Tag: Trump violating the Constitution
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Why Comedy (Like SNL, John Oliver, Sara Cooper) Matters In Terrible Times
Nobody needs a laugh quite like America does. There’s a shell-shock-y look in our eyes, put there by four plus years of Donald Trump and his daily cavalcade of greed, psychosis, corruption and treason. On the one hand, America is not now the country it was when Trump took his oath of office (which he…
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The Rule Of Law Didn’t Let Us Down, We Let IT Down
Laws don’t enforce themselves. People have to do that for them. If people don’t enforce the rules they created for themselves, they shouldn’t be surprised when the rules stop being followed. The Great Experiment that is the United States is its reliance upon law — not an individual ruler’s whims — as the basis for…
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The Failure That Is “Both Sides Do It” Journalism
When we get to the “How the HELL did this happen?” phase — after the bad actors are all safely in prison — we’ll need to turn our focus on the American news media and the myriad ways they failed us and their own Constitutionally mandated obligation to be our final check on power. American…