I don’t know if I am more angry or terrified. How is this election close? Because of lies from Trump , the MAGA party, there is no more Republican Party. We know the other side is already filing lawsuits in the hope that one will go to the Supreme Court and they will hand the election to Trump. It has taken years to get to this point and so many things have led us to this. Let’s not forget if McConnell had convicted Trump in the impeachment trial we would not be dealing with this. NO ONE is coming to save us. I am terrified for my children and grandchildren.
I'm with you. It really shouldn't be close at all, there is NO choice for reasonable people. An articulate, intelligent, conscientious, energetic, successful person with a vision for moving America forward in excellent ways vs. a convicted felon who instigated a lethal insurrection against the country/Constitution he took an oath to protect as well as defying the espionage act with the theft of top secret documents and who has nothing to offer America except cozying up to dictators, advancement of white supremacy, division and tax cuts for the very wealthy.
During Democrats, lower and middle class increase standard of living. During Republicans, billionaires become richer and lower and middle class Americans needs are ignored. That's a fact.
If (when) the Tramp loses again, he will not be satisfied until an actual civil war is fought between the sane and normal people who didn't vote for him and the Maga Moron army of thugs. It will start out bloody and ugly, but Democracy will win. We, after all have the most powerful military in the world.
“It really shouldn't be close at all, there is NO choice for reasonable people.”
There is the rub. How does anyone assume we are a nation of reasonable people when Trump has already when elected before and is now being protected by our highest court?
I appreciate your comments but please stop the sales pitches for shirts and other items. You seriously cheapen yourself tacking an advertisement at the end. I stopped reading Occupy Democrats for this reason. Next time, leave the ad pitch out. If I see it again, I’ll know you’re only in it for money. That’ll make you the same as the GOP grifters we’re calling out. I think what you say has merit; prove it.
At first it seemed like a wonderful choice choosing him for Attorney General after being deprived of the SC. But it became obvious soon enough that Garland ended up being the worst choice after all. I agreed with you from the beginning that he was a whimpering small man.
Garland was Biden’s biggest failure. I’ve been saying this for years. Trump attempted to murder this nation on January 6th and the entire world witnessed the crime. He should have been arrested on January 7th.
He wasn't arrested on January 7th because he was still president & the DOJ had become corrupted & partisan under Trump, but he should've been arrested as soon as Biden was inaugurated.
Merrick Garland and the corrupt partisans at SCOTUS are the proximate causes of our current nightmare, but the rot goes far deeper. Nixon committed treason by submarining peace talks in Vietnam to get elected and only got forced out of office because of taped conversations that he could not suppress. But he got pardoned by Ford and was well on his way to totally rehabilitation when Satan called him home. Reagan committed treason in Iran/Contra with the help of GW Bush, Caspar Weinberger and others. He was saved from impeachment and prosecution by Republican partisans and a conveniently engineered (by Bill Barr) set of pardons for all of the co-conspirators. Oh, and the dementia didn't hurt either. He was also never held to account for his racism and his destruction of the economy. Which brings us to George W Bush and Dick Cheney who should have been impeached and removed over 9/11 (does anyone doubt if Gore had been president, the Republicans wouldn't have demanded it). They had diverted all the resources away from global to Russia and their plan to conquer the Middle East. The ignored multiple warnings. They were never even seriously questioned. And then there was the Iraq War for empire and oil. Abu Ghirab and torture. Allowing Bin Laden to escape Tora Bora. Crashing the economy. And more. No consequences because Obama wanted to look forward not backward. And then we got Trump. And because of Merrick F'king Garland and the Corrupt SCOTUS, he may escape as well. When do we, the people, say enough is enough and demand that Republicans pay the price for their crimes?
Based on what I heard yesterday about Smith's latest brief, I see that he really wants to pursue trump and bring him to justice. I was also pleased to hear that the state of NY has disbarred Rudy Giuliani, which to my mind is another form of justice.
I believe the government really did drag its feet intentionally. They had to make everything look legit, but Biden, Garland and most of the high powered politicos flat out do NOT want to see an ex President of the United States in prison. Bad look for our country. I don't agree. I think by usurping our constitution and letting Tramp get away with these very serious crimes so he can do it all again makes our country look weak in the eyes of the rest of the world. No one is above the law? What a joke!
AGREED! The question that needs to be asked is "What are we PREPARED TO DO?" Do they believe that the "3 Percent" is a strictly right wing movement? Plenty of people here believe otherwise and are likewise well armed. As is so widely said, "Fuck around and find out!"
The creepy, spectral Marley’s Ghost — oops, I mean Merrick Garland — has failed us in catastrophically slow motion. So yes, it’s up to us to trash Trump ourselves. Let’s bury him in ballots!
