The horror of the event and of the event looked at in the larger contexts of actual choices and actions, of which there were diverse and very many, has been perpetuated and made worse by the factional hatreds and disinformation consciously expressed in the subsequent days, weeks, months and years.
Thank you for the very strenuous and effective work that you choose to do to factually inform people of the greater capacities we have and the better choices we can make to do cooperation that gives us experiences that reduce, often eliminate, prejudice and fears like those you discuss here.
We teach mutual respect and mutual expectations only by our chosen actions.
Not a BIPOC or a Muslim. However, l was not part of the 9/12 unity. I automatically saw 9/11 as a form of "blowback" for our unswerving support for the Zionist project in the Near East. Since then, l have come to the conclusion that 9/11 was basically an Israeli "false flag" attack on America. One that was supposed to trigger a series of wars in the Near East. Wars that would be solely to the benefit of Israel. This is still the agenda. Wish more Americans would wake-up ⏰️ to this truth.
While I do remember our cul-de-sac coming together many nights after 9/11, I also remember having to explain to my warehouse staff that the inbound drivers wearing turbans were Sikh, not Muslim. Which in hindsight is perhaps even worse.
How disturbing that Bush turned immediately to the motif of crusade. It was inflammatory. It was also thoughtless, in the sense of being the first thing to hand: the American right has always thought it was fighting a cosmic war.
Bush never did anything. It was all Cheney, seemingly trying to create business for his company, Haliburton. Bush just did whatever Cheney told him to do.
Eight trillion dollars…. to the military industrial complex, creating air, water, and earth pollution with detonation, innocents killed ( wedding party of 151 killed of whom 2 were ‘targets’ the rest in that horrible category of Collateral Damage. which is what we fall in. to pump taxpayers money into the war machine health and human service, veterans care, education, and so much more had their budgets reduced. imagine how housing, food, mental healthcare…. with that type of funds. the abhorrent “Patriot Act”, the “you’re either with us or against us “ ? we lost freedoms which weren’t ever given back. 17 of the 19 hijackers of the planes were from…Saudi Arabia. but they are our ally? there is so much more tho .
i actually called white house at that time and requested they not go bombing… since the days of hoping friends’ birthdays didn’t get chosen via the ping pong ball lottery to fight in Vietnam this endless cycle is exhausting. i appreciate your keeping on Qasim, i wish for you good moments for respite and renewal. 🙏🏼
Yes, from the perspective of 23 years post 9/11 we can see that the consequences of the Endless Wars, post WWII, and the paranoia that the United Nations or NATO did nothing to dispel; plus the growth in power of Eisenhower's named "Military/industrial complex", have built like a slow rolling monstrous tsunami . Far too many Americans seem to welcome it as a necessary corrective to our passive, pacifist, (?) present.
How can we discount the trillions spent on "defense"? How can we forget, or dishonor as "losers" the thousands of young American lives snuffed out in Korea. in Vietnam, in the Middle east, in Africa...not to mention many thousands more, post war, post colonial inhabitants of those disposable nations caught in the crossfire between the new, inevitable "Great Powers" who replaced the old great powers....
The great human threshing machine rolls on, with ever greater urgency as humanity despoils the only habitable planet we know. And where is the Heaven so many minds conjure as the solution to all their sins and woes.?
Thanks again, sir, for telling the truth! Rep. Barbra Lee was alone in her opposition to the wars and she was correct. Muslim hate runs deep for some people. Most use it for political gain as you point out! May we have the courage to do better!
I was a 39yo mother of 5 on 9/11. I remember the WMD propaganda and never believed a word. Many Americans I knew were completely against the war. They lied to us then and lie to us now regarding Israel. I can only hope that the awakening of Americans, especially the young people will force a stop to the aid and unquestioned support of Israel.
Very poignant reminders Qasim. If we go back to 20 years ago, bin Laden released a video in which he spoke about provoking the Americans with 9/11 into blind vengeful fury in order to draw their military into what he called "Muslim lands" and wage a battle of attrition where trillions would be wastefully expended to accomplish nothing. Back then merely three years into Bush's bonehead GWOT, the deficit for the year was $413 billion (from a balanced budget when Clinton left office) and the national debt went up by over $2 trillion to $7 trillion. Two decades later that number has ballooned five-fold. Yes, $8 trillion of that went to bailing out big banks and another $6.4 trillion to COVID, but $250 million was wastefully spent each and every day for two decades on futile wars (and the IEDs that the soldiers were up against cost somewhere between $100 to $200 to make). While the pointless invasions didn't totally bankrupt the US (thanks to it's printing press also known as the Federal Reserve), he certainly got much closer than Bush and his successors ever did in turning Iraq and Afghanistan into Jeffersonian democracies. Such was the hubris of the unipolar era.
