It's all just a game to them, Trump, Burgum, the USPP FOP. Treat public policy as theater, appear tougher on crime. If innocent people get hurt or killed in the process, no matter. It's evidently worth it for the laughs. Villainous behavior.
The president of the USA has powers (decrees/executive orders/preferences/desires) like a king. If we ever get out of this mess, we need amendments to limit unilateral powers because what we have, how it has evolved, is not safe or healthy for a democracy. Too many unilateral powers for any one individual.
Most mass killers, historically, have invaded territories and killed, kidnapped, raped and pillaged. What Twump et al have done is take away the support that African countries need as they develop and come into their own. Millions will die from what should be manageable diseases and plagues. Most will be children.
Just stop for a small second and think about your baby, or your grandchild, a small infant in your arms, dying as you hold them. Mothers and fathers across Africa are living this right now.
More than the swath of infant and women's deaths, though, is that without this aid, without this American presence, those dictator-run superpowers step in and their ideology becomes part of the poorer countries' fabric. No women's and children's rights, no universal rights, no human rights, no civil rights. No, the only people who have rights in China and Russia are the handful at the top, or let's face it, one man, making decisions.
Burgum, an idiot with hair, should go to prison. In a perfect world, most of these cabinets members would be in jail. In a more perfect world, they never would have had these positions of power.
I’ve been using poetry (writing, reading) as a way to deal with all the cruelty, carelessness and callousness that is the hallmark of this real estate mob bosses administration. I find using the haiku is a wonderful way to distill all the chaos into a few clarifying words.
Nature is nature and human beings are the destroyers. Before humans, the earth took care of itself and as it developed over billion of years, it did a pretty magnificent job (think dinosaurs and mountains). Since the Industrial Revolution the only thing humans have done is destroy nature as we "progress." And now, omg, we are turning our stewardship over to the machines we created. I feel sorry for nature. And us.
I agree. We are now all children of the enlightenment and for better or worse, there’s no going back. Western enlightenment of self took us out of the realm of average individuals that banded together to be smart stewards collectively and flipped the script. We are now self interested self righteous cut off our noses to spite our faces individuals that see collective good as stupidity, and of course, that includes the separation of self from nature and all the consequences that come with that separation.
Yes. Yesterday I realized in a flash what social media has done to our collective creativity. My yoga class was discussing the Scots/Boston phenomena and when I mentioned something I thought was original, someone riffed with something they had seen on social media (of which I do not imbibe) and I thought, we cannot have original thoughts any more because someone from Indiana posted it already. What should have been a mere sentence in a conversation became something someone already read. It stymies and stops conversation and thought. But I suppose I am in the minority and everybody is reading clever social media posts all day as they entertain themselves to death.
Trump loves violence. He probably asked for the video of the kid being burned alive so he can watch it on loop. These people are animals and should be treated as such.
Another great exposé, Judd. These guys take such delight in chasing, harming, and killing. Why aren’t they screened out of the force? We are recruiting the wrong kind of people.
Hell is too cold for these people... from the trump cabinet on down to congress...blood on all their hands...throw them in the reflecting pool and let them eat off the bottom...
They (Republicans) don’t care about human life at all. We can stop this by removing the entire felon administration. But none of our agencies, including military will protect its citizens based the Constitution. Instead the pledge to trump.
I worked for the National Capital Parks region many years ago and developed a belief that the Park Police were a cut above. In the years since I’ve had no reason to change that opinion… until now. Burgum has turned them into yet another tool of the kakistocracy, working against the people instead of for them - colluding in the insanity of the Reflecting Pool nonsense and now responsible for the death of a innocent who happened to be in the way of Trumpian hypergonadism. Another respected institution is now in the sewers of this administration.
It's all just a game to them, Trump, Burgum, the USPP FOP. Treat public policy as theater, appear tougher on crime. If innocent people get hurt or killed in the process, no matter. It's evidently worth it for the laughs. Villainous behavior.
The president of the USA has powers (decrees/executive orders/preferences/desires) like a king. If we ever get out of this mess, we need amendments to limit unilateral powers because what we have, how it has evolved, is not safe or healthy for a democracy. Too many unilateral powers for any one individual.
Very good point. Also, an "emergency" should be well defined.
A lot of folks have / will have died because of Trump...eliminating USAID, overturning Roe, etc...
