Month: July 2020
As Portland Goes, So Goes the Nation – OpEdNews.com Headline – Best of TREMR
COVID-19 under the averted eyes of our, wartime president has aided and abetted his negligence, in 1000 deaths each day for the last five days in several states. Texas in Triage mode choosing who gets hospitalized to Gurneys in hallways hoping there’ll be enough ventilating machines to save them from refrigerated trucks outside for those for whom there’s no room.
And still we fail to bridge the gap between reality and our homemade myths.
In his own words, Mark Meadows proved, everyone can come on TV and provide their opinion, confirming that Trump’s fourth Chief of Staff, like Pompeo, Munuchin, Kavanaugh, Pence, Barr, Cheney and Nixon – too many Americans have yet to manage navigating the bridge from gullible to discriminate.
What Protesters, state & local police and Barr’s get low gestapo must understand, and all living in America need to internalize is:
Our Constitutional right to peacefully assemble does not include acts of violence, including throwing Molotov Cocktails or attempts to damage Federal property. Doing so, we become clones of our adversaries and enable our unqualified presidential nemesis.
The Right to legally protect Federal Property doesn’t legally protect Banana Republic tactics of kidnapping peaceful protesters off the street without due process.
The pursuit of happiness for all living in America is substantially greater when we elect a president who is not a cowardly bully, draft dodger, tax cheat, running more to stay out of jail than stay in office.
By far, most of our employment challenges, healthcare crises and damage to our national peace of mind is due to Conservative Republicans who still want government small enough to drown in a bathtub, surviving only for gerrymandering census, tax collecting and making forever war to benefit Corporatism – refusing to accept that government has ever been responsible for the lives and livelihoods of the people.
Truthfully, the greatest destabilizing threat to American life continues to be our uncivil, and often camouflaged, internal war from sea to shining sea. It is the war between Caucasian Protestant males who, well before 1776, believed they are inherently superior in every way to all females of every color, political party, gay or straight, all Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos and Asian-Americans, – with special disdain for all who do not comply with their public sexual behavior, but rather choose sexual preferences and lifestyles, that their oppressors hypocritically practice in secret, while voting against in public.
While such flagrant profaning of, love thy neighbor as thyself, guaranteeing inequitable education, fear of diversity, hate for status quo evolving, bigotry toward inclusivity, and insufferable sexual hypocrisy is what bred Donald Trump, those who continue to support him remain our Dorian Gray portrait of what photo bombs America’s selfie.
Perhaps it’s time for America to be on, The Left Side of History, or at least for protest signs and T-Shirts to be more emphatically inclusive: White male lives don’t matter more than any Red, Black, Brown or Yellow life.
The truth we’re looking for to understand why some will always refuse to do what’s best for, the common good, is as close as America’s southern roots in slave economic dependency transplanted into the Federal Housing Administration segregation polices housed in both Democratic and Republican foundations.
People of Color were never afforded the opportunity to bridge the distance between educational and income disparity.
2020 is a clarion call from our past, offering us a way to change our future; for what we’re allowing to happen in Portland encourages evil men in unseen dark places to elevate immoral men to leadership positions.
Even after, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mosman gave Trump’s “Federales” the freedom to advance to Go, passing to collect their pieces of silver, GOP TV talking heads defended Trump’s taking a bridge too far, for a get out of jail free reelection.
Contrasting Trump’s Southern Strategy, Moms, Dads and Veterans are linked-in constructing a legitimate American wall of patriotic humanitarian protection, standing tall between Trump’s private police force and Americans exercising our exceptional right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances – clearly inspired by him whose hope to see his Pilot face to face, having crossed the bar, has been fulfilled.
In the midst of inadequate leadership, we must learn to lead from within a seemingly unstoppable virus, and defeat our nature, not satisfied with battering our shores, our stability and our lives, but ravenously exposing our smug arrogant belief, in false profits.
It must seem impossible in the face of such extremes, to recapture our gratitude, but doing so, we can be grateful for the wisdom to join Moms, Dads and Veterans empowered by the courage of a life well lived, and heroically emulate those who like John Lewis have crossed the blood stained bridge, one last time.
Let’s Make Good Trouble Get in the Way of our Bad President -Best of TREMR – OpEdNews.com Headline
Self-medicating more trying to get more than five hours sleep a night?
