What’s Going on Here?

Forty six percent of the GOP and thirty two percent of Democrats think there will be a civil war during their lifetimes. Why?

Well they look at what happened on 1/6/2021 and they see a bunch of dumb schmucks that put their lives on the line for a sociopathic con man who in the previous four years had lied to the American public over 30,000 times by actual count. So anyone who has any ability to reason figures that anything, even a civil war is possible, simply because there are so many dumb, gullible people in this country.

Now they see these jerks going to prison for the seditious acts they committed by trying to break into the capitol and interfere with the work of our congress in certifying the election that had taken place on November of 2020.

There are reportedly some 7,000 of these fools currently in prison or about to go there, and as far a one can see, not one leader. Not one! Certainly not Donald Trump who they followed to the steps of the capitol. The schmucks are the only ones being held accountable. How did these fools get to DC, who financed them and who organized them? Even the briefest glance will tell you that they didn’t do it themselves. Someone put out the call, someone put up the money and someone planned the whole thing. The choices are pretty obvious. They didn’t exactly keep what they were doing a secret. So how come none of these guys are standing in front of judges? How come the only guys sitting in cells are the ones who had nothing but bragging rights to gain by going to DC and acting like barbarians?

It’s the same old shit! They believed in Trump, they voted for Trump and they went to DC and committed felonies for Trump and then the SOB dropped them like wet turds. Are they going to be the only ones holding the bag or will Merrick Garland get it together and put the real crooks in jail this time? Trump, his bankers and his political cronies all need to be wearing stripes on this one.

The first anniversary of 1/6, the day when a couple of thousand so-called Americans attacked the Capitol because of a lie propagated by our sick former President has come and gone.  The traitorous crowd, motivated by Donald Trump, who was operating in defiance of the rulings of over 60 judges, many of whom had been appointed by him, was led into seditious action by a President hoping against reason that his lies about the election would stand against reality.

A year ago, the Three Stooges, Rand Paul, Lindsay Graham and Kevin McCarthy in a rare moment of truthfulness stated that Trump had done the wrong thing and that the rioters were in fact traitors. No they didn’t say it in those words but that’s what their statements were about. Since than, the Mo, Larry and Curly of the Republican Party have returned to their lying ways and are now all serious supporters of Trump.

What Donald Trump did on 1/6 was either dereliction of duty or treason. It’s up to the House Committee and Attorney General Merrick Garland to decide which it is and to move on that decision. If it is treason the nation demands retribution6. A political structure in which there is no accountability is useless. Trump spent his whole presidency acting as if he was above the law. He ignored the constitution, the tax laws and a whole plethora of criminal statutes, and he got away with it because up until he took office, we as a nation had depended on the principle that anyone who became president would have enough moral fiber and righteous understanding of the difference between right and wrong that we wouldn’t have to tie him down with more laws. Trump put the lie to that concept and probably got away with murder. We just haven’t found the body yet.

Now, in order to tie up the loose ends of our democracy we must reveal and prove all the criminal activity of which Trump is guilty and punish him for it or it will be like a pat on the back of every crook in our government and every future president who does not respect the office.  If Trump is not brought to justice the next of his type that is elected, and there are sure to be more, will absolutely run amok.

We didn’t jail Nixon so we got Trump. God knows what we’ll get if we don’t jail Trump.

But the bottom line is if we try Trump again, we must convict him. Chris Christie put it quite clearly on This Week; when he stated that when he was a prosecutor, he always told his people that if they were going to try a celebrity they better make the prosecution a “headshot.” There could not be any doubt, reasonable or otherwise of guilt.

Trump is the slipperiest of con men. He is really tough to nail down.  If the 1/6 Committee is going to nail him, they better have all their ducks in a row or he will slip away and that will make every disgusting criminal act he has perpetrated on the American people look okay.

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There has been a great deal of noise about the attempts being made by the GOP to disenfranchise all voters but themselves for the next election. We have all kinds of bills pending to assure the right to vote and to build Federal power that will enable the government to keep the states in line on Election Day. These are all fine but the real problem; the one that has built the monster of gerrymandering is really the Electoral College.

This is an organization whose very presence spits in the eye of the concept of “one-man one-vote.” It is a provocative tool that allows losers to become winners and encourages those who were not able to earn a majority of legitimate votes to wrangle a win by making sure that the votes they do get are in the right locations, locations that have been manipulated by whichever party has been in power to favor their cause.

Donald Trump would never have had the opportunity to generate the 1/6 seditious attack on the Capitol if not for the existence of the Electoral College.  That specious accumulation of unconstitutional hacks allowed him to win the presidency from Hillary Clinton even though she received over three million more votes than did he.

In the current election Joe Biden acquired over eight million more votes than Trump, but the Electoral College made it look close.

We are trying to run the greatest country in the world with the largest economy and we’re trying to do it with “clown show” tools that would embarrass the leader of a Third World dictatorship.

The Democrats have possibly only one more year to get their act together and pass legislation that can help the American people live better lives and preserve their Democracy. Despite Joe Manchin we must pass some version of the Build Back Better Bill and we must pass either or both of the, For the People Act or The John Lewis Voting Rights Act. But more important, because it affects all of the American people and will affect every future election for president is that we get rid of the Electoral College because leaving that antiquated and unconstitutional disaster in place could lead to another,, smarter Trump, which could signal the end of our constitutional democracy and turn this country into a Third World dictatorship.