peacecorps

No votes were going to change with witness testimony. Another week or two of witnesses would have accomplished what exactly? Get this over with.

I am surprised that 7 republicans voted to convict anyway. Could be the most ‘bipartisan’ impeachment vote ever.

to enter our great country – international law be damned! Either build the damn wall to keep them out or enforce a ‘wall’ of laws to keep them out.

“Conservatives build walls”; liberals build bridges.

If so, she is a relatively innocent victim of the ‘evil left’ which is out to punish the right for exercising free speech rights. (I think I have the right’s spin down right.)

And we should not do anything that angers the GOP (which voted overwhelmingly against removing her committee assignments) because they might/will pay us back if/when they…[Read more]

Surely he would not fund an action that represented the interests of the 1%? 😉

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders . . . Just tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

And ‘patriotism’ plays a key role. Hyper-nationalism is a key card played by the right. “Our country is in ‘danger’ from evil ‘outsiders’. Do you not…[Read more]

serve as inspirations for continued efforts and hopes of a ‘successful’ one in the future. Can a “January 6 Movement” be far away?

I had not thought that the international far-right might be similarly inspired.

believed otherwise.

The real question is “What comes next?” Do we collapse into hyper-nationalist memories of the ‘good ol days’ and denial of reality? (Our decline was caused by evil ‘others’. We are victims.)

Or do we become ‘just another country’ which seeks to cooperate with other ‘just countries’ to solve global problems? I fear we know…[Read more]

Evidence be damned! We are the victims of the ‘bad guys’ as usual. 🙂

to tell what the investigation will uncover, I suppose.

Ain’t it always those evil ‘feriners’ who stir up our government-loving citizens!

“Our citizens would NEVER protest our government’s actions on their own. It MUST be the result of them being ‘stirred up’ by outside forces.

The coup attempt may have failed but the sentiment behind the effort lives on and may succeed in the future.

Most know that viruses mutate. My (non-medical field) understanding is that most mutations are bad for the virus (as with human DNA mutations) but, occasionally, there is a mutation that benefits the organism. When that happens, things change.

When the conservative, white nationalist ‘law and order’, ‘blue lives matter’ folks are beating up the cops to take over the capitol to punish the ‘radical left’, it does make one think about hypocrisy vs what we value.

Trump/GOP Derangement Syndrome is common. Hillary/Dem Derangement Syndrome is about as common. If you don’t hate someone or something with a passion bordering on a ‘derangement syndrome’, there must be something wrong with you. 😉

In most cases, hating a political figure/party/faction because of what they represent, is not really a ‘derangement…[Read more]

Target #2 is those who were violent or had violent goals, Target #3 were the ‘trespassers’. Sounds good. We’ll see how the prosecution plays out.

They are never violent, are they? 😉

A good question is ‘how many of the national guard troops are secretly sympathetic to the goals of RW terrorists?’ More than a few, I suspect.

We have a handful of progressive in the House and one in the Senate. This is one progressive that won’t abandon the ‘squad’ or Bernie just because they are a tiny minority in congress (dominated by a conservative DP and reactionary GOP) which makes is kind of difficult to DELIVER on their progressive promises. If they don’t win re-election because…[Read more]

Supporting the handful of real progressives even is important even if they are imperfect. Criticize them when it is warranted. The DNC will love us for dumping on progressives.