A unifying moment?

It appears all but certain now. Russia, led by former Soviet KGB agent and murderous thug Vladimir Putin, is determined to invade the Ukraine. 

Putin will give you a laundry list of reasons why Russia needs to launch this invasion, but this imminent attack appears to be an attempt by Putin to re-establish the Soviet Union's former glory in his eyes. 

In 2008, Putin used a false-flag operation to justify sending Russian troops into the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to reclaim "disputed" lands, which in the process gave way to some ethnic cleansing of Georgian citizens. 

In 2014, Putin used unsubstantiated claims of genocide as a pretext to annex the Crimea and invade eastern Ukraine. 

And now in 2022, Putin is desperately trying to stage another false flag event to justify to himself and the rest of the world that he is correct in invading a democratically-elected government in Ukraine. Maybe he has something against people who win actual elections.

Make no mistake, Putin is a murderer who has jailed opposition leaders and even poisoned and executed dissidents who have the audacity to speak the truth about the murderous, re-emerging Soviet regime. This is our Munich 1938 moment. 

We can either continue to appease this modern-day Hitler, or more aptly Stalin, or cut him off at the knees. Bury this Soviet resurgence in its infancy. The other option is to appease this thug, like those at Munich did when they shined Hitler's shoes and declared "Peace in our time." 

In the above video, you see how appeasing Hitler's demand for more living space for ethnic Germans, only encouraged the madmen to take more and more land until he eventually held the entirety of the European continent with the exception of the British Isles. If this situation sounds familiar it should because it is a similar argument to the one Putin is making for taking back land for traditional Russian-speaking people. 

If we appease Putin now, we are repeating one of the biggest mistakes in human history. We must not sell out Ukraine like the western powers sold out Czechoslovakia in 1938 to quiet baby Hitler with some more land. And economic sanctions are not enough. If they were, Putin and his regime would have already crumbled, and they have not. Economic sanctions only hurt the Russian people, not the oligarchs running the country, who steal their wealth from the Russian people. While the people will starve as a result of economic sanctions, Putin and his thugs will live high on the hog. 

No. The answer here is for the world, and more specifically NATO to deliver a John F. Kennedy like speech during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and hand Russia a military ultimatum or red line, and tell Putin what the consequences will be for crossing that line and when he does, or if he does, follow through on those consequences. 

Kennedy made it clear that an attack on any nation in the western hemisphere by Cuba would be considered an attack on United States by the Soviet Union and would be met with a military response. That is how this current crisis needs to be addressed, and if you appease Putin, he will only get more aggressive. "The greatest danger of all would be to do nothing," Kennedy said.

In this moment of national peril, one would hope that Republicans and Democrats would put down the arrows they have used against each other, and instead use the arsenal to attack the common foe, a former KGB agent determined to re-establish the Soviet empire. But even now, the Republican Party, the faction of Ronald Reagan, who helped bring down the evil empire in early 1990s, is now defending Putin and his murdering goons. 

This is a line in the sand not only for Putin, but for the Republican Party, which use to claim to be all about national defense and democracy. If you love peace in this country and support democracy here and around the world, hold your treasonous Republican leaders accountable at the ballot box.

13 months late

On the same day that the Republican National Committee (RNC) censured GOP representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger for honoring their oath to the U.S. Constitution, former Republican Vice President Mike Pence said that the former President of the United States "was wrong" about Pence's power on January 6, 2021 to overturn the election.

Pence said a number of important things in his speech before the Federalist Society, a conservative organization, including comments like "the truth is there is more at stake than our party or political fortunes ... if we lose faith in the Constitution, we won't just lose elections, we will lose our country."

I couldn't agree more with Pence's sentiments now, but the question begs, what took him so long to come to this realization? I guess a mob of Republican terrorists storming the U.S. Capitol looking to hang him for treason was not enough. I guess that same mob maiming and beating police officers with flag poles, bats, and fire extinguishers was not enough. I guess the months of watching Donald Trump lie about the election and put our democracy in the greatest peril it has seen since the 1860's was not enough. So again, I ask, why the come to Jesus now?  

