Theophilus Eugene Connor, better known by his nickname, Bull, was the Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham, Alabama—the head of the police—for the better part of three decades, until he was forced out in 1963.
Somewhere between 1959 - 1962ish, and I was around 7 - 9, living in CT and Hartford to be exact, a pal of mine living in a tenement once used the “N” to describe the new family in the neighborhood - the Scott family. I think they were Jamaican. I asked Marty not to use that word. But asking a kid to behave himself is like asking a snake to not behave like a snake. So Marty began shouting that ugly word at me repeatedly. My mama had taught me well to never use that word so finally I lunged at Marty and we commenced a terrible fist fight. I finally got Marty in a chokehold what at the time, we called a headlock. I looked down at Marty’s face that by now had become red with tears streaming down his cheeks. It quickly dawned on me that if I didn’t release him, he would die. I let go of him and got up and as I brushed dirt off of myself, I began walking home. Marty continued to shout that word at me so I guess he won the skirmish that day. Funny thing, I can still hear Marty shouting that ugly word at me once in a while after 64 some odd years later.
It so often is a learning passed down from one generation to the next. That's one factor in why we still have ICE agents behaving as they do and killings like Rodney King and George Floyd.
You are so correct. Children are not born to hate, it is a learned behavior. In 1998, while teaching, this sweet little kindergarten boy told me that on Friday his family would be going to the lake camp for the weekend. I told him it sounded like fun
He said that there would be lots of families there and he wouldn't know them all. They were going to learn to shoot and be soldiers. I was broken hearted because I knew exactly what kind of camp. White Supremists would be in charge. What a crime to indoctrinate an innocent, sweet loving child. I will never forget that.
I am a retired White cop. In 1998, I was awarded the MLK Jr. “Living the Dream” Award from the City of Phoenix for the work I did with LE and communities to address the lack of trust and historical context between police and the public. Bull Connor’s Birmingham was a foundational and grotesque example of a driving factor in the fear and anger of beleaguered communities. Now, watching what is occurring in several cities across the nation, I am sickened, angry, and worried that our regression of acceptance by so many means that the motives, tactics, and behavior of ICE are acceptable. No. We cannot accept Bull Conner’s world. Never.
There is a difference. Bull Connor was acting out the wishes of many in his own community. ICE, on the other hand, has been exported into Minneapolis. And the people, instead of cheering on the attacks, are standing up against the attackers, in droves, in all weathers, with creativity and, thank you MLK, with love. So, that's a step forward.
Likewise, brother. Not only the motives, tactics (like no tactics I ever taught), and behavior are unacceptable, the entire notion of using a SWAT like team to do a detective's job is utterly ridiculous.
To quibble: Trump has not found his Roy Cohn(s) … for all his despicableness, Cohn knew the law; Trump’s DoJ is more Bull Connor — dumb, racist but insistent if nothing else.
The Congressional magats know the law, too, just like roy. Quite a number of them earned their law degrees at ivy league schools; ted cruz went to Harvard, josh hawley went to Yale. They know the law very well but choose to ignore it, just like roy.
It's about the money. The Republican Party leader controls the purse strings that get Congress people reelected. And right now, that Party Leader is still Donald Trump. Another reason why we need publicly funded elections, with no other money allowed.
One of the big changes in the past 20-25 years is that Congressional candidates and office holders are much less dependent on Party fundraising than it used to be. They become celebrities in their own right and raise money over the internet. Look at MTG, Lauren Boebert, Bernie Sanders, and (outside of Congress) Zorhan Mamdani. PACs have also made people independent of Party funds.
Totally agree! Republicans shiver in fear, look the other way as the fat man spirals out of control. A White Citizens Council with Baby Huey at the helm.
Well, interesting. But also comfortably preaching to the choir. We gotta do this, we gotta do that … but we can talk until forever … and it means little, I think, until the streets are flooded with protesters.
Well, apparently a lot of those Congressional Republicans like what Trump and his regime are doing; they just don't want to say it out loud. Cowards and traitors all of them.
OK I understand they like beating up Somalians and teargassing Minnesotans who object, bombing Venezuelan fishing boats, cutting off food and health care to poor people to pay for tax cuts to their donors, etc. But do they like destroying NATO, insulting our allies and kissing Putin's ass, and things that clearly harm American interests?
Based on their profound lack of action except for expressions of "concern" and "thoughts and prayers," plus free flights to Europe to anguish with world leaders about this, it appears they're willing to go along with the regime and ignore the 25th Amendment and impeachment.
