Monday January 11, 2021 ( Electoral College Certification Day -5,
Insurrection Day -5,
Georgia Senate Election -6 )
Election Day -69
9 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
People talk about Ted Cruz being smart. That Josh Hawley is smart. I remember people said that of Grover Norquist too. Maybe, they are smart, but they are idiots.
In the case of Cruz he seems to be all show and no nuthin’ beyond that. He is slimy. He pontificates and acts holier than thou, but that’s the end of it. I’ve never seen him laugh or seem human. Josh Hawley? Please. Fresh faced, sincere acting while staying stupid stuff.
One thing I liked about Rick Perry, (remember him? Smart glasses and all?) When he was running for president he said, “stand up for what you believe in.” He seemed to believe in something. I mean it might have seemed cockamamy to me, but at least the guy seemed to have a little bit of a moral compass. These others, have none, and having none I have no idea when they will latch onto the next thing.
There’s something about Trump that dirties up whomever he comes close to, like Pig Pen, but for morality and decency. Mary Trump put it best “cheating as a way of life.” Satan sees nothing wrong with demanding that others cheat for him. If they are unwilling he has no use for them, until he needs them again. A reporter said how he was castigated and demeaned by Trump in the most vile ways. Then Donald went out of the meeting to do something else, came back and asked the reporter, “Hey you want a picture?” (ie “with me?”) The reporter was so flabbergasted I think he stood there while Trump beamed and the reporter looked stunned. All in a day’s work for Donald.
I am also struck by how quickly all the people mentioned will throw others under the bus. They don’t seem to have any compunction or thought to do otherwise. It’s a one up, one down, zero-sum game. There are only winners and losers. There never seems to be time to really do or fix anything, just move on to the next press conference or PR stunt.
People talk about the echo chamber, which seems to be a circular ever escalating game of telephone. With each retelling the facts slip away and the assertions get bigger and bolder. When it comes back around you might have a hard time recognizing it.
The attacks on Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton when she was running are terrible, mean spirited and untrue. The fact that various media outlets are allowed to get away with such vile reprehensible lies is a key ingredient to undermining our way of life, our democracy.
We talk about holding people to account for the attack on the Capital. I think we need to find some mechanism to hold media to account for promoting outright lies. Donald Trump uses the lines: “I don’t know. That’s what people are saying.”, “A lot of people are saying…”, “That’s what I heard…” All the time. It’s standard fare for him. Somehow, people who use those phrases would be held to account. “Sorry, what people are saying that?” “No, I’m sorry, ‘I don’t know’ doesn’t cut it. You said these things. They are unsubstantiated. They are untrue. “ I don’t know how else to combat it.
I remember William Proxmire had “The Golden Fleece Award.” He would single out people whom he thought were taking advantage of government spending. He stopped after he denoted one scientist who was doing research and sued Proxmire for a million bucks. Maybe, we need a law that says you gotta back up your statement if challenged, if not you could be liable.
I know this is shaky ground. But there are concerted efforts to paint opponents in disparaging lights, to tell outright lies, all of which the person doing it knows it to be untrue. There should be a penalty for that.
Cruz by the way has issued various releases which make it sound like if you send him money he’s going to help out this cause or that, but the reality is it goes to his campaign or into his own pocket, just like Satan.
Talk about slimy.
But then that’s what Steve Bannon got arrested for wasn’t it?
When I was in the corporate world we had a rating system. You were rated A, B, or C. There was a pot of money and an A got the most, a C the least. For every A there had to be a C. This was all figured out in what were called “Melding Sessions.” I remember asking when I first arrived what a melding session was. One of the older supervisors got into a Sumo squat while grabbing his scrotum with one hand and had his other hand out in a grabbing gesture. “It’s where you try to protect your nuts while grabbing for the other guy’s,” he said.
Got it?
Is there a better way?
PS The Grandpa face
The current hypocrisy of these soulless asshats, who insist that antifa is to blame for everything when they don’t even know, antifa means we are anti fascist, is really, really wearing thin.
My entire life, these would’nt stop for Jesus if he was hitchhiking outside their megachurch fuckwits, have been proclaiming morality to me, while hitting their kids, beating their wives, and i didn’t buy it as a kid, and i don’t buy it now.
They are the worst of high school.