"a personal favor"

I am watching the Senate live tonight as they prepare to vote on legislation which would allow a bi-partisan independent commission to investigate the January 6th riot that nearly overthrew our democracy. 

In order for the legislation to pass, it would need 10 patriotic Republican Senators to vote for this commission. Unfortunately, the GOP is lacking even 10 people that resemble patriots at this point. 

This piece of legislation was negotiated in the House of Representatives by both parties and even saw 35 Republican members of the House vote for this commission, but despite all of these facts, the Senate will not find the necessary GOP votes to pass this bill tonight. 

Some members of the Senate GOP were wavering and were seriously contemplating voting for this bi-partisan commission, but Moscow Mitch McConnell - the GOP leader in the Senate - pressured these wavering Senators by telling them that a 'No' vote would be a personal favor to McConnell, who is clearly siding with the insurrectionists and their dear leader - Donald Trump (FAILED one-term ex-President). 

Numerous Capitol police officers, who were on the front lines on January 6th, and Brian Sicknick's mother came to Capitol Hill today to try and lobby Republicans to get this legislation passed. The REALITY here is that the majority of these GOP cowards even refused to meet with the grieving mother of the fallen U.S. Capitol police officer who died trying to protect these losers.

Fifteen Republican Senators refused to meet with Mrs. Sicknick, whose son was a Trump supporter, and 14 others did not respond to requests. What kind of useless men, and they are mostly wealthy white men, refuse to listen to a grieving mother of a man who gave his life in defense of his country. This party, comprised of Trump sycophants, must be cleansed electorally. Only by punishing this kind of gross behavior at the ballot box will you modify it for the better going forward.   

The vote has been pushed to Friday because the Republican Party bogged the Senate down in procedural votes related to the science and technology bill. The delay is just prolonging the inevitable. The GOP has no intention of voting for a independent commission because they feel it would hurt this grotesque party in the 2022 midterms. It's a power grab like most of what the Republicans spend all day, everyday doing in DC, figuring out a way to stay there!

The key for voters is to remember which one of these braindead GOP losers refused to meet with Mrs. Sicknick, and refused to put the country ahead party and then vote their useless behinds out of office.

ENOUGH is ENOUGH!   

Next up for a Trumpism takedown!

This is a post that has been long overdue because Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) still wholeheartedly believes in Trumpism and all it's disgusting attributes, and he is undoubtedly the most at-risk Senator in 2022 to be removed from his position by the voters of Wisconsin - hardly a red state.

Since the January 6 attempted overthrow of the government by brainwashed insurrectionists, Johnson has gone on numerous media outlets and claimed that the violence of January 6 was not really dangerous or a threat to the members of Congress or Vice President Mike Pence, and that it wasn't an armed insurrection and that it posed no real threat to democracy as a whole. Just to be clear, that's all a load of happy horseshit.

This post includes numerous videos of Johnson spewing the most outlandish garbage that a sitting U.S. Senator could spew in light of the terrorism experienced at the Capitol on Jan. 6, but it is critical that the voters of Wisconsin see this over and over, as well as the rest of the country. The main reason is that this Trump, boot-licking coward might someday get the inclination to run for President, and when he does remember these videos.

Senator Johnson first claims that he did not feel threatened by the terrorists who stormed the capitol on Jan. 6 because they were "law-abiding" Trump supporters. Hey Ronnie boy, they broke numerous laws including beating the police with flag poles. But he was quick to point out that if these were BLM protesters, he would be afraid or fear for his life. Is there anything more racist? Why not just say, "no, I never cross the street when I see white people coming, but of course I do when I see black people walking on the same side of the street as me." 

"This did not appear to be an armed insurrection to me," Johnson said. Because the terrorists who stormed Capitol were not all carrying firearms does not make the violence the police suffered any less real, or the threats of "hang Mike Pence" any less worrisome. This Senator from Wisconsin has spent the last 4 months trying to whitewash the insurrection and erase it from history so his dear leader "Dumbo Trump" can never get blamed for the violence. Johnson and his cronies in the House and Senate who are trying to downplay the violence, are all co-conspirators in a violent armed insurrection.  

