do anything he wants because the Republicans in the Senate will have his back and never convict to eliminate him. Who could have predicted this president's Herculean efforts to exact revenge? I can only hope, the revenge enacted will be turned on its head and land on him using our Founders' only remedy -- impeachment and conviction to remove a president who defiles the sanctity of the Oval Office.

"Today's disgrace is tomorrow's legacy"

Fabulously written opinion in the MetroWest Daily News on Feb. 8, 2020 by Mr. Leo Boghosian. It is succinct, passionate and precise. I agree with everything he says and most importantly when he comments "Today's disgrace is tomorrow's legacy" I say here here!! I paste it below.

"Today's disgrace is tomorrow's legacy" by Leo Boghosian

The sham impeachment of Degenerate Donald is over and no one is surprised with the preordained outcome.

The sham impeachment of Degenerate Donald is over and no one is surprised with the preordained outcome. The House Managers should receive our deepest gratitude and respect for valiantly presenting an outstanding case of unequivocal guilt with factual evidence of misconduct knowing that it would fall on the deaf ears of their cowardly Republican colleagues. The record of their courageous efforts will forever serve as irrevocable historical reference substantiating the validity of Trump’s impeachment and his implicit guilt.

Every single point of contention raised by Trump’s defense team was designed to thwart and sabotage any and all efforts to verify the evidence produced by the House for fear of confirming the House findings despite having the right to cross examine and refute that evidence. That’s a pretty powerful symptom of a guilt syndrome, if not, tantamount to tacit admission of guilt.

Lawyers have a duty to provide their client with their best defense but to adopt the Trump playbook of evasion, digression and distortion as legal defense tactic creates a precedence which is not in the best interests of the public even in a sham impeachment. In any other ordinary trial court setting their contumacious resistance towards allowing witnesses to testify would rise to the level of contempt.

We know from words and deeds that neither Trump nor O’Connell are men of conscience or principle but we expect a little more integrity from members of our judicial system. Violating or abusing Constitutional authority by subterfuge or devious misinterpretation or fabrication are not enviable legal achievements. Today’s disgrace is tomorrow’s legacy.

Meryl Streep's Magical Speech at the 2017 Golden Globes -- Everyone should re-listen

to Meryl Streep's delivery of words given in 2017 that are as relevant, passionate, empathetic and humane now as they were then.  She directs them against the Bully-in-Chief​ who is an embarrassment to this nation and soils the once majesty of the Oval Office.

Forward this to anyone you choose and then in November use the only power that we have to unseat the Trumpian bullies in Congress and the bully president Trump himself from the office he was so unfit to occupy.  Vote blue up and down the ticket no matter who it is and return our country to the humane and dignified nation it once was.  

Preview YouTube video Meryl Streep Slams Donald Trump in Golden Globes 2017 Speech

Nancy Pelosi Rips Republicans For ‘Normalizing Lawlessness’ In Scathing Op-Ed -- Please read

Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote a wonderful opinion for the Washington Post which I urge all to read. It is linked below. As I write this our so called "president' has been and will be engaged in a scorched earth policy seeking revenge on specifically those who testified under oath against him before Congress by firing them. Who knows what else he may do? It is also allegedly illegal to gain retribution on those who have testified truthfully under oath before Congress. The president may think his trials are over because the word acquitted, which does not mean innocent, was used to give the final result of the impeachment Senate trial against him. It was not, however, unanimous. One Republican Senator, Mitt Romney, had the courage to vote against Trump on the first article of impeachment, Abuse of Power. Moreover, as Speaker Pelosi said Trump has been impeached for life by the House.

The editorial below is well written and all of it, I believe, true. The great Yankee catcher Yogi Berra spoke his greatest truth when he said "It ain't over til it's over" and so, Mr. President, your greatest trials may lie ahead!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nancy-pelosi-mcconnell-and-the-gop-senate-are-accomplices-to-trumps-wrongdoing/2020/02/07/d06582be-49e4-11ea-9164-d3154ad8a5cd_story.html

Thank you, Mitt Romney

Dear Senator Romney: Reading your text as to why you voted for an article of impeachment brought a tear to my eye and I am a staunch Democrat.  I believe, Senator Romney, you are a profile in courage.  What you did will be historically profound. You may not reap the accolades now but you will in the futures to come. Everyone should listen or read your explanation as to why you voted the way you did as the only senator from the Republican Party to ever cast an impeachment vote against a sitting president of his own Party.

Thank you, Senator Romney. You gave a brilliant speech for us in our time to hear and for future generations to hear and see so they will come to understand what a profile in courage really means!

 

 

The Sultan of Hate -- The Medal of Freedom to Limbaugh?

As one blogger stated it "The only qualifier for that garbage [Rush Limbaugh] to get the medal of freedom is because in America he has had the freedom to be the absolute worst that humanity has to offer. Hopefully the next Dem retires this medal forever as being tainted & launches a Presidential Medal of Integrity instead."

