Today begins the investigation into the January 6th insurrection against the Capitol of the United States of America.
The above video by the brilliant editorial essayist Michael Cooke lays out why getting it wrong can have catastrophic effects on future generations, just as it did after the Civil War.
The people behind the insurrection must be tried, punished, and made an example of what happens to traitors and seditionists. If they must hang from gallows, so be it.
What happened on 1-6-21 cannot and will not be forgotten or forgiven.
In between today’s beers and barbecues , it might be good to consider what we nearly lost forever six months ago, and what is currently on life support – our Democratic Republic.
I find it hard to be in a partying mood today when Trump, his allies in Congress, and the people who support the insurrection of Jan 6th and the Big Lie still roam free in our great nation.
When I had cancer, I wasn’t allowed to ring the bell on the wall until I was declared cancer-free. We shouldn’t be ringing celebratory bells today because we are not cancer-free.
I know this because I got into an argument with a Trumptard just last night at a bar.
There can be NO QUARTER for the people supporting the Republican Party that is currently trying to cover-up these most heinous crimes. They all need to be locked up and/or shamed out of existence.
They must be fought like the most deadly disease they are. Their ideas are not mere “differences of opinion.” They are anti-science, anti-fact garbage used to poison our Republic from within. AND IT IS WORKING.
So enjoy your beer, hot dogs, and potato salad. Just realize that patriotism requires more than commemorative barbecues or hanging a flag from your porch. It requires daily vigilance and action, especially when everything is on the line.
What happened on the southern border was/is one of the most heinous and inhumane acts ever perpetrated on American soil. I curse everybody who voted for Trump for this alone.
Hopefully President Biden can correct this as well!
I feel like a tremendous weight has been lifted off of my heart today as the final last grip of Republican control on the government has been removed. The Georgia runoff election results today confirm that the two Democratic challengers for the Senate won, giving the Democrats control over all three branches of government.
Two great developments come from the events of the last two months:
Trump is history
Moscow Mitch McConnell loses his power in the Senate
With those changes, we will be able to tackle and conquer the COVID virus, get meaningful financial relief for Americans, move forward on huge and important changes to the government, and PROSECUTE DONALD TRUMP AND HIS ENABLERS.
Reposted from Twitter. Do not look away or hide from this.
I find it necessary to reach for the language and colorful colloquialisms of my native land, New Jersey, in order to express my feelings about today’s event in Bedmimster. It was a fucking travesty. Truly. An utter Fucking disgrace. The President of the United States of America stood behind the Seal of his office framed by American flags and his private club’s membership slurring and raving about his victimization. His titanic self pity was only exceeded by his dishonesty and uncontrolled lying. His lying was only Subordinate to his staggering idiocy, ignorance, ineptitude and incompetence.
The incompetence, even after all this time, shocks the conscience. 162,000 Americans are dead and the economy is shattered. So many more will die. The evictions, foreclosures and small business closings are just beginning. We are in the early hours of one of the greatest tragedies in our countries history.
None of it had to be, but it has happened because Donald Trump is President. His malice, stupidity, ego and insecurity are a lethal combination. He has wrecked this country in less than four years. He has induced a national nosedive, a decline that is precipitous, dangerous and humiliating. The world is more dangerous. American soldiers are hunted like animals by Taliban killers who are paid bounties by Russian killers and Trump does nothing But KowTow to Putin and advance his agenda.
Trump has divided the country and pitted Americans against each other. He has loosed violence against Peacefully assembled US Citizens and deployed militarized paramilitary forces to escalate tensions in American cities in the name of Law and order when the real purpose and mission is to stoke the embers of chaos and create Fear.
Fear, built on a mountain of lies, is the Autocrats sword and shield. Trump stokes fear to abuse his power and press forward with his assaults on the rule of law, our essential Institutions and our national comity all in the name of his corruption, aggrandizement and cult of personality.
It is a despicable hour in the life of this country. This will be ended because it must end. We will lose the country if Trump isn’t repudiated. Make no mistake About the intentions of a President who is openly undermining the 231 year old tradition of American elections. He is undermining the legitimacy of the coming election with no regard for the consequences to liberal democracy here and around the world.
Fascism didn’t rise In the thirties because it was strong. It rose because Democracy was weak. American Democracy is weak, decayed and led by an illiberal man who, if he could, would cancel the election, lock up his political opponents, enrich his friends and remain in power for life.
Trump is the greatest failure in American History. No American has failed history’s test in a more spectacular fashion. His stoking of racial tensions and a cold civil war in our land will live in infamy. His disgrace will be eternal.
I’m not american plz excuse me why does the us federal government have a paid employee called the chaplain of the us House of Representatives?? Why the federal government recognizes christmas (a christian religious holiday) and shuts down for it? Isn’t secularism a principle of us federalism? How come “in god we trust” is written on us money? It’s very confusing!!!
Isn’t it amazing that people from foreign countries understand the principles of the United States better than actual citizens (especially the president) of the US?
My dear friend, you are absolutely correct. The United States government is supposed to have a separation of church and state. The idea was to make a government of laws that would represent everyone equally, and would be free of religious influences so that all people can worship however they want without favoritism.
But, as the late, great atheist Christopher Hitchens once wrote, “religion poisons everything.”
The churches have cleverly managed to get tax-exempt status in order to accumulate great wealth, which they use to inlfuence politicians. And, as we know, religion causes people to become so fanatical that they do all sorts of terrible things to one another in order to fulfill their personal belief system.
The recent re-emergence of the fight over abortion is a perfect example. In any free society, a woman should be able to make her own personal choice on the matter of what happens to her own body. But religious fanatics refuse to accept that, and so they poison the well with their money and their hateful religious doctrines in order to force everyone to follow their way of thinking.
Sadly, it seems like the United States is slipping back into the mud of religious doctrine again. It seems like my dream of a perfect society – one free of religion – will never come true.
But in the meantime, I’m glad that there are critical thinkers like you, my friend. The world needs more of that, and less mysticism.
Sean Ford is one of my favorite gay porn stars. The versatile actor with the straight boy vibe became a huge star with Helix Studios. Like Blake Mitchell, Ford always seemed to have more than sex on his mind.
If you follow Ford on Twitter and Instagram, you’ll discover that Ford is an old soul with an artistic, curious heart. He isn’t just a pretty face. Ford has been flexing his fame to further interests in literature, poetry, art, and social deconstruction.
But yesterday Ford posted this very serious message to his fans. Furious about the American government’s assault on refugee families seeking asylum along the Texas border, Ford took to his social media to implore his fans to pay attention to the alarming developments happening to these desperate people and to our democracy.
I applaud Ford for risking his own clout to make a statement as clear and unambiguous as this one. At some point we all must take a stand, and Ford is clearly doing that here. Thank you Sean for allowing me to repost this!
