The pandemic, the shutdown, the president's pardon spree and the onslaught of Old Man Winter. How much resilience do we have?
I knew we were likely to hear of "mutant strains" of the virus. And now it's happening. So I'll repeat my theory that the crisis is orchestrated by extraterrestrials as a way of suppressing the human race - exterminating it ultimately - because of what we have caused with climate change. Do the ETs sense we are killing the planet? We have already seen a movie about this: "The Day the Earth Stood Still," the Keanu Reeves version.
The facts might be right in front of us. Fallible as we are as human beings, we sometimes can't see the forest for the trees.
Let's say the human race survives: project yourself 50 years into the future and imagine some retrospective interviews. Everyone will have become so much smarter, or least they'll sound that way. People will look back on how the Republican Party of the USA wore such blinders through the ascent and presidency of Donald Trump.
People will wonder how it was allowed to happen. Was it all the machinations by one flawed human being named Trump? We're all flawed because God created us with sin. But one man alone shouldn't be able to cause so much harmful disruption. Of course he had enablers.
And at present, true to form, the president is turning on people who have tried to bend over backwards for him. So 50 years from now, us Americans - provided the nation still exists - will be inspecting our navels, as it were. (It's "navels" not "navals.") We'll act so much smarter.
We grew up with no equivocation about who Hitler was and what he did. It is so universally assumed. But one man alone cannot rise and inflict so much harm. It is true that these narcissistic souls exercise a particular talent for getting a network around them. In Trump's case it's the Republican Party. Mitch McConnell is learning as I write this that Trump may set the whole barn ablaze just out of bitterness, bitterness over his apparent loss in the election.
And Trump doesn't give a rip about damaged lives in the wake of all this. Look at all the criminal types he has surrounded himself with. He bestows pardons for them now, as I write this, and you certainly don't think he's doing this out of any benevolence or forgiveness.
There's an understanding or CW that pardons are to be exercised in a certain way, based on sound principle. Such understandings or unwritten rules were developed on the assumption that the nation would elect basically ethical people. Hopefully we can get a new regime in power that will codify certain values, so it's no longer just an "understanding." The guard rails must be real. The power to pardon may have to be modified/reined in.
Better yet, we should elect people to high office who are totally motivated by the ideals of public service. Instead we have gotten a mob boss president. He uses his endless tweets and frivolous lawsuits to intimidate. The suits can just buy time in some cases, allowing him to in fact win by just being able to conceal, as with his tax returns. Appeal, appeal, appeal. He should have walked away from his businesses completely when becoming president.
Being president is a unique and cherished honor, enough to consume your attention, really for the rest of your life. President of the United States! Why do you need to stay involved in businesses (or scams)?
Trump is extremely embittered at present. Heaven knows the additional damage he is prepared to do. He knows what awaits him when/if he's forced to leave office. Take the sexual assault lawsuit he faces where the accuser is seeking a DNA test. What if Trump is found culpable? How could he deal with the stain of that - so to speak - the rest of his life?
Other legal repercussions are likely coming. New York state is the crux of it.
If the facts are allowed to come out, we'll learn what we should have known all along, that Trump is cut from the same bolt of cloth as his shady associates. The pardoned ones along with the non-pardoned soul Michael Cohen. It's easy to sense that Cohen at present is desperately trying to tell the truth about everything. He won't get any sort of pardon. You play ball with Trump, you'll get a pardon.
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| McConnell, by Jim Carrey |
People will poke fun at me for saying that. What if I am right?
What a Christmas for 2020: We're isolated, cold, and profoundly worried about what Trump will do over the next three weeks. Provoke an international incident? There's serious talk that Trump's network of supporters will try to sabotage Biden so as to open the door for Trump's triumphant return as an autocratic leader in 2024.
If Biden is successfully sabotaged, we could see widespread suffering among Americans. Are the Trump supporters willing to pay any price, to make any sacrifice in order to see to it that their hero or savior gets back on top?
We look back today at the German people of the mid-20th Century as being so shockingly clueless. We all know German people and they are not stupid. They can be brilliant. So, what happened? And, what is now happening in our America of 2020?
I will be 66 years old next month and I just want to live a happy and stable next four years. If Biden gets some credit for that, so what?
My Christmas Eve podcast
I invite you to visit my "Morris Mojo" podcast on this December 24, Xmas Eve Day. We're digging out after a pretty severe storm here in Morris MN. Problem was mainly wind, fortunately not that much snow. Here is the permalink:
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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