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Over the weekend, I found this great opinion article from The Guardian by Robert Reich about how Trump has effectively abdicated his presidency through inaction, wrongful action, and lack of leadership.
And then, Trump hands me a gift to better make Reich's point and mine.
Because when Trump thinks he is being a strong leader, he just makes the situation much, much worse.
This man is not a leader; he is not what a president should be. He never has been. Many of us never thought that America would really lose its collective mind and elect this person to the most exalted post of prestige and power in our country. And yet, it seems they did unless all the reports are true that the election was rigged by GOP and corporate manipulation in collusion with Russia (and I think those reports are true).
But Trump did worm his way into the White House, and though I considered him a clown, a moron, an ineffectual boob, hellbent on reversing each action of the Obama administration no matter what it is or how sensible it is, he may be much, much more dangerous than those name-calling criticisms. If the Joint Chiefs and the Pentagon allow the military to be ordered and ruled by this man who has been placed in the role of Commander and Chief, a role he does not deserve, did not earn, and does not appreciate the responsibility of, then we are in trouble as he commands nuclear weapons, hordes of aircraft and carriers, and millions of troops. But if the government around him, the commanders, the actual soldiers on the ground refuse to do his bidding, refuse to suppress the voices and righteous anger of their neighbors, their brothers and sisters, then maybe he will be a laughing stock after all and not the scary, fear-mongering, bully with the might of the world's most powerful military at his command. Many have taken a knee (Thank you Colin Kaepernick) in solidarity with the protesters. I hope that trend continues.
Because if Robert Reich's words (see farther below and please do read them) were true this weekend, they became even more true last night when Trump ordered tear gas and rubber bullets to be used on peaceful Americans protesting hatred, racism, and murder in this country -- the country he supposedly leads -- so that he could walk to a church has rarely visited to hold a Bible he has clearly not read for a photo opportunity to curry favor and votes from evangelical citizens disgusted with stay at home orders keeping them out of their churches among other disgusts and criticisms.
And he didn't even have the decency to ask let alone inform the church's leader, the bishop, of his intentions: Mariann Edgar Budde. He just did it. Like he thinks he can do anything. Like weeks ago when he claimed to have absolute authority over states and the decisions of state governors, a message he reiterated last night in threatening to send US troops, the military, into states to quell riots: as he said in his speech: if the leaders of these cities and states "refuse to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residence, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them."
I am sickened and disgusted by these words of Trump's and all the others in his fascist, wanna-be-dictator stance shielded behind a Bible that sends a message of love not hate, inclusion not violence. Trump would use the military against the citizens of this country, its own citizens, to try to stop the violence sparked by outrage from having exceeded the limits of tolerance to the intolerable.
No more.
This use of force will not work. This use of force will surely backfire. And for a "president" who seems more concerned with his own re-election than with anything else, use of such force should also doom that bid entirely (I hope!).
Perhaps the riots will continue until the government surrounding and enabling that vile bully who calls himself president forces him to tender his resignation for gross malfeasance, dereliction of duty to the vows he swore when inaugurated, and for his dangerous, fascist actions.
Hey Trump? You think people were fed up before your little Monday night stunt? I am afraid you're really going to see some anger and violence now as those who were being peaceful lose hope that peace and non-violence will prevail.
All we can do is hope that Trump's threats do not become reality and that our nation does not continue down the fascist paths shown to be misguided at least and evil at worst by the rules of Hirohito, Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler among others.
Did the GOP and Trump forget how America came to exist? The revolution? The Declaration of Independence?
Someone please save us from this lunacy.
Antifa (which means anti-fascist) being declared a terrorist organization by a president who glorifies shooting people in the streets, while white supremacists like the proud boys open fire on unarmed peaceful protestors, and white cops murder black people...— Katie Moussouris (@k8em0) May 31, 2020
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THE FOLLOWING REMARKS ARE NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF WHAT A PRESIDENT IS OR SHOULD BE.
