MaineBlueBear
MaineBlueBear's JournalWas a pardoned J6er the shooter?
Was the agent that Alex Pretti shot a pardoned J6 insurrectionist? Or maybe one of the other 6 goons that participated in the murder?
The problem isn't Maduro, it's the precedent
Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally just. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest.
The problem isn't Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it's "overthrowing a dictator"; tomorrow it will be "correcting an election," "protecting interests," "restoring order." The law doesn't absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.
The uncomfortable question isn't whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it's inconvenient.
Is anyone else scared
by how a young man, raised in gun culture and Republican politics, was able to make a kill shot at 200 yards?
Make them own it
Make Republicans own the tragedies they are causing. This only stops when congressional Republicans step up to stop it.
Electoral College
Wouldn't it be great if it could operate according to our founders design and save America from itself?
Whenever I see someone did their own research
I think
"No, no I don't think you should. I've seen the fruits of your research. I don't think you're up to the task."
Tarot - Kamala as the Queen of Pentacles
I've been doing three card readings to try to get a bearing on the news. Sunday the 21st last week was tumultuous with Biden dropping out.
Card 1 (past): 10 of wands inverted- the fight is over but you're exhausted.
Card 2 (present): 6 of cups - happy times ahead.
Future card: Queen of Pentacles - great tidings.
I'm stressed out today about Trump using the house of representatives to win the presidency. He's telling people not to vote and he has all of the votes he needs, per Rachel Maddow.
Past card: 6 of swords inverted - I'm causing this effect on myself
Present card: 4 of swords inverted - recovery is slow but coming.
Future card: 5 of cups inverted - healing from here onward. Pick up and reemerge.
Confused I drew a clarification card from a new deck and drew the Queen of Pentacles!
Anyone else seeing the Queen of Pentacles as Kamala in their readings?
Joy Reid was wondering what Dan Quayle's qualifications were
From LA Times:
Much has been made of the alleged incompetence of Bush’s running-mate, Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle. Here, too, the Iran-Contra link has been ignored. When the Administration decided to expand its already illegal war against Nicaragua by secretly opening a southern front in Costa Rica, it used Quayle’s office. Quayle’s staff aide, Rob Owen, put North in touch with another Hoosier, John Hull, who owned vast lands in northern Costa Rica. Hull’s property, with six airstrips, became the secret Contra arms depot and staging base.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-04-me-984-story.html
Perpetrating crimes against the US. That's his qualification.
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