Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
Likewise, an incompetent, historically ignorant, politically naive, diplomatically
challenged, shallow, impulsive, narcissistic reality show host elected by a conned
citizenry to the highest office in the land can occasionally get a few things right as well.
I won’t get into a spitting contest over whether the election was rigged to an extent
necessary to “steal” it from Trump. Every election is rigged, to varying degrees. To deny
that is to be out of touch with how fundamentally corrupt our electoral system is at all
levels, and what an abysmal state our last-gasp democracy is in. Recall that on one
occasion, election rigging wasn’t up to the task, so a president was elected by judicial
fiat.
Nor will I come anywhere near Trump’s motives or level of involvement in the
shambolic insurrection that took place on January 6.
The important thing he got right was this: We should throw every last bum out of our
legislative branch, both House and Senate. I didn’t say assassinate or torture them,
although a good case could be made for “disappearing” the entire lot . . . for good! And
for the good of the nation. At least barring them from public life. I include everyone, even
Sanders, AOC, the rest of the squad, all of the virtue-signaling mannikins now in
Congress who spend more time raising money for their reelection campaigns and their
corrupt corporate-oligarchy political parties, than taking care of the business of
governing and caring for the people.
A clean sweep.
A fresh start.
Yes, there have been a few promising initiatives. But overall, there is no evidence that
any of the people in power, and I also include Biden, Harris, and just about everyone in
the collection of self-serving mediocrities which populate this and past administrations,
know or care the first thing about serving everyday citizens and “promoting the general
welfare”.
I’m sure I’ll get a barrage of comments defending these lackluster sock puppets of the
ruling elite. Let me just recommend in advance: I’m not talking about measuring these
phonies by the vapid standards we become accustomed to. The bar has been lowered so
many times, it’s not a bar anymore. It’s a broken pipe laying in the mud. Reach deep
inside, folks. Use your imagination. Recall the dreams and idealism of your youth.
Imagine what the U.S. could be instead of trying to decide how much humiliation and
misery we should tolerate.
I don’t have to defend the necessity of an occasional revolution. As you can see from the
above quote, Thomas Jefferson did it for me. By his measure we’re about 12 revolutions
overdue.
Even John F. Kennedy recognized that when confronted with extreme abuse of power,
we are left with no alternative.
What he said was unambiguous. If the system isn’t able to self-correct, then the system
gets a big bloody nose. In extreme cases, we skip the left hook to the nose and go right
for a decapitation. I hear Chanel makes a nice line of designer guillotines. How timely.
Let’s be clear. At no time in recent history has the need to replace those in power been
so urgent and obvious. Real democracy is dead in the U.S. and the country is ruled by
oligarchs. Not very smart oligarchs. Not oligarchs with a shred of decency. But money
talks. The ruling elite have the money. Most everyday people are scrambling to survive.
There’s no contest.
As much as many of us prefer to ignore or deny, Donald Trump got a few things right.
Unfortunately, he suffered from a debilitating case of ADHD. He’d say the right thing,
then either contradict himself in action or appoint opponents of his ideas to key
positions, who then went on to sabotage whatever occasional flash of brilliance he had.
Plus he was an unbroken stallion, and the Deep State realizing they couldn’t control him,
deep-sixed his presidency. Most of us are grateful for that but we have to keep in mind
that the cure in the long term might be worse than the disease. Turning more power
over — perhaps the entire control of our nation — to the invisible autocrats of our
intelligence agencies and the untouchable puppet masters of technocratic tyranny is not
a very smart idea. If that’s our strategy, we might as well just get it over with and take a
blow torch the Constitution. How about during half-time at the next Super Bowl.
In some incredibly twisted way, Trump was the voice of the people — at least some
people — probably not the kind of people anyone here would want to hang out with. But
he had (and still has) a lot of fans. His campaign was the first time in a long time that it
was publicly acknowledged that a lot of regular folks were tired of getting screwed by a
rigged system. Yes, Trump couldn’t have been a worse bearer of this torch. But at least
we got a fleeting glimpse of the flames.
