You get a few freebies a month, so you should be able to read this.
Tom Nichols explains how we lost our “seriousness” and why it is important.
Continue reading “The Atlantic: Trump Destroyed the Most Important Virtue in America”Author: Adam Green
A 24 year Navy vet, cancer survivor, father, grandfather, assistant caregiver for my live-in mother-in-law. Enjoys golf, football (real and fantasy), being the best grandfather I can, supporting the endeavors of my children (both involved in the education of our younger generations) and tormenting my wife of 34 years. Also prefer bourbon over scotch, but will drink both, just not at the same time. Discovering craft beers and trying trying hard to get to a consistent golf swing.
Was it worth it?
Brent Orrell from American Enterprise Institute provides a lucid answer to the question. “Was the 4 years of T**** worth what little was gained.” (My question, not a quote from anyone else.)
“Points for effort but the books don’t balance. The price tag of the Trump presidency exceeds its value exponentially. The tax cuts, deregulation, judicial appointments, executive orders, and cultural counter-offensives (“he fights”) are trinkets compared to the way he has undermined the values and norms required to sustain the rule of law and the constitutional order. These shiny objects were used to distract, mollify, and provide justification for America’s closest brush with authoritarian government since 1789.”
I have posed this question here previously and the platitudes directed toward T**** wrt this have been weak, at best.
Look, SQUIRRELL!
And so it begins…
https://theweek.com/speedreads/961797/mcconnell-says-trump-provoked-capitol-rioters
Magic Mitch is already starting his amnesia tour. For four years he sat there while lies, misinformation and deceit flowed from the Oval Office. NOW he blames the instigator-in-chief for January 6th. And overlooks that some of the “others” he is referring to are sitting on his side of the aisle in the Senate Chamber.
Anyone surprised by that; stand on your head. (Compliments of COL Henry Blake, CO, MASH 4077)
Mitch, you got your judges. But that cold have happened with ANY Republican president.
Cancel Culture is alive on well on the right
I posted something similar several months ago. Amazing how the right claims only the left is guilty.
Sing along with me: “H – Y – P (P cause we’re PO’ed) O -C – R- (real Republicans don’t stand up to T****) I – S- Y (Why? Because our spines were removed January 20th 2017)
And they never see it in themselves.
I hate to say it…
…but Rudy, I told you so.
OK. I don’t hate to say it.
The Q-Anon Caucus makes its first bid for relevance.
MTG (glad she spells her last name differently) plans to bring impeachment articles against Biden for things that have been proven to be untrue. Repeatedly.
This is the GOP’s idea of UNITY, Baby!
The Bulwark: The Attack on Democracy Is Not Over. It’s Still Happening. Right Now.
Tim Miller takes the GOP to task, with several concerning bullet points, for continuing to feed the T**** base.
“Now consider how Republicans in government are continuing to try to derail the transfer of power:
Continue reading “The Bulwark: The Attack on Democracy Is Not Over. It’s Still Happening. Right Now.”Sorry, GOP. That Ship Has Sailed
It took over four years for Senators to realize they had sold their political souls to the devil. No one reigned him in. Sorry, Sen. Collins, he did NOT learn his lesson.
The 7 Senators who stood against the will of the voters in OTHER people’s states won’t have to pay a price. But, By G-d, they should.
Fallout at the White House
https://theweek.com/speedreads/959362/there-been-flurry-white-house-resignations–more-are-expected
Ships abandoning the sinking rat? When someone like Mick Mulvaney bails, you know there is a BIG problem.
Trumpism floating downstream
This is unbelievable! The State Supreme Court ruled the election win by the Democrat to be the final decision. Yet the GOP majority refused to seat him? WTF?
And in Congress, Nancy Pelosi swore in a GOP Rep from Iowa who’s election results are still being litigated. A 5 vote “win”, but still not finally decided.
I am truly glad that the only reason I have to go back to PA is to bury my Mother-in-law and to visit other gravesites of family members. I am disgusted. And anyone who believes in the “rule of law” and the sanctity of the courts should be equally disturbed -IMO.
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