Pence is not alone in his failure or cowardice. Most Republicans walk around with a pocket constitution not because they believe in what is delineated in the document, but because they can use it as a political prop. Despite always having it on them, they seem to have forgotten what's written in it for the last five years. In truth, what Pence said today is what every single Republican should have said on November 8, the day after the election was officially declared for current President Joe Biden.

If Republicans had all spoken up for democracy on November 8, 2020, they could have moved beyond the despicable human being who has tried to, and is still trying to this day, to rip the country apart along racial, cultural and party lines. The GOP did NOT do that. Instead, they placated the former Wanna-Be dictator in the White House and let the lie about the election being stolen simmer and eventually boil over on January 6 with violence.

Now these same elected goons that make up the current Republican/American Fascist Party, are trying to pretend that Jan. 6 didn't happen, or that it was not that bad, or it was antifa dressed as Trump supporters. THESE are all lies. And even today, when Pence said some of the right things, he couldn't help himself, and said he was concerned with "some of the irregularities during the election. LIAR. That is Pence still trying to play both sides of the political fence. 

One can't help but struggle to understand these sycophants. If Donald Trump had done nothing while a mob that he revved up and inspired to come after me and threatened to kill me, I would have called him out for what he is, a despicable man, and I would have shouted it from every roof top and even Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax, so even the most uninformed of the uninformed voters heard the truth. BUT NO. Instead, they carry the water and lie for this lifelong loser. 

The reality is that Trumpism is a sickness. It is the kind of sickness associated only with people who have been brainwashed in cults. You will never get some people to return to reality. That is just a fact of the people we lose to cults. But the Republican politicians, for the most part, don't like, or believe in, Trump. Believe it or not, they want to get away from this loser as much as the rest of us. But for some reason, they can't find the inner strength to quit this cult. Maybe it is the naked, craven desire for absolute power.

This means that the responsibility is ours. These Republican cowards, that make up the bulk of Congress, follow Trump because they are afraid of losing their seats in Congress to someone on the far right. The only way to break the Trump fever is to defeat the Republican/ American Fascist Party over and over at the ballot box.

In what is likely to be the most significant midterm election in history, you need to understand that a vote for a Republican is not a vote for lower taxes and conservative values, but instead a vote for authoritarianism, dictatorship and the end of free elections. THAT'S CORRECT! If you vote Republicans into the majority in 2022, the 220-year experiment into American democracy is over. 

MARK MY WORDS. Get informed and get out and vote. There is no more consequential vote you will ever take than this one in 2022.

Gosar should be removed

Arizona GOP representative Paul Gosar, one of the founding members of the new American Fascist Party, posted an anime video to his Twitter account in which he is depicted killing his colleague in the House of Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and then turning his sword on President Joe Biden. 

Gosar should immediately be removed from Congress because, let's face it, if you or I or anyone posted a tweet like this today, the U.S. Secret Service would be knocking on our door tomorrow. Make no mistake, what Gosar did is a crime. He encouraged violence against a sitting Congresswomen and the United States President. 

Gosar, whose five siblings spoke out - and continue to speak out - against him being elected to Congress, has ties to white nationalists and has praised the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. However, if you are waiting for the American Fascist Party leadership, formerly the GOP leadership, to do anything about this, don't hold your breath. 

Let's be clear. This is the same authoritarian organization that kicked Liz Cheney out of her leadership role in the party for not going along with former President Donald Trump's big lie, and telling the truth about the election, but refuse to do anything about Gosar or Marjorie Taylor Greene.   

This is part of an even more worrying trend in this country. Since November 3, 2020, members of the Trump cult, citizens who I presume at one point use to believe in democracy, have been calling elections officials, school board officials, elected officials, public health officials and threatening their lives and the lives of their wives and children for not going along with the big lie. 

As disgusting as this is, the even more worrying trend is that law enforcement seems inclined not to do anything about it. It was this failure to act, or failure to see these terrorists as a real threat, that allowed the cult to penetrate the U.S. Capitol building itself.

Now they seem to refusing, in general, to go after these people who continue to this day to commit these crimes. Threating to kill someone is a crime whether it is done over the phone or through a tweet like Gosar. 