THIS IS NOT APPROPRIATE AND AMERICAN LEADERSHIP.
THIS IS FASCISM.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/read-trumps-rose-garden-remarks/index.html
READ: President Trump's Rose Garden speech on protests
Thank you very much. My fellow Americans, my first and highest duty as President is to defend the great country and the American people. I swore an oath to uphold the laws of our nation, and that is exactly what I will do. All Americans are rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death of George Floyd. My administration is fully committed that for George and his family, justice will be served. He will not have died in vain.
But we cannot allow the righteous prize and peaceful protesters to be drowned out by an angry mob. The biggest victims of the rioting are peace loving citizens in our poorest communities, and as they are President, I will fight to keep them safe. I will fight to protect you. I am your President of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters.
But in recent days, our nation has been gripped by professional anarchists, violent mobs, or, arsonists, looters, criminals, rider rioters, Antifa and others. A number of state and local governors have failed to take necessary action to safeguard their residence. Innocent people have been savagely beaten like the young man in Dallas, Texas, who was left dying on the street. Where the woman in upstate New York, viciously attacked by dangerous thugs. Small business owners have seen their dreams utterly destroyed. New York's finest have been hit in the face with bricks. Brave nurses who have battled the virus are afraid to leave their homes. A police precinct has been overrun here in the nation's capital, the Lincoln Memorial and the World War II memorial have been vandalized. One of our most historic churches was set ablaze. A federal officer in California, an African American enforcement hero was shot and killed.
These are not acts of peaceful protest. These are acts of domestic terror. The destruction of innocent life and the spilling of innocent blood is offense to humanity and a crime against god. America needs creation, not destruction. Cooperation, not contempt, security, not anarchy. Healing the hatred, justice, not chaos. This is our mission, and we will succeed 100%. We will succeed. Our country always wins. That is why I am taking immediate presidential action to stop the violence and restore security and safety in America. I am immobilizing all federal resources, civilian and military to stop the rioting and looting, to end the destruction and arson, and to protect the rights of law-abiding Americans, including your second amendment rights. Therefore, the following measures are going into effect immediately.
First, we are entering the riots and lawlessness that has spread throughout our country. We will end it now. Today, I have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets. Mayors and governors, both established and overwhelming law enforcement presence until the violence has been quelled. If the city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residence, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.
I am also taking swift and decisive action to protect our great capital, Washington, DC. What happened in the city last night was a total disgrace. As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults, and the wanton destruction of property. We are putting everybody on warning on a 7:00 curfew that will be strictly enforced. Those who threaten innocent life and property will be arrested, detained, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I want the organizers of this terror to be on notice that you will face severe criminal penalties and lengthy sentences in jail. This includes Antifa and others who were leading instigators of this violence. One law and order, and that is what it is, one law.
We have one, beautiful law. And once that is restored and fully restored, we will help you, we will help your business, and we will help your family. America is founded on the rule of law. It is the foundation of our prosperity, our freedom and our very way of life, but where there is no law, there is no opportunity. Where there is no justice, there is no liberty, where there is no safety, there is no future. We must never give in to anger or hatred. If malice or violence rains, then none of us is free. I take these actions today with firm resolve and with a true and passionate love for our country. By far our greatest days lie ahead.
Thank you very much, and now I am going to pay my respects to a very, very special place.
IN CONTRAST, THE FOLLOWING VIDEO SHOWS WHAT A PRESIDENT SHOULD SOUND LIKE, WHAT AMERICAN LEADERSHIP SHOULD BE.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/500652-biden-calls-for-police-reforms-accuses-trump-of-military-crackdown-on
KEY EXCERPTS:
“When peaceful protesters dispersed in order for a president..to use tear gas and flash grenades in order to stage a photo op – a photo op – at one of the most historic churches in the country… we can be forgiven for believing that the president is more interested in power than in principle, more interested in serving the passions of his base than the needs of the people in his care,” Biden said. “For that’s what the presidency is - a duty to care about all of us, not just our voters, not just our donors, but all of us.”
