The Stress Test of Liberal Democracy

David Remnick:

The next significant chapter in this stress test for liberal values will be the midterm elections of November, 2018. If the Democratic Party fails to win a majority in either the House of Representatives or the Senate, Trump will be further emboldened. His capacity for recklessness will multiply and go unrestrained. The Republican leadership, which has already proved shocking in its cowardice, will be even less inclined to challenge him.

The Republican leaders are beyond coward. They are a bunch of fucking sycophants.

Golden Showers

Jane Mayer writes:

The sources said that when Trump had stayed in the Presidential suite of Moscow’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, in 2013, he had paid “a number of prostitutes to perform a ‘golden showers’ (urination) show in front of him,” thereby defiling a bed that Barack and Michelle Obama had slept in during a state visit.

I try to stay away from politics, but every time Ms. Mayer has a new piece in The New Yorker, I have to stop everything and read it. What a great report on “The Man Behind the Dossier.” I have tremendous respect for Ms. Mayer.

Lờ đi

Không xem bất cứ tin tức bất cứ gì về đương kim tổng thống Mỹ. Không đọc những gì ông tweet. Không quan tâm gì đến chính trị Mỹ hiện giờ. Nước Mỹ đã bị chia rẽ ra quá nhiều. Những nhà cầm quyền vì lợi ít cá nhân và đồng tiền đã bán đi lương tâm và đạo lý làm người của mình. Thật không xứng đáng chút nào cả.

Càng để ý đến càng thêm tức giận. Nền tảng dân chủ của nước Mỹ đang bị đe dọa và làm nhục. Thế mà những người có trách nhiệm với chính quyền không dám đứng lên để bảo vệ nó. Để một thằng già với đầu óc hẹp hòi và tính tình của một đứa trẻ ba tuổi phá hoại tanh bành. Thật tội nghiệp cho đất nước Mỹ.

Tôi vẫn tin rằng chế độ dân chủ của Mỹ sẽ bền vững tuy nó đang trong tình trạng khủng hoảng. Chỉ còn chín thắng nữa chúng ta sẽ thấy được số mệnh của nước Mỹ. Tôi sẽ đợi. Đợi chờ đất nước Mỹ được giải thoát. Còn giờ đây tôi chỉ bị lờ đi và thu nhỏ lại thế giới riêng của mình. Trong chính trị tôi đã bớt căng thẳng nhiều vì thật ra tôi cũng chẳng làm được gì. Tôi còn một gia đình bé nhỏ để lo lắng. Chuyện chính trị tôi coi như kẻ ngu si hưởng để thái bình.

Nothing

More mass shooting, more children died, more thoughts and prayers, yet nothing has been done. How can one of the most children-loving nations in the world has failed to protect our own kids from horrific dead? From college students to high schoolers to kindergartners, we watched them murdered again and again and we have done nothing.

We protect our children from falling. We protect our children from bullying. We protect our children from domestic violence. We protect our children from sexual abuse. And yet, we have not protect them from getting shot right on school ground where are they supposed to be safe and sound.

If the children are our future, we have failed them repeatedly. We robbed their future by cutting their life short. At this point, if nothing can change our mind on gun law, I don’t know what else will motivate us to do something. More American children will die if all we can do is offering thoughts and prayers.

Shame on America for choosing politics over people and guns over lives. How is it possible that one of the richest and most advanced countries in the world failed to protect its own innocent children? What the fuck is wrong with America? We are not the do-nothing nation. We can do something about this. Not next election cycle, not next year, not next month, and not tomorrow. Now’s the time.

Big Stupid Bully

The seventy-something bully is so stupid that he is getting fucked by a little thirty-something White Supremacist without even realizing it. The little White Supremacist pays the big stupid bully some compliments on TV and he does everything the little guy tells him to do. It’s really a damn shame the way one of the greatest countries in the world operates nowadays. If the government can’t get its act together then it needs to get shutdown. I am counting by the minute to the midterm election.

He is a/an…

Asshole
Bigot
Creep
Demagogue
Egotistic
Facist
Grotesque
Hypocrite
Idiot
Jerk
Kleptocrat
Liar
Moron
Narcissist
Oppressor
Pussy-grabber
Querulous
Racist
Sexist
Thoughtless
Unfit
Vulgar
White Supremacist
Xenophobic
Yokelish
Zany

At this point, nothing he says can be shocking anymore. The media is giving way too much attention. The more outrageous words come out of his foul mouth, the more galvanizing his base gets. He has nothing to lose and so much to gain. I have learned to ignore what he says and tweets. His words no longer get to me. I am shocked or mad. Nothing he says is unthinkable, unimaginable, and unspeakable. I won’t fall into his word trap anymore. I still love America and I still believe in our strong democracy. He will go down and out.

Unthinkable

Masha Gessen:

To think that a madman could be running the world’s most powerful country, to think that the Commander-in-Chief would use Twitter to mouth off about whose nuclear button is bigger or to call himself a “very stable genius,” verges on the impossible. If the word “unthinkable” had a literal meaning, this would be it.

At this point, nothing about this president is unimaginable, unthinkable, and unspeakable. I have to change my view on American politics to keep me from going crazy.

A Great Threat

David Remnick sums it up in one sentence:

The President of the United States has become a leading security threat to the United States.

Pence Tossed Trump’s Salad

In Cabinet meeting, Pence went above and beyond kissing Trump’s ass. He gave Trump an ass job. As much as I would love to see Trump impeached, I don’t think I would want to see this fuckface as a replacement.

The Impact of Ending Net Neutrality

New York Public Libraries:

To see who will be affected, simply walk into any New York City library branch. See the students who literally cannot do their homework without our computers. See the parents and caregivers who are learning English and applying for jobs online to improve their circumstances. See the higher education students, independent researchers, and scholars who need our databases and online collections to further scholarship. Imagine how frustrated they will be, how demoralized, that they can no longer access what they need.

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