July 26, 2019

Oh, FFS!

The hearing was a shit show, yet not the one some of the media wants to portray it. The Democrats are in disarray, I think not. The GOP made fools of themselves with their theatrics. You wanted a show, the GOP obliged. Louie takes the cake with a 5 minute tirade, screaming, red faced and spittle flying. Dayum, Jack Nicholson should step aside. Lou wins the Oscar hands down.

Then you had Turner with more theatrics slamming one law book after another on his desk , to make his point on exoneration. Dayum that was an impressive stack of books! Bet as a kid he surpassed in building blocks.

You wanted a show and the GOP surpassed expectations. Everyone of them proved beyond a shadow of a doubt who's side they are on, Trump/Russia, the USA be damned. THIS is the biggest takeaway from that hearing.

As for MR Mueller, a fair and precise man with a sharp legal mind. He is a by the books kind of guy and follows the word of law as he as done his entire life. He is a war hero and a leader.

The pundits and others called him frail, bumbling and disheveled. Unable to answer the questions instantly without asking the page that was being quoted. Fact. That was a 400 page report that took two years to compile. Fact. Mueller had dozens of legal minds working on that report. Their were other investigations that were handed over to the proper authorities and are still under investigation. Who here has instant recall? Who here has memorized a 400 page legal report and has no need to check their notes. As for the questions he refused to answer? It is a fact that the investigations are far from over and he can not comment on an ongoing investigation.

Whoa, then their is the ageism. Mueller is 75 and said to be to old and frail and failed at the job he was hired for. I think some here should rethink that...considering our candidates.





https://twitter.com/saradannerdukic/status/1154106772040355842

https://twitter.com/saradannerdukic/status/1154094627990966272

https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/1154086018414284800

July 24, 2019

Robert Mueller

http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com/2019/07/robert-muellers-opening-statement.html

Dayum!

No Republican ever!

July 24, 2019

What did I miss? Elijah Cummings is using a walker.

He is doing a fantastic job at the presser as are Nadler, Pelosi and Schiff.

For anyone that says Dems are doing nothing? You are dead wrong. They are making the case, the strongest case possible!

I love and support Democrats, ALWAYS!

July 22, 2019

This response, Wins The Internet.

First the question, then read the response. Thank you Ray, that take down was a thing of beauty. Sadly, Mark can only see white. You, Ray, you painted a beautiful portrait of color, magnificent, bold and beautiful colors and cultures. That is our America.

July 22, 2019

Strong Women Scare Weak Men

https://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/2019/07/a-truthful-response-to-president.html

July 21, 2019

The Democratic Congresswomen were not the first...

The Democratic Congresswomen were not the first nor will they last to be on the receiving end of vial racist hatred. It is being stoked by vicious lies and escalating fear that white people live in fear of becoming the minority.

Fact is it happened to Obama as well when Rudy said:

"I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America," Giuliani is quoted as saying. "He doesn't love you. And he doesn't love me. He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country."

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"He's a patriot, I'm sure," the former mayor said. "What I'm saying is that, in his rhetoric, I very rarely hear him say the things that I used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things I used to hear Bill Clinton say, about how much he loves America. I do hear him criticize America much more often than other American presidents."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2015/02/19/obama-rudy-giuliani-politico-love-of-america/23662799/

The racist attacks against our First Black President and the newly elected women, WOC, need to stopped with your vote. The outrage for these four brave women should be lauded. It should. However where was the outrage when John Lewis and every member of the Black Caucus was booed and shouted down at the DNC convention. At OUR CONVENTION and it was not coming from the right, it came from the left.

Vote. Not a purity vote for today but a vote for a Democrat that will allow us a tomorrow. A future for ourselves and our children's future.

We are a rainbow Nation

The vast majority of Americans are disgusted by Trump’s descent into vile racism. The swing voters who gave Democrats the House will not be won back by calls to blood and soil. They voted Democratic in reaction to those calls for race purity.

The decades before the Civil War involved an argument between white people. Slaves weren’t given agency to determine their own fates. The situation is different now. We are a rainbow nation. And people of color aren’t waiting to be invited to the discussion. They are taking the reins and making sure their voices are heard. And many times what they say is painful to hear, especially if, as a white person, you consider yourself “woke”. Even though I’m Latino, I know I have white privilege because of the color of my skin, and I take in everything, even when it’s painful.

But this is good. We are way past the days when the conversation was just among the members of the dominant group. The formerly voiceless are not keeping quiet. What’s happening now is proof that our country has changed, and irrevocably. The frightened attendees at Trump’s rallies can rail and fulminate all they want, but they will have to adjust to a new reality, where people who don’t look like them or worship like them demand their seat at the table. And they won’t be able to stop the emerging majority.

Of course, part of the fear is that people of color will take revenge for the centuries of denigration. That indicates an awareness that they and their ancestors did, in fact, oppress others. And in their fear, they can’t imagine that they, in turn, will be oppressed.

Read More:https://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2019/7/18/send-her-back

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212295526

July 18, 2019

No Justice.

No Peace.



Images: All Hat No Cattle

July 18, 2019

I have no more tears left to cry.

This is not our America.

July 18, 2019

Just a friendly reminder.

Next time Trump is out with Melania I hope people start chanting “send her back” at them. - OhNoSheTwint

http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com/2019/07/trumps-racist-screed-against-omar-was.html

July 18, 2019

Lest we forget, the Unity Pledge.

Indivisible’s Candidate Unity/Civility Pledge Important for 2020

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“A national progressive group, Indivisible, is asking the 20 candidates in the Democratic presidential race to sign a pledge promising a positive, ‘constructive’ primary that ends with all participants coming together to support the eventual nominee — ‘whoever it is — period….’

“The Indivisible document asks candidates to agree to three terms: ‘make the primary constructive’ and ‘respect the other candidates’; ‘rally behind the winner’; and ‘do the work to beat’ President Donald Trump. ‘Immediately after there’s a nominee, I’ll endorse,’ the pledge reads.”

It sounds relatively uncontroversial, but it’s hard to get political candidates, who are, by and large, desperate to win, and their staff, whose lives will take a turn for the worse if they lose, to look kindly on a pledge to hold anything back. And there’s always the suspicion that talk of civility represents a sneaky effort to encourage unilateral disarmament by opponents who won’t return the favor….

The problematic underlying reality is that more than a few Democrats believe that only their faction is capable of beating Trump; different Democrats have very different theories as to “electability.” And then there are those for whom winning the “struggle for the soul of the party” trumps any general-election win.

Read More:https://thedemocraticstrategist.org/2019/04/indivisibles-candidate-unity-civility-pledge-important-for-2020-democrats/

A candidate must control their staff and supporters. If they can't? Then they are not Presidential material.

Here is a fact for you. When the next Democratic President sits in the oval office they are going to have to start from close to square one just like Obama with one of the worst financial crisis.The next one is going to have to start by repairing the near irreparable damage that trump has done to us and the world.

Fact is our job does not end on election day, it is only the beginning.

Be ever vigilant.