Friday March 19, 2021
Several government reports have now been made public. These were created during the Trump administration. We are just getting to see them. One by the intelligence community that says that China did not interfere in the 2020 election, but Russia did meddle. Another report by Homeland security which said the effect of Russia’s meddling was negligible.
So we have Bill Barr on video saying China meddled and not Russia. He went on to say he knew this because he had looked at the intelligence. Presumably that means these reports. At a minimum Billy isn’t telling the truth. He is either lying about reading the reports or he is lying about what they said. Either way he is lying.
So did the Attorney General at the time and the head of intelligence. They all said China interfered when the reports they had said clearly they didn’t and Russia did.
I don’t know if it’s a crime for a public official to lie to the public or not, but these people should never hold an office of public trust again.
Then we get to the giant election fraud stuff. Yeah. Turns out the guy in the post office who swore he heard his boss and his boss’ boss talking about back dating election ballots didn’t hear them talking about that at all. He saw them having a conversation. He didn’t hear what they were saying. He signed his name to an affidavit that was written up by a right wing group who in turn trotted it to Fox News, Lindsey Graham, and it got to Donald’s hands etc. Etc. Etc. This guy recanted his testimony the next day. Never the less the FBI investigated the post office where these ballots were and found nothing amiss. However, this is the basis for much of the Republican justification for getting rid of mail in balloting.
The shooter in Atlanta? The one whom the police guy said wasn’t racial motivated but the guy was just having a bad day? Yeah. Turns out that police guy was selling t-shirts with the words China Flu on them. Hate crimes against Asian Americans is way up. Ya think it might be related to all that racist stuff about Covid?
If Trump had kept in place the team that was in China and had acted quickly to help the Chinese contain the virus over there and had built up PPE here and put a nation wide mask mandate in place a year ago do you think maybe we wouldn’t be the world leader in death and infection from this thing?
What is it with these tough guys that they can’t face reality? For all Brazil’s Bolsonaro’s tough talk thousands of people are dying there for the same reasons they died here. Inaction. Ignoring the truth. Stupidity.
Not only are the Republicans in Congress dead set against helping, they are actively siding with the Russians and the virus. I mean I guess it’s better to do that than it is to vote with the Democrats who have actually done something to help people in this country as opposed to what we had before, which was lying, incompetence, and stupidity.
Joe Manchin the Democratic Senator from West Virginia says he’s not sure he wants to get rid of the filibuster. Okay, then you want to sit on your thumbs for the next two years? Maybe longer.
Voting rights – The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. The justification was it wasn’t needed. Immediately Texas started passing voter suppression laws. Now we have draconian laws in the hopper in 43 states with over 250 bills. All aimed at restricting voting. Why? Because Republicans realize that if people vote they lose.
Maybe the Republican senators will vote for the Voting Rights bill? Well, none of their colleagues in the House did. So I wouldn’t put any faith that any of them will do the right thing.
PS A temple in Orchha, India.
Seems to me Republicans are living in an alternate reality. What bothers me the most is that they feel so confident that people will buy their lies, they do it right in front of everyone. And, their constituents believe them. The guy that killed 8 people was treated with kid gloves and a bullet proof vest. Where were their consciences when Brianna Taylor was murdered in her home? Why is it that the police aim to kill black folks but handle whites with kid gloves? Why is it that the Republicans blame others for that which they are guilty of themselves? There must be a term for that.