Majorie Taylor Greene has resigned from congress.
I’m not sure how I feel about that. In many ways she’d become a distraction and in other ways I think she was really trying to make things better.
Her epic confrontations with Jasmine Crockett were always amusing. She’s someone I’d really like to see gone from Congress too. She might have overstepped herself with the latest gaffe about the Dr. Epstein that contributed to Lee Zeldin’s campaign.
Crockett is trying like hell to walk it back but everyone knows she was trying to conflate Dr. Epstein with Jeffery Epstein. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people, really stupid people, that will run with Zelden accepting money from an Epstein and believe that it was the bad one. Now it looks like Crockett will retain her congressional seat because the Texas redistricting wasn’t good enough. That’s a pity because Crockett is one of the most unlikable, nasty, uninformed members of congress. She really needs to go.
MTG bailing as she has, reminds me of a local guy that used to represent my district in congress or the senate. He went to Washington trying to help, I believe he really wanted to make things better but after one term he threw in the towel. Rumor was that he got to Washington and realized that none of Congress was about doing the right thing for the people. He came back to California and got elected as a supervisor where he can actually do some good. Small as those achievements are with the state of California politics.
I hope MTG does well in whatever she chooses to do after she resigns.
I’ve been amused at the democrats being all pissy about Trump and others calling out their stupid “PSA” telling our military not to follow illegal orders.
The subtext was that Trump is giving illegal orders and the military shouldn’t follow those orders. While Trump may have given some questionable orders, thus far they haven’t been illegal or immoral. That, as I recall is the test the UCMJ calls out.
Which means these idiot politicians are technically calling for a coup d’ état. By definition that makes what they’ve said treasonous.
Of course they’ll never face trial, much less the punishment for treason. Honestly, I think they should.
Back in World War II, there was a phrase, “Loose Lips sink ships”.
It was cautionary to remind people that loose talk could have dire consequences. If perhaps these politicians faced trial over their loose talk maybe it would cool down the rhetoric. So would a firing squad.
To be clear I’m not suggesting that anyone take up arms against these politicians. I’m suggesting that they be tried, and if convicted, they pay the price.
In their little “PSA”, these politicians claimed they’d have the soldier’s backs. That is an outright lie. These politicians are the same politicians that would think nothing of the soldiers they fed into the gristmill of war. These people would happily deploy American Troops to Ukraine and embroil us in a war with Russia.
They also have zero direct control over UCMJ proceedings and could only “Advise”. In other words, they not only wouldn’t have soldier’s backs, there is no way they could have soldier’s backs. But they’re more than willing to disrupt chain of command, and destroy careers for their personal political gain.
I personally find that despicable. Which is why I’d love to see them put on trial.
In the California Governor’s race, we’ve gotten a field of Democrats, all of whom are somewhat questionable. That being said, the Republican candidates aren’t especially stellar either. Once again, the people of California will not have a decent choice for Governor, not that it would matter anyway given the California Legislature will still be majority “Tax and Spend” Democrats. These folks implement policies and programs that don’t work, then continue to throw money at demonstrably failed policies and programs.
Honestly, if they showed the slightest bit of introspection and pulled back from failures I’d be fine with them being in power. But they don’t. They continue to burn money and then actively defy any voter initiatives that they don’t like. To my way of thinking, that’s not representational governance, that’s simply living in an elitist fiefdom.
I, and I suspect a lot of America wants to see accountability. I even believe that if that accountability were to be equally distributed on both sides of the “Party Divide” it would go a long way toward healing and unifying the country.
I’m sincerely hoping that now we have the disclosure pending regarding the Epstein files, we’ll see some well deserved prosecution. I’m not holding my breath mind you, but I still have a sliver of hope.
I’d like to see trials and prosecution about the whole COVID debacle too. There were a lot of people who got rich from that mess starting in Washington and going all the way down to the local levels.
In short, I’m done with “Hearings”. Now I’m about justice, retribution, and punishment.
If that means politicians across the nation being arrested and held without bond because they’re flight risks, I’ve got my popcorn ready. Hell, I might even sign up for cable just to watch the nightly recaps of the trials.
Again, I’m not holding my breath. Sadly, I don’t really believe in the judicial system anymore.
On the plus side, the Supreme Court refused to hear a case that would overturn Gay Marriage. So there’s that. Oddly, the Liberal Democrats have been largely silent on it. Just a year ago, they were saying if Trump got into office, he’d undo Gay Marriage.
Where are those politicians and pundits now? Why aren’t they lauding the SCOTUS decision?
Oh right… They just wanted to terrify the LGBT(insert alphabet here) community into voting against Trump and keep them on the streets protesting.
Aren’t all of us tired of being “Used” by politicians yet?