“The president held up the Bible at St. John’s church yesterday,” Biden said on Tuesday. “I just wished he’d open it once in a while instead of brandishing it. If he’d opened it he would have learned something. We’re all called to love one another as we love ourselves. It’s really hard work, but it’s the work of America.”
“Donald Trump isn’t interested in doing that work,” Biden continued. “Instead, he’s preening and sweeping away all the guardrails that have long protected our democracy, guardrails that have made possible this nation’s path to a more perfect union. It’s a union worth fighting for and that’s why I intend to run for president.”
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READ: Joe Biden's remarks on civil unrest and nationwide protests
Joe Biden delivered remarks Tuesday in Philadelphia on the civil unrest occurring across the nation following the death of George Floyd and condemned President Donald Trump for his response to protesters.
Here are the remarks as prepared for delivery:
"I can't breathe." "I can't breathe."
George Floyd's last words. But they didn't die with him. They're still being heard. They're echoing across this nation.
They speak to a nation where too often just the color of your skin puts your life at risk.
They speak to a nation where more than 100,000 people have lost their lives to a virus -- and 40 million Americans have filed for unemployment -- with a disproportionate number of these deaths and job losses concentrated in black and brown communities.
And they speak to a nation where every day millions of people -- not at the moment of losing their life -- but in the course of living their life -- are saying to themselves, "I can't breathe."
It's a wake-up call for our nation. For all of us.
And I mean all of us. It's not the first time we've heard these words -- they're the same words we heard from Eric Garner when his life was taken six years ago.
But it's time to listen to these words. Understand them. And respond to them -- with real action.
The country is crying out for leadership. Leadership that can unite us. Leadership that can bring us together. Leadership that can recognize the pain and deep grief of communities that have had a knee on their neck for too long.
But there is no place for violence.
No place for looting or destroying property or burning churches, or destroying businesses — many of them built by people of color who for the first time were beginning to realize their dreams and build wealth for their families.
Nor is it acceptable for our police — sworn to protect and serve all people — to escalate tensions or resort to excessive violence.
We need to distinguish between legitimate peaceful protest — and opportunistic violent destruction.
And we must be vigilant about the violence that's being done by the incumbent president to our democracy and to the pursuit of justice.
When peaceful protestors are dispersed by the order of the President from the doorstep of the people's house, the White House — using tear gas and flash grenades — in order to stage a photo op at a noble church, we can be forgiven for believing that the president is more interested in power than in principle.
More interested in serving the passions of his base than the needs of the people in his care.
For that's what the presidency is: a duty of care — to all of us, not just our voters, not just our donors, but all of us.
The President held up a bible at St. John's church yesterday.
If he opened it instead of brandishing it, he could have learned something: That we are all called to love one another as we love ourselves.
That's hard work. But it's the work of America.
Donald Trump isn't interested in doing that work.
Instead he's preening and sweeping away all the guardrails that have long protected our democracy.
Guardrails that have helped make possible this nation's path to a more perfect union.
A union that constantly requires reform and rededication -- and yes the protests from voices of those mistreated, ignored, left out and left behind.
But it's a union worth fighting for and that's why I'm running for President.
In addition to the Bible, he might also want to open the U.S. Constitution.
If he did, he'd find the First Amendment. It protects "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Mr. President: That is America.
Not horses rising up on their hind legs to push back a peaceful protest. Not using the American military to move against the American people. This nation is a nation of values. Our freedom to speak is the cherished knowledge that lives inside every American.
We will not allow any President to quiet our voice.
We won't let those who see this as an opportunity to sow chaos throw up a smokescreen to distract us from the very real and legitimate grievances at the heart of these protests.
And we can't leave this moment thinking we can once again turn away and do nothing. We can't.
The moment has come for our nation to deal with systemic racism. To deal with the growing economic inequality in our nation. And to deal with the denial of the promise of this nation — to so many.