My Comment: The blogger's suggestion is spot on. In this moment what Trump supporter should receive that honor? No one. There is not one shred of character, integrity or empathy in the entire lot of the supporters of Donald Trump except one. I would give it to Mitt Romney for the immense courage it took for a member of the Trumpian Republican Party to hold this lawbreaker president's feet to the fire convicting Trump on at least one impeachment count.   Giving this Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh is like giving it to Joseph Goebels, the head of the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda. This act by Trump bestowing the highest civilian honor to the sultan of hate, Limbaugh, is the highest insult to all good men and women of principle and character everywhere and to those persons of artistic and cultural humanitarian excellence who have received it before!  See list of former recipients below.

Examples of just a few of the minister of hate's many malignant racist and misogynistic greatest hits of the most undeserving of the honor of bestowal of the Medal of Freedom in this nation's history.  WARNING: THIS LIST MAY INDUCE NAUSEA AND VOMITING! :

Racist:

“I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.” 
 “You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.”
 “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”
“The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”
“They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”
 “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).”

Insults against women:

“Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.”
~Rush Limbaugh, 1994 List of 35 Undeniable Truths
“Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.”
~Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show, August 12, 2005.

“Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?”
~Rush Limbaugh, while holding up a photograph of 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton on his 1993 television show

“They’re out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.”
~Rush Limbaugh, on women who protest against sexual harassment, The Rush Limbaugh Show, April 26, 2004

So Miss Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”
~Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show, March 1, 2012

List of former Medal of Freedom recipients. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_recipients   Rush Limbaugh is not worthy to even shine their shoes!

Limbaugh has advanced lung cancer.   Ask me if I care.

S.C. group can reject gays and Jews as foster parents, Trump admin says

How much more disgusting can the Drumpf administration get?  I and millions like me worship the separation of church state Constitutional mandate.  Obama's rule was superb that is any organization receiving federal aid cannot do so under a religious mandate.  It cannot discriminate.  Trump is turning this on its head appealing of course to his hateful base by allowing organizations to keep certain groups out based on religion (Christian) and/or sexual orientation. 

The Founders who created the separation of church state clause just turned in their graves.   Like Adam Schiff said "our nation is lost just lost!"

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/s-c-group-can-reject-gays-jews-foster-parents-trump-n962306?fbclid=IwAR2i-fRiJcArsvAmrgkCYVTMy6ggYXEfMZCYBNTLPfs6uvbiKK73a19C9vE

Vote blue up and down the ticket!

The Liar-in-Chief -- AP FACT CHECK

Read and you will know why I watched the state-of-the-union on mute.  I cannot stand to hear his voice and the lies and really should have turned it off altogether as I cannot stand to see one half of the Congress cheering enthusiastically for those lies.  The electorate in one half the country do not even know they are lies.  FYI here are the lies.

 

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2020 Iowa Caucus Updates: Delayed Results Lead to Confusion -- My Comment -- CAUCUS CONFUSION/MOCKING THE ANTHEM

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/politics/iowa-caucuses.html?emc=edit_na_20200204&ref=headline&nl=breaking-news&campaign_id=60&instance_id=0&segment_id=20950&user_id=85a8ac1c6f518c011d82f4864472cc9b&regi_id=75028030

CAUCUS CONFUSION:

MY COMMENT:  GET RID OF THE IOWA CAUCUSES. IT'S JUST PLAIN NUTS!!! THIS ABOVE ANYTHING ELSE SHOWS ONE THE INCOMPETENCE INVOLVED IN THE CAUCUSES. IT HAPPENED DURING THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY IN 2016 AND NOW IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. IF THIS DOES NOT CALL FOR PAPER BALLOTS I DO NOT KNOW WHAT DOES AS IN THE AIR THERE IS RUSSIAN MANIPULATION OF THE CAUCUS.  ONE CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN NOVEMBER.  EACH SIDE NO MATTER THE RESULTS WILL CALL IT RIGGED ESPECIALLY OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM EMBARRASSMENT, TRUMP.  SEE LINK BELOW FOR A PICTURE OF HIS OUTRAGEOUS MOCKING OF THE ANTHEM DURING THE SUPERBOWL!

THE RATIONALS FOR THIS CAUCUS FIASCO ABOUND. THERE IS TOO MUCH AT STAKE.  ELECTING DRUMPF AGAIN IS OUTRAGEOUS.  INSANITY IS DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS!

See the hypocrite Drumpf mocking the anthem link below.  Hypocrisy thy name is Trump!

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article239913588.html?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0chTilVbjFMexJeCn55LPF5V0aqaXr_mFmoqC_RSPN2lQTxbuqOqEeMeU

Jared Kushner: Palestinians Have Never Done Anything Right in Their Sad, Pathetic Lives + My Comment

Now that is such a great way to win friends and influence your adversaries. What a DOPE. IF someone told you, Jared, which is more likely a truth that YOU never have done anything right in your sad and pathetic life how would YOU feel? Who taught you the art of negotiation, the Nazi school of law and diplomacy? JERK!

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/01/jared-kushner-peace-plan-palestinians?fbclid=IwAR3Gl35TTeJ3NP6s73qYEWG7u69bDwHL_B29kiPqja3JoYUWkGrWRdIchsY