The American people again reject Republicans

Thanks Millennials!  Okay! Zoomers!

The 18-29 year olds turned out in the second highest numbers since the 1970's, only 2018's turnout was higher. Additionally, according to the Edison Research National Election Pool exit poll, the national youth vote choice for the U.S. House of Representatives was 63% for Democrats, 35% for Republicans.

Now, while we can stop and applaud the youth involvement we can lament that 27% is a high achievement.  If... the Millennials realized that by getting 50% turnout (just half) they would swamp, the apathetic and small Gen X and rapidly dying white boomers, they would set the agenda for the Nation.  

I believed the 2016 elections would be the last gasp of aging white boomer rage and I was right, in a sense, but, now for the 3rd straight elections (2018, 2020, 2022) Americans overwhelmingly rejected what Republicans and Rightwingers represent.  In fact, Americans consistently reject Rightwing policies and vote against Republicans; including the Presidency, which a Republican has only won the popular vote once in 32 years.  And as polling on all issues facing the American people show, the United States is a Center-Left Nation.  Unfortunately, the United States was set up to mimic a Republic and was more accurately perceived as an Oligarchy.  The Republicans have latched onto the built-in undemocratic elements to retain power and control.  

But, the GQP is a dead party. Or more accurately an Undead Party.  And the Zombie Corpse of the GQP stalks the Nation infecting and killing each state that they can and turning them likewise into Reactionary Ghouls further preying upon the remaining body politic of the Untied States.

The bloated zombie besetting the Land

But, this year the bloated vampire Trump saddled Republicans with his thralls in numerous states which as we see Americans rejected.  The best thing Trump could have done for his legacy was to die of covid in October 2020.  Because then rightwingers could have elevated him to the martyred prince.. the onec and future king.  His election would have been assured if not for villainous Dr Fauci killing him.  His string of "victories" would have gone down as the greatest in US history his legend would pass into myth.  Instead Trump had presided over 3 disastrous elections and is fatally damaging his aura by attacking the heir apparent, Florida Governor Ron DeathSentence.

Already we've seen some knives come out for Trump but, the jabs have been tepid and led by Republicans whom the rightwing base do not venerate,

"I think Trump's kind of a drag on our ticket.  I think Donald Trump gives us problems, politically. We lost the House, the Senate and the White House in two years when Trump was on the ballot, or in office." Paul Ryan.  Now, certainly Republicans would love to be able to pin everything on Trump and go back their slow-moving Coup.

The only way Republicans win elections is by voter apathy (which they cultivate), voter suppression  (which they create), and voter intimidation (which they stimulate).  But, even with these nefarious methods The Democrats are going to gain a Senate seat, several US House seats flipped, didn't lose any toss-up contests, and every district touching the Pacific Ocean is represented by a Democratic Rep, Democrats gained control of the Michigan statehouse, Democrats won Governors races throughout the Rustbelt and Southwest, and perhaps most importantly, abortion referendums in numerous states protected Women's rights.

But, there are no eternal victories and the struggle in 2022 isn't over yet.  Getting Senator Reverend R. Warnock re-elected (as the 51st Senator) is the last victory of this battle and the first step in the next one.

Republicans break laws and then use their law breaking to restrict other peoples' rights

"There must be an in-group whom the law protects but, does not bind and an out-group whom the law binds but, does not protect.  - Frank Wilhoit

Brushed aside as old news was the revelation Trump lover Dennis Molla lied about his Camper, home, garage and cars being burned & vandalized by liberals just before the 2020 election.  Faux News and on-line rightwing blabbermouths endlessly hyped Molla's lies as proof of the BLM + Antifa terrorism afflicting America. Worse still, despicable Molla was willing to burn his dogs to death for this fraud too.

This genre of rightwing lies, i.e. being attacked for displaying rightwing paraphernalia goes back years.  Of course, far, far worse are the rightwingers who lie about laws themselves. 

Predictably pernicious and particularly potent are rightwing lies about elections and voting.

‘We’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence,’ Rudy Ghouliani 

One of the Republicans running with evidence-free theories about Voting Fraud, is Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling.  Sheriff Schmaling is one of those rightwing lunatics who believes he is the highest authority in the Land based on 9th century English Jurisprudence about Shire-Reeves so he's spent the last two years claiming all sorts of voting fraud.  He's also done so without evidence, which didn't stop Sheriff Schmaling from calling for the arrest of Wisconsin Elections Commission.  And then, as rightwing Sheriff's often do, when faced with a lack of evidence, Schmaling and his co-conspirators decided it was time to make the evidence themselves.

