General Discussion

When one of our own transgresses the law or the bounds of appropriate social behavior, WE hold that person accountable. We challenge social structures that oppress people, BUT we also hold our leaders to a standard of behavior because IT MEANS SOMETHING to live in a society where everyone has to follow the laws and social customs. It SHOULDN'T matter if you are a homeless person or a wealthy celebrity, we should hold standards of what is okay and not okay. Affiliation should not dictate what is appropriate and inappropriate.

I agree that we should not jump at every outrage that Conservatives come up with. They are plain and simply LIARS. However, that does not mean that we overlook things that we would certainly criticize a Conservative for either.

We can do both and it is not anti-Democratic to point out something that we may disagree with just because a Democrat is doing it.

I think Gavin Newsome has been a really great Governor and I will vote against the recall. It is a scam. However, holding a fundraiser at The French Laundry while everyone is on SIP, was not smart. I also think that President Obama is one of the best modern Presidents...period. When his HUGE 60th birthday bash was announced, I winced. Having that many people around during a surge in cases with a more transmissible variant of COVID-19 does not send a good message, regardless of the idiocy of the right. I said in a post last week, when that idiot Kennedy said that President Obama was responsible for all the COVID-19 spread, "Thank goodness for idiots like Kennedy" His statement was so ridiculous that only the stupidest people would care. Plus President Obama was scaling back to only closest friends and family. Then he had a pretty big party anyway.

I don't care what the right thinks. What they will say NEVER crosses my mind because I know that NONE, NOT ONE, of their arguments is ever in good faith. That doesn't mean that there still are not concerns. I am thinking about the occasional voter, the one who watches Celebrity TV, who won't hear the stupid, fake, Republican outrage, but who will hear that President Obama had a few hundred people over for his birthday, and who will take it as another sign that the pandemic is over. Then they hear that they are going to have to wear masks, or that there will be restrictions at their favorite restaurant, and they will think, "Why can't I do what the Obama's did?" Fuck the conservatives. It isn't about them.