Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments How Dems Should Respond to Mitch McConnell’s SCOTUS Hypocrisy I agree with everything you said. HOWEVER, I think if the truth be known, if Democrats were in the position republicans are in, they would work to fill the vacancy as well. Both trump and McConnell are within their constitutional right to fill the vacancy. Yes, it is hypocritical, and I do believe that in normal circumstances Democrats would confirm a moderate justice as opposed to an extreme liberal, but they would definitely protect choice, healthcare and gun safety. That, in and of itself, would make the appointment “far left” in the eyes of republicans. For this particular seat, I think Democrats would attempt to fill the seat with a so-called liberal justice, and republicans will attempt to fill it with a so-called conservative justice. THIS is the problem with our judicial system. There should not be liberal and conservative judges. Some things SHOULD BE above politics and ideology, and justice is one of those things. As a society, we like to claim that justice is blind, however we KNOW it is not. If justice were blind, it wouldn’t matter what the ideology of a judge is, BECAUSE EVERY judge would apply the same law, based on the same Constitution. » Posted By TOCB On September 21, 2020 @ 5:41 am This is a very serious concern. The fact the we KNOW the president is attempting to sabotage the election SHOULD disqualify him. Trump has already publicly committed election crimes by instructing his supporters to vote twice, instructing the post master general to delay the mail and other voter suppression measures. WE KNOW THIS! These issues are occurring in red states, and not blue states. In Texas one can only vote by mail if they are 65 or older, sick or disabled, out of the country during early voting and election day, or in jail but otherwise eligible to vote. The only reason for people who don’t fit in either of these categories to be concerned about in-person voting is covid-19. Voting early while social distancing and wearing a mask is the easy solution to that dilemma. Vote early. VERY EARLY! » Posted By TOCB On September 5, 2020 @ 3:40 am There aren’t enough racists and bigots in the USA to actually elect trump. The only way he can remain in power is to steal the election. One way of doing that is to declare himself winner if more republicans than Democrats vote on election day and during early voting. Democrats should vote early. The only people who should vote by mail are those who absolutely cannot get to the polls early or on election day. » Posted By TOCB On September 2, 2020 @ 9:32 am Weekend Music Thread – Please Mr. Postman The only rapper whose music I will actually buy.
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» Posted By TOCB On August 8, 2020 @ 4:42 pm Can the Freudian Bull Doc, Trump is a Mobster I am continuously amazed by how ignorant trump and his supporters are. And because he gets rave reviews from his supporters, he apparently thinks that most people are as ignorant as his supporters are. The hits just keep on coming. So, he thinks that “universal” vote by mail is ripe for fraud, BUT it is perfectly okay for him to vote by mail, AND he encourages his supporters to vote by mail. Yes, that is grossly hypocritical, but it is also grossly ignorant to think that sane people won’t see the hypocrisy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K9o00fSrN8 » Posted By TOCB On August 5, 2020 @ 6:28 am I don’t know WHY trump does and says what he does, but we all see and hear what he does and says, and words and deeds have consequences. Especially words and deeds from a position of power. Trump and his cohorts have been extremely destructive, and for the survival of the majority, this minority must be placed in a minority position. I don’t think we want to silence them. We would prefer they grew to the place where they would raise their level of consciousness, and not be so destructive. » Posted By TOCB On August 5, 2020 @ 6:21 am Slavery is a Necessary Evil? Is Tom Cotton Serious? I didn’t take the time to research if Lincoln actually said what Senator Cotton said he said. I should have known better. In an unsent 1860 letter, Abraham Lincoln mocked Sidney Fisher’s claim that the “institution [of slavery] is a necessity imposed on us by the negro race.” And yet, Lincoln himself had often said that while slavery was an evil, the founders had to tolerate it where it existed owing to “necessity.” This raises the questions: What kinds of arguments about slavery and “necessity” did Lincoln find legitimate, and what kinds did he find to be illegitimate? In Lincoln’s view, what exactly was it that necessitated the toleration of slavery where it existed at the time of the founding and into the 1850s? Lincoln’s answers to these questions depart from the answers offered by Fisher, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Clay; this departure helped pave the way not only to Lincoln’s later embrace of emancipation, but also his eventual movement toward the position that African-Americans would and should be full citizens. » Posted By TOCB On July 28, 2020 @ 11:45 am Yes, Senator Cotton is wrong, as was Lincoln to the extent that he said