I reas also that he was a right wing attorney who hated women.
Den Hollander is a notoriously anti-feminist men's rights attorney, whose vitriolic website and book condemn women in rage-filled terms. In one of his books, he specifically blasted Salas by name as "lazy and incompetent" and said her only accomplishment was being a high school cheerleader. Den Hollander appeared in her court at one time as counsel in a lawsuit over the all-male military draft.
(Den Hollander previously sued multiple NBC News anchors, as well as anchors from other networks, and alleged they engaged in an illegal conspiracy to prevent Donald Trump's election to the presidency.)
Another article said he had cancer
The men’s rights maniac who reportedly opened fire on New Jersey federal judge’s husband and son had terminal cancer and a long history of failed anti-feminist lawsuits.
@michele-bthank you very much for this link.. I am saved.. this is exactly what I need today, and I think I will share it with the world..
Oh Deborah if you only knew how my heart soars when someone says something like that!
Big, big socially distanced hug!
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"Do not get lost in a sea of despair.
Be hopeful, be optimistic.
Our struggle is not the struggle of a day,
a week, a month, or a year.
It is the struggle of a lifetime.
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise
and get in good trouble, necessary trouble."
Rep. John Robert Lewis (2/21/40 – 7/17/2020)
Beautiful beautiful beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. I want to cry everytime I even think of this great beacon of light going through his life experiences just because of the color of his skin.
They made have broken his body but they never broke his amazing spirit.
The moms wore yellow and carried sunflowers. Somewhere it was predicted on this forum that sunflowers would be the symbol of a peaceful movement.
I have some good news. My BFF - the wealthy conservative one who I've mentioned on here before - both she and her husband are pledging to vote for Biden.
Yes, they believe he's "demented and unfit", and I can't seem to convince them otherwise, but they are finally recognizing the evil that occupies the WH currently. They also said that they'd prefer Kamala Harris as VP choice, which I jumped on to say "Well, you know Biden is elderly, he might not survive even one term or he may step down if he gets too sick, so I'm also hoping he picks a good VP because I believe they will be President eventually." That did the trick.
I'm not sure; I didn't see the interview, I just read about the comment. Pelosi has a quick wit and I LOL'd too.
Apparently, though, Mika was going off today about why didn't Hillary warn us about T., ect. Give me a break. She warned and warned and warned and not enough people listened. I was really pissed when I read that.
Well, Trump is trying to recharge his election campaign today. First, he announced that he is sending more of his "secret police" to cities like Chicago to re-establish "law and order." Second, he has announced that the covid-19 daily briefs will start back up.
A few thoughts on his announcement and the current state of the election:
1. I get what Trump is planning with his "law and order" ploy. He is trying to antagonize the so-called "liberal" cities and show his supporters that he can stop the Democrats from rioting if he succeeds in cheating on the election. By sending his secret police, he thinks he will accomplish the following:
(1) change the focus of the nation away from covid-19.
(2) punish the protesters, whom he partly blames for his low approval numbers.
(3) start fights with "liberal" cities to feed into his narrative that Democrats and liberals want to "defund the police" and plunge the nation into a state of lawless chaos.
(4) if possible, keep the secret police at the cities and use them to slow and/or stop turnout for the November election.
Trump is so easy to read. But his tactic here won't work. And here is why.
(1) Despite Trump's efforts, Covid-19 is spreading out of control in red states, particularly Texas, Florida, and Arizona. He can't stop the coverage of the overfilled hospitals and the overflowing morgues. And if you are a Republican in a red state where the virus is spiraling out of control to the point where thousands are dying and the state has to reclose again, are you really going to care about protesters in Chicago? People are selfish, and in times of crisis many will make themselves and their families their number one priority (there is nothing wrong with that, as it is instinct for people to want to survive). In this case, the selfishness will doom Trump's new ploy. If anything, Republicans in red states are going to ask why Trump won't deploy troops into their states to help with the virus.
As a resident from a "red state," I am afraid that many of my colleagues and neighbors believe (wrongly) that residents in big "liberal" cities are evil and prone to violence on a normal basis. Sadly, some of them have expressed the opinion that the liberals should just "shoot each other." As wrong and evil as their views are, this viewpoint actually serves Democrats in this instance in that some Republicans believe that Trump is wasting his time when he could be using troops to help them.
Basically, Trump will only succeed in making the Democrats in cities hate him more, and the Republicans in red states will feel neglected.