Rahul, the deficit went up not only because of the money spent/wasted, but because W simultaneously lowered taxes. No country in the history of civilization has gone to war and LOWERED taxes. It can't be done. And then, Obama failed to raise them again, which he should have, Donnie lowered them again, and sent the deficit into the stratosphere, and Biden didn't raise them as he should have. He had a plan, and it appears Harris has partially undercut that plan.
You're absolutely right! And the taxes that keep getting cut the most generously are those that disproportionately apply to the wealthy. The top marginal rate was halved from 70% in the 1950s and 1970s to 37% when Reagan took office. Capital gains, dividends and other types of passive incomes are afforded more favourable tax treatment than 'earned income' such as salaries, self-employment. Then of course there's the largest cut to the headline Federal corporate tax rate in 2017.
The pervasively held belief in the beltway that reducing taxes will ALWAYS stimulate businesses to invest and create new jobs is fundamentally flawed. Lowering taxes doesn't automatically mean more future growth. If the cash taxes saved are used instead to buy back shares on the open market in order to artificially pump up share prices, well that isn't going to be of much help to economy at large.
Rahul, the highest marginal tax rate in the '50s (Eisenhower) was in the 90%s. Few people paid that, because they took advantage of deductions. And Eisenhower used that money well, to help the country out of the financial ravages of WWII, and he began the interstate highway system.
It is of course insane the you pay a lower tax rate on the money you don't have to work for (capital gains, interest, etc), and that's thanks to lobbying and campaign donations. That's why we don't have a democracy in this country. We have a plutocracy. As you rightly say elsewhere, it's a "system of crony capitalism propped up by unfettered corporate welfarism."
The Reagan scheme/scam never made sense. Setting aside that money doesn't trickle down -- it trickles up -- if lowering taxes stimulated business to invest, that was already part of the tax code: if you have business expenses, like paying employees, or building a new facility/factory, you already got to deduct that from your taxable income.
Buying back your stock doesn't help anyone except the companies and the investors. It's all a scam intended to allow people not to pay taxes to (invest in) the country in which they chose to live, and about which they should care.
FYI, I stopped deducting anything, except the cost of my business (licenses, etc), in 2013. When I donate money, it's my pleasure, and it represents my interests and passions. It's no one else's responsibility. Of bedeviling interest is Warren Buffett's repeated complaint that his secretary pays a higher tax bracket than he does. So why doesn't he just pay more taxes, or take fewer deductions, if he realizes that this is a problem and is not fair? He lives modestly, but he's said that if people LIKE HIM(!) paid a proper tax, they'd never miss the money. Then the other day, I saw some article, which I didn't bother to read, in which he was talking about some investment that was great, because it wasn't taxable. He's said he likes making money. He's like any other addict, except instead of being addicted to alcohol, cocaine, or heroin, he's addicted to money.
There's plenty I agree with Fred. And what I'd add is if businesses and corporations incur expenditures or make investments in ways that promote socially desirable outcomes, then I'm all for giving them additional tax breaks. For example, if it relates to helping their employees acquire new knowledge and skills, providing enhanced medical benefits and coverage for lower income staff and so on. Conversely things like stock buybacks should be subject to separate/additional taxes.
As I said, Rahul, expenses like those are already tax-deductible. That's the tax break. Businesses don't have to pay taxes on what it costs them to provide new knowledge and skills for their employees, to keep them to required levels, or give them new skills. The government doesn't have to give the businesses additional tax breaks.
Tax deductible means they recover somewhere between 21-27 percent of the cost incurred depending on which state they're domiciled in. My larger point is if businesses contribute/play their part in facilitating better socio-economic outcomes (which is a matter of tax policy), I don't have a problem in principle with giving them more generous tax breaks (say with a double deduction). The key though is this must be discretionary. Plenty of other countries have such mechanisms in their tax legislation - e.g. granting additional tax credits to businesses that maintain a certain proportion of employees with disabilities on their payroll and the likes.
