Imaginary Immunity

A federal appeals court decided Trump’s immunity claims would reject "the most fundamental check on executive power."

"We cannot accept former President Trump’s claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power — the recognition and implementation of election results. Nor can we sanction his apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count."

In addition, they said that Trump's stance "would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three Branches."

"Presidential immunity against federal indictment would mean that, as to the President, the Congress could not legislate, the Executive could not prosecute and the Judiciary could not review.”

“Former President Trump’s alleged efforts to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election were, if proven, an unprecedented assault on the structure of our government. He allegedly injected himself into a process in which the President has no role — the counting and certifying of the Electoral College votes — thereby undermining constitutionally established procedures and the will of the Congress.”

The rationality, wisdom and common sense of this decision are as valid and sound as any judgement could be.

Therefore, I'm going to make a bold prediction that reflects this temporary surge of optimism.

The Supreme Court will NOT take up this inane case. It has been decided rationally, thoroughly, and UNANIMOUSLY by the Appeals Court 

Even Chief Justice Roberts should have the sense that taking up this nonsense would be tantamount to open defiance of our rule of law and interference on behalf of Trump in the upcoming election.

The Court is already trying to shake off the stain of corruption and bribery. If he wants the Court to regain any semblance of integrity, Roberts will deny Trump's absurd assertion any further dignity in front of the Supreme Court. I think he would make this clear to Trump's appointed justices and the corrupt Clarence Thomas, whose wife may yet see criminal charges for HER ELECTION INTERFERENCE.

There may be a good chance even these partisan cronies would think twice about saying, "Wait a minute. I think Trump SHOULD be above the law for the rest of his life".

After all, if that deranged notion is sound, then President Biden is free to legally order Seal Team 6 to just take Trump out. And maybe a Justice or two as well.

"Fear And Loathing"

And the Hypocrisy Award for projection and lies goes to Nikki Haley’s, "I will not demonize this issue. (Reproductive rights she would ban.) It's too personal. We have to start doing that. Democrats use fear and Republicans use judgment".

Yes, Nikki. Your judgement deems a pardon for Trump's dozens of crimes will heal the country. "This is no longer about whether he's innocent or guilty. This is about the fact: How do we bring the country back together?"

Never mind the long history and deep catalogue of their mendacious and malevolent hate and fearmongering. Stoking fear and loathing through outrageous lies has been the essential means to power for tyrants throughout history and it works for today's American radical Right white nationalists.

Some of us may recall these examples:

“Obama the Marxist was born in Kenya!”

"STOLLEN Election!"

"Witch hunt!"

“CORRUPT AND WEAPONIZED COMMUNISTS DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED DOJ.”

"Weaponized lawfare!"

"Cultural Marxism!"

"Fake News!"

"The press is the enemy of the people!"

“If the communists get away with this, it won’t stop with me. They will not hesitate to ramp up their persecution of Christians, pro-life activists, parents attending school board meetings, and even future Republican candidates.”

"They're coming after you and I'm just standing in their way."

“We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections. They’ll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American Dream.”

"They're poisoning the blood of our country!"

"Open border!"

"Invaders!"

"Replacement!"

"MS-13!"

"Urban (Black) Crime!"

"They're coming for your guns!!"

"Ban books, not AR-15s!"

"Critical Race Theory is racist hate!"

"Whites are the REAL victims of racism!"

"Drag queens are molesting our children!"

"WOKISM!"

 

Just to mention a few...

Trump Is Evil

Trump is evil. Period. Those who can't see that will need to find their conscience first His supporters run the gamut from a neo-Nazi level of evil to simple ignorance.

We've all seen and heard from the worst of them. They delight in cruelty and in the suffering of people they hate, calling them "vermin" and "communists" or random racist slurs.

This is why I use the term evil for such sociopaths. They chose that path and refuse to consider any fact that Trump doesn't want them to know.

1/6 proved that many of them would KILL and DIE for Trump and his lies. These are the evil ones.

