Election fraud discovered!

 

Lawyers R Us.

            Trump’s band of gas-bag lawyers have turned up election fraud. They were standing in a circular firing squad at the time of their discovery: the only fraud belongs to them. They were trying to overturn a legal election where there was NO widespread fraud other than theirs in trying to reverse the vote of “We the People”. Those words are enshrined in the Constitution for a reason.

            Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) even asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn Biden’s wins in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. Just the swing states that Trump lost, mind you.

            Republicans took their assault all the way to the United States Supreme Court (USSC) where Trump expected to have his Supremes install him as President. After all, they are HIS Supremes.

They didn’t.

Coup attempt

            On one side the United States of America, the world’s oldest constitutional democracy. On the other—the country and denizens of Trumplandia where the incredible powers of gullibility along with obliviousness have been harnessed. That and the recycled intestinal gas from the leaking lawyers that can’t file straight.

            What does need to be treated seriously is that the President of the United States tried to overthrow the vote of the people and had the almost complete support of the Republican Party congressional representatives who are too afraid to speak out about the Commander in Tyrant because they’re afraid that his racist violent supporters won’t vote for them next time.

            In addition to actively trying to get Republican state legislatures to “fix” the vote, Trump, along with his supporters, encouraged violence against not only Congress but against state governments as well. His supporters in Congress also voted to overturn the Electoral College vote. Other Trump supporters encourage seceding from the United States. This, in addition to their attack on the Capitol, is also known as sedition.

            In simple terms, Trump tried to overthrow and take over the government through extra legal means as well as through violent actions taken against Representatives, Senators and their support staff, including police. In other countries we call actions like that an attempted coup. We just haven’t seen one here before this country.

            Trump and his entourage encouraged violence and armed Trump supporters turned up. The MAGA insurrectionists also turned up at the homes of officials that stood up to Trump by doing their jobs and upholding a legal vote of “We the People.” But as it turns outs.

It was a hoax.

Those madcap jokesters!

• Hang Vice President Mike Pence!
• Liberate Congress!
• Kill Pelosi!
• Liberate the United States!
• God appointed Trump!
• Trump is the Chosen One!
• Let old people die!
• Money is more important than dying!
• RINOS are enemies of the people!
• Media is the enemy of the people!
• Execute the opposition!
• It’s the deep state!
• Put his head on a pike!
• The Socialists are coming!
• Capitalism works! Just ask the 40 million people living in poverty!
• Poor people are lazy!
• Brown people are rapists!
• Some Nazis are fine!
• Marauding caravans are coming!
• Mexicans are rapists and are coming for white women!
• Brown children are disease ridden!
• Black people come from shithole countries!
• Be willing to die for Trump!
• Democracy is a hoax!
• The pandemic is a hoax!

 You’ll put your eye out!

            Sure it’s all fun and games until people with guns show up.

          The biggest hoax of all?

Claiming Trump won!

Writing off Death

Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death (1523–5)

(5 minute read) 

Conservative Republican Evangelical Messaging:

            People die.

            People are dying all the time anyway.

            People die from heart disease, cancer, regular disease, accidents, mayhem of all sorts, old age, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, food poisoning and just because. Covid-19 is just something else that people are dying from. Not that big of a deal really. Sure it’s bad but so is heart disease.

Thoughts and prayers.

Perspective.

“The Covid-19 pandemic has been horrible. No disputing that. However, I grow weary of the daily scorecards of 2020 deaths attributed to Covid that make perspective difficult. Consider these CDC stats on causes of death during 2018…”

 Wearisome.

            I lifted the above quote from a meme that has been circulating around in conservative postings. I have seen it posted and shared in a number of places. I haven’t bothered checking the information presented as to having the correct number of deaths attributed to various categories.

            Hearing about Covid deaths is “wearisome” to them. People share those feelings in order to minimize what’s taking place. That way they can ignore the fact that the President knew SARS-CoV-2 was deadly and lied to the nation. They can ignore that he has and still does encourage practices that kill people. He got it and lived. Now he’s a one man super-spreading show.

            At the top of the list is 655,381 people dying from heart disease. Then the author talks about all the other ways people die and supplies the number for each. So really, is adding an additional half million to the normal death tally really all that much of a big deal? The majority of these new deaths are going to be old people and they don’t have all that many years left anyway. Sure there’ll be some people die from all the other age groups and ethnicities but that’s bound to happen. They’re…

Just collateral damage.

Revealed

            What’s missing from the “perspective” narrative? (Besides humanity.)

• A shattered economy.
• The millions that will have their physical lives forever compromised from Covid-19.
• The millions of people that have been put out of work. This is in addition to the 30 million plus that were living in poverty before the pandemic struck.
• All the families that have lost BOTH parents to Covid-19.
• Millions more now without health insurance during a pandemic.
• Homes lost.
• Men, women and children hungry, some for the first time in their lives.
• All those that have lost EVERYTHING!

Wearisome.

292,747

            Clearly they needed this “perspective” during WWII.

            Why?

            The number of deaths due to Covid-19 has now exceeded the number of American combat casualties from WWII. (292,747) That took almost 4 years. When casualties were reported from the front lines people weren’t saying that they were tired of hearing about dead people and that it was wearisome. There weren’t irrational individuals walking neighborhoods or calling people up telling them to maintain their perspective that there were worse things than our men and women dying in combat.

