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create good paying jobs and rebuild a strong middle class they ll be fighting against those forces still convinced they can create a theocratic oligarchy intent on keeping the masses controlled and subservient and through it all the specter of donald trump will haunt us he s not finished with us yet this is our history now and it s one for the books cross posted at indelible ink medium posted by ramona grigg at 11 33 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2020 election concede covid 19 democratic party donald trump joe biden politics monday october 26 2020 the trump regime s fatal flaw they don t understand americans when the japanese attacked pearl harbor in december 1941 i was four years old some of my earliest memories are as an activist child during wartime we had entered world war ii and my job was as chief tin can inspector i washed cans and crushed them flat i bought savings stamps at school and pasted them into albums to convert into war bonds the war was a constant backdrop and my parents were among millions who took the war effort seriously the propaganda of the day was heavily into duty and obligation every american citizen was called into service we couldn t allow one man one regime to win his war against humanity it marked us and we were never the same our country grew more and more precious as the war years went on the more lives that were lost protecting us the more we persevered for them and when the war was over and we grew strong again our pride grew even stronger we did it we won generations of us grew up believing we had an obligation to our country when jfk said in his 1961 inaugural address ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country it wasn t a demand it was a reminder this is what americans do we re in a different century now 20 years into a different century and if you cancel out the noise you ll find the majority of americans still believe in some sort of obligatory service our obligation is to keep our country strong not by strong arming the government but by strengthening its core principles by voting as if voting is a serious matter by entering into public service not as glory seekers but as true public servants by working to ease the lives of those who are vulnerable and less fortunate by recognizing that threats like global warming and raging pandemics are our burdens our responsibility our survival is in our hands we are a nation of laws of regulations of justice and reckoning we reject greed and corruption and frown on nepotism we demand equality we celebrate diversity we recognize our enemies both foreign and home grown and if you ve read this far you re probably wondering which rock i ve just crawled out from under this is not the america you re seeing not even close but consider this joe biden the democratic presidential candidate wasn t even on the radar mere months ago he was laughed at vilified virtually written off he was establishment an anachronism an ancient workhorse destined to be put out to pasture but rep jim clyburn s eloquent endorsement aside maybe biden s victory was inevitable many of us listened to clyburn s call to decency to obligation to duty and recognized his message as wholly unequivocally american this is who we are we are americans first and foremost we ve made grievous mistakes and haven t always been proud of our actions but the promise of the united states is to form a more perfect union nothing has changed we re still working at it but we can t do it by going backward we have to move forward but we have to win first the past four years will be seen as an anomaly an experiment gone horribly wrong we ll learn from it but the price the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives lost to a pandemic ravaging through our country largely due to government incompetence is far too high the experimentation has to stop it didn t work we have to get back to our promised obligation to build a strong government designed to take care of our citizens we will come out of this joe biden has begun gathering a phalanx of experts who are already working on programs and plans so they can start on day one in january cohorts and novices need not apply they re going to need cheerleaders and that s where we come in the thing i remember most about my childhood during world war ii is the optimism were my parents afraid they must have been terrified they lived through the great depression only to watch hitler s nazism spread throughout historic european strongholds one man held entire countries hostage he bent them and broke them how could it happen then japan attacked pearl harbor and suddenly it was hitting too close to home between a mandatory draft and a concerted need to protect our shores millions of young men and women signed up to serve our country everything changed and except for the few predictable slackers scam artists and profiteers we changed too we became our country s biggest allies we retooled our factories gave up luxuries rationed necessities pulled on our caring cloaks found we cared deeply and went to work as one country against a common enemy we did that for more than four years we did that and let nobody ever tell you we can t do it again _______________ cross posted at medium indelible ink posted by ramona grigg at 3 50 00 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels community donald trump history military draft politics rationing world war ii tuesday october 20 2020 my years with joe biden i didn t vote for joe but i ve always loved him ap photo marcio jose sanchez we re exactly two weeks away from the election of our lives and i m getting nervous i keep thinking i ve said all i can say to convince everyone to vote for joe biden apparently i haven t gotten through yet let me give it one more try some of you may remember that i didn t vote for joe during the primaries and wasn t all that thrilled about him even being in the race then rep jim clyburn gave a speech in south carolina and i changed my mind i ve known joe for a while now not personally of course but i ve been watching him for years on january 20 2009 the day barack obama was inaugurated as our 44th president i started my political blog ramona s voices over the years i ve mentioned joe biden many times and even devoted entire posts to him including one post i wrote in 2012 called i love joe biden i mean it i love joe biden in case you had any doubt i wrote it after joe stood before a group of military families who had lost loved ones and talked to them about the raw pain of grieving i was crying as i wrote it and maybe it shows before that in march 2011 i wrote about him in my weekly feature friday follies included in case there are those who still think biden is faking his pro union stance did i ever tell you i love joe biden i do yes he can be slightly wacky at times but in a good way a cute way he s fluffy tough and the reason the word gaffe was invented but the other day he spoke to union activists and every word was a keeper try parsing this faux news ha you guys built the middle class said biden in a virtual town hall conversation hosted by the afl cio i would just emphasize what hilda solis said and say it slightly different we don t see the value of collective bargaining we see the absolute positive necessity of collective bargaining let s get something straight the only people who have the capacity organizational