Republicans don't realize. People aren't going to vote for them. We want their ass'ss out. They aren't doing anything for the American people, they have no morals!
Great post, Mike. Appropriate level of fire there, especially your point about so much of the media makes partisan issues out of things we're not partisan about.
One thing I think deserves a second look, though:
"If you’re in the Epstein files, I want you prosecuted".
Humbly, I'd amend that to, "If you're in the Epstein files, and there is credible evidence that you've done something illegal, I want you prosecuted".
Being in the Epstein files does not indicate wrongdoing.
As I have said many times and on these very pages, the issue is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy would be refreshingly honest by comparison to what we are experiencing now. What we are looking at now is corruption: our political class has become everything that we, as a society, are supposed to hate.
A half-of-a-man convicted of 34 felonies is president. The same man has been adjudicated as a rapist. The same man apparently is the chief actor, script writer, director, producer, and supporting actor in the Epstein files movie. The same man has profited to the tune of hundreds of millions, if not billions, from his time as president.
Mitch McConnell prevented Obama from appointing another member to the Supreme Court. John Robertson said that it’s absolutely appalling that there are no ethical standards for Supreme Court justices, but that’s OK because there aren’t any ethical standards for Supreme Court justices. Two justices take money— openly. the clear words of the 14th amendment regarding birthright citizenship barely survive a challenge in that very same Supreme Court. Red state republican governments have done absolutely nothing for their people for 40 years. Those states still rank at the bottom of every measure of social well-being. But they have managed to convince troglodyte voters that transgender people are the problem.
The Department of offense, excuse me, defense, excuse me, war has declared that transgender people need to be kicked out. These include qualified soldiers. And we wonder why our soldiers are dying in the Middle East. Exactly the same thing happened 30 years ago with don’t ask don’t tell. They kicked out qualified Farsi in Arabic translators because they were gay. The result was dead American soldiers, because the amount of intelligence that required Farsi and Arabic translation was insurmountable without the qualified translators to translate the intelligence.
Meanwhile, my newsfeed shows at least 500 pastors and priests arrested, or convicted, or sentenced every single year for sex crimes against children, often against women, occasionally against men. And yet drag queens and transgender people are the threat. The newly elected president of the southern Baptists says that the ongoing sexual abuse scandal in the southern Baptist is a hoax. All of those guilty pleas are the proof of this. In short, the religious establishment is every bit as corrupt as the political establishment.
This is what happens when religion and politics fornicate together. Both become even worse. And given that the Catholic sexual abuse scandal alone is at least 1000 years old— google Saint Peter Damien— this is just the tip of the iceberg.
I agree. I sent an op Ed to the Des Moines register about grassley and the senate as an old folks home but they wont print it because I’m not an Iowan. However his actions affect us all. I’m so worn out with these horrid politicians. And no recourse to boot them out.
You are absolutely right -- the hypocrisy on the right is off the charts! We need people in Congress who are not afraid to call these immoral acts out.
Hi Mike. A huge thanks to you for your courageous, moral consistency. It's a rare and precious thing in political commentary these days...
Yes!
gop is the party of wife beaters and sex offenders.
Mike does it again, let the sunshine, bring out the truth in sleaze, thanks bro!
Trump is the way worse than grant ever was
Republicans don't realize. People aren't going to vote for them. We want their ass'ss out. They aren't doing anything for the American people, they have no morals!
"6 months from now"??? More like six days...
You know what, I almost I changed that one for that exact reason before hitting send haha
THIS COLUMN IS A KEEPER!!
Great post, Mike. Appropriate level of fire there, especially your point about so much of the media makes partisan issues out of things we're not partisan about.
One thing I think deserves a second look, though:
"If you’re in the Epstein files, I want you prosecuted".
Humbly, I'd amend that to, "If you're in the Epstein files, and there is credible evidence that you've done something illegal, I want you prosecuted".
Being in the Epstein files does not indicate wrongdoing.
Bang on, Mike. But you didn’t go far enough.
As I have said many times and on these very pages, the issue is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy would be refreshingly honest by comparison to what we are experiencing now. What we are looking at now is corruption: our political class has become everything that we, as a society, are supposed to hate.
A half-of-a-man convicted of 34 felonies is president. The same man has been adjudicated as a rapist. The same man apparently is the chief actor, script writer, director, producer, and supporting actor in the Epstein files movie. The same man has profited to the tune of hundreds of millions, if not billions, from his time as president.
Mitch McConnell prevented Obama from appointing another member to the Supreme Court. John Robertson said that it’s absolutely appalling that there are no ethical standards for Supreme Court justices, but that’s OK because there aren’t any ethical standards for Supreme Court justices. Two justices take money— openly. the clear words of the 14th amendment regarding birthright citizenship barely survive a challenge in that very same Supreme Court. Red state republican governments have done absolutely nothing for their people for 40 years. Those states still rank at the bottom of every measure of social well-being. But they have managed to convince troglodyte voters that transgender people are the problem.
The Department of offense, excuse me, defense, excuse me, war has declared that transgender people need to be kicked out. These include qualified soldiers. And we wonder why our soldiers are dying in the Middle East. Exactly the same thing happened 30 years ago with don’t ask don’t tell. They kicked out qualified Farsi in Arabic translators because they were gay. The result was dead American soldiers, because the amount of intelligence that required Farsi and Arabic translation was insurmountable without the qualified translators to translate the intelligence.
Meanwhile, my newsfeed shows at least 500 pastors and priests arrested, or convicted, or sentenced every single year for sex crimes against children, often against women, occasionally against men. And yet drag queens and transgender people are the threat. The newly elected president of the southern Baptists says that the ongoing sexual abuse scandal in the southern Baptist is a hoax. All of those guilty pleas are the proof of this. In short, the religious establishment is every bit as corrupt as the political establishment.
This is what happens when religion and politics fornicate together. Both become even worse. And given that the Catholic sexual abuse scandal alone is at least 1000 years old— google Saint Peter Damien— this is just the tip of the iceberg.
I agree. I sent an op Ed to the Des Moines register about grassley and the senate as an old folks home but they wont print it because I’m not an Iowan. However his actions affect us all. I’m so worn out with these horrid politicians. And no recourse to boot them out.
Trump is more comparable to Hitler than Graham Platner
gop on brand as always.
“Finally”? To them it’s a badge of honor!
Amen, Mike. I appreciate and am grateful for your compassion, integrity, protectiveness,
and moral compass.
I also wonder what has so many Republicans so terrified.
You are absolutely right -- the hypocrisy on the right is off the charts! We need people in Congress who are not afraid to call these immoral acts out.