Clumsy but Fervent

I'm clumsy, yes. Awkward, yes. Uninformed, yes.

But I'm ready to learn and I'm willing.
Will you learn along with me?
Let's share our learning curve. I will share mine here. There is so much to learn. I'm desperate for actions that I can take in this movement so please share with me!

Years of Preparation: Trump in Office

He's no more of a pawn than the next guy.
Republicans through the Evangelical Right has been working on getting to this exact place for over forty years. Have you seen the streaming show called "Bad Faith"? It will scare the living hell out of you because it shows just how long this point of power has been in play. They have been working aggressively to get to this point for over forty years, including getting the churches behind their agendas and their voting bents, getting a Conservative Supreme Court, having majorities in the House and in the Senate, and having someone in the executive branch who is capable of conning a majority of people in the country.

Yes, they have been getting to this exact point for many years and now, here we are. MAGA

The documentary mentioned above is fully titled: Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy. Please, inform yourself; watch the show.

Why do I begin this post with the statement that he is no more of a pawn than the next guy?
Because he was chosen by the Republican elite for his star power and for his ability to con followers into sycophantic, slavering fans. That's all. He did not come up with the policies or far right Project 2025. Others did. He's merely their pawn. He's the pawn of the Heritage Foundation.

I know it sounds sickening to say that, but the truth is that he's nothing without their backing and their agenda. He's no more Christian than...I am.

And who is THEY?
According to a Politico article, it goes back before Roe, though most people assume and claim that it started with Roe vs Wade and the Christian backlash to that case. Yes, Folks, it was Brown vs. the Board of Education of 1954. The Evangelical Right is racist in origin. Read the link. Always inform yourself more!

And how did the Evangelicals create such a powerful voting bloc? This incredibly formidable and difficult-to-outvote wave? Read more about Paul Weyrich and his "moral majority" movement. It is far too complicated and long-reaching for me to do justice to the growth of the Right.

But it should frighten you. Because what they did right was to politicize their religious fervor starting way back in the 1970's, and to continue that groundswell for decades. That is why the movement is gargantuan now in 2024, this marriage of religion and politics and business.

It will take years to dismantle the brainwashing and political power of the "moral majority".

What do you think?

Want to learn more along with me?
HOMEWORK:  Watch Bad Faith.
                             Read up on Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell
                             Read up on Heritage Foundation, founded 1973

EXACTLY What You Voted For

Gaetz Running Free

Just a quick question, if there are hundreds of pages in the case against Former Florida House of Representative Matt Gaetz, WHY was a case never brought against him?
Evidence exists from 2017 and he's still a current day nominee for fricking Attorney General of These United States.
Where is due process? Where is justice?

The president-elect is now making calls around the House and the Senate seeking support for, and probably making threats for, voting to approve the nomination and make Gaetz the AG of our country. I have no faith in the spineless Republican Congressionals who will be meeting on Thursday about this very issue.

TRUTH BOMB:  Our president elect is seeking support for yet another sexual predator and for, in this case, a pedophile for Attorney General of the United States of America.

Checks and Balances to Fascism

 

The Republicans didn't trifecta our asses by following the rules. NO. They trifectaed our asses by forcing their way through doorways like a battering ram with no sense of direction. They played the loopholes and not by the rule of law. For years.

Now they have the House and the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the Executive Branch. All three branches of our government that are designed to provide checks and balances to power.
There will be no checks or balances to power.
No shame. No spines.

The whole while, Democrats feeling ethical and good and proud of ourselves for following the rules. Why do the Dems play nice in this game? There is no place for playing nice in today's politics and I suggest we buy ourselves an effing battering ram because that's exactly what we need right now. We also need somebody who knows how to fight like they do...someone who knows how to find the loopholes in the law...someone who knows how to play the game.

Right now he is president-ELECT and he is insisting that Congress go in to recess...will they? Where are the strong voices and the fricking heroes?

We are at a moment in time where the feckless-looking Republicans have successfully obtained the keys to the entire bloody kingdom. He looked like a fricking buffoon...and the entire time he was pocketing the watch. And now we'll have fascism in the Land of the Free.

 

What do you think?