(2) Trump has already tried the "law and order" tactic before. If you recall, he tried to push the idea of evil immigrant caravans coming from Mexico to overtake the borders, a ploy he pulled in 2018 to try to save the Republicans in the House. Not only did this ploy not work, but the House Republicans lost forty seats, more than enough to give Democrats a comfortable majority. As I said before, the majority of the country are not worried about what protestors are doing in Portland and Chicago. They are worried about unemployment benefits, health care, and covid 19. So if any of you are worried that Trump will somehow manage to "flip the script" and paint himself as a "law and order" president, remember that if tactic didn't work in 2018 (when we had a thriving economy and no covid 19), then why would it work this time?
(3) Trump may think that his secret police will turn down voters in November via their presence, but it won't work. For one thing, most people who will vote against Trump are not participating at the protests, so the secret police can't find them. Further, Trump's tactics will only harden the resolve of those who plan to vote against Trump and the Republicans.
And now, some random thoughts:
1. Whoever thought that restarting the White House daily briefings should be fired. Seriously, are they really going to put Trump up their AGAIN?!!! He talked about drinking bleach last time, so why the heck would they let him back on? All he is going to do is pick fights with the journalists, spout nonsense and conspiracy theories, fight with his own experts, and basically plunging his polling numbers even lower. And even if they keep Trump off and just put Pence, that won't be much better, because Pence is about as riveting and watching paint dry and is just as useful (which is to say, not much).
2. I said it before, but Trump is an idiot about Covid 19. Right now, Florida, Arizona, Texas, and other states are paying a steep price for re-opening early at Memorial Day, as these states are already experiencing death tolls that are threatening to overwhelm the hospitals. Over the next few weeks, we will likely see pictures of body bags and states shutting down again. And to top it off, many states will start schools in August despite not being ready, so in approximately two months (October), we will be bombarded with pictures of children on ventilators. Already, Trump and the Republican Party are making enemies of teachers and suburban women, but I guarantee that if a large number of children start dying from covid 19, then Republicans will rue the day they ever heard of Trump, much less made him their leader.
3. We all know that, on average, Republican voters tend to be older (over 40) and Caucasian, and that Democrats tend to be younger and are more diverse. This is not absolute, because there are plenty of people under 40 who are conservatives, while there are elderly people who vote Democrat. But regardless, we know that the Republican voters tend to be older and thus (based on current data) more likely to suffer hospitalization and death from Covid 19. Having said that, Trump and the Republicans are so incredibly stupid by allowing the virus to rage out of control and to deny mail-in voting. If events continue to unfold without interference soon, then Republicans will lose control of everything. First, older, more vunerable voters will either die, be hospitalized, or be too afraid of the risks to attempt to vote in November, and they won't be able to mail in their votes because Trump and Republicans are against mail ballots. However, younger voters (who tend to vote Democrat) will crawl over broker glass to vote in November because they hate Trump and because they are less likely to develop complications from Covid 19. Also, in blue states, they will be able to take advantage of mail ballots.
A blue wave is coming, and the Republicans will be swept away in the flood. So long as we all VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO! Because I really, really, really would love it if McConnell lost his seat. If his opponent was smart, she needs to use only two words; "term limits." McConnell has been in too long, and Kentucky is still a poor state with a lot of problems. So why give McConnell another term? He had had...seven? It's time for a new person.
@laura-f Great news! Here's hoping for more conservatives turning.
@allyn. Thank you again for your thorough analyses. I do hope that the decision about schools gets turned around by a court or something.
Indeed, we in Europe would crawl to get him out of there (decisions the US makes impact us as well: environment, military, global trade, UN, Iran, Syria etc), so I can imagine that Americans who can vote would move heaven and earth to do so.
@polarberry, I'm glad that I didn't hear Mika going off today about Hillary. I don't need a spike in my BP so early in the morning.
Also, even if that were true about Hillary, what's that saying? People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones? Back when T was running, I clearly remember Mika and Joe enabling that monster. T would frequently call into their show, and they would trip over themselves to accommodate him. They kissed his butt. T was given free reign and plenty of time to spew his crap. While they may not have fully recognized the depths of T's ignorance and depravity, they knew enough about him to recognize that he wasn't fit to be president. Their defense has been, well he was never like that years ago. He's changed. BS! It's all in the ratings, you know? $$$
They should follow the example of Tony Schwartz who co-wrote "The Art of the Deal." While T was still running for president, Schwartz stated that he felt a deep sense of remorse for presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is. At that time he warned us of the dangers if T won. Schwartz is still remorseful, saying that there is no righting this, and he will carry this with him until the end of his life. Schwartz has donated all of the book's proceeds to human rights' causes.
@laura-f, well my jaw just dropped when I read about your friends. Hallelujah!
@ghandigirl thanks for noticing this. baba predicted it. :-) it’s now listed in the hits thread.