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SUE: Defeating White Supremacy While Defending Democracy And Truth
As expected, the cowardly, enabling Republican Senators once again failed to hold the insane, corrupt, autocratic white supremacist responsible for his actions. The smarter and just as evil Moscow Mitch McConnell suggested that he could be held accountable by federal and state prosecutors. Even his pathetically unprepared and in over their heads defense lawyers recommended that Donald J. Trump be criminally prosecuted as a private citizen. However, some television commentators wondered how we could lock up a former President. Would the Secret Service have to go to jail with him? What!? Did Martha Stewart take a stove to jail with her? Did she take her maid? We lose our rights when we’re incarcerated. We can’t even wear our own clothes, and in some states we can’t vote even after we leave jail. Why the hell would a former President who has been convicted of crimes keep his Secret Service protection in jail? He can be protected the way other high profile inmates are—in solitary confinement. But I think there’s an even more effective way to punish the greedy, born-rich real estate mogul. We can take his money and his property. Let’s do what the Southern Poverty Law Center did to the KKK and the New York Attorney General, a bad black woman named Letitia James, did to the NRA. Let’s bankrupt him for real this time. Let’s take all his land and money, and while we’re suing, let’s go after his enablers, especially his family members, his golf buddy Lindsey Graham, his media friends on Fox, and his most effective lawyer, the one who pretended to be America’s lawyer—former Attorney General William Barr.
I’ve encouraged both the NAACP and the BlackLivesMatter activists to sue everyone who has falsely accused the BLM protesters of rioting and looting. Trump’s impeachment attorneys should be added to that long list of bigots. MSNBC’s Sunday morning anchor Jonathan Capehart and other news media folks have pointed out that 93% of the BLM protests were peaceful, but they should also point out that the people arrested for property destruction and rioting during the peaceful protests of the late spring and summer of 2020 were either white supremacists posing as antifa or opportunistic thugs like the ones who moved into the Fairfax district after the LAPD had chased the peaceful protesters out of the area. Like the cops in Minneapolis, Portland, Oregon, and Washington D.C., the LA cops brutalized the peaceful BLM protesters, beating them and shooting them with rubber bullets while the thugs were burning and looting. The Los Angeles branch of BLM is already suing them. But they should also sue the people who are putting their lives and all black folks’ lives in danger by calling them anarchists and terrorists and framing them for damage caused sometimes by white supremacists. They can use evidence like the gun-toting Missouri couple who spoke at the Republican Convention and Killer Kid Kyle, who apparently is missing after being seen hanging out with white supremacists.
The families of the two men killed in Kenosha by Killer Kid Kyle should also sue Trump for inciting that violence with his “When the looting starts, the shooting starts” call to arms. So should the family of the Capitol police officer killed on 1/6. Even the family of the insurrectionist who was killed by the police on that day should sue. She would be alive if she had not foolishly followed Trump’s orders. The more than one hundred police officers who were badly injured should also sue him for not only inciting the violence but failing to stop it sooner and to activate the National Guard. Psychological trauma can be more permanently damaging and even fatal (as the suicides of two Capitol police officers suggest) than physical injuries. All of the Capitol police officers present that day and the Congressional staff members and janitorial staff who were terrorized by the insurrectionists should sue as should rape survivor AOC and any other members of Congress who were severely traumatized (the ones who had served in the military seemed to have been less traumatized) by their hours-long ordeal. If Pence doesn’t want to sue, his family members should. Come on, Mommy Pence, SUE the man who sent a mob to lynch your husband, the most sycophantic and loyal Vice President in American history!
Even before he incited violence in Kenosha, Portland, and Washington, D.C., Trump was responsible for many Americans receiving death threats. I can now laugh about how I briefly thought a hit and run car accident in October, 2018, which badly damaged one side of my car, was a bomb because I had been mean-tweeting Trump. I realized quickly that I’m not Maxine Waters, but she and other high-profile Trump “enemies” like AOC and the other young women of color in the Squad, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and other news media folks, and everyone’s favorite truth-telling scientist Doctor Fauci have received many death threats. Doctor Fauci’s family members have also been harassed and threatened. They should all sue Trump as should the families of people who died because of the botched handling of Covid.
The Secretaries of State and others in charge of vote counting in swing states like Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania have joined Fauci, Waters, the Squad, and news media folks as Trump cultists’ death threat targets. But they’ve also had their reputations attacked. They’ve been accused of either allowing votes to be fraudulently cast or destroying legal votes that were cast for Trump. These state officials should also sue as should Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight and other voter registration and protection organizations as well as the black and brown voters of those states. Donald Trump and his enablers have accused my people in most of those states and the brown people in Arizona and Nevada of cheating just because they had the nerve to vote, sometimes (as in Georgia) after standing in line for hours. SUE, black and brown folks! Take Trump Towers, Mar-a-lago, and all of those golf courses from the rich white man!
