Pam Bondi attempted to attend a screening of the Mister Rogers documentary a day after announcing her plan to end protections for health care consumers with pre-existing conditions. Here, via @timintampa, is what happened. pic.twitter.com/zMLrSayS8M
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 23, 2018
I wonder if Republicans are astute enough to understand what’s coming. From Booman:
If the people of the Washington DC metro area were to suddenly surround the White House and not let anyone in or out until Donald Trump agreed to resign, that would create a big crisis. The DC police, the Secret Service, the National Guard, and perhaps even the military would have to decide how far they were willing to go to preserve the constitutional order of the country. How much violence would they be prepared to use, and how time they would let elapse before they used it?
That’s the kind of thing that might happen if Congress won’t fulfill their role in the constitutional order and lets an outlaw administration stay in power after receiving a criminal referral from the Office of the Special Counsel recommending impeachment. But we’re not at that kind of crisis point yet.
Nonetheless, a growing number of people feel that the Trump administration has crossed an invisible line, especially with their child separation policy at the border. They no longer see opposition as a political dispute. It has become a moral battle. And anyone who is still working to promulgate, rationalize, or promote Trump’s policies has therefore been deemed outside of the traditional political realm.
This is what happens when our system of checks and balances breaks down. The less faith people have in the courts and in Congress to sustain bare minimum standards of human decency, the more they’re willing to take matters into their own hands. Chasing administration officials and their close allies our of restaurants and movie theaters is still a fairly mild version of what may come. For now, a lot of hope and energy is still being placed in the political process, and much of the left is working to solve our problems in a traditional and constitutional way, by winning elections in November.
If those elections do not translate into actual political power for the left, and particularly if people feel that widespread shenanigans are to blame, that’s when we should anticipate a breakdown in law and order. That’s when you might see the White House surrounded.
Dividing into tribes is as American as apple pie and hot dogs.
The Phillies dropped two of three to the Nationals over the weekend, and the shirts beat the skins in a volleyball game on a beach in Malibu.
By a 5-4 vote the US Supreme Court gave a cake baker permission to refuse service to a gay couple on “moral grounds.”
A restaurant owner denied Sarah Huckleberry service on “moral grounds.”
Sarah Huckleberry may not be a racist like her Evangelical Christian father Mike is, but she lies professionally (a violation of one of the Big 10), and daily, for a virulent White Nationalist racist named Trump.
Nobody should throw rocks at these Nazi sympathizers, but loudly and openly shunning them seems appropriate.