Comments by "freein2339" (@freein2339) on "CNN"
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@ASRMN27 Faced with the pandemic, Trump suppressed scientific data, delayed testing, mocked and blocked mask-wearing, and convened mass gatherings where social distancing was impossible. Despite the mounting threats of COVID-19 and global warming, he pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization and the Paris climate accord. He installed industry insiders in regulatory posts tasked with protecting Americans from environmental and occupational hazards; their regulatory rollbacks resulted in 22,000 excess deaths from such hazards in 2019 alone. He pushed through a $1.9 trillion tax cut for the wealthy, creating a budget hole that he then used to justify cutting food and housing assistance for the needy. He tried, but failed, to repeal the ACA, then bent every effort to undermine it, pushing up the number of uninsured Americans by 2.3 million. He denied entry to refugees fleeing violence, abused immigrant detainees, and penalized immigrants for accessing basic social services.
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@coolramone Stephen Ayres, who has pleaded guilty to illegally entering the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 and who testified at a January 6th Committee hearing, provides a powerful lesson for Republican Party leaders and the obvious start to solving our country’s painful division: Tell the truth.
Stephen Ayres has to rebuild his life, but at least now, he will know that his actions in life will be built on the wisdom gained through his pain: "The biggest thing for me is to take the blinders off and make sure you step back and see what's going on — before it's too late."
Why is that lesson so hard for Republican leaders to process? They have seen the tragic consequences of their lies on the lives of people like Stephen Ayres, and they know they are lies. So, stop. It is really that simple.
The lies of Republican leaders have not only hurt people like Steven Ayres, they have fed the hate of right-wing extremists — both individuals and para-military groups. Charlottesville, Buffalo, South Carolina, Oklahoma City, etc., all stand as tragic demonstrations of their hate and its fatal impact on innocent Americans. Reports make it clear that those groups are only gearing up for more violence in the future, egged on by Trump’s massive 2020 election lie.
Here is the simple truth: There was no measurable fraud in the 2020 election. No one stole it. Joe Biden won the 2020 election fairly.
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@MajorAnthonyNelson This is "another" misguided case of how the media HACKS feather their own nest by keeping Trump in the forefront of your attention!
It's beyond DISGUSTING! 🤮
It's enabling Trump to perpetuate himself as a publuc figure when, in fact, he is a TRAITOR.
One of the reasons I and others like me in our Forum have insisted AG Garland arrest, indict, and prosecute Trump, is the continuing presence of his influence that cannot contribute anything but further undermine our great country.
Articles and continual T-V coverage that focuses on anything other than the Criminality of January 6 and the LEADERS who planned and fostered it,
Is "craven". As such, it's contemptable and subverts the "accountability" Garland promised when he addressed the nation; which he has FAILED to deliver. 🤭
Put Donald J. Trump on Trial with the
Self-Serving Conspirators who joined him in SEDITION against the Constitutin. This includes Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Mark Meadows, Guiliane, Powell, and the rest of his Discilpes from the Pitt. 👹
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Stephen Ayres, who has pleaded guilty to illegally entering the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 and who testified at a January 6th Committee hearing, provides a powerful lesson for Republican Party leaders and the obvious start to solving our country’s painful division: Tell the truth.
Stephen Ayres has to rebuild his life, but at least now, he will know that his actions in life will be built on the wisdom gained through his pain: "The biggest thing for me is to take the blinders off and make sure you step back and see what's going on — before it's too late."
Why is that lesson so hard for Republican leaders to process? They have seen the tragic consequences of their lies on the lives of people like Stephen Ayres, and they know they are lies. So, stop. It is really that simple.
The lies of Republican leaders have not only hurt people like Steven Ayres, they have fed the hate of right-wing extremists — both individuals and para-military groups. Charlottesville, Buffalo, South Carolina, Oklahoma City, etc., all stand as tragic demonstrations of their hate and its fatal impact on innocent Americans. Reports make it clear that those groups are only gearing up for more violence in the future, egged on by Trump’s massive 2020 election lie.
Here is the simple truth: There was no measurable fraud in the 2020 election. No one stole it. Joe Biden won the 2020 election fairly.
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@mikesmith5600 The spectacular violence in the Capitol on January 6th was the outcome of Donald Trump’s yearslong dalliance with the white-supremacist right. Trump all but promised an attack of some kind as he called for his followers to descend on Washington, D.C., for a “wild” protest to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. In a speech inciting his supporters to lay siege to the Capitol, he told them, “We will never give up. We will never concede.” He encouraged them to “fight like hell,” saying that otherwise they would lose their country, and dispatched them to the Capitol. He promised that he would be with them. But, like a lazy coward, Trump went home to watch the show on TV.
