Bits & Pieces #166

SCOTUS was at its backstabbing best this week screwing all the women who needed an abortion and those naive people who didn’t want to get shot when minding their own business. So, when those assaults on the United States were complete, our political criminals with the lifetime license to destroy the nation went after the rest of the world, stopping the administration from limiting the dissemination of greenhouse gasses and other pollutants into the atmosphere. It appears that not satisfied with destroying our nation they are now going after the entire planet.

But SCOTUS managed to do one thing right when it gave Biden the power to end Trump’s border policy of keeping people in Mexico until they have their day in our immigration courts. Of course, that’s not the end of the problem.

Immigration has risen to formerly unimaginable heights, not just here but all over Central and South America. The combination of economic failure, climate disasters and criminal activity all through Central and South America has exploded to an extent that people are fleeing their homes even in nations that once seemed settled and secure.

The solutions are no longer about borders. They’re about solving economic and security problems for an entire continent. So, that’s where we will have to go to solve our immigration problems. Sure, we need immigrants but practically speaking only certain ones, those with specific backgrounds.

That means slowing the tidal wave of people heading north. To do that, we have to help solve the problems in the nations from which they come. It’s a monumental job but if we can make a serious dent in it, it will go a long way too solving the problems at our borders.

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Clarence Thomas hints that other policies like gay marriage and contraception are on the GOP hit list for the next round of SCOTUS deliberations, but there’s one little item from the White Right’s notebook he fails to mention, interracial marriage. I wonder why that is? Do you think he just forgot? Do you think it’s because he’s married to the white woman who is probably the source of the leak of Alito’s paperwork on what was going to happen with Roe v Wade. Now what would make one think such a thing? Maybe it’s because, since the death of Antonin Scalia, Thomas has switched from being Scalia’s lap dog too Alito’s fetcher. Anyone who doesn’t think those notes didn’t go from Alito to Thomas to his wife just ain’t paying attention.

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As the 1/6 committee continues,

the big question is not whether the committee has unearthed enough evidence to indict Donald Trump, it’s will the DOJ actually pull the chain. It seems that no one wants to face the problem of indicting a former president, even a lowlife criminal degenerate like Trump. Indicting a former president, even a sociopath, has always been anathema because it strikes one as a move usually made by a Third World dictatorship and it didn’t get that way without a lot of evidence to back that theory up.  The problem that is forcing its way up against that image is we have a former president who has bent, broken and stomped on enough statutes to fill his own law book.

In order to exist in a law-abiding society we must punish those who break the law and we’re supposed to do it on an impartial basis.

So Trump and his cronies must be indicted for the way they have treated the laws of the country. And that’s not even considering how they have abused the traditions of the country because that’s important too. We live and have lived a certain way in this country. We’re proud of it even if it doesn’t really exist, even if it exists only in our minds. As long as we can make believe that we are good people and that our leadership cares for us, some of us can stay happy and lead fulfilled lives.  Of course all of us don’t fit that category and never will.

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Sweden’s and Finland’s applications to join NATO were welcomed this weekend causing Russia to blow it’s top, threatening exactly the kind of retaliation that drove those two, formerly neutral countries to seek the protection of NATO in the first place. Is it possible that Putin and his advisors are so lacking in understanding of the situation that they don’t get why Sweden and Finland have moved for the protection of NATO?

Russia has spent a good piece of the last decade invading smaller countries that can’t protect themselves.  Is there any reason why any country bordering Russia or even close to it wouldn’t be looking to protect itself from the ravishing bear?

Is Putin really this dumb or has he caught whatever it was that Trump has been suffering from?

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Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony in this week’s 1/6 hearings paints a picture of a furious, completely out of control Donald Trump, raging across DC, determined to lead followers in an attack on the capital and finishing with an old-fashioned lynching of Mike Pence.

The Trump caravan is trying desperately to promote the concept that Hutchinson lied. Well, if anyone knows anything about lying it’s the Trump administration. It’s Trump not Hutchinson that created the great untruth about the elections being rigged.

The occurrence that has the whole GOP aflutter is by her own admission, not something Hutchinson witnessed but something that was told to her.  It was Trump’s frantic attempt to force Secret Service agents to take him to the capital and his subsequent actions when they refused. Does anyone who has watched this sociopath act out his brazen desires over the last five years doubt that he is totally capable of the behavior described?

This is a spoiled, nasty child who reacts badly anytime anything stops him from his normally irrational desires.

This is the punk that we allowed to become our president through the mistaken interaction of the Electoral College. This is the sociopath we watched as he attempted to end democracy in this country and who has now released his degenerate minions to attack a brave young woman who has taken her life in her hands to defend the principals of democracy and protect the Constitution.

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HHS leader Xavier Becerra was on Meet the Pressthis week and Chuck Todd accused him of not going far enough to help women that need to get abortions. Becerra suggested, maybe we should be trying to just push forward programs that helped provide abortions and wait for the courts to try to stop them. This would provide plans that could, at least for the time it took the courts to deliberate, provide temporary abortion help. This strategy was often successful during the Trump administration. Maybe the Democrats need the balls to just throw it against the wall and see if it sticks.  The more timid Dems tell us that this approach would make them like Trump, but maybe in order to offset Trump and his degenerate Court we need to borrow from him. This is not suggesting that any American agency deliberately break the law, but in instances where there is no settled law, they should simply act for the benefit of pregnant women who need abortions, and then sit back and wait.