... we-don't get-this-right ... we-live-in-a-time

 ... of virus-wars that-can-KILL-MILLIONS... having a POTUS-cares-little, if-at-all

... of-extreme-climate-disruption ... he-claims doesn't-exist..  a-Chinese-hoax

 

... he-gives-trillions to-wealthy-individuals-corporations not-needing-a dime-of-it

... same-time insisting-social-security must-be-cut because-it's too-expensive 

 

... same-way we-can't-afford healthcare-for-all ... or higher-education for-all

... yet-there's plenty-$$$$$ to-be spent on-endless-useless-wars... mof-TRILLIONS

 

... all-the-while his-golfing-tab to-U.S.-taxpayers recently-surpassed-$150,000,000

 

... meanwhile-his-nepotism-cabal goes-continually completely-outta-control

... appointments-to critical-government-positions awarded-to totally-wrong-unqualified-persons as-patronage-rewards  ... to-individuals beholding-to-him 'he-can-control'

 

... his-lying-outright grows more-flagrant-dangerous each-passing-day 

... along-w his-hatred-racism towards-all-minorities... racist his entire-life.. continuing-doing-great-harm resulting-from his-discriminatory-hateful-beliefs

 

... despite-continuing-series of-racially-motivated-attacks POTUS-saying he does-not-consider "white-nationalism" to-be a-growing-problem-threat for-America

... a-leader w-absolutely NO-standards ... turning-the-country-against-itself ISN'T-leadership ANYONE-should-want... (video)

 

... as-dozens-of-women line-up-accusing-him of-all-manner of-sexual-assaults-crimes

... jockeying in-the-courts with attorneys-general seeking-to-prosecute-him for-growing-numbers of-varying-offenses-crimes

... his-entire-administration one-huge-criminal-corruption-scandal... we'll-be surrounded-by dealing-with-for-years more-likely decades to-come

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"The minority having voted to-elect-this madman-con-man ...
didn't have a god-damn-clue what-they-were getting-the-world-into...
granting-him-a-stage he'd-never-willingly-peaceably choose-to-exit."

 

Trump Plots 'Flat-Out Coup,' Voters Urged to Deliver Biden Landslide to Avoid Chaos

..."... openly and explicitly considering a coup to-hold-onto-power. Make-no-mistake: Autocracy-is at-our-doorstep."

... anyone-not-seeing what's-happening right-in-front of-their-eyes are-damn-fools ... and-or cult-members

 

  

 

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TODAY'S BIG QUESTION: WHO CAN REPLACE RBG?

 

 

By Debra Adams Simmons, HISTORY Executive Editor, National Geographic

Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Say her name.

Few legacies in the history of American jurisprudence are deserving of more reverence or of a nation’s tribute than that of Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg, who died Friday at age 87. The second woman ever appointed to a seat on the nation’s high court, Ginsburg didn’t just break glass ceilings; she was the Hope Diamond that shattered them.

A pioneering feminist, towering intellect, and unlikely cultural rock star, Ginsburg will long be remembered as a relentless champion of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. She made it her mission to navigate the court—and America—into a clearer understanding of legal equal protection and how the concept applied not only to racial and ethnic minorities but also to women.

Seeking common ground was crucial to Ginsburg, even as a 13-year-old in a world emerging from the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. In an essay in her temple bulletin entitled “One People,” she wrote that America must never fall into the division that destroyed Germany. “For righteous people hate and prejudice are neither good occupations nor fit companions,” she wrote.

Seventy-four years later, upon her death, a divided nation faces twin challenges to its future in replacing the justice and in electing a president in November.

But how or should the nation replace a justice in the weeks before an election? And, if a Supreme Court choice is rammed through despite the will of most of the people, should the court be enlarged to respect the people’s wishes?

In two stories, Nat Geo’s Amy McKeever examines precedent for election-year judicial appointments and the supposed “sanctity” of the size of the high court, which has stood at nine members for a century and a half.

In both cases, there are challenges to conventional wisdom. Presidents have appointed justices without Senate approval in the past. The size of the court ping-ponged in its first decades, from six to as little as five to as many as 10, before settling at nine. One president wanted to make it 15.

As with so much about American democracy or democracies worldwide, we are discovering there are fewer or weaker guardrails to the pure exercise of power. To some, Ginsburg’s words as a teen, and her dissents in later life, had a through-line to a more idealized nation; to others, she represented an unwelcome path to inclusion, or an obstacle to attempts to outlaw abortion.

Both conservatives and liberals, however, agreed on her focus and impact upon the nation.

From three quarters of a century ago, Ginsburg urged Americans to use their brains and not their emotions in choosing the way of what she called our beloved land. “Prejudice,” the 13-year-old Ginsburg wrote, “saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.”  

(Pictured above, Ginsburg sits at right in artist Nelson Shanks’ painting “The Four Justices.” It also portrays, from left, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Sandra Day O’Connor. It hangs at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington.)

 

 

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... friendships-in-lockdown ... and ... the-disease-of-lethargy

 ... we have numerous-crises going-on-together same-time right-now

... most would first think Covid-pandemic.. or the disease of our-political-morass. ... yet

... by-far-though greater-magnitude is-that-of-climate-disruption

 

... every-passing-day we-don't-have clear-solid positive-action-occurring

... is-another-lost ... leading-us-closer to-ultimate-doom

... not to-be-happening all-at-once but what's going-to-be-happening more-n-more

... is clearly-evident-today.. & has-been for-long-while

... we-can-do-nothing as-much-as we-choose ... earth-doesn't-care ... majority living-things-do

... even as-most-disappear.. enough-will-may-remain until-a-time there's-opportunity-to-return

... does-our-species-survive.. honestly-no-one truly-knows

... but that 20th century world my generation spent most-time-in is essentially-not-returning

... my-mom-Josie wanted-to-realize there-actually-are other-intelligent-life out-in-the-universe

... I'll go-to-grave-wondering does-our-intelligent-life survive-this our-culminating insane-era

 

... and-would-have several-lost-friendships returned-recovered over-time

 

... to any-all family-friends not on facebook-social-media

 

... have been posting in the 'Public' setting on Facebook for long time now
... this means whatever's posted, anyone signed-on-Facebook can see

... so anyone w-just an email address can sign-up & view-all-of-them
... easy-simple-registration all-it-takes
... u-need-not-have much-more-involvement w-FB than-that

... would-hope anyone-still-considering voting-against all-truth-logic
... please-make-a-point to-see-read-them

... every-vote to-count
... would-employ-u-consider exceedingly-carefully-ur-choice

... there's LOTS-LOTS ridding on-this-one-election
... more-than-ever-before ... our-entire long-term-future

 

... #DoNotVoteTrump ... #ProtectDemocracy

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