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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy do we continue to allow a standard for republicans and yet a different standard for Democrats.
Everyone with a brain knows Barr is covering for dump crimes and is acting illegally but no one really says anything. Or they have no appetite to address it? What is that about? I am pissed. Im tired of the inmates running the asylum. Im tired of being held hostage by the lowest common denominator. Im sick of the oppression.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)is the most disturbing thing.
Years of whining about Hillary's emails and imaginary Obama crimes and none of them stand up and demand answers to this accusation?
The first time in our history that a US President has actually ignored a threat to our troops on the ground and has even praised the threat maker.
There should be immediate bipartisan investigations into how Deutsche Bank may have been laundering Rubles into Trump's account, among other things.
RainCaster
(10,870 posts)Nothing else will fix this.
Put Dems in power.
Then investigate all the treasonous acts and personalities.
onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)I dont know where the rest are.
Chainfire
(17,536 posts)to work for the elections rather than to beat their heads against the rock of the Republican Senate. While it is not very viscerally satisfying, it probably makes sense. I respect and trust the House leadership.
Once the Democrats regain power there can be a reckoning of biblical proportions.
Five more months and we will begin plucking the lame ducks. Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)Im in a red county and every stupid thing youve heard from the idiots on tv, I hear from my neighbors. Its beyond comprehension how we got here.
Chainfire
(17,536 posts)I live with Florida rednecks, part of the Trump Cult who act like the virus situation is a leftist political attack on the purity of God Fearing Americanism. That is a big part of reason that Florida leading the nation in new cases.
I try not to let it bother me. I tend to my own business, go out only when really necessary, and the nasty looks I get for wearing a mask doesn't bother me a whit. I just keep my head down and come to this forum for breaths of fresh air.
I have not yet become bored with protecting my life; if the virus gets me, and it might, it is going to have to work for it.
global1
(25,242 posts)Seriously - Trump has done so much harm to the military. He talks a good show - but - his actions really don't meet his words. He cheated his way to stay out of the military. He doesn't take care of the veterans.
Why do most of the military and veterans still support this fraud? I don't get it.
onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)Chainfire
(17,536 posts)The all volunteer military is a conservative haven. A heck of a lot of people go into the military because they haven't anything else to do with their lives. Many are people fresh out of high school who have no interest in furthering their education and are not willing to devote the time to learn a trade find homes there. Others are folks who were willing to let the military pay their way through college instead of finding other ways to get through. The military gives you spending money, feeds you, clothes you, takes care of your medical needs, and gives you an opportunity to play with all kinds of guns. For some folks it can fulfill the visceral fantasy need to live a Rambo existence, killing our enemies and protecting America. For heaven's sake, where else can you kill Muslims and get a medal for it?
I worked around a lot of veterans and people currently serving in the reserves or guard, I did not know a single one who held any liberal values....
I was a bit different when I went into the Navy during the Vietnam War. Many of my fellow sailors, myself included, had joined to keep out of the war while avoiding jail and a living with a criminal record. There were a lot of us, back then, who were progressive. Not a great number of liberals join the military today, so we end up with a heavily stacked conservative body of troops; Trump thumping, true blue blooded, 'Mericans who want to make America Great Again.
The only way to address the imbalance would be to reinstate the draft.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)Being discussed nationally. 125,000 are dead. A lot more are going to die.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)asked why 3 Republicans to every 1 Democrat on shows. The media said, Republicans are more flashy, entertaining, you can't rile the Democrats. Republican poor behavior was rewarded, Democratic good behavior penalized. There is not a level playing field.
So again I ask, what "allow"?
onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)Clinton should have never allowed that to consolidate after knowing how far the owners went to destroy him. I place a lot of blame on them for giving the bullshit email story oxygen when I was clearly bullshit. Slowly and incrementally we have voted and watched the country go BACKWARD a little more everyday until a traitor is installed in the White House and dismantles 250 years in 1,500 days.
Have a good day, Im out.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)Im not going to be indirectly accused of not supporting Dems. You dont know me. Enjoy the dust bin!
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Onecaliberal.
Or just turn on the boob tube to CNN or MBNC if you have access. Podcasts. Various books about this are also out there; the ones that feature Barr's role probably fill a decent-sized bookshelf by now.
As for being tired of inmates running the asylum, you're sick and I'm bitterly angry at everyone who had a hand in this. The RWers at least have the excuse of wanting to persecute minorities and destroy the vote because majorities won't elect their candidates. There's no excuse for those on the left who made it happen.
onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)free articles each month. (Not the WSJ, though.) If you can't get in one journal or one newspaper, just try others. These days most newspapers covering the nation have almost daily articles reporting his iniquities.
Four ways William Barr is already subverting the 2020 elections
Safeguarding the vote would be the top priority of a normal attorney general. Its the opposite now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/barr-attorney-general-election/2020/06/26/7ad4fc7e-b6fb-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html
Three PlausibleAnd TroublingReasons Why Barr Tried to Force Berman Out
Some are worse than others, though none represents what one would like to see from the Department of Justice.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/question-berman-saga-why/613345/
onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,703 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)the same thing to Russia, when they were in Afghanistan.
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)RainCaster
(10,870 posts)Those are the Real giants in advertising media
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)Thats consolidated from 50 companies back in 1983.
NOTE: This infographic is from 3 years ago and is missing some key transactions. GE does not own NBC (or Comcast or any media) anymore. So that 6th company is now Comcast. And Time Warner doesnt own AOL, so Huffington Post isnt affiliated with them.
But the fact that a few companies own everything demonstrates the illusion of choice, Frugal Dad says. While some big sites, like Digg and Reddit arent owned by any of the corporations, Time Warner owns news sites read by millions of Americans every year.
From 50 to 6 ...
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)and everyone else wants equal justice for all. The whole premise of white Americans having privilege that allows them to steal the labor of non-whites is criminal.
Demsrule86
(68,556 posts)say.
electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)My station WNYC AM/FM - has done a lot.
They've been doing a very good job on many issues!
Been challenged about diversity and have done things about it with hosts, producers, podcasts esp in the past ten years.
Doing serious coverage of BLM pre Mr Floyd .
Had a Virtual Pride Parade call-in. This one since white gay men usually get the most attention - they asked everyone else in n the LGBTQI community to call.
Cover poverty, housing, environment, doing even more on policing, and jail/prisons.
I have to get back to being a sustainer (smaller monthly donation), in the mean time I sent them a donation in May.