Joe Kent - August 2024:
“Most Americans aren’t aware… our troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 150+ times by Iranian proxies.”
“These Iranian proxies… are 100% funded by the United States of America.”
“We’re funding the guys that are attacking our troops.”
“Why do we leave our troops there?”
“El Salvador arrests innocent people”
Let’s talk about this.
It’s ironic that some look at the former world murder capital turned safest country on the continent, and the first question they ask is, “but what about the error rate?”
That’s a slap in the face of 6 million people who, for decades, were innocent prisoners in their own homes. It suggests that any margin of error invalidates the operation that brought them peace.
Nobody says El Salvador never makes erroneous arrests, and such errors must be corrected, which is what the justice system is for. Bukele himself has talked about this (see video below).
Of course they’ll complain about the justice system next, but where were those complaints back when judges were bribed or extorted by gangs to protect murderers?
If you believe that YES, El Salvador should arrest criminals, but NO, El Salvador is not allowed any margin of error, you are holding this country to a different standard than the rest of the world.
The hypocrisy of the Trump thuggery can be epitomized by a seditious rioter beating a police officer at the Capitol with an American flag. It was never about the flag, or “blue lives matter.” These were mere props in a movement fueled by power, injustice, and racism.
One last tweet for 2020. What to say that hasn’t been said already? Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Looking forward with hope and humility. Happy New Year to all.
Until America reckons with & repents (with corresponding action) for the continuum of gross inhumane treatment of Black people, from slavery to Jim Crow to today’s systemic racism, in the words of my father, “there will be neither rest nor tranquility.”
@realDonaldTrump Trump continues to a make a fool of himself.
Each day more fodder for attack ads.
He hasn't got a clue. He just rambles about any thought bubble that comes into his head.
Each and every day he doesn't gain a single vote, each day he loses more & more.
CAUGHT ON DASH-CAM: A resident was on way to work this morn when nearly struck by another car at Golden Valley Road after light turned green. Thanks to defensive driving skills, she avoided what could have been bad collision. At intersections w green light, look left-right-left.
"Americans are the people who pursued our Manifest Destiny across the ocean, into the uncharted wilderness, over the tallest mountains, and then into the skies and even into the stars."
A story worth sharing: Twelve years ago, Brian joined my first presidential campaign. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with ALS and launched @iamalsorg to find a cure. Brian and Sandra wake up every day believing that we can win this fight—and that makes me hopeful, too.