January 15,
2021
There was an
attempted coup at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, last Wednesday, January 6th, 2021. That
the president said "we love you" to the perpetrators is reprehensible
and indefensible. That they were under the impression that the US military
would in any way back them up is ludicrous and pathetic and shows just how
deeply their trust and loyalty runs in a depraved president who has done
nothing but lie and cheat all of his life. Why was that threat of violence
toward the decent American people not taken seriously? Why was it not
considered a breach of his oath of office then and there?
The GOP let
serious threats of violence and un-American language and behavior slide over
and over again – not only did they let it slide, but they doubled down on it
and defended it. They shut down the government longer than any other time in
history to placate an obviously irrational and inept so-called president. After
the first farce of an impeachment – which was held behind closed doors and where
no witnesses were called – he was 'cleared' and said to have "learned his
lesson". Really? And what lesson did he learn? All during this American
due process, he called the investigation
a witch hunt, defied it at every turn, and accepted no responsibility for his
un-American, volatile, childish, mean-spirited, unpresidential behavior.
And Susan Collins said, "I believe the president has learned his lesson". Apparently the lesson he learned was that our
American laws don't apply to him and that he can get away with anything because
months later he incited a coup.
Even after
this coup he incited, a GOP Senator Roy Blunt said, "he's touched a
hot stove and likely won't try it again."
Likely? Exactly what evidence in the past four years indicates that he
is capable of learning any lesson? That he's capable of behaving with dignity,
compassion, or basic human values? For that matter, perhaps we should consider
the fact that perhaps these members of Congress who still allow – even support –
this reprehensible monster, are all incapable of learning a lesson as
well.
Were you all
not listening when he, standing on a dais on foreign soil, in the immediate
presence of an adversarial leader (who has placed bounties on the heads of
American military personnel), proceeded to denounce the United States
intelligence community?
Were you
absent the day he threatened to turn the United States military on its own
people – and the generals had to tell the President of the United States that
that was unconstitutional, and they would take no part in such abominable
behavior?
What lessons
has he learned since then? That the American Congress and Vice President don't
have the courage and decency to uphold the Constitution and laws of their
country? That he's invincible? That there are absolutely no consequences for
his actions, no matter how low he stoops? No matter how un-American his
behavior? No matter how seditious? No matter how he subverts the meanings of
our country's policies? No matter how he ridicules and insults those Americans
with compassion and faith in justice, equality, and freedom for everyone?
The fact
that terrorists were allowed into the capitol and were not teargassed,
beaten down, and fired upon is only because they were white.
The fact
that days before the attempted coup, GOP members led them around the capitol,
showing them where private offices were located, to facilitate their ability to
vandalize the seat of the American people's power is treasonous.
The fact
that the President of the United States said to the terrorists "we love
you" and that he wasn't immediately charged with sedition is a disgrace
that smacks of aiding and abetting this
heinous crime of revving his base of despicable thugs to commit this crime
since he campaigned in 2016.
The fact
that all the time he's bragged about defeating ISIS, he has simultaneously
encouraged domestic terrorists in his own country, last week standing at a
podium offering to march with them to the capitol to overturn the will of the
American people who voted him out of office. Voted him out legally, legitimately,
constitutionally. He claimed that this betrayal of American people's trust was
'doing the right thing'. And then, instead of marching with them, he hid himself
away for the rest of the day, watching the violence he encouraged unfold. If overturning
the election was the right thing, why didn't he follow through and march with
them? Why? Because he knew what was going to happen. He knew. And when it did,
he watched with glee. Safely tucked away behind bulletproof windows in the
White House; a coward letting a violent mob ransack our capitol and murder
innocent people on his behalf. Allowing the angry mob of his creation to take
the fall and be imprisoned, denying his culpability as usual and throwing them
under the bus, just as he had intended all along.
Overturning
a free American election was the right thing? The right thing is to confirm the
electoral college vote and Biden as president. There was nothing unfair about
the election. In fact, it may very well be the first completely fair election
in the United States. Ever. Because record numbers of true Americans finally
had had enough of the voter suppression perpetrated by the racist right wing
and showed up at the polls to vote out the most reprehensible, indefensible
fake president in the history of our country. It was the most closely watched, fairest
election perhaps in the history of the United States precisely because the
American people united – all ages, all races, all religions, all genders, and
defied the lies and propaganda Trump and his enablers have spewed for years to
reinforce the meaning of true patriotism in America: they claimed their power
and voted.
Trump lost
because he's completely incompetent - as a president and moreover as a human
being. He, his family, his enablers in Congress should all be held accountable
for the grave state our country is in. He should have been being held
accountable from the very beginning. From the very first time he demonized half
of the American people because they believed in the values and humanity that
American is supposed to stand for – and stood with the white supremacist
terrorists, who carried Confederate battle flags and Nazi swastika flags, and
called them fine people. These "fine people" are not patriots or
conservatives. They are right wing terrorist thugs that the
"president" has endorsed and sought aid from since he began
campaigning five years ago because he's too much of a coward to stand up for
himself – like most bullies. Actually, since he was born because his father
instilled autocratic mentality within him as a tiny child.
This past
summer I saw peaceful protesters - including clergy on their own church
property - teargassed, flashbanged, shot with rubber bullets, beaten to
the streets, and steamrolled by storm-troopers set upon them by the unhinged president
– who wanted to cross a street and trespass on church property
for a photo op.
I've heard
the so-called president condemn Antifa while never once condemning neo-Nazis,
KKK, or white supremacists - he has been given multiple chances to do that and
declined.
I've heard
him name-call, mock, and call his own military personnel losers and suckers because
they were captured while fighting a war he was too cowardly to even show up for.
(One of those soldiers was my husband who was a POW in 'Nam for 9 months in a
hellhole where he was tortured every day. He showed up to serve his country while
Trump dodged the draft with several deferments and finally bought a
"doctor" to diagnose him as unfit to serve).
I've heard
him make vile statements about women that in any other position would have
garnered him charges of sexual harassment.
In fact I
don't think there's a single group in this country or around the world that he
hasn't insulted, sometimes even threatened, in the past four years.
He had the
audacity to call BLM kneelers sons of bitches, yet, told white seditionists who
stormed, shat in, pissed in, and brought pipe bombs and molotov cocktails into
our national capitol that 'we love you.' Who's we? Not me. Not any sane
American patriot.
He's
encouraged right wing extremists to hijack the title "patriot"
and demonize true Americans. If this terroristic behavior is the new meaning of
"patriot" then I'll have to find a new way to describe myself.
I love my
country. But this president, his disgusting family, and those vile members of
Congress who have supported him and enabled him to get away with the seditious crimes
he's committed against the Constitution and the American people have earned
nothing but my contempt. They are all abominable and should have been removed
from the White House and/or their offices long before this attempted coup was
ever allowed to happen.
It frightens
me that there are still so many gaslit Americans who are supporting this
monster. This is cult behavior. Cultists have been spoon-fed lies and propaganda
for so long they cannot tell fact from fiction. Perhaps they don't want to
because they will have to admit how wrong they were and are. They're willing to
sacrifice the stability, safety, and freedom of their country in order to not admit
how completely they were led astray.
Trump is no
president. He's barely a human being. He belongs in prison, along with his
family members, and the people who obstructed justice the first time he was
impeached. He should have been removed from office months ago when he said:
"Stand down for now" to the very thugs who were obviously
planning attacks on state capitols and the United States capitol even then. He
should have been removed when he said, "to oppose me would be very
bad" and proceeded to name groups of thugs who would fight true Americans
should they oppose him or his heinous policies.
When was the
pledge of allegiance amended to say one nation under Trump?
The way I
understand it, America is supposed to be indivisible and the states are
supposed to be united. And the liberty and justice is supposed to be for all,
not just right wing white supremacists, who in an attempt to overthrow an
American election committed sedition at the behest of the President of
the United States.
These
seditionist thugs will no doubt receive fair trials – which, incidentally, they
survived to receive after desecrating the American capitol. Had their skins
been any other color, I doubt they would have survived to even be arrested.