Trump has no worldview beyond what he can take for himself. No conception of collaboration or soft power. He is provincial to the extreme and nasty with it. A greedy, needy baby-man.
A friend sent this that someone posted on Facebook. Definitely worth reading:
Canadian here. I’ve seen many messages lately by US folks asking if the demonstrations are “doing anything”. Questioning the purpose of protest and rallying because their administration is not listening and clearly, does not care.
To my American friends: they may not be listening, but the rest of the world is. Please keep showing up in numbers, because what the world sees is that you are not complicit or in agreement with what is being done in your name.
We see courage in the refusal to be silent. We see conscience in the crowds, the signs, the chants, the long days and the tired feet. History has always been shaped by people who showed up even when it felt futile, even when power pretended not to notice.
Your presence matters far beyond borders. It tells the world that values still live in your streets, that democracy is more than those temporarily in office, and that solidarity does not stop at a flag line.
We are watching. You are not shouting into the void. You are reminding the world, and each other, that resistance itself is a form of hope.
Ally, I sent the quote to a bunch of activists, and several wrote back how moved they were by it. One of our local leaders cried when she read it.
I don't think it's too late. The rest of us need to continue to be brave, be kind, be peaceful, and sustain our unified opposition to the regime. I deeply admire Gov. Tim Walz's speech to Minnesotans the other day and hope he and Mayor Frey inspire other elected leaders to lead.
Words pressing in on me just before I woke up this morning:
I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.
In my dream I knew whose words these were but could not remember the gospel context.
"Normally, people run away from being arrested, but we ran to it. Even though we might have to suffer brutality, we were going through that anyway. The threat of jailing us - so what? We were already in jail, even in our neighborhoods. There was just no fence.”
A GREAT quote for today.
Cure your TDS. Drive the GOP out of power.
Don't believe GOP politicians are kowtowed by Trump. They are one and the same, joined at the hip by a sadistic, racist agenda for America.
For me Bull Connor, attacking Black kids with dogs and fire hoses (the video of kids being washed away by fire hoses was sickening), was the poster boy of the violence during the civil rights movement.
I wonder who will be the ICE poster boy, as I watch this masked, vicious gang crush the legal rights of immigrants and American citizens with disregard for ‘criminality.’
With a boss who killed her dog because it was a ‘nuisance,’ I expect Noem to deny pepper spray, smashed windows, and shots that blind people—might she be the poster girl?
Yep. Pico and Robertson. Factors is still better than Canters. Were his parents Holocaust survivors? I knew several and quiet trauma is even deeper than outright physical abuse. Japanese Americans have deep quiet trauma also. My wife's family is case in point. Many could never speak of the camps.
Noem didn't kill a dog. She killed a puppy. Cricket was 18 months old. Noem had taken it to a quail hunt. My guess is Cricket embarrassed her in front of her rich friends. (The story about the chicken killings "on the way home" is nonsense.) She could have taken it to a shelter. But no, she had to shoot her puppy.
she also claimed with a straight (though heavily filled and spackled ) face that anyone watching the video of the killing of Renee Good could plainly see that Good was attacking Ross. Unbelievable.
That was just evil of Connor, attacking black kids with dogs and fire hoses. He'd fit in with the MAGATs and ICE. As for Noem, I refer to her as Cruella DeVil and refer to her department as Department of Noemland Security.
Since our dear leader’s ego is so fragile that he covets prizes and trophies earned by others , I propose that we all empty our shelves of our trophies and awards and send them to him in the hope that a huge collection of such will slake his thirst for unearned honors and save NATO and perhaps the citizens of Minnesota. I’ll start with my ballroom dancer participation trophy and one for speed skating.
For those of us starting to believe the medical opinions that the toddler has a case of FrontoTemporal Dementia, I give you a word from the diagnosis, the word is confabulation:
“Confabulation is a memory error consisting of the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world. It is generally associated with certain types of brain damage (especially aneurysm in the anterior communicating artery) or a specific subset of dementias.” We are well into the realm of the 25th Amendment.
He appears totally insane, divorced from reality, much worse than normal ignorant infantile idiocy. I do not understand how he can be allowed to continue as though he was president.
