20th, 1973, when the attorney general and the Deputy Attorney general of the United States under Richard Nixon resigned in protest rather than comply with nixons order to fire the special prosecutor looking into the watergate breakin. Those resignations in protest and nixon abolishing the special Prosecutors Office afterward were ducked the saturday night massacre. Well, on saturday, the Trump Administration orchestrated its second purge of federal Civil Servants having previously dismissed more than two dozen career and mitt calpolitical appointe appointees. The dismissals came after two days of trump loyalists going on cable tv calling for a purge of anyone in government who isnt absolutely, unquestionably loyal to donald trump. For weeks weve been warning you about the deep state obama holdover government bureaucrats who are hellbent on destroying this president , President Trump. Tonight its time for the Trump Administration to begin to purge these saboteurs before its too late. An
one of the things that we here at a.m. joy get asked about more than anything else by our faithful viewers is what can we do? well, my answer to that is usually the same. vote! especially in local and state elections. case in point. dateline st. louis, missouri. about ten miles from ferguson where michael brown was shot and killed by a then police officer in 2014. st. louis recently held a democratic primary to elect a new mayor. since st. louis is an overwhelmingly democratic city, the democratic primary is functionally the general election. the winner will almost certainly go on to be the mayor. the winner of this year was 64-year-old linda krewson. she won by a mere 888 votes, 32% to 30.4% over second place finisher tashara jones, a
44-year-old city treasurer who became a fixture of the black lives matter movement and was the favorite among the city s black majority. why did jones lose? because she split the black vote with four other african-american candidates, all men. while krewson who was endorsed by the police union didn t split her votes at all, dominating in majority white parts of the city. 888 votes. as jason johnson over at the root pointed out, st. louis, despite being a majority black city, has remained primarily in the hands of the white minority because whites have crossed party lines to coalesce to whatever white person is running for mayor. opportunitfo blac political advancement are few and far bween and this year s mayoral race was one of those chances. and it was missed, because of a lesson that today we ll call cut deals. progressive democrats and members of racial minorities are always better off cutting deals to consolidate power and win than everyone trying to advance