Blaming Batman for the Joker

I'm sorry about this I-can't-sleep-rant' but I'm really sick to the both-sides crap.

It's bullshit.

There is one party who for the last 20 years who has worked hard against ordinary Americans. There is one party who has made sure anything that would help anyone one below millionaire status would fail. There is one party that has worked very hard to make sure that the economy under Obama would drag and under Trump would favor billionaires... and it wasn't the Democrats.

No, the Democrats need a swift, hard kick in the ass, god knows. They have forgotten all about the middle class while focused (on the deserving) fringes. They are way too focused on petty BS right now to get the job done. But they are actually doing things.

But there is only one party plotting to destroy democracy, one party so fixated on their legitimate loss (which they are screaming was fraud) that they are setting up plans to overthrow the next election. Democrats ate not saints, but they are trying to make sure everyone who can vote should vote.

Only one party is trying to make sure legitimate voters can't cast a ballot. And why? Because they cant win if everyone casts a ballot, and they know it.

That's the GOP. Politics is a problem, but the biggest problem for democracy right now is the GOP and has been for the last three decades.

It was the Trumpers who screamed to kill the VP, tried to kill democracy and helped kill five people on January 6th, it wasn't the Democrats.

If you say it's both sides. it's like blaming Batman for the Joker's crimes.

No One Is Coming

Romney has the look most of the country has right now. By Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

Seriously, people, did you expect Mitt Romney to go any other way?

Yes, he took a token stand when it meant nothing, and he knew it. He voted ‘guilty’ on one charge in the impeachment, but he knew it wouldn’t pass. He was already high on Trump’s shit list, he was in a safe seat, he had little to lose. But now? This vote is different and he knows it. So, he’s reminding everyone he’s the same stuffed shirt Republican he always was. No, this vote is different, this isn’t time for a symbolic stand on ‘principle’, this vote is about power, power that could change American life for the next 30 years. No, he's not about to risk everything, including a SCOTUS nominee that will kill the popular Roe v Wade and the ACA, for some silly 'reputation' as a ‘Reasonable’ Republican.

You kidding?

Ha!

It is long past time to get over yourself.

Did I know? I used to be a Mormon, and I know this; his church would not have forgiven him, and he is a sincerely religious man. I had a fleeting hope, but I figured his 'integrity' would go so far and no farther. In that safe vote 'against' Trump he was good, but denying his voters a chance to own the libs on the hated ADA (insuring some 10 million + people, and killing Roe v Wade, popular among a majority of voters) he folds like origami.

No, not surprised.

So, no, the fact that Mitt is an opportunistic Republican is not news (I followed his career, and that's what he's ALWAYS been) the fact that the ever-hopeful Democratic base thought he'd be anything else disappoints me.

Get over yourselves.

NO Republicans are going to step up and save you.

COME ON.

They have proved over that you can't work/trust with them, that should have been made clear in the past 30 some years, right? Good lord.

Fight.

Democracy is on the line.

The Trump Party will do ANYthing to win/steal this election. They believe they're entitled to do so. They have been gearing up for months to seize power by any means necessary. They can’t do it by ballots, they will do it with the courts, and now they have a bigger court majority than they did in 2000 with a 5-4 split gave the election to George W. Bush, a man who did not win the popular vote.

They have the Supreme Court, that don’t need the popular vote. They will shout ‘FRAUD!’, seize the ballots and throw enough confusion and lawsuits to drive it to the SCOTUS where a 3rd of the judges owe their seat to Trump. They will not recuse themselves.

Fight.

They steal SCOTUS seats? Expand the Court, expand the federal judiciary. Make territories actual states. Get rid of the Electoral College. Don't bother with what the GOP will scream, they will do that regardless. They play hardball, so the Democrats need to play hardball, and have to stop apologizing for it. Just stop.

Fight.

Fight everything. Make the GOP pay for the shit they pull, for a change.

Fight.

Democracy needs you now.