Johnson is bending himself into a pretzel since Jan. 6 in an attempted to whitewash this vicious and violent insurrection. Most people who came to the rally might not have come with the intent to be violent, but also could have stopped some of the violence, or if they couldn't, should have simply walked away.  

And below was Ron Johnson's response on January 6, 2021 after the violence. He went so far as to say people do not trust the results of the election, and the response there would have been, because you and the former President have been feeding them a steady diet of bullshit about the election. Listen to the list of all the fraud that he says took place. I guess that same fraud occurred both times he was elected to office.

     

We can not have delusional people like this serving in the United States Senate or House for that matter. Do your duty Wisconsin, and in November of 2022 add Ron Johnson to the scrap heap of Trumpists who paid for their sins with their political careers.  

A dysfunctional mess of a party

Representative Liz Cheney appears poised to lose her job in the Republican House leadership tomorrow morning. Why you ask? Because Cheney committed the most horrific of crimes in Republican circles these days, she told the truth. But even more heinous than that, she told the truth as it relates to Donald Trump and the 2020 election.

Yes, Cheney had the audacity to speak out against the big lie. Every time Cheney is asked about Trump and the 2020 election, she tells the truth, and that clearly does not sit well with the Grand Old Party of Liars. You can not be a member of the cult in good standing unless you repeat endlessly that the election was stolen and that there was voter fraud. However, here on plant earth the election was not stolen. Illegals didn't vote. Thousands of ballots were not flown in from SE Asia, etc., etc., etc.  

"The election is over," Cheney said in her speech tonight to the House, and she will not roll over and sit quietly by while this thuggish liar, Donald Trump, continues to attack Democracy. And make no mistake, that's what Trump and his friends like Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley, just to name a few, are doing. 

Unfortunately for our country, Cheney is on a virtual island by herself. She, Adam Kinsinger and Mitt Romney seem to be the only GOP members of congress who have continued to show the backbone to speak out against the two-time popular vote loser, and one-term president. They have recognized Trump for what he is, a dangerous cult leader like Charles Manson, David Koresh, Jim Jones, and alike. No, that is not to strong of a comparison. 

Trump has led an insurrection that led to the deaths of multiple Capitol Police officers and one of his supporters. He ignored the pandemic, but even worse, he actively undermined the medical professionals to convince people that they shouldn't wear masks or take this disease seriously. That led to the deaths of half a million Americans. His far-right rhetoric about immigrants and other scapegoated groups, has led some of his most twisted supporters to try and assassinate prominent Democrats. It led one deranged Trump supporter to shoot up a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, so he could stop the "invasion" and then of course there was the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh where another Trump supporter, radicalized by Trump and the far right's rhetoric about George Soros and all those made up conspiracies, shot and killed 11 people who were praying. 

This body of evidence is what has got Cheney and a tiny minority of her Republican colleagues upset. Donald Trump and the people who keep backing his bold faced lies in Congress are a CLEAR & PRESENT danger to the future of the country. 

 

Regardless of where you live in the country, you must identify these blind, cowardly and feckless Trump supporters in Congress and vote them out the next time they come up for re-election. Only by paying the price on election day will this weird Republican cult ever have any chance of recalibrating itself to something that possibly could resemble normal. 

If you still do not believe it's a cult, watch the reaction Romney received at a Utah GOP convention.

The negative reaction Romney received came in a state that he won in 2018 by 30 percent, and it bears repeating that only eight years ago, this was the Republican Party standard bearer. It boggles the mind how quickly the Republican Party has swirled down the bowl in such a short period of time. 

Cheney wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post explaining her position, and it is a must read.

Washington Post op/ed