If you believe for a second that the threat posed by Trump and his brownshirts in Congress is over, you are sorely mistaken. In Virginia enough people who voted to oust Trump in 2020, voted in a Trumpist Cult member in Glen Younkin last week. THE THREAT IS NOT OVER. 

If you love democracy and you want to continue to have a say in who your elected leaders are going forward, the only sane vote is for a Democrat or an Independent, until some semblance of the old GOP reemerges. As currently constituted, the conservative movement is nothing more than an authoritarian, anti-democracy movement who believes in minority rule.

A lengthy wait for infrastructure week!

The Democratic Party, after months of wrangling and "negotiating", finally pulled the trigger on passing the Bi-Partisan Infrastructure bill that was first passed in the United States Senate many months ago. 

This bi-partisan bill, which passed the Senate 69-30, laid needlessly in wait so that the progressive wing of the Democrats could try to force a vote on the huge "human" infrastructure bill at the same time. These progressive members felt the need to hold the bi-partisan bill as leverage to assure they got a vote on human infrastructure, commonly known as President Joe Biden's build back better agenda.

Here is the problem with all this. The progressives wasted time holding up the $1.2 trillion bi-partisan bill, and still did not force a vote on the bigger bill. They are still counting on their colleagues in the Democratic Party to honor their word. If this was going to be the end result anyway, why didn't they just pass the first bill months ago, and move on to negotiation the reconciliation bill? 

All that time that was wasted is time that could have been used to get these infrastructure projects off the ground, and would have allowed the economy to recover even faster from the Covid-related recession. Plus, the decaying infrastructure in the U.S. was only getting older while this bill was being held hostage.

Just as important, is that this delay in passing meaningful bi-partisan legislation, actually cost those of us who are fighting to preserve democracy, a huge blow. The failure of Congressional Democrats to take a victory when it was readily available to them in the form of the bi-partisan infrastructure bill, led to the fall of Virginia to the Trump-wing of the American Fascist Party.

It is imperative, if we plan on keeping our democracy, that the American Fascist Party (formerly the GOP), is defeated in the coming midterms, or our ability to vote freely will forever be lost at the hands of these authoritarians. If given back the House of Representatives or the Senate, America might be unrecognizable to the us in five-to-six years time.

HOW DOES THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FIX THIS? 

FORGET THE MEANING OF THE WORD COMPREHENSIVE! 

The Democratic Party, who I believe is the only political party working on behalf of the American people and the only party who still has some semblance of sanity within it, MUST learn to accept and take the small victories. These small victories will keep voters moving in their direction, and finally maybe give the Democrats the filibuster-proof majorities they are looking for in the Senate. 

1. People would love comprehensive immigration reform, but putting DACA to a vote in Congress would force the moderates in the former GOP to take a hard vote. When you pack a ton of stuff into a comprehensive immigration package, it becomes an easy NO vote for the right.

2. People would love comprehensive gun reform, but putting universal background checks to a stand-alone vote would force the moderates in the former GOP to take a hard vote. When you pack a ton of stuff into one comprehensive gun package, it becomes an easy NO vote for the right.

3. People would love a comprehensive voting rights bill, but declaring election day every year as a national holiday might force a tough vote for the former GOP moderates, but when you pack it with 800 pages of do's and do nots, it becomes an easy NO vote for those on the right.

Until the Democrats can learn to accept small, incremental victories, they will never get any of the big change they truly want. 

When the Democrats won an improbable majority in the Senate in January, I messaged Chuck Schumer, my state Senators, and the DNC chairman about this strategy, but alas, they ignored it, and continue to use the same old tired mistakes despite being on the side of right in this country for the last three decades. For people who claim to do this for a living, they suck at it.

Freedom for me, but not for you!!!!

So the cult members of the American Fascist Party (formerly the GOP), and the braindead victims of their propaganda campaign, continue to scream bloody murder about their freedom, but clearly have no idea what that really means. 

They have spent the pandemic crying about their freedom to not have to wear a mask in public places to save lives, and to not get vaccinated, which would help save their lives and the lives of others around them, and now they are spending their time prolonging the pandemic they claim to hate, and in some cases dying as a result. 

If that wasn't bad enough some of these people are now protesting at schools, schoolboard meetings, and refusing to grant the people who choose to mask their kids, the same freedom they want for themselves, and beyond that some are actually physically attacking students (other people's children).