I wonder how Garland feels now. And of course the Supreme Court has damaged itself for years to come. Every president who appointed those horrible people is complicit. And yet George W., the only one besides Trump who's still alive, says nothing. At least some Republicans are standing up for democracy. Liz Cheney is campaigning with Harris today. Hell truly has frozen over.
Sadly, the battle for Democracy won't end with a Harris/Walz win. The HUGE MONEY behind MAGA is in for the long term, and won't be giving up until we get money out of politics and Elon Musk out of our Space program, satellite dependency and unrestrained hate propaganda. Project 2025 will just become Project 2029, and on and on. If you read today's Substack by Robert Reich, you will understand what they are doing. The goal is to turn our government into a giant corporation where only oligarchs have power.
I totally agree that AG Merrick Garland ‘s fear and quite frankly cowardice may by the answer to Walz question “ where is the firewall?” Our Department of Justice should have been the fire wall but AG Garland failed America and failed his oath. My question is WHY? Separate from that is the failure of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts who presided over two impeachments of trump with the affect of a court jester. I believe the founding father’s wanted the Chief Justice to preside over impeachment’s to guarantee the impeachment trial honored and respected the rule of law and the top oath to preserve and protect the constitution, Justice Roberts did nothing to honor his oath and the unique job the founders asked him to do over 200 years ago. Roberts listened to the charges against trump twice that both included personal and official acts of treason and misconduct yet he went on to listen to the oral arguments on the presidential immunity appeal and offered none of his direct knowledge to his fellow justices as they minimized the attack on Capitol as just a “peaceful” protest. Roberts then went on to author the fetid Presidential immunity decision. The of course the US Senate under Moscow Mitch with his corrupt Republican colleagues failed in their duty to convict trump and prevent him from ever holding any public office. It is now up to Americans to save our democracy from Trump and Vance and the oligarchs and fascists funding them.
Garland's lack of action is incompetent at best and disastrous at worst. We'll learn more after the election. As far as the "Supreme" Court goes, the conservatives on that bench are right-wing tools and Trump accomplices who are corrupt as hell. Between Garland and the SC, I'm amazed that our republic is still standing (for the moment, anyway).
I always felt Garland was corrupt. When you have Fox News and their ilk continuing to spread lies and a good 40% of the public in a cult of hate, racism and lies and all the corrupt judges, lawyers and republicans in federal and state government, what do you expect?
I have to disagree that he's corrupt. I think he was better off being a judge, because he doesn't have the right personality/skills to be an AG. After what trump did to the DOJ I can understand Garland not wanting to appear political, but this was really never about politics. The not appearing political overshadowed the real need the country has for prosecuting trump.
How does a convicted felon deserve all the perks afforded a former president, paid for by American citizens? How does he deserve anything other than prison and being stripped of all aforementioned perks? Why are we the people still faced with the prospect of Trump occupying the White House again in order to avoid prison and dismantle democracy? If it was private citizen you or me who committed the crimes, we would have had our asses thrown in prison and not allowed to even think about running for dogcatcher let alone the leader of the "free" world.
Garland chose to rehabilitate the reputation of the DOJ over preserving our Democracy. His catastrophic shortsightedness has almost damaged our country beyond repair. It’s been left to the Special Counsel to dig out from under the debris of unprosecuted criminality and treason: when Jack Smith needed a backhoe, the Supreme Court handed him a shovel, and admonished him not to use it.
It was my thought the evening of January 6, 2021 that Trump should be arrested for inciting to riot, but apparently, "when you're president, they let you do it." We had so many chances to stop this demon, but instead we had people, more concerned with party than law or democracy, who were only too happy to run interference for him to gain, or stay in, his favor.
I don’t know if I am more angry or terrified. How is this election close? Because of lies from Trump , the MAGA party, there is no more Republican Party. We know the other side is already filing lawsuits in the hope that one will go to the Supreme Court and they will hand the election to Trump. It has taken years to get to this point and so many things have led us to this. Let’s not forget if McConnell had convicted Trump in the impeachment trial we would not be dealing with this. NO ONE is coming to save us. I am terrified for my children and grandchildren.
We can and will save ourselves, by voting the bloodthirsty, corrupt, lying racist out of our lives once and for all.
We had better, or the U.S. is toast.
Can and will? We are at war with the crazies and the outcome is not certain.
I'm with you. It really shouldn't be close at all, there is NO choice for reasonable people. An articulate, intelligent, conscientious, energetic, successful person with a vision for moving America forward in excellent ways vs. a convicted felon who instigated a lethal insurrection against the country/Constitution he took an oath to protect as well as defying the espionage act with the theft of top secret documents and who has nothing to offer America except cozying up to dictators, advancement of white supremacy, division and tax cuts for the very wealthy.
