I don’t know if anyone has had time to notice, what with the degenerate asshole and radio host Alex Jones taking up a big chunk of the headlines by losing over a billion bucks to parents of Sandy Hook victims, but before they shut down, SCOTRUS went on a backstabbing rampage, screwing women out of their right to an abortion and the rest of us out of our right to not get shot while minding their own business. So, when those assaults on the American people were complete, our political criminals with the lifetime license to destroy the nation, went after the rest of the world by stopping the administration from limiting the dissemination of greenhouse gasses and other pollutants into the atmosphere. It appears that not satisfied with destroying our nation they are now going after the entire planet.
But SCOTUS managed to do one thing right when it gave Biden the power to end Trump’s border policy of keeping people in Mexico until they have their day in our immigration courts. Of course, that’s not the end of the problem.
Immigration has risen to unimaginable heights, not just here but all over the world. The combination of economic failure, climate disasters and criminal activity has exploded to an extent that people are fleeing their homes, even in nations that once seemed settled and secure.
The solutions are no longer about borders. They’re about solving economic and security problems for entire continents. So, that’s where we will have to go to solve our immigration problems. Sure, we need immigrants, particularly those with specific skill sets.
That means slowing the tidal wave of people fleeing horrendous conditions in their home countries. To do that we have to help solve the problems in the nations from which they come. It’s a monumental task, but if we can make a serious dent in it, it will go a long way too solving the problems at our borders.
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Clarence Thomas hints that other policies like gay marriage and contraception are on the GOP hit list for the next round of SCOTUS deliberations. But there’s one little item from the “White Right’s” notebook he fails to mention, interracial marriage. I wonder why? Do you think he just forgot? Do you think it’s because he’s married to the white woman who is the logical source of the leak of Samuel Alito’s paperwork on what was going to happen with Roe v Wade. But what would make one think such a thing? Maybe it’s because, since the death of Antonin Scalia, Thomas has switched from being Scalia’s lap dog too Alito’s fetcher. Anyone who doesn’t think those notes didn’t go from Alito to Thomas to his wife just ain’t paying attention.
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As the 1/6 Committee continues,
the big question is not whether the committee has unearthed enough evidence to indict Donald Trump, but will the DOJ pull the trigger. It seems that no one wants to face the problem of indicting a former president, even a lowlife degenerate like Trump. Indicting a former president, even a criminal sociopath, has always been anathema because it strikes one as a move usually made only by Third World dictators. The problem is, we have a former president who has bent, broken, and stomped on enough statutes to fill his own law book.
In order to exist in a law-abiding society we must punish those who break the law and we’re supposed to do it on an impartial basis.
So, Trump and his cronies must be indicted for the way they have ignored the laws of this country. And that’s not even considering how they have abused the traditions of the country. That’s important too. We have always lived a certain way in this country. We’re proud of it, even if it only exists in our minds. If we pretend that we are good people, and our leadership pretends to do the right thing, some of us can stay happy and lead fulfilled lives. Of course all of us don’t fit that category and never will.
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Sweden’s and Finland’s applications to join NATO were welcomed recently, causing Russia to blow it’s top, threatening exactly the kind of retaliation that drove those two formerly neutral, countries to seek the protection of NATO in the first place. Is it possible that Putin and his advisors are so lacking in understanding of the situation that they don’t get why Sweden and Finland have moved for the protection of NATO?
Russia has spent a good piece of the last decade invading smaller countries that can’t protect themselves. Is there any reason why any country bordering Russia or even within missile range of it wouldn’t be looking to protect itself from the ravishing bear?
Is Putin really this dumb or has he caught whatever it was that Trump has been suffering from?
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Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony in the recent 1/6 hearings paints a picture of a furious, completely out of control Donald Trump, raging across DC, determined to lead followers in an attack on the capital and finishing with an old-fashioned lynching of Mike Pence.
The Trump caravan is trying desperately to promote the concept that Hutchinson lied. Well, if anyone knows anything about lying it’s the Trump administration. It’s Trump, not Hutchinson, that created the great myth about the elections being rigged.
The occurrence that has the whole GOP aflutter is not something Hutchinson witnessed but something that was told to her. It was Trump’s frantic attempt to force Secret Service agents to take him to the capital and his subsequent actions when they refused. Does anyone who has watched this sociopath act out his brazen desires over the last five years doubt that he is totally capable of the behavior described?
This is a spoiled, nasty child who reacts badly anytime anything stops him from his normally irrational desires.
This is the punk that we allowed to become our president through the mistaken interaction of the Electoral College. This is the sociopath we watched as he tried to end democracy in this country and who has now released his degenerate minions to attack a brave young woman who has taken her life in her hands to defend the principals of democracy and protect the Constitution.
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HHS leader Xavier Becerra was on Meet the Pressrecently and Chuck Todd accused him of not going far enough to help women that need to get abortions. Becerra suggested, maybe we should just launch programs that help provide abortions and wait for the courts to try to stop them. This would provide a waiting period during which, at least for the time it took the courts to function, when temporary abortion help would be available. This strategy was often successful during the Trump administration. Maybe the Democrats need the balls to just take a chance on something. The more timid Dems tell us that this approach would make them like Trump, but maybe in order to offset Trump and his degenerate Court we need to borrow from him. This is not suggesting that any American agency deliberately break the law, but in instances where there is no settled law, they should simply act for the benefit of pregnant women and then sit back and see if anyone can stop them.