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Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Monday, July 29, 2019
Profiles In Cowardice: Random Observations On The Mueller Hearings
Posted by Rude One
Yesterday's congressional hearings with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed the profound cowardice at the heart of our nation's leaders right now in dealing with Donald Trump (himself a coward of the lowest order) and the crimes that he has so blatantly committed and continues to commit on a daily basis. Anyone who has actually read Mueller's report or paid attention during the hearing who doesn't believe that Russia interfered with the 2016 election and that Trump panicked and attempted to cover up any involvement would have to be a genuine fool or a willful idiot. The report says that Trump did so. It just doesn't say that he committed a crime, although it walks right up to that.
There was some hope that the hearings before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees would produce a crystallizing moment, a "gotcha," an absolutely clear statement of Trump and his circle's complicity in obstruction of justice. Democrats called the hearing ostensibly to disseminate the information in the report, but you know that they wanted Mueller to say that Trump should have been indicted but was blocked by Attorney General and the man who put the "toad" in toady, William Barr.
If that had happened, no one would be talking about Mueller's really painful, halting, obviously impaired appearance. But the cowardly media was not entertained and thus declared the day a failure. Jesus, no one should care about the verve with which revelations of our compromised electoral system were delivered. No one should care if the person telling us that theresident induced people
to lie about their involvement in compromising our electoral system is
particularly charming. But we don't live in a country where plain facts
matter anymore, and we don't have a media that is capable of explaining
facts (yeah, yeah, there are exceptions).
That sky opening moment didn't happen. And, instead, we were treated to the display of Democrats trying to get as much of the report on record as possible, with Mueller agreeing that, yes, what he wrote in the report is what he wrote in the report, and that it is as enraging and worrisome as it ever was. There were a couple of important moments that may make fine ads, like Rep. Jerrold Nadler's direct, quick questioning that demonstrated just how much Trump is lying about the report. Adam Schiff's opening comments were brutal, as was his masterful dialogue with Mueller that was a distillation of just how much Russia helped Trump and how much Trump and his team welcomed that help and how really scary that all is.
Republicans on the committee were, with one, perhaps two, exceptions, a miserable bunch of cowardly bastards. Bowing down before their twin idols, Trump and the right-wing media machine, they regurgitated every rank conspiracy theory, vomiting up a litany of names and a series of lies about the origins of the investigation and the investigators themselves, all to create a viscous fog for their president's venality and immorality and criminality.
Yet as strong as the Democrats in the committees were with their questioning - there was blissfully little speechifying - the press conference after the hearings demonstrated the cowardice that has plagued the party's leaders since Trump was elected. When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi again squashed the idea that impeachment of Trump should move forward, she undid everything that the hearings might have done. Impeachment would force attention to be paid to what Trump has done and his failure to act on what was done to us. Now, they say, they want to wait until courts decide on whether or not Trump needs to give over documents or allow people to testify. C'mon. It's as if Pelosi and others in the Democratic caucus, ignoring a growing faction of members who want impeachment, believe that Trump won't be re-elected and things can go back to whatever illusion of normal they think it was before. This is the Merrick Garland fallacy: don't get in the mud to fight it out because we're obviously gonna win the presidency. How did that turn out in 2016? Democrats are stating that Trump committed crimes. Hell, Nadler used the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" the other day. If you say that and refuse to impeach, then Republicans have nothing to fear from you and will keep owning the story with their lies.
As he revealed in his ranting, frothing moment with the press yesterday, Donald Trump is a danger to the nation, and he believes he is empowered to do more and more. That neither Democrats nor Republicans are willing to stand up to him in the firmest, most obvious way available is the kind of cowardice that will damn us, and we'll deserve it.
Yesterday's congressional hearings with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed the profound cowardice at the heart of our nation's leaders right now in dealing with Donald Trump (himself a coward of the lowest order) and the crimes that he has so blatantly committed and continues to commit on a daily basis. Anyone who has actually read Mueller's report or paid attention during the hearing who doesn't believe that Russia interfered with the 2016 election and that Trump panicked and attempted to cover up any involvement would have to be a genuine fool or a willful idiot. The report says that Trump did so. It just doesn't say that he committed a crime, although it walks right up to that.
There was some hope that the hearings before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees would produce a crystallizing moment, a "gotcha," an absolutely clear statement of Trump and his circle's complicity in obstruction of justice. Democrats called the hearing ostensibly to disseminate the information in the report, but you know that they wanted Mueller to say that Trump should have been indicted but was blocked by Attorney General and the man who put the "toad" in toady, William Barr.
If that had happened, no one would be talking about Mueller's really painful, halting, obviously impaired appearance. But the cowardly media was not entertained and thus declared the day a failure. Jesus, no one should care about the verve with which revelations of our compromised electoral system were delivered. No one should care if the person telling us that the
That sky opening moment didn't happen. And, instead, we were treated to the display of Democrats trying to get as much of the report on record as possible, with Mueller agreeing that, yes, what he wrote in the report is what he wrote in the report, and that it is as enraging and worrisome as it ever was. There were a couple of important moments that may make fine ads, like Rep. Jerrold Nadler's direct, quick questioning that demonstrated just how much Trump is lying about the report. Adam Schiff's opening comments were brutal, as was his masterful dialogue with Mueller that was a distillation of just how much Russia helped Trump and how much Trump and his team welcomed that help and how really scary that all is.
Republicans on the committee were, with one, perhaps two, exceptions, a miserable bunch of cowardly bastards. Bowing down before their twin idols, Trump and the right-wing media machine, they regurgitated every rank conspiracy theory, vomiting up a litany of names and a series of lies about the origins of the investigation and the investigators themselves, all to create a viscous fog for their president's venality and immorality and criminality.
From loathsome hick Louie Gohmert screeching like he got his penis stuck in the donkey he was fucking to bloated sack of farts James Sensenbrenner declaring Mueller's work a flaming sack of shit left on the government's porch to dimwitted Michael Turner bludgeoning the word "exonerate" to death. It was disgusting, watching asshole after asshole proclaim the innocence of Trump while trying, at least on some minor level, to pretend to give even a single fuck about Russia's interference in our elections. How low does a man or woman have to be to fear a nasty comment by Tucker Carlson? How quickly do they become traitors because they fear tweets that call for their ouster or deaths? What vermin they are and what worms are the people who elect them.
Despite all the tributes to his long career as GI Joe G-Man, Mueller came across as a coward, too. Simply put, there was no reason for him to hedge on what he believed. As Sarah Kendzior put it, "Throughout the hearings, Mr. Mueller acted as if outside forces constrained his ability to answer questions. But he is no longer an employee of the Department of Justice, and they can no longer tell him what to say." It made no sense, for instance, that he was so clearly incensed by the idea of Russia's attack on the 2016 election, yet he would not say, clearly, that Donald Trump is harming the country by dismissing that idea. That's pretty easy: Here is something that's broken. If you don't fix it, it will get worse. Therefore, if the person who is supposed to fix it doesn't, that person wants things to get worse. But he decided to limit himself and play the good Republican, the good conservative, one of the many useful idiots who think that the System still functions as it's supposed to. And just say, for chrissake, that anyone would have arrested Trump. All this coy implication was worthless. For someone who once stood up to rabid buffalo Dick Cheney, it was a dereliction of duty and a failure of nerve that will ultimately damage the nation.Yet as strong as the Democrats in the committees were with their questioning - there was blissfully little speechifying - the press conference after the hearings demonstrated the cowardice that has plagued the party's leaders since Trump was elected. When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi again squashed the idea that impeachment of Trump should move forward, she undid everything that the hearings might have done. Impeachment would force attention to be paid to what Trump has done and his failure to act on what was done to us. Now, they say, they want to wait until courts decide on whether or not Trump needs to give over documents or allow people to testify. C'mon. It's as if Pelosi and others in the Democratic caucus, ignoring a growing faction of members who want impeachment, believe that Trump won't be re-elected and things can go back to whatever illusion of normal they think it was before. This is the Merrick Garland fallacy: don't get in the mud to fight it out because we're obviously gonna win the presidency. How did that turn out in 2016? Democrats are stating that Trump committed crimes. Hell, Nadler used the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" the other day. If you say that and refuse to impeach, then Republicans have nothing to fear from you and will keep owning the story with their lies.
As he revealed in his ranting, frothing moment with the press yesterday, Donald Trump is a danger to the nation, and he believes he is empowered to do more and more. That neither Democrats nor Republicans are willing to stand up to him in the firmest, most obvious way available is the kind of cowardice that will damn us, and we'll deserve it.
