Rittenhouse -- right wing extremist

 

Why was Rittenhouse in another state from where he lived carrying an assault rifle? He says he was there to protect businesses like what -- the car lot? He was there, he said, to treat the wounded with his sparse "medical experience"? 

 

Why did the prosecution not bring out the fact that Rittenhouse was/is a member of the Proud Boys rightwingnut extremist white supremacist violent group? My guess is the judge would never have allowed that questioning even though it speaks to the essence of who Rittenhouse is and why he was in Kenosha and why he shot dead whom he did.

 

Why were there no questions about the relationship between the police and him? The police let him run with a shotgun and asked for the help of right wingnut extremist groups and people like Rittenhouse. 

 

This was a miscarriage of justice and a chilling victory and permission slip for right wing extremist supremacist groups to enter the stream of protest groups. Rittenhouse was/is a right wing extremist which tells you all you need to know about the essence of who he is, why he was there and why he shot dead whom he did. He was armed and ready for bear against Black Lives Matter, perfectly acceptable to many in Kenosha and, most especially, to the police.

PROFESSOR HEATHER COX RICHARDSON -- + MY COMMENT:

 

PROFESSOR HEATHER COX RICHARDSON -- MY COMMENT: CBO GIVES THIS BILL A THUMPS UP! PLUS OTHER ISSUES. START NOW TO VOCIFEROUSLY SUPPORT DEMOCRATS NATION WIDE. GIVE THE CORRUPT REPUBLICAN PARTY A RUN FOR THEIR DECEPTIVE FRAUDULENT MONEY. TELL THEM NO MATTER HOW THEY FIX IT DEMOCRATS WILL MEET THEIR DARK MAGIC WITH SOME MAGIC OF OUR OWN!

 

Professor Richardson

 

Today began with Republican leadership doubling down on its support for Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ), whom the House censured yesterday for tweeting a cartoon video of himself killing a Democratic colleague, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and attacking the president, Joe Biden. Only two Republicans voted with the Democrats in favor of the censure.

 

Former president Donald Trump issued a statement praising Gosar and saying the congressman “has my Complete and Total Endorsement!” In addition to the censure, the House stripped Gosar of his committee assignments, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said today that if the Republicans take the majority and he is elected Speaker, he will likely throw Democrats off committees and give Gosar and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who was stripped of her committee assignments in February after violent threats against Democratic colleagues, better committee assignments.

 

This morning, on the podcast of Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows went after McCarthy, suggesting that Trump should replace him. Then, on Trump loyalist Steve Bannon’s podcast, Meadows suggested that if the Republicans win control of the House of Representatives in next year’s elections, Trump should become Speaker of the House, which would drive Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “crazy.” Bannon suggested he could hold the position for 100 days and “sort things out” before running for president in 2024.

 

While the Trump loyalists were putting the screws to McCarthy, the economic news continued to be good. A report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Thursday showed that the United States is the only G7 country to surpass its pre-pandemic economic growth. That growth has been so strong it has buoyed other countries.

 

Meanwhile, the administration's work with ports and supply chains to handle the increase in demand for goods appears to be having an effect. Imports through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are up 16% from 2018, and in the first two weeks of November, those two ports cleared about a third of the containers sitting on their docks.

 

Then the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score for the Democrats’ $1.85 trillion Build Back Better Act. The CBO is a nonpartisan agency within the legislative branch that provides budget and economic information to Congress. The CBO’s estimate of the costs of the Build Back Better Act will affect who will vote for it.

Where have all the conservatives gone -- Liz Cheney in the crossfire

Liz Cheney has been ostracized from the Republican Party in her state of Wyoming. I am not a fan of Liz Cheney but she has shown herself to be a profile in courage. I hope she continues her stint in Congress and does not let the thoroughly corrupt mendacious Trump and those who support him define who she is and who we are. Shame on the Wyoming Republican Party and shame on all of them who do not stand up to that rancid man Trump.

There are no words to define the Republican Party in present time. I hope they lose mightily in every state where they have corrupted the vote. I hope our legal system stands in strong opposition to every ugly corrupt thing Trump attempts. I loathe that man Trump more than I can ever convey. Look at the fracturing of the American public he has done, look at how many lives he has ruined and how many died by his insane inaction against COVID and against the wearing of masks to stop it!  I hope the American people do not let him get away with all the corruption he has perpetrated. He is a sickening man. He is corrupting our nation and attempting to take democracy down and replace it with an authoritarian state placing him at the top for as long as he can. He calls American neo Nazis some good when, in fact, no Nazi is a good person.

