“Humiliating for Every American”
If anyone cares to defend yesterday’s disgraceful display by our Mafioso-in-Chief, be my guest, in the comments below. Surely this crosses the line, even for the diehards. I’ve asked a thousand times on this blog: what can this guy do that would make his supporters disavow and disown him? [the “Murder on 5th Avenue in Broad Daylight” question] Perhaps this was it? Are there really no Republicans out there who have the courage to stand up and say: “All Americans should be deeply ashamed of what he has done in our name, and deeply ashamed of how he did it.” No?
The text is by John Taylor, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles [and, interestingly, the former director of the Nixon Presidential Library]. Emphases are mine. /DP
#AmericanCoup Seeing Putin’s boys bully a besieged freedom fighter in the Oval Office was humiliating for every American. Since there is no presidential precedent for the public brutalizing of an ally, we reach for fiction and Mayor Carmine DePasto, from the comedy “Animal House,” and his summit with the dean of Faber College. “If you want this year’s homecoming parade in my town,” he says, “you have to pay.” When the dean accuses him of extortion, the mayor replies, “Look, these parades are very expensive. You’re using my police, my sanitation people, my three Oldsmobiles. So if you mention extortion again, I’ll have your legs broken.”
Musk can fire the White House speechwriters, too, because there’s the Trump Doctrine for you. If Ukraine wants to be part of negotiations to end Russia’s criminal war, it has to pay in the form of a share of its mineral rights. Since President Zelensky was allegedly rude today, Trump has threatened to cut off military aid and let more Ukrainians die.Yet large as it was, today’s incident was far more than it appeared. Trump and his mini-me Vance wrote the latest chapter in the biography of the United States as a world power. Periodically we have to decide what values we think our country should uphold in the world. We have arrived at another such moment. Everyone must ask themselves what kind of global citizen their country should be. It is work we must all do in the days and weeks ahead it we are to do our part to keep the American dream from entering a death spiral.Re
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