Day 1194 – We Are So Screwed

Saturday, April 27, 2024

After reading another commentary on the Supreme Court listening to oral arguments about the Trump immunity claim I am more concerned than I ever have been. Here were five justices seeming to entertain the notion that a President could arder an assassination of one of his political rivals and this could be called an official duty and hence immune from prosecution. 

If this is what they rule then they better hope President Biden doesn’t order Seal Team Six to take up positions outside their homes.

The amount of stupidity we have had to put up with from all three branches of our government is more than alarming. It could herald the end of our democracy. There are two examples from history: Germany in the 1930s and life under the Roman Republic before it became an empire ruled by one man. Both have one thing in common – nobody thought it would happen. By nobody I mean the average person. No one in the Roman Republic thought it would ever change because it had always been that way during their lifetime. In Germany what happened can best be summed up by a friend of mine whose grandparents lived in Germany during that time, “We all knew Hitler was crazy, but by the time we were ready to do something it was too late.”

In 2016, Hillary was way ahead until the very last days of the election. James Comey’s press conference killed her ratings and she couldnt’ recover. Even though she won the popular vote before me than three million, it wasn’t enough.

This election we have Kennedy running and he is garnering enough numbers to be a huge spoiler and give Trump the win. (I also am very upset that his initials and moniker are the same as mine: “RFK” and “RFK Jr.” he disgraces my wonderful initals.) And what has he done in his life? Recovered from a heroin addiction. That’s it. 

These are dark times, and they bode to get darker, much darker.