Today, President Joe Biden has announced his re-election campaign for the 2024 Presidential election. Biden released a video ad that showed his views. In essence, he wants to finish the job in fulfilling his political agenda. Biden made it a choice between people who want more rights and MAGA extremists who want people to have fewer rights. In our time, the far-right movement has come back with a vengeance in advocating book bans, dehumanizing immigrants (both documented and undocumented immigrants) sugarcoating history on racism, violating the rights of women, harming the rights of other minorities, and desiring cuts to the social safety net. We have a real choice between freedom and fascism. We have a choice between democracy and the end of democracy as we know it in America. We have record-low unemployment in the black American community, progressive legislation passed by Biden at a historic pace, and millions of jobs being created. Now, we have a long way to go, but President Biden is much better than Donald Trump by any metric.
I don't agree with Don Lemon's sexist and ageist statements on CNN. These things and others contributed to him being fired. Yet, Don Lemon recently had a debate with Vivek Ramaswamy (who is a GOP operative). Vivek showed many lies, and it is right to tell the truth. Vivek claimed that Democrats want to bring black people to slavery which is offensive and racist. Lemon rightfully said that black Americans never had equal rights after the Civil War. The National Rifle Association was originally created by former Union soldiers who wanted sportsmanship, hunting, and gun control measures for decades (in the New York National Guard and beyond). Vivek forgets that back in the day during the 19th century, Democrats were more conservative than Republicans. That changed by the 20th century since the New Deal. After the 1965 Voting Rights Act was passed, more progressives were part of the Democratic Party, and more conservatives were part of the Republican Party.
The NRA supported the 1968 Gun Control Act after the assassinations of Dr. King and Robert Kennedy. By the late 1970's, a far-right coup happened to cause the NRA to be a far-right front organization that opposes even commonsense gun regulations. There were draconian laws that were anti-gun against black Americans in the South during the 19th century. Yet, these laws targeted innocent black people who were victims of racism and other forms of oppression. These laws banned black people from owning a shotgun or any handgun. The laws that we desire don't include draconian gun bans, but reasonable gun regulations. That's the difference. The Deacons of Defense, SNCC, the Black Panthers, and other civil rights, black liberation groups used guns for self-defense. They were trained and disciplined with courage. They didn't support the notion that anyone (like criminals) can own a gun without restraint. The truth is that the black civil rights movement paved the way for the 1965 Immigration Act that many families owe black Americans a great deal of gratitude. Black Americans helped to build America as we know it. Vivek said the lie that black people secured our freedom after the Civil War. The truth is that we are still fighting for our freedom to this very day. The fact that the Voting Rights Act was gutted and voting suppression laws are abundant proofs that we black people are still not completely free in society.
Tucker Carlson is now fired from FOX News after the Dominion company won its lawsuit against FOX News. One former FOX producer is suing FOX News accusing the network of promoting sexism and anti-Semitism, especially on the Tucker Carlson show. I remember Tucker Carlon with Novak at Crossfire on CNN. When he came on FOX News, he crossed so many lines with his extreme, racist, and xenophobic rhetoric that he was gone from FOX News. Carlson promoted the lie that the 2021 fascist insurrection was just quaint and not a super big deal. He tried to make up lies about social issues, economic issues, and on other important political issues. Even FOX News (which supports Trump and his agenda) thanked Tucker Carlson for his work on FOX News. Carlon had the highest-rated single host at FOX News. He was told that he was fired on Monday night. In public, Tucker Carlson (who promoted the racist replacement theory view. Carlson has praised authoritarians like Orban, and he sugarcoated the actions of the dictator Putin) praised Donald Trump and his views, but he said that he loathed or hated Trump in private. His lies and his hypocrisies are clear to witness. Truth matters is the lesson of this story.
Some breaking news is that Fulton County DA Fani Willis said that she will possibly announce charges in the Trump-related 2020 election fraud case this summer. This was found via a letter. Willis told local law enforcement officials in a letter that she plans to make the announcement on possible charges between July 11 and September 1, 2023. There is no question that Trump tried to steal the election in Georgia involving the 2020 election. We have a legal process executed by District Attorney Fani Willis. Willis used cogent arguments, diligent research, and a lot of patience to gather facts constantly. Now, we see a new era of time involving the Trump scandals. Accountability matters. No one should go about trying to convince Georgia government officials to steal the 2020 election. The letter from Willis shows us that it may take time for Trump to be indicted, but he has already been indicted in the New York case. He may very well be indicted again in Georgia.
By Timothy
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