Have you seen these folks, the Sedition Hunters? I assumed they were a group of hardass Dems out for blood. Once again I prove I have my fingers on the pulse of a dead rock. I can’t tell if I’m Elmer Fudd or Wile E Coyote or just a sad compilation of both. I was sure I’d would find the Hulk, brains and brawn in one. Instead there is a sizable potpourri of men AND women, Democrats AND Republicans, Domestic AND Expatriates all seeking Jan 6th rioters in a bizarre game of Where’s Waldo. It would appear, to my surprise, that the majority of Americans really don’t like having rioters shit on their Capitol. I asked around a bit and I wasn’t the only one surprised. I guess the better question would be why are we surprised that more of us want to uphold and protect the Constitution and the Capitol than those willing to see them fall. There are many degrees of how and why in both directions.
I hate to give it short shrift but most of the reasons for destruction or disminishment narrow down to two main reasons. The first, and easiest reason, is because it holds Trump to task. His rabid followers can’t really quantify this beyond the fact that Trump is being treated unfairly (according to Trump). Most of these men and women started wanting to burn it down during high school. I don’t pay much attention to polls as such but I do pay attention to demographics. Many of these folks have hated government since they got busted with a dime of weed or half a gram of coke. Maybe someone in their family got a raw deal and the family never recovered from it. Maybe the government didn’t protect them or someone close and they can’t forgive or forget the sleight. One way or another it’s the politics of hate, distrust or division.
The second branch is little more complicated. Little as a figure of speech, not little as negligible. This bucket of cause is pretty deep. Some folks are a rare breed. Again, I misunderstood that push for the death of the Constitution and Ammendments as mere unthinking insurgency based on the whims of the orange Oompa Loompa. I say whims because if it doesn’t come with pictures and crayons, it should. He’s not getting it. His eyes glaze over and he drifts towards Fantasy Island. That’s how you can tell that HE can’t tell. Helluva way to run an airline.
So this other breed, the breed that really has a deep and abiding understanding of our rule of law and government. They probably find many of the rights archaic and ill-fitting for this date in time. There used to be a lot of discussion towards ending the voting manner and the electoral college until the GOP realized the only way they’d win the presidency was the college. That’s because the only popular vote the Republicans won recently was George W’s second term when he called for war after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers and Pentagon. We knew we were up for a fight when every Joe and Jane Smith on flight 93 wouldn’t allow anymore terrorism. They turned and attacked.They kicked the shit out of that cel of terrorists. They accepted a horrific death but probably saved the White House. As Neil Young so aptly sang “Let’s Roll”. This elevates those men and women to the level of warriors. And Heroes.
Wow! I really hate to do this, but with the past two weeks of legal, political and constitutional debate I feel like I have to quit nibbling around the corners and kick Donald John Trump right in the balls. Why? Because we’re eleven months shy of the 2024 presidential election (not to mention the ugly war for control of the congress) (and it is a war) and nobody or nobodies have put him out to pasture, lain him to rest, watched him shuffle off, brought about his demise (this sentence is turning into a novella) amen. Whew! Sorry about that. Look, the things Trump has done and said in plain and clear view have probably earned him more than a few assassination attempts that were noted only internally. Ya know why? Because the dumb ass is so vain and stupid he forgot 7 million more of us voted against him than for him and Dems and Indies have guns too.. Don’t need ’em but we got ’em. If Trump knew of them he’d be ranting about how he’s protecting us poor downtrodden Americans. To be sure, they’re out there and over here. Whether we admit to ourselves or even notice, we’ve all been aware of someone who’s slipped through the cracks. I’ve noticed, and quite a few too! I wish I could pat myself on the back for coming to their aid or rescue but I can’t. I kept on driving, looked away or looked back when I denigrated them because of my tribe at the time. I’m no hero. But for absolutely dead certain neither is Donald Trump!! (two exclamation points!!). These are the lone wolves that our nation’s security apparatus loses sleep over. Like I said we’ve seen ’em, we know them. They sometimes go into a tirade out of nowhere or become so withdrawn we don’t see them for weeks.. Usually men of military age,, possibly armed forces trained as well. Let’s start now and walk back shall we? Let’s roll.
