By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele W.E.B. Du Bois
Donald J. Trump, the duly elected 45th President of the United States of America, helped to orchestrate a failed coup d’état to stop democracy on January 6, 2021. Every four years, after the national US Presidential elections are over in November, the US government passes the electoral votes through the Senate in Congress to certify the winning presidential candidate as the official American President. This is America’s democratic process for the executive branch of the US government. The Trump supporters’ organize an American coup to stop this democratic process. This happened in the millennium to a country that boasts to the world as the bastion of democratic ideals in the world. Fascism manifested its ugly head in the US. The ideology behind it was white supremacy, and xenophobia. Human family, particularly my Black family, don’t be shocked by the current turn of events. This is America. The United States, and western culture,
i called her, and i said stacey, this is over. you know what she said? she said girl, let me pull over to the side of the road. [laughter] [applause] that s a good thing. you should not be talking on your cell phone while you are driving! i told her eye wanted to come to georgia and lend my support. she said that would be all right! [laughter] that would be just fine! i told her, here s what i want to come, stacey. i have been reading about you. i have been reading about you in the atlantic journal. i have been reading about human time magazine. i have been reading about you in the new york times. i have been watching you, and i have been seeing how you handle yourself. [cheers and applause] i have been watching you in the
i m reading what you said. i m sorry that it doesn t fit your narrative, congressman. reporter: cnn, washington. peter beinart is a political commentator for cnn and contributing editor to the atlantic journal. thanks for being with me, peter. i want to get your assessment first of all of hillary clinton 11 hours before this hearing today. how do you think she withstood the scrutiny and the questions? i think she did well. look, i think very few americans will have watched this. what i will they will see is the talking heads talk about it, not in itself. maybe they ll see one clip or two. so in some ways what matters most is that the talking head consensus is already that she did well. that she was dignified. she showed a lot of perseverance, perhaps, in a subtle way put to rest some concerns about her age, given the fact she managed to hold up so well under such a long period
levels in the event that happen happened. as for a u.s. potential response, mcmaster said all options on the table. we re working together with our allies and partners and with the chinese leadership to develop a range of options and the president has asked the national security council to integrate the efforts of the department of defense, state, our intelligence agencies. so we can provide options and have them ready for him if this pattern of destabilizing behavior continues. and if the north korean regime refuses to denuclearize. joining me now, msnbc contributor steve clemons from the atlantic journal and courts. so much happening in the last 24 hours here. and the question really is, what is kim jong un thinking? what might he do next? he had failure overnight. might he go for a nuclear explosion, do another test to try to end this as a win for himself? kim jong un from his perspective sees that china