On Aug. 15, 2017, President Donald Trump held a press conference to discuss an executive order he had signed on infrastructure permitting. Reporters shortly began asking questions about Trump’s initial response to violent protests in Charlottesville, Va. It was at this press conference that Trump said that "you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides”…
On April 25, 2019, former Vice President Joe Biden declared his 2020 candidacy for the Democratic nomination and the presidency by recalling the events in Charlottesville and Trump’s comments. "With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it," Biden said. (POLITIFACT)…
Biden administration announces plans to expand background checks to close "gun show loophole" (CBS News)…
GOP-led Tennessee Senate advances bill to arm teachers without informing parents. Discussion of the bill was disrupted by protesters, including relatives of the victims of last year’s Covenant School shooting in Nashville. (MSNBC)…
NOPE, NADA, NOT AT ALL, folks. There ain’t good people on both sides. One side (the Democrats) cares about the lives of many, while the other side (the Republicans care about the profits of the NRA.
Trump, GOP scramble to contain abortion ‘earthquake’ The one-two punch from Florida and Arizona left Republicans reeling across the electoral map. (POLITICO)…
Abortion rights jump to a top priority for Democrats in a new poll. (npr)…
NO DUDES AND DUDETTES AIN’T THE SAME, WRONG, AMERICAN CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS. You Republicans bragged about placing Justices on the Supreme Court; you know Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Princess Amy as they lied to our faces regarding women’s rights. Now, all you Republicans are concerned about are your rights to remain in power.
Despite facing backlash from civil rights activists and Democratic lawmakers, Republicans in conservative-leaning Nassau County, New York, are moving forward with a plan to form an armed, civilian militia that the local government could operate as a de facto police force during “emergencies.” (MSNBC)…
"Special deputies" to other government-backed militias throughout history, including some Ku Klux Klan chapters and the Nazi brownshirts.(MSNBC)
WTF Republican wannabe Authoritarians. Big difference between Democracy and Fascism. Bigger difference between being a Democrat than a Republican!