The white right-wing assault on the Capitol, with a Confederate flag in the building and gallows on the lawn, was alarming yet wholly predictable as Trump’s frantic efforts to hold on to power faltered. Not only did Trump clearly incite violence with his speech, but his Administration also paved the way for the violence through its deliberate neglect of the rising threat of white extremism. The Center for Strategic and International Studies found that attacks by far-right perpetrators more than quadrupled between 2016 and 2017. Yet even as the threat of white-supremacist violence grew, it commanded little interest or acknowledgment from the Trump Administration. The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention, which was restructured and renamed in 2019, is dedicated to investigating extremism and domestic terrorism. Between 2017 and 2019, its operating budget was cut from twenty-one million dollars to less than three million, and the number of its full-time employees dwindled from forty to fewer than ten.
Instead of investigating white supremacists, the Trump Administration has surveilled the Black Lives Matter movement and other minority activists. According to New York University Law School’s Brennan Center for Justice, eighty-five percent of “countering violent extremism” grants under Trump have targeted marginalized and oppressed minority groups. In April of 2019, the F.B.I. announced a reduction in the number of categories used to catalogue acts of racially motivated violence, eliminating the specific category for white supremacists and introducing a vague one called “racially motivated extremism.”
Not only have white supremacists largely averted being disrupted or even investigated, but they also have had the comfort of seeing their racial fantasies expounded through the bully pulpit of Donald Trump and the wider mouthpiece of the Republican Party. Trump’s election clearly activated the white-racist fringe, sparking record numbers of hate crimes in 2017. A month after Trump was inaugurated, an Indian engineer named Srinivas Kuchibhotla was killed in a bar in Olathe, Kansas, by a white man who shouted racial epithets. On May 20, 2017, Richard Collins III, a twenty-three-year-old Black man, was stabbed to death in College Park, Maryland, by a white man who was a member of a Facebook group called Alt-Reich: Nation. This initial wave of violence peaked with the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, which brought white-racist thugs from around the country to stop the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue and resulted in the murder of the activist Heather Heyer.
Every step of the way, Trump and the Republican Party have either ignored the threat of racism and violence from the hard right or egged it on. Consider how the G.O.P. rallied around Kyle Rittenhouse, who took a semi-automatic rifle to anti-police-brutality demonstrations in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer and killed two people. He was celebrated not only by the fringe right, which applauds violence in hopes of sparking a race war, but also by members of Congress. Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin and the chair of the homeland-security committee, refused to condemn Rittenhouse and spoke about the importance of “citizen soldiers.” In a surreal scene, Trump defended the seventeen-year-old killer from a lectern adorned with the Presidential seal, lending legitimacy to white vigilantes attacking B.L.M. protests. The misrepresentation of B.L.M. as an insurgency as opposed to a social movement has also validated the militarized response of radicalized police officers and the intrusion of white “citizen soldiers” like Rittenhouse to defend “their” America from anti-racist activists.
The convergences between the Republican Party, white supremacists, and white militias grew more numerous and more threatening the closer we came to Election Day. Republican officials evinced a growing proclivity for authoritarianism, actively trying to suppress African-American access to the ballot and insisting that their Party was the legitimate victor in the recent elections. It is only a short hop from one form of political hostility to another, including the threat of political violence. Last December, Representative Madison Cawthorn, who has used white-nationalist symbols and rhetoric, told conservatives to “call your congressman and feel free—you can lightly threaten them.” Representative Mo Brooks introduced Trump at the rally that incited the riot. “Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking some ass,” Brooks said. “Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America?”
Such acts reflect the growing unity between establishment Republican Party and white supremacists, as well as between those groups and the police. In the past two elections, the Fraternal Order of Police, which claims to represent three hundred and fifty-five thousand police officers, has endorsed Trump. Last week, John Catanzara, the president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police lodge, said that he believed that the election had been stolen and defended the rampage at the Capitol, saying that “there was no arson, there was no burning of anything, there was no looting, there was very little destruction of property.” He said that Wednesday’s events were “very different than what happened all across this country all summer long in Democratic-ran cities and nobody had a problem with that.”
Catanzara later apologized and said that his statement was “poorly worded.” But these are not fringe politics. They emanate from the center of the Republican Party.
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