It truly is a cult of evil, and they ARE the greatest domestic threat to our democratic republic. They scorn empathy and compassion as "woke" and "weakness". They hate and fear any educator who teaches the history of slavery and racism. They despise their fellow Americans in the LGBTQ community. We’ve seen their unrestrained rabid hate and mockery for progressives and democrats. We need to look no further than to the racists and bigots at Trump rallies, blogs like WYD, and in our comment threads.

Nazis are evil. Fascists are evil. MAGA extremists are evil. They are all deluded, deranged, and hostile to democracy, decency, and equality.

Yes, many Trump supporters are just dupes, too stupid or gullible to know better, but they still MADE their choice to close their hearts and minds to the truth. And they vote.

I have no doubt that many Trump VOTERS are not like the cruel thugs we saw on 1/6/21.

Like most of us, they are usually kind to their family, even if they might not vote like they do. They may even like them if they share their religious beliefs. They might show courtesy to strangers or people who don’t look like them. They may grudgingly respect veterans who don't vote like they do. They haven’t surrendered their sense of basic human decency, but might have listened to too much FOX® in lieu of more credible news sources.

But look how far too many of them act towards the rest of us. The fanatics essentially worship Trump and embrace all his hate rhetoric and lies as gospel.

Again, this is NOT all Trump voters. Some hold their nose as they mark their ballot. They don’t go as far as the others in their hate and aggression. They are misguided, but not evil.

But a Nazi is a Nazi, no matter the IQ. The same goes for Q-Anon sub-level of the cult, along with the other MAGA extremists who ARE ignorant bigots, racists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis. The evil ones are either sociopaths from the start or have simply surrendered what was left of their conscience and mind to Trump.

Trump is evil. Trumpism is evil. Millions of his followers are evil. Together they are poisoning the minds of Americans with hate and lies while ripping out the heart of our democratic republic.

Insurrection: Year Three

 

It's been three years.

Trump's Big Lie continues to inflame American fascism. His seditious  lies have now captured most of the Republican Party. They have abandoned truth and decency, goose-stepping in lockstep loyalty to their Fuhrer and his violent Putsch. 

He has yet to face justice for his crimes against America and our elections. It SHOULDN'T have to come down to the voters again. The critical mass that decides our future will be settled in the court cases of "the United States v Donald Trump" and "Georgia v Donald Trump". And it also seems likely to be in "Michigan v Donald Trump". The rule of law MUST prevail, or the republic is dead. Until then, the darkness of lies and fascism still looms over our democracy.

We will also soon see just how corrupt and deep in Trump's pocket the Supreme Court will prove to be. 

Here is what I wrote three years ago today.

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"What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States." The truth was spoken by Mitt Romney, the only Republican senator with a conscience during the impeachment trial. 

January 6, 2021 will live in infamy. Like the burning ships at Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the falling towers on 9-11, we have the searing images of Trump's America. 

The stunning pictures for this page in history will show Trump's mob committing open insurrection at the Capitol Building. 

This Insurrection Day, Trump and the Republican radical Right brought their war on American democracy to its inevitable endgame. The brainwashed herd mentality of the Trump Cult was activated into a raging mob mentality.

The president’s invitation to insurrection went out on twitter: “Be there, will be wild!”The BIG Protest Rally in Washington, D.C., will take place at 11.00 A.M. on January 6th. Locational details to follow. StopTheSteal! “

One of Trump’s loyal patriots responded, “I’m thinking it will be literal war on that day. Where we’ll storm offices and physically remove and even kill all the D.C. traitors and reclaim the country.”

How could anyone have predicted what would happen?

What possible harm could be inspired by Toadie Rudy suggesting, “Let's have trial by combat” at the rally?

The BIG Protest Rally speech concluded with marching orders. "We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Ave ... and we're going to try and give our Republicans -- the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help -- we're to try and give them kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country...so let’s walk down Pennsylvania Ave.”

So they walked down Pennsylvania Ave.

Well, not including their brave leader, of course.

The objective of their mission was the US Capital Building, to give the “weak Republicans the pride and boldness that they need to take back our country”.

In their indoctrinated cult delusions, this was a righteous crusade for freedom and justice for Trump. He was cheated out of power and glory by a stolen election. He was cheated by “far left radical democrats” and “weak Republicans”. 