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Better To Have A Few Rats Than To Be One, Mr. Resident
It’s
not hard to see what’s going on here. The congressman has been a thorn
in this resident’s side, and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American
members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of
the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful
people who don’t to scream. resident Trump bad-mouthed Baltimore in
order to make a point that the border camps are “clean, efficient &
well run," which, of course, they are not — unless you are fine with all
the overcrowding, squalor, cages and deprivation to be found in what
the Department of Homeland Security’s own inspector-general recently
called “a ticking time bomb."
In pointing to the 7th, the
This
is a resident who will happily debase himself at the slightest
provocation. And given Mr. Cummings’ criticisms of U.S. border policy,
the various investigations he has launched as chairman of the House
Oversight Committee, his willingness to call Mr. Trump a racist for his
recent attacks on the freshmen congresswomen, and the fact that “Fox
& Friends” had recently aired a segment critical of the city,
slamming Baltimore must have been irresistible in a Pavlovian way. Fox
News rang the bell, the president salivated and his thumbs moved across
his cell phone into action.
As heartening as it has been to witness public figures rise to Charm City’s defense on Saturday, from native daughter House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young, we would above all remind Mr. Trump that the 7th District, Baltimore included, is part of the United States that he is supposedly governing. The White House has far more power to effect change in this city, for good or ill, than any single member of Congress including Mr. Cummings. If there are problems here, rodents included, they are as much his responsibility as anyone’s, perhaps more because he holds the most powerful office in the land.
Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
We are African Americans, we are patriots, and we refuse to sit idly by
This op-ed is co-signed by 149 African Americans who served in the Obama administration.
This post has been updated.
We’ve heard this before. Go back where you came from. Go back to Africa. And now, “send her back.” Black and brown people in America don’t hear these chants in a vacuum; for many of us, we’ve felt their full force being shouted in our faces, whispered behind our backs, scrawled across lockers, or hurled at us online. They are part of a pattern in our country designed to denigrate us as well as keep us separate and afraid.
As 149 African Americans who served in the last administration, we witnessed first hand the relentless attacks on the legitimacy of President Barack Obama and his family from our front-row seats to America’s first black presidency. Witnessing racism surge in our country, both during and after Obama’s service and ours, has been a shattering reality, to say the least. But it has also provided jet-fuel for our activism, especially in moments such as these.
We stand with congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, as well as all those currently under attack by President Trump, along with his supporters and his enablers, who feel deputized to decide who belongs here — and who does not. There is truly nothing more un-American than calling on fellow citizens to leave our country — by citing their immigrant roots, or ancestry, or their unwillingness to sit in quiet obedience while democracy is being undermined.
We are proud descendants of immigrants, refugees and the enslaved Africans who built this country while enduring the horrors of its original sin. We stand on the soil they tilled, and march in the streets they helped to pave. We are red-blooded Americans, we are patriots, and we have plenty to say about the direction this country is headed. We decry voter suppression. We demand equitable access to health care, housing, quality schools and employment. We welcome new Americans with dignity and open arms. And we will never stop fighting for the overhaul of a criminal-justice system with racist foundations.
We come from Minnesota and Michigan. The Bronx and Baton Rouge. Florida and Philadelphia. Cleveland and the Carolinas. Atlanta and Nevada. Oak-town and the Chi. We understand our role in this democracy, and respect the promise of a nation built by, for and of immigrants. We are part of that tradition, and have the strength to both respect our ancestors from faraway lands and the country we all call home.
Our love of country lives in these demands, and our commitment to use our voices and our energy to build a more perfect union. We refuse to sit idly by as racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia are wielded by the president and any elected official complicit in the poisoning of our democracy. We call on local, state and congressional officials, as well as presidential candidates to articulate their policies and strategies for moving us forward as a strong democracy, through a racial-equity lens that prioritizes people over profit. We will continue to support candidates for local, state and federal office who add more diverse representation to the dialogue and those who understand the importance of such diversity when policymaking here in our country and around the world. We ask all Americans to be a good neighbor by demonstrating anti-racist, environmentally friendly, and inclusive behavior toward everyone in your everyday interactions.
The statesman Frederick Douglass warned, “The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.” This nation has neither grappled with nor healed from the horrors of its origins. It is time to advance that healing process now through our justice, economic, health and political systems.
Expect to hear more from us. We plan to leave this country better than we found it. This is our home.
Saba Abebe, former special assistant, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, Energy Department
Tsehaynesh Abebe, former adviser, U.S. Agency for International Development
David Adeleye, former policy specialist, White House
Bunmi Akinnusotu, former special assistant, Office of Land and Emergency Management, Environmental Protection Agency
Trista Allen, former senior adviser to the regional administrator, General Services Administration
Maria Anderson, former operations assistant, White House
Karen Andre, former White House liaison, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Caya Lewis Atkins, former counselor for science and public health, Department of Health and Human Services
Roy L. Austin Jr., former deputy assistant to the president, White House Domestic Policy Council
Kevin Bailey, former special assistant, White House; senior policy adviser, Treasury Department
Jumoke Balogun, former adviser to the secretary, Labor Department
Diana Banks, former deputy assistant secretary, Defense Department
Desiree N. Barnes, former adviser to the press secretary, White House
Kevin F. Beckford, former special adviser, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Alaina Beverly, former associate director, Office of Urban Affairs, White House
Saba Bireda, former senior counsel, Office for Civil Rights, Education Department
Vincent H. Bish Jr., former special assistant to the assistant secretary of strategic program management, Department of Health and Human Services
Michael Blake, former director for African American, minority and women business enterprises and county and statewide elected officials, White House
Tenicka Boyd, former special assistant, Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Education Department
Tanya Bradsher, former assistant secretary for public affairs, Department of Homeland Security
Stacey Brayboy, former chief of staff, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Agriculture Department
Allyn Brooks-LaSure, former deputy associate administrator for external affairs, Environmental Protection Agency
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, former director of coverage policy, Office of Health Reform, Department of Health and Human Services
Quincy K. Brown, former senior policy adviser, Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House
Taylor Campbell, former director of correspondence systems innovation, White House
Crystal Carson, former chief of staff to the director of communications, White House
Genger Charles, former general deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Housing, Federal Housing Administration, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Glorie Chiza, former associate director, Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, White House
Sarah Haile Coombs, special assistant, Department of Health and Human Services
Michael Cox, former special assistant to the assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs, Commerce Department
Adria Crutchfield, former director of external affairs, Federal Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Joiselle Cunningham, former special adviser, Office of the Secretary, Education Department
Charlotte Flemmings Curtis, former special adviser for White House initiatives, Corporation for National and Community Service
Kareem Dale, former special assistant to the president for disability policy, White House
Ashlee Davis, former White House liaison, Agriculture Department
Marco A. Davis, former deputy director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
Russella L. Davis-Rogers, former chief of staff, Office of Strategic Partnerships, Department of Education
Tequia Hicks Delgado, former senior adviser for congressional engagement and legislative relations, Office of Legislative Affairs, White House
Kalisha Dessources Figures, former policy adviser, White House Council on Women and Girls
Leek Deng, former special assistant, Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development
Tene Dolphin, former chief of staff, Economic Development Administration, Commerce Department
Monique Dorsainvil, former deputy chief of staff, Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, White House
Joshua DuBois, former executive director, Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships; former special assistant to the president, White House
Dru Ealons, former director, Office of Public Engagement, Environmental Protection Agency
Rosemary Enobakhare, former deputy associate administrator for public engagement and environmental education, Environmental Protection Agency
Karen Evans, former assistant director and policy adviser, Office of Cabinet Affairs, White House
Clarence J. Fluker, former deputy associate director for national parks and youth engagement, White House Council on Environmental Quality
Heather Foster, former public engagement adviser and director of African American affairs, White House
Kalina Francis, former special adviser, Office of Public Affairs, Treasury Department
Matthew “Van” Buren Freeman, former senior adviser, Minority Business Development Agency, Commerce Department
Cameron French, former deputy assistant secretary for public affairs, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Jocelyn Frye, former deputy assistant to the president and director of policy and special projects for the first lady, White House
Bernard Fulton, former deputy assistant secretary for congressional relations, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Stephanie Gaither, former confidential assistant to the deputy director, Office of Management and Budget, White House
Demetria A. Gallagher, former senior adviser for policy and inclusive innovation, Commerce Department
Lateisha Garrett, former White House liaison, National Endowment for the Humanities
W. Cyrus Garrett, former special adviser to the director of counternarcotics enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
Bishop M. Garrison, former science and technology directorate adviser, Department of Homeland Security
Lisa Gelobter, former chief digital service officer, Education Department
A’shanti F. Gholar, former special assistant to the secretary, Labor Department
Jay R. Gilliam, former special assistant, U.S. Agency for International Development
Artealia Gilliard, former deputy assistant secretary for transportation policy, Transportation Department
