THANK YOU, BANDY! We need your leadership and we need one another. We need to learn how to recognize, face up to, and respond to the social infection of a malevolently disordered mind...what you're calling Trump Contagion. We've seen what TFG is capable of and how his drive for triumphalist revenge is the core of his character. We need to consider our options now, while we still have some time to do so.
I don’t know, but, does it matter that in a leaked audio that a candidate for POTUS said this? Instead, the absolute obsession is chaos (perpetuated by Republicans- then the media runs with it) within the Democratic Party. “How did I do with the debate the other night? I kicked that old broken-down pile of crap,” he said in footage obtained by The Daily Beast then shared by Trump. Our media has morphed into The National Enquirer! Not all, of course. Trump is so so so dangerous and a tool now for Project 2025.
I’m extremely concerned about Biden’s recent catastrophic debate performance. Trump’s has been emboldened by Biden’s defeat and the SCOTUS’ granting of immunity (advance impunity) for presidential crimes. Essentially, Trump’s SCOTUS & his GOP, if elected, can seek to eliminate his pesky opposition, with impunity; if the disappearances, torture, mass slaughters and genocides are declared or considered “official acts.”
AOC, the NYC rep, is preparing articles of impeachment which ought to be signed supported by the vast majority of voters in the U.S.; the articles should state that ‘We the People’ declare the 6 Trump appointed judges illegitimate due to their failure to honor their oath of office. Therefore, we reserve the right not to honor/follow or obey the illegitimate decisions.
I suggest flooding the court with emails, letters and tel. calls; these should be dignified & concise; acts by individuals, organizations, businesses, elected officials, lawyers and law organizations.
SCOTUS derives legitimacy from ‘We the People’ (WTP) and as members of WTP we must declare the 6 majority members as insurrectionists and corrupt “former members” of the High Court.
We ought to follow only the decisions of the majority of the 3 minority members: Jackson, Kagan & Sotomayor.
Obviously, I’m not a lawyer and do not know what control SCOTUS has on individual attorneys acting as individuals, law firms & bar associations. Each should condemn the Robert’s Court for its unconstitutional usurpation of power.
Above all, we should no longer refer to the 6 as “justices.”
Lastly, we ought agree on a day. each week, when we mourn, water only fast, buy nothing, stay home, organize virtually; send letters, make phone calls especially to Judge ROBERT’S of the Robert’s Court with a copy to your Congress persons & VP/Acting President Kamala Harris.
I suggest Fridays, as the Day WTP Strike, in solidarity with Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for the Future. If we must go out, wear as much black as possible.
If you must go somewhere, walk or ride a bicycle; or better stil, stay home anyway. Those who work at a job; ride public transit; leave the car home, walk or ride a bicycle. Resist.
BTW. remember to ask Biden to resign allowing his VP to assume the presidency. Wish him full recovery and ask him to demand a cease fire and end to military aid to apartheid Israel before leaving office.
Dr Lee, i believe in taking holistic view of the situation rather than mechanistic/reductionist approach. Something you also talk about in your book on Violence. Your research input on MAGA phenomenon is deeply appreciated. But some of the things you propose are reductionist & mechanistic. You said that commander in chief, the President, Presidential candidates and SCOTUS justices etc should undergo a fitness test. As if the fitness test is the solution to today's crisis. From holistic point of view, i can see that entire system is broken at so many levels - The political & economic system, the choosing of politicians, the system of lifetime appointments of justices, the lack enforceable code of ethics etc. The system of how wealth is created and distributed in our society and how it highly concentrates in hand of very few plutocrats. The system of political finance where the plutocrats throw billions into campaigns of politicians thereby subverting the entire process. The system where big money buys politicians, courts and judges. The system where a common citizen has lost all intellect to measure their politician. An electoral system where candidates win votes based on sentiments and emotional appeal of electorate rather than actual substantive governance. These are just some of the features of this broken system.
How can you fix the system which has failed at so many levels just by a fitness test? Will the fitness evaluators fall from heaven to judge the candidates? No. They will be selected by same mechanism as we select/appoint other useless bureaucrats. Most likely plutocrats and special interest groups will also buy these fitness evaluators for $$$. Then these evaluators will be merely puppets. In fact i won't be surprised that APA itself will send evaluators to give rubber stamp of "fitness" to politicians and judges.
