Day 1406 – Rage,

Tuesday November 24, 2020

    Election Day -21

56 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

We now come to the point in the story where “They live happily ever after” …

To which I say Bull. Ain’t gonna happen. What do we do? You ask. I’ll tell you. Hunt them down and eliminate them. 

Okay, got that out of my system. Where was I? Oh yes, where are we? What do we do? Well, let me say we aren’t there yet. We’ve got like 56 days to go, if my math is right and it probably isn’t, but close enough for now.

What we are learning is how fragile our system is, and how easily it can be, if not broken, at least messed up. One of the two historians they trot out – Meacham or the other guy – said that culture (or was it “a civilization”?) has two components: 1) shared values and 2) rational people. I am playing fast and loose with the terminology but the point is that ya gotta believe in the same stuff in some vague way and you have to be a rational sentient being. That is you have to have the capacity to think and to feel something with some degree of logic.

The problem that we face is that our nation has become divided into two worlds of information and thought. Rarely, do those worlds intersect. Two recent events have caused that to change: one is the election and the other is this corona virus.

George Orwell outlined in his book 1984 the efforts of fascists to influence you by telling you lies and trying to make you believe those lies. It’s called gaslighting.

Let’s not pull any punched here. Let’s call things as they are. Trump is a fascist and he is using the fascist playbook to spew lies to his followers, who are all too eager to believe them. Nothing is too ridiculous. Nothing too unbelievable.

When Lyndon Johnson was president and even before him, I guess it was when John McCormack was Speaker of the House and maybe going back to Truman there was a phrase that was oft quoted, “It takes a carpenter to build a barn but any jack-ass can kick it down.” We unfortunately have an administration full of not only jackasses but deluded gas-lighted followers. And cynical fascists and con-people. 

The problems are many. What will the new administration find when it takes over? In many cases a demoralized bureaucracy or no bureaucracy at all.

Should we say, “Oh well, let bygones be bygones.”? To which I say, “Hell no.”

These people should be hunted down, arrested, tried and if convicted thrown in the pokey – at a minimum. I mean “negligent homicide” or manslaughter at a minimum.

Besides calling for the withdrawal of troops to complete five days before he leaves office from our two theaters of hostile operations Satan has now pulled out of the treaty that allows us to fly over Russia and see what they are doing. He has ordered the two planes used for this destroyed and killed the funding for the new planes. 

I have to think that this was one item on Putin’s wish list and I wonder if Vlad has got anything else for the puppy in the White House to do before he leaves? 

I do wonder if Satan will leave the country and live out his life in Moscow. Maybe, pal around with Steven Segal? 

The man is a fascist and a traitor to our country and our nationally held beliefs. He is a danger still and will remain so. 

The best antidote is for us to get out and vote. Vote everyone of these malicious MFers out of office. Look into their crimes and bring charges. Put them in jail. We have paid the price for their greed, their incompetence, their callous indifference, and their outright sadism. Yes, make them pay. 

I see no way to “find common ground” or “to reach across the aisle.” 

Nancy Pelosi has learned that lesson and while the Republicans whine and moan that she should comprise or that Congress “should do something.” She has pointed out – repeatedly – that she and the House have done their job. They have passed legislation. It is sitting in the Senate, where Mitch McConnell won’t even consider it. As to compromise she asks, “On what?” On what should she compromise? There you get into the “half loaf” argument. She points out that the Republicans knowing that what they are saying they will accept is too low to do the job are saying she should accept anyway. Why? She asks. Haven’t we been down this road enough times? 

Remember Obama kept agreeing to compromise with the Republicans over the ACA. Then when it came time to vote none of them voted for it. Why compromise if they aren’t going to accept the compromise? Remember also that they then started to attack the legislation over the very things they insisted Obama put in.

No. Enough. Screw them. They have shown to be bad faith dealers. They can’t be trusted. We, the people, will have to go it alone. Oh yes, they will whine and cry and pule, but so what? They do nothing but complain, obfuscate and obstruct.

I gotta go,

Before I get pissed off.

 56 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

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