Most mass killers, historically, have invaded territories and killed, kidnapped, raped and pillaged. What Twump et al have done is take away the support that African countries need as they develop and come into their own. Millions will die from what should be manageable diseases and plagues. Most will be children.
Just stop for a small second and think about your baby, or your grandchild, a small infant in your arms, dying as you hold them. Mothers and fathers across Africa are living this right now.
More than the swath of infant and women's deaths, though, is that without this aid, without this American presence, those dictator-run superpowers step in and their ideology becomes part of the poorer countries' fabric. No women's and children's rights, no universal rights, no human rights, no civil rights. No, the only people who have rights in China and Russia are the handful at the top, or let's face it, one man, making decisions.
Burgum, an idiot with hair, should go to prison. In a perfect world, most of these cabinets members would be in jail. In a more perfect world, they never would have had these positions of power.
I’ve been using poetry (writing, reading) as a way to deal with all the cruelty, carelessness and callousness that is the hallmark of this real estate mob bosses administration. I find using the haiku is a wonderful way to distill all the chaos into a few clarifying words.
All is a weapon.
Cars, pools, cages, thoughts, words, you
Shut up. You are next.
Our silent green blob,
hemmed by fence and filmed with frog,
speak truth to real scum.
Now that's a haiku! Also, a funny haiku. And your use of frog is quite original. It is all about algae without mentioning it.
Algae, hum.
Let me sip my hibiscus strawberry tea and get back to you about that.
Nicely wrought, but haiku is traditionally about nature. Can we see what you can do with, I don't know, let's say algae.
Signed,
A former English teacher
Once a pretty pool
Trump stated it was broken
Now full of algae
Sent from my Android
which may explain my typos:
I have fat fingers.
Understood. And human nature is a part of that creation, yes?
Nature is nature and human beings are the destroyers. Before humans, the earth took care of itself and as it developed over billion of years, it did a pretty magnificent job (think dinosaurs and mountains). Since the Industrial Revolution the only thing humans have done is destroy nature as we "progress." And now, omg, we are turning our stewardship over to the machines we created. I feel sorry for nature. And us.
Looking forward to your haiku-ed thoughts.
I agree. We are now all children of the enlightenment and for better or worse, there’s no going back. Western enlightenment of self took us out of the realm of average individuals that banded together to be smart stewards collectively and flipped the script. We are now self interested self righteous cut off our noses to spite our faces individuals that see collective good as stupidity, and of course, that includes the separation of self from nature and all the consequences that come with that separation.
Yes. Yesterday I realized in a flash what social media has done to our collective creativity. My yoga class was discussing the Scots/Boston phenomena and when I mentioned something I thought was original, someone riffed with something they had seen on social media (of which I do not imbibe) and I thought, we cannot have original thoughts any more because someone from Indiana posted it already. What should have been a mere sentence in a conversation became something someone already read. It stymies and stops conversation and thought. But I suppose I am in the minority and everybody is reading clever social media posts all day as they entertain themselves to death.
Trump loves violence. He probably asked for the video of the kid being burned alive so he can watch it on loop. These people are animals and should be treated as such.
Another great exposé, Judd. These guys take such delight in chasing, harming, and killing. Why aren’t they screened out of the force? We are recruiting the wrong kind of people.
Burgum should go back to ND. Trump doesn’t care and should be impeached and jailed. Shame.
Hell is too cold for these people... from the trump cabinet on down to congress...blood on all their hands...throw them in the reflecting pool and let them eat off the bottom...
Amateurs engaged in changing laws. It never ends well.
Another example of poor foresight and non-adherence to scientific facts being done by Trump and the idiots in his administration.
They (Republicans) don’t care about human life at all. We can stop this by removing the entire felon administration. But none of our agencies, including military will protect its citizens based the Constitution. Instead the pledge to trump.
There must be a removal and imprisonment for the republican law breaker party. As seditionist supporters, they are eligible for the dE@tH penalty.
I worked for the National Capital Parks region many years ago and developed a belief that the Park Police were a cut above. In the years since I’ve had no reason to change that opinion… until now. Burgum has turned them into yet another tool of the kakistocracy, working against the people instead of for them - colluding in the insanity of the Reflecting Pool nonsense and now responsible for the death of a innocent who happened to be in the way of Trumpian hypergonadism. Another respected institution is now in the sewers of this administration.
So, after the tragedies, what did this juvenile administration do? It BANNED REPORTING any deaths in US Parks. Typical coverup, as usual. 😫