The Second Coming
America and the world are livid. These election results beg the question: When will folks realize what they are up against and unite? Trump got more Hispanic votes than any other candidate since JFK. He called them rapists, animals, and crooks, yet 45% rode him to victory. Blacks are saying Kamala is not Black enough. Maybe they would prefer a Black candidate from the Ghetto who speaks Ebonics.
Contributors: Ola George, Theo Edwards, and J. Reynold Weeks for YAME Digital
2024 US Election
America and the world are livid
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They say, "The eyes are the windows of the soul." Looking into the mirror, we see that America's soul is decidedly murky. The world was under the illusion that we Americans were so much better, but the election outcome indicates otherwise.
Something fundamentally wrong
Vanity Fair, the popular Condé Nast culture fashion, and current affairs magazine published a digital cover featuring a close-up image of him alongside the words: “34 felony counts, 1 conviction, 2 pending cases, 2 impeachments, and 6 bankruptcies, 4 more years—the 47th American president.”
In the wake of Trump’s victory. We have now elected a President with no guardrails. A man who promised to be a dictator from day one! A man who openly vowed to get rid of the Department of Education, which is a dog whistle for defunding Public Schools. The last time we checked that’s where most minorities send their kids to get an education. We have now elected a man who promised to gut down the EPA and has shown his disdain for NATO. We have now elected a man who at the ‘height of the pandemic in 2020, while the dead bodies of Americans were being dumped in trenches, secretly shipped our much-needed medications to Russia’ ~ Wall Street Journal. He now has control of the Congress, the Senate, the Justice Department, and the Supreme Court.
These election results beg the question: When will folks realize what they are up against and unite? Trump got more Hispanic votes than any other candidate since JFK. He called them rapists, animals, and crooks, yet 45% rode him to victory. Blacks are saying Kamala is not Black enough. Maybe they would prefer a Black candidate from the Ghetto who speaks Ebonics.
Analysts say race and gender played a significant role in Harris’s defeat, but so did voter disillusionment. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a scathing statement on the Democratic Party's ‘disastrous’ campaign after Vice President Kamala Harris lost.
Reflections Through a Dark Mirror
Jerry Seinfeld had it right: "It would be a nice world if it weren't for the people."
We have made our bed, and now we must lie in it. We must live with the decisions of this democratic process. For some, there is hope and joy; for others, there is worry and despair. Regardless of how you feel, we must face the outcome together. Considering everything that happened during his 45th term, it is difficult for us to understand the electorate's decision. However, we must now move forward, hoping that our democracy will not be destroyed in the process.
While we may have voted as a country, real change occurs in our local communities within America. We need to focus on our values and promote ideals that benefit everyone, one neighbor at a time.
Does this task feel overwhelming, naive, and overly hopeful? Without a doubt! But what’s the alternative? Destruction, division, and chaos await us if we don’t act!
Where we go from here is uncertain, but we hope America will do her best to act rightly, regardless of who is in D.C. God Bless us all!
Jonathan Pie | @JonathanPieNews
Trump wins the White House. Again. The Democrats blew it. Again. A depressing yet predictable result.
Contributors: Ola George, Theo Edwards, and J. Reynold Weeks for YAME DigitalIt's not that Kamala Harris lost; it's that America itself has lost. Share your thoughts!
Long Live the King
As the impeachment debacle reached its inevitable climax, it was clear that the Rule of Law was under siege.
By Anonymous
Our Republic is dead
By Anonymous
As the impeachment debacle reached its inevitable climax, it was clear that the Rule of Law was under siege.
Despite undisputed facts, a blockade of important witnesses and a paper-thin defense, the Republican-controlled Senate, acquitted the President. Incredibly, Mitt Romney was the lone dissent crying out for principle and integrity. Indeed, the fact that Romney was so virulently attacked by his erstwhile colleagues showed how far our democracy has fallen. Republicans writ large has abrogated their principles and constitutional responsibilities in pursuit of unbridled power.
The party’s slavish devotion to the cult of Trump is mystifying. A corrosive agent on our democracy, he has subverted the Justice Department, runs a shadow foreign policy, and damaged American credibility abroad.
Susan Collins, the Republican Senator from Maine naively reiterated that impeachment would have a sobering effect on Trump. Yes, I am still laughing.
Invariably Trump has been emboldened by his acquittal sought to punish political enemies, and purge non-Trump acolytes from government, and trying to lighten jail sentences for his allies; convicted felons Roger Stone and Michael Flynn. These swirling currents in play, the American public could be forgiven for being impacted by a heavy dose of cynicism in light of today’s political state. However, now is not the time for apathy. America in the past has negotiated rough political terrain, and clearly, an engaged electorate is the key to restoring a nation's enduring faith in democracy.
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