Remember
last summer when droves upon droves of decent Americans flooded the streets of
America in solidarity demanding justice and equality? And not just in America,
but people all over the world? Did you not get it? Did you not hear the
American 'president' condemn us? Condemn us for standing for American values?
Integrity? Decency? Compassion? Honesty? Basic ethical behavior? Our lives? Our
country? Our souls?
Did you not
hear his vile encouragement to a mob of thugs last week? Inciting violence
within the very capitol that houses our government, the hall of our democracy,
where the will of the people is supposed to rule, that houses those men and
women dedicated to ensuring the will of the American people? The American
people who voted out a seditious, racist, vicious, coward who had the audacity
to call America's free press the enemy of the people – because they had the
courage and integrity to tell the truth about a liar and a fraud from the very
beginning of this farce of an administration, who continues to be a serious
threat to American democracy.
Did you not
hear about his having the audacity, when his Vice President objected to his
stance about overturning the legitimate, legal American election, so that he
could cheat and illegally gain a second term, said to Mr. Pence: "You can
go down in history as a patriot or you can go down in history as a pussy."
Really? Because the Vice President – who has staunchly supported every vile act
the president has committed – disagreed to a seditious act, he's a pussy? The
one man who's stood in the way of the 25th Amendment being invoked
years ago? The president's number one lap dog who's sold out his soul, his
faith, his country more than once supporting this monster? Doesn't that send up
a big fat red flag that Trump is completely out of control and anyone is
expendable to him? He will throw absolutely anyone under the bus who doesn't immediately
acquiesce to any of his lamest ideas and criminal acts.
Have you not
heard this president, at the top of his lungs, condemn people beyond our
borders as lesser. Who calls entire groups of people rapists, murderers, and
thieves to frighten Americans into jailing families merely seeking asylum, to
convince Americans that it's acceptable to steal their children from them, the cruelest
action one human being can take against another. That it's acceptable to never
bother to find the 1500 children who are still unaccounted for. He is incapable
of the compassion it takes to put himself in the place of any one of those 1500
sets of parents who have no idea where their child is, if they're safe, sick,
alone, caged, frightened, sold into the sex slave industry, or even alive.
Have you not
seen the president hold in contempt our allies while holding in esteem our
sworn enemies and adversaries – some of the cruelest, inhuman autocrats in the
world?.
Did you not
hear the president call American people who demanded equality and justice, who
begged for a show of solidarity by taking a knee, sons-of-bitches, yet allowed
white supremacist terrorists to bring pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails into the
capitol building – the seat of our government – to attack our legitimate
election?.
You senators
who continue to, after every vile incident perpetrated by the heathen in the
White House, insist that he's learned his lesson: when will you? You are not
ignorant nor uneducated. You are supposed to be lawmakers. You are supposed to
be constitutional experts. You are almost all lawyers. You have made careers of
being intimately knowledgeable of the laws and government of our country and
have taken oaths to uphold and defend them. When did your education, oaths, and
soul aside to allow one violation after another from a travesty of a president?
What must this imposter do before you admit he's a criminal and do your jobs?
To remove him and his crime family from the White House and jail him for
subversion of our country's most sacred laws and of sedition?
When will you
learn the lesson of touching the hot stove and act to defend and uphold
the constitution? To defend the will of the American people? How loud
and long must we cry out before we are heard?
Did you not see all of us in the streets? Are you not listening? Are you
stone deaf?
Where are
your loyalties? Because they are supposed to be with your country – with the
American people. Not with a deranged, dishonest, despicable excuse for a
so-called president and the terrorist thugs who support him at the cost of our
democracy. You've spent the last twelve years slamming the brakes
on every single thing the Democrats have tried to do – gaslighting the American
people at every turn, using lies, fear-mongering, hate-mongering, and negative
propaganda in an attempt to hold on to your power to…what? Hold on to your
jobs? What's your point? Because you've been so busy trying to hold onto your
jobs, that you've neglected to DO your jobs!
Millions of
American people are sick and hundreds of thousands of us have died because you
withheld vital information that allowed this pandemic to take a firm foothold,
and at the same time fought to remove healthcare for millions of Americans with
nothing to replace it.
