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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
I was watching an interview last night with Liz Cheney. Her book comes out today. She is telling what happened in the Republican Party before during and after January 6th. She is concerned that Trump may get re-elected and that it would be the end of our republic.
It comes down to that famous quote by Maya Angelou, “When someone tells you who they are believe them.”
There a exceptions. George Santos. I mean, he’s a volleyball star on a college team to a school he never went to? Come on.
But Trump and the far right have told us in no uncertain terms what they plan to do if they take power. The amazing thing is how many are willing to go along with these ideas. I liken it to when did the indians who sided with Cortes realize that it might not have been their best decision?
In some of these very Republican states the only news they get … excuse me, the only information they get … is from right wing lie outlets like Fox, OAN, and NewsMax. That’s because they are the only game in town.
Ignore facts and the truth and keep spouting lies, eventually people will believe you. Once they do it’s hard for them to change course – in for a dime in for a dollar, etc.
So what’s going to happen? If Trump is found guilty will he still be the nominee of the party? Probably. Will he win? Unfortunately, our electoral system allows for a candidate with less votes than another person to become President. In the last eight or nine presidential elections the Republican nominee had fewer votes than the Democratic nominee in ever case save one.
Amazingly, Republican candidates for many offices push unfavorable ideas. They even know they are unfavorable. Therefore, they do whatever they can to game the system. Ohio is an example. The people overwhelmingly voted to enshrine abortion rights into their constitution, yet the Republican legislators are doing all kinds of things to try and stop it.
In Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum that sanctimonious …, has come out and said that democracy is a terrible way to govern. Why? I guess because he would not be able to get his nutty fake Christian education and abortion ideas past a majority of voters.
But Donnie T has told us what he intends to do if re-elected:
– marshal law from day one,
– use the military to arrest and round up citizens,
– put thousands, maybe millions, in detention camps,
– arrest and imprison his opponents,
– ignore the courts and the Constitution.
If you vote for Trump know what you are voting for.
As Liz Cheney has said – it is the end of our democracy, the end of our republic.
Maybe, we should go out and have Trump voters take a pledge.
“I want to end our democracy that’s why I am voting for Trump.”
Maybe a follow up should be the question, “You realize Donald Trump wants to suspend the Constitution, which means no more Second Amendment, which means he and the Republicans are coming for your guns?”
In other news, Ammon Bundy, the guy who did the big standoff in a National Park in 2018 claiming all kinds of terrible things the government did when in fact the government bailed out ailing farmers has lost a defamation suit to St. Luke’s Hospital in Idaho. WTF?
From what I have learned a buddy of Ammon’s named Rodriguez brought his daughter into St. Luke’s. The kid was near death from malnutrition. The doctors were able to get a feeding tube into the kid, who responded and started gaining weight. The hospital would not release the kid back to Rodriguez for obvious child abuse reasons. (Apparently, god fearing Christians are not allowed to starve their children to near death – who knew?) Rather than be appreciative of the hospital for saving the kid’s life, Bundy started spouting off and the hospital sued him for defamation. He owes a bunch of money. He didn’t pay. They took his house and got his websites taken down where he made his defamatory claims, now they are after him for more. He’s in hiding. Good.
For some reason, you can’t make inane accusatory comments and not be held to account.
I swear all the points above are the reason why I have Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome. It is unusual for someone my age but it all started with the election of Trump. I’ll just bet the Republicans have been putting this outrage into the works for the past 20+ years. Loading up school boards, appointing right wing judges in the lower courts and getting idiots like Santos, MTG, Mark Gaetz, and Ted Cruz and others elected. My other worry is what have the Democrats done to overcome this outrage. All I can see is them asking for more campaign funds. What has the press done? Nothing but fuel the flames for getting a traitor and insurrectionist elected by quoting polls. Polls we have no idea how accurate they are. Oh by the way my next CVS episode will be in 10 days.