Now we’re back to the default setting: Guys like Biden and gals like Harris spouting
slogans that are ear candy and brain anesthetics, woke gender-blenders like Buttigieg
striking poses to get a third-leg up on the next presidential election, fake progressives
cheerleading their walk-in-place approach to solving the most serious problems in
history, and hapless, hopeless, pathetic voters looking at fake radicals like the Squad as
the flickering pilot lights for real change. What all of this screams is form without
substance. We get fooled again. New boss is the old boss with a focus-group tested
bumpersticker on his BMW.
The sad thing about January 6 — and everybody knows what I’m referring to because
the Alice in Wonderland narratives around are still being milked by pundits and
politicians alike — is that it had both sides working to make sure it flopped, that instead
of representing an actual challenge to power or a wake-up call to the public or a warning
label for the buffoons and criminals now holding office, it was a huge embarrassment, an
unfunny joke, a reminder that politics is Pro Wrestling, only without sexy ring girls.
Joe Biden calls January 6 “The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”
Liz Cheney — talk about strange bedfellows, Cheney and Biden — claimed the forces
behind January 6 “represent a threat America has never seen before.” Which is certainly
easy to say if you’ve never picked up a history book in your life.
The Congressional resolution which established the investigation of January 6 called the
mob assault “one of the darkest days of our democracy.”
The Democratic Party elites are calling January 6 the domestic equivalent of the 911
attacks.
Did all of these people get their education watching Saturday morning cartoons?
What are these pathetic snowflakes going to do when some tech-savvy insurrectionist
strolls onto the national mall carrying a suitcase nuke and turns DC into a caramelized
crater?
For better or worse, the whole thing was pure spectacle — that’s the way Trump and the
MAGA crowd see the world — a pathetic attempt at symbolism wrought by morons. The
government was in no danger of being overthrown by such a disorganized, ragtag bunch
of urban hillbillies. The real danger lay in the weaponization and politicalization of this
non-event by the Democratic Party and the intelligence agencies, which had a number of
embedded provocateurs, on the scene as the PR stunt devolved to its disastrous
denouement.
Granted, I can’t prove this. It’s impossible in an era of fake news and fake justice to prove
anything. But if a little logic and common sense are applicable here, it’s axiomatic that
our internal intelligence agencies knew exactly what was going to happen, and if they
didn’t actively engineer this embarrassment, then they let it unfold knowing they could
use it against their current and future enemies — that would be the American people.
This is a classic, well-established, and usually effective drill.
Where is this headed? A bill authored by truly one of the most lackluster congressmen in
our history, Adam Schiff, will open a second war on terror, this one targeted domestic
terrorism. More surveillance, more eavesdropping, more curtailing of free speech and
dissent, more false flags, more fear, more anxiety, the final nails in the coffin of what was
once for the world the beacon of civil liberties and respect for human rights. Yes, it’s 911
all over again. Wash, rinse, repeat.
With friends like these, who needs enemies? With people representing us like Adam
Schiff, who needs a foreign enemy to destroy our democracy and turn our citizens into
slaves?
Put the right label on it: MADE IN AMERICA! The destruction from within of our country,
its ideals, its constitution, its promise of government by the people, its self-anointed role
in the world as defender of human rights, guardian of human dignity, promoter of
democracy.
There’s only one remedy . . .
A clean sweep.
A fresh start.
Maybe these “extreme” ideas are starting to make more sense?
But you ask: “What will happen? Congress has all sorts of protocols and procedural
precedents, established rules and guidelines for committee assignment and processing of
legislation. What about all that legislative infrastructure?”
Exactly! What about it, folks? How about throwing out the babies AND the bathwater? Is
any of it serving “we the people”? Sometimes you have to completely raze a building and
start from scratch. YES . . . THAT IS WHAT I’M RECOMMENDING!
It’s either that or a constitutional convention or . . . uh-oh . . . we’re back to what
Jefferson and Kennedy said.
Here’s a pop quiz. Do these words ring a bell? If they do, do they resonate?
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal
station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
If that’s too arcane and brainy, then tune into something more street hip, if somewhat
less precise.
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