You've spent
billions of dollars on part of a wall that a deranged, obsessed, and inept
child shut down the government to get, that never was finished and that a nine-year-old-child
could scale. While the government was shut down the Coast Guard was furloughed,
leaving our coastlines unpatrolled and vulnerable. Our parklands were
vandalized and partially destroyed during that time, by Americans, I
might add, not immigrants. Thousands of children were kidnapped and never
returned to their parents (and you had the audacity to call the immigrants thieves
and rapists and murderers!) who came here seeking safety and asylum.
You've spent
twelve years lying and cheating and spending millions of taxpayers' dollars
backing a smear campaign aimed at the Democratic Party instead of
putting your energy into smoothly, efficiently, and ethically running this
country with compassion and dignity to keep the American people safe, employed,
and free.
You've allowed
racism and flat-out insanity to prevail in the White House and bring chaos and
division to America the likes of which has never been seen before, and crime to
flourish the likes of which is so severe that it makes Watergate look like a pathetic
little joke! And instead of bringing the full power at your disposal to bear
against the maniac presidential imposter, you've doubled down and cleared him
of charges that were so obviously true a child could have understood and done
the right thing – and you never called a witness or publicized the procedure. Because
it was a travesty of justice.
You've allowed
a racist, clearly insane president to spew rhetoric so poisonous, so divisive,
for the last five years, that millions of Americans – during a pandemic! – took
to the streets to protest the inhuman, autocratic, racist horrors that has
brought us to the brink of civil war – and what did you do? You teargassed them!
Beat peacefully protesting Americans to those streets and sicced the unidentified,
military armored police on them for telling the truth and exposing your lies
and racism.
What's
behind this monstrous attack on the election, and in turn the Democrats? It's
so obvious! You are afraid that when the Democrats start doing your jobs next
week, that the American people – including all of the so-called-Republican
voters who have been so thoroughly duped – will see just how horrendous and insidious
your lies actually have been. Just how greedy, heartless, and immoral the
Republican party has become, and how close we came to having our democracy
stolen from us for all time.
You let this
travesty of a "president" torture, lie, and gaslight the American
people for five years. It is your only accomplishment this entire time, and it
is a wicked one. You have lied, cheated, and committed atrocious crimes against
the American people to keep him in office. And it's all about to be exposed.
Your greatest
fear is about to be realized: The United States of America is about to be
controlled by the Democrats – and not only are your predictions of disaster, of
the destruction of our country under Democratic leadership not going to come
true, but our country will flourish, just like it has every other time the
Democrats have led in the past.
Will things
be perfect? Of course not. No American expects perfection from our government.
But:
We don’t expect
our free press, designed to keep us informed about the goings-on of our
government officials, to be called our enemy.
We don’t expect
our president to vilify our allies and gush over notoriously cruel and
murderous dictators.
We don't
expect to become ill by the millions, die by the hundreds of thousands.
We don't
expect to have the President of the United States encourage domestic terrorism
and racism.
We don't expect
children to be targeted and stolen from their parents.
We don't
expect to be ridiculed, shamed, and pitied by the entire world because of the
leaders we have chosen.
We don't
expect GOP members of congress to bring terrorists into the Capitol building to
case it ahead of their attempted coup.
We don't
expect to be put under siege, blackmailed and gaslit for years with no end in
sight, in the name of greed, racism, lust for power, and hypocrisy, all of
which has become the norm in the last four years while the Republicans
have been in control of the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives.
You are
terrified that the American people are going to realize that our country is not
only not going to be destroyed, but that it will rebound, survive, and
flourish quite nicely without the iron fist of the Republican party that
has deteriorated into a cesspool of autocracy and corruption.
You are afraid
that good is actually going to finally triumph over evil, and that your
party is going to disappear, as it should, because you've systematically destroyed
it from within.
And you are
terrified that the American people will not only succeed without you, but will
say 'good riddance' when they realize just how unfathomably cruel, despicably
un-American, and grossly immoral you've been.
Let me be
the first to say, good riddance, Republican Party, it's been a dishonor to know
you.
