Hitler's secret Commando Order illegally stripped Allied commandos of all the protections of the Geneva Convention. Through their embrace of the antidemocratic and unconstitutional notion of the 'unitary executive' and their bent for a supreme leader, the extremist majority on the Supreme Court has effectively neutered the high Court and Legislature, and given Trump the go ahead to strip any of us of our civil rights. Certainly the Leo Supremes and Republican majority were hard at this before Trump appeared on the scene. Project 2025 is as much a declaration of authoritarianism long in the works as it is a roadmap for Trump2.
We must be our own allies in defeating what the GOP has become and what Republicans have authorized the Trump administration to be. The examples of our resistance must provide reeducation for the public. And our electorate - at the ballot box - will have to serve as the prosecutors and judges of the 2026 and 2028 American 'Nuremberg' trials.
The rabbis say the word justice is repeated to emphasize the commandment not just to follow after but to continually pursue justice. Tzedek (justice) also means fairness. Which makes me think of Rawls' concept of "justice as fairness."
Devarim can mean words or things. That in our world, words act as things. So to emphasize that we have responsibility for our words.
Rights for me but not for thee... We now live in the nation of tRumplandia where it becomes more an more likely by the day that tRump's goons will start coming for critics like us. He also will be thinning his base by relieving them of their access to healthcare, food, and jobs they can survive on.
When his base is relieved of their access to healthcare, food, jobs, etc., and there's no one else left to blame, that's when they will finally realize that "cruelty is the point." It's not about making America great again. Or owning the libs. And "I am your retribution" was just cover for the cruelty he longs to inflict and that does not discriminate.
Very good and important post. Rachel nailed it. I subscribe to Truscott, so I read this excellent piece. Thank you for your work, including the 2016 Village Voice cover.
A straitforward talk. Hopefully followed by yet more action. I hope Trump remembers what happens to dictators when the people are pushed beyond normalcy. The Ceaușescu couple and Gaddafi were executed during his lifetime.
Hitler's secret Commando Order illegally stripped Allied commandos of all the protections of the Geneva Convention. Through their embrace of the antidemocratic and unconstitutional notion of the 'unitary executive' and their bent for a supreme leader, the extremist majority on the Supreme Court has effectively neutered the high Court and Legislature, and given Trump the go ahead to strip any of us of our civil rights. Certainly the Leo Supremes and Republican majority were hard at this before Trump appeared on the scene. Project 2025 is as much a declaration of authoritarianism long in the works as it is a roadmap for Trump2.
We must be our own allies in defeating what the GOP has become and what Republicans have authorized the Trump administration to be. The examples of our resistance must provide reeducation for the public. And our electorate - at the ballot box - will have to serve as the prosecutors and judges of the 2026 and 2028 American 'Nuremberg' trials.
There mist be trials. There must be justice. There must be law.
From your mouth to ...
"Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue"
- Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:20
The rabbis say the word justice is repeated to emphasize the commandment not just to follow after but to continually pursue justice. Tzedek (justice) also means fairness. Which makes me think of Rawls' concept of "justice as fairness."
Devarim can mean words or things. That in our world, words act as things. So to emphasize that we have responsibility for our words.
A picture is worth ...
And yours certainly fulfill the commandment.
ThankYou!
Rights for me but not for thee... We now live in the nation of tRumplandia where it becomes more an more likely by the day that tRump's goons will start coming for critics like us. He also will be thinning his base by relieving them of their access to healthcare, food, and jobs they can survive on.
When his base is relieved of their access to healthcare, food, jobs, etc., and there's no one else left to blame, that's when they will finally realize that "cruelty is the point." It's not about making America great again. Or owning the libs. And "I am your retribution" was just cover for the cruelty he longs to inflict and that does not discriminate.
Adam Serwer nailed it with those 4 words.
Very good and important post. Rachel nailed it. I subscribe to Truscott, so I read this excellent piece. Thank you for your work, including the 2016 Village Voice cover.
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A straitforward talk. Hopefully followed by yet more action. I hope Trump remembers what happens to dictators when the people are pushed beyond normalcy. The Ceaușescu couple and Gaddafi were executed during his lifetime.