One of the main issues currently is that the American tax code treats all outlays as if they're equally 'productive' in large part because there has been effective lobbying to push the flawed ideological belief that lower taxes by default translates to greater investment, which generates greater output thereby creating more jobs. This cause and effect relationship is not so clear and tax codes have to be modified to incorporate a greater degree of nuance and discretion. Of course accomplishing this is an arduous challenge to say the least given how entrenched many flawed beliefs are amongst the electorate. Aand it's not just with taxes. Just because the stock market is reaching record highs doesn't mean the economy as a whole is doing well. Anti-Americanism in the wider world orginates from what the US does in faraway lands, not because these 'other peoples' hate 'liberty' and 'democracy'
It's not just Reagan and Bush. Both the GOP and the Dems (aka the uniparty) are deeply committed to preserving and further entrenching this system of crony capitalism propped up by unfettered corporate welfarism and a neo-imperial foreign policy of global hegemony (which went onto overdrive after the end of the Cold War - where America believed it could reshape the world).
Clinton repealed Glass Steagall which was an expansion of Reagan era deregulation of the Financial sector. Many architects of the 2008 meltdown held prominent positions in both the Clinton, and Obama administrations (Robert Rubin, Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan to name a few). The fact that BHO rolled the red carpet out for some of them AFTER the crash is even more astounding.
When it came to the foreign policy during the unipolar era, the Dems were no less belligerent towards West, Central, South Asia and beyond. Madeline Albright justified sanctions on Iraq in the 1990s which UNICEF estimates directly led to the deaths of half a million children. Children, and yet she had the gall to say it was worth it even though Iraq never posed a threat to the US. Obama drastically expanded the covert 'dirty wars' and drone programmes from the Bush era in places like Pakistan, Somalia - which ended up having a tremendous human cost in those societies, both directly and through its inevitable blowback. Jeremy Scahill's book meticulously documents how JSOC treated the entire world as a battlefield without any Congressional oversight or accountability in the name of 'national security'. Afghanistan suddenly became the 'good war' even though by 2009-2010 is was abundantly clear that vast swathes of the countryside, especially in the Pashtun heartlands, were firmly under the Taliban's control (rural Vietnam all over again). Then let's not forget that the Saudi led brutal assault on Yemen was sponsored by Obama, NATO's disastrous intervention in Libya. I've said so much without even touching upon the US' unwavering and unflinching support for Israel in how it oppresses the Palestinians.
Both agendas are incredibly radical (extreme) in how they benefit a few to the detriment of millions in America and around the globe. While, DJT does not necessarily articulate his unwavering fealty to this programme in the same way his predecessors did, he doesn't represent an aberration by any stretch. The fascistic tendencies articulated in Project 2025 are patterns of behaviour that the US has actively promoted, participated and facilitated around the planet for decades. The chicken is simply coming home to roost (much like how Hitler and Mussolini simply brought back to Europe what the British, the French, the Germans, the Italians, the Dutch, the Belgians, the Spanish were doing in their colonies for centuries).
excellent points...I just wish more Americans were on board with this. I am disappointed that Kamala has watered down her previous stated values for the sake of a win...the debate revealed her diluted stance on Palestinians, gun control, fracking/oil production (and their consequential negative effect on our environment) and universal healthcare. These changes are driven by voter consensus vs. conviction of what is right or what ultimately best promotes equality, justice or the care of our environment . I understand that in order to win, this is what she has to do. Because unfortunately, the Americans are too short sighted and selfish to be on board with the bigger picture. But, I am hoping she can influence our country towards these more lofty goals. I know for a fact, with her, at least we have the possibility of heading in the right direction, which would never happen under Fascist Trump and his autocratic Republicans.
Thank you, and agreed. I'm unsure of why she's lurching right. You got here by being unapologetic about these issues of healthcare justice, climate change justice, and justice for Palestine. Why would you sway from that now? Makes no sense.
I have to say Qasim mirrors my thoughts each day, but the way he puts it in words is so much better than what I would Have used. I get too angry! In contrast, Qasim’s words are based with truth, reason and love. Thank you so much, Qasim!
Thank you, Qasim, for this review and assessment.
The horror of the event and of the event looked at in the larger contexts of actual choices and actions, of which there were diverse and very many, has been perpetuated and made worse by the factional hatreds and disinformation consciously expressed in the subsequent days, weeks, months and years.
Thank you for the very strenuous and effective work that you choose to do to factually inform people of the greater capacities we have and the better choices we can make to do cooperation that gives us experiences that reduce, often eliminate, prejudice and fears like those you discuss here.
