Saturday January 23, 2021
I’ve always thought Kevin McCarthy to be smart, until he opens his mouth and then like the old Chinese proverb* he proves himself to be an idiot.
*”Even a fool is considered wise until he opens his mouth.”
Once again Kevin opened his mouth and proved how stupid he is. This time he said that if you listened to what Satan said on January 6th he doesn’t bear any responsibility for what happened. This contradicts what McCarthy said a few days before. Shocking, I know.
Then we have Mitch who wants Democrats to reach across the aisle, I guess so he can bite their hands off. He has already signalled that he has no intention of working with them or helping the American people. “The American people” was one of his favorite phrases when he was holding up Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination. While in the minority we can look forward to McCarthy and McConnell doing everything they can to sabotage any attempts to do anything. That’s what they did when they were in charge, don’t expect anything else from them now.
In a cynical way McConnell may go along with impeaching Satan and finding him guilty as that would eliminate him from ever holding office again.
The Republicans face several difficult problems. One, if not Satan whom do they have to run in 2024? If you go down the list of possible candidates there really isn’t anybody who is decent, not only as a candidate or as a person.
The other problem they have is that their are two distinct wings of the party and they need both to win. There are the average non-Trump Republicans and there are the racists, bigots, Nazis, and fascists that make up the Trump supporters.
They have managed to win by cheating. I keep wondering how long that can last. I’m always surprised. I keep hoping that the election cycle coming up will be the one of the big change. It hasn’t happened yet. Their ability to stoke fear and then do nothing once in office seems to be a winning formula.
In the old days, (read Nixon and Eisenhower) there was at least a tacit understanding that they had to do something to help people. Now, that is gone. They are hewing to a circle the wagons approach and trying to undermine our democracy by putting in as many mindless goons as they can wherever they can.
Now however the average Republican and the Trumpers are being faced with a stark choice. Stand with democracy or be against it. If you are yelling “Stop the Steal” or believe that the election was stolen despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary you have made your choice. If there are people like that in public office, or the military, or our police forces they must be rooted out and gotten rid of. If they wish to believe that nonsense that’s up to them, if they wish to act on it. They should lose community support, their jobs, and be criminally charged if appropriate.
There should be no clemency, no accepting of “Oh, I didn’t know,” none of that. They are backing an authoritarian my-way-or-the-highway government. Like the Communist party that was made illegal so should any efforts to promote a different way of governance that leaves no room for others.
Trump lost. He lost the election. He lost in court. He lost in public opinion. He lost. He has now advocated overthrowing our democracy and he told his troops to fight like hell. They did. They raised their flags over our Capital. They stormed it in an attempt to overthrow the Constitutional process that was taking place. They were looking for the Vice President to hang him. They were looking for the Speaker of the House to put a bullet in her head. (Their words, not mine.) They destroyed government property. One woman stole a laptop in an attempt to sell it to Russia. I don’t know how much clearer it needs to be but let’s not be fooled again. Let’s not believe that they want to work with us. If they want to come join us great. But let us not change our vision and our mission to save this country one bit to appease these traitors, dummies and charlatans.
Yup.