Should Donald Trump run for President in 2024?
1. He took classified documents and stored them in unlocked rooms.
2. He had dinner with two known antisemitic men.
3. He is now talking about suspending the Constitution.
Should he disqualify himself? In 2020 he said Biden was too old to become President. If Trump is reelected in 2024, he will be five months older than the age Biden was in 2020.
But our system is what made us the greatest power on earth, so why should anyone want to tear it up? If you want to make America great by looking backwards, then fine: Let's look at things like Unions, which brought about laws that protect workers so that most industries don't even need unions much anymore. Taxes, where the corporations paid for the system of laws that they could rely on to protect their interests, educated workforce to power their engines, an efficient and reliable transportation network to move their goods, a strong military to provide international stability, and a social security system to allow workers some life after work (since the previously ubiquitous private pensions were all eliminated).
The steady march of lobbyists from corporate America combined with the "revolving door" of corporate shills moving into and out of senior government regulatory bodies see regulation as an expense to be minimized regardless of the cost to innocent life. Sure, some regulation may go too far, but ask any company which regulation to keep, and they'll tell you none, because preserving human life or health is not part of their profit calculation. Who cares about Monsanto's evil tactics to bankrupt small farmers under the guise of IP protection over a product that we now are pretty sure causes cancer (even though the Europeans banned it decades ago), and now can be found in nearly ever box of children's breakfast cereal. Who cares that we face chronic diseases in record and increasing numbers, likely caused by other changes in our common environment, like the additives we allow in wheat (again, banned long ago by Europe), the inability to reduce pollution, and the constant deluge of sugar-laden processed foods. The pharmaceutical companies come up with new "treatments" but never cures. When's the last time you heard of a "cure" for anything? There's no money in cures, is there...
The only time corporations support regulation is when it is so expensive that only the largest can afford it, using the power of government by the people as a bludgeon to force out smaller competitors without the resources to meet the rules. Consolidation, merger, acquisition: our choices are becoming an illusion as power is further concentrated among fewer entities.
At this point in history, nothing the Democrats do is more dangerous than the Republicans who are working incessantly at increasing Corporate power (Citizens United), cutting back regulations and protections for otherwise powerless citizens, and dismantling the systems that ensure our democracy is fair (gerrymandering). They are grabbing as much power as they can by any means necessary because they know in a head-to-head contest for the soul of the American people, minus all the dis-information and BS they promote to cloud the water, the new Republican vision loses every time, hands down. The next generation of voters will ensure their demise, so they are hard at work now to minimize the possibility of having a government system that truly represents the will of the people in favor of one that pushes corporate power to the top.
Someday I hope to be a Republican again, if they can ever restore some honor and truth to their ideology. However, it's more likely that Trump's bewildering level of incompetence, unnecessary belligerence toward our foreign partners and their citizens, blatant indifference to the fate of common Americans, and elevation of "taunting" over dialogue as the preferred method of communication has sealed the fate of a Republican party long in decline, probably since McCarthy. It may be easier for a new party to emerge.
What I find truly discouraging is the large swath of historically Republican voters who find themselves unable to switch their vote, as if it was some kind of betrayal of a longtime family member. Their lack of courage, even despite the obvious mean-spirited, anti-Constitutional and nearly tyrannical activities we have seen over the past 10 years, starting with the unjustifiable Iraq war, through the blocking of Obama's legitimate Supreme Court nominations, the endless onslaught against Obamacare with no practical alternatives, and culminating with Trump's gutting of oversight bodies and consensual disregard for principled governance, shows how so many voters think of our country's future more like a football game than a serious civic responsibility.
It's not about your "team" winning: it's about the ability of our country to survive for many generations to come.
