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It's Saturday!

After an eventful week, it's time to relax...for a while.

Happy Hump Day

Here's Engelbert with his 2021 remake of his 1988 classic "One World."

Though I have no idea what Enge's politics are, I do know from listening to him talk that he believes in love and peace. I believe in those things too.

Speaking at LBJ Library, Pres. Biden issues announcement on Supreme Court reform

Glenn Kirschner on Pres. Biden's proposed SCOTUS reforms

We Are Not Going Back!

Vice President Kamala Harris

Come Saturday Morning

It's been quite a week! Take a breether, relax, regroup and recharge body and mind for whatever next week may have in store.

DA Bragg Urges NY Judge to REJECT Trump's Attempt to Toss his 34 Convict...

Words Have Consequences

Violence, killing, war - these are not matters to be spoken of lightly. Yet Trump and his MAGA cult members routinely speak of some people needing to be killed and of the need for a civil war to protect their values (perverted as those are) and what they perceive as their liberties and way of life.

And yet, words have consequences. Beyond January Sixth and its ongoing ramifications, Trump's violent rhetoric has the predictable result of inciting terrorism. Yesterday an unnamed man was arrested and held in Las Begas after a months-long spree of harassing and threatening the lives of judges, D.A.s and others in the justice system nationwide who have been involved in legal cases, civil and criminal, against Trump.

The fellon that MAGA proclaimed to be their presidential nominee does not just have a decades-long record of criminal and dangerous behavior behind him, he represents a clear and present danger to our nation in the here and now. For all his painfully obvious mental deterioration, he knows all too well what he is doing when he calls for real, physical violence.

In April, Trump lost an appeal seeking to suspend a series of law suits that seek to hold him liable for January Sixth. Curiously, these suits attract little if any attention from the corporate media, though presumably they are ongoing. Incitement to violence is also a crime. I am no clairvoyant, yet it is not difficult for me to see more indictments, stemming from the actions of his cult members like the one in Las Vegas, in Trumps not so distant future.

Links
Rolling Stone: Trump Allies Sure Are Talking A Lot About Civil War (Opens in a new browser window)
Talking Feds [YouTube channel]: Pro-Trump LUNATIC Arrested for Threatening Judges (opens in a new browser window)

Those people…The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.

Fred C. Trump III with then Pres. Donald Trump in the Oval Office, 2018

Just when you think you've heard the worst about Donald Trump, something worse comes up.

In a forthcoming book by his nephew, Fred C. Trump III, the former president and wannabe dictator is quoted as telling Fred that he should let his disabled son die and then move down to Florida.

Now maybe I'm biased, seeing that I myself am disabled, but I take exception to that attitude. It reminds me of something a doctor - a doctor mind you - told my recently widowed mother when I was lying comatose in his hospital and not expected to recover: "Throw her in a custodial care facility till she dies of pneumonia. You're young. You can have other children."

Trump's attitude does not surprise me. We've seen glimpses of it before. Remember his 2015 mockery of reporter Serge Kovaleski, who suffered from a congenital joint condition? If I had known nothing else about Trump, that act of cruelty and disrespect alone would have caused me not to vote for him.

Kovaleski was a stranger and a grown man. Here he's suggesting that his own flesh and blood, a teenager, be "allowed to die" since, after all, he has multiple disabilities, including mental defacits. In other words, he's not a person at all.

In 2024, if that were the only thing I knew about Donald Trump, it would cause me not to vote for him.

Links
Time: My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’ (opens in a new browser window)
The Guardian: Trump told nephew to let his disabled son die, then move to Florida, book says (opens in a new browser window)
The Guardian: Trump nephew reveals Uncle Donald’s racist outburst in new book (opens in a new browser window)

President Biden's address to the Nation, July 24 2024

Country unites behind Harris as MAGA panics

The Prosecutor Versus The Criminal

Hump Day

It's Hump Day, so here's the Hump himself.
Mano a mano, hand in hand, we've got the power to turn this darkness into light!

Police violence claims another life

The American system of policing is fundamentally flawed. Hardly a week goes by without a report of some cop, somewhere, shooting dead a citizen, usually a person of color, frequently a teenaged black boy.

The latest incident is particularly shocking since the victim, a black woman named Sonya Massey, called the police for assistance because she believed there was an intruder in her home. On the officer’s body cam video, he can be heard verbally abusing Sonya and then threatening to kill her before fatally shooting her in the head.