Brenda Girton-Mitchell, former director, Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Education Department
Jason Green, former associate counsel and special assistant to the president, White House
Corey Arnez Griffin, former associate director, Peace Corps
Kyla F. Griffith, former special adviser to the secretary, Commerce Department
Simone L. Hardeman-Jones, former deputy assistant secretary, Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs, Education Department
Thamar Harrigan, former senior intergovernmental relations adviser, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Dalen Harris, former director, Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison, Office of National Drug Control Policy, White House
Khalilah M. Harris, former deputy director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans; former senior adviser, Office of Personnel Management
Adam Hodge, former deputy assistant secretary for public affairs, Treasury Department
Valerie Jarrett, former senior adviser, White House
Will Yemi Jawando, former associate director, Office of Public Engagement, White House
Karine Jean-Pierre, former northeast political director, Office of Political Affairs, White House
A. Jenkins, former director, Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Commerce Department
Adora Jenkins, former press secretary, Justice Department; former deputy associate administrator for external affairs, Environmental Protection Agency
W. Nate Jenkins, former chief of staff and senior adviser to the budget director, Office of Management and Budget, White House
David J. Johns, former executive director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans
Brent Johnson, former special adviser to the secretary, Commerce Department
Broderick Johnson, former White House assistant to the president and Cabinet secretary for My Brother’s Keeper Task Force
Carmen Daniels Jones, former director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, Agriculture Department
Gregory K. Joseph II, former special assistant, Office of the Executive Secretariat, Energy Department
Jamia Jowers, former special assistant, National Security Council
Charmion N. Kinder, former associate, Press Office of the First Lady, White House; former assistant press secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Elise Nelson Leary, former international affairs adviser, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Kimberlyn Leary, former adviser, White House Council on Women and Girls
Daniella Gibbs Léger, former special assistant to the president and director of message events, White House
Georgette Lewis, former policy adviser, Department of Health and Human Services
Kevin Lewis, former director of African American media, White House; former principal deputy director of public affairs, Justice Department
Catherine E. Lhamon, former assistant secretary for civil rights, Education Department
Tiffani Long, former special adviser, Economic Development Administration
Latifa Lyles, former director, Women’s Bureau, Labor Department
Brenda Mallory, former general counsel, White House Council on Environmental Quality
Dominique Mann, former media affairs manager, White House
Shelly Marc, former policy adviser, Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, White House
Tyra A. Mariani, former chief of staff to the deputy secretary, Education Department
Lawrence Mason III, former domestic policy analyst, Office of Presidential Correspondence, White House
Dexter L. McCoy, former special assistant, Office of the Secretary, Education Department
Matthew McGuire, former U.S. executive director, The World Bank Group
Tyrik McKeiver, former senior adviser, State Department
Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, former assistant to the administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
Solianna Meaza, former special assistant to associate administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
Mahlet Mesfin, former assistant director for international science and technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House
Ricardo Michel, former director, Center for Transformational Partnerships, U.S. Agency for International Development Global Development Lab
Paul Monteiro, former associate director, Office of Public Engagement, White House
Jesse Moore, former associate director, Office of Public Engagement, White House
Shannon Myricks, former specialist, Office of Management and Administration Information Services, White House
Melanie Newman, former director of public affairs, Justice Department
Fatima Noor, former policy assistant, Domestic Policy Council
Bianca Oden, former deputy chief of staff, Agriculture Department
Funmi Olorunnipa, former ethics counsel, White House Counsel’s Office
Elizabeth Ogunwo, former White House liaison, Peace Corps
Stephanie Sprow Owens, former deputy director, Reach Higher, Education Department
Denise L. Pease, former regional administrator of the northeast and Caribbean region, General Services Administration
Danielle Perry, former special adviser to the assistant secretary, Agriculture Department
Allison C. Pulliam, former special assistant, Office of Presidential Personnel, White House
Colby Redmond, former advance specialist, Office of the Secretary, Commerce Department
Derrick Robinson, former researcher, Office of Communications, White House
Lynn M. Ross, former deputy assistant secretary for policy development, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Sarah Rutherford, former press and media operations assistant, White House
Alexander Sewell, former special assistant, Export-Import Bank
Michael Smith, former special assistant to the president and senior director of Cabinet affairs for My Brother’s Keeper, White House
Russell F. Smith, former deputy assistant secretary for international fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce Department
Jackeline Stewart, former press secretary, General Services Administration
Angela Tennison, former leadership development director, Education Department
Kenny Thompson Jr., former special assistant to the president and director of message events to the vice president, White House
Ivory A. Toldson, former executive director, White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Fred Tombar, former senior adviser to the secretary for disaster recovery, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Christopher R. Upperman, former assistant administrator for public engagement, Small Business Administration
Malik Walker, former senior adviser for congressional and legislative affairs, Office of Personnel Management
Jason R.L. Wallace, former director of scheduling and advance, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Myesha Ward, former assistant U.S. trade representative for intergovernmental affairs and public engagement
Clarence Wardell III, former presidential innovation fellow
Benjamin E. Webb, former executive director of policy and planning, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security
C’Reda J. Weeden, former executive secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
Tonia Wellons, former associate director, Office of Strategic Partnerships, Peace Corps
Antonio White, former senior adviser, Treasury Department
Monae White, former special projects manager, Education Department
Aketa Marie Williams, former director of strategic communications, Office of the Undersecretary, Education Department
Jonta Williams, former adviser to the assistant administrator for Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development
Jessica Wilson, former special assistant, Office of Policy, Department of Homeland Security
Taj Wilson, former deputy associate counsel, White House
Candace Wint, former director of advance, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Brent C. Woolfork, former managing director, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Tarrah Cooper Wright, former special assistant to the secretary, Department of Homeland Security
Ursula Wright, former associate assistant deputy secretary, Education Department
Carl Young, former adviser and assistant, Office of Management and Budget, White House
Stephanie Young, former senior adviser, Office of Public Engagement, White House
David N. Zikusoka, former senior adviser for weapons of mass destruction and nonproliferation, Office of the Vice President, White House
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Friday, July 26, 2019
Mueller's Testimony RE-established That Donald Trump Is A Serial Felon Who Should Be IMPEACHED!
There were several important takeaways from Robert Mueller's hours long
testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary and Intelligence
Committees. What are your thoughts about what took place?
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
What I Would Ask Robert Mueller By James Comey
Longworth House Office Building (Architect of the U.S. Capitol)
If I were a member of Congress with five minutes to question Robert Mueller, I would ask short questions drawn from the report’s executive summaries.
Volume One: Russia
Did you find that there were a series of contacts between the Trump campaign and individuals with ties to the Russian government? (p. 5)
In particular, did you find that a Trump foreign policy adviser learned that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails? (pp. 5-6)
Did you find that the Trump foreign policy adviser said the Trump campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to candidate Clinton? (p. 6)
Did you find that senior members of the Trump campaign met with Russian representatives at Trump Tower after being told in an email that the meeting was part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump? (p. 6)
Did you find that, despite the fact that candidate Trump said he had "nothing to do with Russia," his organization had been pursuing a major Moscow project into the middle of the election year and that candidate Trump was regularly updated on developments? (vol 1, p. 5: vol 2, p. 19)
Did the Trump campaign report any of its Russian contacts to the FBI?
Not even the indications from the Russian government that it could assist the campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to candidate Clinton?
Volume Two: Obstruction
Did you find substantial evidence that the president had committed obstruction of justice crimes?
For example, did you find that the president directed the White House counsel to call the acting attorney general and tell him the special counsel must be removed? (p. 4)
Did you find that the White House counsel decided he would rather resign than carry out that order? (p. 4)
Did you find that the president later directed the White House counsel to say he had not been ordered to have the special counsel removed? (p. 6)
Did you find that the president wanted the White House counsel to write a false memo saying he had not been ordered to have the special counsel removed? (p. 6)
Did you find that the White House counsel refused to do that because it was not true? (p. 6)
Did you find that the president repeatedly asked a private citizen—his former campaign manager—to deliver a message to the attorney general to restrict the special counsel to investigating only future campaign interference? (p. 5)
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Here's The THREE MOST CRITICAL QUESTIONS To Ask Robert Mueller During His Wednesday Testimony!
Here's the THREE MOST CRITICAL QUESTIONS to Ask Robert Mueller During His Wednesday Testimony!
Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on Wednesday, July 24th. There are sure to be a litany of probing questions that will be asked of him. Jesse Dollemore believes these will be three of the most important!
Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on Wednesday, July 24th. There are sure to be a litany of probing questions that will be asked of him. Jesse Dollemore believes these will be three of the most important!
Monday, July 22, 2019
We Won’t Win Over Deplorable Trump Supporters, So Stop Playing Nice
After watching what unfolded at Donald Trump’s North Carolina rally this
week, along with his nonstop calls for people to “get out” of our
country, it has become clear that there are certain voters that we
simply can’t reach.