We teach mutual respect and mutual expectations only by our chosen actions.
Not a BIPOC or a Muslim. However, l was not part of the 9/12 unity. I automatically saw 9/11 as a form of "blowback" for our unswerving support for the Zionist project in the Near East. Since then, l have come to the conclusion that 9/11 was basically an Israeli "false flag" attack on America. One that was supposed to trigger a series of wars in the Near East. Wars that would be solely to the benefit of Israel. This is still the agenda. Wish more Americans would wake-up ⏰️ to this truth.
While I do remember our cul-de-sac coming together many nights after 9/11, I also remember having to explain to my warehouse staff that the inbound drivers wearing turbans were Sikh, not Muslim. Which in hindsight is perhaps even worse.
Thank you got your ongoing insight and analysis and for this timely reminder in particular.
How disturbing that Bush turned immediately to the motif of crusade. It was inflammatory. It was also thoughtless, in the sense of being the first thing to hand: the American right has always thought it was fighting a cosmic war.
Bush never did anything. It was all Cheney, seemingly trying to create business for his company, Haliburton. Bush just did whatever Cheney told him to do.
Eight trillion dollars…. to the military industrial complex, creating air, water, and earth pollution with detonation, innocents killed ( wedding party of 151 killed of whom 2 were ‘targets’ the rest in that horrible category of Collateral Damage. which is what we fall in. to pump taxpayers money into the war machine health and human service, veterans care, education, and so much more had their budgets reduced. imagine how housing, food, mental healthcare…. with that type of funds. the abhorrent “Patriot Act”, the “you’re either with us or against us “ ? we lost freedoms which weren’t ever given back. 17 of the 19 hijackers of the planes were from…Saudi Arabia. but they are our ally? there is so much more tho .
i actually called white house at that time and requested they not go bombing… since the days of hoping friends’ birthdays didn’t get chosen via the ping pong ball lottery to fight in Vietnam this endless cycle is exhausting. i appreciate your keeping on Qasim, i wish for you good moments for respite and renewal. 🙏🏼
Yes, from the perspective of 23 years post 9/11 we can see that the consequences of the Endless Wars, post WWII, and the paranoia that the United Nations or NATO did nothing to dispel; plus the growth in power of Eisenhower's named "Military/industrial complex", have built like a slow rolling monstrous tsunami . Far too many Americans seem to welcome it as a necessary corrective to our passive, pacifist, (?) present.
How can we discount the trillions spent on "defense"? How can we forget, or dishonor as "losers" the thousands of young American lives snuffed out in Korea. in Vietnam, in the Middle east, in Africa...not to mention many thousands more, post war, post colonial inhabitants of those disposable nations caught in the crossfire between the new, inevitable "Great Powers" who replaced the old great powers....
The great human threshing machine rolls on, with ever greater urgency as humanity despoils the only habitable planet we know. And where is the Heaven so many minds conjure as the solution to all their sins and woes.?
Thanks again, sir, for telling the truth! Rep. Barbra Lee was alone in her opposition to the wars and she was correct. Muslim hate runs deep for some people. Most use it for political gain as you point out! May we have the courage to do better!
All of the ginned up patriotism after 9/11 was extremely hurtful to too many.
I was 25 and old enough to be taken aback by eerily polite New Yorkers.
I was also old enough to know the rock-sized hole in the sikh-owned store next door wasn’t an “accident.”
I still mourn the tenuous peace between my white and non-white neighbors that was lost in favor of “unity.”
I was a 39yo mother of 5 on 9/11. I remember the WMD propaganda and never believed a word. Many Americans I knew were completely against the war. They lied to us then and lie to us now regarding Israel. I can only hope that the awakening of Americans, especially the young people will force a stop to the aid and unquestioned support of Israel.
Very poignant reminders Qasim. If we go back to 20 years ago, bin Laden released a video in which he spoke about provoking the Americans with 9/11 into blind vengeful fury in order to draw their military into what he called "Muslim lands" and wage a battle of attrition where trillions would be wastefully expended to accomplish nothing. Back then merely three years into Bush's bonehead GWOT, the deficit for the year was $413 billion (from a balanced budget when Clinton left office) and the national debt went up by over $2 trillion to $7 trillion. Two decades later that number has ballooned five-fold. Yes, $8 trillion of that went to bailing out big banks and another $6.4 trillion to COVID, but $250 million was wastefully spent each and every day for two decades on futile wars (and the IEDs that the soldiers were up against cost somewhere between $100 to $200 to make). While the pointless invasions didn't totally bankrupt the US (thanks to it's printing press also known as the Federal Reserve), he certainly got much closer than Bush and his successors ever did in turning Iraq and Afghanistan into Jeffersonian democracies. Such was the hubris of the unipolar era.