Seizing on a Bitcoin request, sailing off on a ship of Twitter fools soon parted from their money?
Seeing a familiar supremacist playbook, do we speak up, say something, do something morally courageous like, exercise the right of the people peaceably to assemble?
Are we so oblivious to Fascists transforming American Dream into a confused nightmare, thinking, Freedom of Speech gives us the right to endanger others – especially in southern states bearing the additional burden of Conservative Republican Governors’ arrogance and ignorance: failing constituents by not engaging in the commonsense of lockdowns and humanitarian patriotism of wearing masks.
Ignorance is not bliss. It’s been killing thousands of Americans every day, long before COVID-19 was aggravated by the trumped.
Sometime after midnight Thursday 16 July 2020, still heavy-laden by thoughts of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg facing another battle with Cancer and the cancerous tissue reconstructing Lincoln’s Republican Party, I decided to try sleeping.
By 7am Friday 17 July 2020 I was calling my political mentor who, in 2008, was the Democratic Nominee for Congress for Virginia’s 4th District – who had years ago invited me to an exploratory meeting, as a potential Communications Director. Introducing me to her table team, including an older gentleman at its head – I shook the hand of the Reverend Dr. C. T. Vivian.
Now, I was calling to tell her of his death.
Shortly before midnight Friday 17 July 2020, my screens lit up with a Washington Post news alert: John Lewis, front-line civil rights leader and eminence of Capitol Hill, dies at 80.
I was so overwhelmed by the sense of loss to American moral and intellectual leadership that I forgot the reality of the ineptitude and immorality of Donald Trump: now pushing to stop new money for CDC, testing and tracing our Homeland pandemic.
Only almighty universal power decides when to cutoff the tree of life of two such mighty oaks, whose justice for all roots dared to inspire peace in the face of physical brutality, unlawful arrest and a president refusing to preserve, protect and defend We The People.
The branches of such giants will continue to provide inviting shade for those weary of delays and half measures, seeking true democracy in the rejuvenating sanctuary of good trouble.
Walking in the shadow of death, we remember all who lost their fight to live, defeated by anti-American Conservative Senators, Governor clones of an apathetic president and the greed of corporate political handlers willingly risking the lives of school children.
Let’s get in the way of those who abuse medical staffs and grieving families targeted by COVID-19, and emulating John Lewis and C. T. Vivian, insist, get thee behind us selfishness, ignorance, and the MAGA arrogance infected Republican Party.
Although, in the midst of the Trump plague – not COVID-19 nor SCARS COVID-2 – but our infectious diseases exposed by Coronavirus.
While we were, the home of the brave, when
- United for independence for all
- Preserving our union
- Sacrificing at home and abroad to save the world from Axis powers far too similar to our current federal leadership
- Peaceful marchers protesting systemic racism, asking only that America keeps its promises
we have never been the land of the free – not completely, not ever – because the problem is not just the symbols but the, house divided against itself champions they celebrate.
Although a repugnant example of our extreme inhumanity to humankind, it was never just Trump.
It’s the journey from Dulles & Koch brothers to Karl Rove & Steve Bannon; from Nixon & Trickledown to Bush/Cheney forever wars.
It’s a post FDR’s 1945 death GOP, free at last, aided and abetted by Mitch McConnell’s 1984 election, now looking the other way when, with impunity, Trump’s private police kidnaps American citizens off American streets.
Auditioning to replace Netflix’s WWII Documentaries, Trump’s, Public Affairs Guidance: CBP Support to Protect Federal Facilities and Property – marked, For Official Use Only, enables a special task force created by the Department of Homeland Security in response to President Trump’s Executive Order on Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence.
That task force: the Protecting American Communities Task Force (PACT), has been tasked not only to assess civil unrest but also to ‘surge’ resources to protect against it.
It’s time to stop fighting among ourselves, and in ensemble, recognize, the greatest threats to America have been ensconced in our White House by Supreme Dirty Money, whose suppliers are not likely to accept negative returns on their investment.
As goes Advocates for peace and justice for all, so goes America.
Are we there yet, no, but following examples of better heroes, we’re closer, as a three-year-old plainly sees.
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