House Of Cards

Trump must be tired of winning because he’s built a house of cards. And those cards are falling one at a time.

As more horror stories are being told about January 6th, this one breaks my heart. A fellow Marylander whom I will now and forever regard as a brother. A dad who lost a child to depression that led to his suicide–a dad who buried that son on January 5th, one day before–showed up to work. His daughter Tabitha begged him not to go. Not to leave her alone…so he told her he had to go, and it was a very important day, and she could go with him. And we know what happened next.

This and more make it clear that Donald Trump cannot be allowed to escape the consequences of his words. Colin Powell has said that it is possible to heal the country and impeach Trump at the same time. That the two are not at odds with each other and in fact are both essential. He said he would have impeached Trump the first time.

As the retired general and former leader of the Joint Chiefs and former Secretary of State, he knows how serious the crime was that led to that first impeachment. Having seen what transpired on Wednesday, he sees a far worse crime. A wise man whose education and years of experience have made him the perfect man to seek out for answers, he is a Republican who refuses to go with the extremists and who has both feet planted squarely on solid ground in the traditional conservative party ethos.

He sees this country as it was, which, given all that’s happened, needs cleaning and maintenance but is not without hope. I’ve always liked and trusted the general, served under him and know him to be honorable and possessed of integrity and wisdom. If he sees hope, I see hope. We all should.

The question is, why impeach Trump? The papers will be filed Monday, January 11th. Mitch McConnell himself printed out the procedure and passed it out to both houses of Congress. He wants to make sure everything is in motion by the 19th. Hearings can continue beyond but it has to be done.

Impeach The Bastard

Impeachment means several things. The first is that it removes the secret service detail from him, a perk all former presidents get. Next is, he cannot collect a pension. I for one believe this is fair because of all the money he’s taken from the government by conducting business on his properties.

Finally, anyone so impeached cannot run for any other political office ever again.

But it also would leave him more susceptible to prosecution because his house of cards will be gone, leaving the last place to neurotically “hide” useless. More people will see him as he really is. If his speech that day didn’t do it, if the attack on the Capitol wasn’t enough, then seeing him pathetically whining without any cover, almost nude as it were, will be enough for people to finally turn on him.

But what about the ones who still voted not to ratify the electoral vote results that night even after they’d all been forced to shelter under chairs?

What about them?

It is staggering to think that there were so many Republicans still sticking to their Trumpism and delusions. Ted Cruz is a special kind of evil and I get his vote. A former aide said she resigned from Cruz’s office because he changed after Trump was elected and added that she “didnt know him anymore”.

Ted Cruz behaved stupidly that night urging his fellow senators to act in a bipartisan manner and “shock the viewers”.

Not the public, not American citizens. The viewers. Played to the cameras, the idiot. And he wasn’t alone. It’s always been about image and audience for Trump and Cruz fell into lock step long ago.

How stupid can one get, playing to an audience and making it so obvious? Because that’s not country first, not patriotism and certainly not professional.

Because twitter, Fox News, OAN, Newsmax and Infowars and Facebook groups all glorified Trump no matter what he did. Everyone who let those sources go without rebuking them is directly responsible for what happened on Wednesday.

Everyone on Trump’s staff and in his cabinet who gave up and silently stood by is responsible for the terrorist attack on the Capitol. Everyone from press secretaries to Kellyanne Conway and beyond who rationalized his speech and behavior bears part of the blame and the fact that some are leaving the sinking ship won’t help them. They stayed until it was obvious that he had finally done something that could get them all into deep shit. And they flee like cowards.

Trump is a coward. Pence, who Trump tried to assassinate, is too quiet. He’s a coward. With Trump silent he should be vocal. He’s not. The silence breeds more threats of mob terroism. A new wall now stands around the US Capitol Building. Trump finally got a wall.

Then an asylum bill already passed was blocked by a judge, dealing another blow to Trump after he lost his Twitter account permanently.

Right now, Trump is probably so bound up that he couldn’t squeeze one out if he drank a bottle of castor oil. No it didn’t stop with Twitter; he’s even been banned from pinterest. That’s the tide turning against Trump. Without his cell phone and apps, he’s nothing more than a little boy lost in a corn maze. He can shout but no one will hear.

What’s going on with cabinet members? here’s what. I agree with this opinion piece one hundred percent. Bailing in the 11th hour and calling it protest or moral reasons is bullshit. They’re not going to be there when the shit hits the fan. They think quitting will prove their own innocence.

It won’t.

And Lindsey Graham is no hero. He only voted the way he did because earlier, the very people who he had helped enable Trump to rouse had him eating carpet. Graham later said impeachment would only divide our country further. What he’s not saying is that it’s clear we’re divided. We get it. But Trump’s mealy mouthed shit about healing and uniting, parroted by Graham and others, is crap. He did not mean a word of it. Nobody who sends a mob to assassinate the House leader and vice president wants anyone to heal. Donald Trump hasn’t the capacity for empathy, sympathy, remorse, regret or anything but anger that his coup failed and fear that he will be punished for the attempt.

Unfortunately it isn’t over. 8chan, Parler, darkweb sources point to more on the way, this time better armed and fanatical to the point of suicide attacks. And according to a viral video on Parler, Trump himself has something “planned” for the 20th.

I hate this shit. Impeachment is essential. It will take up Trump and Giuliani’s time. It’ll scare Trump silly. As for the 20th, I am reassured by my own knowledge that the inauguration will be done as scheduled. The National Guard and federal officers will establish kill zones, lines of fire in which intruders can easily be shot. There will be every protection possible arrayed, and much of it invisible to the rednecks.

A West Virginia representative, newly sworn in, has been arrested for his participation in the breach of the Capitol building.

Pretty suspicious that this comes dead on the heels of a chance discovery that Russia had hacked enormous data from the government. I would not be surprised if an investigation proved all of this was linked.