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Trump gives away farm to Kim!
Fleeing gang violence no longer an acceptable reason to seek asylum.
EU and US ready to divorce…
US and Canada in cat fight…wall imminent.
Trump preparing new coalition of dictators…..
Prepare for Fortress US.
I hit an emotional wall yesterday. After all the assholery of the current administration and its party-affiliated enablers, I finally reached a point yesterday where I cried for the state of my country and my religion (or at least the name of my religion). I don't know just which piece of news it was; I suspect it was Jeff Sessions' declaration that the US would now turn away domestic and gang violence victims as asylum seekers (stacked on top of prosecuting all illegal entries including asylum seekers, and separating all immigrant children from their parents, and…)
Whatever the cause, I'm done. I've had it with the cover right-wingers pull on when they claim morality. They have none to speak of. They're cowards and fear-mongers and outright bigots. There's no compassion there. Not even the barest thread of following Christ remains. They're no better than generations of so-called believers before them, reduced to sucking Mammon's teat and proclaiming how much better they are. Fuck 'em. Not-so-sorry, Moddy and AC and other Trumpists – I won't join the name-calling, but you're all pieces of shit for supporting the vile policies that define the Republican Party these days.
Oh, and stay upwind – if you can.
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I left Christian church 55 years ago, PR. I couldn't believe in a God that commanded genocide (Jerico and many others) and murdered babies still in their mothers wombs because they were sinners (Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.)
Plus, I was rather fond of cheeseburgers, which Leviticus says are abominations because meat and dairy have to be on separate plates.
Alas, I can no longer sin by cheeseburger s because I've had to go vegan to try to control diabetes. And I still regard Matthew 25 as among the most sublime guides to humane behaviour ever written, a passage Mike Bowman cited yesterday.
I can respect the horror with which you look at the Trumps and the Kochs. But enjoy their efforts to pass their camels through the eye of a needle. No, it's not a gate in Jerusalem. It's proof that they will never enter the kingdom of heaven, not even here on earth.
Jesus was in prison and they invested in more private prisons that they might profit from his pain.
He was hungry and they cut his food stamps so they could give tax cuts to the rich.
He was thirsty and they ordered their servants to take his water and wash their Porsches and BMWs, so the dust would not dim their grandeur.
And as they did to these, the least of his people, they bowed to Putin and Kim and vowed to Make Hell great again.
Pax vobiscum, friend.
Whether there truly are deities or not, your fight is a righteous one.
Just when I think there is no hope for you, you bring me to tears. Thanks for that, V.
You are a good man.
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I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ. –Ghandi
Totally with you.
Looking forward to reading comments from Sen. Cory Gardner on the amazingly wonderful summit he helped prepare. Anyone have a guess how he'll spin the conference of world leaders in Singapore, where we got promises quite similar to previous sets of talks, *resident Trump agreed that joint military exercises are irritating, and there apparently was discussion about the real estate development possibilities of the North Korean shores?
And … Cory's website says:
No comment on *resident Trump's admission that China has allowed more goods to go through its border.
No comment on *resident Trump apparently agreeing to abandon joint military exercises.
No comment on *resident Trump talking real estate development possibilities — "Boy, look at that view. Wouldn’t that make a great condo? Instead of doing that you could have the best hotels in the world right there. Think of it from a real estate perspective, you have South Korea, you have China, and they own the land in the middle, how bad is that, right? It’s great,” Trump said.
J i D, that last quote – I had to read it twice to know it wasn't a parody.
Yep … *resident Trump not only wants to undercut anything Obama ever did, but he's out to make The Onion obsolete.
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Mission: Waaaayyyyy past accomplished.
When asked this morning about CVID, Trump said this wasn’t the strategy (clip from Morning Jo). He did promise that “many, many people” would be watching them, though. His heaping praise of KJU as a ‘talented and brilliant man’ was something to watch.
Some of us do make voting rights a big issue – and we take a lot of shit for it, too.
But I'm getting away from the computer for the rest of today. And I'm about to start my summer job teaching adults, so won't be on here much.
I know a few who will be happy about that.
Thank the Lord for small favors, my Grandma always said.
We will cover for you, mama…V. gets no respite…no mercy.
As part of my newfound outrage, I'm thinking of lobbying national Democrats for a Voting Rights Amendment. We don't technically have a right to vote, not in the Constitution. And bigots and party-control fanatics have been using that lack to suppress the vote since at least the end of the Civil War.
It's so simple; it's black-and-white, really. You don't want citizens voting or you do. Democrats are on the right side of this and have been for years now, but they're fighting small battles. Put up an amendment and it becomes a single issue that illuminates the problem.
Voting Rights amendment is a fine idea …
I'd complicate it a bit by insuring not only a national right to vote, but mandating Congress must set up a uniform standard for voting rights across the nation. I would like Congress to consolidate and set rules to:
I'm sure there are others I'm not immediately thinking of — but this is a start.
Those are good, John, but include automatic voter registration with motor vehicle registration, pre-registration of 17 year olds. Colorado is a leader in electoral reform (Thanks Senator Giron!), and other states are copying our system.