Growing up in the 1980’s, I was well aware of the pompous, bloviating a**hole that was Trump. He was mocked repeatedly on sitcoms - he was a joke. The Art of the Deal - right. I look back, and am both fascinated and horrified, at the road that brought us here. I know the answers but I will get enraged if I think about them and my mental health is already gone. This man has crossed completely into psychopathy. He was always the malignant narcissist, an evil, cruel, litigious maniac who only exists to inflict pain on anyone he can. But now we truly have the Madness of King Trump. We know who the monster inside of him is, and what he is, and was capable of. I believe he did things so horrific with children it is unbearable to think about. This is why we will probably never see the real, unredacted Epstein files. But we know. We know. The final question is…how to remove this insane threat to us, and the world. I will never, ever forget what Kevin Roberts, he of the hideous Heritage Foundation, said: “this is the second American Revolution, and it will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be.” I wonder how long, and how far we can be pushed before blood is spilled.
I think of the monks walking through the South to D.C. They have chosen peace, showing more courage than the MAGA crowd with their endless grievances. While I understand the urge to strike back (remember the Bruce Cockburn song, "If I Had a Rocket Launcher?") I know resisting making someone pay is the better course. Peace for all of us.
First, some of us have been calling "Bondi, Blanche, Bove & Sauer" — who were initially appointed to the top four positions at the DOJ, before Bove was rewarded with a lifetime appellate court judgeship — the conversion of the DOJ into "Trump Law Firm, LLC" from the moment they were announced as nominees over a year ago. They cashed his checks, thus he had bought their loyalty. Quelle surprise they are acting on his behalf.
Second, notice how so many of the plaintiffs on the DOJ-filed appeal are "acting" in their roles. It's a re-run of the first term, where Trump had already displayed an uncanny knack for avoiding Senate confirmation by using "acting" appointments widely & egregiously. (See also various US Attorney positions, e.g. Habba & Halligan, among others.)
Which is not say that _this_ Senate has been an obstacle for appointment & confirmation of kleptocrats, sycophants, and kakistocrats to positions of great authority and (nominally) "public trust."
Mark, you (and some other folks) are thinking along the same lines as I for an appropriate name for DOJ. Although I just have referred to them as Bondi and Blanche. (Admittedly, I didn't know who the 3rd and 4th in command were.) I've also referred to DOJ as the Department of Injustice and Department of Retribution. But use Bondi and Blanche since if they act like Trump's personal law firm, they should bear the name of one.
25th Amendment. Section 4. I have a dream, too.
Somewhere between 1959 - 1962ish, and I was around 7 - 9, living in CT and Hartford to be exact, a pal of mine living in a tenement once used the “N” to describe the new family in the neighborhood - the Scott family. I think they were Jamaican. I asked Marty not to use that word. But asking a kid to behave himself is like asking a snake to not behave like a snake. So Marty began shouting that ugly word at me repeatedly. My mama had taught me well to never use that word so finally I lunged at Marty and we commenced a terrible fist fight. I finally got Marty in a chokehold what at the time, we called a headlock. I looked down at Marty’s face that by now had become red with tears streaming down his cheeks. It quickly dawned on me that if I didn’t release him, he would die. I let go of him and got up and as I brushed dirt off of myself, I began walking home. Marty continued to shout that word at me so I guess he won the skirmish that day. Funny thing, I can still hear Marty shouting that ugly word at me once in a while after 64 some odd years later.
Some things like that you just never forget.
That is true.
It so often is a learning passed down from one generation to the next. That's one factor in why we still have ICE agents behaving as they do and killings like Rodney King and George Floyd.
You are so correct. Children are not born to hate, it is a learned behavior. In 1998, while teaching, this sweet little kindergarten boy told me that on Friday his family would be going to the lake camp for the weekend. I told him it sounded like fun
He said that there would be lots of families there and he wouldn't know them all. They were going to learn to shoot and be soldiers. I was broken hearted because I knew exactly what kind of camp. White Supremists would be in charge. What a crime to indoctrinate an innocent, sweet loving child. I will never forget that.
It would be interesting to know what became of Marty.
Probably working in trump’s administration
Stephen Marty Miller???
I laughed for the first time this morning, so thanks!
Some methods don’t work to change people.
No you won the skirmish that day! You solidly showed him what you believed was the right way to behave - he taunted you from a distance - coward!
Since Trump can’t play nice in the sandbox, it’s time to let the cats come in and cover him up.
With cat shit!
Plus impeachment is within the realm of possibilities. https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaDenson07/videos
Donald Trump Impeachment Odds Hit All-Time High. Andrew Stanton
"Betting odds that President Donald Trump will be impeached during his second term in office reached a record high on Monday in Kalshi’s market."
