Kyrsten Synema (D - Az) brings a cake into the Senate to downvote min. wage hike

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(04-17-2021, 10:50 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: You ignore that no single tradition defines America. Many different traditions have validity in America, and if you do not recognize this, then you do not fully understand America. 

There is plenty to despise about Donald Trump: his marital infidelity, his bigotry against many identifiable groups (including the handicapped), his sleazy history as a businessman, his suspect loyalty to America when Russia offered him more, his disdain for old decencies that make democracy work in America... were it not for his wealth, his business practices would have gotten him a prison term if he were not wise enough to allow his dreams to match what is allowed to people. 

The more that I saw of the Trump administration and of the personality behind it the more I despised and dreaded it. You saw the stunt in which he had unidentifiable forces attacking protesters so that he could carry a Bible (that he neither heeds nor reads) in front of a church that he does not attend and show the most pitiable display of fake devotion that I have ever seen. I look at the personality cult and I see a dictator. I look at the vans in Portland and Seattle that had Trump banners and a US flag that took away protesters, which is how a secret police operates. I mocked that inchoate secret police as "Trump-Trump Macoutes" after the brutal secret of the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti. I do not mock the Haitian people who deserve far better than that. 

In the end we had a President who denied his manifest defeat and sought to set aside electoral results that he disliked -- with people willing to use force and violence. In the end, the Joint Chiefs of Staff made clear that Joe Biden had won the election and would become President on January 20, 2021. They needed say no more and needed explain nothing.



Joe Biden may not be one of those people who runs on a law-and-order stance, but that's not to say that he needs to.

Germany was a democracy before Hitler and the Nazi party were duly elected and sworn in and changed the rules/laws and took control over the country. A prime example of democratic socialism being used as means to gain control over a country. The most recent example of it being used for the same purpose is Venezuela. We ain't dumb or needy or naive or deaf and blind. So, of the 80 million who voted for Biden to save them from something, how many million are either dumb, impressionable or naive? How many are cream puffs who fear violence who don't have the courage to defend themselves or the heart to hurt anyone? How many are potheads who have little to no interest in working like Rags? How many have a mental illness of some sort that requires medicine for them to functions?