Marc asks a good question, an important question, and I will answer it later, but right now I simply want to react to the news about Nancy Pelosi's husband. As many of you will have heard, a right wing conspiracy nut broke into the Pelosi house in San Francisco looking for the Speaker (who was in fact inWashington), tied up her husband, struck his head several times with a hammer, and was taken into custody. Mr. Pelosi is now in surgery. The assailant's social media site is full of references to right-wing conspiracy theories, of course.
Despite my best effort to maintain my equanimity, I am simply beside myself with anxiety, frustrated anger, and incipient depression. I do not have anything witty or clever to say about this.
I hope & pray that her husband gets better. I believe Mrs. Pelosi should get Secret Service (or other) security for herself as long as she is in office, & that her husband and immediate family should get free security also as long as she is in office. Remember that Mrs. Pelosi is third in line to the democratic throne, & she & her immediate family deserve to be secure while she serves the American people & the people of California. That's the new price of American Democracy.
ReplyDeleteWhen I said third in line to the democratic throne, I meant third in line to the highest political hierarchy of American power & not the Democratic Party. That's why democratic throne is not capitalized. I'm just trying to be clear.
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ReplyDeleteI think the depression thing is a very bad idea. I always imagine that with such a reaction we magnify the intentions of the perpetrators and the effects of the deeds, far beyond what they should have. We must not allow this, even if it makes tired.
She has SS protection. They need to protect the residences and close family members. Tankies to Trumpys - the horseshoe has closed to jumping distance it seems:
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That and more was on the dudes social media.
The Republicans have eroded democratic norms for the past thirty or forty years.
ReplyDeleteThey have gone beyond lying. They now incite random and targeted violence. They still lie. The difference being that their lies support their insurgency and are given the cover of a propaganda network and have an audience that is saturated by lies (witness how easy it is to inflate the crime problem and blame it on Biden and crew or how easy it is for them to slight the positive in the economy and of course their policy lie of reducing taxes and cutting services.) Their lies are so longstanding they don't seem like lies anymore.
The Democrats have truth, some of it; but that won't win elections
In USA brownshirts now wear "tactical gear" or Stars and Stripes.
ReplyDeleteRead The Oppermanns and tick off the boxes reflecting recent news items. Add to them the absence of laws requiring any registration of firearms loaded and carried openly in the majority of states.
Hopefully a sign - seems the tropical Trump just lost.
ReplyDeleteRyan Park seems to be in over his head.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASDH8crAxII
I listened to most of the arguments (not all) via live audio. Ryan Park (whom I don't know anything about) didn't do too badly, I thought. But I was not bowled over by the performance of any of the universities' lawyers, tbh. (Of course they were facing a mostly hostile Court, which is not easy.)
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