Published Jan 19, 2026 at 05:19 PM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-impeachment-odds-all-time-high-11383438
The odds were at 59 percent Tuesday afternoon, which Kalshi noted in a post on X is “an all-time high.”
59% is kinda 50/50
BETTER.
brings new meaning and visual to shit sandwich
Connor's ghost is accompanied too by Greg Bovino and Stephen Miller.
They’re his attack dogs, and little else!
I am a retired White cop. In 1998, I was awarded the MLK Jr. “Living the Dream” Award from the City of Phoenix for the work I did with LE and communities to address the lack of trust and historical context between police and the public. Bull Connor’s Birmingham was a foundational and grotesque example of a driving factor in the fear and anger of beleaguered communities. Now, watching what is occurring in several cities across the nation, I am sickened, angry, and worried that our regression of acceptance by so many means that the motives, tactics, and behavior of ICE are acceptable. No. We cannot accept Bull Conner’s world. Never.
There is a difference. Bull Connor was acting out the wishes of many in his own community. ICE, on the other hand, has been exported into Minneapolis. And the people, instead of cheering on the attacks, are standing up against the attackers, in droves, in all weathers, with creativity and, thank you MLK, with love. So, that's a step forward.
Likewise, brother. Not only the motives, tactics (like no tactics I ever taught), and behavior are unacceptable, the entire notion of using a SWAT like team to do a detective's job is utterly ridiculous.
To quibble: Trump has not found his Roy Cohn(s) … for all his despicableness, Cohn knew the law; Trump’s DoJ is more Bull Connor — dumb, racist but insistent if nothing else.
The Congressional magats know the law, too, just like roy. Quite a number of them earned their law degrees at ivy league schools; ted cruz went to Harvard, josh hawley went to Yale. They know the law very well but choose to ignore it, just like roy.
Oh, indeed. They chose to go full white supremacist … the result is a truly mad infant as their face—who said irony was dead?
‘NATO Unity Protection Act’
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/nato_unity_protection_act.pdf
Murkowski is a co-sponsor.
House version has 60 co-sponsors.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7016/cosponsors
Don Bacon is the lone Republican -- so far.
they know it only to abuse it. Like they know women and brown and black people
To quibble further: Jonas Gahr Støre is the Prime Minister of Norway (not Denmark), so the outrageous note was sent to the "right" person.
An endless Keystone Kops two-reeler—MAGA pretends to be delighted … the rest of world drops jaw.
I can't believe that half a dozen GOP congresscritters can't be found who have a shred of patriotism and/or common sense.
It's about the money. The Republican Party leader controls the purse strings that get Congress people reelected. And right now, that Party Leader is still Donald Trump. Another reason why we need publicly funded elections, with no other money allowed.
One of the big changes in the past 20-25 years is that Congressional candidates and office holders are much less dependent on Party fundraising than it used to be. They become celebrities in their own right and raise money over the internet. Look at MTG, Lauren Boebert, Bernie Sanders, and (outside of Congress) Zorhan Mamdani. PACs have also made people independent of Party funds.
Totally agree! Republicans shiver in fear, look the other way as the fat man spirals out of control. A White Citizens Council with Baby Huey at the helm.
Look at this, starting about six minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oLnLF511Gs
Well, interesting. But also comfortably preaching to the choir. We gotta do this, we gotta do that … but we can talk until forever … and it means little, I think, until the streets are flooded with protesters.
Well, apparently a lot of those Congressional Republicans like what Trump and his regime are doing; they just don't want to say it out loud. Cowards and traitors all of them.
OK I understand they like beating up Somalians and teargassing Minnesotans who object, bombing Venezuelan fishing boats, cutting off food and health care to poor people to pay for tax cuts to their donors, etc. But do they like destroying NATO, insulting our allies and kissing Putin's ass, and things that clearly harm American interests?
Based on their profound lack of action except for expressions of "concern" and "thoughts and prayers," plus free flights to Europe to anguish with world leaders about this, it appears they're willing to go along with the regime and ignore the 25th Amendment and impeachment.
Trump has no worldview beyond what he can take for himself. No conception of collaboration or soft power. He is provincial to the extreme and nasty with it. A greedy, needy baby-man.
Every last one of them.
I’ve been thinking that too. It’s unreal.
But, Norway does not give out Nobel Peace prizes nor Tariff Awards nor SCOTUS' opinions.
A friend sent this that someone posted on Facebook. Definitely worth reading:
Canadian here. I’ve seen many messages lately by US folks asking if the demonstrations are “doing anything”. Questioning the purpose of protest and rallying because their administration is not listening and clearly, does not care.