I've said from the outset of this election that we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. Who we are. What we believe. And maybe most important — who we want to be.
It's all at stake. That is truer today than ever. And it's in this urgency we can find the path forward.
The history of this nation teaches us that it's in some of our darkest moments of despair that we've made some of our greatest progress.
The 13th and 14th and 15th Amendments followed the Civil War. The greatest economy in the history of the world grew out of the Great Depression. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 came in the tracks of Bull Connor's vicious dogs.
To paraphrase Reverend Barber — it's in the mourning we find hope.
It will take more than talk. We've had talk before. We've had protests before.
Let us vow to make this, at last, an era of action to reverse systemic racism with long overdue and concrete changes.
That action will not be completed in the first 100 days of my Presidency — or even an entire term.
It is the work of a generation.
But if this agenda will take time to complete, it should not wait for the first 100 days of my Presidency to get started.
A down payment on what is long overdue should come now. Immediately.
I call on Congress to act this month on measures that would be a first step in this direction. Starting with real police reform.
Congressman Jeffries has a bill to outlaw choke holds. Congress should put it on President Trump's desk in the next few days.
There are other measures: to stop transferring weapons of war to police forces, to improve oversight and accountability, to create a model use of force standard — that also should be made law this month.
No more excuses. No more delays.
If the Senate has time to confirm Trump's unqualified judicial nominees who will run roughshod over our Constitution, it has time to pass legislation that will give true meaning to our Constitution's promise of "equal protection of the laws."
Looking ahead, in the first 100 days of my presidency, I have committed to creating a national police oversight commission.
I've long believed we need real community policing.
And we need each and every police department in the country to undertake a comprehensive review of their hiring, their training, and their de-escalation practices.
And the federal government should give them the tools and resources they need to implement reforms.
Most cops meet the highest standards of their profession. All the more reason that bad cops should be dealt with severely and swiftly. We all need to take a hard look at the culture that allows for these senseless tragedies to keep happening.
And we need to learn from the cities and precincts that are getting it right.
We know, though, that to have true justice in America, we need economic justice, too.
Here, too, there is much to be done.
As an immediate step, Congress should act to rectify racial inequities in the allocation of COVID-19 recovery funds.
I will be setting forth more of my agenda on economic justice and opportunity in the weeks and months ahead.
But it begins with health care. It should be a right not a privilege. The quickest route to universal coverage in this country is to expand Obamacare.
We could do it. We should do it.
But this president — even now — in the midst of a public health crisis with massive unemployment wants to destroy it.
He doesn't care how many millions of Americans will be hurt— because he is consumed with his blinding ego when it comes to President Obama.
The President should withdraw his lawsuit to strike down Obamacare, and the Congress should prepare to act on my proposal to expand Obamacare to millions more.
These last few months we have seen America's true heroes. The health care workers, the nurses, delivery truck drivers, grocery store workers.
We have a new phrase for them: Essential workers.
But we need to do more than praise them. We need to pay them.
Because if it wasn't clear before, it's clear now. This country wasn't built by Wall Street bankers and CEOs. It was built by America's great middle class — by our essential workers.
I know there is enormous fear and uncertainty and anger in the country. I understand.
And I know so many Americans are suffering. Suffering the loss of a loved one. Suffering economic hardships. Suffering under the weight of generation after generation after generation of hurt inflicted on people of color — and on black and Native communities in particular.
I know what it means to grieve. My losses are not the same as the losses felt by so many. But I know what it is to feel like you cannot go on.
I know what it means to have a black hole of grief sucking at your chest.
Just a few days ago marked the fifth anniversary of my son Beau's passing from cancer. There are still moments when the pain is so great it feels no different from the day he died. But I also know that the best way to bear loss and pain is to turn all that anger and anguish to purpose.
And, Americans know what our purpose is as a nation. It has guided us from the very beginning.
It's been reported. That on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, little Yolanda King came home from school in Atlanta and jumped in her father's arms.