slavery was a necessary evil. By using the qualifier, “necessary” with the word evil, one makes the evil the right thing because the end justifies the means. But this is the part the USA must come to grips with. MOST white Americans either think EXACTLY like Cotton, or they can tolerate it, again because the end justifies the means. It is the same “logic” trump supporters use when they claim they don’t approve of trump’s racist, misogynist, bigoted character, but they support him because he has the business acumen to make the country and them prosperous. I won’t even get into the fact that trump has the business acumen of a two-year old. Acknowledging that their orientation is that slavery was a necessary evil, white Americans must accept that racism is a by-product of that orientation. One huge question that arises from that is, can capitalism actually work without something like slavery? The reality is that part of the exceptionalism of the USA is yet to be proven. From the inception of this great experiment in multi-ethnic capitalism, the dominant ethnicity has exploited others, whether African slaves and extending through Jim Crow and beyond, Native Americans, immigrants of various ethnicities or even cheap labor in other nations as is done TODAY. Without slavery or a derivative thereof, would there be one single billionaire in the USA today? This is WHY white Americans have been comfortable with the notion that slavery was a necessary evil, or the end justifies the means. And they can even distort their “religion” to justify slavery, racism, misogyny, bigotry. » Posted By TOCB On July 28, 2020 @ 6:03 am Weekend Music Thread – Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV
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» Posted By TOCB On July 26, 2020 @ 7:49 am How Joe Biden Can Help Stop Trump’s Descent Into Tyranny person, woman, man, camera and tv. This is classic! It will be something people will remember trump for, for years. That could be his new nickname, person, woman, man, camera, tv. » Posted By TOCB On July 24, 2020 @ 6:51 pm Yes. Very good points. » Posted By TOCB On July 24, 2020 @ 6:44 pm TRUMP needs to run out of Washington!!! » Posted By TOCB On July 23, 2020 @ 8:25 am I agree that your approach is the best one for sensible people. However, trump and his supporters are not sensible people. I also admit that there is no provision in our laws for the military to take control of a tyrannical government, neither from the militia or the standing army, in spite of that claim by the gun nuts. It is hard for me to see our generals stand by and do nothing when our citizens are attacked by a secret police force, at the public orders of the so-called president. At 68 years old, I am ready to suit up and help the military put this trump coup down. And that is all it is, a coup. It is terribly disappointing to see this happen in the oldest democracy in the world.
» Posted By TOCB On July 23, 2020 @ 8:11 am I agree that mail-in ballots would be the best way to vote in 2020 as it leaves a paper trail which can be audited. Trump and republicans will do everything they can to suppress votes. Just as critical as a super turnout and an auditable voting process, is having the military ready to assist in evicting trump from the White House. There is no way he will go willingly. Quite frankly, I would like to see the military step in right now and arrest trump and all of his co-criminals, including Pence. We can no longer count on the normal governmental apparatus to work because of the loyalty and/or fear of trump by congressional republicans. Currently, we have a lawless, tyrannical government. You know, the kind of government the gun nuts supposedly want to keep their guns to fight against. Except the gun nuts are on the side of this tyrannical government. So if those who want to restore the government, do so by breaking the norms for that purpose, it might be the only way to save the government. There is no telling what a broken-spirited trump might do. How far is too far to allow him to go? Looking the other way when Putin puts a bounty on our soldiers? Using secret police, a de facto military, to attack civilians? Issue pardons and commutations of sentences to protect criminals who are loyal to him? At what point do the American people say that drastic times call for drastic measures? Or, do we wait until trump secretly invites Putin to occupy American soil? » Posted By TOCB On July 21, 2020 @ 8:25 pm For Evil to Flourish, It Only Requires Good People to do Nothing Brilliantly expressed. I share the anger and frustration of our current circumstances. I don’t have the gifted writing skills you possess, so I am happy that we have access to and are allowed to share videos on this site. As I was reading your piece, I thought of how we need to hold on to the thought that we are all in this together. I remembered an MSNBC commercial where Chris Hayes says that. I tried to find a video of him just saying those words, but I couldn’t find it. What I found instead is a monologue he shared on Memorial Day weekend a couple of months ago. It is eight minutes long instead of my preferred short version, but I think it is worth the listen. Trump Has Failed Us, But We Shouldn’t Fail Each Other.