Sheriff Schmaling worked hand-in-hand with the Neo-Fascist Racine based HOT government group to commit Voter Fraud.  As always, after they've committed crimes, Reactionary Neofascists demand other people need to have their rights restricted.  These disingenuous and bad faith attacks on democracy are what appeal greatly to the rightwing lizard brain.  Since, conservatives are the "Patriots", since right-wingers are the "Real Americans", since Republicans are the only "legitimate" government officials their actions are ipso facto always righteous and they aren't really breaking the law just showing how the laws could be broken by other people.  And as elder white people they simply want their Country back.

What MAGA has always meant is stop letting those people have political power and stop them from being able to exercise their larger political power through casting a larger number of votes.  It's an idea which stretches back in conservatives thinking to the American Civil War.  Most MAGAts don't comprehend the truth of their movement distilled down as bluntly as, 'We don't like democracy and want to be the only ones who exercise political power' but, that's what it is.  More people voting is less political power for them and conservatives demand they be the only ones who count. 

Wisconsin is a battleground state.  Local Republicans have worked tirelessly to gerrymander the State Legislature.  Russian Ron Johnson is vying for his 3rd term in the United States Senate.  Ron Johnson was going to be the Senator on Jan6th to hand Mike Pence the false slate of Electors to undermine the 2020 Election.  The election President Jospeh R. Biden Jr won decisively...

As I watched election night coverage in 2020 with trepidation of a 2016 repeat, it became increasingly clear that Jospeh R. Biden won the Presidency that night and this conviction became more and more concrete as the next couple of days passed.  Even Faux News had called Arizona for President Biden putting a stake in the heart of Traitor Trump's chances.  But, the media dithered and this created a nice little niche for conservatives to claim Trump won.  And into that niche flooded the vile liars and evil villains intent on overturning the election results and stealing the Presidency for Donald John Trump.

"Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen" - Trump after his election loss looking for others to break the law for him in one of his many schemes to defraud the United States and the American people.  

However, since the 2020 election, Republicans have increasingly turned to believing Trump's BIG LIE and this year seek political office to be able to steal the next election by bureaucratic means.  To be certain Republicans have always employed anti-democratic methods, voter oppression, intimidation, and the apparatus of government to disenfranchise and deny many Americans free and fair representation.

But, with these elections in 22, we are looking at the GQP simply declaring themselves the winners, regardless, and daring the Democratic Party and American people to do something about it.  That's the Era of Election Fraud conservatives dream about and yearn for.  They Win, you Lose.

And at that point, no amount of laws, will stop conservatives from setting up the Ultimate Law Breaking Neo-Confederate state they desire and declaring it's time to round-up and eliminate the Non-MAGA.

The January 6th Insurrection upset the Republicans plan to overthrow the US Government

Hawley salutes the Insurrectionists

I was always perplexed by Major Traitor Greene and several other Republicans claim the insurrectionists weren't acting on their behest and in accordance with the Trump/GOP plan to overthrow the United States Government.  It turns out the Republicans had planned to interrupt and disallow the will of the American People by Byzantine US bureaucratic legerdemain and outright fraud & forgery. 

An Alternate slate of Electors theory was floated by Trump and his Cabal in December 2020 to throw out Trump's crushing defeat in the election.  Multiple state GOP officials actually submitted documents purporting to be official state documents with the Electoral College votes going to Donald Trump.  Forgery as a crime consists of knowingly submitting false documents with the intent to defraud. 

The Law in it's majesty...

But, it turns out it's even more nefarious than was supposed.  Rachel Maddow's investigative reporting uncovered Mark Meadows, as Trump's Chief of Staff, seemingly provided the template to State Republicans in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Georgia.  A standardized form which the GOP lackeys and enemies of the Republic filled out to overthrow the election.

It seems clear from the House GOP reaction they expected to be able to bring up pro forma points of order and then use them to declare alternate electors should be certified by Vice President Pence.  In fact point 2 of the 6 point John Eastman memo outlined exactly this as Pence would declare multiple "official" slates of Electors from Arizona, 

When he gets to Arizona, he announces that he has multiple slates of electors, and so is going to defer decision on that until finishing the other States. This would be the first break with the procedure set out in the Act. 

The damning Eastman memo also makes clear they had several sleight-of-hand bureaucratic techniques to fallback upon.  But, the Insurrection incited specifically by Trump threw this game plan out the window and upset the Bureaucratic Coup the House and Senate GOP had in mind.  Interestingly, the frantic calls and texts and tweets to Trump during his 3 hours of silence from his worthless sons, Faux News co-conspirators now seem less and less an attempt to Stop the Violence and safeguard members of Congress and the Capitol Police and more and more like an effort to allow the House and Senate Republicans to Restart the Steal.  

