We need an "agree" button, or an "agree but can't effing believe it" button.
The brutality, corruption and general insanity are escalating. I think Jeanne has said earlier in the year that when water circles the drain it accelerates, or something like that. Maybe that monster is circling the drain. I hope so. It's like every day I can't believe my eyes.
I believe that this is the article that @lynnventura was referring to.
Heartbreaking. I am with @Bluebelle and hope they are tired as well.
@bluebelle I absolutely do believe what this administration has done constitutes crimes against humanity, aided and abetted by some courts. I hope justice comes for them, but I'm not holding my breath.
The referrals for crimes against humanity made to The Hague will be ignored unless we descend into all out civil war. That being said, there is great value in continuing to file these referrals so that things are documented for history's sake.
Sorry this is off the topic of the inhumane deportation of immigrant children which is horrific and deserves its own thread but it is discussed here because it is the U.S. parallel to Hitler's treatment of the Jews: it is by far the Right's biggest crime against humanity in our lifetimes.
For a moment I'd like to bring up a different kind of Right wing progpaganda excuse for atrocities: that every time the country is spending money on the people rather than the wealthy or on the war machine, the Right starts crying Chicken Little about how that spending will destroy our country. The deficit! The deficit! they moan.
We are going to get on top of this pandemic and we will rebuild our economy eventually to a more equitable true economy.
The deficit rant: Blame it on food stamps, blame it on unemployment benefits, blame it on immigrants, blame it on Social Security, blame it on Medicare, oh, and public education, welfare and social services.
No. Those social programs have not caused the deficit. Money to the rich and their corporations and their f-ing banks have caused the deficit. Money to the people is an investment, the only investment worth spending on.
Here's someone with the right attitude: Chamath Palihapitiya, chief executive of venture capital fund Social Capital, gave an interview on CNBC, recapped in an article in MarketWatch: