In the wake of the tragic bombing at the Kabul airport, a number of Republicans have called for President Biden to resign for \u2018lack of leadership.\u2019\u00a0 The audacity to make such statements is staggering in light of the actions of the previous administration.\u00a0 One of the signs of a true leader is a willingness to accept responsibility for the decisions they make and for the personnel under their direction, even if those decisions are controversial.\u00a0 I defy anyone to point to one controversial decision that Trump made for which he took full responsibility.\u00a0 \u00a0His gross mishandling of the COVID pandemic from the beginning resulted in tens, if not, hundreds of thousands of American lives lost.\u00a0 Did he take any responsibility for any of that?\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imagine if you will, if Trump had won a second term and he was in charge now.\u00a0 First of all, the deal he negotiated with the Taliban, without inclusion of the Afghan government, called for the American withdrawal to have been completed by May of this year.\u00a0 What do you think would have happened if Trump had been in charge?\u00a0 You just have to reflect back to what happened in Syria when Trump abruptly pulled American troops out of the region and abandoned our Kurdish allies.\u00a0 Do you think that Trump would have embarked on the massive airlift of personnel that you now see going on?\u00a0 Hell no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump would have pulled out the American troops and basically said, \u2018Screw you,\u2019 to the thousands of Afghans who are now safe due to the airlift undertaken by this administration.\u00a0 We know this is true because of Trump\u2019s well-known distaste for immigrants and refugees.\u00a0 If you really think this would have been handled any better under a Trump administration, you have not been paying attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These calls for Biden to resign ring especially hollow because as you recall, the previous president was impeached \u2013 twice.\u00a0 He fomented an insurrection at the United States capitol when, for the first time in American history, he refused to concede in an election he clearly lost by 7 million votes.\u00a0 And these idiot Republicans have the audacity to call for Biden to resign.\u00a0 Once again, the hypocrisy is staggering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I stated yesterday, these same people who are calling for Biden to resign are some of the same people who are directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of American lives because of a complete disregard of scientific and medical data to promote proven public health measures.\u00a0 If anyone should resign, it should be these people who have shown that they value politics, greed and power over trying to save American lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the war in Afghanistan is coming to a close, the war on voting rights here in this country is just heating up.\u00a0 One would have thought that after the Civil Rights movement in the 1960\u2019s that this issue would have been settled 50 years ago.\u00a0 However, we are again.\u00a0 Today, there are going to be a number of Protect Voting Rights marches across the country to protest the voter suppression laws being enacted in most Republican-controlled states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One would think, if the Republican platform and policies were widely popular, they would want to do everything in their power to encourage more and more people to vote.\u00a0 Given that they are doing the exact opposite of that and are trying to limit the number of people who can vote, with a focus primarily on laws that will have a large impact on people of color, it is easy to understand why they are doing what they are doing.\u00a0 The Republican platform and policies are not widely popular across the majority of America and, in fact, the \u2018base\u2019 of the Republican Party is shrinking.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rather than adjust their policies and platform to better reflect the constantly evolving demographics and ideologies that make up this country, they have chosen instead to try to freeze time, not recognize that the country is a living, breathing and evolving entity, and create and live in an alternate reality.\u00a0 Following this path will just contribute to the ongoing tension, polarization and divisiveness in this country.\u00a0 It is unsustainable in the long run.\u00a0 History is replete with examples of empires and societies that tried to do exactly the same thing \u2013 they all eventually rupture.\u00a0 We should all brace ourselves for what is coming, \u201cCivil Rights Movement \u2013 Act 2\u201d!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can see it now, the current Republican leadership and all of the \u2018Dark Money\u2019 behind them are probably sitting up in their plush offices, looking down on the masses with an air of entitlement like they know, better than anyone else, what is good for the country (and their wallet) and, in the infamous words attributed (rightly or wrongly) to Marie Antoinette, saying \u201cLet them eat cake.\u201d \u00a0And we know how well that worked out for her!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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