We must not fall into the trap of feeling that we are special because we strove with our votes for goodness and have been crushed by our losses at the polls.
The Truscott Chronicles
For nearly 250 years we have been making mistakes as a nation and then going back and getting it right, or nearly so. Today is our opportunity to make another major and lasting correction.
Even given the problems we have with poverty and want, the United States is not the “failing country” that Donald Trump says we are.
The idea of “battleground states” has become a reality, where armed police officers may be necessary to secure the Constitutional right to vote.
I believe in stuff like the right of women to control their own bodies, and I believe in equal rights under the law for everyone, and I believe that six of our nine Supreme Court justices are fascist fellow travelers.
Ever notice that what passes for humor to the far right is just abuse and degradation at the expense of anyone who isn't them?
When you are bullied, you STAND UP or you lose your self-respect and your dignity and your right to life. The fascism of Donald Trump would take away all three.
Most, if not all, of Trump’s threats are hollow, and while they cannot be ignored, they do not present serious cause for worry. The way to ensure that none of this madness ever comes to pass is to get out and vote for Kamala Harris.
Trump’s rhetoric about deporting undocumented immigrants may be red meat for the MAGA masses, but it’s as untethered from reality as his talk about Hannibal Lecter.
Trump is closing his argument by reminding his base how much they are like him—that “we” all feel the same way he does about immigrants, Blacks, women, the disabled and everyone who is not white Christian followers of Donald Trump.
No one in the Harris campaign is sitting on their hands, least of all the candidate. That cannot be said of Donald Trump, as he cancels one interview after another. Stay tuned. The rest of this campaign is going to be as volatile as a meth lab.
One of our two political parties has decided that its politics is existential, that it is a battlefield where being “right” conveys absolute power given by God. Winning in this kind of politics means the rule of law can be superseded by force.
He knows that we know he is in decline and is scared shitless of coming apart at the seams during a Q&A over which he has less control than he does at his own rallies.
The horrors of this man and what he has said and done over the last nine years are impossible to comprehend. Where do you start? The overturn of Roe v Wade? His racism, misogyny and hatreds? His blatant criminality? The list goes on.
The lies Trump is spreading about immigrants “polluting the blood” have real and deleterious effects on real people. That these lies are being spread by a convicted felon and rapist should be in the lead of every paper and on every news show every single day.
There is no way these two criminals haven’t talked with one another about Ukraine, the Middle East, Biden, NATO, and very probably about Trump’s long-held desire to build a Trump hotel in Moscow.