To my American friends: they may not be listening, but the rest of the world is. Please keep showing up in numbers, because what the world sees is that you are not complicit or in agreement with what is being done in your name.
We see courage in the refusal to be silent. We see conscience in the crowds, the signs, the chants, the long days and the tired feet. History has always been shaped by people who showed up even when it felt futile, even when power pretended not to notice.
Your presence matters far beyond borders. It tells the world that values still live in your streets, that democracy is more than those temporarily in office, and that solidarity does not stop at a flag line.
We are watching. You are not shouting into the void. You are reminding the world, and each other, that resistance itself is a form of hope.
Thanks for posting this. Sometimes it feels like too little too late.
Ally, I sent the quote to a bunch of activists, and several wrote back how moved they were by it. One of our local leaders cried when she read it.
I don't think it's too late. The rest of us need to continue to be brave, be kind, be peaceful, and sustain our unified opposition to the regime. I deeply admire Gov. Tim Walz's speech to Minnesotans the other day and hope he and Mayor Frey inspire other elected leaders to lead.
https://youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU?si=TGPgc-W65kN20w-0
Words pressing in on me just before I woke up this morning:
I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.
In my dream I knew whose words these were but could not remember the gospel context.
I knew only that they fit the moment. Now.
I hope everyone who likes this post will share it with your friends and other activists. We all need a boost!
yes, thank you this this, Laurie.. And for those interested in "turning out" and its potential impact for change, please see Martha Ture's substack.
"Normally, people run away from being arrested, but we ran to it. Even though we might have to suffer brutality, we were going through that anyway. The threat of jailing us - so what? We were already in jail, even in our neighborhoods. There was just no fence.”
A GREAT quote for today.
Cure your TDS. Drive the GOP out of power.
Don't believe GOP politicians are kowtowed by Trump. They are one and the same, joined at the hip by a sadistic, racist agenda for America.
I loved reading the voice of a young protester in the Bull Conner horror. We should all be so brave and have the strong will of these young folks.
For me Bull Connor, attacking Black kids with dogs and fire hoses (the video of kids being washed away by fire hoses was sickening), was the poster boy of the violence during the civil rights movement.
I wonder who will be the ICE poster boy, as I watch this masked, vicious gang crush the legal rights of immigrants and American citizens with disregard for ‘criminality.’
With a boss who killed her dog because it was a ‘nuisance,’ I expect Noem to deny pepper spray, smashed windows, and shots that blind people—might she be the poster girl?
ICE poster boy goes to Stephen “Gollum” Miller….my apologies to Gollum.
But, he is definitely from Mordor.
Unfortunatly, Santa Monica. He didn't fit in with the cool kids and created his own Mordor.
Problems off Robertson Blvd as well ...Could not adjust socially. The attack strategy mode is the only mode that "worked" for Miller.IMO.
Yep. Pico and Robertson. Factors is still better than Canters. Were his parents Holocaust survivors? I knew several and quiet trauma is even deeper than outright physical abuse. Japanese Americans have deep quiet trauma also. My wife's family is case in point. Many could never speak of the camps.
Miller would have volunteered to be a Kapo, had he been in the camps. His family escaped the Holocaust. His uncle has spoken about it.
Very smart comment Ransom Rideout.
I didn't fit in with the cool kids, either. It didn't turn me into a filthy misanthrope with an urge to make people suffer.
Noem didn't kill a dog. She killed a puppy. Cricket was 18 months old. Noem had taken it to a quail hunt. My guess is Cricket embarrassed her in front of her rich friends. (The story about the chicken killings "on the way home" is nonsense.) She could have taken it to a shelter. But no, she had to shoot her puppy.
She is Cruella DeVil in the flesh
she is a freak, however, if we could operate under her ways and shoot what is a problem...
She said today Keith something like that criticism was not necessary since they weren't doing anything unlawful.
she also claimed with a straight (though heavily filled and spackled ) face that anyone watching the video of the killing of Renee Good could plainly see that Good was attacking Ross. Unbelievable.
"Spackled"! Thank you.
I've seen her response. Can't unsee it, and don't want to see it again. That woman is evil.
I can't mentally unsee her killing her puppy
🤯
Creepy chills.
That was just evil of Connor, attacking black kids with dogs and fire hoses. He'd fit in with the MAGATs and ICE. As for Noem, I refer to her as Cruella DeVil and refer to her department as Department of Noemland Security.