Today we talk about unfitness of President or unfitness of judge as if it's the source of problem. While our real problem is the unfitness of whole system. The failure of system and economic and political institutions that we built in last 100 years or so. The system itself is crumbling and the dangerous unfit political actors are the symptom of this crumbling system.
What to do about this? How do we rebuild the system to survive and give us stability in 21st century? That's the real question.
Thank you, Dr. Lee, for your kind invitation to your live Friday sessions. For various reasons I support the suggestion of you having your own YouTube channel. Although Friday 12:00 noon EST is better for bedtimein SAST than the previous meeting, for a number of months it will still clash with sunset and the opening of Sabbath program. This means that I will again have to content myself with viewing of the Zoom recording of the next several sessions. Although partaking in non-worship activities during Sabbath hours is frowned upon as a slippery slope, there is no restriction against viewing recordings after the event. Therefore, quickfire, topical recorded events are not premature, except if they miss the whole target audience completely. Likewise, lateness is contextual, except if, in a wholly unstudied manner, one misses the furthermost bedtime deadline, granting open gates to overdoing beyond computation and, in turn, rules oneself out of refreshment. Therefore, for all not able to tune in simultaneously on Fridays, a live and recorded YouTube facility will be handy. My contribution to the topic is that it further firms up a line of absolutely restricting participants to their lanes, come what may, as it is difficult for people to vote against their own legal cases, even when faced with standing ovations and corridors of applause. Some 4 months or so remaining is highly impactful in matters of wrong and right. I look forward to the conference in September (electronically), although I have a half-marathon, followed by a wedding ceremony, to attend to in that month, and many calendar events thereafter... G-d bless!
I love this...I'll go from Dr. Lee to Ruth Ben Ghiat at 1 pm. Perfect.
I know… Me too! I hope Bandy knows when Ruth is offering HER meetjng. It's gonna be some morning!
Go Bandy!!!
¡Hear, here! ✌️⚖️🤝🗽🤞
Looking forward to this. We need you now more than ever!
Thanks Bandy, I will see you on Zoom Friday at 11:00 CDT.
Well the Supreme Court ruling makes the idea of a mental health fitness test and possible intervention more urgent.
Yes, a mental health fitness exam for every member of the Court!
Focus: incarceration; properly tested; kept on monitored Probation. July 5 -LIVE - 9AM Pacific.
THANK YOU, BANDY! We need your leadership and we need one another. We need to learn how to recognize, face up to, and respond to the social infection of a malevolently disordered mind...what you're calling Trump Contagion. We've seen what TFG is capable of and how his drive for triumphalist revenge is the core of his character. We need to consider our options now, while we still have some time to do so.
Look forward to this. Wish you had your own YouTube channel.
Will replay be available later?
I don’t know, but, does it matter that in a leaked audio that a candidate for POTUS said this? Instead, the absolute obsession is chaos (perpetuated by Republicans- then the media runs with it) within the Democratic Party. “How did I do with the debate the other night? I kicked that old broken-down pile of crap,” he said in footage obtained by The Daily Beast then shared by Trump. Our media has morphed into The National Enquirer! Not all, of course. Trump is so so so dangerous and a tool now for Project 2025.
Thankyou for taking on this topic.
Dr Lee, I’m looking fwd to these upcoming mtgs.
I’m extremely concerned about Biden’s recent catastrophic debate performance. Trump’s has been emboldened by Biden’s defeat and the SCOTUS’ granting of immunity (advance impunity) for presidential crimes. Essentially, Trump’s SCOTUS & his GOP, if elected, can seek to eliminate his pesky opposition, with impunity; if the disappearances, torture, mass slaughters and genocides are declared or considered “official acts.”
AOC, the NYC rep, is preparing articles of impeachment which ought to be signed supported by the vast majority of voters in the U.S.; the articles should state that ‘We the People’ declare the 6 Trump appointed judges illegitimate due to their failure to honor their oath of office. Therefore, we reserve the right not to honor/follow or obey the illegitimate decisions.
I suggest flooding the court with emails, letters and tel. calls; these should be dignified & concise; acts by individuals, organizations, businesses, elected officials, lawyers and law organizations.
