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Friday, November 01, 2024
Police are supposed to know better.
He is a very sick man.
Imagine the USA without “Citizens United?”
Finally, someone is taking on these bozos.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Dismantling the federal government
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
It isn't necessary to apologize.
There isn't anyone from the Trump camp apologizing.
It is amazing how the Republicans can make such horrible remarks and get away with it. Not only get away with it, but, double down on it.
Then the Democrats, in this case President Biden, run to protect the minority group from the really lousy words of Trump and his minions and then an apology is demanded.
Well. I don't think so.
President Biden was insulted by the words being spoken in New York City by a candidate for the presidency. He did not blatantly state "garbage" as if an insult pulled out of thin air. He spoke it in horror of the potential and violent fallout that most likely will occur of a dear group of minority Americans and the island nation we hold dear as a territory to this great country.
October 30, 2024
...Biden (click here) was responding on Tuesday to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" at the rally on Sunday and also disparaged Black Americans, Jewish people, Palestinians and Latinos....
It is admirable that President Biden, in thinking twice about the comment, came to apologize so as to not insult the entire number of Republicans in the USA. But, quite frankly those Republican voters should be as appalled as President Biden by those words at a political rally.
The rally in New York City that was conducted and sanctioned by Trump and the Republican Party was another example of political violence. The words were all inflammatory and the potential real harm to real Americans they can cause in this great country is a shame.
That is the truth of the matter.
That is the truth of the matter.
That is the truth of the matter.
President Biden felt compelled to protect citizens because of the violent speeches at a political rally of a candidate for president. The truth is the rally in New York City was purposeful for Trump. It was a call to arms no different than his speech on January 6, 2021. It is the same violence Trump is organizing for when he loses the election.
The people that should be apologizing are the Republicans and their candidates that enthusiastically enjoy such violent gatherings.
Are those words of hate going to be spoken by the Republicans about Western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee in seven years?
Will the Republicans be throwing towels to the residents there after the election?
Joe and Kamala never threw papers towels at the magnificent people of Puerto Rico. They are providing deadly disinformation to the resident of the areas of the USA destroyed by Helene either.
The Biden-Harris Administration (click here) is committed to supporting Puerto Rico’s recovery and renewal. In 2021, President Biden unlocked billions of dollars in disaster funding and enacted historic expansions of economic and healthcare assistance programs for Puerto Rico. Since then, the Biden-Harris Administration has built on these unprecedented investments to ensure Puerto Rico has a strong foundation for sustained growth....
Why did it take until 2021 to unlock billions of dollars of disaster funding for Puerto Rico?
Fear of violence is no reason to vote for Trump.
These are non-state actors
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
If Trump Wins
I could not be more serious. Once he believes he has control, the country won’t matter. The country will be designed to serve his interests. Poverty will visit the people in a return to the days of the Dust Bowl.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Radio silence.
Jeff Bezos wrote an opinion in the Washington Post about what he believes are irrelevant presidential endorsements and I take it at face value, but, these decisions are white flags and not reassurances.
There are many, many reasons for journalists to be concerned about the state of their craft that spans education all the way to prison sentences.
The Washington Post lost a brave and magnificent man and journalist in Jamal Ahmad Khashquji. I am not certain what kind of pain that left at The Post, but, I miss him. I can only imagine how brilliant his writing might have been with the Middle East engaged in deadly confrontations. He would have been brilliant and no doubt helpful.
Some of the mistrust goes back to the Iraq War and how people involved in the media kissed the ring of the likes of Carl Rove for the reporting on the war. I believe Judith Miller did a lot of damage by being a stenographer rather than a journalist.
But, that aside (although history of the decline should be pursued) it hurt terribly for President Biden to meet with MBS without justice for Jamal and his family.
There is also Evan Gershkovich who returned from wrongful incarceration in Russia. Certainly, President Biden can be given forgiveness by The Post for any indiscretion with MBS.
There are currently four innocent journalists that have a passion for freedom, being held for trial because they were reporting on the politics of Alexei Navalny. It is very alarming to Americans that care about human life, the quality of life, and the power of unfit government willing to toy with life.
There were two Hong Kong journalists sentenced to sedition. Another worry for a newspaper owner in a country where a brutally insane candidate threatens American lives. Jake Tapper confronted Vance over that reality.
I believe it was yesterday or the day before when President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden awarded metals of bravery to 30 some people and organizations for the humanities and art. It is within those disciplines where sincere freedom lives and the RIGHT to expression of free will. Lavar Burton was a recipient and he gave a magnificent speak to how the arts and humanity provide the vapors of which we live.
A political voice preserves freedom and liberty and now, today, the greatest of the writers and reporters are silencing themselves in a complex and uncertain world.
In confronting authority mired in the power of fear and hatred, the best voice is within grace. Bill Clinton was a magnificent diplomat and understood the value of grace and the human spirit.
I think American journalism needs to find their best voice going forward, as a hostile president will have to be confronted and not pandered to for press passes. Being candyasses won’t bring admiration by the American people. Quite the contrary, they will laugh.
Bezos and all those in his position can state they are reminiscant for the past and decisions made long before they were out of diapers, but, that is just another excuse to retreat.
Let’s hope President Harris will be understanding when The Post wants interviews and press passes.
I would be asking myself where Evan Gershkovich would be today if Trump was more interested in Russian money rather than American freedom.