During Democrats, lower and middle class increase standard of living. During Republicans, billionaires become richer and lower and middle class Americans needs are ignored. That's a fact.
Imagine wearing these t-shirts in a red state 👇 🤣
teespring.com/stores/libtees-2
Kamala is the ONLY choice. She will preserve our Democracy.
Vote blue up and down the ballot!
You forgot to mention that trump is again working to instigate violence.
And he’s a rapist!!
Funny how his sexual predation is so often tacked on at the end, as if he had a parking ticket too. No wonder young men are so attracted to Trump.
If (when) the Tramp loses again, he will not be satisfied until an actual civil war is fought between the sane and normal people who didn't vote for him and the Maga Moron army of thugs. It will start out bloody and ugly, but Democracy will win. We, after all have the most powerful military in the world.
Unfortunately, MANY in that giant military are magats, & insurrectionists in their hearts & souls. What does one do with that fact?
“It really shouldn't be close at all, there is NO choice for reasonable people.”
There is the rub. How does anyone assume we are a nation of reasonable people when Trump has already when elected before and is now being protected by our highest court?
Why does everyone forget he’s an adjudicated rapist!? That should be the first thing out of anyone’s mouth!
I appreciate your comments but please stop the sales pitches for shirts and other items. You seriously cheapen yourself tacking an advertisement at the end. I stopped reading Occupy Democrats for this reason. Next time, leave the ad pitch out. If I see it again, I’ll know you’re only in it for money. That’ll make you the same as the GOP grifters we’re calling out. I think what you say has merit; prove it.
At first it seemed like a wonderful choice choosing him for Attorney General after being deprived of the SC. But it became obvious soon enough that Garland ended up being the worst choice after all. I agreed with you from the beginning that he was a whimpering small man.
Nope, he’s a member of the Heritage Foundation.
Garland was Biden’s biggest failure. I’ve been saying this for years. Trump attempted to murder this nation on January 6th and the entire world witnessed the crime. He should have been arrested on January 7th.
Agreed 1000%
Amen!
He wasn't arrested on January 7th because he was still president & the DOJ had become corrupted & partisan under Trump, but he should've been arrested as soon as Biden was inaugurated.
I didn’t say he could have been arrested…I said should. I’m not an idiot.
Merrick Garland and the corrupt partisans at SCOTUS are the proximate causes of our current nightmare, but the rot goes far deeper. Nixon committed treason by submarining peace talks in Vietnam to get elected and only got forced out of office because of taped conversations that he could not suppress. But he got pardoned by Ford and was well on his way to totally rehabilitation when Satan called him home. Reagan committed treason in Iran/Contra with the help of GW Bush, Caspar Weinberger and others. He was saved from impeachment and prosecution by Republican partisans and a conveniently engineered (by Bill Barr) set of pardons for all of the co-conspirators. Oh, and the dementia didn't hurt either. He was also never held to account for his racism and his destruction of the economy. Which brings us to George W Bush and Dick Cheney who should have been impeached and removed over 9/11 (does anyone doubt if Gore had been president, the Republicans wouldn't have demanded it). They had diverted all the resources away from global to Russia and their plan to conquer the Middle East. The ignored multiple warnings. They were never even seriously questioned. And then there was the Iraq War for empire and oil. Abu Ghirab and torture. Allowing Bin Laden to escape Tora Bora. Crashing the economy. And more. No consequences because Obama wanted to look forward not backward. And then we got Trump. And because of Merrick F'king Garland and the Corrupt SCOTUS, he may escape as well. When do we, the people, say enough is enough and demand that Republicans pay the price for their crimes?
Based on what I heard yesterday about Smith's latest brief, I see that he really wants to pursue trump and bring him to justice. I was also pleased to hear that the state of NY has disbarred Rudy Giuliani, which to my mind is another form of justice.
I believe the government really did drag its feet intentionally. They had to make everything look legit, but Biden, Garland and most of the high powered politicos flat out do NOT want to see an ex President of the United States in prison. Bad look for our country. I don't agree. I think by usurping our constitution and letting Tramp get away with these very serious crimes so he can do it all again makes our country look weak in the eyes of the rest of the world. No one is above the law? What a joke!
AGREED! The question that needs to be asked is "What are we PREPARED TO DO?" Do they believe that the "3 Percent" is a strictly right wing movement? Plenty of people here believe otherwise and are likewise well armed. As is so widely said, "Fuck around and find out!"
The line is long but very direct. And to think, if those miscreants aren’t dead, they’re still running loose.
You speak for me.
