Sunday, September 24, 2023
I’LL BE CREEPING UP ON MY 96TH BIRTHDAY by the time the 2024 election rolls around, and a lot can happen between now and then. But that election remains one of my several goals of the moment. …
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I’LL BE CREEPING UP ON MY 96TH BIRTHDAY by the time the 2024 Election rolls around, and a lot can happen between now and then. But that election remains one of my several goals of the moment.
And fear not. While I can’t find a handy hook on which to hang a blog each and every week, I can still remember quite clearly making strawberry ice cream up on Willow Street during the winter of 1932-’33. We packed snow in lieu of ice into the hand-cranked freezer. Dementia is not a requirement of aging.
AS JUNETEENTH WAS PASSING BY recently, one writer observed: “The Grand Old Party is like the Boy Who Cried Wolf. It has churned through so many wild allegations against the ‘Biden crime family’ that its moment of self-righteous indignation risks getting lost in the noise.” He was referring to the GOP’s attempt to make Hunter Biden’s early drug use and gun-purchase application more of an attention detour as ex-President Trump faces a 37-issue felony arraignment centering on classified government documents.
And, lashing out after his arraignment on federal charges last week, Trump took aim at President Joe Biden and Democrats with language that seemed to evoke another era: Trump said he was being persecuted by “Marxists” and “communists.” One headline read: “Trump and other Republicans conjure a familiar enemy in attacking Democrats as ‘communists.’”
As a Free Press in general pointed out, “Trump has used the labels since he first appeared on the political scene, but it lately has become an omnipresent attack line that also has been deployed by other Republicans. The rhetoric is both inaccurate and potentially dangerous because it attempts to demonize an entire party with a description that has long been associated with America's enemies.
“Experts who study political messaging say associating Democrats with Marxism only furthers the country's polarization — and is simply wrong: Biden has promoted capitalism and Democratic lawmakers are not pushing to reshape American democracy into a communist system.”
In a rambling verbal assault recently at one of his golf clubs, ex-President Donald described Biden supporters as ”thugs, misfits and Marxists.” His blathering also refers vaguely to some non-existent glorious past of his own — as he throws trust in public forgetfulness into his bag of lies . . . and also attempts to snap up young voters who were only 12 years or so old when he first ran for office.
Which reminds me of attempts to make young Republicans of students in their early years of education by Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. I am probably best described as one of her critics from 2016 forward, including the nation's teachers unions, to whom she was a stone-cold villain who famously suggested guns belong in some schools (to fend off bears), who needed the vice president's vote to survive confirmation and who spent four years disparaging American public education — rather than fighting to improve it.
Which also leads my memory to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke of Trump’s early years of office. One CNN report on the Internet states: Former Trump Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his then-chief of staff repeatedly lied to federal investigators about conversations they had with lobbyists, etc. Zinke left his post in the Trump administration in late 2018, after multiple ethics investigations into his conduct.
Trump states off-hand today that he only appointed “the best people” — and pushes on to more current lies . . . and propagandistic sloganeering,
MEANWHILE, the Supreme Court seems to be paving the way for Trump, who appointed many of its members.
Recent opinions appear to favor, in a thinly-disguised way, white supremacists, the well-to-do, a narrow version of sexuality. While President Joe Biden recently was denied the cancellation of student debt by the court, he continues to seek democratic equality under the U.S. Constitution in the days ahead. He stated that the Supreme court has leaked “long-standing laws that protect all Americans against discrimination in public accommodations—including people of color, people with disabilities, people of faith, and women.”
I agree with Biden and hope to have more on the subject in weeks ahead.
One hears a lot of late about the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. The most commonly used — and frequently litigated — phrase in this amendment is "equal protection of the laws," which figures prominently in a wide variety of landmark cases,
IN THE BACKGROUND, Donald continues to work on plans to pardon himself after the same 2024 election.
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Justin Hale
Here's a smile for you tom, dementia means that you remember more clearly things that never happened.
You say the GOP attempts to detour attention from Trump, how is that any different than the DNC detouring attention from the Biden family's dirty dealings by pointing to the allegations against Trump?
You Trump/Republican haters have been calling Trump everything from racist to authoritarian before and ever since he became POTUS. I guess that's ok for you all but not for Trump. "The rhetoric is both inaccurate and potentially dangerous because it attempts to demonize an entire party with a description that has long been associated with America's enemies.", it's laughable how you criticize Trump for doing exactly the same thing you do. And yes, it is polarizing, but if the DNC does it it's ok? NOT!
Referring to the SCOTUS you say "Recent opinions appear to favor, in a thinly-disguised way, white supremacists, the well-to-do, a narrow version of sexuality.". Tom you either have no clue what the role of the court is or you have never read the Constitution.
Show me where in the Constitution it empowers the Executive branch with the power of the purse. It doesn't, but Joe Biden seems to think it does. That sounds like something a socialist would do.
Show me where in the Constitution it empowers the government to compel speech, that's against the first amendment.
It's funny, in your prolog you list the multitudes vying for the GOP nomination in a mocking way, seems more like the party of inclusion to me.
Wednesday, July 5 Report this
MargeS
Let's not put a criminal in office. If Trump was innocent, why did the Justice Department indict him with 37 charges?
The duck test—"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck"—suggests that something can be identified by its habitual characteristics.
You use all the words: Trump Haters, Republican Haters, and on and on. You said in a former blog the last thing you wanted was Trump in office.
As to the constitution that was written by rich white men, who forgot about women, slavery, Native tribes and people who didn't own land.
Originalism is a theory of the interpretation of legal texts, including the text of the Constitution. Originalists believe that the constitutional text ought to be given the original public meaning that it would have had at the time that it became law.
Did Martha Washington have the right to vote?
Thursday, July 6 Report this
Justin Hale
I agree, elect no criminals.
You do understand that in this country we are presumed innocent until proven guilty. I know that goes against your desire to just send Trump to jail for life. Is that really the kind of world we want? I think he's guilty so lock him up.??
Yes, I use the words " Trump Haters, Republican Haters" because that is the reality as I see it.
I do not want to see Trump as the GOP nominee, if that's the best the GOP can do it's pretty sad. If Biden is the best the DNC can do that's pretty sad. If it came down to JFK jr vs. Tim Scott, that would be a real challenge to decide between the two because I think either one could do a good job. With Biden vs. Trump, it's a challenge to decide which one will do less harm.
"As to the constitution that was written by rich white men, who forgot about women, slavery, Native tribes and people who didn't own land."..... The Constitution written in 1787 is not the same Constitution of 2023, the Constitution has been changed 27 times since 1787.
Thursday, July 6 Report this
Thomas Camfield
But we still have that pesky first half of the sentence that comprises the Second Amendment.
Friday, July 7 Report this
Justin Hale
Only "pesky" for those who want to disarm Americans and leave their personal security to others Tom.
Friday, July 7 Report this
Thomas Camfield
"A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA, BEING NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Saturday, July 8 Report this
Justin Hale
We've been down this road before, if you don't want to own a firearm don't get one, problem solved!
Saturday, July 8 Report this