"Oh, Daddy," she said, "now we will never get our freedom."
Her daddy was reassuring, strong, and brave.
"Now don't you worry, baby," said Martin Luther King, Jr. "It's going to be all right."
Amid violence and fear, Dr. King persevered.
He was driven by his dream of a nation where "justice runs down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."
Then, in 1968 hate would cut him down in Memphis.
A few days before Dr. King was murdered, he gave a final Sunday sermon in Washington.
He told us that though the arc of a moral universe is long, it bends toward justice.
And we know we can bend it — because we have. We have to believe that still. That is our purpose. It's been our purpose from the beginning.
To become the nation where all men and women are not only created equal — but treated equally.
To become the nation defined — in Dr. King's words — not only by the absence of tension, but by the presence of justice.
Today in America it's hard to keep faith that justice is at hand. I know that. You know that.
The pain is raw. The pain is real.
A president of the United States must be part of the solution, not the problem. But our president today is part of the problem.
When he tweeted the words "When the looting starts, the shooting starts" -- those weren't the words of a president. They were the words of a racist Miami police chief from the 1960s.
When he tweeted that protesters "would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs ... that's when people would have been really badly hurt." Those weren't the words of a president — those were the kind of words a Bull Connor would have used unleashing his dogs.
The American story is about action and reaction. That's the way history works. We can't be naïve about that.
I wish I could say this hate began with Donald Trump and will end with him. It didn't and it won't. American history isn't a fairytale with a guaranteed happy ending.
The battle for the soul of this nation has been a constant push-and-pull for more than 240 years.
A tug of war between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the harsh reality that racism has long torn us apart. The honest truth is both elements
are part of the American character.
At our best, the American ideal wins out.
It's never a rout. It's always a fight. And the battle is never finally won.
But we can't ignore the truth that we are at our best when we open our hearts, not when we clench our fists. Donald Trump has turned our country into a battlefield riven by old resentments and fresh fears.
He thinks division helps him.
His narcissism has become more important than the nation's well-being he leads.
I ask every American to look at where we are now, and think anew: Is this who we are? Is this who we want to be? Is this what we pass on to our kids' and grandkids' lives? Fear and finger-pointing rather than hope and the pursuit of happiness? Incompetence and anxiety? Self-absorption and selfishness?
Or do we want to be the America we know we can be. The America we know in our hearts we could be and should be.
Look, the presidency is a big job. Nobody will get everything right. And I won't either.
But I promise you this. I won't traffic in fear and division. I won't fan the flames of hate.
I will seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued this country -- not use them for political gain.
I'll do my job and take responsibility. I won't blame others. I'll never forget that the job isn't about me.
It's about you.
And I'll work to not only rebuild this nation. But to build it better than it was.
To build a better future. That's what America does.
We build the future. It may in fact be the most American thing to do.
We hunger for liberty the way Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass did.
We thirst for the vote the way Susan B. Anthony and Ella Baker and John Lewis did. We strive to explore the stars, to cure disease, to make this imperfect Union as perfect as we can.
We may come up short — but at our best we try.
We are facing formidable enemies.
They include not only the coronavirus and its terrible impact on our lives and livelihoods, but also the selfishness and fear that have loomed over our national life for the last three years.
Defeating those enemies requires us to do our duty — and that duty includes remembering who we should be.
We should be the America of FDR and Eisenhower, of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., of Jonas Salk and Neil Armstrong.
We should be the America that cherishes life and liberty and courage.
Above all, we should be the America that cherishes each other -- each and every one.
We are a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us. We are a nation enraged, but we cannot allow our rage to consume us. We are a nation exhausted, but we will not allow our exhaustion to defeat us.
As President, it is my commitment to all of you to lead on these issues — to listen. Because I truly believe in my heart of hearts, that we can overcome. And when we stand together, finally, as One America, we will rise stronger than before.
So reach out to one another. Speak out for one another. And please, please take care of each other.