And while some people think we have to maintain a certain level of “civility”, the truth is that these people would gladly stomp on your head if the opportunity arose.
Stop fucking around with them, and start fighting back. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
And while some people think we have to maintain a certain level of “civility”, the truth is that these people would gladly stomp on your head if the opportunity arose.
Stop fucking around with them, and start fighting back. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
My filter is broken so I’m likely to lose a lot of followers and friends who are used to the kinder, gentler Ben. But all things considered, we don’t have time to worry about being nice.— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) July 18, 2019
Look man, those rednecks in that audience last night won’t be won over with any policy. They would gladly give up health insurance and die of diabetes-driven gangrene than to abandon a president who lets them be their full racist selves.— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) July 18, 2019
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Trump Supporters LOVE The Resident’s Hate Filled Tirades
While most of America is still angry about Trump’s disgusting comments
from this past Sunday, his hardcore supporters are loving every minute
of it. They seem to enjoy watching the resident make his xenophobic
comments, and some even admitted to CBS News that this is why they voted
for him!
This is what we’re up against in 2020, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-tweets-supporters-stand-by-president-amid-racist-tweets/
This is what we’re up against in 2020, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-tweets-supporters-stand-by-president-amid-racist-tweets/
Trump Won’t Listen To Courts Anymore, Spokesperson Claims
According to a spokesperson for the Trump administration (Hogan Gidley),
Donald Trump will no longer “be beholden to the courts.”
This is an instance of saying the quiet part out loud, because theresident, like
the rest of the country, is bound by the laws of this country.
Is Congress going to take action now? Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-spokesperson-boasts-the-president-isnt-going-to-be-beholden-to-courts-anymore/
This is an instance of saying the quiet part out loud, because the
Is Congress going to take action now? Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-spokesperson-boasts-the-president-isnt-going-to-be-beholden-to-courts-anymore/
Friday, July 19, 2019
Donald Trump’s Demagoguery Boils Over With “SEND HER BACK” Chants! #IStandWithIlhan
Last night at one of Donald Trump’s venom fueled MAGA rallies, he
launched into an attack on Freshman Congresswoman from Minnesota – Ilhan
Omar… A scripted attack filled with garbage and lies.
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Let's Have This Goddamn Political Race War Already
Posted by Rude One
At least now Democrats can stop fucking pretending that there is any reasoning with Republicans or anyone on the right at this point. By refusing to condemnresident Donald Trump's blatantly racist statements
as "racist," by continuing and expanding on Trump's attacks on four
non-white Democratic congresswomen in saying that they should leave the
United States, by getting outraged that racism is being called racism,
the GOP has ripped its mask off in the clearest way possible and gone
all in on attacks on non-whites.
At this point, Donald Trump could yell, "Nigger!" on Fifth Avenue and wouldn't lose any voters. And Republicans would blame whichever black person it was directed at.
Conservatives like to decry what they say is "identity politics;" that is, making policies and running candidates to appeal to a certain racial, ethnic, religious, or other background. But the GOP's appeal to white nationalists and to the idiot hordes that comprise its base is more clearly identity politics than anything Democrats have done. 'Cause, see, Trump and those who suckle at Trump's orange man teats get their votes almost exclusively from white people. By contrast, Ilhan Omar was elected with 78% of the vote in a district that is two-thirds white. I fucking guarantee you that Republican Representative Steve Scalise didn't get shit for non-white votes. But we're supposed to pretend that Omar is dividing Americans. Fuck that.
The right has been aching for a political race war. With their explicit support of Trump's "Go back to your country," now supposedly not racist "If you're not happy here, you can leave," as well as rallying around demonizing Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashid Tlaib, Republicans have tied their 2020 strategy to this racist fuckery. The four progressives are the new welfare queen, the new Willie Horton, the new Mexican rapists. And they are folding that into the oldest fucking act in the conservative book: calling Democrats socialist or "commies," as a sweaty Lindsey Graham did. There's the campaign: commies and coloreds. They really did make it 1960 again.
Hell, yesterday, Trump went back to his political origin of saying that other countries send their criminals here to seek asylum. In a cabinet meeting, while doing the supposedly official business of the supposed United States, Trump said, "Why would Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador, why would they keep their criminals when you can put them into the caravan, lose them in a caravan, and send them up to the United States. We take everybody because the Democrats don’t allow immigration laws that mean anything. It’s horrible. It’s horrible."
As a counterpoint, here's how a mother from Honduras described the circumstances that forced them to leave their home: "The family fled Honduras after Tania witnessed her mother get killed. Her sister-in-law also was a witness and was later kidnapped, tortured and slain to keep her from testifying. The gang MS-13 then posted a note on the family's door telling them they had 45 minutes to leave, Tania said. That's when the family left to seek asylum in the U.S." Yeah, it is horrible. Just not in the way our simpering racist prick of aresident
says it is. And his very approach, his very words are more anti-American
than a million socialist candidates demanding that this nation take
care of its people like nearly every other nation on earth.
Let me personalize this: I fucking love my neighborhood. I love the black women artists who live downstairs from me who. I love the Latino kids who ride their bikes up and down the street with rap music on old school boomboxes playing. I love the Indian family across the street who have a disabled son whose Chinese bus driver is always overjoyed to see. I love the Dominican family behind me who have parties that always end up with musicians playing amazing tunes. I love the young Puerto Rican parents who have a car with a license frame that says, "My other car is the Tardis." I love the white people who showed up to offer comfort to the Pakistani owner of the corner bodega when his father died. It ain't perfect. We've had crime and fights and everything (although that's changed since the neighborhood has become even more diverse). But I fucking love this America. I don't know who is here legally or illegally. And I don't give a shit. I just care that we all treat each other with respect. If you don't love this, too, then you don't love this country.
That's worth fighting for. That's worth pissing off the mythical "White Working Class" (which doesn't seem to contain all those working class voters who think Trump's full of shit). That's worth having the political race war the GOP has been aching to have and has been having since 1980. Let's have this throw down the nation has needed since the civil rights era. Let's define who we are and try to finally be absolutely fucking clear about it.
Call it like many of us have been saying for years now: If you support Donald Trump, you're racist. And fuck you. Double fuck you if you think calling you "racist" is racist, you dumb motherfuckers. And triple fuck you if you think anyone who doesn't want to get face-fucked by Donald Trump hates this country and should leave. You assholes aren't leaving over the Affordable Care Act, which is the law of the land. You assholes didn't leave over same-sex marriage. You put on your asshole hats and tried to change it. Which is the exact same thing that Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib are trying to do (minus the asshole hats and with smarter tweets).
Make this election explicitly about the meaning of America, Democrats. This is our chance to take the plot of this story back from Republicans, who have controlled the narrative for most of the last three generations. Do we stand with diversity as our strength or do we stand with white nationalism? Do we stand with the right to dissent or obeisance to a leader? Jesus, we already have to get over the bar of our current racism. If it turns out that most of the country wants to be more racist and more in the thrall of a fucking moron and his moronic policies and the moronic, racist party that props up his saggy orange ass, then we'll at least be able to be fucking honest about it.
And then we can decide if fighting on is worth it or if we want to leave.
(Note: This was supposed to be part 2 of something I started last week, but, well, then this shit started. It's coming.)
At least now Democrats can stop fucking pretending that there is any reasoning with Republicans or anyone on the right at this point. By refusing to condemn
At this point, Donald Trump could yell, "Nigger!" on Fifth Avenue and wouldn't lose any voters. And Republicans would blame whichever black person it was directed at.
Conservatives like to decry what they say is "identity politics;" that is, making policies and running candidates to appeal to a certain racial, ethnic, religious, or other background. But the GOP's appeal to white nationalists and to the idiot hordes that comprise its base is more clearly identity politics than anything Democrats have done. 'Cause, see, Trump and those who suckle at Trump's orange man teats get their votes almost exclusively from white people. By contrast, Ilhan Omar was elected with 78% of the vote in a district that is two-thirds white. I fucking guarantee you that Republican Representative Steve Scalise didn't get shit for non-white votes. But we're supposed to pretend that Omar is dividing Americans. Fuck that.
The right has been aching for a political race war. With their explicit support of Trump's "Go back to your country," now supposedly not racist "If you're not happy here, you can leave," as well as rallying around demonizing Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashid Tlaib, Republicans have tied their 2020 strategy to this racist fuckery. The four progressives are the new welfare queen, the new Willie Horton, the new Mexican rapists. And they are folding that into the oldest fucking act in the conservative book: calling Democrats socialist or "commies," as a sweaty Lindsey Graham did. There's the campaign: commies and coloreds. They really did make it 1960 again.
