To: Bonefish who wrote (1284797 ) 12/24/2020 11:22:04 AM From: Brumar89 2 RecommendationsRecommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2
Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1575901 Demosthenes “Sometimes, hate and vengeance can be living things. It is clear from his actions on Wednesday, when he vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act, the $740 billion measure that keeps the lights on at the Pentagon, that he is nothing more than a vehicle for the hate and vengeance that is the closest thing about him to human emotion. * * * He vetoed the NDAA for a reason guaranteed to inflame divisions in white America that have existed since 1865, and in America generally since 1619. Congress refused to sign aboard his assault on democratic elections, so by god he's going to haul them back to override his veto between Christmas and New Years. And the lesser classes of society have been allowed to demean his greatness on various social media platforms, so we must not have any more of that. Those people must be punished. The traitors in his own party must be punished. The unruly country that has turfed him out must be punished. And not for nothing, but between this and his apparent disinterest in the massive Russian-based cyber-attack on American public and private institutions, and his having been AWOL on a pandemic that's now killing 3,000 Americans a day, can you tell me anything he's done that a Russian toady in the Oval Office wouldn't have done? The NDAA passed with veto-proof majorities in both houses of Congress, so the odds are that this veto will be overridden next week. But there are signs that the characteristic cowardice of establishment Republicans is still an animating force in their caucuses. Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader in the House, voted to pass the NDAA, but he's also said he won't vote to override a veto, an impressive bit of straddling that likely will cost him a hamstring or two. Several senators tried to talk the president* out of a veto, and they clearly failed. These are people who thought his rage and his lust for vengeful conquest could be contained. The furnace now has consumed them all.“esquire.com