capacity and muscle to keep as they say the barbarians from the gate is organized labor and make no mistake about it the guys on the other team get it they know if they cripple labor the gate is open man the gate is wide open and we know that too in women gays and obama s ear joe got taken to the woodshed for seeming to go against obama they called it a gaffe of course but couldn t make anything stick i wrote note to joe it s far better to be gaffe prone than to be mean prone so far you re okay man because i thought what he did was admirable and obama could do worse than learn from it and in september 2015 when we were waiting to see who was going to run for president in 2016 i wrote please joe don t run i did it for his own good i wanted him to take care of himself but somewhere between hillary s loss to trump and the beginning of the 2020 democratic primary season i lost interest in joe biden as president i wanted a woman in the white house and thankfully there were plenty of good women to choose from joe was so far down my list i barely remembered he was there i voted for elizabeth warren and i was devastated when she couldn t get to that place now we re easing into the end of october and i m thrilled that joe biden is the candidate yes thrilled as trump spirals out of control biden is building the greatest coalition of good guys and experts i ve ever seen what it tells me is that if we can pull this election off barring all roadblocks coming from the other side we will have a central government that can be trusted to begin the rebuilding after so much destruction they will work as if our lives depended on it of the people by the people for the people will no longer be quaint wishful thinking it ll be the way we are it wasn t always the way we were but if the trump regime s bulldozing of our government has taught us anything it s that we really don t want such drastic relief from big government we need big government we know that now but we have to make it better except for a few holdouts the democrats are coming together as a formidable bloc getting behind joe biden and kamala harris for the top jobs and supporting and donating to the democratic candidates down the ballot some of them are raising more campaign funds than they could ever even dream about every time trump and his republican cohorts do something awful in these final days the funds roll in for the democrats all signs point to a biden win but we democrats are still shell shocked over 2016 we tell ourselves we don t dare jump the gun this time and there s some truth to that but donald trump is a known entity now he s still a novice still knows nothing about government and it shows trump has made some deadly decisions based on nothing more than how they ll make him look his mismanagement of the covid pandemic has raised america s death tolls to horrific levels not seen anywhere else in the world he has alienated everyone the world over but thinks if he plays to his base everything will be all right he doesn t know it yet but most of america has moved past him as a leader he s a disaster as a chaos agent he thinks he s not done yet but the country has grown tired of his antics and joe biden looks like the necessary antidote we re watching the two of them in public and the differences couldn t be more stark joe biden has to win but he has to win in a landslide the democrats have to win in a landslide it looks imminent but it ll take each of us working to get out the vote this may be our last chance to get it right cross posted at medium indelible ink posted by ramona grigg at 8 32 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2020 election democratic party donald trump elizabeth warren joe biden politics tuesday october 6 2020 will trump get a sympathy surge or is america finally horrified enough donald trump has covid 19 i know you know that it s big news the biggest we can t get a break from the drama of donald trump having covid we watched with some interest as the president s helicopter marine one eased onto the white house lawn loaded their precious cargo and airlifted the president to walter reed national military medical center some 8 1 2 miles away once there donald trump wanted to go home he at least wanted his visit to seem as unlike a hospital stay as he could he was at a desk he was still working don t worry he recorded two videos supposedly two days apart but discovered by the techies to have been filmed within an interval of around a half hour he was still wearing a suit jacket still wearing cuff links how bad could it be outside on the street within trump s view crowds of his admirers gathered waving trump and blue line flags honking horns blowing whistles and the man inside already high on steroids it would appear was elated his people he had to get to them to let them know how happy he was that they were there nobody knows yet how it happened but trump appeared on camera again giddy with a happy secret that would be revealed within minutes so stay tuned america and again we were glued then minutes later there was real breaking news the president of the united states a covid patient sick enough to have been airlifted to the hospital just two days before was heading out the door was getting into a black suv was masked but clearly joyful to be out of there was waving and thumbs upping to his fans so see if there was a living breathing superman donald trump was it what a moment and then it was over the suv drove through the crowd and headed back to the hospital where trump got out on his own climbed the steps and went back inside every medical expert was and is horrified trump an active covid patient deliberately recklessly exposed the secret service members inside the hermetically sealed van to possible covid because he couldn t stand the thought of being inside quarantined away from his beloved cameras at this writing he s still high on steroids and talking crazy he s invincible he beat it don t let it dominate you trump tells a country still in the throes of a pandemic on his victorious return to the white house he stood on a balcony clearly breathless but ever the actor with thumbs up shoulders back maskless tough guy he went inside to greet his masked staff who if they had any sense about them must have been terrified they should have been outfitted in ppp gear but they weren t their masks were their only defense against that lunging spewing germ factory the thing donald trump cared the most about after his release clearly against the hospital s warnings was the positioning of the cameras they had to make him look good the picture of health his first thought as he entered the white house was to make a video designed to let his public know he was all right he donald trump got through this everything was going to be all right so this morning we woke up to what might be considered his most bizarre video if there hadn t been so many that came before the video is out there it s bizarre enough but here are the words donald trump s words from cnn we re going back we re going back to work we re gonna be out front as your leader i had to do that i knew there s danger to it but i had to do it trump said in the highly produced video which he taped after reporters left the south lawn i stood out front i led nobody that s a leader would not do what i did i know there s a risk there s a danger that s okay and now i m better and 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