We’re one week from the Iowa caucuses. The leader board at this point shows Trump, DeSantis, Haley, Vivek and Christie. Iowa has an interesting way of doing business – they caucus. It takes the place of the primary elections we’re used to seeing because we don’t pay much attention to how other states perform their elections. As I mentioned above, many of us feel we should turn to a simple majority system. My reason is that obvious fact that the conditions that persuaded our forefathers to form an electoral college no longer exist.
In the last quarter of the 18th century we were within horseback ride of our neighbor states. We also had a vast disparity in state size and population. You had Delaware that you can walk across in a day.. Compare that to Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, etc. The largest states wanted to know why a state the size of Rhode Island should have the same voting power as, say Virginia. Rhode Island wanted to know why it should be shit on by Virginia and have little say in the making of our nation. A way to satisfy the equation. All well and good when the population of our nation could fit in nowadays California, we tendered a relatively new concept – the Electoral College. And our current nightmare was born.
Unfortunately, we don’t get too far for too long before we bang head on into the war of secession. As Mz Haley would tell it the war is or was about personal freedom. Forgive me (snicker, snicker, HUGE belly laugh). I guess she could be technically given some points for her answer but come on. Really!!! I realize she’s from South Carolina but really!! This is like Carey Elwes in The Princess Bride. “If you didn’t say it, it didn’t happen. Isn’t that right your highness?” Isn’t that right Mz Haley? You can say it, we all know it happened. Except for Florida grade schoolers. Much too stressful to learn until maybe, really, really just an iota speck of a chance in about freshman year of high school. That some of their forefathers may have bought, sold, raped, tortured and killed black and brown men, women and children. Let it sink in kids. When that little epiphany light pops on above your head, you can turn to mom, dad, gma and gpa and ask either of two questions. 1) Well, can we do it again? or 2) What the fuck? Given the current political temperature of Florida I really gotta call it a 50 – 50 proposition. Remember, your governor made sure he could slink back home after being laughed out of the Republican presidential primary and say “I meant to do that” and start to think up even meaner and fouler things to do to half his constituents. I mean, you know he’ll be walking funny ’cause he spent a year getting cornholed by Trump and those high rise boots ain’t comfortable while bending over like that. Being so deeply, badly beaten is gonna make him look for a whipping boy. Ask Mz Haley about that term. So, exit stage far, far right Gov. DeInsanetis (better than DeSanctimonious). (FYI I’m fullblood Irish. But one great grandfather was Gone With The Wind Irish and the other was a Molly Maguire, underground railroad kinda Mick. Actually had to change the family’s last name) So who is left? Mz Haley, a former SC governor, Trump appointee to the United Nations and a close follower of Trump ideals and afraid to even say the word slavery on a town hall stage. She has also said she’d sign a fifteen week abortion ban or worse. It’s bad enough but worse because she doesn’t seem to really give a shit. Can you picture this woman with a bowed head , communing with her lord about a truly soul searching question? How can any of us condemn anyone for their belief in the sanctity of life they feel begins at conception? You can’t. But it’s okay to condemn those of us who don’t. By the way, you hipocrites, you’re the same assholes who hung a red letter on women who had a child out of wedlock or sex before marriage at Woodstock. The supposed religious right, be it Baptist to snake handlers and all in between, kiss my ass! You’ve drifted so far from the Christ in Christian you may as well be on another planet. How about Mary Magdalena (prostitute), money changers (Donald Trump), Pharisees and Romans (U.S. Supreme Court) . So much for Mz Haley.
Where next? Ahh, Vivek Ramaswamy. I apologize for misspelling names. This is not a deliberate slight but I honestly didn’t care enough to learn it. Dude, who the hell are you?! Really, I realize anybody meeting the criteria can run for president but you’re making Ross Perot look good. You’re like the opening act comedian who warms up the crowd with Don Rickles insults. The picture Vivek paints for a presidency is mystifying still, after all these months. Possibly a good cabinet choice for Trump. Who was the whack job who went on MSNBC with Ari Melber, laid out the entire plot to keep Trump in power and then refused a congressional subpoena and wound up arrested for contempt? Vivek could be that guy.