These loser, brain-washed parents, are accosting other parents with claims that masking your child is "rape", yes rape, and "child abuse." These claims are so ignorant, it makes me fear for their children because these stupid people are raising them. 

They continued to claim that the responsible parents are traumatizing their own kids by making them wear masks. You know who is traumatizing the children? You are stupid! These halfwits screaming outlandish insanity at the responsible parents is what is traumatizing the children. NOT MASKS! 

What happened to freedom? Don't these parents get to mask their kids if they want to? And who the hell are these Qanon, Trump-conned morons to take away their freedoms and tell them how to parent?

This is how things have worked on planet earth in America for the last 70-100 years or so. If you want to send your kid to public school, your kids need to be vaccinated. If you don't want to comply by the rules of society, then don't send your kid to public school. Send them to private school. If you can not afford it, then home-school your soon-to-be damaged children. And they will be damaged not because of mask mandates, but because you were their teacher.

If we did not have vaccine mandates in schools, tuberculosis, measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, and yellow fever would be running wild in our schools, and children would be dying at alarming rates. Maybe that's what these so-called staunch pro-lifers want, for kids to die in large numbers. Doesn't sound so prolife to me.

The people who scream the loudest about freedom are the first to try and restrict the rights of others. If  you are a true lover of freedom and democracy, you must vote out the politicians who have enabled these Fascist Party soldiers who are trying to impose their will on others despite being the minority.

The big lie proven to be a whopper!

If you have been paying attention for the last year (yes it has been a year), you have heard some crazed right-winger screaming about how the election was stolen and how Donald Trump actually won the election, and that the only reason Joe Biden was said to have won the election was because of massive voter fraud.

These outlandish claims of massive voter fraud, in the past, would have lived only in the dark corners of the internet, and would have been put to bed by the news media as ridiculous, and the nation would move on. However, these dangerous claims of dead-people voting in the millions and voting machines rigged to change votes, have been amplified by an irresponsibly dangerous right-wing media (OANN, FOX News and other so-called conservative outlets) to promote this propaganda first introduced into the ethos by a sociopath named Trump who really doesn't care about the nation, but only his own twisted ego.

This propaganda even led thousands of people to storm the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 to try and overthrow the government. 

Here is the hard truth that most of the people watching FOX News, OANN, and Newsmax never hear, the limited amount of voter fraud that did occur in the 2020 election seemed to be perpetrated by Republicans in an attempt to get Trump re-elected, and not the other way around. Here is just a couple of examples. 

One of the Trumpiest of Trumpists, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, said he would pay a bounty of up to a million dollars for people who found evidence of voter fraud, and despite the right claiming there were millions of examples of this, his campaign has only issued one check thus far at it was for an example of a Republican who tried to vote twice for Trump in Pennsylvania.  

Now it might be easy to laugh this off as a clown show of Republican/American Fascist Party idiots making outlandish claims, but you need to stop laughing right now. Remember these claims prompted thousands of people to beat police on Jan. 6 and to seek out Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi on that same day to murder them. There is nothing funny about losing our democracy right in front of us.  

In fact, these fake claims of fraud have made it "okay" for the Republican/American Fascist Party to pass laws in almost every red state that has made it harder for actual American citizens to cast their votes, and to make it easier for partisan hacks appointed by politicians to actually steal the election the next time around. Keep that in mind.

It is up to us as American citizens to put an end to this authoritarian movement at the ballot box. Make no mistake, it is an authoritarian movement, whose candidates now claim on a daily basis that elections are being stolen despite all the evidence to the contrary. Even sham audits like the one performed by the Cyber Ninjas, an organization of pro-Trump hacks, who donated to Trump's fascist campaign for President, can't even find widespread fraud like Dumbo Don claims. This was a group who went in looking to confirm all his stupid ramblings in Arizona and couldn't manage to do so despite no real transparency and oversight.

Here is Arizona's American Fascist Party member Paul Gosar's reaction to the Cyber Ninja's claims that the Joe Biden, much to their dismay, actually won Arizona for the fourth time. 