Dominion and Smartmatic, the vote counting corporations in charge of voting machines, have shown how effective lawsuits can be. Trump promoter Lou Dobbs lost his job on the Fox Business channel, and other anchors on Fox and Newsmax had to walk back their lies about the voting machines changing Trump votes to Biden. We shouldn’t have to sue to force people to tell the truth, but lying has become as common as racism and violence in the Age of Sadistic White Supremacist, Pathological Liar Trump. Maybe all sane, pro-democracy, pro-truth, anti-racism and violence Americans should SUE Trump, Fox News anchors, Graham, Barr, and other Trump enablers for the trauma we have endured during the last more than four years. We should SUE to defeat white supremacy and defend democracy and truth. But most of all, we should SUE to bankrupt Trump, to take everything he has, and then so he will know we’re not playing, we should LOCK HIM UP in a nice single cell in a low-security federal prison.
I’ve encouraged both the NAACP and the BlackLivesMatter activists to sue everyone who has falsely accused the BLM protesters of rioting and looting. Trump’s impeachment attorneys should be added to that long list of bigots. MSNBC’s Sunday morning anchor Jonathan Capehart and other news media folks have pointed out that 93% of the BLM protests were peaceful, but they should also point out that the people arrested for property destruction and rioting during the peaceful protests of the late spring and summer of 2020 were either white supremacists posing as antifa or opportunistic thugs like the ones who moved into the Fairfax district after the LAPD had chased the peaceful protesters out of the area. Like the cops in Minneapolis, Portland, Oregon, and Washington D.C., the LA cops brutalized the peaceful BLM protesters, beating them and shooting them with rubber bullets while the thugs were burning and looting. The Los Angeles branch of BLM is already suing them. But they should also sue the people who are putting their lives and all black folks’ lives in danger by calling them anarchists and terrorists and framing them for damage caused sometimes by white supremacists. They can use evidence like the gun-toting Missouri couple who spoke at the Republican Convention and Killer Kid Kyle, who apparently is missing after being seen hanging out with white supremacists.
The families of the two men killed in Kenosha by Killer Kid Kyle should also sue Trump for inciting that violence with his “When the looting starts, the shooting starts” call to arms. So should the family of the Capitol police officer killed on 1/6. Even the family of the insurrectionist who was killed by the police on that day should sue. She would be alive if she had not foolishly followed Trump’s orders. The more than one hundred police officers who were badly injured should also sue him for not only inciting the violence but failing to stop it sooner and to activate the National Guard. Psychological trauma can be more permanently damaging and even fatal (as the suicides of two Capitol police officers suggest) than physical injuries. All of the Capitol police officers present that day and the Congressional staff members and janitorial staff who were terrorized by the insurrectionists should sue as should rape survivor AOC and any other members of Congress who were severely traumatized (the ones who had served in the military seemed to have been less traumatized) by their hours-long ordeal. If Pence doesn’t want to sue, his family members should. Come on, Mommy Pence, SUE the man who sent a mob to lynch your husband, the most sycophantic and loyal Vice President in American history!
Even before he incited violence in Kenosha, Portland, and Washington, D.C., Trump was responsible for many Americans receiving death threats. I can now laugh about how I briefly thought a hit and run car accident in October, 2018, which badly damaged one side of my car, was a bomb because I had been mean-tweeting Trump. I realized quickly that I’m not Maxine Waters, but she and other high-profile Trump “enemies” like AOC and the other young women of color in the Squad, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and other news media folks, and everyone’s favorite truth-telling scientist Doctor Fauci have received many death threats. Doctor Fauci’s family members have also been harassed and threatened. They should all sue Trump as should the families of people who died because of the botched handling of Covid.
The Secretaries of State and others in charge of vote counting in swing states like Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania have joined Fauci, Waters, the Squad, and news media folks as Trump cultists’ death threat targets. But they’ve also had their reputations attacked. They’ve been accused of either allowing votes to be fraudulently cast or destroying legal votes that were cast for Trump. These state officials should also sue as should Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight and other voter registration and protection organizations as well as the black and brown voters of those states. Donald Trump and his enablers have accused my people in most of those states and the brown people in Arizona and Nevada of cheating just because they had the nerve to vote, sometimes (as in Georgia) after standing in line for hours. SUE, black and brown folks! Take Trump Towers, Mar-a-lago, and all of those golf courses from the rich white man!
Dominion and Smartmatic, the vote counting corporations in charge of voting machines, have shown how effective lawsuits can be. Trump promoter Lou Dobbs lost his job on the Fox Business channel, and other anchors on Fox and Newsmax had to walk back their lies about the voting machines changing Trump votes to Biden. We shouldn’t have to sue to force people to tell the truth, but lying has become as common as racism and violence in the Age of Sadistic White Supremacist, Pathological Liar Trump. Maybe all sane, pro-democracy, pro-truth, anti-racism and violence Americans should SUE Trump, Fox News anchors, Graham, Barr, and other Trump enablers for the trauma we have endured during the last more than four years. We should SUE to defeat white supremacy and defend democracy and truth. But most of all, we should SUE to bankrupt Trump, to take everything he has, and then so he will know we’re not playing, we should LOCK HIM UP in a nice single cell in a low-security federal prison.