Last but best Republican option, Chris Christie. Like any politician and most of us blue collar, low to middle-class wage earners, he’s got skeletons. Once again I say, I’m registered Independent. To the center-right on security and order. That means I arrest people illegally crossing the border but I don’t snatch their kid and kick ’em back down the slope into the Rio Grande. On taxes and spending I’m a bit left-center. I can’t think of a top one percenter in our country, from Bill Gates to that saintly head of X and Tesla,who hasn’t got some dirt (blood in Musk’s case) on their hands. I have to interject at this point that this twisted mother interfered in Ukraine on Russia’s side. I can’t believe that in 2024 we have to depend on this sick bastard for a satellite view of a war zone. Fear of WWIII be damned. They found a way to make that money, on the backs of low to middle income workers usually, but they earned it. They took the risk, laid out the capital and made the hard, harsh calls so let them keep their fair share of the purse. But remember, their hands got dirty or bloody somewhere. Let those who aren’t done slogging in the mud or sweating blood or even those who weren’t born with the physical well-being most of us take as a given, let them have enough to not have to feel embarrassed in certain company or situations. Too much to ask? Trump and sadly quite a few Republicans and even some Democrats think so. So, for the second time a rousing….fuck you! My wife HATES when I do that. Back to Mr. Christie. Many foibles, many, many differences in political belief, the bridge and tunnel misunderstanding? to name a few odds vs evens between us. But ya know what? When Sandy kicked the crap out of New Jersey he took the hand of the president and said thank-you. A slew of Republicans vilified and bad mouthed him for it but he did what a man does. *p.s. where was Captain Ron when parts of Florida were nearly obliterated? Where was he, really, I forget? Bet he does too. Seven years ago Chris thought he was looking at Chief of Staff or even V.P.. Didn’t turn out too well, did it? So now he wants to be President, in part to rub Donnie’s face in it, part because he really thinks our current course is wrong. This is how a two party system works. You debate, you change people’s minds, you change hearts and the citizens decide who is right and where we go.
So much for the Republican slate of pretenders, I mean CONtenders. Wow, that works either way doesn’t it? Moving on. President Biden. I’ll get there in a moment. Do you remember the horse and pony show when Trump followed Obama into office? The lack of class, finesse, messages of hope for three-hundred and thirty million people and the plain rudeness. We’re not gonna get into the Republican race, that’s been covered by the press and the courts and the history rewrites. The HUGEST crowd in history to see a swearing in, dude!, ya coulda’ fired both barrels of a 12 gauge into that crowd and maybe, MAYBE. hit one of the mannequins you stood in to bulk up the crowd. Flash to Mr. Biden, soon to be President Joseph Biden being sworn in. The height of the pandemic, weeks after the departing President Chump and the Trump-F troop fled to the Florida crime site with stolen documents and probable scene of treason as well; probable because no foreign agent would testify but is holding the bag in case the traitor came back to office. Excellent blackmail stock don’t you think? Though Trump would probably boast about it being the smooth operator that he is. Think also about the declared disgust among all but half a handful of Republican lawmakers. Ted Cruz, who Trump absolutely humiliated, but continues to back Trump though Trump CONTINUES to humiliate him and his wife for good measure. Where’s Lindsey Graham, you cowardly, ground hugging, miserable little pissant? Do you really have the balls to call yourself a friend of John McCain? Dying of a brain tumor he displayed more honor, grace and courage than 90% of the entire Republican congress not to mention a worm like you. I’d expect him to punch you in the mouth once in the cloakroom but you’re too busy groveling and he wouldn’t punch down nor would he dishonor the Capitol. There are two Rep. house members and maybe a dozen Senators with the guts to speak truth to cowardice and abuse. You’ll all get yours one day, hopefully I’ll live long enough to see it.
