Plague was spread mostly by fleas who had
bitten the rats.

For him to sell off and pocket the money, like Venezuela did, he would stop attacking Iran like he did with Venezuela.

I was being sarcastic about the extortion fee pedo Trump was demanding from Iran.

I'm glad they won't be paying him off. I do hope their leader stays safe.

Trump found yet another lap for himself to curl up on. Oh, and an assist to Lindsay Graham as well.

Everything is extortion with Trump. This is his entire life.

Otherwise there might be alternatives.

Possibly charges of treason too

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They will neither impeach and remove him, nor will they vote to even slow him down, from all I can tell.

This isn't trump. One man CANNOT do this by himself. It's the commercial media who keeps pounding the drum that trump trump trump trump .... is so powerful. They've been doing this since 2015.

We intend to do that this November, if Krasnov fails in his efforts to disrupt our elections.
We're trying, please believe us.

Sincerely,
Actual Patriots (not to be confused with pitiful MAGA "patriots." )

Too often Democrats say "we will do great things, IF the Republicans let us," and then in retrospect "we would have done great things, but Republicans..."

That is like a roofer saying "the roof I installed would be great - if not for the rain..." Stopping the rain from coming into the house is the roofers job. Stopping the Republicans is ours. No "ifs..." and certainly not ifs that depend upon what they do or say.

is trying everything possible, and some things that are impossible, to ensure there are no free and fair elections ever again.

Just how are Democrats supposed to stop him when republicans control every aspect of our government?

I doubt he'll pay much attention to the "No Kings" demonstrations.

"What can we do?" I've heard that for decades. That attitude is the very reason that Republicans control every aspect of our government.

Somehow when Republicans are in the minority they have no problem stopping us.

We'd all love to knock them upside the head, but legally (we know illegallity doesn't bother repubs, but Dems try to stay legal) there are few directions to turn. What should we do?

That is the wrong question, in my opinion. It can also be a deceptive rhetorical trick. The validity of a critique is not dependent upon the critic having a suggestion for an alternative.

"We'd all love to knock them upside the head, but..." I do have a suggestion, after all. I suggest that we abandon taking that line of reasoning seriously. Were it true that "we'd all love to..." it would have long since happened. It is the "but" that is doing all of the heavy lifting in that sentence, and over the years we have seen that there is an endless list of "reasons" that can follow that "but."

Thank God the Abolitionists and enslaved people didn't listen to those Whigs in the 1850s who said "we'd all love to end slavery, but legally..." They were up against much longer odds. The Women's Suffrage movement leaders, the early organized Labor leaders, the Civil Rights leaders - they all rejected that line of thinking as well.

It is the necessary will, the courage and the integrity that are missing, not the right method.

Fredrick Douglass:

Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . .

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its mighty waters.

The struggle may be a moral one or it may be a physical one, or it may both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Letter from Birmingham Jail:

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

I collect his opinions for later rereading as situations evolve.