“The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.” -James Madison, June 8 1789
This finger is for the nondisabled lily-white liberals who have told me I should use kinder language when I post about Donald Trump & the MAGA morons. You think being nice to people who support Nazi ideology is going to accomplish anything?
Trump, mad that the press is informing the People about the illegal work he’s having done on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, posts an AI generated image of Obama, Biden and Pelosi swimming in a filthy version of the Reflecting Pool with a caption that says “Dumacrats Love Sewage.”
That’s especially funny when you consider that Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., took his grandkids out to swim in a creek flowing with raw sewage.
I guess this is just more of that projecting that MAGA morons typically do.
Just some thoughts that came to mind while reading Heather Cox Richardson’s report today. Because she mentioned Senator John Kennedy, that made me think about President John F. Kennedy.
People have been pointing out that the rich are bad news and they should not be running the country because they are disconnected from the rest of society. They don’t understand what it’s like to struggle financially. They’ve never had to worry about money. They’ve never had to worry about not having food or being able to pay the rent. They’ve always had everything they needed or wanted. Jim Wright reminds us that the rich always fear the poor, that the goal of the rich is to keep the poor down and that we need to stop electing rich people.
I agree. But I suppose there are a few exceptions. Weren’t the Kennedys always one of the wealthiest families in America? I feel that several members of the Kennedy family, particularly those involved in today’s government, are a threat to our nation and humanity. But from what I know about John F. Kennedy, during his short presidency, he actually did work to make life easier for people who were struggling.
Am I right about that? I didn’t experience that era. John F. Kennedy was assassinated fourteen years before I was born. I know he wasn’t perfect, and I’ve heard about his behavior when out of the public view. But when on the job, my understanding is that he devoted his time to fighting for minority communities and the poor.
Maybe that’s what got him assassinated. Did other rich people feel that he was a threat to them and their way of life? It would explain why we still don’t know for sure who assassinated Kennedy. The rich and powerful have shown us that they can and do cover their tracks.
I have always been extremely proud to have been named after my grandpa. Gramps fought the fascists in World War II. I wanna be like Gramps.
I miss the days when most Republicans had some honor, the days before they became the fascist cowards that they are under Trump’s presidency. Colin Powell had been a Republican who I respected highly. He was a Republican until he declared himself an Independant after the extremism of Trump’s first term as President.
Powell wasn’t perfect. He made mistakes. He made big mistakes, some that had him crucified by the nation. But I admire how he admits to his mistakes in “It Worked for Me“. The degree of humanity this man had comes across clearly in this book, the extraordinary care and respect he had for fellow human beings, whether they were everyday civilians, soldiers, immigrants, politicians, foreigners. Powell was generous, kind and respectful.
A few years ago, I read R. Lee Ermey’s “How to Get Squared Away Like a Marine”. While I found some things from Ermey’s book useful, I was put off by other things. Through much of Ermey’s book, he was an asshole, and his views on people were too extreme for me. Powell, another military man who rose much higher in rank than Ermey, had a better attitude toward people and life. I felt that Powell had more useful things to say than Ermey.
Though I was never in the military, I had thought of Colin Powell as my general. Though Powell was an old man and he was fighting cancer, reports were that he was doing well, until Covid struck him down at the age of 84. I blame Trump’s mishandling of the Covid 19 pandemic for Colin Powell’s death.
I won’t be someone who sticks his head in the sand and keeps his mouth shut so privileged people can be comfortable with their ignorance.