Trump’s son-in-law’s paper calls for “a thorough probe of the protests—to include possible ties to organizations demanding vote recounts”—that “continue to mar the presidential election’s aftermath.”
AlterNet‘s Sarah Lazare (12/6/16) quotes Jim Naureckas on a call for an FBI crackdown on protesters appearing in the New York Observer (12/2/16), the paper owned by Trump son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner:
Jim Naureckas, editor of Extra!, the media watchdog magazine of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, told AlterNet that [Austin] Bay’s op-ed is one of the most disturbing things he has seen since the election. “To have the incoming ruler’s son-in-law using his paper to call for the federal police to investigate protests against the ruler, that is pretty far gone,” he said. “It struck me as a ‘first they came for the communists’ moment.”
“He ties up this conspiracy of protesters, people seeking recounts and George Soros into one vast conspiracy that the FBI ought to get to the bottom of,” Naureckas continued. “It shows you the outlines of how you would justify a complete crackdown on dissent. It’s frightening.”
I think the protests are stupid. Why is Trump greeted with protests before he has even assumed power whereas Obama was feted by 600,000 in Grant Park the night of his election? It still could be that for all the lunacy of Trump he could be a wild card who manages to do the right thing, even if by accident. In any event, no question but that he’s preferable to Clinton.
After compiling a legacy more egregious than his predecessor’s Obama still commands a 57% approval rating. Where are the people protesting Obama’s long list of proven crimes rather than Trump’s potential? I get this issue isn’t about the protests as such but the right to engage in them. I support their goal and think Trump belongs more in a circus than he does the halls of power. Without question there is much to protest Trump about. Bertrand Russel wrote that contrary to the norm saints ought to be considered guilty until proven innocent. That’s how I feel about wealthy people: guilty until proven innocent. On that score alone Trump fails.
The protests seem to me a waste of political capital in the instant. That people are protesting Trump before he even has the office, and not Obama while he does indicates to me the protests will probably be as successful as the lack of protests of Obama. Which is to say, not very.
One man ran on hope the other man ran on fear and vile that’s why we protest.
Right on roseann!
Well it’s clear you have a bias on this issue, and you’ve got every right to that. But the problem is we as a nation strive to be objective, not subjective, when it comes to public policy issues. Your rationalizations are just that, rationalizations. But they only reflect a specific segment of our society, not everybody as a whole.
Bias you say?Please look at his campaign and tell me where you saw anything on unifying this country?He has played to the lowest level and you wonder why some people are terrified of him?
Dude get your thoughts together they are a mess of ideological contradiction and PhiloTweet. I can recommend a reading list that may help rectify your confusion between philosophy and politics and democrat and autocrat.
Excuse please. What does PhiloTweet mean?
“It still could be that for all the lunacy of Trump he could be a wild card who manages to do the right thing, even if by accident.”
This was a possibility before he chose vile garbage like Pence, Sessions, Bannon, Mnuchin, Ross, Carson, etc. as his cabinet. How is human waste like Palin even under consideration for anything at all?
There is now is no rational, sane argument that can be made that this isn’t an insider, establishment, pay-for-play train wreck of an administration that won’t even do one good thing by accident. There is no reasonable case to be made that this would be better than a Clinton administration (as bad as she may have been).
Nice try, though.
Welcome to the 4th Reich.
Except that Creamer & Foval certainly appear to be “political terrorists” and this does warrant an investigation. Who paid them? Who authorized their tactics?
We all must remain mindful of the many GOP leaning voters, as well as Republican politicians who are disgusted at the thought of a Trump presidency. This is telling. These folks understand the reality horror show, coming to our living rooms, and we need to reach out in common citizenship to wage a united front against this ‘hideous house of cards.’ It is incumbent upon us to remain vigilant and raise our voices at every moment the Trump Whorehouse comes gunning for women’s reproductive rights and school privatization. They’ll be gearing up to turn back environmental protections and pretend fossil fuels are safe for human consumption. Trump will make mincemeat out of the Affordable Care Act. With Trump as commander in chief, war will become the new American pastime.
It’s time to reflect on where we’ve been as a country, when the middle class had clout, and the safety net wasn’t frayed by onerous, inhumane policy – driven by heartless, ignorant ideology. We need a real gut check here and now. This is our moment to stand up, go to the mirror and ask ourselves: ‘What can I do for my country?’ Democracy is not a vicarious experience. If we refuse to do our part for representative government – we WILL LOSE IT.
And we must be mindful that finance bought democrats and gas and oil republicans
Watching who he or should I say Pence is picking it’s becoming clearer what their intentions are and none of them are good.
Their intentions have always been clear, if you mean the GOP. What they’re doing, and the people being chosen to do it, is what they and their Kochtopus employers have been planning to do for decades.
Dictators and absolute monarchs “rule.” In democracies, leaders govern.
We may be close to losing democracy in America, but we don’t have to adopt the language of dictatorships.
I think a U.S. President should be able to read at a 12th grade level. Absent that degree of skill, I question their fitness for office. (Yeah, I’m thinking of Trump.)