Today, June 21, 2023, is the Summer Solstice, aka, the bringing of the dark- as in, what is obvious is not seen.
I dreamed before dawn on Juneteenth of getting down to writing about white supremacy in America, and this is what I posted on my Facebook timeline that morning.
This is Juneteenth, which is really important to Black Americans. However, I'm a white American, and I live in Birmingham, Alabama, which is more blue than red, while Alabama is very red and a Donald Trump stronghold. Maybe because I practiced law and thereby learned about res ipsa loquitur - Latin, for the thing speaks for itself. Or maybe I had enough hard knocks to peel off some of the programming and blinders I acquired growing up. Or maybe I actually believe what I see, when I rummage the internet and see lots of photos of MAGA rallies, and the Charlottesville riot, and the January 6 riot, and I see seas of white faces. Believe it or not, I'm not a Democrat. When a retired Birmingham lawyer I like a lot told me the other day, he likes some of what I post on Facebook, but I'm a little left of him. I said, I'm not left or right, I'm in the middle. And, back in 2016, I kept saying Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both should be locked up, in adjoining cells.
Trump, Republicans and MAGAs are too clever to say what they mean by claiming the 2020 election was stolen. What they mean is it was stolen by Blacks.
Today, I posted this on my Facebook timeline:
Communist propaganda
Politico
Ex-Bush Aide Rips Evangelical Trump Supporters For 'Obvious' Hypocrisy.
"'You have in Donald Trump the person who probably most embodies the antithesis of the Sermon on the Mount, the person of Jesus, and the teachings of Jesus,” Wehner, a prominent conservative Christian, said on MSNBC on Tuesday. 'And this guy’s a rock star and has been for year after year."
Peter Wehner said evangelical support for Trump is a "tremendous indictment" of that religious community.Wehner, who served in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and as a senior aide to George W. Bush, said evangelicals could have argued in 2016 that they didn’t know who Trump really was.
But not anymore.“And by the time we got to 2020 it was so obvious what he was,” Wehner said. “And yet they stayed and it’s a tremendous indictment of them” and of the evangelical movement overall."
Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
One if my closest friends is a US Army Special Forces combat veteran. He voted twice for Trump. After the January 6 assault on the National Capitol, my friend told me that the rioters all should have been shot dead. Yet, he did not say the rioters' leader should have been shot dead.
Trump, Republicans and MAGAs' defense to Trump's classified documents indictment is it's a political witch hunt, because Hillary Clinton was not prosecuted for mishandling classified documents, which jeopardized national security. In making that defense, Trump, Republicans and MAGAs concede Trump mishandled classified documents, which jeopardized national security, and they are okay with that.
Trump was president for four years. He had two Attorney Generals, Jeff Sessions, from Alabama, and William Barr, from another part of Hell. They did not prosecute Hillary.
Barr has said many derogatory things about Trump. Barr has said the classified documents indictment, if true, is terrible. Barr also has said he will vote for Trump again, anyway.
When he was President, Trump had a photo taken of him standing before a church holding up a Bible. That photo was featured in the television media.
Do Trump backers ever ask themselves if Trump attended one service in that church? If he opened that Bible and read it? If he attended any church services when he was President, or before he was President, or after he was President?
Do Trump backers feel any unease about Trump's first wife Ivana being quoted in Vanity Fair as saying when she and Donald were married, he kept a book of Hitler's speeches in a cabinet on his side of their bed, and sometimes he read that book at night?
Does even one Trump backer doubt Trump paid Stormy Daniels money to be quiet about having sex with him when Melania was pregnant?
Do Trump backers ever even once ponder Jesus in the Gospels saying, "Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye?"
Do the Democrats need to do the same about Hillary Clinton, President Biden, his son Hunter, and Vice-President Harris?
Yes, if they actually believe Jesus is their savior.
Yes anyway, if they have any decency in them.
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