For anyone that's interested, here's the original article: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305091629/http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binladen.tape/index.html
Rahul, the deficit went up not only because of the money spent/wasted, but because W simultaneously lowered taxes. No country in the history of civilization has gone to war and LOWERED taxes. It can't be done. And then, Obama failed to raise them again, which he should have, Donnie lowered them again, and sent the deficit into the stratosphere, and Biden didn't raise them as he should have. He had a plan, and it appears Harris has partially undercut that plan.
You're absolutely right! And the taxes that keep getting cut the most generously are those that disproportionately apply to the wealthy. The top marginal rate was halved from 70% in the 1950s and 1970s to 37% when Reagan took office. Capital gains, dividends and other types of passive incomes are afforded more favourable tax treatment than 'earned income' such as salaries, self-employment. Then of course there's the largest cut to the headline Federal corporate tax rate in 2017.
The pervasively held belief in the beltway that reducing taxes will ALWAYS stimulate businesses to invest and create new jobs is fundamentally flawed. Lowering taxes doesn't automatically mean more future growth. If the cash taxes saved are used instead to buy back shares on the open market in order to artificially pump up share prices, well that isn't going to be of much help to economy at large.
Rahul, the highest marginal tax rate in the '50s (Eisenhower) was in the 90%s. Few people paid that, because they took advantage of deductions. And Eisenhower used that money well, to help the country out of the financial ravages of WWII, and he began the interstate highway system.
It is of course insane the you pay a lower tax rate on the money you don't have to work for (capital gains, interest, etc), and that's thanks to lobbying and campaign donations. That's why we don't have a democracy in this country. We have a plutocracy. As you rightly say elsewhere, it's a "system of crony capitalism propped up by unfettered corporate welfarism."
The Reagan scheme/scam never made sense. Setting aside that money doesn't trickle down -- it trickles up -- if lowering taxes stimulated business to invest, that was already part of the tax code: if you have business expenses, like paying employees, or building a new facility/factory, you already got to deduct that from your taxable income.
Buying back your stock doesn't help anyone except the companies and the investors. It's all a scam intended to allow people not to pay taxes to (invest in) the country in which they chose to live, and about which they should care.
FYI, I stopped deducting anything, except the cost of my business (licenses, etc), in 2013. When I donate money, it's my pleasure, and it represents my interests and passions. It's no one else's responsibility. Of bedeviling interest is Warren Buffett's repeated complaint that his secretary pays a higher tax bracket than he does. So why doesn't he just pay more taxes, or take fewer deductions, if he realizes that this is a problem and is not fair? He lives modestly, but he's said that if people LIKE HIM(!) paid a proper tax, they'd never miss the money. Then the other day, I saw some article, which I didn't bother to read, in which he was talking about some investment that was great, because it wasn't taxable. He's said he likes making money. He's like any other addict, except instead of being addicted to alcohol, cocaine, or heroin, he's addicted to money.
There's plenty I agree with Fred. And what I'd add is if businesses and corporations incur expenditures or make investments in ways that promote socially desirable outcomes, then I'm all for giving them additional tax breaks. For example, if it relates to helping their employees acquire new knowledge and skills, providing enhanced medical benefits and coverage for lower income staff and so on. Conversely things like stock buybacks should be subject to separate/additional taxes.
As I said, Rahul, expenses like those are already tax-deductible. That's the tax break. Businesses don't have to pay taxes on what it costs them to provide new knowledge and skills for their employees, to keep them to required levels, or give them new skills. The government doesn't have to give the businesses additional tax breaks.
Tax deductible means they recover somewhere between 21-27 percent of the cost incurred depending on which state they're domiciled in. My larger point is if businesses contribute/play their part in facilitating better socio-economic outcomes (which is a matter of tax policy), I don't have a problem in principle with giving them more generous tax breaks (say with a double deduction). The key though is this must be discretionary. Plenty of other countries have such mechanisms in their tax legislation - e.g. granting additional tax credits to businesses that maintain a certain proportion of employees with disabilities on their payroll and the likes.
