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Carolyn Ryan's avatar

McConnell pulled another Merrick Garland gambit. By delaying the trial himself, he provided the false framework to 'rely' on a patently false procedural cover. Knowing the right wing zealots have no idea (nor do they care) about proper or improper procedure, he skates to whatever outcome he wants.

This is what happens with cabals: ends justify means. His mission with that disgustingly hypocritical rant was to open the money spigots of the corporate givers who claim they don't like Trump anymore. Likely they don't like him because they're afraid their customers dislike him so much they'll spend elsewhere. There's no honor here; there's just crass political and economic calculus.

The one good thing that watching the 'trial' delivered for me was an introduction to Jamie Raskin. What an extraordinary mensch. Brilliant, articulate, so many more positive adjectives...he was the highlight of what was a dreadful week. When things seem and feel really bad in the world (both my personal/family world and the larger one out there), I look for someone who persists in the face of it all, and try to convince myself that it's not all bad, because, "See? There's a Jamie Raskin in the world after all." His eloquence and genuine caring got me through a really bad week.

I knew the republican senators would not be moved to anything resembling a conscience vote; cabals don't deviate. But I was yet again trounced by the reality that there's no there there. McConnell's cynical soliloquy was just too much foam on the brew.

Good lord, but we need people who care. I think Biden does care, and his agenda and the fact that he has a great team with him will move us into the right path again, but I fear that we are truly in a prolonged siege for control. And it has always felt to me that bad people are better at getting control than good people.

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Not my prose, but my brother said I could share.

Subject: The Second Insurrection

Once again the U.S. Capitol Building has been occupied by a traitorous mob of Un-American seditionists determined to overthrow the Constitution which forms the basis of our Democracy.  For the second time in two months a mob of traitors has assembled within the walls of the Capitol Building itself, to desecrate the foundations of democratic government.  The felonious mob that assembled in the Capitol on January 6, 2021 wreaked havoc through property destruction and loss of life.  Their sedition was brief and promptly faded away as the cowards that they were quickly slithered back under the rocks from which they had emerged.

But today, the Capitol is once again occupied by traitors.  Traitors who have determined to abandon their oaths of office, to abandon the Constitution, to abandon their Country and its Democratic principles.  These traitors pose a much greater threat to the United States than did the slime which covered the Capitol floors on January 6th.  Slime can be quickly washed away, and forgotten.  But this collection of vermin is different. These rodents are supposed to wash away the slime.  Instead, the group of Trumpublicans currently occupying the Senate Chambers will continue the stain on the United States by their boot licking fealty to a failed dictator, Donald Trump.  The stain left by these traitors will continue.  On January 6th, the Capitol was stained by riotous outside extremists, who will soon be incarcerated and duly forgotten.  But the stain of the traitorous Trumpublicans is from the inside of the Senate itself.  It will last beyond their terms in office and remain a stain on their institution, and themselves, into history. They have chosen fealty to The Big Lie over their nation and its institutions. Their shame will last forever.

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