This is the United States of America. And there is nothing we can't do. If we do it together.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/31/donald-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-george-floyd-minneapolis-tweets
Fire, pestilence and a country at war with itself: the Trump presidency is over
A pandemic unabated, an economy in meltdown, cities in chaos over police killings. All our supposed leader does is tweet.
Donald Trump looks back as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP
You’d be forgiven if you hadn’t noticed. His verbal bombshells are louder than ever, but Donald J Trump is no longer president of the United States.
By having no constructive response to any of the monumental crises now convulsing America, Trump has abdicated his office.
He is not governing. He’s golfing, watching cable TV and tweeting.
How has Trump responded to the widespread unrest following the murder in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for minutes as he was handcuffed on the ground?
Trump called the protesters “thugs” and threatened to have them shot. “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” he tweeted, parroting a former Miami police chief whose words spurred race riots in the late 1960s.
On Saturday, he gloated about “the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons” awaiting protesters outside the White House, should they ever break through Secret Service lines.
Trump’s response to the last three ghastly months of mounting disease and death has been just as heedless. Since claiming Covid-19 was a “Democratic hoax” and muzzling public health officials, he has punted management of the coronavirus to the states.
Governors have had to find ventilators to keep patients alive and protective equipment for hospital and other essential workers who lack it, often bidding against each other. They have had to decide how, when and where to reopen their economies.
Trump has claimed “no responsibility at all” for testing and contact-tracing – the keys to containing the virus. His new “plan” places responsibility on states to do their own testing and contact-tracing.
Trump is also awol in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
More than 41 million Americans are jobless. In the coming weeks temporary eviction moratoriums are set to end in half of the states. One-fifth of Americans missed rent payments this month. Extra unemployment benefits are set to expire at the end of July.
What is Trump’s response? Like Herbert Hoover, who in 1930 said “the worst is behind us” as thousands starved, Trump says the economy will improve and does nothing about the growing hardship. The Democratic-led House passed a $3tn relief package on 15 May. Mitch McConnell has recessed the Senate without taking action and Trump calls the bill dead on arrival.
What about other pressing issues a real president would be addressing? The House has passed nearly 400 bills this term, including measures to reduce climate change, enhance election security, require background checks on gun sales, reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and reform campaign finance. All are languishing in McConnell’s inbox. Trump doesn’t seem to be aware of any of them.
There is nothing inherently wrong with golfing, watching television and tweeting. But if that’s pretty much all that a president does when the nation is engulfed in crises, he is not a president.
Trump’s tweets are no substitute for governing. They are mostly about getting even.
When he’s not fomenting violence against black protesters, he’s accusing a media personality of committing murder, retweeting slurs about a black female politician’s weight and the House speaker’s looks, conjuring up conspiracies against himself supposedly organized by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and encouraging his followers to “liberate” their states from lockdown restrictions.
He tweets bogus threats that he has no power to carry out – withholding funds from states that expand absentee voting, “overruling” governors who don’t allow places of worship to reopen “right away”, and punishing Twitter for factchecking him.
And he lies incessantly.
In reality, Donald Trump doesn’t run the government of the United States. He doesn’t manage anything. He doesn’t organize anyone. He doesn’t administer or oversee or supervise. He doesn’t read memos. He hates meetings. He has no patience for briefings. His White House is in perpetual chaos.
His advisers aren’t truth-tellers. They’re toadies, lackeys, sycophants and relatives.
Since moving into the Oval Office in January 2017, Trump hasn’t shown an ounce of interest in governing. He obsesses only about himself.
But it has taken the present set of crises to reveal the depths of his self-absorbed abdication – his utter contempt for his job, his total repudiation of his office.
Trump’s nonfeasance goes far beyond an absence of leadership or inattention to traditional norms and roles. In a time of national trauma, he has relinquished the core duties and responsibilities of the presidency.
He is no longer president. The sooner we stop treating him as if he were, the better.
- Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a columnist for Guardian US
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