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Patricia Lane's avatar

‘So what ? Really? ‘Its like ‘so what ‘ to the Holocaust or genocide of any other group of individuals.

I suspected that this was contrived( the turnaround on policies to reverse the effects of Covids worst damages w masks , stay at home programs etc) .

The turn around on “Dr Faucis’ now the enemy “

The refusal to be vaccinated . The hate with which these people approached anyone following the directions of the WHO and Fauci, sudden hate for CDC.

The Trump/ Kushner annihilation program .

Against African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans ( who are always on the list of people to have their human rights ignored completely)

This atmosphere of disregard and hostility toward anyone who is not wealthy white and male continues.

Of all of Trumps transgressions this is the worst.

This is murder, hands free murder that allowed Trump the power and control he craves.

The whole sickness of the GOP endorsed and demonstrated by Trump is with us in every capacity.

The Supreme Courts ( far Right Six)need to have ultimate control and power .

So much so they are willing to rewrite and bastardize the Constitution , and they know it .

If not , why so vehement about no ethical supervision.

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Kathy Tankersley's avatar

This chronicle of the tRump administration’s malfeasance is so chilling but sadly 30-40% of the American people are in denial of the extreme destruction that tRump was willing to inflict on the rest of us. When so many Americans are wholly hooked into the myth of Republican ideology it’s difficult to get a clear eyed electorate. Comer’s circus in the House “ investigation” hearings is a case in point. Barely based on facts, using someone’s false suggestions to base an investigation on, that there must be “something something” to prosecute as long as it’s a democrat (as Marcy Wheeler in Emptywheel calls “frothers”) is the Republican example of governance. The Republicans only have destruction as their platform. Destruction of the health and welfare of regular Americans, destruction of women’s autonomy over their reproductive health, destruction over senior’s financial welfare and the right not to live in poverty as we age, destruction of voting rights, destruction of LGBTQ advances in American life, and of course destruction of our planet. All for the sake of a handful of fascist wealthy donors and the corruption of power. And please, enough of the “both sides, what aboutismism” BS. Not even close. tRump’s administration is racking up so many indictments with many more to come that it would take decades of examples of Democrat corruption to even come close. So if we even have an accurate historical account of the previous maladministration I’ll be surprised because rewriting history and events is the Republican wet dream. So I appreciate Thom’s calling out the reality of what Americans need to face to truly have a healthy democracy.

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