"I was allowed to believe things that weren't true."
MAGA Marge (Q Georgia) is taking advantage of the ubiquitous superstition that what we believe is not our choice when that is, in fact, how we come to believe things, through our choice. I have wondered if there was a time before people chose to get sold on the superstitions of the various sects of psychology when people were expected to take responsibility for what they claimed was real, how they acted, how they felt, things that now are commonly believed to happen apart from our own acts of choice but I don't have the time to chase down enough evidence to make an argument that I could choose to accept or reject.
Menteuse Marge who lied as she was trying to cover her ass on the floor of the house last night is matched in her resort to that superstition that she didn't choose to push lies that she liked through involuntary compulsion by the exoneration of Trump because it's claimed he believed the lies he incited insurrection and sedition with and so that makes what he did OK. I have every confidence that the law of the United States and in the Anglo-American tradition has been so corrupted by that kind of permissiveness which is doled out to those who are advantaged and most certainly is not given to those of the underclass and unfavored people, will allow Trump out of the most criminal thing short of fomenting a war based on lies ever done by an American president based on his unknowable mental state. For that we have nothing but his own claim and as everything he says is a lie, there is no reliable means of ascertaining whether or not his believing the lie is one of the few true things he's ever said.
I've been entertaining myself by re-reading the Rumpole stories this past week, it was a mistake, the charm is gone, but one thing you do get is a more skeptical view of the legal system and the absurd belief that judges are any better at being impartial and fair than the general run of humanity. For every judge who has stood up to Republican-fascism or, if not exactly to that then for the law as it's supposed to be, there are judges who allow obviously guilty insurrectionist real estate sellers to go to Mexico on a planned vacation or allows a legally adult neo-Nazi killer to violate their bail, repeatedly and to permit his lawyers to withhold information that they are required to give. I think any judge who allowed any of the insurrectionists out while awaiting trial should be reviewed for possible removal from their positions. As has been endlessly pointed out the entitled white criminals of the Trump mob have been given a different standard of justice than they would have been if they were black, accused and eventually, after months or even years in prison, found to be INNOCENT.
Sometime during the demonstrations against police murder of Black men and women, I heard an interview with a young Black Woman being interviewed who did a very good, very accurate review of just a few of the outrageous wrongs done to Black People and she said that white people were lucky that Black people only wanted justice and not revenge. That's the fire this time, that's the fire that had better be tended and what caused it addressed because there will be a fire next time fed by injustice. Just as on the other end of justice, letting the Marjorie Taylor Greenes, the Trumpist fascists, the Republican-fascists, the Proud Boys the AmericaNazis of white supremacy to get off so easily as Trump and Taylor Greene expect to see a repeat of the Trump insurrection, only worse, stronger, more highly financed by billionaires and Hollywood millionaires ( I hope Little Ricky Schroeder finds himself unable to get work) and their foreign gangster allies, more skillfully gaming our broken, corrupt Constitution and the state the law is left in by precedent.
There should be no more (R) after Republican-fascists in office, it should be (Q) from here on in. EVERYONE WHO REMAINS IN THAT PARTY SHOULD WEAR IT, EVEN THOSE WHO VOTED TO KICK THAT QPUBLICAN OFF HER COMMITTEES. The whole party is to blame, the old-money-"principled conservatives" as much as the Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Tommy Tubberville, Cruz and Hawley faction of it. There are no "votes of conscience" that make up for the rest of their support for the support network of Republican-fascism that props up the overt Nazis.
If we buy the nonsense that someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't choose to believe what she believes, or claims to believe,that it is an involuntary act, then those who bask in the media driven sanctimony regarding their "votes of conscience" such as Susan Collins has been given on the rare occasion she cast an impotent vote of conscience that meant nothing. They shouldn't get any praise for it, no more than MTG should be allowed to skate by consequences for her allegedly involuntary mental state and the actions that come from it.
TO HELL WITH THE POSES OF MORALITY FROM REPUBLICAN "MODERATES" AS THINGS HAVE DEVELOPED THEY AREN'T ANY BETTER THAN "GOOD GERMANS". Certainly to hell with those who didn't vote to remove MTG from her committees or those who vote to let Mo Brooks, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, etc. off.
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