Because even after the violence and plans to murder the Vice President, Speaker of the House Pelosi, AOC, and numerous other Congressmen and Senators the violent mob could get their hands on, 147 Republicans (139 Representatives and 8 Senators) still voted to steal the election from President Joseph R. Biden and throw it to Traitor Trump.

The Rittenhouse Diaries: When do "We" get to use the guns?

Other outlets and on-line media persons (especially David Pakman) have covered the day-to-day Kyle Rittenhouse trial with better depth and analysis than I could sum up here in one post so I won't go into that instead let us focus on what Rittenhouse represents:

Kyle Rittenhouse is the fulfillment of the Dream; the answer to the eternal conservative question; When do we get to murder millions of Non-MAGA?

Over at No More Mister Nice Blog Steve M. points out so many of these rightwing domestic terrorist wannabes are waiting.

Most people who watched the clip, or read about it, focused on the threat -- but I'm wondering why this guy, and a lot of other people like him, haven't already grabbed their guns and just started shooting people.

He says, "When do we get to use the guns?" He's waiting for someone to give him permission.

The question is what are they waiting for? Most of this stems from the decades of indoctrination and propaganda which conservatives have absorbed; They are the patriots not the criminals.  It's those people who riot.  It's BLM and Antifa who break the law.  Not Us!  We on the right always follow the law.  Ergo if we engage in violence it is ipso facto Righteous and Lawful.  This is the not so subtle subtext of justification for George Zimmerman or Kyle Rittenhouse and violence from organized paramilitary conservative groups like the Proud Boys in Portland, or the Bundy Insurrections, or the Oathbreakers. 

It's part of the reason Republicans, like Paul Gossar, and Tucker Carlson repeatedly claim the January 6th terrorists were actually heroes.  Rightwing domestic terrorism is coddled and encouraged in the United States; look at the death threats, simmering violence at PTA and school board meetings.  Republicans and their compliant corporate media can not help but to frame the crimes and harassment as justified spontaneous expression of rights.

This, of course, runs deep through the veins of the American legal system;  It's why mainstream corporate media writ large can't decry the deeply fascist book burners because well if conservatives are calling for it, it must be okay, it must be legal.

But, before, conservatives can emulate Kyle Rittenhouse they need a Casus Belli, which they can point to as their justification.  Thus let me highlight the sentence right before the white rightwing criminal asks Terrorist Leader Charlie Kirk "when do we get to use the guns?"

"How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people? At this point, we're living under corporate and medical fascism. This is tyranny.  

Addendum: 

It wouldn't be complete without the Bernie Bros favorite "Real" Democrat and the Twitter Rose Left preferred female 2020 Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard firmly endorsed White Domestic Terrorism with a disingenuous and gross defense of Rittenhouse as taking up the job of defending property because the government wasn't.

The Degradation of America. Can Impeachment save Us and the US?

"You read where we’re sending some troops to Saudi Arabia. That’s true. Because we want to help Saudi Arabia. They have been a very good ally. They’ve agreed to pay for the cost of those troops. They’ve agreed to pay fully for the cost of everything we’re doing over there. . . . Saudi Arabia is paying for 100 percent of the cost, including the cost of our soldiers. And that negotiation took a very short time — like, maybe, about 35 seconds."- Trump Gibberish

The Revelations from these first two days of the Impeachment are devastating. Direct evidence of Trump's longtime association with pimps and gangsters, bribery, extortion, back-room deals in the fucking White House, and Trump in real time committing another Impeachable offense on Twitter.

Of course, anyone familiar with Trump is not surprised he's a two-bit hood. And anyone who saw Trump have Official White House transcripts altered to lower his golf scores, can not really be surprised Trump would treat the Presidency as his personal enrichment device via the same mobbed-up grifter tactics he's used since the 1970's.

Fittingly, Gym Jacketoff Jordan is leading the Republican defense of Trump because Jordan has a history of shrugging his shoulders and ignoring crimes brought to his attention.

"I guess you probably know the numbers were extremely lopsided, right? I’m just trying to figure out the few people who voted the other way. Who are they? Who are they? Find out who they are, please, and let us know." - Trump Fascist Gibberish 

At the core of the problem is Conservative beliefs taken to their logical conclusion lead inexorably to fascism. The greatest examples of Conservative Government are: The Confederacy of 1861, Apartheid South Africa, Chile post 1973, the Estate Novo in Portugal from 1933-1974 and of course the crown jewel of conservatism Nazi Germany.