Trump can take away a lot of things but I'm not going to let that lying excuse for a human take away my hope. I am hoping by some miracle those Nazi-like extremists to whom he appeals will be stopped. I hope as I did in the late 60's that my left wing slant will have done something humane and good. What I did not count on and failed to see was the nation states west were filled with arch conservative extremist ideologues and the south would always have many intractable racists. I once thought our liberalism and its quest for humanitarian policies of good would take root. Some have with immense struggle.

The great Howard Zinn with whom I was acquainted always said it does not matter what the opposition is. It matters that you oppose them and never stop. So onward I will oppose them with all the strength I have knowing that we want good for those who have never known what good is.

Without fail

 

The insane horror show that marks the Republican essence means we Democrats should win elections by gigantic margins. The operative word is should. The Democratic National Committee and its rational plans should be spread out to the entire nation. They and we must keep hammering away at the Democratic message and policies that HELP the middle and working classes.

What we, in fact, do support and are about should be emblazoned in a succinct message so that everyone in our nation understands their benefits and their family's benefits are at stake if Republicans control it all.  Our message should be shouted far and wide from every mountain top. The Republican Party today has been reduced to violent, right wing fanatics of gargantuan mendacious stupidity.  It is NOT the Republican Party of old. It is NOT the party of Lincoln, it is NOT the Party of Teddy Roosevelt and it is not even the Party of John McCain or Bob Dole.  The Republican Party is a cult composed of murderous liars without empathy and it is loaded for bear.  Its fanatical adherents would attack anyone and some would even kill and do now threaten anyone, including Congressional colleagues whom they thought advocated for a position they did not like.  That is not democracy that is emblematic of totalitarian dictatorships in history and now prevalent around the world.  Republicans have made it  a shameful part of the American tapestry and its cancer is spreading.

Democrats should win, because of what we advocate as FDR did in another time of national peril. If FDR had not won and someone like Lindburgh, the right wing fanatic, won it is not overstating the fact that Hitler would have been a US ally! Think on that and get out the Democratic vote without fail!

"Republicans Are Willing to Destroy Democracy to Retake Power" + My Comment

 

My Comment: The depths of tyranny in this nation are far, deep and violent. How will those who are rational, smart, nonviolent and sane in this nation and those who love democracy overrule the depths of depravity, of Qanon insane belief, stupidity and mendacity that are the monstrous threat to our democratic experiment. I pray dear God do NOT let this nation with a Republican ugly vanguard lapse into an authoritarian nightmare the Founders feared. I am monumentally frightened.

Republicans Are Willing to Destroy Democracy to Retake Power by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky: https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-republicans-are-willing-to-jeopardize-human-survival-to-retake-power

The Last Word

Larry O'Donnell last night had on Jennifer Gosar, sister of the right wing crackpot representative Paul Gosar.  Paul Gosar threatened Andrea Ocasio Cortez's life and threatened to attack Joe Biden.

Paul Gosar put a video on Instagram and Twitter of him stabbing in the back and murdering AOC as well as threatening to attack the president.

Jennifer Gosar whom Larry had on last night was FANTASTIC rather like Mary Trump and equally as incensed. She calls on leadership in the House, the Senate, Speaker Pelosi and even to Merritt Garland to censure him and/or do what is necessary to punish him.

She said she wishes no one, whom she opposes, death but wishes rather they not get reelected. She was wonderful.

She asked where is the leadership; indeed where ARE they?

Jennifer Gosar is the exact opposite of her malevolent brother. She was articulate, brilliant and passionate. She got Larry O'Donnell's "Last Word"!

Supreme Court Hears Challenges To Texas Law Banning Most Abortions--The Texas anti-choice law is a hideous law.

 

I do not believe the state has a right to determine whether one proceeds with a woman's pregnancy or not. This is, as I see it, a personal decision that should be left to the woman who experiences the pregnancy. I surely do not believe that if an abortion is completed that a bounty could be collected by anyone who found out about it. That is noxious. Moreover, and worst of all, this law pertains to incest and to rape two loathsome occurrences to most all rational sensibilities. Just think of your own self if you were raped by your father, brother or uncle you would still be commanded to take your pregnancy to term. Who would sanction such an objectionable and repulsive thing?

If this is allowed as Texas has legislated it that would be a damnable and immoral thing especially to the new life created.  Ideally the blessed event of having a child would be irredeemably sullied and besmirched by the seemingly immoral appendages attached to this ugly law. Every child a wanted child is my mantra.   Save a woman's life by keeping this decision on whether to abort or not in the woman's hands and not in the hands of the state or anyone acting in place of the state. Making abortion illegal will, in fact, condemn some women perhaps even many to a hideous and untimely death.  Keep abortion medically safe and legal.