It seems there is an interesting schism playing itself out in the Republican party. Many key players in the GOP are realizing the stolen election narrative is simply making them appear stupid and blocking vital progress in battleground states. (more…)
Here’s a bill that enables the Capitol Police to request help from the National Guard.
This is good, but I’ll be surprised if there is more violence, even when Trump’s supporters watch him be taken into federal custody. Retaliation from law enforcement will be swift and overwhelming, and perpetrators will be sentenced to prison.
Yes, some people fear a civil war, but keep in mind that one side is composed of 1.3 million highly trained active-duty military personnel armed with a $770 billion annual budget, and the other side are some semi-literate fats guys with rifles.
That Trump has radically changed his position on COVID-19 has people wondering what’s going on.
The guiding principle in understanding Trump is that he never does anything that doesn’t benefit him personally; he’s incapable of behaving otherwise. So what does this all mean?
My theory is that when Biden offered Trump congratulations for being the president when the vaccine was first developed, Trump realized suddenly that he could spin this whole thing in a positive direction. Instead of being remembered as the guy whose heartless and selfish actions and inactions killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans, and who might have had mass manslaughter charges leveled against him, he can, he believes, walk away largely unscathed.
We’ve commented on the dumbing down of America, especially insofar as this is what gave us Donald Trump, and prevents us from removing him from our political discussions.
How far does this stupidity extend? Oh, I don’t know; how about getting on a cruise ship in the middle of a pandemic whose disease is extremely contagious.
It’s true that the media has the power to push Trump into irrelevance, but it’s hard to blame them for not playing it that way.
The slow-rolling story about a former president getting indicted for treason has us all fascinated–especially considering that we’re talking about the make/break point of American democracy.
A reader sent me this. Looking up the guy, I have to believe that this was a real and true statement of a licensed physician. My response:
Does big money have undue influence in U.S. healthcare? Obviously.
Is Dr. Mendelsohn’s suggestion a good one for our nation’s people? No.
To my reader: You need to hope you’ll never get injured or seriously sick. You’ll recant this in a heartbeat.
Responsible citizens don’t crave bizarre conspiracy theories and take the actions necessary to protect their own and others’ health.
It’s a terrible shame that we live in a cultural zeitgeist of stupidity.
Under normal circumstances, disinformation isn’t that dangerous. Nobody cares what morons think about the validity of climate science, or chemtrails, or the shape of the Earth. Here however, what they believe is often lethal.
Obstructing an official proceeding?
I doubt that. If that can be proved, then so can be treason. From here, it appears he conspired to overthrow the U.S. government.
In America, we glorify ignorance.
We can’t get enough of it.
We bathe ourselves in it.
As Isaac Asimov put it: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Here, former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori discusses the complications associated with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s moving forward to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the January 6th insurrection. In summary:
If, as appears likely, the Democrats lose both houses of Congress in the midterms, the current investigation will be immediately cut off at the knees by Republicans.
If Trump announces his candidacy for president in 2024, this will put a political face on any investigation.
The problem is huge, in that failure to prosecute Trump will invite any future president to do much the same thing as we have here. Perhaps it won’t have the violence, but recall what Trump tried to do in his call to Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger, pressuring him to commit treason on the then-president’s behalf. This type of election tampering could become the way of the future, effectively nullifying rule of law and American democracy.
Saying that this issue will define Merrick Garland’s legacy is 100% certain.
