This is the best piece I’ve read about the shooting for the CEO of United Healthcare. I stand firmly against all forms of gun violence AND we must hear the cries of from a populace stretched beyond the breaking point. How has our society has allowed such a system to exist? This is what unfettered capitalism looks like, and it’s shameful.
Well it's about time! Biden commutes 1,500 sentences & pardons 39 people. This is a step, but he must keep going and we must keep pushing him.
He must now cancel student loans next. All of them. Just as he promised when he ran for President. And pardon Steven Donziger, Leonard Peltier, and commute the 40 people on Federal death row. And the 3000 non-violent drug offenders in federal prison, largely put there directly or indirectly due to his 1994 crime bill.
Let us remember that after the 2008 election, Barack Obama told Eric Cantor, "Elections have consequences," and republicans saw this as the height of arrogance because, to paraphrase Horace Greeley, not all republicans are racist, but all racists are republicans. Well, I exaggerate a little.
But that's the point. Joe Biden would have been "acceptable" in the way that child of the 60s Bill Clinton and Black man Barack Obama were not, and by then republicans were too far gone. George W. Bush did i…