The Wall Of Moms is a great example of all of us being together. I don’t like to even use the word “hate”, as it vexes my spirit. However, I feel a real sense of disgust with the actions of trump and those who support him. My saving grace is that I am of the orientation that all things are done in service to the One Infinite Creator, and “all” has to encompass “all”. I think of it sort of like Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Because of the many distortions of human-kind, we look at things through a lens of good and evil, right and wrong, ect. However, in the grand scheme of things “all” things are the Creator. My preference is to live in a democratic society where everyone is equally valued and the resources of society are proportionately available for everyone. The challenge is how we manifest that reality. I recently read where some Americans believe that humans can never have a just society, because of our human frailties. They believe we can only succeed if we all agree to live according to the laws of God. The only problem I have with that is that in our 3D illusion, individually we are not God, so which theocratic laws would we be able to agree to live by? Until we are able to resolve that paradox, I prefer a society where I am able to exercise my free will, as long as it doesn’t infringe the free will of others; and I am willing to agree to societal norms that protect my free will while also protecting the free will of others. Adonai » Posted By TOCB On July 25, 2020 @ 5:55 am Weekend Music Thread – Freedom Highway A late entry of Freedom Highway.
» Posted By TOCB On July 20, 2020 @ 6:38 am My Father’s Advice On Opposing Racists: “Let Them Keep Talking” I was born and “reared” (raised) in rural East Texas in 1952. I am of your father’s generation. I am black. I grew up in the south during Jim Crow. I was in the first class that integrated our schools when I was 15, going to the 10th grade. Most of my childhood was completely segregated, but even the three years I attended the integrated school, we were still basically segregated. I am a grandson of sharecroppers, and since my grandparents raised me, I am more like the son of sharecroppers. I never attended a high school prom, because white people did not want young blacks and whites to “socialize” in my town in those days. I don’t know if the white kids had private proms in that era, but the black kids did not. I HEARD that white kids often watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show at our segregated movie theater, where blacks had to sit in the balcony. The movie would begin around midnight, after the theater was closed to black people. On my mother’s side of the family, my great-great grandfather was white Irish, who lived with and raised children with my black great-great grandmother from the 1870s. When he died, he left his land to my great-great grandmother and his mulatto children. The KKK later took the land. The reason I mentioned my Irish ancestry is to point out that I know not all white people were incapable of actually loving black people. I recognize that we cannot change history, even if we choose to tell a different story than what actually happened, as most official history books tend to do. However, some of my heroes are white people; those who are capable of actually loving all people. The land story is not unique to my family. It is a common story in black families. In fact, one of my cousins married a white man in the early 1960s when interracial marriage was still illegal in most of the country. Her husband was a member of the John Birch Society before they were married, and he had a fairly large ranch in Idaho. After he married my cousin, he was kicked out of the John Birch Society and his land was taken away from him. He too, loved his black wife and his mulatto children. I don’t know where, when or how the majority of white people developed a hatred for people who don’t look like them. It must be a terrible existence to think that way. I cannot relate to it at all. I love all people. I don’t think that was ever a choice I made. It just comes natural for me. I THINK I have always known that all beings are a part of the Creator, and if we love the Creator and ourselves, it is only natural that we love our other selves. White people will have to deal with the Karma they created. The only way to avoid it is to forgive themselves, which requires them to treat their other selves as they would treat themselves. That is how we evolve as a social complex on this sphere in this plane. » Posted By TOCB On July 10, 2020 @ 4:51 amComments Posted By TOCB
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