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jasonderoga86Kamala Harris just keeps rackin' em UP! Apparently another ally has joined the surrogates, and it's a real SHOCKER -- Caroline Rose Giuliani, daughter of disgraced former "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani, has joined the coalition. But it's Caroline's reasoning behind her decision to endorse that hits so hard.
I've read a lot of stories about families -- closely bonded families AND friendships -- that all went to Hell after Donald Trump happened. And these stories were terrifying; I can't fathom how someone as insignificant and worthless as Trump could wreak such damage across the most sacred of interpersonal relationships. So a recent article on Vanity Fair, written by Caroline herself, spoke to me quite viscerally.
Here are some of the most striking quotes I found in Caroline's Vanity Fair article:
"If the president isn’t going to be subject to the law like every other citizen, which remains incomprehensible to me, then our president had better have a moral compass. A 34-time convicted felon who’s been found liable for sexual abuse, tries to steal elections, and demeans people based on their race, sexuality, disability status, and gender falls remarkably short of the bar we must set for ourselves as a country.
"A democracy by definition cannot be fixed or calcified. It must have the flexibility to change according to the wishes of its people, not the despotic dreams of one.
"I am also voting for Harris because she is the only candidate who cares about my rights as a woman. The reversal of Roe v Wade was a shocking and horrifying “accomplishment” of Trump’s that has already resulted in the unforgivable and unnecessary deaths of innocent women like Amber Nicole Thurman. Seeing Republican state officials enact draconian abortion bans and threaten fertility care is incredibly personal for me.
"We live at a crossroads in history, where the future of not only our democracy but our planet is at stake. Trump’s first-term position on the Climate Crisis was to call it a hoax while stripping away climate regulations and giving the fossil fuel industry everything they wanted and more.
"Take it from me, Trump destroys everything he touches. I saw it happen to my family. Don’t let it happen to yours, or to our country."
Caroline also goes into painful, heartbreaking detail about her relationship to her dad, Rudy -- though the rest of us know all about his fall from grace, Caroline obviously felt the pain on a much deeper level. At one point in the article, Caroline describes her final, most heartbreaking plea to her dad to reject the opportunity to be Trump's attorney... only for Rudy to take up the job anyway the following day. As the quote above implies, Caroline, in a way, has directly and contemptuously charged Trump with the "death" of Rudy Giuliani; she loves her dad dearly... but her dad isn't her dad anymore.
This is frightening, the account of the daughter of the most disgraced mayor in American history -- which is compounded by the recently unsealed report from Judge Chutkan detailing in STARK DETAIL damning evidence of Trump's actions to deny the results of the 2020 election, leading to the assault on democracy on January 6th, 2021 which led to nine people dying and more than a thousand Capital police officers being brutalized and forever changed.
Yup, and the Harris-Walz campaign also launched a new ad, taking full advantage of yesterday's vice presidential debate where JD Vance went and full up pretended that Jan. 6 didn't even happen and chose to attack Harris on the grounds of some kind of "censorship"...
We're Not Going Back. Harris-Walz for 2024.
Caroline Giuliani's call to preserve America's democracy on Vanity Fair.
I've read a lot of stories about families -- closely bonded families AND friendships -- that all went to Hell after Donald Trump happened. And these stories were terrifying; I can't fathom how someone as insignificant and worthless as Trump could wreak such damage across the most sacred of interpersonal relationships. So a recent article on Vanity Fair, written by Caroline herself, spoke to me quite viscerally.
Here are some of the most striking quotes I found in Caroline's Vanity Fair article:
"If the president isn’t going to be subject to the law like every other citizen, which remains incomprehensible to me, then our president had better have a moral compass. A 34-time convicted felon who’s been found liable for sexual abuse, tries to steal elections, and demeans people based on their race, sexuality, disability status, and gender falls remarkably short of the bar we must set for ourselves as a country.
"A democracy by definition cannot be fixed or calcified. It must have the flexibility to change according to the wishes of its people, not the despotic dreams of one.
"I am also voting for Harris because she is the only candidate who cares about my rights as a woman. The reversal of Roe v Wade was a shocking and horrifying “accomplishment” of Trump’s that has already resulted in the unforgivable and unnecessary deaths of innocent women like Amber Nicole Thurman. Seeing Republican state officials enact draconian abortion bans and threaten fertility care is incredibly personal for me.
"We live at a crossroads in history, where the future of not only our democracy but our planet is at stake. Trump’s first-term position on the Climate Crisis was to call it a hoax while stripping away climate regulations and giving the fossil fuel industry everything they wanted and more.
"Take it from me, Trump destroys everything he touches. I saw it happen to my family. Don’t let it happen to yours, or to our country."
Caroline also goes into painful, heartbreaking detail about her relationship to her dad, Rudy -- though the rest of us know all about his fall from grace, Caroline obviously felt the pain on a much deeper level. At one point in the article, Caroline describes her final, most heartbreaking plea to her dad to reject the opportunity to be Trump's attorney... only for Rudy to take up the job anyway the following day. As the quote above implies, Caroline, in a way, has directly and contemptuously charged Trump with the "death" of Rudy Giuliani; she loves her dad dearly... but her dad isn't her dad anymore.
This is frightening, the account of the daughter of the most disgraced mayor in American history -- which is compounded by the recently unsealed report from Judge Chutkan detailing in STARK DETAIL damning evidence of Trump's actions to deny the results of the 2020 election, leading to the assault on democracy on January 6th, 2021 which led to nine people dying and more than a thousand Capital police officers being brutalized and forever changed.
Yup, and the Harris-Walz campaign also launched a new ad, taking full advantage of yesterday's vice presidential debate where JD Vance went and full up pretended that Jan. 6 didn't even happen and chose to attack Harris on the grounds of some kind of "censorship"...
We're Not Going Back. Harris-Walz for 2024.
Caroline Giuliani's call to preserve America's democracy on Vanity Fair.
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Date: 2024-10-02 11:57 pm (UTC)Rudy got a LOT of unearned accolades after 9/11 for the sole reason that Americans were traumatized. He could have rode off into the sunset on that goodwill, especially because he was a shitty politician. But everything Trump touches dies.
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Date: 2024-10-03 04:15 pm (UTC)More than two decades of being treated like the bottom rung of the ladder only to find themselves feeling targeted and betrayed by both political parties after a horrible tragedy last year... I don't fault Dems for the current state of things, as their hearts are in the right place, but there's no denying the the Palestinian-American community in America is collectively pained and deeply aggrieved; I have a few Palestinian-American friends from high school who'd been temporarily restricted on Facebook months ago, and judging by their profile icons bearing the black fist and the words "Free Palestine", I'm betting some accusations of malintent towards other "vulnerable communities" by the Facebook admins was involved.
It's like they don't even have a voice anymore, any say in the state of things right now. It really sucks that this is life for them right now...