The day that was yesterday brought so many revelations of the moral atrocity that is Donald Trump that it's hard to get a hold of it. The revelation that back in early Spring he was telling Bob Woodward that he knew the extent of the dangers of Covid-19 but he, the man who never saw a fascist conspiracy theory he wouldn't shout out to terrorize the stupid and gullible into going with him, claimed that he didn't want to create a "panic" in the American People by telling us the truth, the many and other moral atrocities that Trump, Barr, McConnell, DeJoy, etc. govern us with. If Trump told the truth his tongue would ignite.
I was especially interested in it also being the day that Susan Sarandon style Never Dems bullshit broke on the play-lefty social media, she supporting some non-entity called @ProudSocialist's declaration that he'll never vote for Biden, reminding everyone that she assured us that Trump would be less bad than Hillary Clinton, declaring that if Trump hadn't been installed that we'd be at war, as if we're not, wars resulting from the 2000 version of Never Dems "socialist" purity leftiness.
It is worth remembering that both Trump and Sarandon come to public notice through the medium of entertainment, the movies, TV, Hollywood, the NYC tabloid and other media and Trump entered politics through the love child of entertainment and, um, "journalism" the cabloids, the spill over into the morning newsy talk shows and from there into what is to be mistaken for reporting. Trump is every bit as much a product of the "journalistic" side of TV as he is the depravity of the gangster ridden big figure real estate market and international finance. His political career was a publicity stunt as much as it was him giving full vent to his clearly visceral and heart felt racism, one of the few heartfelt things within him, it is certainly a deeper passion than even his feelings for his own family. As an aside, the view of Melania that she is a hapless victim should have been completely set aside as it was revealed she wouldn't move into the White House until the toilet that Michelle Obama used be replaced. THAT is racism at its most atavistic. That a European child of communism would fit into that world so well is no shock to me anymore. It is just a different brand of the same thing that is labled "fascism" or "Nazism". And with the like of @ProudSocialist I'm ready to say that secular socialism is not as distinct from that as it should have been.
I will repeat something I've been saying more and more. The fact is that even as we are going through this crisis brought on by an effective wedge of voters who were gulled into voting for Trump in a few upper mid-western states or into voting for Jill Stein by the Sarandon type of purist lefties, the alleged protection of The Constitution has failed, utterly, entirely and catastrophically.
The myth of presidential impeachment, itself, still a weapon of the purity play left against the only Democratic leadership with any power in Washington, the Democratic House Caucus, didn't protect us as anyone with any knowledge of its serial failures of removing criminal presidents of the past would have known would happen. It failed due to the anti-democratic structure and organization of the Senate and the utter and complete moral atrocity that is Republican-fascism. The one time the threat of it worked, to convince Nixon to resign before he was impeached had everything to do with Republican senators worried that they would lose their election, NOT BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT HE SHOULD BE REMOVED FOR THE HIGH CRIMES WHICH NOW ARE DWARFED BY THOSE OF TRUMP. And yet the Republicans in the Senate, with one sole exception, voted to keep Trump the traitor and openly criminal gangster in office. As should have surprised no one.
And Trump and Barr and DeJoy are trying to ratfuck the election, with their open support of Putin, once again, using our "free press" our "free speech" to lie us into four more years of Trumpian treason. And he is helped by that even more powerful foreign force, the Australian-Brit Murdoch family and their media empire, joining with America's indigenous criminal class, the super-rich.
Our Constitution has been successfully gamed to produce this by Republicans, those in journalism, those in the legal profession, those in alleged law enforcement, those in the judiciary and, especially, those on the Supreme Court. The lines and the words and the slogans that got us here are still there, the habits of thought that got us here, the empowerment of lies in an "enlightened" hands-off, "just calling the hits and strikes" pose of judicial restraint and refusal to admit that they can tell when a lie is a lie, pretending that is beyond their abilities as judges, all of that bullshit is still there and it will be until the words of the Constitution, ESPECIALLY THOSE DEALING WITH PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS THAT ALLOWS THE MEDIA TO LIE FOR ITS OWN AND ITS OWNERS BENEFIT WITH IMPUNITY ARE CHANGED TO DISALLOW THOSE THINGS.
William Barr and the rest of the "unitary executive" fascists in the "Justice" Department and on the Supreme Court will always have access to the same words in that document that they invented their scheme to impose Republican-fascism on us with. If, as, I am sure, even the estimable Charles Pierce will rightly point out that a Constitutional Convention at this time under billionaire and multi-millionaire propaganda governance is extremely perilous BUT SO IS LEAVING THE MEDIA WITH THE PERMISSION TO LIE WHICH IS THE SOURCE OF THAT BILLIONAIRE-MILLIONAIRE DANGER IN THE FIRST PLACE. So is leaving the terribly written sections they used to invent the "unitary executive" so is the serial abomination of the Electoral College and the anti-democratically structured Senate.
We got here through lies, little ones, big ones, huge ones, "white lies" and the kind that Trump's entire public persona is constructed of. We got here through the lies of the play-lefties and the lefty media, Jill Stein and the Greens seem to be being eclipsed by the "Peoples' Party" in the fever dreams of that group of too-affluent to be trusted bunch. Too Ivy League, too ideological to care about real people except as a play thing of their theory or a means to an end.
Until the fact that we will never be able to demonstrate the truth we need to continue living with the precision that mathematicians can use to make statements about numbers and the operations they go through in their imaginations or even the reliable things "proven" with the even less rigorous methods of the real sciences, which is what the absurd pose of "the Enlightenment" from Jefferson and Madison to Oliver Wendell Holmes jr. and the kind of "scientific" economists who inform Republican-fascism today, until all of that bullshit is overturned by mere honesty and an acceptance of the truth that the truth will set you free if you know it and you accept its moral status but that lies will lead us into where we are now, and worse, until that is embedded into the Constitutional requirements that govern the government and our law, we won't be anything like safe from this happening again. There has been a steady stream of ever worsening criminal malgovernance, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I (he and his ambassador to Iraq actually did incite a war as part of his re-election strategy), Bush II-Cheney and now Trump. They're getting better at imposing it on us, the fire next time will consume American democracy, entirely.
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