And they were all his fellow victims. Because he TOLD them so.

Onward they marched down Pennsylvania Ave to Capitol Hill.

Security for the constitutional certification of election results was a small fraction of what was deemed suitable for a BLM protest. Trump’s “patriots”, easily swarmed past the capitol police.

I mean, it’s not like there was a large angry mob in the neighborhood that could somehow be a problem.

Barricades were torn down, and the mob stormed the entrances.

As mayhem brewed outside, treachery brewed inside.

In the House chamber, a dozen Republican Senators and other House Republican insurrectionists moved to silence the voice of the American people and overturn a fair and open election.

Their objection over the Arizona votes required the Senate to return to their chamber to debate the objection.

It was time for Mitch McConnell’s speech on the “most important” vote of his career. It was beautiful. Too bad about the late timing thing.

“We’re debating a step that has never been taken in American history, whether Congress should overrule the voters and overturn a presidential election...

Self-government, my colleagues, requires a shared commitment to the truth, and a shared respect for the ground rules of our system.

We cannot keep drifting apart into two separate tribes with a separate set of facts and separate reality, with nothing in common except our hostility towards each other and mistrust for the few national institutions that we all still share.

...The United States Senate has a higher calling than an endless spiral of partisan vengeance.

It would be unfair and wrong to disenfranchise the voters and overrule courts and the states in this extraordinarily thin basis.”

Finally I agree with him. How long until he forgets that part about “a separate set of facts and separate reality”? 

And when did he care about, "shared commitment to the truth, and a shared respect for the ground rules of our system"? 

Bygones, I'm sure.

Only about half the insurrectionist Senators dropped their objections.

Of course Moscow Mitch had to blame Democrats for being just as bad. He wanted to show he was more decent than they were, what with all their non-seditious and constitutional efforts to hold Trump accountable. You know, as in “attacking the president’s legitimacy”.

Same thing.

Meanwhile windows were smashed and Trump’s Traitors streamed into the Capitol. Some capitol police tried to delay the mob, as another posed for a selfie with a criminal rioter.

The fascist insurrectionists were headed for the Senate Chamber. It was time to evacuate.

The Trump Mob surged through the Capitol, vandalizing and breaking into offices.

Some of them proved their depth of stupidity matched their hate and ignorance. After breaking into the office of the Speaker of the House, one posted pictures of his crime on social media. And he wasn't the only "law and order patriot" to do that.

Then the coup went from bloodless to bloody. Someone was shot and killed at the United States Capitol.

Trump’s America has ended the long tradition of peaceful transition of power. He sent a horde of domestic terrorists into the heart of our democracy.

Enough. It was time to consider the REAL victims.

The compassionate and loving Leader of the insurrection consoled his mob with a pre-recorded televised message.

"I know you're in pain. I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen. It was a landslide. But you have to go home now...we love you, you're very special."

And good little goose-steppers obediently stand back and stand by. Well, mostly. Curfews are for BLM and their anti-police brutality and anti-racism protests.

Have we finally settled the debate on "Worst US President Ever"?

During the maelstrom of madness that was raging through our nation’s Capitol Building, public servants honorably served our country. It was during the scramble to evacuate the Senate Chamber.

The Electoral College ballots were rescued from the Senate floor by real patriots. In denying Trump’s insurrectionists their prize, two women scored a very real, and symbolic, victory for American democracy over American fascism.

It's time for the rest of us to do what we can to stand with them.

The MAGAt "Beer Belly Putsch" will fail, but it tells us it isn’t just words and threats anymore. The country needs to see this open coup condemned and shut down, with consequences suffered, top to bottom.

The world watches, horrified along with the rest of us. Trumpism and the radical Right MUST be rejected and repudiated.

The election will stand and justice must be done.

Democratic Socialism

 

We hear it all the time from Trump and his fanatical cult followers.

Democrats and any others who oppose him or seek to hold him accountable to the rule of law are smeared as “Communist/socialist/fascist/racists”. The racist accusation is for any Black prosecutor or Attorney General who would apply just punishment for his crimes.