Hell, yesterday, Trump went back to his political origin of saying that other countries send their criminals here to seek asylum. In a cabinet meeting, while doing the supposedly official business of the supposed United States, Trump said, "Why would Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador, why would they keep their criminals when you can put them into the caravan, lose them in a caravan, and send them up to the United States. We take everybody because the Democrats don’t allow immigration laws that mean anything. It’s horrible. It’s horrible."
As a counterpoint, here's how a mother from Honduras described the circumstances that forced them to leave their home: "The family fled Honduras after Tania witnessed her mother get killed. Her sister-in-law also was a witness and was later kidnapped, tortured and slain to keep her from testifying. The gang MS-13 then posted a note on the family's door telling them they had 45 minutes to leave, Tania said. That's when the family left to seek asylum in the U.S." Yeah, it is horrible. Just not in the way our simpering racist prick of a
Let me personalize this: I fucking love my neighborhood. I love the black women artists who live downstairs from me who. I love the Latino kids who ride their bikes up and down the street with rap music on old school boomboxes playing. I love the Indian family across the street who have a disabled son whose Chinese bus driver is always overjoyed to see. I love the Dominican family behind me who have parties that always end up with musicians playing amazing tunes. I love the young Puerto Rican parents who have a car with a license frame that says, "My other car is the Tardis." I love the white people who showed up to offer comfort to the Pakistani owner of the corner bodega when his father died. It ain't perfect. We've had crime and fights and everything (although that's changed since the neighborhood has become even more diverse). But I fucking love this America. I don't know who is here legally or illegally. And I don't give a shit. I just care that we all treat each other with respect. If you don't love this, too, then you don't love this country.
That's worth fighting for. That's worth pissing off the mythical "White Working Class" (which doesn't seem to contain all those working class voters who think Trump's full of shit). That's worth having the political race war the GOP has been aching to have and has been having since 1980. Let's have this throw down the nation has needed since the civil rights era. Let's define who we are and try to finally be absolutely fucking clear about it.
Call it like many of us have been saying for years now: If you support Donald Trump, you're racist. And fuck you. Double fuck you if you think calling you "racist" is racist, you dumb motherfuckers. And triple fuck you if you think anyone who doesn't want to get face-fucked by Donald Trump hates this country and should leave. You assholes aren't leaving over the Affordable Care Act, which is the law of the land. You assholes didn't leave over same-sex marriage. You put on your asshole hats and tried to change it. Which is the exact same thing that Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib are trying to do (minus the asshole hats and with smarter tweets).
Make this election explicitly about the meaning of America, Democrats. This is our chance to take the plot of this story back from Republicans, who have controlled the narrative for most of the last three generations. Do we stand with diversity as our strength or do we stand with white nationalism? Do we stand with the right to dissent or obeisance to a leader? Jesus, we already have to get over the bar of our current racism. If it turns out that most of the country wants to be more racist and more in the thrall of a fucking moron and his moronic policies and the moronic, racist party that props up his saggy orange ass, then we'll at least be able to be fucking honest about it.
And then we can decide if fighting on is worth it or if we want to leave.
(Note: This was supposed to be part 2 of something I started last week, but, well, then this shit started. It's coming.)
Trump Is Afraid Of Her
After Trump continued his attack on four freshmen Congresswomen, the
crowd at Trump’s rally launched into a chant of “send her back!”
Lawrence O’Donnell discusses with Leonard Pitts, Jr., Yamiche Alcindor,
and Rep. Eric Swalwell.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
DOES HE EVEN HIDE IT? Donald Trump WAS, IS, And WILL ALWAYS BE That Which His Supporters Deny!
Since Donald Trump's tweet about Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib there have been a lot of people
denying the obvious about the tweet. Here are examples of what should be
obvious to every single clear-eyed observer!
Republicans Are The Ones Who Hate America
Donald Trump believes that those who “hate” America should pack up and
leave, but that would mean that the entire Republican Party would have
to get out of the country. When you drill down to it, Republicans are
the ones who hate this country, and that is obvious through their
policies.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how Republicans disguise their hatred of this country as patriotism, and why we shouldn’t buy into their lies ever again.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how Republicans disguise their hatred of this country as patriotism, and why we shouldn’t buy into their lies ever again.
Trump’s Deranged Speech Shows He Must Be Impeached NOW
During a speech on Monday, Donald Trump doubled down on his xenophobic
comments about “The Squad,” going even further in his attacks on Ilhan
Omar. He linked the Congresswoman to extremist groups and claimed that
she hates members of certain religions, which isn’t rooted in reality at
all.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how this latest speech proves that theresident is not mentally stable and must be removed
from office now.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-goes-off-on-socialist-communist-rant-saying-democrats-are-pro-al-qaeda/
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how this latest speech proves that the
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-goes-off-on-socialist-communist-rant-saying-democrats-are-pro-al-qaeda/
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Donald Trump Attacks Congresswomen Of Color On Twitter - Fox News And Republicans LAUGH ABOUT IT!
Jesse talks about Donald Trump's Sunday morning tweet telling U.S.
citizens and Congresswomen to GO BACK TO THE COUNTRIES THEY CAME FROM.
He also plays clips of video as examples of the types of people who use
phrases like that. Also included is a disgusting clip from Sunday's Fox
and Friends showing Jedidiah Bila LAUGHING about Donald Trump's divisive
words!
Monday, July 15, 2019
Trump Election Advisers Panic After Realizing His Base Is Too Small
Donald Trump’s reelection advisers are starting to get very worried
about the fact that the resident’s support seems to be coming from just
his base, and that base isn’t big enough to win in 2020.
This helps explain why he gave his incoherent environmental speech earlier this week, and we can expect more of theresident trying to appeal to people
who don’t wear crusty MAGA hats all day.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/09/trumps-base-is-not-enough-his-own-advisers-know-it/
This helps explain why he gave his incoherent environmental speech earlier this week, and we can expect more of the
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/09/trumps-base-is-not-enough-his-own-advisers-know-it/
Donald Trump Swears He’s Not A Bully
Last week, Joe Biden accused Donald Trump of being a bully, and this
attack left Trump confused.
He swears that he’s never been a bully, he just likes to fight back when he feels attacked.
The problem is that he ALWAYS feels like he’s being attacked, and he lashes out against those who dare oppose him.
He is 100% a bully, but that appears to be what Republicans like. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/451756-trump-responds-%20to-biden-remarks-i-dont-think-im-a-bully
He swears that he’s never been a bully, he just likes to fight back when he feels attacked.
The problem is that he ALWAYS feels like he’s being attacked, and he lashes out against those who dare oppose him.
He is 100% a bully, but that appears to be what Republicans like. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/451756-trump-responds-%20to-biden-remarks-i-dont-think-im-a-bully
Saturday, July 13, 2019
If You Shook Mitch McConnell's Family Tree, Rape Victims Would Fallout
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Friday, July 12, 2019
Trump Accuser Has Video Of Him Forcibly Kissing Her
*This video was recorded prior to Trump’s lawyers releasing competing
footage of the interaction mentioned in the court filings.*
Donald Trump’s disgusting remarks on the infamous Access Hollywood tape might come back to haunt him as court documents show that one of his accusers from 2016 actually has footage of him doing exactly what he described in the video.
This bombshell footage, if released to the public, could be the beginning of the end of Trump’sresidency,
especially considering the fact that the lawsuit against him would be
easily won by the plaintiff. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains
what’s happening.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-accuser-has-him-on-video-forcibly-kissing-her-court-documents/
Donald Trump’s disgusting remarks on the infamous Access Hollywood tape might come back to haunt him as court documents show that one of his accusers from 2016 actually has footage of him doing exactly what he described in the video.
This bombshell footage, if released to the public, could be the beginning of the end of Trump’s
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-accuser-has-him-on-video-forcibly-kissing-her-court-documents/
Children’s Charity Pulls Out Of Stripper Event At Trump’s Golf Resort
*This video was recorded prior to the Trump Organization announcing that
the entire event has now been cancelled.*
A children’s charity has decided that they don’t want to be involved in a golf tournament at Trump’s Doral golf course that is being hosted by a local strip club. The club is actually auctioning off some of the exotic dancers to perform as “caddies” for the event, and that was just a little too much for a group that is trying to improve the lives of children.
Oddly enough, it wasn’t too much for theresident and his
business to tell the organizers to find a new venue. Ring of Fire’s
Farron Cousins discusses this.
A children’s charity has decided that they don’t want to be involved in a golf tournament at Trump’s Doral golf course that is being hosted by a local strip club. The club is actually auctioning off some of the exotic dancers to perform as “caddies” for the event, and that was just a little too much for a group that is trying to improve the lives of children.