One of the main issues currently is that the American tax code treats all outlays as if they're equally 'productive' in large part because there has been effective lobbying to push the flawed ideological belief that lower taxes by default translates to greater investment, which generates greater output thereby creating more jobs. This cause and effect relationship is not so clear and tax codes have to be modified to incorporate a greater degree of nuance and discretion. Of course accomplishing this is an arduous challenge to say the least given how entrenched many flawed beliefs are amongst the electorate. Aand it's not just with taxes. Just because the stock market is reaching record highs doesn't mean the economy as a whole is doing well. Anti-Americanism in the wider world orginates from what the US does in faraway lands, not because these 'other peoples' hate 'liberty' and 'democracy'
Well said, Rahul. People often point to Trump as the extremist but they forget that he manifested the natural result of what Reagan and Bush enabled.
It's not just Reagan and Bush. Both the GOP and the Dems (aka the uniparty) are deeply committed to preserving and further entrenching this system of crony capitalism propped up by unfettered corporate welfarism and a neo-imperial foreign policy of global hegemony (which went onto overdrive after the end of the Cold War - where America believed it could reshape the world).
Clinton repealed Glass Steagall which was an expansion of Reagan era deregulation of the Financial sector. Many architects of the 2008 meltdown held prominent positions in both the Clinton, and Obama administrations (Robert Rubin, Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan to name a few). The fact that BHO rolled the red carpet out for some of them AFTER the crash is even more astounding.
When it came to the foreign policy during the unipolar era, the Dems were no less belligerent towards West, Central, South Asia and beyond. Madeline Albright justified sanctions on Iraq in the 1990s which UNICEF estimates directly led to the deaths of half a million children. Children, and yet she had the gall to say it was worth it even though Iraq never posed a threat to the US. Obama drastically expanded the covert 'dirty wars' and drone programmes from the Bush era in places like Pakistan, Somalia - which ended up having a tremendous human cost in those societies, both directly and through its inevitable blowback. Jeremy Scahill's book meticulously documents how JSOC treated the entire world as a battlefield without any Congressional oversight or accountability in the name of 'national security'. Afghanistan suddenly became the 'good war' even though by 2009-2010 is was abundantly clear that vast swathes of the countryside, especially in the Pashtun heartlands, were firmly under the Taliban's control (rural Vietnam all over again). Then let's not forget that the Saudi led brutal assault on Yemen was sponsored by Obama, NATO's disastrous intervention in Libya. I've said so much without even touching upon the US' unwavering and unflinching support for Israel in how it oppresses the Palestinians.
Both agendas are incredibly radical (extreme) in how they benefit a few to the detriment of millions in America and around the globe. While, DJT does not necessarily articulate his unwavering fealty to this programme in the same way his predecessors did, he doesn't represent an aberration by any stretch. The fascistic tendencies articulated in Project 2025 are patterns of behaviour that the US has actively promoted, participated and facilitated around the planet for decades. The chicken is simply coming home to roost (much like how Hitler and Mussolini simply brought back to Europe what the British, the French, the Germans, the Italians, the Dutch, the Belgians, the Spanish were doing in their colonies for centuries).
excellent points...I just wish more Americans were on board with this. I am disappointed that Kamala has watered down her previous stated values for the sake of a win...the debate revealed her diluted stance on Palestinians, gun control, fracking/oil production (and their consequential negative effect on our environment) and universal healthcare. These changes are driven by voter consensus vs. conviction of what is right or what ultimately best promotes equality, justice or the care of our environment . I understand that in order to win, this is what she has to do. Because unfortunately, the Americans are too short sighted and selfish to be on board with the bigger picture. But, I am hoping she can influence our country towards these more lofty goals. I know for a fact, with her, at least we have the possibility of heading in the right direction, which would never happen under Fascist Trump and his autocratic Republicans.
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Thank you, and agreed. I'm unsure of why she's lurching right. You got here by being unapologetic about these issues of healthcare justice, climate change justice, and justice for Palestine. Why would you sway from that now? Makes no sense.
I have to say Qasim mirrors my thoughts each day, but the way he puts it in words is so much better than what I would Have used. I get too angry! In contrast, Qasim’s words are based with truth, reason and love. Thank you so much, Qasim!
Yes, the word love occurred to me too. And kindness.
I'm honored. Thank you, Joseph.
Beautifully stated!
Thank you so much for calling out how many first responders have died since that day. Health care is a human right!