On Monday, Darline Graham Nordone announced she would run to replace her recently deceased brother Lindsey Graham as a US Senator representing South Carolina. Should we be troubled that blood relation to a prominent legislator seems to be her primary qualification for the job?
Those of us not inexplicably under Trump's spell have to watch a sleezy, transparent conman degrade the office of the presidency and make decisions based not on what helps the country and its people but on what fattens his and his immoral family's wallets.
A president, who is the head of a party that is ostensibly in favor of capitalism, free markets, and small government, is enacting, with no apparent opposition, socialist policies that would be opposed at all costs coming from Bernie Sanders or the socialist Mayor of New York.
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The House essentially voted to sternly disapprove of the President's continuation of the war with Iran, refusing to do something substantive to reel in the President, reassert Congress's war authority, and maintain the separation of powers between the branches of government.
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About 20% of all lawyers employed by the federal government left in the 14 months following Trump regaining office. If you are an attorney who still retains a moral compass or believes in the foundational principles on which our justice system and nation were based, it is hard to imagine how you can justify continuing to work for the federal government.
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And so it is that on the country's 250th anniversary, the president is not putting on a celebration of the principles on which our nation was founded or its great accomplishments, but instead is putting on the modern equivalent of Roman gladiatorial games on the lawn of the White House. And to add insult to injury, unlike the Romans, the American people aren't getting bread.
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Jeff Bezos's positive shift toward Trump is emblematic of how many top tech executives have similarly shifted. As soon as it became more economically advantageous to support and work with Trump than to resist him and voice platitudes about American democracy, they all flocked to him.
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As part of President Donald Trump's corrupt settlement with the government he oversees to create a slush fund that would permit payouts to cronies and supporters using $1.776 billion of tax payer money, Trump, his family, and his business received additional, unprecedented legal immunity.
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A significant portion of Trump's supporters seem to be religious-like believers who will reflexively and fervently defend anything he does, but if a supporter were to start having doubts, there are significant intrinsic and extrinsic forces they would need to confront.
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While I too am sympathetic toward an apologetic, elderly, first-time offender, I fear that by giving Peters a break despite having undermined our elections, we may be further motivating others to commit similar or worse actions.
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