What We Heard the other Day…

We think we’ve finally found the truth. No, not that truth, the REAL truth, the one that the truthful people really believe is true. It goes like this, and we can prove it:

There is a group of people who believe we are secretly governed by a cabal that practices satanism and pedophilia and which is headed by none other than Donald Trump. Yes, that’s right, Donald Trump. It’s group secretly known by their logo: AQON. When you think about it (which is never recommended) it becomes obvious.

We know Trump has spoken in desirous terms about his own daughter Ivanka. His own words not to mention his marital habits make clear his preference for much younger women. How much younger? That’s a secret, of course, known only to believers in AQON.

Satanism? How else can you explain Trump’s expressed notions that the coronavirus will simply “disappear?” Why would he tell people it isn’t necessary to wear masks? How could nearly 400,000 people die of the virus and yet be ignored by Trump? Satanism indeed is rampant here. AQON reigns.

And then take a gander how at his most fervent, misguided and gullible believers — the ones who invaded the Capitol — are exactly the kind of people satan really prefers. The more misguided and gullible the better. The perfect agents for the AQON legacy of Donald Trump.

So, it just has to be true. It sounds true. Because there’s just one kind of truth, and that’s the one we believe in. Truthfully.

So, stay truthful, my friends. And remember: it’s the only way. Unless there’s another way.

A Humiliating and Deserved Departure

The impeached, disgraced and cowardly Donald Trump — a man who has trampled over democracy with his lying, corruption and glaring ignorance — is finally slinking away from the White House this week. It’s a pity it wasn’t four years ago.

The end of the Trump presidency is as mangled and corrupt at the end as it has been since 2016. Trump is departing without so much as a nod to the incoming President Joe Biden after having continued to insist that he was cheated out of the election by rampant voter fraud — rampant fraud that no one, Republicans included, could ever document.

Worse, his election lies incited an insurrection against the United States government, a riot of white nationalists, QAnon supporters and fringe hangers-on who stormed the Capitol at Trump’s bidding, an act for which Trump has been impeached — a second time — and likely will face. criminal charges.

What a disgusting person he is. His disdain for the Constitution and the rule of law is egregious. He has brought on himself a legacy that will forever link him to a seditious mob who tried to destroy the citadel of government and the people who are responsible to it. He has no shame about that, only perfunctory regret, most likely because the rioters didn’t succeed.

The sooner he’s gone the better for America. And better for the (few) responsible Republican lawmakers who have wasted their lives endorsing the president’s misbehaviors. There aren’t many profiles in courage in the GOP once you get past Sen. Mitt Romney, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger and some others. Hooray for them. May they rise as we move into the 2020s.

And as we move into 2021, let us not say good-bye to Donald Trump. Let us instead wish him all the misery and terrors he has so justly earned since 2016 (and before, for that matter). He is an appalling person, and the damage he has done to his country will always be the prime part off his legacy. Go in shame, Donald. And go.

Go, Go, Go

The disgraced, cowardly, ignorant Donald Trump needs to be removed from office before he can do further damage to America. Either by using the 25th Amendment or an impeachment or possibly by his own resignation — not that he has that much self-awareness — he must go.

An unhinged, mentally unstable man in the White House is a danger to this nation. There is no telling what his sickness will lead him to attempt. Another treasonous call to his domestic terrorist supporters isn’t out of the realm of possibility. And there are probably some elected Republican officials who would endorse that no less. Looking at You Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley.

Having Trump remain in office a day longer is unacceptable. Drag him out if we must, but get him away from the presidency. Justice, fairness and common sense demand it.

Trump Adds Treason to Odious Behaviors

As Trump protestors — spurred by the president himself — storm our Capitol, it is apparently that Donald Trump has unleashed treasonous actions against this United States. He has placed democracy at risk and encouraged violence against America. He and a group of Republican allies in Congress is attempting nothing less than a coup and must be stopped.

My hope is that the military may help restore order and justice in Washington. And that Donald Trump be arrested and placed in restraint as a danger to this nation with his potentially treasonous behaviors. He is not merely sick but diseased and must be removed from office immediately.

Time is Running Out

Read these prophetic words of our American President:

“Free elections will always protect our nation against (any dictatorship) … Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and that is by not voting at all … The people know that during this past year there were politicians and others who quite openly worked to restrict the use of the ballot in the election.”

Well, of course those words weren’t spoken by President Donald Trump. They came from President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the eve of the election in 1944. But they sound awfully topical, don’t they?

