Trump

Nancy Pelosi addressed the American public to announce an official inquiry into the impeaching of America‘s worst president. 6 different house committees are already working to document the ever-growing list of impeachable offenses the second highest vote winner of the 2016 election. There are other sites that can list the numerous impeachable offenses of the Trump administration. There are also many sites documenting Trump’s own criminal enterprises and corrupt way of life prior to being president. ...

“Donald Trump’s presidency threatens much of what is good about this country.” Considering the content of this book, the investigation into Trump and his obstruction of justice, and the rumored pardoning of Scooter Libby who was himself convicted for obstruction, perjury and lying to investigators, any supporter or member of the GOP has got to ask themselves just exactly what level of criminality they are comfortable with. You don’t get a pass for merely liking GOP policies, because civic duty now requires collective action to support our system of government and the rule of law. The RNC has made its decision already. They are going to the mats against the Department of Justice. ...

** Let’s remember in this time of rising authoritarianism one of Martin Luther King’s many important statements on oppression: ** “To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor,”, King wrote in his essay “Three Ways of Meeting Oppression.” We are obligated to resist as much as the oppressor is obligated to hear our protests. And so we resist.. ...

Great quote from How Democracies Die. By Levitsky & Ziblatt — “Collective abdication - the transfer of power to a leader who threatens Democracy — usually flows from one of two sources. The first is the misguided belief that an authoritarian can be controlled or tamed. The second is what sociologist Ivan Ermakoff calls “ideological collusion,” in which the authoritarian’s agenda overlaps sufficiently with that of mainstream politicians that abdication is desirable or at least preferable to the alternatives.” ...

Trump hires Bolton, prepares for war, apparently.