So the Supreme Court, one third of which was appointed by Trump, shot down his latest phony attempt to mess up a perfectly good election and instead of paying attention to what sane people have to say, the sociopathic liar went on a rant against the people he had appointed. He also attacked Bill Barr because Barr wasn’t ready to fully engage in felonies he had already flirted with to protect a President who may be certifiably insane and definitely is doing nothing to advance the goals of the nation.
As many of us hoped he would, Trump lost the election and now instead of retiring gracefully like a rational human being he lashes out at any and all who are not willing to sully their own reputations just to support his insane fantasies of dictatorship.
If you are a Republican and you can’t say “Hiel Trump” with a straight face you are in deep shit with the White House. But in attempting to maintain their solid wall of lies and deceit the Senate and Congress members who voted to back Trump’s latest masturbatory fantasy have put themselves in a very untenable position. The fact that they backed him in this idiocy is unimportant. Trump expects that to continue ad nauseam. But there is no benefit to them from this ludicrous course because Trump has nothing to give, even if he wanted to. Trump only takes, and these fools must now follow him wherever his addled psyche takes him. Despite all they have done to date, if they ever dare sway from their mindless obeisance to him Trump will attack them like a mad dog, because in Trump’s sick mind only complete loyalty, regardless of the circumstances, is in any way acceptable. Jeff Sessions found that out, Michael Cohen found that out and now Barr has found that out. I could make a list as long as this page of others who chose Trump and then found out that the price of favor was too high to live with; all of them have suffered from not blindly following the dictator in waiting.
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The biggest problem with Trump’s “rigged election” fantasy is it has infected a significant segment of those who should have known better and yet continue to reject the idea that their hero is a sick liar. If accepted, that concept should have shaken their belief in Trump’s ridiculous election fantasies. Now, all they’re left with are a series pathetic rallies in support of this idiotic notion.
The fact is, for a normal, basically intelligent voter, the combination of Trump’s difficulties with the truth and the fact that numerous GOP officials in many states have certified the election results in the face of Trump’s insane wrath, should be enough to shake their faith in the sociopathic liar. Add to that, the recounts that have gone on in all the states in question, all of which enforced and indeed even added to Biden’s lead and one finds oneself hard put to take those voters seriously. The inclination is to say, these guys are just malcontents looking for a fight, who are willing to attack our hard earned democracy just to get their way.
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Martha Radatz interviewed FDA Commissioner Stephan Hahn on Sunday. She pushed really hard about the reported conversation between Hahn and Mark Meadows aimed at pushing the release of the vaccine and whether or not Meadows threatened to fire Hahn.
The reality is, Meadows is irrelevant. He has maybe a little over a month left in office unless he manages to upset the sociopath in the White House, in which case he could be gone in seconds.
That situation, that vulnerability, among other things, is exactly what has made this administration a failure. The fact that the function of the administration is reliant on the whims of a spoiled four year old, a nasty baby that thinks only of what he wants at any particular moment and never considers the results of his actions in any but selfish ways, is the major reason why Trump has been such a monumental failure.
The only reason Trump had Meadow push Hahn is because he wanted credit for having a vaccine developed while he is in office. The fact that he ignored the virus, lied about it and actually got in the way of its treatment, actually causing thousands to die, has had almost no effect on this madman. He sees it only as a possible credit on a spreadsheet of failure. He has no understanding of the fact that his actions to push the approval of the vaccine, possibly before it was ready, have affected the belief in its safety. Fully 35% of possible users have serious doubts about the vaccine’s safety. Why wouldn’t they when they hear the President talking about how he forced the drug companies and the FDA to approve ahead of safety schedules just so he can look like a hero? Even more people will die because of his stupid self-serving indiscretions.
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One of the few things that Donald Trump managed as President was turning the health crisis into a political circus. Mask wearing, which should never have been a source of any kind of contention has become a cause celeb of national freedom as seen from the right. This is ridiculous. Wear a mask and keep safe! What the hell is political about that? Yet Trump, in his attempt to look like a hero while acting like an assassin has made it so. The Christmas season will be the source of many parties, at least twenty at the White House, which will become super spreader events and therefore many more will die that didn’t have to. The bizarre outbreak of quasi-religious events that seek to ignore distancing and mask wearing is particularly dangerous and upsetting. Catholic churches that are rarely filled anyway are making noises about restrictions on attendance and in particularly egregious gatherings, members of the Hassidic Satmar sect have recently celebrated a wedding at which 7,000 attended and a funeral at which 5,000 exposed each other. Pictures revealed that few, if any, were masked and all were jammed against each other. One infected person at either event could have caused hundreds of new cases.
Religious leaders who allow or support this kind of gathering prove their lack of responsibility to lead their congregations and scream to be removed.
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The latest foul breeze from the Right has Allen West and Rush Limbaugh making lists of states that should secede from the Union and make up their own country. Of course none of the Right Wing rags that covered this story mentioned that it’s a federal crime to even suggest such a thing. They also didn’t mention that if these assholes ever pulled off this notion they would be creating instant slums that would be poorer than the lowest banana republic ever imagined. Almost all the states mentioned by West and Limbaugh take more from the Federal Government than they give back in taxes. Who the hell is going to make up the shortfall? They would also be nightmare criminal wastelands where everyone could carry anything that fired bullets without regard to any kind of law and order. They would have almost no ability to keep anyone gainfully employed as they would have almost no manufacturing, little trade, less natural resources and no banking.
The fact is, most of the residents of the rest of the country would love to see these dimwitted wretches depart but it would be pretty much geographically impossible as the various states are not even close to being contiguous. It’s too bad because we could really do very well without them.