Posted on 11/17/2024 2:02:08 PM PST by simpson96
Within just a few hours of President Joe Biden’s welcoming President-elect Donald Trump to a cozy two-hour Oval Office meeting (which honestly made me queasy), Trump made any right-thinking American queasy, too. He quickly nominated former Democrat-turned-quisling Tulsi Gabbard his director of national intelligence, accused pedophile Matt Gaetz as attorney general, and womanizing, serial liar, dead-baby-bear-defiling, whale-head-removing, worm-in-his-head anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of Health and Human Services.
That was just after he nominated Christian nationalist Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel.
What to do? Well, if Republicans decide to hold on to their power to confirm the president’s nominees—new Senate majority leader John Thune said he was open to Trump’s demand to make recess appointments—I hope they will not confirm any of them. Obviously, if you’re a Democrat, you make sure every Democrat votes against confirming them.
But before the confirmation dramas begin: Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton—and honestly, every Democratic member of Congress–must follow the lead of the late Representative John Lewis, who skipped Trump’s first inauguration, and decline their invitation to the inauguration on January 20.
“It will be the first one that I miss since I’ve been in Congress,” Lewis said in January 2017. “You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.” Lewis died in July 2020, before he could attend Joe Biden’s inauguration. But I know he’s fine with that. And if he were here now, I know what he would do. This is an ultimately inauthentic government, hateful of knowledge and science. And people. All but the people they see in their boardrooms.
Please don’t legitimize this, Madame Vice President.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
Well said.
So am I.
Jesus, Joan. Kamala was locking up small time drug dealers and parents whose kids were truant from school. Is this really who the commrades and the Nation hitch their wagon to? Are you really that much of shills for whatever corporate empty suit candidate the Dems serve up?
What if she chose not to participate? Who replaces her? House Majority leader?
Wrong again.
Unless it's called *marriage*.
I'm pretty sure 17 is old enough to be legally married inn many, if not most states.
Some media outlets are apparently pretending it is still the day before Election Day and Kamala still has a chance of beating Trump.
It’s The Nation. It has been explicitly communist from its founding.
She forgot her mask.
A good idea for those who haven’t been deprogrammed.
These people all have looks as bitter as they are inside.
Sore losers!
Sore Losers can’t beat the hate curse.
Hegseth is of Norwegian ancestry. So was Quisling. So they missed a chance to call Hegseth a quisling.
Sounds like some of the other terms they have invented like homophobic, Islamophobic, transphobic, toxic masculinity, etc.
Sure, stay at home girls!
Who needs a shitbird shitting on our party anyway!
I'm looking forward to a "World Wide Theocracy" when the Good Shepherd returns.
Christian nationalism is for those of small faith.
What a hateful person. This woman needs some help immediately.
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