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THIS IS HOW TO DEFEAT TRUMP’S FASCIST MOVEMENT

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  ©Wendell Griffen, 2024   It is only a matter of time before Donald Trump’s hateful fascist rhetoric incites some of his followers to engage in violence against immigrants, women, people of color, LGBTQIA people, members of the news media, election officials, and others who Trump thinks are standing in his way to get elected President again. Trump will use that violence to spark January 6 kind of attacks in states he is likely to lose, as well as in the battleground states. He is holding rallies in states he is likely to lose as a way of pushing his base supporters to treat the election process as a threat. By doing so, Trump and his handlers hope to suppress voter turnout among Democratic and independent voters. His staff has requested that Trump be given increased military protection and Secret Service personnel between now and Election Day. Trump wants to use the military as a personal security force that will obey his authoritarian orders and threaten anyone who he conside
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WHAT IS AT STAKE WHEN WE VOTE

  ©Wendell Griffen 2024   Voters in the United States have already begun casting ballots for the November 2024 general election. Our ballots will contain different candidates and issues depending on where we live. But each ballot will contain the names of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, along with other lesser known and financed candidates, as candidates for President of the United States. I hope we choose Harris as the next President.  As Vice President since 2021, Kamala Harris is experienced, and competent, about top-level policy issues that affect the nation and the world. Her service as Vice President, United States Senator from California, Attorney General of California, and District Attorney for San Francisco, California, demonstrates that Harris is steady, serious, honest, and considerate of diverse points of view.  Vice President Harris's public service record is longer and better than any of the other candidates who will be on our
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QUESTIONS FOR THE HIRING COMMITTEE

  © Wendell Griffen, 2024 Imagine that you serve on the hiring committee for an enterprise that does business throughout the world. Your job is to select the next chief executive officer (CEO) from a pool of several candidates. Here are facts about the two most prominent candidates in the hiring pool.. One candidate served four years as CEO of the enterprise. During that four-year tenure, he took the following actions. ·         He bad mouthed the enterprise the day he entered office. ·         He insulted the workers. ·         He tried to ban people from nations that have large Muslim populations from entering the business. ·         He called people who shouted racist and antisemitic slogans and insults “very fine people.” ·         He lied in an unsuccessful attempt to conceal that the world was threatened by the worst airborne virus in a century. ·         He was impeached for trying to force another enterprise to do a sham investigation on his chief competitor
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WHY KAMALA HARRIS MAY LOSE IN MICHIGAN, ARIZONA, AND WISCONSIN

  ©Wendell Griffen, 2024 On September 20, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now reported that the Uncommitted Movement has declared it will not endorse Kamala Harris, that it is vehemently opposed to the candidacy of Donald Trump, and that it will not endorse any third-party candidate in the U.S. presidential election contest. Here is a link to that report, and Goodman’s interview with Lexis Zeidan, a co-founder of the Uncommitted National Movement. https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/20/lexis_zeidan_uncommitted_national_movement_2024 . The Uncommitted Movement’s stance makes a point that bears remembering. Kamala Harris will have only herself to blame if she does not win in Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin, battleground states whose electoral college votes are crucial for any presidential to win to reach 270 votes. I made that point in an August 23 blog post after Harris spurned pleas from Palestinian delegates who asked to speak during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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DONALD TRUMP AND COMEUPPANCE

  ©Wendell Griffen, 2024   COMEUPPANCE (noun): a punishment or fate that someone deserves: “he got his comeuppance.” Synonyms: due, retribution, requital, recompense, just deserts, deserved fate, due reward, just punishment, castigation, wrath, chastisement. Beginning shortly after 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on September 10, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gave former U.S. President Donald Trump what one of my Arkansas lawyer friends would call “a stand-up ass whipping.” People saw it happen live, across the United States and throughout the world.   Harris deployed her skills and discipline as a seasoned prosecutor to cut through Trump’s façade and expose his most unpleasant characteristics. Dishonesty. Bigotry. Cultural and political incompetence. Emotional immaturity. Vicious idiocy. Sociopathy. Mental clumsiness and laziness. By the time their 90 minute “debate” ended, Donald Trump’s posture was slumped. He had y
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DONALD TRUMP'S DISHONORING AND DISGUSTING STUNT AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

  ©Wendell Griffen, 2024 Little Rock, Arkansas   We should be offended, but not surprised, that Donald Trump recently visited Arlington National Cemetery for political posturing ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/28/trump-arlington-cemetery-visit-altercation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other ). We have seen Trump use the Holy Bible for political posturing, personal branding, and private profiteering. He uses women in his family, notably Melania Trump (his wife) and Ivanka Trump (his daughter) as sex objects. He used classified material stolen from the White House as personal swagger material. He wanted to stage a Fourth of July military parade using military personnel and armored tracked vehicles on Washington streets to show his personal power. Trump referred to flag officers of the U.S. military as "my generals."   Long before Trump stomped onto the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery to exploit family members of fallen veterans of the
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REPAIRING THE BREACH AND FORGING AHEAD

  © Wendell Griffen, 2024 Little Rock, Arkansas   Vice President Kamala Harris had a brilliant week during the Democratic National Convention. She and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, were nominated and celebrated with enthusiastic fanfare. Even right-wing media outlets such as Fox News acknowledged as much. However, Harris and Democratic leaders committed an unforced error by refusing pleas from Palestinian-American delegates to the Convention to speak briefly – five minutes – concerning the ongoing genocide Israel is committing against Palestinians in Gaza, with U.S. funding, weapons, and diplomatic support. I’m not alone in holding that view. Prominent national newspaper columnists friendly to Harris - Jamelle Bouie and E. J. Dionne come to mind - said so as well. That unforced error pained Palestinian-Americans who grieve the Biden Administration’s full-throated support for Israel as Israeli Defense Forces slaughtered more than 40,000 people in Gaza – includ
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