After refusing to concede, shaking up the Pentagon, firing key staffers at NSA and Homeland security, it looks like Donald Trump is setting up a possible coup d’état. That couldn’t happen here? Why? Because it’s against American values?
What, Exactly, Isn’t an American Value?
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us !
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Henri
Caring for the sick isn’t an American value. Um, Joe Biden, the one whose kid got excellent care while dying from cancer, doesn’t want the sick or unemployed to have the sort of healthcare the rest of the first world has (where you go to the hospital, get the care, and go home without getting hounded to death with bills and letters). I see that unemployment benefits are ending in December for all those millions who weren’t smart enough to be born a Biden (or had too much self-respect). And evictions should start up in April (it is, after all, the cruelest month).
I think we may end up finding that 2020 actually wasn’t all that bad. Let’s see what a year of Republican Roadblock on Milquetoast Joe will do.
We are very lucky. As St Joe pointed out, for four years, the Russians have been murdering Americans while Putin’s Puppet did nothing, but St Joe will punish the Russians severely. Probably like that French fellow or that Barbarossa fellow did. And he will boot the PRC Navy out of US territorial waters in the East China Sea and the South China Sea. What could possibly go wrong?
Is that is what is meant by the Rapture, Michael ? Who would have thought that we should be around to see it ?!!…
Henri
What is NOT an American value: Doing the hard part, that is, LIVING UP to America’s own hyper-flattering (but quite flaccid) propaganda.