John Lewis v. The Blob

This Really Sucks, But Don't Worry I’m Sure It Will Get Worse

Washington, DC
January 15, 2017

I understand the desire to put on a good face and show the world that we are a strong nation regardless of the fact that our presidential election was hacked, rigged, altered, fixed (more accurately the complete opposite of fixed), neutered, choose your own adverb. We are expected to show those sneaky Russians (and the head of the FBI) that despite their meddling and despite their having achieved the goal of putting the most absurd, incompetent, ignorant, dangerous and delusional nutbag in the White House, and rally behind our “president” and move forward. Make the best of what the majority of the citizenry believes is a very, very bad situation. But what would this really show the rest of the world? That we are gutless toadies who will just put our tails between our legs and put up with a potentially apocalyptic situation. I say NO. Actually, I say something much more colorful than that, but I am trying to keep this a family show...today. This is total unmitigated bullshit – well that didn’t last very long did it? Anyway, use whatever words you like, but I think it is a big mistake just to go along to get along. I am all in with John Lewis, an objectively verifiable man of courage, honor and forgiveness. Chuck Todd asked Lewis if he would be able to forge a relationship with the racist, fascist, pretender-in-chief. Not in those exact words unfortunately. The civil rights icon responded quietly, "It's going to be very difficult. I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president." He added, "I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected, and they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton." Lewis gently and earnestly added, "I believe it was a conspiracy on the part of Russians and others to help him get elected. That's not right. That's not fair. That's not the open democratic process."

I know this is no surprise, given my penchant for spewing invective and my unabashed distaste for the Fetid Orange Gas Cloud, but I think we will all be much better off hounding his sorry ass every moment he continues the charade of being president. Chrump is neither a legitimate president nor a legitimate human being.

After having his skull fractured on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by racist cops as he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965, John Lewis has been in Congress for 30 years and has never missed a presidential inauguration. He is planning to miss this one. “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something. You cannot afford to be quiet.”

John Lewis (far right)

 



All too predictably, the Orange One lashed out on Twitter, somehow taking 17 minutes to finish his 280-character/44-word “thought”:

We cannot, for one single moment, allow this brutish moron to feel comfortable. If not for the antiquated Electoral College, the Russians and a meddling FBI chief Chrump would already be in history’s dustbin where he belongs. Now he will surely make history. And as Dick Smothers said to his brother many times, “That was not a compliment.”

There is little humor to be found at the moment. I hope to return you to your regularly scheduled laugh-a-minute sarcasm shortly.

I. Mangrey reporting. March. Fight back. No surrender.
                                                                                                    Mad in USA