We keep hearing that our democracy is under threat, but our democracy has been threatened before. We defeated Hitler and Hirohito and saved the world from a monstrous end, just for starters.
Lucian K. Truscott IV
Hitler created a government that would go along with everything he wanted to do and merged the government with himself. Trump is promising to do the same.
The Zieglers, Florida's über conservative power couple for DeSantis, have been getting the word out that three-way sex with your wife and another woman is okay for me, but not for thee.
The D.C. Court of Appeals opened the door to civil lawsuits against Trump that he had been trying to block. Meanwhile his attempt to get his D.C. criminal case dismissed was also resoundingly trashed.
Things are not going to well for Trump in the lawsuit department these days. There may be a lot of packages under his red tree that he'd rather not see.
Donald Trump still insists that his free speech "rights" must be inviolate while he bellows out dog-whistle calls for violence against the court he is answering to.
What is American exceptionalism really? We have been the bastion against fascism for the world. But the Donald Trump plan to Make America Great Again will end our democracy and replace it with a fascist state.
The big question about our nation's Capitol is whether it is our seat of government or a middle-school playground at recess, with the same old posturing by bullies and covert elbow-jabs to the kidneys.
Trump and his henchman, Steven Miller, have been open about their plans if Trump is reelected. These plans include mass roundups and vast concentration camps to hold people for deportation. Sound familiar? It should.
We have a constitution that does not allow laws that apply to the Black race, but not to the White race. So why do we have states passing laws that only apply to women?
If Donald Trump wins the presidency in 2024 and takes power in 2025 and starts carrying out the plans he has already announced, he will not allow himself to be voted out of office in 2028.
The contrast between World War II photos and two of the Jabalia Refugee camp in Gaza are evidence of what international law now defines as a nation acting in its own defense.
It turns out that Netanyahu was like George Bush at his Texas ranch on August 6, 2001 when he blew off a CIA report that was headlined, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”
The calculus of invasion is grim in the extreme. If Israel launches an all-out invasion of Gaza on the ground, complete with infantry, tanks, artillery, and air support, thousands will die, both Hamas fighters and Palestinian civilians.
Meadows was in the West Wing during the entire assault on the Capitol and can provide more information to prosecutors about what Trump was doing and who he spoke to as he watched the Capitol assault on TV.
In the case of Joe Biden, we should think of his age as an investment of years of experience, knowledge and judgement.