Oddly enough, it wasn’t too much for the
Pelosi Demands Progressive Lawmakers Stop Responding To Her Attacks
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a stark warning to Democrats in the
House yesterday, telling them that they need to keep their grievances
with her and the Party behind closed doors and off of social media.
Pelosi has spent more time fighting back against Progressives in her own Party than she has against the Republicans, and it isn’t a good look for her. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Pelosi has spent more time fighting back against Progressives in her own Party than she has against the Republicans, and it isn’t a good look for her. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
No One Is Going To Save Us
Posted by Rude One
After Donald Trump was inaugurated, I heard dozens of predictions about how soon he would fall and be forced out of theresidency. I talked to
people In The Know or people who would mention a friend who's an
intelligence agent, and they all knew, with near certainty, that we were
mere months from the wheels of justice and the righteous government of
the United States rejecting Trump like he was a dog's arm grafted onto
our precious human bodies. I was told it would be October 2017, November
2017, "by Christmas" 2017, and then it was several times throughout
2018. "You see, they'd say, "the spooks are gonna take him down. The
career officers, they know that he's up to his neck in money-laundering"
or "child sex trafficking" or simply "Russia." These savior spies never
appeared.
But we, oh, we hoped, god, how we hoped, listening to every confident conspiracy-spinner on MSNBC, just believing that, at any second, a thread would be pulled, the wrong Jenga piece would be moved, and everything would finally fall apart for Trump. We moved on to the investigation of Robert Mueller, and we thought that here, finally, would be the back-breaking straw. And while we have not fully grappled with what was actually in the report Mueller and his team produced, while the number of times Trump clearly obstructed justice is overwhelming and the associations with the Russian government are damning, still, it didn't shake the foundation of this administration in any permanent way.
Because we are such hopeful creatures, we liberals, we keep believing that some cataclysm will break this dark fever. Some of us even thought that the horrors that would be revealed in the indictment of child rapist Jeffrey Epstein might be awful revelations about Trump that led to his comeuppance. That case is still in its early stages, and this is not to mention what Mueller might say when he testifies next week, but stop, just stop.
No one is going to save us. It's just that simple. While there have been and may still be a couple of Supreme Court decisions that don't gut democracy and civil rights, no one is going to save us from the depravity of this administration, from its extravagant flouting of rules and laws meant to prevent corruption of public officials to its enraging, inhumane mistreatment of migrants to its utter incompetence in just about every area that requires a rational federal government to its abandonment of any policy that would mitigate the speeding train of the climate crisis that is going to wreck us.
There is no political Santa Claus. There will be no insurgency by angry intelligence agents. There is no ninth-dimensional plan that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has as to why she's not calling for an impeachment inquiry. She has no secret information that Trump is going down for some other crime. And while I could spend the rest of this post on the boggling refusal of Pelosi to impeach while she has the House pass meaningless bill after meaningless bill, I don't want to just focus on her failure in this pivotal historical moment.
We are seeing the result of decades of conservative planning to get the public to the moment where they no longer believe in anyone but the right's own media, where plain facts don't matter, where images of strength are far, far more important than actual strength. And, as Ryan Grim demonstrated in a great piece, we are dealing with a Democratic leadership group that has never gotten over its post-Reagan stress disorder. Democrats never learned to fight Republicans. We thought winning elections would be enough. We thought that the factual reality of more people having access to health care would be enough. We thought that things that polled well, like abortion rights, like stricter gun laws, like action on climate change, would be enough. We thought that Trump being a damned embarrassment every time he opens his mouth would be enough. We thought that going high when they went low would be enough.
It's not. It never was.
Republican learned back when Reagan was calling the news the "liberal media" on a regular basis, when they impeached Bill Clinton because it made the evangelicals and Clinton haters happy, when they hammered every minor thing, like a flag-burning case, into a national crisis, that the fight is all there is. They relish the fight, they live for the fight, and they can't wait for the next chance to fight, even if they have to manufacture it. They don't care about rules, they don't care about pissing off their opponents, and that's why Trump will end up appointing nearly a third of all federal judges by the end of his first term. That's why Republicans will end up contorting our voting rights until only white conservative men get a say.
And while a whole lot of us on the left, many of us who call ourselves "Democrats," have fought like hell, and while Democratic leaders may want to fight on issues, they hate it when the fight becomes personal. Sure, some Democrats will call out particular Republicans on their awfulness, but the goal is to try to shame a shameless person like Mitch McConnell. When Republicans go after someone, the goal is to destroy them and create a new identity for the person. Look at what they did with the Clintons. Look at what they're doing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Republicans do this because it works. Democrats won't. They flinch and shy away, as if it's just too unseemly.
What do I mean by that? President Obama should have had Democrats go on the warpath over McConnell's refusal to consider the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland. McConnell should have been turned into an enemy of the nation. Instead, it was treated with the political equivalent of an eye roll. Would it have worked? We'll never know.
You want something more recent? Trump was credibly accused of rape, with activity that is of a piece with other behavior he's admitted to. It should be something that Democrats say with outrage over and over, in every discussion. And if Democrats can't take the head of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who helped get a sweetheart deal for child rapist Epstein, then they have no business in modern politics.
That's all blind hope, the same kind of blind hope that made us think that some bit of scandal magic would take down Trump. Sorry. No one is going to save us. We're on our own. So we damn well better save ourselves.
Last week, I wrote that the opposition to Donald Trump and his supporters, apostles, and enablers needs to get its head around
the idea that no one person or thing is going to save us from Trumpism.
Not the Mueller Report, not a secret cabal of intelligence agents
(hell, I guess you could call it the "Deep State"), not the hidden
child-fucking files of Jeffrey Epstein. And, as if on cue, the U.S.
Attorney of the Southern District of New York released a statement that
it was ending
its investigation into the hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels
by Michael Cohen under the direction of Donald Trump without indicting
anyone else. As the conservative toxic waste dump RedState crowed,
"The SDNY Just Crushed One Of The Left’s Biggest Dreams," which was
that the honorable, dogged New York office would bring down Trump.
Except everyone kind of forgot that the U.S. Attorney works for the
Justice Department, which is under the Attorney General, who is William
Barr, who is a lawless sow fucker. So now we've moved on to the next
dream, that something something Mueller hearing something something will
happen.
Except it won't. And the House still won't open an impeachment inquiry, not even after this past week's descent into racist nationalism.
So we have to figure out how to save ourselves from the fascistic threat of Trumpism, in ways that make real change and in ways that demonstrate to those in power that they are facing a greater wave of people than the human hemorrhoids in the chanting MAGA crowds. We have to face the fact that there is a political race war that needs to happen, and it's time to get the troops ready for battle.
I have two suggestions. Neither of them is particularly new (hell, I've talked about one of 'em before), but place them into the new, urgent context in which we find ourselves.
First, fuck the white working class. Fuck Trump voters. Fuck their votes. Fuck their beliefs. Fuck everything about them. Democrats and the left attempting to appeal to Trump supporters, as if better angels exist in their cesspool, is like a wounded gazelle attempting to reason with hyenas. They're gonna eat you; you just look like an idiot for thinking you could convince them otherwise.
The emphasis for the 2020 election has to be on those who didn't vote in 2016 and 2018. This ain't about voter enthusiasm. Jesus, if anti-Trump voters aren't fired up, then Democrats should just go beat off in a corner for the duration. Voter registration has to be the top priority, especially in targeting non-white people of voting age. (Remember: We're in a political race war.) Republicans have a massive effort under way to get more voters. Right now, there are lower-key efforts, like Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow PUSH organization trying to register 100,000 new voters in South Carolina.
Sure, there are great local movements, like Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength in Michigan. But MOSES and other organizations aside, we need to have a national effort, perhaps led by groups with a national status, like Indivisible or Swing Left, which actually has a voter registration strategy but needs some big time boosting. We need to head to the swing states and find the voters who have sat out. And we need lots of volunteers who are willing to help people negotiate the bullshit, byzantine new voter laws in those states.
The other suggestion is way more radical and way more dangerous from a messaging position: a general strike, with the kinds of protests we're seeing in Hong Kong and (closer to home) Puerto Rico. As Will Bunch put it last year, "A general strike or even massive protests are well outside of the normal comfort zone for a majority of Americans. But the question we need to ask ourselves is this... how comfortable are we with Donald Trump spending even one more night in the White House?"
A general strike can bring together liberal causes across the board, from Black Lives Matter to the Women's March to gun laws to immigration reform to the climate crisis and more. And it strikes at the heart of the capitalist enterprise in a way that a well-ordered, well-permitted protest march never can. Right now, we have a government that is unresponsive to what the vast majority of Americans want. Our fucked up electoral system means that not only can a president win without a majority of the popular vote, the House and Senate can be controlled by a party that didn't receive the most votes. So the voice of the people needs to made front and center again because our alleged representative democracy isn't representing us in a fair, realistic way.
