A question many of us have been asking since his inauguration day.
And many others since before he even became a candidate.
The hypocrisy of the Christian Right in supporting somebody as immoral and unethical by Classical Christian Standards as Trump is truly astounding.
Why would it be astounding? Ahh. That requires one to actually believe their blatantly demostrated hypocrisy. It's topics like this, especially, that logger was great for. "Yeah, we're not going to do anything about it or change our votes over it, but at least we make a ruckus about it!"
Hey, at least he was honest.
The root of the problem, I think, is that the US is over the hump of its global influence and is a declining power refusing to acknowledge the fact, and indeed reacting with fury to the very suggestion. As a Brit boomer (class of '54) I was lucky enough to grow up after that phase. Or so I thought before 2016 and the Brexit fiasco.
Mmm. I'm not so sure. We certainly are losing global influence now, but... I wouldn't call that the root of the problem. The root of the problem lies far more in how the average person has been getting ever more screwed in comparison to the very rich. The Republicans have pointedly been doing that as a party, of course (as well as culturally undermining democracy in its attempts to shore up its power), but quite a few Democrats have been quite culpable, too.
Actually, the GOP was howling when Obama said he was willing to talk to NK.
Yes, they were. There are even a few
Hannity comparison clip shows. It's pretty much exemplary of the GOP's overwhelming partisanship.
Complete totalitarian leader might not know about an American hostage/prisoner who'd been in a coma for a year?
Seriously?
"At least until much too late." He fairly certainly was informed after the damage was done. How involved he was in Otto's treatment before then is an unknown to us. I'm definitely not going to say that he wasn't involved, just that without actual evidence, even insinuations that he was directly involved would fairly certainly be counterproductive during negotiations.
Anyways, random news time. As a new development in the North Carolina Absentee ballot fraud story...
Dowless has been bailed out by the guy who hooked him up with Harris and participated in their initial meeting. There's more indications that he's not a fan of electoral integrity and was fairly certainly a previous client, such as previous payments to Dowless, but he claims to have been delivering the bail on behalf of others. Other clients, perhaps?
Nothing to see here! Move along. Move along.
Now for bits of good news!
Allen Weisselberg will fairly certainly be appearing before Congress, now, once a date has officially been set. So many questions for him to answer.
Felix Sater will appear before Congress on March 14th. Sater hasn't officially flipped, though, so it's doubtful that he'll be as helpful as Cohen.
Moving on to Texan false accusations of voter fraud on a massive scale.
Federal Judge Orders Texas To End 'Flawed' Effort To ID Noncitizen Voters. Good. I have no problem with serious, intelligent efforts to find illegal voters made in good faith, but that wasn't even remotely close to serious, intelligent, or in good faith.
And...
Netanyahu's been unofficially indicted. It seems that it's been declared that he will be indicted for corruption, as it stands, but I'm not seeing that he has been quite yet. As another person who claims that the "left" is on a "witch hunt" to get him, may the indictments provide a beacon to indictments of our own criminal in chief.
