What do we know? And what can we do about it. Since 2015 we’ve heard louder and louder voices, new names to us regular Americans, like Trump, Gaetz, Taylor-Greene and Boebert shouting hateful rhetoric from the rooftops and basically threatening anyone who’s not, well, them.
Now the House Republicans are getting smarter, and scarier, as they’ve just elected An Architect Of. In this instance, it happens to be a lawyer who architected a quasi-legal means to allow Congress to keep Donald Trump president even though he had lost the “most secure” election in history as stated by his top legal advisor (Bill Barr, Attorney General who quit) and top cybersecurity guy (Chris Krebs, who Trump immediately fired).
If you want to know the world view of our latest Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, “grab a bible.” Routine mass shootings? Don’t legislate, pray. Guns the problem? No, it’s people’s hearts. Social Security getting low on funds? Force women to have babies against their will to provide an economic safety net.
Speaker Mike Johnson is Jim Jordan with a brain, a suit jacket and spectacles. The game’s the same, and the ante’s been upped. Perhaps the Crazy Eight will toss him to the curb in a month, after he signs on to a clean CR to fund the government until 2024, simply because they can’t understand him.
I believe that the puritans who fled England to found the US of A came in part for religious freedom. I believe that the separation of Church and State was intended to keep the Church out of State business and to prohibit the State from demanding that all Americans be of the same Christian faith or denomination. Speaker Johnson believes that the Church is all-encompassing and rules our State.
Overall, it appears as if the House has signed on to an effort to install an autocratic presidency with a thin shiny veneer of faux Christian theocracy as the icing on the cake, or the cake itself according to Johnson.
“MAGA is ascending.” said Florida’s own Nostradamus, Matt Gaetz, last week. Dear Leader Trump may have sent his missive tanking non-election denier Emmer from the courtroom where he is trying to use his menacing presence to cow the judge into preserving his NYC real estate fiefdom. Three of Trump’s co-conspirators pleaded guilty of helping him overturn the presidential election, and will testify to that effect. And his head staffer, Mark Meadows has received immunity for his testimony, and he knows everything. Ascending? I beg to differ, Mr. Gaetz.
I’ll become a pensioner next week so I’ll pretend to be one now and say that if I were on a fixed income and sent numerous small checks to Trump’s Stop the Steal campaign that raised $250 million after the 2020 election, I’d be gathering up my AARP buddies right about now and filing a class action suit to get my money back, plus punitive damages for his thinking that I’m stupid and thus worth defrauding.
Some of these trials will be televised, and conservative news media can only mess with that so much (sorry, AI). Their viewers are going to find out that they were used, all this time, as rubes in the grand GOP grift scheme, the greatest Big Lie of all time.
The GOP no longer wants to govern. That’s our money at work, all so they can fund raise off of lies and see how many hits they get on social media. They’ve forgotten the oath they took to the Constitution, and their promise to represent us, the people.
Lies have consequences, and The Big Lie will have many. The wheels of justice turn slowly, but if they’re allowed to do what the Constitution planned, they do mete out justice in the end. Sadly, we’re all in the belly of the beast right now. Battle stations! I mean pen and paper, brains and wit, a show of strength to demonstrate that the middle will hold and we’ll still have a democracy after 2024. History will prove us, and our Constitutional democracy, right. Chin up, folks. Dee
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