Donald Trump sold out the country to our greatest enemy, raped or abused two dozen women, defrauded the federal government for years, serially obstructed justice, violated his oath, and orchestrated a coup attempt. And we're still dealing with marginal charges against his staff.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died and tens of millions suffered because of the criminal malfeasance of this man in managing a pandemic, the most costly and damaging set of decisions ever by a US president, and we are debating the tax implications of his CFO's car.
No American president has ever been more corrupt, committed more crimes, committed crimes of such a serious degree, caused suffering among so many Americans because of his crimes and we're wondering about the tax consequences of how his accountant got his apartment.
That is among the most galling aspects of Trump's life. Not only has he so regularly & egregiously violated the law, but he has gotten away with it, all of it & he is still doing so. There are kids in jail for stealing loaves of bread and this career criminal lives in luxury.
There is no system of justice worthy of the name in the U.S. as long as Donald Trump is a free man, unaccountable for his lifetime of crime.
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Juneteenth evokes many feelings and reminds of many deeply ingrained flaws in our system and society. But it also reminds us of the lengths to which we will go, the sacrifices we have made, to fight for the aspirational ideas underlying our democracy.
With our democracy at risk, with inequality rampant, with systemic racism still a defining aspect of life in America, this day should underscore that the first step toward repairing what is broken in America is to acknowledge what is wrong.
The illusion of an idealized America, the resistance to self-criticism, promoted now by the right, is the enemy of progress a system whose genius is the ability to perfect itself. It reveals a fundamental lack of understanding of what truly makes us great.
NYC ranked choice voting made easy: 1. @MayaWiley--Far and away the best choice by virtue of vision, intellect, experience, compassion. 2. Garcia--Not bad but unlikely to drive needed change. 3. Morales--Not gonna happen, but smarter and more lively than those who follow
4. Donovan-Revenge of the Nerds does not end w/one becoming NYC Mayor. Earnest,but that's it.
Big gap. I mean, really big.
Tied for last. Yang-Out of touch huckster with zero experience.
Tied for last. McGuire-Wall St's hopeless idea of what a Trojan horse mayor looks like.
Tied for last. Adams--Bad ideas, dubious ties, old school in many of the worst ways.
Yesterday, I wrote an article about the progress @POTUS & @VP have made on the int'l front this past week. I observed that it was the result of sound diplomacy, hard work, experience & vision. I immediately got slammed by some folks for suggesting I was being blindly supportive.
That's Twitter, I suppose. I seldom respond to such nonsense. But, in this case, I think it is worth taking a moment to say that the reason I wrote what I did is because...it's true. The past week shows a Biden team that knows what it's doing on foreign policy.
The list of accomplishments is material. Restored relationships with allies. Revitalized commitments to the G7, NATO and our relationship with the EU. A major and meaningful commitment on vaccines for nations in need that led to a G7 wide commitment of 1 billion doses.
Every day we discover the Trump Admin was responsible for even more abuses, even more crimes. Many are unprecedented, mind-boggling in their outrageousness. And yet on the federal level, we never seem to move any closer to holding Trump or those close to him responsible.
For those who consider themselves institutionalists, be clear, the lack of accountability is a cancer on the institutions of our government--the presidency, the Department of Justice, the Congress.
The crimes will not simply go away if we ignore them. They will metastasize. They will become president. What was unthinkable will become acceptable practice. Checks and balances will disappear. Old norms will be forgotten. We will become more lawless and less democratic.
Immigration on our southern border is a complex problem that's been with us for decades. No one has managed it well. The Congress has made matters more difficult resisting immigration reform. That's why it was an act of leadership and courage for @VP to take it on.
The VP's trip to Mexico and Guatemala involved delicate and emotionally fraught issues. Her focus was on having the US play a more active role in helping our neighbors address the root causes of immigration--especially important after the Trump admin rejected such a role.
She made substantial commitments to help in this area--through aid and loans. Her comment that immigrants from Guatemala should not come to the US was the only comment she could have given and any alternative she might have offered would also have generated substantial criticism.
This is a stunning display of intellectual dishonesty. It serially suggests equivalency between those who oppose Israel's policy and those who espouse hate, implies a tie between those with rational critiques and those with irrational hostility. nytimes.com/2021/05/24/opi…
It suggests that criticism of Israel is due to anti-semitism if critics somehow fail in those criticisms to denounce every other act of wrong-doing on the planet at the same time. And of course, it suggests that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism simply because...
...some anti-Semites also frame their repulsive hatred in criticisms of Israel. It is a classic example of dishonest argument, contortionist in the way it twists and weaves half-truths, distortions and sophistry into what appears to be an argument but is really a tantrum.