Terez, on 30 June 2020 - 02:25 PM, said:
I have not been able to help making the Benghazi comparison since this news broke and it just keeps making me angrier and angrier. Trump literally did what they accused Hillary and Obama of doing. Theater is all they have left.
In positive news, my home state Mississippi finally decided to remove the KKK flag from the state flag's canton. They were only able to get the votes needed to decommission it by adding a requirement that the new flag have the words "In God we trust" on it, but that's better than the KKK flag. Still, I keep getting angry about that, too. Civil rights legislation was passed in 1964-1965, and here we are in 2020, finally getting rid of our white supremacist flag. (We got pretty close after the Charleston church shooting.) All the Facebook posts about it from local news orgs have the angry emote in the top 3 reactions. White folks are big mad about it.
Actually that’s not a good compromise. America’s obsession with in god we trust as the motto is also absurd. It’s a Cold War hangover and somehow they pass bills confirming it’s the motto again and again!
Apparently it survived the argument so far against separation of church of state because advocating god does not advocate for any particular religion but that argument so Judie-Christian centric and ignoring aethiests as to be meaningless.