"Don't take for granted how quiet the Capitol will be today.
It's because today in America, tragically, only one party respects elections. The other party uses and justifies violence to keep power.
Had Harris won, today likely would have been another bloodbath." ~ Senator Chris Murphey
January 6, 2021 was America’s Domestic Day of Infamy. The reaction of the party of Trump and more recently the indifference by the voting public brought the deepest shame and dishonor to our nation since the era of slavery.
We now have a convicted felon and insurrectionist for president!
Well done, America, home of the duped MAGA cult, low-information voters, and apathetic masses.
The greatest American tragedy of the 21st Century has been welcomed back, only to be compounded.
Just one example of the turncoat behavior is found in the words and actions of U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
He
once delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor:
January 6th was a disgrace. American citizens attacked their own government. They used terrorism to try to stop a specific piece of democratic business they did not like.
Fellow Americans beat and bloodied our own police. They stormed the Senate floor. They tried to hunt down the Speaker of the House. They built a gallows and chanted about murdering the Vice President. They did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth — because he was angry he’d lost an election.
Former President Trump’s actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty. There is no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day.
The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their President. And their having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole which the defeated President kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth.
The issue is not only the President’s intemperate language on January 6th. It is not just his endorsement of remarks in which an associate urged “trial by combat”. It was also the entire manufactured atmosphere of looming catastrophe; the increasingly wild myths about a reverse landslide election that was being stolen in some secret coup by our now-President.
I defended the President’s right to bring any complaints to our legal system. The legal system spoke. The Electoral College spoke. As I stood up and said clearly at the time, the election was settled.
But that reality just opened a new chapter of even wilder and more unfounded claims.
The leader of the free world cannot spend weeks thundering that shadowy forces are stealing our country and then feign surprise when people believe him and do reckless things. Sadly, many politicians sometimes make overheated comments or use metaphors that unhinged listeners might take literally.
This
was different. This was an intensifying crescendo of conspiracy theories,
orchestrated by an outgoing president who seemed determined to either overturn
the voters’ decision or else torch our institutions on the way out.
Those are some noble and honest words, long since evaporated into the fascist void of MAGA.
But McConnell’s actions spoke louder. He stole and filled two Supreme Court seats with Trump loyalists who defied our Constitution and destroyed our ideal of equal justice under law.
Then the morally feeble and spineless hypocrite proceeded to vote “not guilty” in Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate. Finally he supported the convicted felon for reelection. The Republican Party and corrupt Supreme Court went on to renounce truth, decency, and the rule of law.
Sadly, America will not soon recover from their treachery, if ever.
It is up to the people of consciousness and conscience to endure and ultimately prevail over the evil darkness of lies and hate in the halls of power. If not, Putin won and America is lost.
Never
forget!
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It’s astonishing how Democrats can’t accept defeat or take accountability. With Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, they’re directing their frustration and anger at one man: Attorney General Merrick Garland.
I believe you're lost anymouse.
You're looking for a MAGA cesspool of ignorance and delusion are you not?
Anonymous,
LOL!!! That is HILARIOUS!
What? You mean you're NOT joking?
You actually BELIEVE Trump graciously accepted his defeat in 2020 like Kamala did this past election?
If I recall correctly, didn't you and all of MAGA constantly direct your anger at Garland and the DOJ's "lawfare" for investigating the Trump Cartel's many CRIMES?
While we were frustrated with Garland slow-walking an investigation of Trump's crimes, we realize it didn't matter after Trump's corrupt Supreme Court Justices shredded our Constitution to grant him immunity, after he begged them for it.
There's no such thing as "presidential immunity" in our Constitution, but it will take decades for wiser, less corrupt Justices to reverse that travesty and mockery of our national ideal of "equal justice under law". The shameless pro-Trump partisan Justices corrupted those words carved over the entrance of the Supreme Court building into just another MAGA Big Lie.
I realize facts won't penetrate the skull of a low-information, poorly educated, gullible dupe of Donald Trump.
But we can certainly LAUGH at your blatant projection, willful ignorance, and utterly idiotic foolishness.
Les,
MAGA cultists are well-known for the inability and unwillingness to read.
I'm willing to bet that Anonymous didn't even make it through Sen. Murphey's statement.
"Don't take for granted how quiet the Capitol will be today. It's because today in America, tragically, only one party respects elections. The other party uses and justifies violence to keep power. Had Harris won, today likely would have been another bloodbath."
Here is video that the MAGA cult dreads and doesn't want anyone to see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iludfj6Pe7w&t=73s
Dave, that video just shows the police and the FBI plants inviting good, God fearing Americans into their House for a little tourist visit.
All we need to know to understand the current Trumpublican Party is that its followers admire a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter over a woman who, in her role as a prosecutor, put low-life crooks like Trump in prison for their crimes.
Thanks to the Trumpublican Party, miscreants, swindlers, and scoundrels are the role models for our children. If you lie and cheat your way to the top, you'll get rewarded by "the poorly educated" who Trump himself says he loves.
And why wouldn't he. They put him where he is.
Dave,
Yes, it was plain as day right before our eyes! Innocent patriots defending our freedom.
