Real Estate and Business Attorney (50+ years). Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, teaching Ethics (15 years). Former mayor. Progressive.
Marin County
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“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
Richard Kalish retweeted
It's beyond an unnecessary expense for taxpayers to cover the cost for Trump to fly 24 vehicles, 19 motorcycles, and one Natalie Harp to Ireland for a 48-hour visit so he can attend a golf tournament while voters are unable to afford health care, food, gas, utilities, or rent.
Communists are the new caravans, used by autocrats to keep the public afraid and to justify staying in power.
Over 100 retired judges, and more than 1,200 former DOJ employees said, among many things, that Blanche is unfit to lead. Nevertheless, fully aware that he is unfit, Republican Senators will vote to confirm because they're afraid of crossing Trump.
MacKenzie Scott (ex-wife of Jeff Bezos):
Received in divorce settlement (2019) – approximately $36 billion
Given away since then: approximately $26 billion
Current net worth: approximately $31.6 billion
Conclusion: Billionaires do not suffer when they donate or are taxed.
Yes, Platner's vetting was defective. But why are we so fixated on vetting for sexual activity, while Congress is filled with Republicans who were not vetted for cowardice and for being likely to sit silently while the U.S. is taken over by fascists?
Trump's nicknames are insulting but they work because of repetition. From now on, every Democrat should refer to Trump as "the surrender president". It should be repeated and repeated and repeated by every Democrat every time he is mentioned.
No Democrat should ever again refer to Trump without calling him "the surrender president." Trump's insulting labels of people have an effect because he repeats them over and over. Democrats should do the same with "the surrender president".
Why is this? Like a forest fire, Republican messaging receives saturated coverage in right wing media and mainstream media alike. (E.g., Clinton emails; Biden's age.) Democratic messaging, though, receives the same media attention as when a tree falls in the forest.
Richard Kalish retweeted
Just when Trump thought the Epstein files threat was in the rear view mirror, Maggie Habermsn and Jonathan Swan come a knocking on the door of public consciousness again.
Their upcoming book ‘Regime Change’ rips of the festering scab that has grown over the open wound of Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
The regime are going to find this reporting very difficult to brush off as lies and a hit job. It’s just another in a growing list of damaging political threats Trump is unable to fend off.
Thanks to the New York Times for the clip.
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Richard Kalish retweeted
A truly despicable, corrupt, un-American, rapist, wanna-be-authoritarian “man” is running the country and everyone enabling him should be ashamed.
Breaking News: The Justice Dept. is said to have opened an investigation into E. Jean Carroll, who had accused Donald Trump of rape. In her civil case against him, a jury had found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll. nyti.ms/4dMgruH
Richard Kalish retweeted
When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?
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Politicians are really like poker players. They claim when they're elected and get a seat at. the poker table, everything will be different. When they're elected, though, and get a seat at the poker table, they inevitably, because they must, play the same game of poker as
No one should believe this habitual, chronic liar. Distrust and verify.
David Sanger writing in NY Times on March 6: "President Trump declared on Friday that he would settle for nothing short of “unconditional surrender” by Iran". Nothing on the table since bears even the remotest scent of surrender. Everything Trump touches dies.
Richard Kalish retweeted
"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..."
Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump??
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