"Their silence is criminal."
Posted on FB by my sister~ written by Jake Tapper
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=2080958988803211&story_fbid=2882911795274589
We all knew. When he first rode that golden escalator to a paid crowd to announce his candidacy, we knew. His speech tinged with racism and misogyny was only a precursor of what was to come. He told us who he was.
The Republicans have been sucked into the black hole of Trumpism and they are pulling the nation into the abyss. Silent, passive, weak.
While I blame him, I hold most of my contempt for the Republican Party, they had the power to stop him, but didn't.
They have the power to reign him in, but won't.
They stand on the sidelines flush with power and watch him destroy our democratic norms. They watch him violate the Constitution they all swore an oath to defend.
Today in the United States, children are torn from their parents' arms to languish in squalid conditions, caged, alone and afraid. Families remain in a semi-permanent limbo arrested and unable to seek redress.
Today in the United States at least 70,000 Americans will be diagnosed with Covid19. On July 17 it was 74,987, nearly 3 times the number diagnosed only a month ago on June 17 when it was 26,257. The death toll now tops 140,000 and projections are that a quarter of a million Americans will likely be dead by 11/1/2020. Just days before the election. We still lack adequate PPE, we still have inadequate testing, hospitals in some areas are running out of ICU beds, the data is being subverted, a document produced by the task force that shows 18 "red zones" was withheld, witnesses are not being allowed to testify, and the Republicans remain silent.
We have watched Trump abandon our allies leaving the Kurds to be slaughtered by Turkish forces. We just learned he has no interest in challenging Putin over the bounties and murder of our own Troops, and the Republicans remain silent.
An acting director of DHS, acting commissioner of CBP, and acting head of Immigration and Naturalization have unleashed an unmarked, unidentified, paramilitary force on the city of Portland. Their mission to abduct and terrorize "Violent Anarchists" who have committed the act of graffiti on federal buildings. They do this with the blessing of the DOJ under a bizarre Executive Order expanding the role of the FPS to protect "monuments", and Republicans remain silent.
We witnessed the murder of an unarmed black man under the knee of a sadistic police officer. Protests over police brutality were met by police brutality. Police insisting that they are above the law and will not be called to account for their actions. As the list of senseless and cruel deaths at the hands of police grows, the administration has sided with the police and the Republicans have offered nothing but "incentives" to stem the genocide.
He is destroying the USPS, putting it in the hands of a wealthy donor who has already ordered service to be "slowed down".
He has instructed the DOJ to negotiate away protections for people with pre-existing conditions making their health insurance unobtainable.
He is destroying Voice of America to create his own propaganda machine within the Federal Government.
He teargassed and shot rubber bullets at peaceful protesters, including the Priests at St. Johns to do a photo op.
Eliminating Trump is not enough every Republican that has remained silent and enabled this must be voted from office.
Their silence is criminal.
Their silence enables him.
Their silence destroys what made America great in the first place.
The list is endless, but the silence of the Republican party is deafening, and I will never forgive them or the people who continue to support them.
May we all get to November 3 and vote in such overwhelming numbers we destroy Trumpism forever, before it destroys us.”
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Written and 100% correct.
I will never forget or forgive what the GOP has done, been doing to 20 yrs now. They have brought one disaster after another. Attacks, 2 Wars, Global Economic Collapse, huge deficits and now all of this.
I understand the Dems have very little power only having a majority in the House but I don’t understand why they are not using what powers they do have in controlling the funding and committee chairs and not hammering home the facts stated above daily on the GOP on TV, social media, print...everywhere. Americans should be waking up everyday and at some point seeing/hearing this to remind them that we are in a crisis situation.
The Dems need to be, must be much more vocal. Instead they seem to be just sitting back waiting for November 3rd and the voters to fix this. I am not sanguine that DT is not going to be re-elected. The GOP has done nothing to enhance election security. The IC is saying hostile foreign powers (Russia/China) are actively working to manipulate the vote. Between that the GOP gerrymandering, vote suppression and just general GOP election malfeasance I would prepare myself for another 4 yrs of DT. The GOP simply cannot lose and let the Dems be in control. Real investigations would devastate the GOP...and they desperately want RBG’s seat and feel that any day now it will be available...(I hope not 🤞
but unless American voters vote in never seen before historic numbers I don’t see how DT does not win re-election.
