Sunday July 19, 2020
105 Days until the election on November 3rd
185 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
One friend texted me saying he noted a bit of optimism in one of my latest screeds.
Another sent me tweets about Federal agents snatching people off the streets in Portland.
All this in the background while I try to read Mary Trump’s book.
Some have said they read it at one sitting. That they couldn’t put it down.
I’m the opposite. I find it so familiar and so disturbing that I can only read a few pages at a time.
“How did we get here?” I keep asking. The parallels and warnings about Germany and the rise of Hitler are striking and very scary. It seems the clearing of Lafayette Square and the guarding of Federal buildings by unidentified men in some sort of police uniform was merely a dress rehearsal for what we are now experiencing in Portland.
What is happening in Portland seems reminiscent of what happened on the famed Ukrainian phone call between our president and theirs. Fueled by a wild conspiracy lie our president asked their president to hand over a non-existent server. This lie was started by Putin’s GRU. I wonder what Putin thought when he heard what Trump was asking for? Maybe, it was something along the lines of – “This guy is a bigger idiot than I thought. He doesn’t know he’s not supposed to believe that crap.”
The confluence of these sorts of random disturbing things is of great concern to me. As a friend of mine who owned a boat once told me – with a boat you can withstand one thing being wrong, even two; it’s the third one that gets you.
And that is why he reasoned you fix the first little thing as soon as possible, to prevent it from growing to two little things.
Of course, we are way passed the point of two little things. One of the things reported about Donald Trump is that he wears you down with the constant morass. Eventually, people have given up. The bankers in New York did, then internationally, that is until they got financing from the Russian mob/government, which bought Trump.
By my count we have 185 days to withstand this assault, and if we are lucky we will be done with him and his gang. I say lucky because there is speculation and talk that he will not go – willingly.
This narrative, of not going willingly, has manifest itself in two ways: one spoken and one only dimly imagined, but is now taking shape.
The first way is rigging the election to win. There are two possibilities here
This could happen by voter suppression and fraud with the help of the Republican Party and the Russians. In other words an attack on our election both from within and without.
Or by an executive and congressional coup d’etat. This would involve the president doing something to prevent the electoral college from meeting in December with enough votes to elect a President. This would throw the election into the House that would then elect a President by state vote. Each state gets one vote. There are 26 Republican states. He could win the election 26-24.
The second way that Trump could hold onto the office is by revolt. We are now seeing that he and his henchmen are not above using unmarked vehicles and unmarked policemen to steal people off the streets in Portland. Certainly, with everything we know about Trump, he will not stop unless forced to stop, be it via force, court decision, or public humiliation.
This snatching of people may be the start of either the revolt he is formulating or the coup d’etat mechanism. Whatever it is. It is not good.
It is not who we were; it is who we have become.
105 Days until the election on November 3rd
185 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
PS Meat and Potatoes
All I can say is that I am scared to death after the Portland invasion.
Where are our checks and balances? Why can’t Congress do something? Have we gone beyond being able to control this dismantling of our country?
Why is telling are people saying the government can’t control their bodies yet they yell when women want to control their own bodies?
Hypocrisy