She, Miller,Trump and JD Vance
Since our dear leader’s ego is so fragile that he covets prizes and trophies earned by others , I propose that we all empty our shelves of our trophies and awards and send them to him in the hope that a huge collection of such will slake his thirst for unearned honors and save NATO and perhaps the citizens of Minnesota. I’ll start with my ballroom dancer participation trophy and one for speed skating.
I have my dog's agility ribbons, but I can't think of anything more inappropriate for this man. Maybe second only to a peace prize.
Tchotchke clearout!
Great idea! Though I threw all mine away when I became an adult and realized they were just collecting dust.
I've recently been thinking the same thing. Get thousands of Americans to mail crap to him
Be sure to label each one you send as a Sloppy Second Prize 😉.
My dream is for Article 2, Section 4. Get all of them out for treason. (imho)
For those of us starting to believe the medical opinions that the toddler has a case of FrontoTemporal Dementia, I give you a word from the diagnosis, the word is confabulation:
“Confabulation is a memory error consisting of the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world. It is generally associated with certain types of brain damage (especially aneurysm in the anterior communicating artery) or a specific subset of dementias.” We are well into the realm of the 25th Amendment.
He appears totally insane, divorced from reality, much worse than normal ignorant infantile idiocy. I do not understand how he can be allowed to continue as though he was president.
Growing up in the 1980’s, I was well aware of the pompous, bloviating a**hole that was Trump. He was mocked repeatedly on sitcoms - he was a joke. The Art of the Deal - right. I look back, and am both fascinated and horrified, at the road that brought us here. I know the answers but I will get enraged if I think about them and my mental health is already gone. This man has crossed completely into psychopathy. He was always the malignant narcissist, an evil, cruel, litigious maniac who only exists to inflict pain on anyone he can. But now we truly have the Madness of King Trump. We know who the monster inside of him is, and what he is, and was capable of. I believe he did things so horrific with children it is unbearable to think about. This is why we will probably never see the real, unredacted Epstein files. But we know. We know. The final question is…how to remove this insane threat to us, and the world. I will never, ever forget what Kevin Roberts, he of the hideous Heritage Foundation, said: “this is the second American Revolution, and it will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be.” I wonder how long, and how far we can be pushed before blood is spilled.
Blood has already been spilled.
Theirs?
No, or the grifter in chief would have already declared an insurrection.
Exactly
Good
Indeed.
PEACEFUL protest in the face of deadly adversity
Thanks for the reminder!
I think of the monks walking through the South to D.C. They have chosen peace, showing more courage than the MAGA crowd with their endless grievances. While I understand the urge to strike back (remember the Bruce Cockburn song, "If I Had a Rocket Launcher?") I know resisting making someone pay is the better course. Peace for all of us.
How much longer are trump’s toddler tantrums going to be tolerated by Mom and Dad? (Congress)
It’s time they make him go sit in a corner and sulk for the next three years.
This Congress accomplishes nothing but hate and aggression. They can’t believe America is no longer all white.
Was america ever all white ?
No, but those in power were...
true
if it wern't for immigration America would still be all Indian brown...
Two points:
First, some of us have been calling "Bondi, Blanche, Bove & Sauer" — who were initially appointed to the top four positions at the DOJ, before Bove was rewarded with a lifetime appellate court judgeship — the conversion of the DOJ into "Trump Law Firm, LLC" from the moment they were announced as nominees over a year ago. They cashed his checks, thus he had bought their loyalty. Quelle surprise they are acting on his behalf.
Second, notice how so many of the plaintiffs on the DOJ-filed appeal are "acting" in their roles. It's a re-run of the first term, where Trump had already displayed an uncanny knack for avoiding Senate confirmation by using "acting" appointments widely & egregiously. (See also various US Attorney positions, e.g. Habba & Halligan, among others.)
Which is not say that _this_ Senate has been an obstacle for appointment & confirmation of kleptocrats, sycophants, and kakistocrats to positions of great authority and (nominally) "public trust."
Mark, you (and some other folks) are thinking along the same lines as I for an appropriate name for DOJ. Although I just have referred to them as Bondi and Blanche. (Admittedly, I didn't know who the 3rd and 4th in command were.) I've also referred to DOJ as the Department of Injustice and Department of Retribution. But use Bondi and Blanche since if they act like Trump's personal law firm, they should bear the name of one.
Time to rise ( especially since our ELECTED OFFICIALS, SCOTUS and legacy media WON’T)….. the precipice awaits , people!!!!!
This is what we need, not endless griping and telling each other how bad he is, we all know that who read here.