When hell freezes over?
Excellent comment! Much along with what I've been saying. Very frustrating & enraging.
The creepy, spectral Marley’s Ghost — oops, I mean Merrick Garland — has failed us in catastrophically slow motion. So yes, it’s up to us to trash Trump ourselves. Let’s bury him in ballots!
I agree we have to vote him out by a large margin of votes. It is inconceivable to me that he is even allowed to run for anything let alone President!
I hope Kamala replaces him as AG.
I wonder how Garland feels now. And of course the Supreme Court has damaged itself for years to come. Every president who appointed those horrible people is complicit. And yet George W., the only one besides Trump who's still alive, says nothing. At least some Republicans are standing up for democracy. Liz Cheney is campaigning with Harris today. Hell truly has frozen over.
Yay Liz!
Kamala must choose a new Attorney General first thing.
And it should be Jack Smith!
Perhaps but he's really busy these days. 😉
Sadly, the battle for Democracy won't end with a Harris/Walz win. The HUGE MONEY behind MAGA is in for the long term, and won't be giving up until we get money out of politics and Elon Musk out of our Space program, satellite dependency and unrestrained hate propaganda. Project 2025 will just become Project 2029, and on and on. If you read today's Substack by Robert Reich, you will understand what they are doing. The goal is to turn our government into a giant corporation where only oligarchs have power.
Merrick Garland......such a disappointment. Let's hope that our democracy will persevere in spite of his timidity.
Timidity my ass! He is a Heritage Foundation member!
I totally agree that AG Merrick Garland ‘s fear and quite frankly cowardice may by the answer to Walz question “ where is the firewall?” Our Department of Justice should have been the fire wall but AG Garland failed America and failed his oath. My question is WHY? Separate from that is the failure of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts who presided over two impeachments of trump with the affect of a court jester. I believe the founding father’s wanted the Chief Justice to preside over impeachment’s to guarantee the impeachment trial honored and respected the rule of law and the top oath to preserve and protect the constitution, Justice Roberts did nothing to honor his oath and the unique job the founders asked him to do over 200 years ago. Roberts listened to the charges against trump twice that both included personal and official acts of treason and misconduct yet he went on to listen to the oral arguments on the presidential immunity appeal and offered none of his direct knowledge to his fellow justices as they minimized the attack on Capitol as just a “peaceful” protest. Roberts then went on to author the fetid Presidential immunity decision. The of course the US Senate under Moscow Mitch with his corrupt Republican colleagues failed in their duty to convict trump and prevent him from ever holding any public office. It is now up to Americans to save our democracy from Trump and Vance and the oligarchs and fascists funding them.
Garland's lack of action is incompetent at best and disastrous at worst. We'll learn more after the election. As far as the "Supreme" Court goes, the conservatives on that bench are right-wing tools and Trump accomplices who are corrupt as hell. Between Garland and the SC, I'm amazed that our republic is still standing (for the moment, anyway).
I always felt Garland was corrupt. When you have Fox News and their ilk continuing to spread lies and a good 40% of the public in a cult of hate, racism and lies and all the corrupt judges, lawyers and republicans in federal and state government, what do you expect?
I have to disagree that he's corrupt. I think he was better off being a judge, because he doesn't have the right personality/skills to be an AG. After what trump did to the DOJ I can understand Garland not wanting to appear political, but this was really never about politics. The not appearing political overshadowed the real need the country has for prosecuting trump.
How does a convicted felon deserve all the perks afforded a former president, paid for by American citizens? How does he deserve anything other than prison and being stripped of all aforementioned perks? Why are we the people still faced with the prospect of Trump occupying the White House again in order to avoid prison and dismantle democracy? If it was private citizen you or me who committed the crimes, we would have had our asses thrown in prison and not allowed to even think about running for dogcatcher let alone the leader of the "free" world.
WTF????!!!
The day he became a felon should’ve been the day that all perks were revoked! No more Secret Service! No more anything!
Garland chose to rehabilitate the reputation of the DOJ over preserving our Democracy. His catastrophic shortsightedness has almost damaged our country beyond repair. It’s been left to the Special Counsel to dig out from under the debris of unprosecuted criminality and treason: when Jack Smith needed a backhoe, the Supreme Court handed him a shovel, and admonished him not to use it.
So Garland should be a co conspirator as well! He should be held to account! Period!
It was my thought the evening of January 6, 2021 that Trump should be arrested for inciting to riot, but apparently, "when you're president, they let you do it." We had so many chances to stop this demon, but instead we had people, more concerned with party than law or democracy, who were only too happy to run interference for him to gain, or stay in, his favor.
The entire WH should have walked out and called the police to come get him.
And those people are still there.