In ‘PERIL’ Bob Woodward and Robert Costa includes a conversation between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley :
PELOSI : If they couldn’t even stop him from an assault on the Capital, who even knows what else he may do? And is there anybody in charge at the White House who was doing anything but kissing his fat butt all over this? You know he’s crazy. He’s been crazy for a long time.
MILLEY : Madam Speaker, I agree with you on everything.
This is how real leaders actually talk the talk when they walk the walk.
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My favorite item from that book may be that VP Dan Quayle made a brief reappearance to insist that Pence could not play games with the certification of the election even if he wanted to.
Who could have predicted that in 2021, I’d be welcoming comments made by George W. Bush and Dan Quayle regarding the current state of the Republican Party.
” We are on the way to a right-wing coup.” CIA Director Gina Haspel to Gen. Milley after Trump lost the election as quoted in “PERIL”
If anyone can tell me what measures, policies, laws, legislation, have been put in place to stop the next attack of the Capitol by the same Right Wing groups when this happens again (And it will happen again), I’d be interesting in knowing what they are.
A fence around the Capital went up last night.
Pelosi told Milley the Deranged Idiot was a “dictator who used force against another branch of government who should have been fired on the spot for his coup attempt.”
CIA’s Haspel told Milley: ” The whole thing is insanity. He is acting out like a six-year-old with a tantrum.”
Let’s not ever forget that this is a president who boasted about shooting someone in cold blood and not losing any support from his followers….and a president who wondered if nuking a hurricane was a plausible idea.
He’s proposed drinking bleach as a cure for Covid. His followers are dying because they think taking horse de-worming medication will cure them.
In other words — utter nut-cases.
What thoroughly confuses me is since it seems these folks want to prevent/cure COVID as much as the rest of us, why don’t they just do what is known to work and get the vaccine?
It might help to understand the deep mistrust many Americans, particularity those in southern states, have for the federal government.
I’m not sure why, but it’s there.
I recall an interview on NPR where the journalist spoke to residents of West Texas where the “Fertilizer Plant” that was no different from an explosives plant, caught fire. Due a tragic lack of government regulations, firefighters were unaware of the dangers as they entered the building. 15 died in the explosion that injured more than 150 town residents.
When asked about the lack of government inspections, local townspeople said they did not trust “federal agents from Washington telling them how to live their lives”.
Even yesterday, I watched Senator Kennedy on Fox News as he supported the vaccine and, in his words “I tell people this was not developed by the government, it was developed by the private sector”. ….
It most certainly is. I believe that at least some of it is reverberations from the Civil War and its aftermath.
For 150 years, blacks and “Washington” have been the scapegoat for the effects of generations of racism, willful ignorance, greed, and vicious cruelty — all fanned and nurtured by white politicians (and occasional blacks who learned the game) who pander to the darkest aspects of the those who live in the region in order to acquire wealth and power.
We must also remember the evils that have been done to blacks in the south by northern whites in the name of “science”. Eugenics, in particular, created deep and well-earned distrust of blacks throughout the south.
This is not going to be solved in one presidential term. It is made worse by the media’s relentless appetite for hysteria, violence (or the promise of violence), and voyeuristic exploitation of human suffering.
Still doesn’t explain what makes COVID vaccines different from others. Also, this isn’t Tuskegee for crying out loud! Blacks are obviously not being targeted for experimentation here.
Yet it’s not as if the concept of vaccines is new. This is just one more to add to the list that already includes MMR, seasonal flu, chicken pox, shingles, polio, etc., at least some of which have also been mandated from time to time. I expected the fringe anti-vaxxers since we’ve always had those, but I was not prepared for such widespread opposition. What’s really different about this compared to the others I mentioned?
What is different is the relentless 24 by 7 flood of lies from Fox and its ilk. Months of direct and indirect lies about COVID, the vaccine, masks, and literally everything that the Democrats propose or mandate.
It is similar to the blind opposition to the ACA several years ago, even though the very people marching against it were benefiting from it.
The black community that was victimized by Tuskegee didn’t know about that while it was going on. They thought their loved ones were safe, they were betrayed, and federal authorities have not done nearly enough to address the resulting distrust.
The impact of Eugenics was much worse and much more widespread, and even less has been done or said about that.
The black communities of the deep south have very good reason to distrust the white federal bureaucracy — that white federal bureaucracy has done enormous harm to them for generations.
If the vaccine were being marketed specifically or exclusively to blacks those suspicions might make sense, but the difference is they are not being singled out this time.
The distrust is directed at anything done by the federal government. It makes no difference whether its directed at blacks or not.