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| Jimmie Rodgers |
The Elvis Presley version from the Hawaiian concert is very emotional for me. We watched that performance on the RCA color TV of Leroy and Bernice Dennis in Danville, Arkansas while Diego Lee Rot crawled around the floor in his onesie.
Trump is Putin’s bottom bitch that’s clear. He will ride for Vlad on all matters foreign and domestic. We get it. Fortunately, the EU knows that U.S. Presidents have term limits. They also read the news. They know there is a good chance that Trump is a one-term problem (Four years if he’s lucky). They also know that half of us did not vote for the grifter in chief.
ReplyDeleteDomestically, what is troubling is that Trump and the white Americans who support him financially and otherwise are willing to sell out this nation in order to maintain power by any means necessary. MAGA appears to be a rallying cry for white racist and the people who love them. I suspect the isolation and discord Trump is creating is to ensure that the world disengages from the U.S. Once that is secured he and Sessions can continue programs like – snatching brown babies from Central American out of their mothers arms and throwing them into large dog cages, pillaging all natural resources and rolling back civil liberties of non-caucasians in the nation unfettered by foreign influence.
Get out and vote people! Help send Trump back to his tower.
We need to do away with pardons for political crimes and crimes committed by officials while holding office (not confined to political acts — ANY crime). In fact, we should rewrite the code to treble the penalties for any politician, officer, or government official who commits a crime while in office.
DeleteIf we're not serious about stopping crimes, the crimes will continue. We need to put a stop — a hard stop — to it.
As we have seen, pardons or threatened pardons of political cronies allow the subversion of our government on a scale previously unimagined. Keep in mind that many of those in the Bushco cabal are still under threat of indictment for war crimes, yet we have let these folks slide.
Ford's pardon of Nixon set the trend that people in high places don't do hard jail time. This BS has percolated down to corporate crimes and crimes committed by the wealthy and socially prominent — where an actual crime can be overlooked if a substantial penalty is paid. In effect, a civil penalty for a criminal act (of course, in these cases, the guilty party is 'allowed' to not confess or admit to guilt).
If we would have had laws like these in place, Trump would have thought long and hard about running for office in the first place.