Along Trump’s journey to jail, Black Atlanta residents mix outrage with pride [...]“I see them bringing people to Rice Street every day,” said Riddle, using the colloquial name for the Atlanta jail. “But this was like a big show, this was a circus. He had this big police escort and all of that. If it were me or any other Black man accused of what he is accused of, we would have already been under the jail and they would have thrown the keys away.” https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=172716669
The US debt ceiling crisis is more proof of Republicans’ cynicism and bad faith Jill Filipovic Republicans want to force spending cuts by threat instead of legislating – and the cuts they’re asking for are appalling [...]Democrats in Congress are doing their best to get their Republican colleagues to behave rationally, but it’s notoriously difficult to negotiate with terrorists. The Republicans want major spending cuts, but they want to force those cuts through by threat instead of having to legislate normally. And the cuts they’re asking for are appalling .. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/heres-whats-in-the-gop-bill-to-lift-the-u-s-debt-limit : they include slashing funds to things like cancer research, rental assistance for the poor, support for schools with large numbers of low-income students, and pay for Americans in uniform. The Republican bill would end Biden’s attempt at student loan debt relief, repeal tax breaks for renewables and clean energy while increasing reliance on fossil fuels, raise already-onerous work requirements to receive food stamps and welfare benefits, and decrease the efficiency and abilities of the IRS. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=172028095
And yet another potential conversation continuer which you decided to pull the plug on further discussion on:
Re yours: So many successful Americans make a decision to support Democrats over Republicans. As if anyone but overly-cynical, negative partisans as you would see that as something of special significance.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”