SCOTUS derives legitimacy from ‘We the People’ (WTP) and as members of WTP we must declare the 6 majority members as insurrectionists and corrupt “former members” of the High Court.
We ought to follow only the decisions of the majority of the 3 minority members: Jackson, Kagan & Sotomayor.
Obviously, I’m not a lawyer and do not know what control SCOTUS has on individual attorneys acting as individuals, law firms & bar associations. Each should condemn the Robert’s Court for its unconstitutional usurpation of power.
Above all, we should no longer refer to the 6 as “justices.”
Lastly, we ought agree on a day. each week, when we mourn, water only fast, buy nothing, stay home, organize virtually; send letters, make phone calls especially to Judge ROBERT’S of the Robert’s Court with a copy to your Congress persons & VP/Acting President Kamala Harris.
I suggest Fridays, as the Day WTP Strike, in solidarity with Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for the Future. If we must go out, wear as much black as possible.
If you must go somewhere, walk or ride a bicycle; or better stil, stay home anyway. Those who work at a job; ride public transit; leave the car home, walk or ride a bicycle. Resist.
BTW. remember to ask Biden to resign allowing his VP to assume the presidency. Wish him full recovery and ask him to demand a cease fire and end to military aid to apartheid Israel before leaving office.
Dr Lee, i believe in taking holistic view of the situation rather than mechanistic/reductionist approach. Something you also talk about in your book on Violence. Your research input on MAGA phenomenon is deeply appreciated. But some of the things you propose are reductionist & mechanistic. You said that commander in chief, the President, Presidential candidates and SCOTUS justices etc should undergo a fitness test. As if the fitness test is the solution to today's crisis. From holistic point of view, i can see that entire system is broken at so many levels - The political & economic system, the choosing of politicians, the system of lifetime appointments of justices, the lack enforceable code of ethics etc. The system of how wealth is created and distributed in our society and how it highly concentrates in hand of very few plutocrats. The system of political finance where the plutocrats throw billions into campaigns of politicians thereby subverting the entire process. The system where big money buys politicians, courts and judges. The system where a common citizen has lost all intellect to measure their politician. An electoral system where candidates win votes based on sentiments and emotional appeal of electorate rather than actual substantive governance. These are just some of the features of this broken system.
How can you fix the system which has failed at so many levels just by a fitness test? Will the fitness evaluators fall from heaven to judge the candidates? No. They will be selected by same mechanism as we select/appoint other useless bureaucrats. Most likely plutocrats and special interest groups will also buy these fitness evaluators for $$$. Then these evaluators will be merely puppets. In fact i won't be surprised that APA itself will send evaluators to give rubber stamp of "fitness" to politicians and judges.
Today we talk about unfitness of President or unfitness of judge as if it's the source of problem. While our real problem is the unfitness of whole system. The failure of system and economic and political institutions that we built in last 100 years or so. The system itself is crumbling and the dangerous unfit political actors are the symptom of this crumbling system.
What to do about this? How do we rebuild the system to survive and give us stability in 21st century? That's the real question.
Thank you, Dr. Lee, for your kind invitation to your live Friday sessions. For various reasons I support the suggestion of you having your own YouTube channel. Although Friday 12:00 noon EST is better for bedtimein SAST than the previous meeting, for a number of months it will still clash with sunset and the opening of Sabbath program. This means that I will again have to content myself with viewing of the Zoom recording of the next several sessions. Although partaking in non-worship activities during Sabbath hours is frowned upon as a slippery slope, there is no restriction against viewing recordings after the event. Therefore, quickfire, topical recorded events are not premature, except if they miss the whole target audience completely. Likewise, lateness is contextual, except if, in a wholly unstudied manner, one misses the furthermost bedtime deadline, granting open gates to overdoing beyond computation and, in turn, rules oneself out of refreshment. Therefore, for all not able to tune in simultaneously on Fridays, a live and recorded YouTube facility will be handy. My contribution to the topic is that it further firms up a line of absolutely restricting participants to their lanes, come what may, as it is difficult for people to vote against their own legal cases, even when faced with standing ovations and corridors of applause. Some 4 months or so remaining is highly impactful in matters of wrong and right. I look forward to the conference in September (electronically), although I have a half-marathon, followed by a wedding ceremony, to attend to in that month, and many calendar events thereafter... G-d bless!
Excellent news, thank you Dr. Lee!