January 6

I've been trying to organize my thoughts about the events of January 6. It has not been easy. My emotions have run the gamut, from extreme anger and frustration to deep sadness and hopelessness. The violent protesters of Wednesday need to be identified and punished, just like the violent protesters who burned down our cities, looted, etc. last summer. Period. It's hard to know where to start. It's no secret I am not nor ever have been a fan of President Trump. I won't rehash that here. (People can check my previous blogs.) Yes, I think he bears a great deal of blame for Wednesday. He has exhibited incredible irresponsbility, from the election right up to January 6. I expected nothing less; that's what he is, in effect, an irresponsible adolescent. He'll never grow up. Instead of show real leadership (which if he'd shown in his term as President, he'd likely have won the election without much problem) in contesting the election, he threw his equivalent of a tantrum. I do blame him. I found it almost unbelievable that he peppered his "Go home peacefully" Tweet with, "They stole the election. We know it. They know it. Everyone knows it." Talk about lighting a match next to a pile of gasoline-soaked rags! That spurred on his most delusional supporters. Was there, as Trump has claimed, "fraud" in the election? I really don't know. Like so much today, I don't know who to believe. But I do believe there was; I just don't know for sure. There were too many statistical anomalies, too many convenient coincidences, too many deviations from state laws and practices, etc. to assure confidence in the fairness of the election. And I certainly don't trust the Democrats who were in charge of much of this vote-counting. But believing isn't knowing. I find it interesting that when I make statements like this, that I think the Democrats are dishonest, scummy hypocrites, I am accused of being a Trumpster. Yet, at the same time, I have incurred the wrath (or at least displeasure) of Trump supporters when I express my extreme distaste for him. I mentioned to one of my brothers I'd likely upset people with this blog; he replied, "Go ahead and piss them off!!!" OK. If there wasn't much fraud (And how much is acceptable? A little? In just some places? None is!!!!!), it was certainly at the least incompetence, incompetence that borders on fraud. That said, I doubt, but again don't really know, if there were enough questionable votes to change the outcome. I don't know and nobody really knows. Believing isn't knowing. This election and subsequent ones must be investigated. Who will investigate? Politicians, either Democrats or Republicans? Bureaucrats appointed by and dependent upon Democrats or Republicans? Isn't that sort of like letting the foxes run the chicken coop? I kept hearing the blowhard politicans on Capitol Hill, the media pundits, and their "experts" sound off about the January 6 events as "an assault on our Democracy." I think the lack of faith in honest elections is as great, if not far greater, "an assault on our Democracy." Fair elections/Voting is the essence of "our Democracy." If they are violated..... More than that, I think, I was angriest at the sanctimonious self-righteousness (I use those terms a lot.) of the politicians, media pundits, and their academic "experts." I was not only angry, but insulted and frustrated. They got it all wrong! The politicians didn't make America-first, save our Democracy speeches. They provided cop-outs, political speeches aimed at further themselves. For all their talk about "healing," "coming together," "reuniting," well, these Senators and members of Congress were mostly pathetic, nauseating even. The "experts" glossed over the significance of the past. Have these idiots forgotten the threats posed to Washington, the Capitol building, "our Democracy" by the Civil War? Maybe one of them brought it up, but I didn't and haven't heard it. One was stupid enough to say this was a bigger threat than Pearl Harbor! But, again, I expected nothing less from these arrogant elitists, hypcrites that they are. (Why don't more people understand that?) For four years, the Democrats and their media lapdogs have stirred up division and hate. Hate and division, I guess, are OK when they benefit the Democrats (and their media lapdogs). If they are detrimental to the US, so what? From the day Trump was elected in 2016 (and I believe even Trump was surprised he won), they have driven a wedge between Americans. Anyone who denies this course of division and hatred is incredibly stupid, willfully blind, blatantly hypocritical--or all three! Now, though, it's not them--It's Trump! These are the one's insisting that the events of January 6 were "an assault on our Democracy." How many people, "protesters," were at the Capitol on Wednesday--tens of thousands? (I heard there was a "limit" of 35,000, but who knows how many "illegals"--ha ha ha--there were.) How many have been arrested? I heard on the radio last night fewer than 100. There may be more; I don't know. How many despicably broke into and entereed the Capitol? (I am not in the least way justifying this. Throw the book at them!) So, what fraction of one percent were "assaulting our Democracy?" (I'm not going to bring up the summer riots, er, "peaceful protests," many of which were encouraaged by these same Democrats and misreported by their lapdog media. Remember the CNN reporter who called them "mostly peaceful protesters" as an entire city block burned in the background of her report?) I am convinced all their talk of "impeachment" and "the 25th Amendment" are diversions, to rile up more people, to obfuscate the left's role in all of this. And they drag in as complicit in this "assault" Congressmen and Senators who dared challenge state electoral votes. In other words, to these politicians, Democrats and Republicans alike, it's OK that some of these states' highly questionable election procedures go without scrutiny. Potential fraud and incompetence are just fine. In fact, those who stood up for the integrity of elections are being called responsible for what happened on January 6. "The Swamp" lives! It will use Wednesday to more firmly entrench itself. See what happens when you challenge it. You will be responsible for those who stormed the Capitol--YOU! Those jerk politicians and the media who talk about "the assault on our Democracy" are far greater threats to "our Democracy" than those few felons who attacked the Capitol. They'll just bring about its demise a little more slowly, gradually. Oh, I forgot, like Gretchen Whitmer, these blowhard hypocrites, arrogant elitists are "saving us." They never look in the mirror. Why should they? Haven't they proven they are smarter than we are, that they know what's best for us better than we do ourselves? (Ask Obama.) They cannot see the damage they have done and are doing to these United States. Perhaps they don't care. There's a lot more on my mind. My thoughts and emotions are still all jumbled. This is enough for now, but for one thing. I wasn't at all surprised the the media pundits and the "experts" they brought in got their American history wrong. No, I wasn't surprised at all.