Day 50 – Stupid Smart and The End to Our Democracy

Wednesday March 10, 2021

Much of what I will tell you was gleaned from two cable shows last night: Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O’Donnell. The implications are mine.

It seems old Donald aka Satan, might be busy for the rest of his life either in court or in jail. If he goes to jail I certainly hope we impeach him, convict him, and strip him of his Secret Service privileges. 

Here’s the deal. In Georgia, where Satan may be looking at crimes of election fraud and RICO, the woman bringing the charges is experienced in RICO cases and has a three decade reputation of bringing such cases and getting convictions. She has assisting her the man who literally wrote the book on RICO. Also, she has the man who literally wrote the book on evidence in the courtroom in Georgia. She don’t play. You goin’ down. (I hope. I hope. I hope.)

In Washington DC Representative Eric Swallwell has brought a case against four people in connection with the January 6^th Insurrection: Donal Trump, Donald Trumo Jr., Representative Mo Brooks, and Rudy Giuliani. The case has nine counts: 2 Federal, 7 DC law. They center around violation of the Constitution and negligence. This is the second such case to be brought agains Trump et al and there is no reason to believe that there won’t be more, many more, like from every member of Congress and every rioter who says they were doing it because the president told them to do so.

According to Lawrence Tribe, Constitutional scholar, and professor to many in the Congress, the case is “tight” and won’t be thrown out on legal ground technicalities. Every charge can be easy substantiated, and if this is to be believed (and if I understood what was being said last night) this one case could bankrupt The Donald. 

Aw. Too bad.

In New York, more properties owned by Satan are being looked at by the authorities for fraud. 

So let’s add it all up: RICO carries typically 20 years, that would put DJT at 94 if he started serving today. The one DC case could bankrupt him, and then there the fraud cases in NY. I’m figuring he’s a flight risk. But if he doesn’t flee he’ll be broke and in jail. Hopefully, by the 2024 Presidential election.

Moving on to the threat to our democracy. Iowa has just passed a law making it a felony for the Secretary of State in Iowa to do what was done in the last election. That is have people vote the way they did in the last election. Why? Because it was so successful. Yes, that’s correct. Because it was so successful. The law cuts back on early voting, voting in person, and absentee voting. All very successful. 

This is one law of over 200 that Republican state legislatures are trying to rein in voting, because they realize that if we have free and fair elections they will lose.

Simple.

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln?

Oh, well, hum. Today should see the largest financial package since FDR get passed. It will pull half the kids in this country out of poverty, improve health care for the really poor, get money to schools to reopen, and get funds to local governments to help with the vaccine rollout. This will probably pass the House with little or no support from Republicans. See, the Republicans have a plan, another plan, a really good plan, no has seen it yet. In fact, it’s not written down. Yeah, writing isn’t a Republican thing. Except when it comes to laws to stop voting and or give money to their rich donors.

Saw something the other day that said if you saved $10,000 a day every day since the time of Christ (or was it the Old Kingdom in Egypt?) you still would be way short of the amount of money that Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man has. 

PS Hopefully, this will not need an update.