This Trump Supporter Doesn't See His Own Hypocrisy
This Trump supporter with a penchant for violence is proves just how ridiculous he is. Jeff Wiggins breaks it down on Rebel HQ.Follow Jeff on Twitter - https...
https://troubleindover.blogspot.com/2012/12/delaware-racist-or-just-corrupt.html
And why don't you know about this one that happened in Indiana? (Pete Buttigieg, Biden's Transportation Sec is from Indiana)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/02/indiana-lake-vauhxx-booker-alleged-attack-race
Video shows Black man pinned to tree in what he calls 'attempted lynching' at Indiana lake
https://youtu.be/gyOWf4S6PEI
Now why stop there?
https://taughtofyah.com/what-if-i-told-you-that-there-are-still-lychings-in-america
On page 4, I was stationed at Ft Bragg when that one happened. His name was Lennon Lacy | Age 17 | August 2014 | Bladenboro, North Carolina.
You really need to update your lynching narrative because you are clearly behind the times.
Lastly, why do you think NO ONE in the Democrat Party blasts these RECENT lynching incidents from the rooftops and claims them as "exhibit A? And why do you think Republicans don't do the same? Why doesn't any politician talk about these RECENT lynching incidents? Makes you wonder if they're both two sides of the same coin.
PS: I see your types like to post pictures of people in hoods. Let me introduce you to Semana Santa
https://www.caminoadventures.com/blog/semana-santa/
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nj-children-dressed-in-blackface-black-lives-matter-gear-for-purim-sparks-controversy/2917929/
I also researched the n-word and came up with the definition from ancient Egypt that means "royalty" or "god"...so yes, black people have been calling each other gods all this time. Kinda takes the sting out of the word doesn't it?
Delaware, racist or just corrupt?
In the early spring of 2012 I had enough and decided to become politically active. From the unsolved black on black homicide of my neighbo...
I guess it's because many military members are "suckers" and "losers" after all.
As far as age goes, I am probably 18 years young than President Trump; President Trump is a wiley business leader, he’s sharper than biden/harris and obama/biden combined. Not to mention the fact that the left has spent the last eight years trying to defame and slander President Trump to no avail! They have: cheated, covered-up, lied, murdered, laundered money, paid and accepted bribes to foreign countries; biden/harris/rice/garland are following plans to silence the conservative voice, weaken our military to gove China a chance to further their goald and bankrupt the USA.
This Sheriff Demonstrates The ONLY Way To Deal With Neo-Nazis
Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood is a REAL one after laying down the law against the hate group infiltrating Daytona Beach, Florida. Dr. Rashad Richey and Sharo...
GOP/MAGA/DeSantis - FACISM
Fascism
Definition
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
- From “The Anatomy of Fascism,” by Robert Paxton
a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of traditional solutions
the primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it
the belief that one’s group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external
dread of a group’s decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences
the need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by violence if necessary
the need for authority by natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who is capable of incarnating the groups’ historical destiny
the superiority of the leader’s instincts over abstract and universal reason
the beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group’s successes
the right of the chosen people to dominate others without restraint
SOURCE : https://www.wisdc.org/news/trump-and-fascism
The Bullpen: Racism In The Constitution
Reed Cooley returns to the Bullpen to discuss the shortcomings of the Constitution and if it institutionalized racism. Tell us what you think in the comments...
1.) Toward a More Humane Oppression:
Florida's Slave Codes, 1821-1861
The Florida Historical Quarterly
Vol. 71, No. 3 (Jan., 1993), pp. 324-338 (15 pages)
Published By: Florida Historical Society
SOURCE : https://www.jstor.org/stable/30148217
2.) FLORIDA PASSED MANY LAWS TO CONTROL STATES SLAVES
By James C. Clark of The Sentinel Staff
Orlando Sentinel
Aug 21, 1994 at 12:00 am
SOURCE : https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1994-08-2 [login to see] -story.html
3.) From Stopping Black People to Killing Black People: The Fourth Amendment Pathways to Police Violence
SOURCE : https://www.californialawreview.org/print/3-from-stopping-black-people-to-killing-black-people/