The protests in Hong Kong were particularly stunning because it was essentially a movement without a central leader. Instead, a coalition of pro-democracy groups worked together, with several members, like Bonnie Leung and Jimmy Sham, taking on different roles in getting the message out there and getting the people in the streets. The progressive movement in the United States has that same kind of possibility of coalition with conveners providing guidance and direction. Of course, it's something that would need community support as people missed work for what might be a lengthy strike with a goal of forcing the resignation of Trump and his administration.
It's a pie in the sky idea, yeah, I know. There's a good chance that it would fall apart quickly, faced with a public that doesn't want to hang in there, with a media that might be dismissive and, in the case of Fox "news," derisive, with an apathetic lump of shit in the White House going golfing during the whole thing, with corporate and business leaders and Republicans declaring it a "socialist revolution" or some such shit.
Yeah, the good guys might not win, but even when they fail, at least they can say they gave it a shot. At least they found some way to find meaning and community in a time of cruelty and division. At least they laid a foundation for some future action.
Or we can all go back to where we came from.
After Donald Trump was inaugurated, I heard dozens of predictions about how soon he would fall and be forced out of the
But we, oh, we hoped, god, how we hoped, listening to every confident conspiracy-spinner on MSNBC, just believing that, at any second, a thread would be pulled, the wrong Jenga piece would be moved, and everything would finally fall apart for Trump. We moved on to the investigation of Robert Mueller, and we thought that here, finally, would be the back-breaking straw. And while we have not fully grappled with what was actually in the report Mueller and his team produced, while the number of times Trump clearly obstructed justice is overwhelming and the associations with the Russian government are damning, still, it didn't shake the foundation of this administration in any permanent way.
Because we are such hopeful creatures, we liberals, we keep believing that some cataclysm will break this dark fever. Some of us even thought that the horrors that would be revealed in the indictment of child rapist Jeffrey Epstein might be awful revelations about Trump that led to his comeuppance. That case is still in its early stages, and this is not to mention what Mueller might say when he testifies next week, but stop, just stop.
No one is going to save us. It's just that simple. While there have been and may still be a couple of Supreme Court decisions that don't gut democracy and civil rights, no one is going to save us from the depravity of this administration, from its extravagant flouting of rules and laws meant to prevent corruption of public officials to its enraging, inhumane mistreatment of migrants to its utter incompetence in just about every area that requires a rational federal government to its abandonment of any policy that would mitigate the speeding train of the climate crisis that is going to wreck us.
There is no political Santa Claus. There will be no insurgency by angry intelligence agents. There is no ninth-dimensional plan that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has as to why she's not calling for an impeachment inquiry. She has no secret information that Trump is going down for some other crime. And while I could spend the rest of this post on the boggling refusal of Pelosi to impeach while she has the House pass meaningless bill after meaningless bill, I don't want to just focus on her failure in this pivotal historical moment.
We are seeing the result of decades of conservative planning to get the public to the moment where they no longer believe in anyone but the right's own media, where plain facts don't matter, where images of strength are far, far more important than actual strength. And, as Ryan Grim demonstrated in a great piece, we are dealing with a Democratic leadership group that has never gotten over its post-Reagan stress disorder. Democrats never learned to fight Republicans. We thought winning elections would be enough. We thought that the factual reality of more people having access to health care would be enough. We thought that things that polled well, like abortion rights, like stricter gun laws, like action on climate change, would be enough. We thought that Trump being a damned embarrassment every time he opens his mouth would be enough. We thought that going high when they went low would be enough.
It's not. It never was.
Republican learned back when Reagan was calling the news the "liberal media" on a regular basis, when they impeached Bill Clinton because it made the evangelicals and Clinton haters happy, when they hammered every minor thing, like a flag-burning case, into a national crisis, that the fight is all there is. They relish the fight, they live for the fight, and they can't wait for the next chance to fight, even if they have to manufacture it. They don't care about rules, they don't care about pissing off their opponents, and that's why Trump will end up appointing nearly a third of all federal judges by the end of his first term. That's why Republicans will end up contorting our voting rights until only white conservative men get a say.
And while a whole lot of us on the left, many of us who call ourselves "Democrats," have fought like hell, and while Democratic leaders may want to fight on issues, they hate it when the fight becomes personal. Sure, some Democrats will call out particular Republicans on their awfulness, but the goal is to try to shame a shameless person like Mitch McConnell. When Republicans go after someone, the goal is to destroy them and create a new identity for the person. Look at what they did with the Clintons. Look at what they're doing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Republicans do this because it works. Democrats won't. They flinch and shy away, as if it's just too unseemly.
What do I mean by that? President Obama should have had Democrats go on the warpath over McConnell's refusal to consider the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland. McConnell should have been turned into an enemy of the nation. Instead, it was treated with the political equivalent of an eye roll. Would it have worked? We'll never know.
You want something more recent? Trump was credibly accused of rape, with activity that is of a piece with other behavior he's admitted to. It should be something that Democrats say with outrage over and over, in every discussion. And if Democrats can't take the head of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who helped get a sweetheart deal for child rapist Epstein, then they have no business in modern politics.
That's all blind hope, the same kind of blind hope that made us think that some bit of scandal magic would take down Trump. Sorry. No one is going to save us. We're on our own. So we damn well better save ourselves.
...So We Have to Save Ourselves (Part 2)
Except it won't. And the House still won't open an impeachment inquiry, not even after this past week's descent into racist nationalism.
So we have to figure out how to save ourselves from the fascistic threat of Trumpism, in ways that make real change and in ways that demonstrate to those in power that they are facing a greater wave of people than the human hemorrhoids in the chanting MAGA crowds. We have to face the fact that there is a political race war that needs to happen, and it's time to get the troops ready for battle.
I have two suggestions. Neither of them is particularly new (hell, I've talked about one of 'em before), but place them into the new, urgent context in which we find ourselves.
First, fuck the white working class. Fuck Trump voters. Fuck their votes. Fuck their beliefs. Fuck everything about them. Democrats and the left attempting to appeal to Trump supporters, as if better angels exist in their cesspool, is like a wounded gazelle attempting to reason with hyenas. They're gonna eat you; you just look like an idiot for thinking you could convince them otherwise.
The emphasis for the 2020 election has to be on those who didn't vote in 2016 and 2018. This ain't about voter enthusiasm. Jesus, if anti-Trump voters aren't fired up, then Democrats should just go beat off in a corner for the duration. Voter registration has to be the top priority, especially in targeting non-white people of voting age. (Remember: We're in a political race war.) Republicans have a massive effort under way to get more voters. Right now, there are lower-key efforts, like Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow PUSH organization trying to register 100,000 new voters in South Carolina.
Sure, there are great local movements, like Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength in Michigan. But MOSES and other organizations aside, we need to have a national effort, perhaps led by groups with a national status, like Indivisible or Swing Left, which actually has a voter registration strategy but needs some big time boosting. We need to head to the swing states and find the voters who have sat out. And we need lots of volunteers who are willing to help people negotiate the bullshit, byzantine new voter laws in those states.
The other suggestion is way more radical and way more dangerous from a messaging position: a general strike, with the kinds of protests we're seeing in Hong Kong and (closer to home) Puerto Rico. As Will Bunch put it last year, "A general strike or even massive protests are well outside of the normal comfort zone for a majority of Americans. But the question we need to ask ourselves is this... how comfortable are we with Donald Trump spending even one more night in the White House?"
A general strike can bring together liberal causes across the board, from Black Lives Matter to the Women's March to gun laws to immigration reform to the climate crisis and more. And it strikes at the heart of the capitalist enterprise in a way that a well-ordered, well-permitted protest march never can. Right now, we have a government that is unresponsive to what the vast majority of Americans want. Our fucked up electoral system means that not only can a president win without a majority of the popular vote, the House and Senate can be controlled by a party that didn't receive the most votes. So the voice of the people needs to made front and center again because our alleged representative democracy isn't representing us in a fair, realistic way.
The protests in Hong Kong were particularly stunning because it was essentially a movement without a central leader. Instead, a coalition of pro-democracy groups worked together, with several members, like Bonnie Leung and Jimmy Sham, taking on different roles in getting the message out there and getting the people in the streets. The progressive movement in the United States has that same kind of possibility of coalition with conveners providing guidance and direction. Of course, it's something that would need community support as people missed work for what might be a lengthy strike with a goal of forcing the resignation of Trump and his administration.
It's a pie in the sky idea, yeah, I know. There's a good chance that it would fall apart quickly, faced with a public that doesn't want to hang in there, with a media that might be dismissive and, in the case of Fox "news," derisive, with an apathetic lump of shit in the White House going golfing during the whole thing, with corporate and business leaders and Republicans declaring it a "socialist revolution" or some such shit.
