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rickA’s comment rings hollow — today was the endpoint of the policies he championed since trump was elected. His “condemnation” is no more sincere than the ones you’ll hear from cruz, trump, and the rest of the neo-nazi loving clowns he supports.

…but breaking the law is something else entirely.

But that is what Trump is continuing to do by supporting these terrorists.

Teargas and shots fired as pro-Trump mob rampages through Congress

Against all that your words are a feeble attempt at self forgiveness for past hubris.

I do not support the criminals who broke into the capital building.

I did not support the Portland criminals and I do not support the DC criminals.

I hope they arrest all the people who broke into the capital building(s) and charge them.

Protesting is one thing – but breaking the law is something else entirely.

They ought to be humiliated along with the 74 million others who voted for a complete ignoramus. Trump and the Republicans aim to take the US back to the Jim Crow era of white supremacy, disenfranchisement of minority voters…

But the rot goes deeper and wider as the voting franchise has been skewed to aid those with already to much power. Here is an excellent article on that topic:

Trump is trying to thwart democracy itself. But the problem is deeper than one man

Of course similar is happening in many countries across the globe. Unfortunately humanity is going to learn too late that it is killing the goose that lays the eggs and that you cannot eat gold, diamonds or bit-coins.

I am hardly surprised that the two usual suspects on this blog that supported the hideous orange reptile have been notably absent for weeks now. They ought to be humiliated along with the 74 million others who voted for a complete ignoramus. Trump and the Republicans aim to take the US back to the Jim Crow era of white supremacy, disenfranchisement of minority voters, anti-science and the Handmaid’s Tale. My biggest fear is what the orange maniac is going to do in the last 16 days of his warped, repugnant presidency. The closer it comes to Biden’s inauguration, the more damage he is capable of inflicting on institutions and democracy. His epic petulant temper tantrum is chilling to behold. Again, the man needs deep psychiatric treatment. That he was actually elected as POTUS is shocking, given his mental state.

An interesting note: it’s come out that the reason Raffensperger recorded the call with the president is that Lindsey Graham had, during the election, pressured him to throw out legitimate votes. Graham, of course, denied it. After that, with trump’s history of lying about things he had been recorded as saying (denying he’d defended white supremacists and neo-nazis, denying he’d mocked a handicapped journalist for two examples) they knew that without a record trump would deny their side of the phone call story.

I’m sure mcconnell, cruz, and the rest of those crap bags will be on TV voicing their outrage over this attempt at trump’s attempt to sabotage a fair election soon.

(not really: they’ve long ago demonstrated their complete lack of integrity. Best comment about cruz I’ve heard is this: “To cruz the Constitution is just like his wife: something he’ll talk about honoring but won’t defend.”)

And yes, Trump is one for the record books — our bigliest shame.

This morning, the tally of comments on that story has reached 37.7 k.

That story has almost 30,000 comments on the Washington Post. I’ve looked at a lot of Post stories. That’s the highest tally I remember.

That’s because there hasn’t been a president who’s done so much damage, or committed so many illegal acts, in years.

I thought the worst presidents I’d see in my life had already come and gone: LBJ, for sending thousands of of boys to die in Vietnam even though he and his people knew it was a lost cause, Nixon, for interfering in the Paris Peace talks to get the Vietnamese team to pull out early after he promised them they’d get a better deal from him when he was elected (put LBJ here again for deciding not to make the fact of this public prior to the 68 election even though he had the evidence), as well as Nixon’s use of the FBI and CIA to spy on citizens, the support of dictators and overthrowing democracies in south America, support of genocides in Pakistan and Camboia (remember Henry Kissinger saying to Thailand’s foreign minister that he “should tell [the KR] that we bear no hostility towards them. We would like them to be independent as a counterweight to North Vietnam.” Kissinger added that he “should also tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs, but we won’t let that stand in our way. We are prepared to improve relations with them.”), and Watergate. Reagan goes on the list too, for many of the same reasons as Nixon, but also for showing the right that racism could be a useful political weapon.

Trump has rocketed into that list. The only thing we can be thankful for is that he was surrounded by fools (hand picked pools). If he had picked people who were more skilled in doing evil — like Nixon’s people — we’d be screwed forever.