Now to President Biden. What did you call him last time, Sleepy Joe? Oh Donnie, Donnie, Donnie he handed you your balls, by the same spread you beat Clinton with wasn’t it? So, the height of Covid 19, cleaning up after your 2020 reelection party, foul weather and all, he told folks to stay home. Didn’t need much party or fanfare, just rolled up his sleeves and went to work. That, Jim Jordan, is how shirt sleeves work. The inauguration balls that were held, honestly and LEGALLY paid for and attended by family, friends and well wishers. Even those from other nations that attended were there to congratulate not curry favor. How was Trump celebrating? Paying off porn actresses and Playmates, bringing him an election abetting Russian minister and giving him state secrets. Ah Donnie, ya wasted no time did ye? First state trip – Saudi Arabia. Net gain, who knows. A couple bil for weasel face Jar (couldn’t do better for your daughter?) and they get to literally slaughter one of our journalists and fly him out in suitcases. Good deal Donnie, now I get “The Art of The Deal”. Biden spent his first year cleaning up your messes at home (Covid, bankruptcies, foreclosures, starvation, schools, erc.) and abroad undoing the damage you did. Great foreign policy Donnie boy, enemies licking their chops for another Trump term, NATO on knife’s edge and Ukraine about to be abused by your attempted coercion and constant Putin fela… Wife says I shouldn’t print that, you’re f n lucky Donnie boy. After a closed door meeting you told Jonathan Lemire he seemed very powerful (with no U.S. witnesses in the meeting). More believable than our own security apparatus. Say, what WERE you doing back there and why was your hair mussed? Biden traveled to an active war zone by train to try to aid one of the largest democracies in Europe. A democracy brutalized by WWII Germany, WWII Russia and Soviet abuses as bad as the Nazis that are continuing to this day.
We come to my only current disagreement with President Biden. Tell the Netanyahu led state of Israel to suck air until Bennie takes a walk, the IDF pulls back to defensive positions OUTSIDE Gaza and get as much aid as possible to the Palestinians, find the hostages and let the rightfully vaunted Mossad hunt Hammas. Take the aid intended for Israel, add it to what we targeted for Ukraine and make life absolutely miserable for every Republican in an election year. You’re the President, you have a Democratic Senate and a Republican house that has nothing to do with the democracy. Didn’t the Speaker of. the House, Johnson, just state on public TV say that he was trying to have the identities of rioters and insurrectionists blurred to have them escape arrest for their crimes? Isn’t that, under article XIV, section III of the Constitution, grounds for removal from office? Hmm, I think so. So they want to impeach you Mr President, wear it as a badge of honor. For six years they’ve made Hunter’s life miserable and a special investigator is having him charged more heavily than Al Capone or Gotti. He, like many of us, is a junkie fighting every day to hold his sobriety. He admitted all, paid everything demanded by the IRS. He bought a gun while he was high, never fired it, never loaded it, hell, he probably forgot he had it! But the special counsel is gonna let the Right push him into a position he’ll be ridiculed for the rest of his life. So wear the badge Mr President. Even that top of the line news and commentary station, Fox News, is laughing at Comer and Jordan. Q) What’s the charge congressman? A) I don’t know. Q) Well what is the evidence, where are your witnesses? A) Well, we don’t have any evidence but if the FBI can apprehend him and they’ll let him go on TV and say anything we want, we’ll get that S.O.B. Biden and his crime family. Hold it, the FBI is deep state! We’ll get Frank Nitti to find him. He’s dead? Hold that thought, we’ll get back to you. I wouldn’t sweat it Mr President.
