Day: January 6, 2021

This Is The Moment

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Donald Trump is a loose-cannon sociopath and goon provocateur who’s completely jettisoned any interest in respecting our democracy (if he ever had any) and who’s clearly divorced from any semblance of sanity or moderation, and has pretty much turned into a rabid authoritarian dog. Seriously.

This afternoon he tweeted more or less that today’s insurrection was some kind of glorious citizen’s revolt against an imagined tyranny (“Remember this day forever!”), and…well, Jesus H. Christ, if this isn’t a case of God grabbing us by the lapels and screaming “get rid of this guy immediately!” I don’t know what would or could be.

Trump, I believe, needs to be immediately re–impeached (seriously) so as to be prevented from running again in ‘24. The best scenario would be immediate removal from office by way of the 25th Amendment, but that won’t happen with Mike Pence’s subservient nature. At the very, very least a vote of censure should happen.

Trump has long been a thug, but today he crossed the line into dangerous and intolerable. Imagine what he might provoke tomorrow or next week. Or on January 19th or 20th.

Yes, I know — Pence is said to be more or less running the show now, or so I’ve been hearing. And yes, Twitter has locked Trump’s account, but only for 12 hours. They need to kick him off permanently.

The Confederate yokel terrorists who assaulted the Capitol today need to be ID’d, prosecuted and jailed; ditto the D.C. or Capitol Hill cops who were apparently in cahoots with the mob or who went easy on them because they were white.

I don’t completely agree with The Atlantic‘s David Frum but I agree about the urgency…Trump has become a very serious danger to our democracy.

Instigating Scumbag…”We Love You”?

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“I know your pain, I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anyone hurt. It’s a very tough period of time. There’s never been a period of time like this, where they could take it away from all of us. From me, from you, from our country. This was a fraudulent election, but we can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace.

“So go home. We love you, you’re very special. We’ve seen what happens, you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know you how feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”

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Attempted Redhat Sedition

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With President Trump‘s enthusiastic support, rightwing insurrectionists have surrounded and penetrated the U.S. Capitol. Cheering, flash bangs, banners waving, marauders inside the building and flooding the rotunda. D.C. police have been overwhelmed. A 6pm curfew has been announced.

This feels like the 1989 Romanian revolution except that “Ceaucescu” is behind the protests.

CNN has just reported that VP Pence may have been evacuated from the Capitol building.

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What Was Meghan McCain Asking?

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It would have been impolite to subject Rev. Raphael Warnock to sharp contrarian questioning on the morning of his Georgia Senate run-off victory, but what was The View co-host Meghan McCain trying to ask him before a testy Whoopi Goldberg (“Hey, listen!”) cut her off?

On the other hand, what contrarian question could have had merit at this stage of the game? The Georgia runoff election is over, and it’s time for congratulations and looking forward. etc. Kelly Loeffler ran un ugly racist campaign…what could McCain’s pressing issue have been about?

A Good Day

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And Wednesday, 11.6 is only going to get better as the hours progress, even with the coming farcical Congressional challenges to Biden’s electoral victory plus the violent Trumpian goons in the streets of D.C., howling at the way it’s all turning out and quaking with rage.


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