Rep. Chip Roy (unfortunately "representing" the Congressional district where I live in Texas) is opposing the left's radical plan to draft women. This not a question of women serving in the military it's "The question is whether we, as a country, will force the possibility of the horrors and strains of combat upon our wives, our sisters and our daughters." What about the horrors and strains of forced pregnancy? It is so hypocritical. Protect the little lady but force her to endure nine months of forced pregnancy even if it threatens her life. If I sound angry now, wait until SCOTUS overturns Roe on Friday! We, the People, all of us this time!
“what he did, the first time, before COVID, was so good for the country. In my view, it was great.” Well, you were in a coma, or as greedy as they come. I’m old but I remember. Even before taking office, he started dismantling our “administrative state,” by choosing department heads who vowed to dismantle their respective agencies. Bannon said this out loud. And of course, he began courting Putin within the first two weeks, likely before. And on it went, one catastrophe after another. …As Rupert spewed, spun, and lied ad nauseam, to make his Schitt smell like roses. Some are naturally stupid, others are deliberately ignorant. Bowers is one of the latter…
Robert has a great expansion of the voter population as significantly also including the non-voters as a voting bloc. Stacey Abrams, League of Women Voters, Voters of Tomorrow, and others' voter registration efforts are on target!
Today's Robert Hubbell newsletter properly reminds us progressives of the true nature of those who remain determined to support Trump despite his endless depredations. I confess to having rushed to embrace Rusty Bowers in the wake of his stirring testimony before the Jan. 6th Commission. Learning that he is strangely unrepentant is deeply disappointing. But this troublesome fact does not keep me from applauding his bravery when it truly mattered. I think we all need to love the sinner while we work mightily against the sin.
Rusty Bowers' turning back to the Trump fold for safety is disheartening. Besides the massive tax cut that successfully left more money in his pay-masters' hands, did he also think the Trump and Kushner self-dealing was good for the country? Good that the Airforce had to fly through Scotland so government expense accounts could be spent at Turnberry? Good thsat Trump spent more time on the golf course than anyone one else ever in the Oval Office? Good that the GOP lavished events on the Trump Hotel in DC? Good that Jared could fly around at Gov't expense and raise money for personal vanity projects? Oh Rusty...how you have sunk low.
When anyone refers to “principled” Republicans it would be helpful to be more specific about the principles being referenced. I have no doubt there are many principled Republicans, the problem is the principles they hold are abhorrent, decidedly unhelpful, inequitable, and unjust. Let's be much more careful in our description of all these witnesses appearing before the January 6 Investigation Committee. Throwing around compliments or even “faint praise” for their testimony or actions in defense of our Constitution, democracy, and the Rule of Law is a pretty low bar and should be the minimum expectation of every citizen. I do not see that as “exceptional courage” in the face of an existential threat to those institutions and values that define responsible citizenship.
Now, a moment of reflection on Senator Cruz, also one of my own representatives in the U.S. Senate. Cancun Cruz is not only among the worst ever to serve in the U.S. Senate from any state, and there is some considerable competition for that recognition, he is perhaps among the worst individuals ever to set foot in the august halls of our U.S. Capitol, and that includes quite a cast of scoudrels and wastrels.
Sadly I think it will all work out like the fall of a mafia boss. Unless the boss is caught, everyone influenced by the mafia is still afraid for their safety of family and themselves, so they rather stay on the safe side. DOJ please do your job!! Hopefully the DOJ is not among the threatened?
I had to stop reading this morning’s newsletter after the first section about Rusty Bower. I am going to turn back time, have my coffee, and enjoy the morning before I read this again and burst into angry flames. 🔥
Not voting is a luxury this country cannot afford. Other countries have laws compelling citizens to vote. Still other countries are so glad to have the chance to vote when that right has been hard won. Some of the did not vote group don’t want to make a choice because they don’t like who’s running. Well, a choice WILL be made whether you vote or not. Get your ass out to vote, early, in person, by mail, but VOTE because your life depends on it!
Like you, I am on the road and am keeping close watch on developments back in the U.S. Rusty Bowers' equivocation does not surprise me. He is, at his core, a "Business Republican", who probably would favour someone other than Trump-but, hey, he'll take who he's given. Martin Niemoller is fairly screaming, from the Spirit World, "I warned you once, people!!", but are the "Business Republicans" listening? NOOO!