When Joe Biden became president the nation was in the grip of a pandemic; the likes of which hadn’t been seen since the Spanish Flu during WWl. I give Trump credit for Operation:Warp Speed, aiding the pharmaceutical companies in a truly remarkable feat of biology and chemistry. But then he washed his hands of distributing it. For all the lies, stupidity, ignorance and nearly total disregard for the well-being of the nation, I lay millions of deaths at his feet. How many of my Republican friends or just fellow Americans have been looking at empty seats at the dining room table for 3 years? How many more would there have been if Trump was given a second term? Republican House members and Senators went back to districts and flat out lied. They risked the lives of their constituents to turn a fatal medical emergency into a game of political tag. If you’re wearing a mask you’re a liar and against schools and businesses and jobs! You’re supporting those malingerers who don’t want to work and who are risking their children or loved ones by following Fauci’s “pseudo science”. Throw ’em out in the streets because they can’t pay their rents or mortgages in the dead of winter. Let them eat cake! So Biden went a different way. He’s destroying the economy the Republicans screamed. By any metric that King Donnie used to measure economic well being, Joe’s kicking Trump’s ass there as well. Republicans ridiculed Dr Fauci for following the science, following the knowledge that evolved and changing his message accordingly. They kicked the CDC and all the other non-partisan institutions to curb in favor of some ass hole they saw on TV. He preached bleach and all sorts of insanity from his bully pulpit. Why Donnie? Why? Forgive me honey. He, did it because he’s a fucking idiotic, contrary five year old! How do I know? I asked a bunch of five year olds who are just a little smarter than the current Trump supporter. Check the footage, he told us to inject bleach and pump UV light into our lungs. Five years olds know not to drink the stuff under the sink for pity’s sake! Really, you can’t make this stuff up! Let him try again with Dr Oz at the CDC or the FDA? How many times does someone have to nearly kill your family? Once again, I implore all who believe this man to move to Texas while those horrified at the prospect to come on North, we’ve got room and welcome. Governor Abbott, feel free to secede, we won’t stop you this time. You can work it out with Mexico if you’re short on labor. You’ll need a passport to come North once it’s settled and people try to flee injustice, hunger, and search the upper 49 for human rights and relief from Republican tyranny. Keep the oil and coal and we’ll continue towards clean energy and give the folks supplying those commodities a decent wage and training for new energy jobs while we wean ourselves off the old.
President Biden was mocked in some circles for his “a fight for the Soul of America” stance. Mostly by men or women who have never raised their hand and swore to defend America from all enemies, foreign and domestic. I’m closing on 70, dying for my sins, but I never thought I’d see a day where we would have neo-nazis marching our streets arm in arm with communist Russia sympathizers.. To have to mobilize the National Guard (and gods forbid the military) to put down an armed insurrection in our nation’s Capitols. Yes, Capitols plural because it won’t stop in D.C. Do you remember armed gunmen forcing their way into Michigan’s state house? How ’bout the plot to kidnap Gov Whitmer and televise her execution? Or armed men (or women) staking out and menacing voters at Arizona election drop boxes? Ruby and Shea, even the Republican Governor of Georgia? The coercion attempts and threats in swing states statehouses? Were we all watching the same election and aftermath? Jesus bleeping Christ in a sidecar!! This wasn’t just misled voters! This was a deliberate, aspirational attempt to seize control of the government of the United States by the enemies ddomestic written about in our oath. You college debt whiners – Biden didn’t write off my college tuition. Boo hoo, the Supreme Court blew it up, not Biden. You got screwed royally so what?, you’re gonna stay home or go third party. Joe didn’t save the environment enough? Do you own a TV or watch or non-biased internet news? How many billions towards clean energy? Did Biden blow off emission standards? Again no, the Trump Supreme Court you let him seat by sitting on your hands in 2016!! Our brown, black, Asian, Muslim and true Christian brothers and sisters. You atheist, Yezidi, you waiting for an alien race to rescue us X-Files fanatics. Get off your asses and lose the blinders! If we let Donnie Chump win or try to violently seize the government again and go unanswered you will see a small sample of hell on earth out your front door, out your dorm window, in the seat next to you on the subway, when you go downtown to appeal your tax assessment, when you’re hurt on the job, when you try to unionize, when your newborn child is born with asthma because of air pollution, when your life’s savings disappear because there’s no more government banking regulation. You Will See! And all you’ll be able to say is ‘Oops, guess I should have voted” I’ll be back, I’m not done with the Democrats role in all this. Thanks for reading and hopefully thinking. JD
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