Unmasked

The most important issue right now in the hive mind of the Republicans seems to be to prevent people from wearing a mask. In a roundabout way, this is very fitting, as we are now experiencing a situation where any remaining slivers of plausible deniability are evaporating and we see the Republicans expose themselves for what they really are: callous, cynical monsters who care for absolutely nothing but their own political power.

The GOP is, indeed, unmasked. The world is watching, and the world remembers. I sincerely hope they will not be able to hide behind their masks again and pretend to be human. Compassion, decency, honesty, reason and a desire to do good are fundamental traits for those aspiring to lead a free nation, not a fake mask to put on and fake outrage when it suits your dark and deceptive purposes.

There is nothing left but ugly to see of the Republican party. Remember this sight, and do not ever let them make you forget what you saw.

 

The Dark Side

When watching US politics from the outside, it's painfully obvious that there are two opposing sides two every debate, and that there are very few "moderate" views on the scale between the two extremes. In fact, there seems to be no scale at all, only the polar opposites. Why is that?

 

A simple but ugly explanation is that there is nothing that bridges good and evil, no intermediate position to take between the dark side and the light side. If you are evil, you have no capacity for compassion, empathy, kindness and self sacrifice for the greater good. Evil knows only greed, cruelty and self service. Evil considers decency and consideration for others a flaw and a weakness, and evil cannot understand how good people think, just as good people cannot understand how evil people think.

It is a sorry state of affairs that we are not seeing a debate between right and left, but between right and wrong. And to confuse things, the left side is the right side.

The political "right" in the US has gone berserk and descended into pure evil, and they are on the wrong side of history. We can only hope that history does not change sides.

Busted

  Today, we finally saw criminal indictments for the Trump Organization and its CFO Allen Weisselberg. The entire Trump cult is going haywire about it, and there is most certainly more to come in the form of indictments against the individual executives of the company, most of whom are named Trump.

This is the beginning of the end of the barely human scum that sullied the White House with his orange presence from 2016 to 2020. It is also the opportunity for us to start breathing and to stop caring what this has-been is doing. The legal system is going to dismantle him, slowly but relentlessly, and it is entirely his own problem.

Good bye, Donald Trump. The world never needed you, and it will be a better place with you in prison.

Bad Rep

As time passes and the legal system is slowly starting to grind normally, after being crippled for the past four years by a corrupt and criminal cabal of Trumpists, we are finally seeing the enablers of the Orange Menace be taken to court for their shenanigans and dirty deeds.

The wheels of Justice grind slowly but deliberately, and we are not going to see them all in jail by tomorrow, or next week, or maybe even next year for the most complicated and extensive legal cases, but the bad people in the Republican party are in deep trouble, and they know it.

When these people, and I use that term very generously to refer also to the lowlife scum we are discussing here, are finally gone from the Republican party, what will be left? Not a lot. Perhaps not enough to remain a major player in US politics. A split or a reboot with a new name might be the best way forward. We will see how it plays out.

It's important to keep two things in mind: the worst is over for the good people, and the worst is yet to come for the bad people. Be patient.

Broken

 Donald Trump is finally out of the White House, a place where he never fit in, never seemed to want to be, and never should have been in the first place. Still, most of the Republican party seem to be supporting him, even as he makes a fool of himself for everyone to see. The finally former president is a broken man, physically, mentally, financially and politically, and yet his minions seem intent on going down with the ship instead of trying to save whatever might be left to save of their corrupt and self-serving careers.

These people are not all stupid. They are not all sheep that are easily led to slaughter. There is something very strange about this, and I suspect we will soon see a very ugly underbelly of the monstrosity that is the Republican party.

About time, I say. I just can't quite fathom how they seem so intent on helping speed up their demise. But then again, I fail to understand the motivations for most things they do. I certainly understand why they do it, but I don't understand how anyone would want to do anything for those reasons.