If the Emperor has no clothes, and chooses to walk down the Main Street of the city, it may very well be indecorous to call him out as buck naked. But the real wrong in that scenario is in the naked parade down Main Street, not in the call that points the nakedness out.
We don’t easily come back from this. The guardrails of decency, always too thin as it was, are gone. And many of our neighbors will not stand up for you or me or others. Troops booing the media at the goading of the president. We don’t come back easily from this.
On Memorial Day, let us pause to remember and honor the brave women and men who made the ultimate sacrifice so we could live our lives in peace and possibility. Today we also honor the families they left behind whose hearts still carry the weight of absence.
On Memorial Day, we remember the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform and their families have made to preserve our freedom. May we always strive to honor the strength and resolve they’ve shown our country.
There is not one nominee for Trump's Nat'l Security Team who is REMOTELY qualified for their position: SecDef, ODNI, NSA, AG, or FBI.
Not one who'd qualify for more than an entry-level security clearance, if that.
But by all means, be outraged over Hunter's pardon.
See, usually you indict the crook who tried to keep power via a coup. And you don’t let the crook who tried to keep power via a coup to run for president again. And you certainly don’t vote for that crook again. But we are after all the exceptional country….