Clearly, all these derogatory terms are cast without regard to their actual definitions.  They are simply words meant to convey their rabid indoctrinated hate for anyone who dares oppose their cult leader.

One phrase we NEVER hear from them is Democratic Socialism.

This is the term Bernie Sanders uses to identify his political positions.

Democratic Socialism is the idea of a government of, by and for the people in service to the public interests and general welfare of its population. It is defined by the ideal and application of a democratic republic based on fair elections and fair representation for its citizens.

It is NOT “Marxism, communism or fascism”.

We hear the radical Right howl, “Hitler was a socialist! The Nazi party has socialist in it name!”

That is how they will dismiss any further discussion of the matter.

Hitler joined a small party that used "socialism" in its name. Hitler was a fascist, and nothing like a democratic socialist. Nazis didn't gain power by promoting ideals of representative democracy, and public services like healthcare and education. They HATED labor unions. It was about power, retribution, antisemitism, racism, militarism and a police state.

They outlawed reproductive freedom for women and homosexuality. Then their Holocaust proved to be the OPPOSITE of socialism. It's called GENOCIDE.

Communists call themselves socialists because it sounds less dictatorial. Dictatorship is not social democracy. Is dictatorial communist North Korea a Democratic Republic because they say it is? No.

And that is key.

Dictators run dictatorships, NOT democratic socialistic societies.

Democracy is what defines democratic socialism. Public healthcare and public education and public utilities along with other public services that support what we believe should be RIGHTS of the people to fair elections and representation, to the public good, to the general welfare.

In fact, the US Constitution is democratic socialist in nature. It calls for democratic elections of leaders and peaceful transfer of power, with limits placed on govt. power in our Bill of Rights.

The US Constitution calls for taxes, regulation of commerce, and provision for the general welfare. ALL of this is called socialism or even communism by the American radical Right. They don't want to admit what is in our foundation of law.

Sweden, Denmark, Finland and other western European countries have such elements of democratic socialism. The right will try to deny this or say they are “failing” despite the level of happiness in those countries are far above what is in the US. They are healthier and better educated. Having the RIGHT to healthcare and education helps assure this.

When Americans speak of democratic socialism, we mean the ideals in our Declaration of Independence and foundation of law in the Constitution. The right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", (including healthcare and education), equality under law, and a "more perfect union" were, and are, the goals.  A path toward those ideals was made by allowing a process to amend the Constitution.

So the Right will evade any discussion of the actual meaning of democratic socialism. They need to redefine or completely fabricate the meanings of words.

A refusal to agree on definitions of words is a large part of the problem. 

Communication and compromise break down when one side demonizes and defines the other to its propaganda message. It is always the authoritarian side that benefits from the twisting of terms.

Orwell covered this in "1984" with "newspeak" and the destruction of language. It was a warning, not a guidebook.

But the American radical Right seems to regard the book more as an operating manual for their political agenda.

And Orwell was a socialist. 

If you want to annoy a pontificating white Trumpist who tries to show he's "not racist" by quoting Martin Luther King's words, tell him what he doesn't want to know.

He was a democratic socialist.

“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.”

– Speech to the Negro American Labor Council, 1961

“Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis.”

–Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967

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It would seem "democratic socialism" is too complex and scary as a concept for Americans.

Maybe it should be called "Liberalism", or "progressivism". Oh, but those terms have been demonized out of political discourse by the radical Right too.

I got it! "Universal Socially Applied Capitalism" or "USA Capitalism". How does that sound?

MAGA "Mein Kampf"

 

I don't care if someone thinks I'm overreacting. I don't care if anyone says I'm redundant or obsessed. Anyone who doesn't recognize the rising existential threat to our republic has their own issues of burying their heads in the sand, or up Trump's ass.

With every passing day our indicted racketeering serial criminal and former president goes farther down the path towards white nationalist fascism.

Trump turned a national holiday greeting into a virtual neo-Nazi assault against fellow Americans who don’t support him.

He marked Veterans Day with a screed that echoes Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”. 