Yeah, the good guys might not win, but even when they fail, at least they can say they gave it a shot. At least they found some way to find meaning and community in a time of cruelty and division. At least they laid a foundation for some future action.
Or we can all go back to where we came from.
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Monday, July 8, 2019
Britain's man in the US says Trump is 'inept': Leaked secret cables from ambassador say the President is 'uniquely dysfunctional and his career could end in disgrace'
- EXCLUSIVE: Sir Kim Darroch used secret cables to impugn Trump's character
- Top diplomat warned London President Trump's career could end in 'disgrace'
- Bombshell comments risk angering the notoriously thin-skinned US President
- He describes bitter conflicts in White House as 'knife fights', sources confirmed
- And claims President's economic policies could wreck the world trade system
The British Trade Minister is going to be issuing an apology to Ivanka Trump and the entire Trump administration after memos leaked this weekend showed the minister referring to Ivanka and the administration as both “inept” and dysfunctional.” These were official diplomatic cables that were issued in 2017, but they are just now being seen by the public. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/451934-british-minister-to-apologize-to-ivanka-trump-for-leaked-diplomatic
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7220335/Britains-man-says-Trump-inept-Cables-ambassador-say-dysfunctional.html
Friday, July 5, 2019
Black Voters Abandon Joe Biden After Kamala Harris Embarrasses Him
Joe Biden’s incredibly weak performance in the first debate has been
causing him to lose support over the last week, but the biggest drop in
support comes from African American voters.
Biden’s support from that demographic has been cut in half in the past 7 days after he was humiliated on stage by opponent Kamala Harris.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses what’s happening in the primary, and why Biden is in more trouble than he thinks.
Biden’s support from that demographic has been cut in half in the past 7 days after he was humiliated on stage by opponent Kamala Harris.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses what’s happening in the primary, and why Biden is in more trouble than he thinks.
What To Expect At Donald Trump's America Is So Great ExMAGAganza
Posted by Rude One
From a press release from the Department of the Interior regarding the 4th of July Celebration ofresident Trump:
This year's annual Independence Day celebration on the National Mall will feature music, flyovers, fireworks, and an address byresident
Donald J. Trump. The America Is So Great ExMAGAganza will show the
proper way to honor Donald Trump, including each of the nation’s five
service branches with music, military demonstrations, multiple flyovers
including a flight demonstration by the Blue Angels, and much more. The
theme is "Trump Is Awesome."
The Navy's Blue Angels will do a flyover. In honor ofresident Trump,
they will fly in a newly-created formation called "The Sky Pussy" where
five of the jets create the shape of a vulva overhead. A sixth jet moves
in close to the Sky Pussy for a maneuver named "the Grabber 180." The
Grabber jet quickly moves in and out of the Sky Pussy, at which point
the Sky Pussy jets emit special pink contrails as an indication that the
Sky Pussy loved being touched by the Grabber.
The National America Is So Great ExMAGAganza Parade will be a celebration of all the things that Donald Trump has made great. It will feature floats showing President Trump shaking hands with Kim Jong-Un while starving North Koreans cheer for them as soldiers point guns on the citizens. Another float will feature a performer dressed like Saudia Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman juggling the body parts of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He'll be standing on the throats of Saudi women while doing it. A marching band will play the Russian national anthem while the Marine Silent Drill Team shows off its precision moves, culminating in a "Salute to Putin and Friendship," where everyone drops their pants and pisses on each other.
The parade will also feature caged migrants on a flatbed. This display will demonstrate how the United States underresident Trump is treating
migrants seeking asylum better than they were being treated
in their own countries. People in attendance will be cautioned not to
hand them soap or toothbrushes or even a stuffed animal for one of the
children. You never know how the caged migrant will act if they receive
minimal amounts of human compassion.
When the parade reaches the VIP area, t-shirt cannons will be fired by National Guard members, but they will be filled with wads of cash in a demonstration ofresident Trump's tax cut. Any money not picked up by
the VIPs will be given directly to resident Trump.
One float will just be Brett Kavanaugh drinking beer. The real Brett Kavanaugh in his Supreme Court robes. Just enjoying beer. He likes beer.
Beforeresident Trump speaks, the American National Anthem will be
played. Anyone caught kneeling, not singing, or not crying tears of
patriotic joy will be immediately arrested. The subject of resident
Trump's speech will be a totally nonpolitical look back on how much
better the country is now that he's president. He will totally
nonpolitically talk about how the press is the enemy of the people and
that Democrats want open borders and crime and violence. Then he will
totally nonpolitically mock Nancy Pelosi and the U.S. Women's Soccer
Team as not being bangable enough for him. Finally, resident Trump will
totally nonpolitically name his daughter as his Vice Presidential
running mate. "And what a mate she'll be," the resident will say as a
weeping Mike Pence still stands by his side.
Two fireworks displays will light up the DC skies. The first is themed "Look at This Shit Blow Up, Iran," and it will be an imitation of the annihilation that awaits Iran if it doesn't live up to its part of the nuclear deal that the United States withdrew from. The second will be "I Like Big Boom," andresident Trump will point and nod in imitation of
an idiot while the First Lady looks on uncomfortably smiling, as if
asking for the sweet kiss of death.
At the end,resident Trump will go fuck a tank and command the heads of
the five branches of the military to all make out with each other while
he does it. A blood orgy on the mall will ensue among the onlookers
when Jerry Falwell, Jr. cuts open a donkey in symbolic murder of a
Democrat. He will fellate the disembodied donkey dick while blood pours
onto the audience, driving them into a savage frenzy of fucking and
murder that will dye the reflecting pool as red as a MAGA hat.
So bring the whole family.
The Park Service has already said that the biggest crowd in the history of Independence Day is attending the Donald Trump's America Is So Great ExMAGAganza, and you were there, even if you weren't.
From a press release from the Department of the Interior regarding the 4th of July Celebration of
This year's annual Independence Day celebration on the National Mall will feature music, flyovers, fireworks, and an address by
The Navy's Blue Angels will do a flyover. In honor of
The National America Is So Great ExMAGAganza Parade will be a celebration of all the things that Donald Trump has made great. It will feature floats showing President Trump shaking hands with Kim Jong-Un while starving North Koreans cheer for them as soldiers point guns on the citizens. Another float will feature a performer dressed like Saudia Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman juggling the body parts of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He'll be standing on the throats of Saudi women while doing it. A marching band will play the Russian national anthem while the Marine Silent Drill Team shows off its precision moves, culminating in a "Salute to Putin and Friendship," where everyone drops their pants and pisses on each other.
The parade will also feature caged migrants on a flatbed. This display will demonstrate how the United States under
When the parade reaches the VIP area, t-shirt cannons will be fired by National Guard members, but they will be filled with wads of cash in a demonstration of
One float will just be Brett Kavanaugh drinking beer. The real Brett Kavanaugh in his Supreme Court robes. Just enjoying beer. He likes beer.
Before
Two fireworks displays will light up the DC skies. The first is themed "Look at This Shit Blow Up, Iran," and it will be an imitation of the annihilation that awaits Iran if it doesn't live up to its part of the nuclear deal that the United States withdrew from. The second will be "I Like Big Boom," and
At the end,
So bring the whole family.
The Park Service has already said that the biggest crowd in the history of Independence Day is attending the Donald Trump's America Is So Great ExMAGAganza, and you were there, even if you weren't.
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Donald Trump Plans To Use Military To Hijack 4th Of July Celebration In Washington D.C.
Donald Trump is planning to misuse the nation's military as a prop at
the nation's Independence Day celebration on the National Mall in
Washington D.C., turning the event into a partisan campaign event!
Monday, July 1, 2019
Ivanka Trump tried to talk to world leaders at G20 Summit. The viral video is hard to watch
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French President Emmanuel Macron, U.K Prime Minister Theresa May, International Monetary Fund Chair Christine Lagarde, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are having a conversation, seemingly about “social justice.” Nothing too surprising there, given that they’re at a political summit.
Watch below, with a special focus on Lagarde’s expression:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/30/1868497/-Ivanka-Trump-tried-to-talk-to-world-leaders-at-G20-Summit-The-viral-video-is-hard-to-watch
French President Emmanuel Macron, U.K Prime Minister Theresa May, International Monetary Fund Chair Christine Lagarde, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are having a conversation, seemingly about “social justice.” Nothing too surprising there, given that they’re at a political summit.
The seemingly innocuous conversation goes awry, however, when Ivanka tries to join their talk.
Watch below, with a special focus on Lagarde’s expression:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/30/1868497/-Ivanka-Trump-tried-to-talk-to-world-leaders-at-G20-Summit-The-viral-video-is-hard-to-watch
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