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Dianna Jackson's avatar

Here is my take:

Truth Matters

What a hoot of a day yesterday as Trump ascends to the presidency. Call me perverse, but I can only imagine what the voters who supported him by voting or not voting thought about him pardoning people who pooped in the halls of which he occupied along with his billionaires sycophants in tow. What a picture.

And then Elon Musk three times showing off his skill by launching not one but three salutes. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-goes-full-seig-heil-in-clarifying-moment .

Did any of this make his cult nervous? They may have twisted their knickers into a knot. Or not.

These were not hiccups happening. These were actions of tyranny. To be clear.

Oh, my. To state it another way, the billionaires are all in to Trump now and they must understand that they must pay to play. Elon knew that as he bought Twitter so that he could spread division among the rubes and gave Trump a gazilion dollars to destroy the rule of law which has been at the heart of our healthy democracy.

What do his supporters say now? Imagine if your son was one of those police officers at the Capitol Jan. 6th and was beaten with all types of sticks and stones. Would you praise the decision to release all the rebel rousers back into society? I wonder. These people were convicted by a jury of their peers. And yet they were pardoned by one man the Supremes gave carte blanche to …to kkdo whatever he likes which might someday include him telling the Supremes to pound salt. Oh, the schadenfreude that is coming will be undeniable.

It was amusing to see the irony of Trump with his immigrant wife in her 5-inch heels on stage with Vance and his one generation removed immigrant wife declaring war on immigration. At least I think they were there. I didn’t watch.

Can we conclude that we are in dangerous peril of losing the rule of law? I suspect that we are and it scares the shit out of me.

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sabrina haake's avatar

Thank you- its a reality check too many of us want to ignore. i just signed up for your substack (free because I don’t charge for my sub stack) and look forward to reading you as we go through “interesting times” together.

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