Shaw,
It's no wonder Trump's cultists emulate their malevolent mendacious messiah. His word is their Dark Gospel and they eagerly base their behavior on his lies and hate.
And man, do they ever HATE us. In fact you're quite popular in many of their comments the try to post here. Along with Les and Dave M. we are all apparently equally DUMB and STUPID. Just like Kamala. They just can't offer any quote or evidence as proof. Imagine that.
So, OK then. I'll take the compliment. As FDR said of the Republican economic elites who called him a commie, too, "I welcome their hatred".
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw
“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”
Anonymous,
Thanks for the Shaw quote and your excellent example of the deranged and false knowledge that only fascists embrace.
That kind of idiotic and demonizing lie is a foundation for the bottomless hate at the core of every fascist and neo-Nazi. They hate millions of decent fellow Americans because they are bigots who believe Trump's words are gospel. Yet these CINOs call themselves "Christians".
This profound level of false knowledge, (lies presented by Trumpists as "alternative facts") willful ignorance, and seething hate is what tears a country apart. It's the direct opposite of both patriotism and the teachings of Jesus. It's the reason why Trump said, "I love the poorly educated".
"The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else." - Shaw
It's insane this is a response to a post about MAGA flipping out about losing.
TB3,
"Trump Derangement Syndrome" is the hallmark of MAGA. And it is how they project their unthinking delusional embrace of Trump's lies.
Interesting - I see some uncomfortable concern in some MAGA blogs.
'I voted for him on the economy, not all this crazy stuff' for example.
BB,
Those low-information people had to ignore a lot of crazy and criminal behavior to naively believe Trump could bring down prices. Obviously they drank the koolaid that blamed Biden for the global inflation that was caused by the pandemic supply chain issues and corporate greed.
Wait until Trump deports migrant farm workers and food prices shoot up even higher. I bet they didn't think about that either.
It's astonishing how un-serious you are trying to engage in political discourse.
Yeah, they may have said that, but they have no idea what "the economy" was/is/will be. 4 years of gaslighting convinced them the Trump years weren't an insane, embarrassing mess for our society, culture, economy, and stature in the world and it was far better than how stellar the last four years have been with adults in charge.
A lot of people didn't think clearly. A lot of people continue to not think clearly.
You Knowb Who and the oligarchs who will be running the country are bringing much negativity, greed, and ignorance to the surface for all to see and suffer under. America chose its poison. It now will get exactly what it voted for.
Maybe (with any luck) when the goons of MAGA get through destroying the remarkably excellent work the Biden Administration accomplished under much less than ideal circumstances the nation's backlash will ultimately destroy MAGA and the trumpublican party for good. It should be the goal of every patriotic America to work to see that happens.
Dave, it's helpful to remember what the GOP immediately after the events of Jan 6...
From big time MAGA supporter Erick Erickson in January 2021.
"The insurrectionists, having constructed the gallows and hung a noose, entered the Capitol calling for Vice President Mike Pence to show himself."
"Shoot the protestors.Waive the rules, impeach. Waive the rules, convict. Waive the rules, deny the ability to run again."
From GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell in February 2021, speaking of Trump...
It, [Trump's failure to act for three hours on J6,] was a "disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty.”
“There’s no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day [Jan 6]. No question about it. The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president... The leader of the free world cannot spend weeks thundering that shadowy forces are stealing our country and then feign surprise when people believe him and do reckless things.”
From GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, speaking to Capitol Police Officer Fanone on Jan 6 said...
“We gave you guys [the DC Capitol Police] guns, and you should have used them... you should have shot them all in the head..."
You see Dave, in the heat of the moment, the GOP saw the threat on Jan 6 and knew it was bad. As bad as us crazy progressives say it was. The Senate investigation, led by the GOP called the events of that "brutal, savage and illegal".
But then reality set in for them... how could they win another election if they looked complicit in Jan 6 by enabling Trump, so they jettisoned their criticisms of him pretty quickly.
Within a few weeks of Jan 6, the reimagining of those horrible events had begun, the transformation of an insurrectionist riot was well underway into becoming a "Day of Love" as Trump calls it.
And all was forgiven and forgotten by the GOP and MAGA Land.
TB3,
Right. And most of them will be easily duped into voting for more Republicans in the midterms and Vance in 4 years.
Les,
The American people are addicted to the lies of the radical Right. As with all addictions, rock bottom must be hit before they examine their beliefs and behavior. And most won't even know it when the country bottoms out. In fact they will likely blame Democrats. They are that far detached from reality.
Dave,
The hypocrisy and subservience to Trump by the Republican Party is the greatest betrayal of our Constitution and rule of law. It goes all the way up from the least educated bumpkin to Congress and finally infecting the Supreme Court with their fascist doctrine of immunity for their Fuhrer.
I can't see any way to reverse the fascist takeover in my lifetime.
Sorry, kids and young adults. You could have helped stop this, but too many of you were busy staring at your smart phones and sucking up social media bullshit. Good luck with your future socio-economic catastrophes and loss of retirement and healthcare safety nets.
You may as well get used to the idea of severe austerity and working until you collapse or die.
We tried to warn you.
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