And when FDR spoke of politicians who work openly to restrict the ballot he could have been talking about Trump and his sleazy Republican allies in 2020. Happily, their efforts came to naught, although the long-term damage to the pubic sense of our democracy won’t be ascertained for several years, I fear.

And yet, Trump remains in the White House totally ignoring his responsibility to govern, concerned not with the pandemic, with Russian meddling in our democracy and the failure to assist his incoming successor but only with his craven, small-minded interests. and those are, of course, hijacking money from his supporters to support his lifestyle after he leaves the government, and continuing to deny the legal reality that he is a loser.

There’s really not much more to be said. Trump has assured us that his legacy will be an awful one, inflicting great harm on the American nation. And that he couldn’t care less. It’s been all about him not this country and its people (except as they can meet his personal needs).

But it’s almost over now, Just a little more than three weeks left in the worst presidency in our history and one of the worst people in our history. Still, the stench of Trump is rank. His departure cannot come soon enough. It’s time — past time — to begin undoing the shitstorm he has made in America.

We Can’t Wait

In the last post around Thanksgiving, we noted Mitch McConnell had not yet admitted that Joe Biden won the election. Well, it seems Mitch has had a change of heart and now believes Biden is the President-elect. So there goes the notion that Mitch was all about self-interest and the preservation of power over the virtues of democracy. Nope, he’s now a just doggone patriot who sees reality.

Of course, even in hindsight, that puts him many steps ahead of the election’s real loser, Donald Trump. He continues to throw tantrums about rigged ballots, election fraud and who-knows-what-else as his time in office b begins to fade away. There were, of course, no rigged ballots or fraud on any scale to alter the election results. But Trump — and henchmen like Mitch — have used that spurious claim to refuse to recognize Biden’s win.

On one level, that’s stupidly hilarious. Biden won on the day after the election. But on another level it is appalling, a threat to democracy by a group of belligerent losers claiming that part of our system of government and elections requires weeks of fraudulent allegations. They’re saying “the election process is deeply flawed and you shouldn’t believe in it until we (Republicans) tell you so.” That’s dangerous.

The American electoral system does work. It worked just fine in November, and we legitimately elected Joe Biden. Claiming anything else — for weeks on end — is simply malignant noise that is designed to convince too many Americans that elections are faked.

The electoral system is strong. It was strong even in an unprecedented year when mail-in ballots were incredibly prevalent as a necessary part of safe voting. There was no widespread fraud, there was no real reason to challenge the results. Joe Biden won. Donald Trump lost.

And he’s still a loser, one about to be removed from office. One who will face a very different landscape after January 20th. One who will discover that even self-administered pardons — if he takes that route — offer no protection from state criminal cases against him. And my goodness, those cases ae coming.

Donald has always been a cry-baby. We’re about to see that big time. Can’t wait.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving indeed. Donald Trump has been soundly defeated in an honest election, and there is so very much to be thankful for right now.

For starters, Joe Biden bet Trump by nearly 6 million votes, last I heard. He won in the electoral college by about the same numbers as Trump defeated Hilary Clinton in 2016. There was no demonstrable fraud in the election. Trump lost. Period. He’s a loser. Period.

So what’s he up to thee days as he waits out his last days in the White House? Well, there’s a pardon for a felon who lied to the FBI. There’s a fund-raising scheme he desperately needs for his post-presidential activities (i.e., lawsuits, debts, Melania’s alimony….).

The money raising ideas are pretty lousy for anyone who cFES TO contributes. Ostensibly the money he’s seeking goes for legal activitIes in each of the states pushing his baseless fraud claims That is a possibility, however slim. Much more likely is the sense that Trump can pull off most of the money generated by this scheme to hep pay off his debts. That would be in excess of at least $400 million. And he ain’t got that cash anywhere around until and unless he can get folks to pony up right now.

He also is saying he’ll use it for another rn at the White House in 2024. That seems unlikely. First, there’s a really good chance he’ll lose again if he gets the nomination. Second, if he’s still alive, he’ll be an extremely unhealthy 78-yer old. Third, do you think he truly wants all that trouble again? And, having been fooled once, a majority of American voters are going to exceedingly un happy about the prospect of four more years with him.

So let’s just assume he’s trying to con as much money out of his supporters as he can right now. He’s a con man, and this is just another one. Another shabby con.

Of course we still have a lot of bottom-feeders in the Republican party out there, starting with Mitch McConnell, who still has not admitted that Joe Biden won the election. He’s a trumpster all the way, and a shameless politician who will long bear the legacy of a man who cared not at all for democracy, only for political gain. His time is coming … Trump’s is on the way even sooner.

