I read a really long article about Obama last night, about what he's doing.
What he's doing is what he's always done, taking care of himself. I may have
already mentioned it on this list. So there are members of his party who are
very distressed with him because they feel that he should be leading the
"Resistance", doing more to fight what Trump is doing. I find it interesting
that the well known political figure who is doing all he can to fight back, Is
Bernie Sanders. He is making speeches and introducing legislation. He visited
Puerto Rico after the hurricane. He made a statement about the Israelis
shooting the demonstrating Gazans. Obama played Golf with other rich people,
traveled to foreign countries, and has been making speeches for high fees like
$300,000. There's a podcast called, Reveal from The Center For Investigative
Reporting and PRX which I resubscribed to yesterday. They did a report on
immigration and I learned that under Obama, families were also separated,
nothing as drastic as what is happening now, but it was happening. I was
releaved that in the report, they managed to make a gentle statement about how
the problems in South and Central America from which people are fleeing to the
US, are a result of US policy. It was comforting to know that this is being
said on podcasts other than those on the far left.
Miriam
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<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 7:32 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: News of the day
They say that it's always darkest before the dawn. But that bright light is
probably the end of civilization.
Carl Jarvis
On 6/27/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Justice Kennedy is retiring. Sometimes, he voted with the liberal justices.
Now that he's retiring, Trump can appoint another right wing judge. We
already had 3 terrible supreme court rulings today, upholding the
Muslim ban, destroying union funding, and ruling against a California
law that required crisis pregnancy centers to tell patients that
abortion is available in California. The supreme court will now have a
6 to 3 right wing majority.
If you can find a way to hear today's episode of Intercepted, you
should do so. It is the recording of the live show they did on June 21
with Sy Hersh and it's excellent.
However, Seymour Hersh confirmed my belief that we are now a Fascist
state, that it's impossible to impeach Trump, and that Trump may very
well win a second term.
Miraculously a very young, Puerta Rican social democratic female with
out big money, won the democratic primary in NYC against a ten term
well funded machine Democratic congressman.
Each day, I encounter evidence that my aging brain is becoming more
scrambled.
Miriam