We are 1 year away from seeing whether or not the United States becomes the latest Nation to plunge into outright Fascism. Ultimately Republicans will not and can never be counted upon to do the right thing. Republicans long ago abandoned their so-called principles, morals, ethics, and values for Power; the power to say Suck it Libtard!

Now, this is not a warning that Violence from conservatives is coming; that violence is already here. And Trump is solidifying, wittingly or not, his support amongst his Magat Cult by pardoning convicted American military War Criminals.

So the question will be once Trump loses the 2020 election (because Senate Republicans will never vote to convict him during his Impeachment) and he refuses to abide by the election results, will the Republicans declare the election invalid because we have already crossed the Rubicon?

Sadly, the Republican Party, that vile den of scum and villainy, will have the power to determine the fate of the United States. I'm certain most Republicans would be more than happy to just slow down the Government of a President Elizabeth Warren for 4 years and gear up for a return to power in 2024, but some of the Republicans are full-on #QAnon lunatics and members of the Magat Horde and they may believe the propaganda they spew. If they control the narrative and direction of the Republican Party well then Trump stays in power and the United States faces the prospect of Civil War 2.0.

It's not just Traitor Trump. The entire Republican Party is owned by Russian pimps and gangsters

Okay... It's been known for a long time the Trump Crime Family has been laundering money for the Russian Oligarchs for decades and Trump himself has been a Russian asset since his first recruitment in the 1980's.

Because, Trump's stupidity and business failures left him without a source of funding the 1990's, but Trump has been is a mob-adjacent grifter for decades so it was natural he would find the the newest rising Criminal Syndicate and get himself in deep with Russian gangsters.

The recent arrests of Two Russian-backed Urkainian spies who had multiple "business" contracts with Trump, Traitor Tot Don Jr, Rudy Giuliani, Paul Manafort, Pete Sessions, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsay Graham, and other Republicans brings it all around. It wasn't only Trump who sold out his country for Russian roubles but The Entire Republican Party. 

Recall the Department of Justice and US Senate has declared the NRA was acting as an undeclared Russian-backed foreign agency funneling illicit Russian monies into the campaigns of numerous Republicans.

Now, forget this penetrating the bubble of the #MAGAt Horde they're unreachable and have been for a long time.

Instead what we are facing is the same dilemma which confounded many liberals and Democrats in 2016, can we use the apparatus of government to achieve justice? In reality, this has been the eternal problem facing the left for centuries; can the tools of the Master be used to dismantle the master's house?

Under FDR, Harry Truman, JFK, and LBJ the Democratic Party seemed to make advances using the power of the government to advance justice; consequently this when conservatives decided "Big Government" was the problem with America. As soon as Government could help alleviate the woes facing those who have traditionally been crushed under the Government, conservatives

Now, even though conservatives have hated Government since then, Republicans have not. Instead Republicans set about undermining protections and sharpening the elements of the Government which help them acquire and maintain power and which could be used to undo the Progressive gains of the 20th century. See for instance the bullshit narrative of Antonin Scalia and his "Orginalism" arguments.

Now, Republicans have been more than willing to destroy the American people in the quest to End the American dream and return the 99% to endless Wage Slavery and Eternal Corporate Bondage but, I did not think they would wholly sell out the Nation to their once most hated enemies. But, I admit I misunderestimated the Perfidy of the Republican Party.

2018 was the first steps in retaking the Nation from the rightwing terrorists and Republican traitors 2020 will be the turning point and place upon President Professor Elizabeth Warren the terrible task of bringing the Cadre of Conservative Criminals to justice.

Ukraine and Traitor Trump conspire against the United States

"I'm not beaten yet! I still have armies in the Ukraine!"
"Ha ha ha! The Ukraine??? The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine."

Apparently, Rudy Giuliani learned his entire policy ideas from his guest appearance on Seinfeld. And thus we have the explicit quid pro quo from Traitor Trump. Impeachment has been necessary for a long time but, the sufficient political cause for removal of the orange stain upon the White House has seemingly been lacking. Perhaps, not anymore.

It seems clear, Trump personally and through Rudy Giuliani asked Ukraine to fabricate and release smears, agitprop, and/or other politically damaging information on Joe Biden. And in exchange the US at Trump's direction would release $250,000,000 in military aid for the Ukrainian government. Whatever else Trump promised is unknown right now, but Trump is such a blundering blustering buffoon it could be almost anything.

Of course, Trump asked a foreign power to interfere in the 2020 Election. He had Russian interference in the 2016 election. Getting aid and comfort with hostile foreign powers is Trump's MO.

