1/4/18: The president decides he can’t let an entire day go by without undercutting fundamental democratic institutions. So, he does what he does best. He studies policy.
Of course, he doesn’t.
Standing up by kneeling down?
Did you know his Commission on Voter Fraud just disbanded? “Many mostly Democrat States refused to hand over data from the 2016 Election to the Commission On Voter Fraud,” Trump tweet-moans. “They fought hard that the Commission not see their records or methods because they know that many people are voting illegally. System is rigged, must go to Voter I.D.” (For the biggest case of voter fraud in recent memory, see: 12/4/18.)
You may not remember, but last summer a “handful” of states, a mere 44, refused to provide all the information Trump and his enablers demanded...also the District of Columbia. Alabama did comply with the administration order which makes it even more depressing for the president to realize accused child molester Roy Moore still couldn’t get elected.
Kansas also complied. Kansas is the
state where the head of the Commission on Voter Fraud, Kris Kobach, got his
start cleaning up all the rampant fraud in elections. He worked like a
right-wing beaver, Kobach did. He scrubbed and he scrubbed, and managed to secure nine whole
convictions for voter fraud, over the course of multiple elections, in a
state with a population of 1.8 million.
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TRUMP TWEETS ONCE, then mulls his course. What to do next with his valuable time? He decides to flog a favorite target: Minorities. No, I mean, “kneeling NFL players.” They just happen to be almost all African American.
In any case, he tweets again, this time providing a link to the picture below, from last September. His tweet reads, “So beautiful.... Show this picture to the NFL players who still kneel!”
Let this blogger interject. Much respect to all who have fallen in the fight for freedom and to their loved ones who pay an almost unbearable price.
As a patriotic American, who enlisted in the Marines in 1968, I can see why players protest. If I were to kneel during the National Anthem, would I be disrespecting the flag, or would I be standing up by kneeling down? I’m a huge fan of the right to protest and the First Amendment. You know who I think really, really disrespected our flag. I think it was Don Jr. and Jared when they met with Russians in hopes of getting dirt on Hillary Clinton. (See: 1/3/18.)
As for minority players kneeling, Mr. Trump, perhaps they’re protesting this kind of symbolism and support for your positions, and your disinclination to condemn such individuals:
Or
it might be they’re protesting this kind of police abuse (and no, not
all police are abusive):
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Walter Scott, unarmed and fleeing, is shot in the back. |
Again, all sympathy to that soldier’s poor wife (pictured above) and to the child who will never know its father.
That doesn’t mean Walter Scott’s family doesn’t also have a grave to visit and to weep over too.
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THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR decides to open almost all U.S. coastal waters to offshore drilling. This plan, carefully crafted by Secretary Ryan Zinke, is a work of genius. (See: 1/9/18.)
POSTSCRIPT: Lawyers for the president go to court to try to halt publication of the new book, Fire and Fury. (See: 1/3/18.)
Because that’s what we do in Trumpistan.
We
ban books.
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