Replace "fascists" with "Jews" and "America" with "Germany", and we see the disturbingly identical rhetoric of Hitler's Nuremberg rally. 

In honor of our great Veterans on Veteran’s Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country, lie, steal, and cheat on Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and the American Dream. The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within. Despite the hatred and anger of the Radical Left Lunatics who want to destroy our Country, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

The draft dodging coward desecrates the honor and sacrifices made by real American patriots. He called them “losers” and “suckers” as he refused to go to a military cemetery on a rainy day because it would get his hair wet.  

He didn’t want any wounded veterans near him because it didn’t “look good” for him.

Instead, he praises his insurrectionist thugs and admires cruel dictators like Putin, Kim, Xi and Orban.

Trump is a tyrant.

Like every autocrat before him, he promises, "If I happen to be president, and I see somebody who is doing well and beating me very badly, I'll say, 'go down and indict them.'"

Indict them for what? The “crime” of being supported by more voters? By falsely claiming that Biden is abusing his powers to weaponize the Justice Department, Trump is laying the groundwork to weaponize it himself.

As revealed in the nefarious “Project 2025”, he intends to purge the US Government of everyone who won’t swear loyalty to HIM. He wants the Justice Department to be his political enforcement police. His own private Gestapo.

He echoes Hiter in more ways than most Americans will comprehend.

In "Mein Kampf" Chapter 11 titled, "Nations and Race," Hitler wrote the following:

"All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning."

And "Adolf" Trump echoes the Fuhrer's racist white nationalism all the way with:

“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country.”

He sounds like someone with a "final solution" for people he hates.

Hitler and Trump both HATED a free press. Journalism has always been seen as a threat by tyrants.

The German Nazis used the term “Lügenpresse”, or lying press, in their campaign to destroy journalism. Now American fascists cry “liberal media”, “fake news” and “enemy of the people” when their lies are exposed, and the truth threatens their agenda.

Hitler said, “What good fortune for those in power that people do not think”. 

Trump said, "I love the poorly educated".

Hitler and Trump were/are both ultra-nationalist white supremacists.

Hitler and Trump used these ultra-nationalist slogans:

Hitler: "Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fuhrer!" (One people. One Realm. One Leader.)

Trump: "One people. One family. One glorious nation."

Hitler and Trump pretended to be victimized by minorities and stoked racist hate.

Hitler and Trump gained support by demonizing and scapegoating minorities.

Hitler and Trump loved large rallies of racist loyal fanatics to lie, demonize, blame, and falsely accuse those they hated.

Every German Nazi pledged loyalty to the Fuhrer. Every American neo-Nazi is a Trump supporter.

Hitler imprisoned all political opponents. If not for our Constitutional rule of law, Trump would imprison his political opponents. He openly threatened to jail Hillary Clinton

Hitler and Trump would accuse anyone standing in his way of being a communist or Marxist, Jews in Hitler’s case, and Democrats, Black prosecutors, and judges in Trump’s. He calls every Black DA and prosecutor who holds him accountable for crimes “racists”.

Hitler and Trump were/are insurrectionist criminals. They each incited a violent political insurrection to seize power. 

Hitler's Putsch was in 1923 and Trump's Putsch was January 2021.

Hitler had brown shirts and his SS thugs. Trump has his Proud Boys and Oath Keepers thugs.

Hitler had Goebbels. Trump has OAN, FOX(R), Newsmax, etc.

Hitler hated democracy. Trump tried to overturn our election.

Hitler and Trump encouraged police brutality.

Hitler and Trump admired Russian tyrants.

Hitler and Trump demanded loyalty over competence.

Hitler and Trump smeared educators and liberals who disagreed with them as “Communists”.

Hitler and Trump were/are anti-union.

On May 2, 1933, just three months after Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany, the SA and police occupied the offices of German Trade Unions, seizing control of them.

The NLRB members Trump appointed made it more difficult for unions to win representation at nonunion workplaces. He issued three Executive Orders aimed at degrading the rights of federal sector employees.