Nonetheless, we are yet again starting the Trump Scandal saga;

1. Trump commits a crime.
2. Trump, the Republicans and his Magat Horde deny it.
3. Trump, the Republicans and his Magat Horde accuse the Democrats of doing it.
4. Trump, the Republicans and his Magat Horde admit to doing it but, claim it's not a crime.
5. Trump, the Republicans and his Magat Horde say so what if it is a crime, that's just Trump draining the swamp.

The Republican Party is never going to do what is right. So, get that notion out of your head. Instead the calculus for the Republicans is how much damage will they suffer. The Republicans attached themselves like lice to Trump's rear in 2016 and stuck with him in 2018 because they calculated the election fallout to be worse for them if they turned on him. In 2020, we've see more than a dozen of Republican rats abandoning the SS Trump and "choosing" not to run for re-election. So will the Republican cut-and-run as the natural criminal cowards they are or have they determined the fate of a Racist Rapist is the fate of their party?

Propaganda Works because Conservatives love lies and hate America

Conservatives have broadcast their loathing hatred, barely restrained rage, and murderous intent towards liberals for years. I would call it a Whispering Campaign, except those scream filled Trumpenproletariat Rallies are full-on Fascist spectacles.

A half-way decent Foreign Intelligence Service need not rely on billion dollar SIGINT capabilities or engage in 1950's Era spy games in order to deduce this; all they needed was an internet connection and et viola the entire playbook on how to influence and ultimately control America was right there.

The Washington Post has a story on how a Macedonian cabal took over a Facebook Group, Vets for Trump, using the oldest con in human history, free money. After gaining control of the administrator rights, all the original members were supposedly locked out so the Vets for Trump Group could spread the vile propaganda of the 2016 election and solicit donations. Here is the point, the head of the Macedonian cabal claims he didn't need to invent any stories he just repackaged and relabeled the tripe coming from American right-wingers;

Trajche Arsov said he paid freelance writers to do this work, which consisted mainly of rewriting articles they found on conservative American news and opinion sites and adding new headlines. A key goal was avoiding violations of U.S. copyright law, Trajche Arsov told The Washington Post.

For decades there has been this constant non-stop propaganda campaign. The players change but, the script remains the same. The Rightwing Wurlitzer churns out the same notes for the conservative drones; the Left is weak and evil,

In the 1960's, the John Birch Society called Martin Luther King Jr a Communist and proclaimed Civil Rights to be a commie plot and indicted President Kennedy on "Treason".

In the 1970's, Jimmy Carter surrendered America freedom by "giving away" the Panama Canal.

In the 1980's, the College Republicans Reagan Youth called Walter Mondale a "squish" and organized against the cadre of Marxist professors and members of the mass communications media, who are "the enemies of freedom" trying "To confuse its defenders and undermine their morale". (James Tyson's 1981 book Target America)

In the 1990's, the Militia groups formed to wage war on Attorney Janet Reno and Bill Clinton and a conservative domestic terrorist took direct action against the insidious Democrat Party in 1995.

After the conservatives stole the 2000 election and us ushered in the W(orst POTUS of All Time) and  the Republican "Great Recession", the Tea Party was created to rouse the troops once more, Here is a typical Tea Party Nation broadside against Socialism:

Resolved that: Our President, the Democrats-Socialists, most of the media, and most of those from Hollywood, have now encouraged and supported "Occupy" demonstrations in our streets, which are now being perpetrated across the globe, and which are being populated by various marxists, socialists and even communists, and are protesting against business, private property ownership and capitalism, something I thought I'd never see in my country, in my lifetime.

I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.

I hereby declare that my job creation potential is now ceased. "I'm on Strike!"

Now as we approach the 20's the current evil boogeyman has morphed from #Occupy to #Antifa, while Traitor Trump uses his platform to incite violence against the evil, weak Democrats trying to undermine America with (Immigration, Clean Water Laws, Colin Kaepernick, the Fake News Media, whatever) because the Republican Party needs to constantly arouse the anger of their guard dogs and focus the violence of their stable of Lone Wolves.

Conservative websites are an incestuous echo chamber of vile sexist #agitprop, racist screeds, misogynist hatred which is reflected and amplified by commenters. The goal is to keep conservatives in that sweet spot of red-eyed rage ready to denounce Libtards and then reinforce the spittle flecked anger.

As a Nation, we are in serious trouble. Conservatives have been programmed by propaganda and now seek out confirming data to reinforce and strengthen their programming. But, simply screaming on the internet no matter how satisfying won't sustain them forever; what conservatives really want to do is recreate a White Supremacist Apartheid State, ensconced by Law. And when The Chosen One loses the Election of 2020, well the Republican Party might be content with running the deficit playbook against President Elizabeth Warren but, the conservative domestic terrorist groups aren't going to be satiated by anything other than blood.