How you treat your countrymen

As I write this the latest despicable repeal of the Affordable Care Act has received its third no vote, which should kill it, but Graham-Cassidy hasn’t actually been pulled yet.

When GOP Congresscritters talk about the bill they say they are trying to fulfill a promise to voters. But it isn’t the voters that GOP lawmakers care anything about. It’s the donors. And the donors are closing their wallets until they see results.

As they look towards 2018 GOP Congressional Committees are feeling mighty desperate.



Sarah Kendzior, in an article for The Globe and Mail, talks about the nasty guy and his verbal duel with football players who take a knee during the national anthem. Wrote Kendzior:

Mr. Kaepernick has spent a year giving away one million dollars to help oppressed communities. While the President's life has been spent desperately accumulating status markers and elite approval, Mr. Kaepernick is, at age 29, seemingly unemployable due to his controversial political views.
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The real measure of patriotism is not how you treat a flag but how you treat your countrymen.

Jason Kander adds in a tweet:

Patriotism isn’t about making everyone stand and salute the flag.

Patriotism is about making this a country where everyone wants to.

Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer discusses what the police have been doing in response to protests that are in response to the acquittal of a white officer of first degree murder of a black man. Bunch catalogs how the police treated bystanders, that the police chanted “Whose streets? Our streets!” (a chant usually used by protesters), and the acting police chief bragged “we owned the night.” Bunch concludes that what happened was a “police riot,” a law enforcement rampage, and pretty much fits the definition of a police state.