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Trump amended the informal Constitution

February 23, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The 5 Trump Amendments to the Constitution The 45th president profoundly altered our system of government. Jonathan Rauch Contributing writer at The Atlantic Amendment 1. No president shall be removed from office for treason, bribery, or any other crime or misdemeanor, no matter how high, should a partisan minority of the Senate choose to protect … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Politics, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: bribery, bstructing justice, Congressional, Congressional appropriations, Congressional oversight, crime or misdemeanor, Donald Trump, oversight, pardons, tampering with witnesses, treason, Trump

Dreaming? Last night

February 21, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Dreaming? Last night, I thought of Timothy McVeigh, I saw images of the April 19, 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building after the bombing, and I thought of Trump’s brag that “he’d not leave the political field.” Putting this together at 2 a.m. in a fog of sleep left me thinking of the WPE (Worst … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, bloodshed, FBI, MAGA, Timothy McVeigh, Trump, violence, worst-president-ever, WPE

The Trump Crew’s Incompetence Lasted to the End

February 13, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

So we never forget, as the reign of the WPE (worst-president-ever) slowly slips into the sunset, we need to remember a few things. David Frum in the Atlantic has written an excellent essay covering some of those things: The Trump Crew’s Incompetence Lasted to the End. The former president’s lawyers were bad—but that was all … [Read more…]

Posted in: Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: Atlantic, corruption, David Frum, Impeachment, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, John Ratcliff, Matthew Whitaker, Michael Flynn, Michael van der Veen, Richard Grenell, Scott Pruitt, Sebastian Gorka, Trump, worst-president-ever, WPE

A Century Ago, White Protestant Extremism Marched on Washington

February 7, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the Feb. 7, 2021 New York Times: Kelly J. Baker is a writer and scholar of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. She sees frightening similarities between that culture and the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6. A most interesting essay showing how things have not changed in ~100 years, the rhetoric … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Politics, Racism, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: 1920, American history, anti-immigrant, Catholic immigrants, evangelical movement, extremism, immigrants, Jewish immigrants, Klansmen, misogynistic, Protestant Christianity, The Klan, Trump, White Christianity, white supremacist

“…the worst thing that an American president could ever do.”

January 22, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Atlantic’s Peter Nicholas writes in “What I Saw at the White House on Trump’s Last Day” “This is the only president in American history who incited an insurrection against Congress that could have resulted in assassinations and hostage-taking and, conceivably, the cancellation of a free presidential election and the fracturing of a democracy,” Michael … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Politics, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: Donald Trump, insurrection

Before Capitol Riot, Republican Lawmakers Fanned the Flames

January 11, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the NYTimes: Before Capitol Riot, Republican Lawmakers Fanned the Flames A “1776 moment”: Several of the president’s closest allies in Congress used bellicose language to urge their supporters to attend the Jan. 6 rally that turned into a deadly riot. Just so we don’t forget.

Posted in: Politics, Racism, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: Ali Alexander, Andy Biggs, anti-Christian socialists, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, MAGA, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, Pete Sessions, the Capitol

‘Destructive madness’ – SWISSINFO on 01/06/2021

January 8, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Over at SWISSINFO is a telling summary of the Swiss newspaper editorials concerning the mob at the US Capitol on 01/06/2021: Swiss Perspectives The Tages-Anzeiger said: “If there’s one positive aspect to the storming of Congress, it’s that whoever still goes along with Trump’s insanity will now go down with him. In that respect, the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Pandemic, Politics, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: Blick, democracy, Donald Trump, Le Temps, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ, Swiss papers, Tages-Anzeiger, US Capitol riot

The 147 Republicans Who Voted To Overturn Election Results

January 7, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Just so we don’t forget: The 147 Republicans Who Voted To Overturn Election Results By Karen Yourish, Larry Buchanan and Denise Lu Updated January 7, 2021 Here are the eight senators and 139 representatives who voted to sustain one or both objections.

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: lawmakers, Republican, Republican lawmakers, Trump

Business Leaders Condemn Violence on Capitol Hill: ‘This Is Sedition’

January 6, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the NYT today – I never thought that we would see this: Business Leaders Condemn Violence on Capitol Hill: ‘This Is Sedition’ The National Association of Manufacturers, one of the country’s largest lobbying groups, suggested that Vice President Mike Pence should consider invoking a provision of the 25th Amendment that allows members of the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Finanace, Politics, Racism, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: 25th Amendment, Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, sedition, Thomas J. Donohue, Trump, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Vice President Pence

Wired: Firing Christopher Krebs Crosses a Line—Even for Trump

November 30, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

At Wired, an in depth essay on the work and firing of Chris Krebs at the CISA. While this is, I’m sure, just one of the many assholeries we’ll see from Trump on his way out, it is a tragedy in its own right.

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Future of Work, IT Failures, Politics, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: Christopher Krebs, CISA, DHS, Rumor Control website, Trump
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