As for freedom of religion, SCOTUS revanchists and others will gladly cherry pick "Jewish theology" and anything else they can find, to force THEIR views on everyone else. I personally am loathe to see fetuses aborted, but I am even MORE loathe to see women forced to carry a child to term, if a) their own lives are in the balance and b) the quality of life of that child is likely to be null and void. The MOTHER should have the final say, NOT the government.
Quick comment as I'm rushing out the door to an all-day voter registration event actually!
I think it's a huge deal that Bowers HONORED HIS OATH. We may have vehement, core-value-driven debates on issues, priorities, role of government, etc., but he HONORED HIS OATH. I really think that is a paramount issue. If people honor their oaths, these huge, huge debates can continue another day, but the institution holds.
Then the question is how could someone support a Trump, say, who did NOT honor his oath? Well, you could if you had no confidence that "the other guy," in this case the Dems, would either in the same situation. And I think there's a lot of that here--many Rs (can't speak for Bower) think Biden and the Dems are equally if not more destructive. That is very real out there, among good people.
Convincing them otherwise may not happen or will be slow at best, which is why Robert's right--convince independents and get new folks voting, which is why I'm out the door now.
But again--the heroes here are people from both parties and no party who honored their oaths. That is huge, huge.
Can someone please explain to me how someone can condemn Trump for actions to the fullest and still support him. Rusty Bower is only one of a million of them. I don’t understand how they think? Or frankly they can sleep at night. 😔
SO: Are you telling me that the Supreme Court is, like an employer firing an employee, going to drop a bomb on Friday and then hope all calms down over the weekend? WHAT?
The Court's decision in NY Pistol and Rifle v. Bruen is the bitter fruit of Justice Scalia's intellectually dishonest opinion in Heller. Scalia converted collective right "of the people" to bear arms to ensure the "security of a free state" into an individual right. With that predicate, there is no limitation that will pass constitutional muster in the future--not licensing, sales, prohibition on type. We must expand the Court to dilute the power of the reactionary majority and reverse Heller and Bruen. The Second Amendment right to bear arms is tied to the right of a state to maintain security. That does not include the right of citizens to run riot with weapons in public.
It’s better that we found out now!
Rep. Chip Roy (unfortunately "representing" the Congressional district where I live in Texas) is opposing the left's radical plan to draft women. This not a question of women serving in the military it's "The question is whether we, as a country, will force the possibility of the horrors and strains of combat upon our wives, our sisters and our daughters." What about the horrors and strains of forced pregnancy? It is so hypocritical. Protect the little lady but force her to endure nine months of forced pregnancy even if it threatens her life. If I sound angry now, wait until SCOTUS overturns Roe on Friday! We, the People, all of us this time!
“what he did, the first time, before COVID, was so good for the country. In my view, it was great.” Well, you were in a coma, or as greedy as they come. I’m old but I remember. Even before taking office, he started dismantling our “administrative state,” by choosing department heads who vowed to dismantle their respective agencies. Bannon said this out loud. And of course, he began courting Putin within the first two weeks, likely before. And on it went, one catastrophe after another. …As Rupert spewed, spun, and lied ad nauseam, to make his Schitt smell like roses. Some are naturally stupid, others are deliberately ignorant. Bowers is one of the latter…
Robert has a great expansion of the voter population as significantly also including the non-voters as a voting bloc. Stacey Abrams, League of Women Voters, Voters of Tomorrow, and others' voter registration efforts are on target!
Today's Robert Hubbell newsletter properly reminds us progressives of the true nature of those who remain determined to support Trump despite his endless depredations. I confess to having rushed to embrace Rusty Bowers in the wake of his stirring testimony before the Jan. 6th Commission. Learning that he is strangely unrepentant is deeply disappointing. But this troublesome fact does not keep me from applauding his bravery when it truly mattered. I think we all need to love the sinner while we work mightily against the sin.
Rusty Bowers' turning back to the Trump fold for safety is disheartening. Besides the massive tax cut that successfully left more money in his pay-masters' hands, did he also think the Trump and Kushner self-dealing was good for the country? Good that the Airforce had to fly through Scotland so government expense accounts could be spent at Turnberry? Good thsat Trump spent more time on the golf course than anyone one else ever in the Oval Office? Good that the GOP lavished events on the Trump Hotel in DC? Good that Jared could fly around at Gov't expense and raise money for personal vanity projects? Oh Rusty...how you have sunk low.