Timely remote internet voting by deployed military. (Gilbert Ortiz fought a long battle over this in Pueblo – those "patriotic" GOP pols wanted to deny deployed soldiers their voting rights)
Basically, citizens should automatically be registered to vote unless they are convicted of and serving sentence for a crime.
Eric Holder /Barack Obama are fighting to roll back partisan redistricting.
But the best all around voting and elections resource is the Brennan Center for Justice. Here are their key principles for fair elections:
All good ideas, in my view. Anything to make voting a more uniform, inclusive, easy, less partisan activity is good. Brennan Center is doing good work, but I'm not certain they can stand up to ALEC, Koch backing of Kobach, and their ilk.
Voter rights just suffered a setback in Ohio. The Supreme Court decided to allow Ohio to purge "inactive voters" from its rolls.
This was the same thing Scott Gessler tried to do in 2011 and 2012 in Colorado, claiming thousands of noncitizen voters as justification. A Colorado judge blocked him.
But SCOTUS has now ruled that Ohio may purge "inactive" voters. Ohio has always been a critical state in Presidential elections. Its Secretary of State Ken Blackwell was a poster boy for voter suppression, and was widely criticized for his decisions that swung Ohio's vote to GW Bush in 2004.
So this decision to allow swing state Ohio to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters is very dangerous. Democrats in Ohio will have to be very active on the ground registering "inactive" voters now.
Just read that Ohio will not act on this ruling for the 2018 cycle. No "purge" this year.
That's good news. Link?
I saw it on Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-purge/ohio-will-not-purge-its-voter-rolls-before-november-election-idUSKBN1J82TT
No, that will take an army of people on the ground, as Obama had in 08. Some of us are "in the field" already.
Amendments have historically been very simple but profound. The right wording should cover all of it. A right to vote is a right to vote.
Immigration detention deaths reach the highest total since 2009 – and that was before they started breaking up the families and putting young kids in jail.
What you can do:
Sign the petition at familiesbelongtogether.org
Find and attend a support rally or march on June 14 (in Aurora, Denver, Pueblo so far in Colorado, and over 4,000 signed up in >60 cities nationwide so far.
Write to your representatives and ask them to cosponsor and vote for one of the bills sponsored by California congresswomen Roybal-Allard, Torres, and Feinstein. The two bills so far are the Help Separated Families Act of 2018, and the HELP Separated Children Act, and the Congress member introduced it along with Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN).
Also, House Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Bennie Johnson of Mississippi, and Zoe Lofgren of California are leading a group of 108 Democrats calling for Congress to say that no DHS budget funds can be used for family separation.
-Vox, by Ella Nilsen
In the Senate, Diane Feinstein has also introduced a bill, title unknown.
Why do we hold rallies on weekdays? And at 5pm when people are just leaving work, or in the middle of the day…
I couldn't make an Aurora rally even by 6pm.
Why do we hold rallies on weekdays?
Because real social activists do not trouble themselves with matters such as employment or work. They simply make a lot of noise and complain when they do not have a government willing to hand out free stuff to everyone.
I think it's because so many people who make social justice their life's work just don't think about the schedules of people who have other kinds of jobs.
Don't forget media coverage. You're far more likely to get some during the week. Newsrooms have smaller staffs on weekends.
You're in luck, PR, RR, cook….there is a following "Zero Tolerance for Family Separation" rally at 6:30 at Montview Presbyterian church in Park Hill. That's probably the one I'll be at, since I'm also working that day.
Thursday at 6:30 PM – 8 PM Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church
1980 Dahlia St, Denver, Colorado 80220
People will rally at the church, then march 1/3 of a mile to Temple Micah on Montview . This reflects the interfaith organizing of the immigrant rights movement.
The Aurora ICE facility rally at 5 pm may have been scheduled at 5 partly to encourage those incarcerated in the facility, who will be in dinner or recreation at that time.
As far as press coverage, Gertie, it isn't my responsibility, and these are young and inexperienced people organizing it, so I hope that they have their bases covered. You're right that the timing isn't convenient for reporters on deadline.
Message to Democrats:
I’m guessing, no, almost sure, that our very own SFL Bennet was one of the offended.
I’m also sure most around here don’t agree with Liz, but how else do you explain voters who voted twice for Obama and then the last time for Der Drumpf?
To this voter that shift seems inconceivable. Yet it seems they are somewhere out there.
Bernie Sanders supporter attends every DNC rule-change meeting. DNC member calls her a Russian plant.
Ought to encourage BOTH of these people to take a moment or two and introduce themselves.
A quick search of Google turned up another Mulholland moment: someone named Tim Black tweeted yesterday: "I just spoke with DNC Member Bob Mulholland. Bob thinks the Green Party is funded by Putin and aims to hurt Dems by cutting SuperDelegates. Bob blames Jill Stein. Bob ignores most Dems favor SuperDelegate reform. To Bob it's always the damned Russians."
Just checking … is there anyone similar to this on the Colorado delegation to the DNC?