Faces of Evil



AT&T’s canning OAN, like the banks dropping Trump, is a sign that it’s possible that rationality and civility can be returned to American society.
Having said that, let’s face the truth: neither of these incidents were based on morality; both were financially driven. Who wants the PR catastrophe that comes from being associated with a person who will soon be recognized as the worst thing that’s ever happened to the United States?

Re: COVID, most of us simply do as we’re told, because it would never occur to us to think like this reader. We can’t get to a place where we believe our judgement in this matter is senior to that of the people who have earned advanced degrees and then spent their entire careers preparing themselves to deal with health emergencies like this one.
Our hospitals are overflowing, largely due to unvaccinated people–just like him.

What makes this clear is the sheer volume of people involved. Trump may have people (read: fools) so loyal to him that they’ll go down on contempt charges rather than testify against him. But that doesn’t matter when there are plenty of them, like the bozo shown here, who will happily tell the truth, especially in exchange for immunity.
If you were going to rob a bank, would you try to involve as many people as possible? Would you go to your next high school reunion and try to get everyone there to help you plan and execute the heist? If not, you have the good sense not to do what Team Trump apparently did.


Note the calm and professional tone. Even the call to get vaccinated and boosted is muted, and doesn’t even happen until the last third of the missive. At the very least, whoever wrote this resisted the temptation to refer to some of these people as selfish morons; let’s give credit where credit is due.

The point made in the meme here will be the crux of the debate. Will these justice actions be accepted as legitimate by his supporters? Of course not. We’re headed for a ****storm.

I tend to look at all this the same way Rob Reiner apparently does. We just removed a treasonous sociopath from the White House. Jack the Ripper would have been an improvement. Let’s just chill, as my kids would say.

Yet we need to understand that if the 2024 election were held tomorrow, essentially every one of these “defectors” would vote for the wanna-be-dictator-in-chief.
At stake is their belief that Trumpism, with all its sedition, racism, cruelty, environmental damage, gun violence, rejection of science, destruction of the middle class, and collapse of the educational system is a better form of government than anything the “radical left” can provide.

I hate to say it, but he’s right. That’s probably why this is taking so long, and why additional testimony is required to establish that Trump’s phone call was actually a criminal act. If this fizzles, it will also explain that.