Republicans lie, while children die
Another day, another school massacre. And what were Congressional Republicans doing, virtually at the same moment students were dying?
Blocking another gun control measure.
Senate Democrats proposed yet another law authorizing background checks, but Moscow Mitch—or “Massacre Mitch,” as he’s now known—blocked it. McConnell, too, bends over for Wayne LaPierre.
What in God’s name is wrong with background checks? Why do Republicans resist keeping assault weapons out of the hands of mentally ill people, or domestic abusers? Could it be—gasp!—that Republicans actually want crazy people to have firearms because they (Republicans) believe that most crazy people are Republicans?
After this latest school shooting, which occurred in Santa Clarita, California, I saw my Governor, Gavin Newsom, at a presser in which he commented on it.
I’ve known the Governor for a long time, and I’ve never seen his face so sad and weary. I almost weeped. A longtime advocate of stricter gun control, he’s watched as Republicans oppose every single effort at anything resembling gun control, as child after child after child is slaughtered. I feel Gavin’s pain; there are many perks that go with being Governor, but the anguish of a school shooting must be unbearable.
Republicans just don’t care. Somebody has to say it: they just don’t give a damn. They don’t care how many school children’s torn and bleeding bodies are scattered in hallways and classrooms; they don’t care how much blood is shed; they don’t care how many lives are traumatized and ruined. They.Do.Not.Give.A.Shit. All they care about is taking the NRA’s murderous hatred up their Republican asses.
Harsh words? Yes, for sure. But true—and everybody knows it. It’s my damned blog. I’m angry. If you’re not, why the hell not?
Does any sane person seriously think that the Republicans don’t know what went down in this Ukraine scandal? They know precisely what happened. They know Trump didn’t give a damn about Ukraine, or about America, for that matter. All he cared about was getting dirt on the political candidate he thought posed the greatest threat to him: Joe Biden. He then extorted, or bribed, Zelensky: invent something dirty on the Bidens, or you get nothing from me: no weapons, no White House meeting. That this accords precisely with the Russian agenda is no coincidence. As Speaker Pelosi noted, “All roads with Trump lead back to Putin.”
We may never know what Putin has on Donald J. Trump, but I think I know: the pee tape. Putin can ruin Trump politically, financially, socially, through a simple act: releasing the pee tape to a third party—say, a Romanian or Lebanese newspaper, from which it would leak out (no pun intended) all around the world. The scandal would be enormous; with Trump’s face clearly visible, sitting on his Moscow hotel bed while a pair of gorgeous porn stars urinate on each other, Trump would be mortified: Melania might even leave him. Trump would lie, of course. “Fake video!” He’d try to drag Hillary into it, Obama, Liddle Adam Schiff, “the Democrat Party,” the lamestream media, the faiing New York Times…the usual suspects he attacks every time his crimes and misdemeanors are exposed. But would even the appearance of the pee tape matter?
This is, after all, the man who boasted he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and murder people and not lose a single supporter. If he can commit first degree murder of innocent people and not lose any support, why couldn’t he be revealed as a sexual pervert, and still retain the love of his rightwing base? I get the feeling Trump could rip his face off on national T.V., reveal a hideous alien with tentacles, dripping goo from fanged lips, and his people would still stand by him. “Better a Republican alien,” would be their reasoning, “than a libtard Demon-crat.”
Watch the impeachment hearings today and next week. The case is clear; the obstruction of justice by Trump also is clear.
