Tuesday March 2, 2021
I’ve been watching the series “Mysteries of the Abandoned.” Each place they investigate started out with pictures and three different people describing the place and asking, “What is this place?”
I’ve gotten pretty good at the answer before being told: “State Penitentiary,” “Military Installation,” “Dictator’s Prison,” or “Nazi Concentration Camp.”
The last one I mentioned, “Nazi Concentration Camp,” brings back reminders of news films from the 20th century of these places and their horrors. I remember my history teacher saying he was riding on the subway in New York and saw a person reach for an overhead strap and their bare arm revealed a numbered tattoo. A reminder to him that their were survivors, who were just numbers the at the camp. The atrocities are so terrific that in Germany every student must visit one of these places before they graduate high school. They do not want people to dismiss or forget. Yet, evil persists.
The young woman who took the laptop from Nancy Pelosi’s office to sell to the Russians is a nazi. She is also a white supremacist. She pals around with a guy who was notably at the January 6th insurrection and was inciting the crowd with a bull horn. This fellow is an avowed white supremacist and puts out propaganda regularly about it. He held a conference at the same time as CPAC. It was for those who thought CPAC too tame. Stephen King, the guy kicked out of Congress (sorry, stripped of his committee assignments) for making white supremacist statements, spoke. But the keynote speaker was sitting Congressman, Paul Gosar. If you don’t remember him, he first came to most people’s attention when his own children and direct family members pleaded that you not vote for him. Since then he has popped up from time to time with some vile tweet or headline.
But you know what? The Republican Party is okay with Gosar. Just like they are okay with the insurrectionists: Jim Jordan, Jeff Hawley, and Ted Cruz. They are also okay with their members raping, fondling and sexually harassing. Women. Men. Boys. Girls. They’re cool with it.
Many are asking, “What do they stand for?” As far as I know they stand against: Progress, Democracy, Police, and doing anything that helps ordinary people. They are for tax cuts for the wealthy, lining their own pockets, letting companies get away with not implementing regulations and stripping those regulations away wherever possible. They also like to implement hateful racist policies, like separating kids from their parents and putting those kids in cages.
Hey guess what? The Trump administration had names and phone numbers of the parents of many of the kids that were separated. They didn’t give that information up.
That administration did not have any distribution plan for the vaccine, and they didn’t reveal that Trump got the vaccine before he left office. He also was much much sicker in October than they revealed, like almost went on a respirator sick.
Lying, deceit, do nothing are all trademarks of the last administration it is also a condition within the Republican party. The other thing they like to do is appropriate symbols and slogans when they are screwing you. Just like George Orwell pointed out decades ago about authoritarian regimes.
With Satan they got a man who made cheating a way of life. The Republicans had been doing that for years but with Satan they got a guy willing to do it out in the open with little veneer, and certainly no caring. Not for brown people, or Mexicans, or black people, or poor people, or frankly anyone. They thought they were exempt, but one by one some learned they were fodder for the steam roller. ( Talk about a mixed metaphor – OMG! )
Now Donnie is facing serious charges in two states on totally different kinds of things. One deals with fraud relating to his businesses, the other with his trying to throw an election. Just like the impeachment trials, the evidence is overwhelming. There really isn’t a question as to whether he did what is alleged. But we’ll play the game.
Meanwhile, the Republicans and their white supremacist sympathizers – the Nazies, will cry and pule. Will there be any talk of how to fix things? Naw. Come on. This is the party of criers and falsifiers.
The Republican Senators are reputed to not like the Covid Relief bill. Do they have any alternative? No. Except make the current bill smaller. Where exactly would they like to make it smaller? They don’t say.
Why not?
Because they got nothing.
Period. Full Stop.
Meanwhile, the country is getting vaccinated. Imagine, if Satan had won? We’d still be in a death grip, wringing our hands. Wishing and hoping. While he did nothing and his racist under lords did their own dirty work.
Some of it isn’t dirty, just slimy. Like Steve Mnuchin, who in the waning days of the administration jetted off to Saudi Arabia and a few other gulf states. Imagine, he has now announced he is doing investing with the sovereign wealth finds of those countries. Is that legal you ask? Of course, because Trump stripped away the prohibitions just before he left office.
One thing that came out last night in an interview with the head of the ACLU last night was his interest in holding people accountable. He pointed out that it didn’t happen under Obama and look what happened. Yes, he said, we need to hold them to account. If you were in the previous administration and you helped or implemented criminal actions you must be held to account. I like that.
PS Pictured for the first time – The Republican Platform and those on board with it.
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