Showing posts with label guilty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guilty. Show all posts

Saturday, January 18, 2025

"Our Moral Obligation"

 

Write, write, write! Call attention to the FELON in the White House



         Another round of presidential misogyny left me fuming for a few days. A horde of angry responses snarled and gnashed their fangs within my mind. Yet I stayed away from keyboard. Not because I wanted to reign in my words, but because I fought for just the right order and organization to my thoughts.
         My little blog posts won’t change anything.
   The president’s deeply rooted personality disorder won’t miraculously disappear because I wish it so. There’s no magic. Not even the fervent prayers of the multitudinous faithful will rescue us from this current mess.
       Instead, we have to watch every day and wait for this man to stop skirting around social inappropriateness and actually break a law. A “biggy” that really matters. In the meantime, we summon every ounce of patience as investigations into obstruction of justice play out. Our gut tells us that this may not take that long; but whenever it happens, it may still be too late.
      And so, why do I write? Why do I pass along every article I read about this administration? What do I hope to accomplish?
         A moral obligation.
        A moral obligation to speak out every time an injustice occurs.
        A moral obligation to share facts and data that become obscured by ignorance—or even worse, a political agenda that seeks profit over prosperity.
        A moral obligation to pass along documented and referenced research about the administration’s desire for authoritarianism.
         A moral obligation to protect our right to vote.
         A moral obligation to voice dissent.
         A moral obligation to stand with our free press.
        A moral obligation to address the absurdities of this president and to yell, “THIS IS NOT NORMAL!”
        
      And that’s it. The bottom line. My moral obligation compels me to educate everyone I can with the understanding that we must stand together to fight against this abnormality.



Copyright 2017 Elizabeth Abrams Chapman  
   

Friday, May 31, 2024

“Guilty on 34 Counts

           

GUILTY

GUILTY

GUILTY


            Yesterday ex-president Trump’s New York jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of  felony fraud. Trump corrupted elections by hiding information from voters. For me, this moment demonstrates that the attempts of a political party to disassemble the foundations of our democracy took a blow. Supporters of Trump couldn’t wait to get before their fan bases to try to undermine the rule of law.

            It’s important to point out that this man, his family members, and his business don’t do well once a judge and jury examine evidence provided against them. I found out recently that some of my Trump supporting friends and family members didn’t even know that he was found guilty of Defamation and Sexual Assault against E. Jean Carroll. Another jury concluded that Trump committed sexual assault and defamation with Trump having to pay $5 million and $83.3 million in damages. These same people manage to spin the $355 million plus interest fraud verdict in New York into proof that Trump’s a risk-taker, which they find admirable.

            This same group of people insists that Trump’s being unfairly persecuted when confronted with the pending 37 felony count Mar-a-Lago Documents case surrounding his removal and retention of national security documents. They explain away the Fulton County Election Subversion case because they still want to believe that Trump won 2020. One eighty-year-old relative claimed recently that if he’d been younger, he would’ve been participating in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Department of Justice Election Subversion felony charges, to him, are false claims against true patriots.

            What’s next for people like me, surrounded by MAGA madness?

 

                SPEAK.

            SPEAK OUT OFTEN.

            SPEAK OUT TRUTHFULLY.





       

 


Copyright 2024 Elizabeth Abrams Chapman