Can we please just add a amendment and force Obama to to be president again.
There couldn’t be a more stark juxtaposition of presidents. Better Angels vs. Bad Angels.
As always, the voice of reason and caution. Lest we forget, it was Republicans angry at FDR who pushed through the two-term limit to the Constitution. Bastards.
Ummm…I think President Obama is talking about this guy.
By the way, it feels good to type ‘President’ without any caveats, uncertainties, or shame hanging over that word. Not like it feels whenever I’m in a position to use the word in relation to the monster who’s currently in the executive office.
More than two terms was considered the path to tyranny until Reagan came along. Then three terms or whatever became fine. Bastards indeed.
I’d be happy if we could just enforce the Emoluments Clause in the Constitution. If Republicans can ignore that, they can ignore anything written in the Constitution. In other words, there are no guarantees anymore that what’s in the Constitution will be adhered to.
Nixon had Liddy and Hunt while trumPP has Flynn and Bannon, but I’ve just read that Liddy was alt-right before it had a name and he was not only a right-wing zealot with a fixation for Nazi regalia but he also organized a White House screening of Triumph of the Will. I’ve seen it and it’s a strange and remarkable film that you can’t actually recommend but you need to know what’s in it.
I believe Nixon had a few nazi-loving henchmen if I recall.
“The Jew is using The Black as muscle against you … Well, what are you going to do about it, Whitey? Just sit there? Of course not! You are going to join with us … an organization of decent, law abiding white folk – just like you!”
I tend to stick to 'Mr. Trump" with an occasional “President Chump.” Toying with Ctrump (like Cthulhu)
There’s this:
“Let’s face it, if people do not show respect and tolerance, eventually you have war and conflict,” Obama said. “Sooner or later societies break down.”
And there’s this:
Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!
Discuss, if you can through your tears…or rage.
Fourth Congress of Indonesian Diaspora in Jakarta
It’s natural to see Trump in this, but Obama is really talking about the negative developments in Indonesian politics and society over the past three or so years. The Christian Chinese-Indonesian former mayor of Jakarta was convicted and imprisoned for blasphemy in a case inflamed by opportunistic politicians and religious zealots.
“Nixon should have hired Japs instead of Krauts. The Japs would have committed Hai Karate when they got caught.” ~ Archie Bunker
“Let’s face it, if people do not show respect and tolerance, eventually you have war and conflict,” Obama said. “Sooner or later societies break down.”
Obama channeling Jared Diamond.
“a society’s fate lies in its own hands and depends substantially on its own choices.”
― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
PBO, as brilliant as ever, sees the future and it’s frightening.
As the manifestations of climate change increasingly take hold, large swathes of Africa and the Middle East will become inhabitable. Which will make today’s refugee crisis in Europe look like child’s play.
If we don’t get a hold of our common humanity, there will be war, starvation, pestilence, and increasing hatred and violence. It’ll be biblical in scope. And this future is not that far away.
The campaign which lead to Trump’s winning the Presidency was the electoral equivalent of mixing ammonia and bleach in the toilet. An “ensemble” Darwin Award.
The biggest nightmare is Bangladesh, where a population half the size of America’s lives in a place roughly the size of Montana that already experiences frequent flooding. Muslim extremists machete bloggers in the street and riots break out when the government tries to impose justice on war criminals who slaughtered innocents during the struggle for independence from Pakistan.
Where are they all going to go? Modi’s Hindu-nationalist India? Myanmar, where the Rohingya are quarantined - unable to find work or get an education - when they aren’t being beaten by Buddhist extremists?
Nationalism: an ideology based around fear of living in a globalized world