When anyone refers to “principled” Republicans it would be helpful to be more specific about the principles being referenced. I have no doubt there are many principled Republicans, the problem is the principles they hold are abhorrent, decidedly unhelpful, inequitable, and unjust. Let's be much more careful in our description of all these witnesses appearing before the January 6 Investigation Committee. Throwing around compliments or even “faint praise” for their testimony or actions in defense of our Constitution, democracy, and the Rule of Law is a pretty low bar and should be the minimum expectation of every citizen. I do not see that as “exceptional courage” in the face of an existential threat to those institutions and values that define responsible citizenship.
Now, a moment of reflection on Senator Cruz, also one of my own representatives in the U.S. Senate. Cancun Cruz is not only among the worst ever to serve in the U.S. Senate from any state, and there is some considerable competition for that recognition, he is perhaps among the worst individuals ever to set foot in the august halls of our U.S. Capitol, and that includes quite a cast of scoudrels and wastrels.
Sadly I think it will all work out like the fall of a mafia boss. Unless the boss is caught, everyone influenced by the mafia is still afraid for their safety of family and themselves, so they rather stay on the safe side. DOJ please do your job!! Hopefully the DOJ is not among the threatened?
I had to stop reading this morning’s newsletter after the first section about Rusty Bower. I am going to turn back time, have my coffee, and enjoy the morning before I read this again and burst into angry flames. 🔥
Not voting is a luxury this country cannot afford. Other countries have laws compelling citizens to vote. Still other countries are so glad to have the chance to vote when that right has been hard won. Some of the did not vote group don’t want to make a choice because they don’t like who’s running. Well, a choice WILL be made whether you vote or not. Get your ass out to vote, early, in person, by mail, but VOTE because your life depends on it!
Like you, I am on the road and am keeping close watch on developments back in the U.S. Rusty Bowers' equivocation does not surprise me. He is, at his core, a "Business Republican", who probably would favour someone other than Trump-but, hey, he'll take who he's given. Martin Niemoller is fairly screaming, from the Spirit World, "I warned you once, people!!", but are the "Business Republicans" listening? NOOO!
As for freedom of religion, SCOTUS revanchists and others will gladly cherry pick "Jewish theology" and anything else they can find, to force THEIR views on everyone else. I personally am loathe to see fetuses aborted, but I am even MORE loathe to see women forced to carry a child to term, if a) their own lives are in the balance and b) the quality of life of that child is likely to be null and void. The MOTHER should have the final say, NOT the government.
Quick comment as I'm rushing out the door to an all-day voter registration event actually!
I think it's a huge deal that Bowers HONORED HIS OATH. We may have vehement, core-value-driven debates on issues, priorities, role of government, etc., but he HONORED HIS OATH. I really think that is a paramount issue. If people honor their oaths, these huge, huge debates can continue another day, but the institution holds.
Then the question is how could someone support a Trump, say, who did NOT honor his oath? Well, you could if you had no confidence that "the other guy," in this case the Dems, would either in the same situation. And I think there's a lot of that here--many Rs (can't speak for Bower) think Biden and the Dems are equally if not more destructive. That is very real out there, among good people.
Convincing them otherwise may not happen or will be slow at best, which is why Robert's right--convince independents and get new folks voting, which is why I'm out the door now.
But again--the heroes here are people from both parties and no party who honored their oaths. That is huge, huge.
Robert, thank you, thank you, for your commitment to the newsletter, even while traveling. The newsletter has inspired me to get active!
Can someone please explain to me how someone can condemn Trump for actions to the fullest and still support him. Rusty Bower is only one of a million of them. I don’t understand how they think? Or frankly they can sleep at night. 😔
SO: Are you telling me that the Supreme Court is, like an employer firing an employee, going to drop a bomb on Friday and then hope all calms down over the weekend? WHAT?
The Court's decision in NY Pistol and Rifle v. Bruen is the bitter fruit of Justice Scalia's intellectually dishonest opinion in Heller. Scalia converted collective right "of the people" to bear arms to ensure the "security of a free state" into an individual right. With that predicate, there is no limitation that will pass constitutional muster in the future--not licensing, sales, prohibition on type. We must expand the Court to dilute the power of the reactionary majority and reverse Heller and Bruen. The Second Amendment right to bear arms is tied to the right of a state to maintain security. That does not include the right of citizens to run riot with weapons in public.
Thanks for reminding us of the voting blocks we need to engage in civil discourse.
Lets hope that the Muslim community joins that Jewish community in Florida. As i understand it they also accept abortion at later stages of pregnany.