We must as democracy loving Americans to put an end to this fascist/authoritarian movement being executed by the far right in this country, and the only way to do so is to vote out these closeted fascists from all walks of government. We must purge all the GOP fascists from government in such overwhelming numbers in the next election that it leaves no doubt as to who is in charge - the American people. 

They will not change their stripes until they see it politically damaging to go along with the "Big Lie" and to support Dumbo Don, and his fascist thugs.

First we must start by supporting our democracy-loving friends from New Jersey and Virginia, who will be voting in less than 2 weeks to keep GOP/fascists from taking over the governors' offices in those respective states. 

Next we must target for defeat other fascist Governors like Ron SeSantis (Florida), Greg Abbott (Texas) and Kristi Noem (South Dakota), among others.   

Here is a current list of the targets of GOP/fascists who need to be voted out in the upcoming 2022 elections: 

Ron Johnson (Senator) - Wisconsin  

Chuck Grassley (Senator) - Iowa

Marco Rubio (Senator) - Florida

As far as the Senate is concerned there is also four seats in which the moderate Republicans are not running for re-election, so you can expect the nominee to be a fascist from the Trump wing of the Party (Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, North Carolina).

These people must be defeated if we are to maintain our democracy, and we must re-elect the following Democrats: Mark Kelly (Arizona), Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire), Catherine Masto (Nevada), Raphael Warnock (Georgia). 

In the House of Representatives, it is a who's who of fascists:

Matt Gaetz (FL), Jim Jordan (Ohio), Paul Gosar (AZ), Lauren Boebert (CO), Marjorie Taylor Green (GA), Steve Scalise (LA), Elise Stefanik (NY), Kevin McCarthy (CA), Devin Nunes (CA), Jim Banks (IN), Andy Biggs (AZ), Mo Brooks (AL), Madison Cawthorn (NC), Andrew Clyde (TX), Louie Gohmert (TX), and Chip Roy (TX). 

NOTE: Going forward I will refer to the Party formerly known as the GOP as the Republican/American Fascist Party. I will refer to moderate Republicans by name or as moderate Republicans. I will never stop using the term American Fascist Party until the threat posed by Donald Trump, his Trumpist brownshirts in Congress, and his army of domestic terrorists has been destroyed in full at the ballot box.  

Qanon is a death cult

Matthew Taylor Coleman, a member of the Qanon Cult, killed his 2-year-old and 10-month old children with a spear gun and dumped their lifeless bodies by the side of the road in Mexico.

This twisted member, of a growing right-wing death cult, told authorities that his children possessed the DNA of the serpent because apparently their mother did not adhere to the same death cult that believes in Satanic cabals of pedophiles who eat children.

THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS than cults. NOTHING! 

David Koresh, formerly known as Vernon Howell, led the Branch Davidian Cult in Waco, Texas that ended in the deaths of 79 of his followers, including 21 children under the age of 16. Koresh claimed to be the last prophet of the Branch Davidians, who forced a standoff with the ATF and FBI that lasted 51 days. 

Jim Jones, the leader of the People's Temple, led more than a thousand people to the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana where they were murdered or forced to drink poison at gunpoint. In total, this Cult claimed the lives of 918 commune members, including 304 children. Jones also had Congressman Leo Ryan killed. Ryan went to Guyana at the behest of the American family members of cult members to inspect the situation. When he boarded his return flight, he and four other people were shot and killed by cult members.

Today, Donald Trump is the leader of a death cult in America. How many times have we seen images of a Trump rally and seen people wearing Q tee-shirts and holding up Q signs. The U.S. Justice Department must at this point identify who Q is and put an end to these radical mind-altering posts. 

Internet posts that encourage people to commit acts like Coleman did is not free speech. We can't yell fire in a crowded theatre, and neither can the people associated with Qanon make inflammatory, reckless and untrue statements that can lead to death and violence.

The lies and conspiracies that Trump promotes, and have been reinforced by the right wing media outlets like Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax, has had a mind-numbing impact on his brainwashed supporters. Remember this people didn't join the Branch Davidians and People's Temple thinking that in the end they would play a part in killing themselves or their own children, but that's exactly what has happened here with the Qanon death cult. The only thing missing is the sad end to this horrific chapter.