            AND that’s only .39% of the total population then. Yet people made a big deal out of it.

            The “conservative” Retrumplicans and evangelicals of today are cut from a different cloth.

            Retrumplicans made it possible to exceed that total in less than a year! AND we’re coming in at a 1.5% or higher mortality rate!

Winning!

405,399

            That’s the number of total American deaths from WWII. Armed forces personnel were dying from natural causes, accidents, etc. then as well. (Yes, people died from other things then too. Amazing isn’t it?) Retrumplicans will make it possible to beat this number as well!

More winning!

 Caring and sharing.

            It’s easy to see why keeping things in perspective is difficult for some people. (NOT really.)  I read that what the pandemic has also done is revealed the true nature of people. The callous disregard for human life by so many has been a real eye-opening experience all over the country.

            How many deaths and lives destroyed will it take to provide adequate perspective to Conservative Evangelical Republican Trump supporters? How many have to die before they go against their lying Ducé and start wearing masks, participating in contact tracing and get vaccinated? What has to happen to get any of them to stop killing people? Their refusal to believe what’s happening, mask up and maintain physical distancing has resulted in a couple of hundred thousand needless deaths. That is NOT the fault of the Chinese that they like to race bait. Conservative Republicans, Evangelicals and Trump supporters are the ones responsible.

They own that.

WWTD?

            My general observation in life is that people who have the least compassion for others often end up being the ones that need it the most.

Divine providence.

            Seriously, What Would Trump Do (WWTD) if the situation were reversed? How would he act? The Greatest Draft Avoider couldn’t avoid the virus, try as he might. He created a bio-bubble of testing around him and the virus still got through. Walls don’t stop it. If he had avoided testing would the virus have still got to him?

            And it happened now. Of all the times that it could have happened it happened now. Wade in evangelicals. First God sent a plague. You didn’t get the memo. You did nothing and continued to support the Great Liar. Then God gave your “Chosen One” the virus. All a part of God’s plan? The Liar got the virus so that we wouldn’t have to? Oops! Can’t say that since 220,000 have died in the country and it is a worldwide pandemic where millions will die before it’s over.

            Divine providence?

            Hardly.

            Mankind screwed this up. We’re good at that.

            If President Obama had had any of this happen on his watch Evangelicals would be shouting from the pulpit that this was God’s revenge on a fallen nation.

White House Covid-19 Hot Spot

            So who would have thought that the White House would turn into a hot spot for the Covid-19 contagion and the President of the United States would be a super spreader? Well the answer to that question should be self-evident and is to people that live in the real world. The only really big surprise is that it didn’t happen before this.

            That was one cold-blooded SOB move for Trump to go ahead and go to his rich friends’ fundraiser knowing that he had been exposed along with his team. There have got to be some pissed off attendees over that. (Depending on which timeline you believe, he may have already tested positive before attending the fundraiser. It certainly seems that he might already have been symptomatic as well.)

Dusting

            I have seen a few dust-ups over how people should talk about President Trump since he was air-lifted to Walter Reed because he caught Covid-19. The primary gist from Trump’s die-hard cult members seems to be that people that claim he’s an unfeeling asshole only concerned about himself should be showing a lot more compassion in his time of need.

            In other words people should show the compassion that they espouse to a serial killer who is directly responsible for killing tens of thousands of people unnecessarily.

Trump killed my Dad….

            ….or mom or uncle or aunt or fill in the blank. That’s what surviving family members are in the news saying.

My dad is dead because he believed Trump about the virus being a hoax.

My mom is dead because she wouldn’t wear a mask because of President Trump.

My family is dead because they all got together thinking that it was safe because of President Trump.

Garden party.

            An uninvited guest crashed the Rose Garden Party. The White House Rose Garden appears to be where many people contracted the virus. Everyone had been tested beforehand. It’s evident that mistakes were made. Because attendees were under the mistaken notion that they were safe, many, if not most, went mask-less, even indoors. They ignored the science. They ignored the data. They ignored the recommendations of epidemiologists. Like his cult followers they thought that they were safe.

They were wrong.

Never pivoted.

            WWTD? There was talk from some Trump supporters that when Trump became President he would pivot to being and acting Presidential. He didn’t he got worse. At the end of his term he is emboldened by the power of the office and his character flaws have become worse. He’s now a playground bully with power.

            So what would Trump do if the situation were reversed and it was Biden that acquired Covid-19?

Ω  First off he would have made fun of him for wearing a mask and still getting Covid-19. He makes fun of sick people. They’re disgusting to him.

Ω  Trump tees off with lies. His supporters pass on his lies whether they believe them or not.

Ω  He would call people names.

Ω  Insults would pour out of him just like they always do.

Ω  People around him would be blamed for him getting Covid-19. Not him.

I’ll take sociopaths for $500, Bob!

            President Trump is saying that he wants to get back to holding rallies! He’s raring to go! He’s chomping at the bit! Back to business as usual. He survived! Now he’s willing to sacrifice even more people worshiping at his altar.

            In his comments before being airlifted to Walter Reed hospital and receiving the best medical care possible and from the hospital, he didn’t mention his team or the Secret Service men and women that he puts at unnecessary risk because of the image he wants to portray of being a macho non-mask wearer. He takes no responsibility.

He is what he is.