Tag: Republican corruption
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Whatever We Have To Do To Get Black Women Political Power, We MUST Do It
I’ve made a bet that I won’t be around to collect on. But, if I could be? I would collect: history will credit Black women with saving America from itself. I feel proud to my core that Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s VP pick. I would have felt pretty close to equally proud with any…
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Dear American News Media: Even Villains Do Things For A Reason — Like, Say, Republicans…
Never mind how many times Donald Trump lies, I want a running total of how many time American news people wonder aloud while scratching their heads why the Republican Party continues to march in lock step with him. I bet the journalists are winning. If they scratch their heads any harder, all those journalists will…
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A Lesson On “Cheating”: If You Cheat To Win, It Means “YOU DID NOT WIN”
Some things should be more self-evident than they apparently are. For instance — if I cheat to win at a game, I did not therefore “win” the game. Wins outside the rules do not count as wins. How can they? Just because the “winner” says he won, that doesn’t mean anything. Cheaters are usually biased…
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And How Exactly DOES One “Compromise” With Evil?
Too much of the American news media still has it in their heads that “both sides do it”. Whatever rotten things Republicans do, plenty of reporters, before they get to the rotten things, will remind their audience that it’s not just Republicans who do this rotten thing, “both sides do it”. Got proof? Do both…
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The Rule Of Law Never Stopped “Being”; We Stopped Enforcing It…
That’s an important framing. We’ve watched Donald Trump and the Republican Party violate the rule of law with impunity. They act as if the rule of law didn’t exist anymore. We have acted the same way — like the rule of law had ceased “to be”. That’s not true. It’s a matter of perspective. We’re…