Month: December 2020

With Trump threatening to veto the omnibus spending package, Senate Republicans just showed America that they are the party of obstruction – and right in time for Christmas. What a sharp stick in the eye!

If the Democrats were in charge, everyone would get their $600. With Republicans in control, you get nothing but a pie-in-the sky promise.

If chump voters can see that, however, is up for debate.

After all, one could easily point to hundreds, thousands of examples of incompetence and outright cruelty from the Republican party over the last 4 years, but that usually won’t sway a true devotee in the cult of “It’s all fake news.”

Luckily we still live in America. And the American people have spoken. The truth on what’s right and wrong is still important.

For a political base that seems hell bent on taking us back to the 1950’s… they’ve taken the meaning behind the American flag to places we’ve never been before; authoritarianism, dictatorship, fascism… basically giving the flag a purely political and egotistical “us vs. them.” meaning, which is, bottom line, un-American.

U.S. Code Section 700 states, “The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be fifty stars, white in a blue field.” Violation is subject to a year in jail.

i.e. Changing the colors or configuration of the flag has always been a breaking with the true meaning of Old Glory.

This Texas lawsuit confronts us with a simple, black and white question: Doesn’t signing onto an anti-democratic lawsuit also mean that every one of these banana Republicans deserves to lose their rights, privileges and prestige bestowed on them by the democratic process? (Since obviously they don’t believe in the will of the people…)

It’s simply un-American. Here it is spelled out in the Constitution:

Amendment XIV, Section 3: No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

5,000? 10,000? 100,000 more deaths because it takes another 6 months to make America safe from the virus? This is criminal negligence and it has to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law – or else the law is meaningless.

With Trump announcing his 2024 campaign it should be clearer than ever, if he’s not charged and prosecuted for all the crimes he’s committed in office, then we’re doomed to deal with the constant undertow in our political landscape from those who love bending over for his ‘bronzer-faced’ lies… to all those who are willing to take us back to the corrupt, autocratic style of government that almost all Republicans have fallen in line with. And the next 4 years will just be more of Mitch McConnell throwing a wrench in the works.

We want to see Trump without his makeup, without his enablers, reality deniers, conspiracy criers and – most importantly – in prison where he belongs. That’s the only way to end the insanity and actually make America great again.