His own words and action demonstrate that this man should never have been in any job dealing with the public, certainly not one as demanding of intelligence, quick wits, patience and empathy as that of a law enforcement officer.

As one man quoted in the Guardian report points out, for years the Defense Department has been sending surplus armaments to city and town police departments. Our civilian police do not need tanks. They need the ability to cope calmly, rationally and with a touch of sympathy with distraught people who call for their help.

Links
Biden calls for justice after footage released of police killing Black woman (opens in a new browser windo)
Kamala Harris joins calls for police reforms after Sonya Massey killing (opens in a new browser windo)

Trump’s Kryptonite

We have to" earn his sacrifice" Rick Wilson says, and he's absolutely right. How many of us would, or could, have done what Pres. Biden did? Up to now the 2024 election has been centered on a negative - keeping Trump from returning to the presidency. Now, it is centered on a positive - electing Pres. Biden's chosen successor and thereby honoring his heroic patriotism.

If Kamala Harris Is The Dem Nominee For President, It Will Be The Prosec...

It's a brand new morning

I've come to peace, more or less, with our new reality. After all, it was Pres. Biden's decision and sacrifice to make. He has graciously and fully endorsed V.P. Harris, who is moving with all deliberate speed to make the requisite arrangements and to unify the Party, together with all others of good will who wish to purge the body politic of the cancer that is Trump and his MAGA cult.

Is she my ideal candidate? No. Can she win with what one might call a coalilition of the democracy minded? Yes! She has charisma and style. She is intelligent and devoted to our country and our Constitution. She is a former D.A. and a former senator, after all. She has a heavy load to lift but, with the help of us all, she shall shift it and lift it and fling it far into the depths.

I am still reeling from the events of yesterday afternoon. Perhaps you are as well. That's okay. It's all right to grieve and to feel disappointment and anger. But rather than letting these emotions overcome us, tempting us to give up, we must carry on, must turn our disappointment and anger and sorrow into renewed determination to defeat Trump. The mission hasn't changed, only the one being sent. Together, Mrs. Harris and all of us will see that mission through to the end, and start a new, bright chapter for America.

President pushed out by Dem. leadership in bogus crisis

In a move as notable for its hubris and bigotry as for its sheer shortsighted stupidity, key members of the Democratic Party have forced U.S. Pres. Joe Biden to step down as the party's presumptive presidential nominee in favor of his Vice President, Kamala Harris.

The big cable news companies ignited an artificial bruhaha after the June 27 presidential debate, where Mr. Biden experienced a major stuttering episode brought on by a combination of exhaustion and anxiety/frustration. Although the president came through the episode and continued the debate, and although what he said throughout was logical, sensible and true while Donald Trump lied continually, the corporate media manufactured a crisis over Mr. Biden's supposed mentaal decline. This in the face of years' worth of evidence that Mr. Biden is intelligent, thoughtful, mentally well organized and extremely competent while Mr. Trump's mental illness and cognitive decline have been blindingly evident for years and have, in fact, been growing more severe practically by the week.

From the start, Democratic Party "leaders" jumped on the so-called crisis, calling into question the President's fitness to serve as the Democrats' challenger to Trump. Were it not for these self-serving hacks, the made up nonstory would have died a quick and quiet death, since the people themselves, who voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Biden in the primaries, have been with him all the way; indeed, contrary to the lie promulgated by corporate news, support for the President has only been growing since the debate and the recent "MAGA (formerly Republican) nominating convention.

But, not to be deterred by the will of the people, these same selfserving Democrats succeeded on Sunday in pressuring Mr. Biden, who has recently suffered a second bout of Covid, into stepping aside in favor of Harris.

The ageism and contempt for a person who has largely overcome a stutter, to say nothing of the blatent disrespect for a man of principle, moral rectatude, deep knowledge of U.S. and World politics and frankly breathtaking mental accuity sickens this writer. It is also incredible that those who claim to want to defeat Trump have now cacheered the one and only candidate with a proven track record of defeating Trump. It may still be possible to pull off a blue tsunami that effectively buries MAGA without a trace. I certainly hope so! But it would have been a whole lot easier with Biden as the nominee.

It's Saturday!

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It's Saturday! Kick back, relax with a tall glass of ice cold lemonade and forget about your cares for a while.

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