The Inevitable Day Came

I can't claim I was the first to warn us that this crew might well have a coup in mind. More informed people were speculating about it. But this was the result of four-plus years of tolerating Trump. It was the result of people like the Wall Street ranter who sent out a neswletter that Trump was great for the Street and thus there was no doubt he'd be re-elected and that that was the only result anyone with brains wanted.

It's also time to regret feeling that Hillary Clinton blew it when she called the scum that invaded the Capitol yesterday "the deplorables". She was being too restrained. I still blame Hillary's overpaid, cocky, and totally out-of-it senior staff for screwing up her campaign. And she gets the blame for not listening to Bill even if she didn't want him out there on the trail in 2016. He could bring out the best in people who feel they've been mistreated, instead of the worst that the present incumbent draws out.

Until now, I hadn't even taken much notice of the little punk, Josh Hawley of Missouri. This is the best Yale Law School can give us, along with Clarence Thomas. And Harvard Law can answer for Ted Criz, too. Hawley really thought that he could pick up Trump's filthy legacy to ride to the White House in four years. Even after yesterday's riot, he still was trying to push Trump's baseless nonsense. I wish Claire McCaskill, who was the Senator he ousted by Missouri's resident idiot voters, had been free on MSNBC to describe this pompous jerk.

This all shows that the ends justify the means to most of these people: the pols like McConnell and McCarthy., Pence and Graham. And yes, that Wall Street clown I mentioned earlier. "He's good for business...and for us" was their credo. "Where's mine?" Presidential relatives have long been mostly embarrassment for past White Houses. Billy Carter, Roger Clinton, Don Nixon, Eisenhower's older brother (not Milton), Bush's cousin who was chortling with Trump that time about grabbing women by the youknowhat. But Trump Jr. and his siblings or half-siblings or whatever really stand out as the lowest of the low. n they

All these smart guys who got burned by the spectre of power they traded their integrity for when they signed on for this administration. They all were burned or disgraced or just rendered ineffective at best. Mattis, who finally broke his silence; Sessions, who figured he could satisfy his desires for the attention that eluded him on the Hill; all the hangers-on with warped values.

The law enforcement people who stood aside and ler returnedt these marauders into the Capitol. It's been noted how they would have launched howitzers at a similar group of invaders if they were black. People like Mitt Romney have emerged with new lustre--even G.W. Bush provided a fine statement yesterday: And yes, Dick and Liz Cheney rose to the occasion--wow! it's hard to believe how bad he was in office and yet how favorably he compares with the incumbent.

Will life ever return to normal after COVID? Will the old norms of political behavior ever re-emerge after this profane period? I hope for the best but I expect the worst. The rich filth have seized control and they will spend whatever it takes to keep on stealing through tax breaks and outright handouts from the public trough. It will take a lot more than outrage at the spectacle we witnessed on TV yesterday to effect change. 

We need a complete housecleaning and the country missed its chance in November--sure, Biden got in but they returned all those sleazebag GOP Senators who should have been beaten. It was encouraging that owing to the work of people like Stacey Abrams, Georgia gave us the two Democratic Senators to make the new VP provide the majority. I would have made her the Attorney General. 

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