Trump Impeached For Second Time, Subpoenaed For First Time - What's Next?
Good luck America!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/trump-opens-office-to...
Most despicable thing any POTUS has ever done .....
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/schumer-defends-second-trump-senate-i...
https://www.salon.com/2021/01/25/author-rick-perlstein-on-the-challenge-ahead-biden-knows-that-he-is-managing-a-dying-regime/
Good interview. Perlstein is worth reading, especially for his demythologizing of Carter.
Why has Jimmy Carter become such a beloved figure in these last few years?
I was immediately attracted to writing in depth about Carter because he was the father of the Democratic Party's cult of austerity, the idea that the way to solve problems of economic dispossession is to cut government. I hope that people revisit Carter as the source of a colossal wrong turn in the evolution of the Democratic Party. That is my Jimmy Carter. People are hungering for public figures who present a face of decency. Whatever you say about Jimmy Carter, he oozed decency. It is not particularly surprising that people will roll up Jimmy Carter into another narrative of American innocence, that we can be governed by decent people. The danger of that temptation is that Carter pursued an agenda that was explicitly a backlash against the New Deal just as much as Reagan did.
It was the telling and spreading of “a big lie” after defeat that led Hitler to power in post-WWI Germany. @TimothyDSnyder says the U.S. is now facing a challenge. We can keep telling ourselves lies, or we can do the right thing. Face the facts, get history right. #velshi pic.twitter.com/QZFHkyOIOg
— Velshi on MSNBC (@VelshiMSNBC) January 24, 2021
The American Abyss
After last four years, it’s once again safe to let our children watch a White House briefing.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 25, 2021
Olivia Troye, ex-aide to fmr. VP Pence, says Trump officials told her to watch Dr. Birx:
“You’re asking me to spy on this woman that I’m sharing an office with, who is on our team…we know that people are going to get hurt and this is where the focus is?”https://t.co/zzyrrGVDKC
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 26, 2021
https://www.salon.com/2021/01/25/author-rick-perlstein-on-the-challenge-...Good interview. Perlstein is worth reading, especially for his demythologizing of Carter.
Why has Jimmy Carter become such a beloved figure in these last few years?
I was immediately attracted to writing in depth about Carter because he was the father of the Democratic Party's cult of austerity, the idea that the way to solve problems of economic dispossession is to cut government. I hope that people revisit Carter as the source of a colossal wrong turn in the evolution of the Democratic Party. That is my Jimmy Carter. People are hungering for public figures who present a face of decency. Whatever you say about Jimmy Carter, he oozed decency. It is not particularly surprising that people will roll up Jimmy Carter into another narrative of American innocence, that we can be governed by decent people. The danger of that temptation is that Carter pursued an agenda that was explicitly a backlash against the New Deal just as much as Reagan did.
They all followed Milton Friedman.
GOP Operatives Sending Out Signal About the Next Attack on Democracy
Nikki Haley Terrorist Sympathizer https://www.rawstory.com/nikki-haley/
America's national healing depends on Donald Trump facing real punishment
Trump is out of power, but his shadow lingers and his enablers are everywhere. To heal, we must have justice
It appears that Trump is already considering another presidential run in
2024.https://www.salon.com/2021/01/26/americas-national-healing-depends-on-do...
Roger Stone Used Oath Keepers as Security on the Eve of the Capitol Riot
Members of Oath Keepers, a far-right militia, were photographed backstage with Stone and escorting him in a golf buggy to an earlier speech by the Supreme Court.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9mpd/roger-stone-used-the-oath-keepers...
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America's national healing depends on Donald Trump facing real punishment
Trump is out of power, but his shadow lingers and his enablers are everywhere. To heal, we must have justice
It appears that Trump is already considering another presidential run in
2024.https://www.salon.com/2021/01/26/americas-national-healing-depends-on-do...
Good. Let the orange p;rick and the cretins like Ted Cruz embark on a new party. This will split the vote between Republican and Patriot Party. The Dems will be in power for the next 50 years. Go for it,Hitler.
The rise of Trump and Hitler
– A comparison
TWENTY COMMON THEMES, RHETORICAL TACTICS AND DANGEROUS POLICIES
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/09/leading-civil-rights-lawye...
"I object to this unconstitutional sham of an 'impeachment' trial and I will force a vote on whether the Senate can hold a trial of a private citizen..."
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1353850609577959424
"...A partisan vendetta against a man no longer in office. It's almost as if they have no ability to exist except in opposition to Donald Trump.Without him as their boogey-man, they might have to legislate. This scam of any impeachment will ostensibly ask whether the president incited the reprehensible behavior and video of Jan 6, when he said, 'I know everyone here will soon march to the Capitol and peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.' Hardly words of violence..."
10 Republicans in the House vote to impeach. 5 Republicans in the Senate voted against Paul's motion.
I am no supporter of the former Vice-President but it is irresponsible to publicize his location with all the death threats that are flying around against politicians in the US.
Mike Pence is 'homeless' and bouncing between couches of Indiana politicians: report
Fueled by tips from family and friends, FBI ramps up arrests of Capitol rioters
Hundreds have been arrested or under investigation for Capitol riot as the FBI is inundated with tips from all over
https://www.salon.com/2021/01/26/fueled-by-tips-from-family-and-friends-...
Everytown urges Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign over newly uncovered remarks
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/535993-everytown-renews-calls-for-rep...
Timothy Snyder's Suggested Reading
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/111458.Timothy_Snyder_s_Suggested_Re...
Contrast that with Trump's reading list, eh!
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-...
A Zek Remembers Stalin's Camps
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/julius-margolin...
Contrast that with Trump's reading list, eh!
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-...
That;s old news.NR And clearly she was telling the truth.
Twitter has wrongly labeled this video as sensitive content.
Please retweet it so we can make sure as many people know about America’s new Jim Crow Caucus. pic.twitter.com/ZEFCekIbMY
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 16, 2021
Facebook's Trump ban shows Big Tech's Over-reach of power
The Jimmy Dore Show
First they came for Trump and libruls cheered until they too were censored.
First they came for Trump and libruls cheered until they too were censored.
Trump has been breaking the ground rules on Twitter and other social media platforms for years and years and has gotten away with it because he was president or running for president. People are suspended and expelled from social media all the time when they break the ground rules. Here on Babble we also have to abide by rules and we also face suspension or expulsion if we break those ground rules. Why should Trump and other right wingers get to break ground rules when the rest of us can't! Trump would have been expelled from social media a long time ago if he wasn't president. Why should he never be held accountable for his actions?