On the day Biden stood with the UAW union strikers, Trump held a rally at an anti-union company with FAKE union supporters. One individual in the crowd who held a sign that said "union members for Trump," acknowledged that she wasn't a union member when approached by a Detroit News reporter after the event. Another person with a sign that read "auto workers for Trump" said he wasn't an auto worker when asked for an interview. Both people didn't provide their names.

Hitler and Trump pandered to Christians.

"The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life." - Adolf Hitler "My New World Order" - Proclamation to the German Nation, Berlin, February 1, 1933

Trump brandished a Bible for a photo op after GASSING non-violent protesters objecting to police brutality. After lying about the Bible being his “favorite book”, he couldn’t even cite a single passage.

Hitler and Trump were/are bigots who demonized homosexuals and denied women reproductive freedom.

On October 10, 1936 Heinrich Himmler created the Reich Central Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortion, or Special Office (II S), a sub-department of Executive Department II of the Gestapo.

Trump appointed unqualified theocrats to the Supreme Court to appease anti-abortion right-wing Christians.

When neo-Nazi fascists tell you who they are, believe them the first time.

Trump declared: “Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”

When enemies of the Constitution tell you what they are, believe them the first time.

Political Purity

 

We recall when Senator Al Franken was forced to resign over a gag photo, a far less transgression of decency than what every damn insurrectionist Republican has said and done.

And here they go again. Twenty-two “Political Purity Police” Democratic House representatives have emulated their Senate counterparts in joining Republicans in censuring their fellow party members.

First let’s examine the “politically correct” rhetoric Democrats didn’t censure. 

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene:

"I am not going to mince words with you all. Democrats want Republicans dead and they have already started the killings."

On Trump’s January 6, 2021 coup:

“You can’t allow it to just transfer power ‘peacefully’ like Joe Biden wants and allow him to become our president.”

"I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would've been armed."

All politically correct with no censure.

Republican Lauren Boebert:

“No more diversity, equity, or inclusion! We must stand up America, and end equality now!!”

“The church is supposed to direct the government…I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk.”

Boebert on Trump’s January 6, 2021 coup:

“Today is 1776!”

"The Speaker has been removed from the chambers."

All politically correct with no censure.

Republican Rep. Brian Mast:

“I think when we look at this, as a whole, I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians. I don't think we would so lightly throw around the term innocent Nazi civilians.”

This was also deemed politically correct when Democrats pulled their own censure resolution against this bigot. Instead twenty-two of them chose to censure the innocent Palestinian civilian in congress the Republican bigot equated with being a Nazi.

The outrage is in reaction to Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib saying, “From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate. My work and advocacy is always centered in justice and dignity for all people no matter faith or ethnicity.”

Outraged politically correct Democrats joined fellow politically correct Republicans like Boebert and Greene to censure Tlaib’s politically incorrect words.

Tlaib’s sin was she failed to utter the politically correct version.

Netanyahu's far Right political party Likud declared in its original party platform. "Between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty," reads the document, which also argued that a Palestinian state "endangers the existence of the State of Israel."

So Tlaib was censured by the “Political Purity Police” Democratic House representatives for far less than what every damn insurrectionist, pardon-seeking House Republican has said and done.

To those Trumpists howling and accusing others of being antisemitic, why can’t you see the beam in YOUR  eye?

Trump welcomed outspoken antisemites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes to dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk accuses Jews of supporting Marxism. He wants to end teaching Holocaust history as well as the history of American slavery and racism:

“Jews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years. Stop supporting causes that hate you. Now, you might say, well, how is one thing applied to the other? If you train a generation, if you do everything through an oppressor, oppressed lens, they will apply that lens to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The same way that they apply it to the police issue, the gender issue, good guy, bad guy, somebody on top, somebody on bottom.

Until you cleanse that ideology from the hierarchy in the academic elite of the west, there will not be a safe future. I'm not going to say Israel won't exist, but Israel will be in jeopardy as long as the western children, children of the west, are being taught, with primarily Jewish dollars, subsidizing it, to view everything through oppressor oppressed dynamic. Until you shed that ideology, you will not be able to build the case for Israel, because they view Israel as an oppressor.”

The One Rule of American politics stands. It’s OK if you are a Republican. Even antisemitism.