Thanks @polarberry. Nice to hear from you.
Yes, this period has fully exposed him for being a fraud. Much more to come.
I'm not afraid of T not leaving after the election. He will no longer be president and they will physically remove him if necessary.
If I'm not mistaken and I could be. Someone ask Biden what would happen if he won and Rump refused to leave. He said that would be up to the Secret Service to remove him. Makes sense to me. What I find alarming is the Gen who is head of the JCS. He was boots on the ground the night of the stunt at the church. He said he was there to review the troops but he had no legal avenue to participate in domestic affairs. He is a Rumpster and if he speaks out it will be under pressure from the Pentigon. I don't trust any of these goons, they want blood, and they think they have the right to draw it. All it will take is one shoot fired and one death and the powder cage will blow. I am glad to see the former Generals and Defense officials speak put against this but you know it will only rile Rump up. No one is controlling him or Barr anymore and that will be trouble. I agree that they are scared and will, for the next five months, throw anything and everything at the wall to see what sticks. I just pray nothing does.
Don't get me wrong, I truly feel in my heart that Rump will not be re-elected. More and more rumpsters are turning against him. This trick with the photo op at the church was a big turn off to my christian friends who are neutral and not judgemental. One even discribed it as a descrase. Rump and Barr are getting more and more desparate and Rump is getting more and more unhindged (yeah). Ican see him having a major breakdown and noone will be able to cover it up.
Are you talking about Gen. Mark Milley? I read that he send a handwritten note to the armed forces reminding them of their oath to defend the Constitution and serve the American people. He told the troops and leaders that the military will uphold the values of our nation, and operate consistent with national laws and our own high standards of conduct at all times. His note came a day after Defense Secretary Esper announced he was opposed to Trump’s threat to use the military to quell the violence. It also followed that scathing op-ed in The Atlantic by Gen. James Mattis. I’m glad that Esper and Milley both issued statements, but I’m not giving them much credit for it. That’s the least they could do. Esper and Milley made those announcements after the public blowback to the vile display in front of St. Johns Church and the Mattis’ op-ed. If there hadn’t been a public outcry, would they have issued those statements?
@yogagirl, on another matter – what’s happening in KY? Can ya’ll ditch Mitch?
This morning D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser formally renamed a street outside the White House “Black Lives Matter Plaza.” She ordered city crews to paint the message in gigantic yellow letters down 16th Street.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/us/black-lives-matter-dc-street-white-house-trnd/index.html
@lawrence Looks like the tides have turned and whatever shenanigans he will do will no longer work. I remembered back in 11/11 I saw that Obama, Bush, and Clinton will be at the inauguration but not Trump. I take this to mean he will be removed or voluntary leaves from the WH.
@deetoo yep that’s the one. He was waddling behind the great orange one in Fatigues. Battle fatigues if I am not mistaken. He was on the street after the mayhem and someone ask him why he was there, he mumbled some nonsense about checking on the troops. The JCS have no legal jurisdiction in domestic affairs. The letter he wrote was after Mattis made his statement. Someone said, again I don’t know who or if it is correct, that he was in favor of Rumps pardon of the Seal that was convicted of murdering civilians in Iraq.
I wish I could tell you what is happening here in my old’ Kentucky home. Turtle man and Amy are neck and neck in the polls. He is running nasty ads about how she is in favor of “nine month abortions”. He is catering to the ignorant red neck population bible thumpers. They have yet to realize he is taking away everything they have. Health insurance, schools, rural hospitals and medical facilities and most importantly their food stamps. He plays them like a fiddle then leaves them with less than nothing. But they still vote for him because the Bible and their lord a Rump tells them too. Kentucky politics is awful. We had one of the best and most innovative Mayors in Louisville for years. He could not get elected to governor or Senator because he was from Louisville and he was Jewish. He ended up working for Obama on his ACA. He could have brought Ky into the current century instead we are stuck in the 1920’s.
we have had marches here like everyone else. A black women was shot in her bed two months ago on a no announce warrant. She was shot 8 times. The warrant was for a drug dealer who had previously lived at that address. To show how inaffective our police are the guy named in the warrant was already in jail. No charges against the cops, not even administrative leave. One of the cops has numerous sexual harassment charges by citizens in his file. After a black man was shot at a march last week out mayor fired the police chief. Big deal the chief had announced his retirement last month. I know we aren’t the only ones with these problems. My best friends brother is a retired cop, we ask him about what’s going on. He said the rookie cops are so scared of being killed they just panic. I don’t like the looting and believe a lot of it is just trouble makers not protesters. Something has got to happen.