We lost an election.Not the obligation to point out corruption. Not our principles & purpose.The greatest American value is dissent.Never lose the right or ability to speak truth to power. Never lose the ability to be offended.The greatest American value is the ability to dissent.
last Saturday we packed a U-Haul with everything we own and drove from Seattle to Portland, and when we walked into our new home (we’re renting), it was immediately clear that squatters were living here. (1/?)
@BeschlossDC I was 7 yrs old in Chicago . My Grandmother was home with my sister & I. She was sobbing as she watched television. We knew something really bad happened. When the funeral was televised, I remember the procession with the horse drawn hearse, my whole Irish family was in tears.
Blue States will take Trump to court — just as their predecessors did hundreds of times during his first administration. Resistance isn’t the same thing as trying to overturn the election https://t.co/0lOp835veD
Even with guardrails, @RuthMarcus is
“most worried that this country is not what she thought it was, but someplace much more cruel and nasty and selfish, both in its attitude toward our fellow Americans and in its conception of America’s place in the world.” That’s my worry too
America chose Trump. Fidelity to the Constitution means we must live with that outcome, not plot to overthrow it, violently or otherwise. But that doesn’t mean we should accept the darkest implications of his victory. The choice was binary. The future never was. The work awaits.
“I used to hang out with him. He’s a crazy motherfucker. Limited mentally – a megalomaniac, narcissistic. I can’t stand him.”
- Quincy Jones, on Donald Trump, in 2018