Yes, this is a screed.
I’m not even that pissed off at Donald Trump any more. He, his friends, allies and family are awful people. They always have been. Back when I was growing up in NJ politics and Donny had his Atlantic City casinos — back when he was a Democrat — the Republicans always used to look at us and say, “Trump is your problem.”
Well, no, he’s our problem. But we know he’s a criminal, we know he lies, we know he’s probably not right in the head, and we know that he has now — and has had for a long time — relationships with Russia. And we know that the Russians offered to help the Donald, and the Trump campaign was clearly interested and tried to help them out in return.
What we don’t know yet is if this collusion turned into criminal liability. We also don’t know how long Russia was cultivating Trump.
But that doesn’t make me angry. I’ve moved on to acceptance.
No — what makes me angry are the Republican “sheeple” who just have no sense of inevitability of their own tragic political loss here — and are colluding with themselves to save Trump’s ass.
Seriously.
Where’s our “have you no decency” moment?
Instead, we have the GOP cowards on the House Intel Committee trying to save Devon Nunes from obstruction of justice charges by trying to use classified information to drum up a fake conspiracy against Trump at the FBI. Isn’t that illegal, by the way? It should be.
Journalists are rushing around trying to outscoop each other regarding what is clearly the largest political scandal in the history of this country. This is way bigger than Watergate, or Monica, or even Teapot Dome (and that was a doozy). But Fox Whitehouse Communication Appendage has gone all Leni Riefenstahl — they are even inciting violence. When somebody actually gets hurt or killed on the left — will they get investigated for their role?
Those are the loonies on the right.
Worst of all are the rest of the Republicans — those of whom are silent. They are intellectuals in the party. They aren’t stupid — the trend lines in polls and voting are clearly already crushing the GOP (which is supposed to loose next year anyway, just based on history). They know it.
They know who Trump is. And they know what he and the Russians have done.
And yet they are silent.
These are the Republi-bitches that wrap themselves in the flag or invoke the rapture over just about every issue. Every.single.issue.
Well, it seems the time has come to actually stand up for the country. And they are silent. This is a dangerous moment for our democracy. Either they wake the hell up, or they really have abdicated their oaths of office.