A Spelling lesson for Us

How do you spell “loser?” Well, “Donald Trump” would be swell way to start.

He lost the presidential election — forget those fake ballots and voter fraud — and now he’s pouting inside the White House. A coward and a bully (don’t those two attributes almost always go together anyway?).

He delegated some of his toadies to go protect the election results, but his heart clearly isn’t in it. On the weekend after the election, instead of working on serious ballot challenges, he played golf for two days. There’s your “loser” spirit in action.

Of course he’s going to leave office. But we think we know why he’s hanging on so tenaciously. First, he hates being called a loser. and hates even more actually being one. Second, once he leaves the sanctuary of his office he’s almost certainly going to face a ream of legal actions, civil and criminal, even thing from business fraud to physical assault on a woman. And third, he will have to confront his personal financial issues head-on: he’s in debt for at least $421 million with no discernible way of paying it off.

Tsk, tsk. Things do come around, don’t they?

We already know we can count on him to make it messy as his administration has been. By refusing to allow the president-elect to begin the official transition, he shows himself a small, scared little boy. He’s rather urge his supporters to give him money ostensibly for legal challenge to baseless voter fraud accusations but which in reality will go into his pocketbook (maybe that’s where he gets money to pay off his debts?).

Whatever, he is as slimy as ever, and his supporters seem willing to drag themselves through his muck ever longer. We’re at 65 days and counting before he’s done (unless, of course, he decides to skulk away under cover of darkness one cold night in December).

But he knows, even if he won’t admit it, that he’s a loser ands his days are numbered. Sorry, let’s spell that in bigger letters: LOSER

Catching Up

We still don’t officially have a president yet, though Joe Biden is leading and appears to have an excellent chance of defeating Donald Trump. That’s good. Let’s hope that will become official soon.

What’s not so good is that the much-desired resounding repudiation of Trump and his lying, incompetent ways did not materialize. The Democrats did not create anything resembling a landslide, and they failed to get control of the Senate and lost a few seats in the House. The results are hardly bad news, but they suggest our fractured, partisan Congress will continue to function intermittently if at all.

Biden will have won the popular vote by a very convincing margin, and — apparently — the electoral college by a decent margin. None of that matters to Trump, of course, who continues to spout false claims about voting fraud in the states he didn’t win. Nary a word about voting in the states he won, however.

He just can’t stand being a loser in spite of the oft-evident fact that he is precisely that. What else is new. What remains ahead of us is learning how disruptive Trump will be in the remaining 70-plus days of his administration. And assuming Biden is elected as we believe, how will Trump handle the official turnover on January 20?

Meantime back in Connecticut, we had some wins and losses. Biden of course, won the state in a near-landslide. Democrats picked up more seats in the state Senate and the House, giving them very solid majorities in each. Regrettably the Democratic House candidates in the Litchfield area that I endorsed lost.

Rep. Jahana Hayes won re-election to the US House and did all Democrats running, so that is excellent news.

Now we wait the presidential election returns…..

National, Local Endorsements

It’s endorsement time. And I’m not going to waste much space on the presidential race. There’s only one candidate who is honest, visionary, supporting unity not divisiveness, who has integrity, who isn’t narcissistic, racist, misogynist and whose mismanagement of our response to the coronavirus has led to tens of thousands of American deaths.

That one candidate is Joe Biden, of course. And if you’re voting for someone else, please think about it carefully and thoughtfully, and cast your ballot to continue American democracy. Trump’s a loser.

Locally, here’s the way we see it:

US House of Representatives 5th Congressional District: Democrat Jahana Hayes has done an admirable job of representing her constituents during her first term, and she very clearly deserves a second one. Her Republican opponent David Sullivan is just another voice for Donald Trump, and his election would only thrust him among the suck-ups that control the GOP these days.

30th District State Senate: Republican incumbent Sen. Craig Miner has been around a long time, and he’s been a consistent voice for his party. That’s not saying much, of course. There’s not much creative thinking coming from him, and a new voice such as the Democrats offer in attorney David Gronbach is promising. We think Gronbach deserves a shot at this job.

State House District 66: David Wilson is the Republican incumbent, and he has proved to be someone who can be counted on to think and vote as he is told by party leaders. And that’s it. His skills seem limited, so limited that it’s difficult to conceive of how he could do less. Democrat Matt Dyer, a political novice and Litchfield attorney, is a much better choice for voters who value independent thinking.