Day 1413 – How Will It All End?

Tuesday December 1, 2020 (24 days til Christmas)

Election Day -28

51* Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

* An error of 2 days crept in and this date has been reset as of today.

Okay, how will it all end? You ask. Fortunately, I know.

Well, I know it will end one of two ways and I know that will only be the midpoint of a much longer chess game. We must therefore remain vigilant and engaged even after we think the game is done. 

First. Let’s look at the two endings. Either, Satan will be brought to trial or we will let him go. I favor the former and argue “No man is above the law.” Or “If you did the crime; you do the time.”

The other ending could be some whiny “We’ve never put a president in jail.” Or “It will tear the country apart” BS. To which I say, “There’s a first time for everything.” And , “Have you looked at the country recently? It’s already torn apart.”

It’s torn along, not idealogical lines, but along lines separating reality from fantasy. It’s torn along economic lines, and racial lines, along lines of people who want to fix it and people who don’t. It’s torn baby, and whether Satan goes to jail or not ain’t really going to make much difference.

Oh wait, you think they’ll be a big problem if he goes to jail? Yeah. Let me remind you that the people who back him are cowards, pussies, and spineless Republicans. Oh yeah, they like to walk around with their guns strapped to their chests, but where are they when the shooting starts? I’ll tell you where they aren’t. They aren’t where the bullets are flying. A few may become unhinged enough to do something, maybe. But won’t they be shot by “the good guys with a gun”? Maybe not. If there is cause to arrest someone, I say, arrest them. If there is evidence that they committed a crime and are found guilty, I say, they do the time. And, oh yeah, “Let the chips fall where they may.”

Will that happen? I think so. In the meantime I suggest that reposting pictures of Satan and his family in orange jump suits and what he’ll look like with his head shaved and gang tats on it is something worth reposting – over and over. I also wonder if we can get sound trucks to circle the White House playing, “He’s a loser, and he’s not what he appears to be…” (Yes, it’s the Beatles.) I also like the idea of showing a doctored video of him doing the perp walk with clanking of chains as a sound track.

I remember hearing that The Donald’s favorite story was the one about the snake that implored the man to pick him up. When the man picked him up the snake bit the man. As the man lay dying because it was a poisoness snake, the man asked the snake why he bit him. (Well, it’s what snakes do.) The snake responded, “You knew who I was and what I was before you picked me up.”

And isn’t that the story with Satan? I mean is anyone going to claim they didn’t know what this snake was before he got picked up? Just to make sure he told you by word and deed who and what he was. 

Let’s review:

Before he ran for office he had a reputation as a great business man. However, there were stories that he didn’t pay his bills, stiffed people, lied, and even called in to radio programs with a phony name. 

When he announced his candidacy he did so with racist and anti-immigrant statements.

He ran a campaign with white nationalist not so subtle messaging and with wacky conspiracy theory stuff mixed in.

When he became president he robbed from the poor, the governments – ours and others, refused to show his taxes, hid his grades, and ran the country into the ground. He attacked our allies, strengthen our enemies and adversaries and did nothing to stop a pandemic. A pandemic, let me remind everyone, that could have been avoided.

He also has multiple, many multiple, accusers of rape, and sexual assault. Those charges go along with his affairs, two of which he tried to cover up illegally by paying off the women with campaign funds.

He is a draft dodger and has called people that have served our country “suckers” and “losers.”

He has demonstrated a lack of curiosity and knowledge. He has also shown a willing ruthlessness to stay in power and if he can’t stay in power to wreck our institutions and our democracy as much as possible.

This was pretty much all known about him and it is playing out in the end game of his presidency. The wolves are circling; the rats are beginning to bail and yet he hangs on in a King Lear, or is it George III moment?

Now we are hearing that the bureaucrats are beginning to openly stand up to their political masters. A congressman has made the plea to those people to preserve the records. No doubt the ones they are being told to destroy.

Everything hangs on Georgia and its two Senatorial races. The Republicans have several problems. Stacy Abrams registered 850,000 voters who turned out and flipped Georgia in the presidential election and forced the senatorial runoffs when no candidate won 50% of the vote. Since that time it has been revealed that both of the current Senators have benefitted from insider information and used it to trade in stocks. 

Also, here’s where fantasy gets in the way of reality, the current president has railed against the election in Georgia saying the machines were crap and that votes were flipped. The Republican party has to convince voters to turn out and the party officials are being asked why, if their votes are being flipped? The fix is in right?

I say, “Yes, if you come and vote Republican your vote will be flipped and you will actually be voting for Barack Obama. Do you want to do that?”

Okay, moving on. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris continue to announce appointments. The communications team is all women and – get this – really super competent (amazing right? I know.) Reporters seem very excited that the White House briefings will again, actually give them facts.

The economic team announced is full of experienced people who know what they are doing. Paul Krugman knows them all and is friends with them. He says anyone of them could be the head. Wow.

Meanwhile, over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Scott Atlas has resigned. Not sure why, but the reaction in the real world is “Thank God. At least Satan won’t have that guy putting wacky unscientific bad public health ideas into his head.” Some think maybe Atlas resigned because the godfather of herd immunity in Sweden got fired just days before. There are charts floating around the internet showing Scandinavia pointing to the number of Covid cases and deaths in each of those countries. They have. Sweden with its herd immunity idea leading the pack – by a lot. I guess the Swedes got tired of it.

The president is taking all this very seriously by playing golf. Meanwhile his lawyers continue to file ridiculous lawsuits the gist of their argument seems to be “screw the election; appoint Trump electoral folks.” There is now speculation as to whether some of these lawyers will be disbarred.

One in particular who called for the killing of Cris Krebs, with drawing and quartering too, is being given the careful scrutiny by other lawyers. Apparently, such stuff may be criminal or at least enough to say such a person shock not be a member of the court.

In health care, remember when the White House took away the counting of Covid cases and hospitalization rates away from the CDC this summer? Hey, guess what? They screwed it up. Now no one really knows how bad it is, as far as the pandemic goes. Is that important? Apparently. If you are in charge of getting supplies to the places that need it, then it helps to know who needs it. Am I right? Hey, maybe not. It’s so bad right now, no matter where you ship stuff it’s bound to help.

Oh and the unemployment figures? Turns out it might be worse than reported because agencies in states are so overwhelmed they haven’t been able to keep up. So a bad thing is actually worse.

But there is hope. Some think McConnell may get off his ass and actually let a little money trickle through and thus down to folks desperate for food and soon shelter as the stay against evictions is running out. 

Remember the snake? Don’t count on McConnell to do anything. Except push unqualified judges through. With those judges in place the ruling elite can gum up the works for years – until they can get back in power.

Remember I said we must remain vigilant? Yeah. Well, that’s why. We are in the middle of a pandemic and economic crisis. It will pass and those who created both will want a shot at being in charge again and stealing more money from us (and oh yeah keeping us down, You know, by not giving a sh*t about us and letting us die, slip into poverty,…)  Don’t let it happen.

PS Biden has a popularity rating over 50%. Something Donnie has never achieved. Please show to your Trump supporting friends and ask them why they think that is. And try to act curious. (“It’s a conspiracy I tell you!”) Yeah, right.