 

45's Anti-Intellectualism: I LOVE the UnEDUCATED

Would this be considered a provocative post? I am merely mourning, feeling overwhelmed with sadness, and expressing my consternation with the norms in my beloved country, now promised for the next four years.

I see the anti-intellectualism so clearly in many public places and forums and I wonder why are we so complacent about this? How did this country get this far along this road? How many of our elected officials are a part of this anti-intellectualism? How deluded can our country be to ignore all of these facts? Do many people recognize that the uninformed are seldom politically active? How can the general populace not see that the wealthy-without-integrity are benefiting from this lack of curiosity by failing to support human-focused values? I find it alarming.

What do we do now that our president-elect is the czar of anti-intellectualism?

What can be done?

It takes effort to forgo our human emotional foundations for reasonable thought. I fear that much of the easy anti-intellectual activity

We see is supported by and encouraged by various religions as well as by other public systems.  It aggrieves me to see how pervasive it is in this country, this disdain for science and general knowledge. How many of our leaders are actually Young Earthers or creationists?
How many others are conspiracy theorists besides RFK Jr.?

The lack of knowledge and, further, the disdain for knowledge shows itself in so many ways in our country. From the current white house administration to the shameful racial biases in our criminal justice system to our illiterate graduates to the questionable and dangerous health practices to our nationally disgraceful expressions of WOO to our inability to get consensus on climate change and global environmental issues, anti-intellectualism is the culprit.

What is the solution?
JOIN ME in embracing REASON and in spreading Love of Learning.

Your Thoughts?

 

Trump Disempowering the Executive Branch, Except for Himself

 

I'm convinced that what he is doing is nominating a ridiculous, puppet cabinet so that he, alone, has the power, thusly creating an authoritarian situation for himself. For many different reasons, you know most of them from the outraged media with regards to his cabinet nominations, these men and women are poor picks for the highest offices in the land. And he knows it.

With the shaving off of one after another of these sycophantic nominees, he knows that, one by one, he will end their careers and will be left holding the bag. The entire bag. Can this even happen? IDK.

I'm watching the many news sources sit in utter shock and disdain as he nominates one inefficient, unqualified, and unseasoned person after another for his cabinet. The entire country is in shock and consternation, all without power to do anything about it. The Republicans in the House and the Senate are our only hope for the nominees and I'm not seeing any signs of hope coming from that quarter.

The House and the Senate have the responsibility to confirm the nominees. He has literally demanded that Congress recess right now so that his nominees will go through unheeded with no hearings, no background checks, and no vetting.
This is an important moment for our country and for this presidency.
What will they do? Will Congress give him this moment of uninhibited power?
Will they give up all ethics and give him what he wants?
Will they make our nation unsecured through their lack of action in this moment?

Because our nation will be NOT SECURE when our highest government officials are highly blackmailable.

Authoritarian government on the way.
What can we do?

 Your thoughts??

 

Assumed Condemnation of Christianity

The Cabinet Door is Open

It's horrifying to see the nominees for the next cabinet. Weirdly we're not hearing alot of other rhetoric from the president elect. Seems he and his sycophants are rallying in Mar a Lago, preparing for their day in the White House.

What will happen in Congress with these nominees? I'm sure I don't have to repeat the many egregious points against so many of the nominees, only to say that I don't have alot of hope that any congressional action will change things. He has too many supporters all of the way through the House and the Senate.

What are the gambles? What are the risks of these particular nominees, especially Gaez?
The sex offender is hiring other sex offenders to his special, all-powerful group...

I've been having this strange thought that, maybe, he's punking us. Maybe he's putting these doormats into the highest positions in our government so that he can simply have control 100%, that these people will be "yes men", without their own opinions and powers. A man with unilateral power is a dictator, simply put.

I do anticipate a dictatorial regime. Do you?

Your thoughts?

Be His Enemy

I'm not going to say it's going to be easy.
I'm here for the long haul and I plan on doing everything I can to keep our democracy safe from his authoritarian bent.


THIS VIDEO has been useful to me for a few days now and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open for the silver fricking lining, for the call to activity, for the reminders that we are who we've been waiting for. I'm seeing alot of visitors and activity here on my blog again and I'm hoping that you are here with me in the fight for our democracy. I'm open to hearing about any resistance movements that are out there; keep me in the loop!

 

Your thoughts?