Thought For The Day

Legitimate Political Disaster

February 20, 2022

Ex-vice president Mike Pence of “Hang Mike Pence!” fame, once again stood with his party of racist/fascists. Most recently, Pence helped make excuses for the RNC censuring the only Ratpublicans who dared join the effort to uncover the truth of the horrific events of January 6, 2021 instead of embracing the alternative facts of the day, and for referring the day’s events as “legitimate political discourse.” Assholes and idiots like Pence can make all the excuses they want, but until this country admits that a very dangerous precedent has been set, democracy in America will continue to be at risk.

Mike Pence in the snow

The Far White Wing

Many people believe that the Civil War ended more than 150 years ago. The shooting may have ceased after Appomattox, but the essence of the war never stopped. Yes, slavery, as it existed then, is no more, but the oppression of the descendants of slaves continues unabated for all intents and purposes. The people who continue this legacy of hate and racism are the driving force behind today’s Ratpublican Party. And Mike Pence has no problem with that. Or if he does, he is sure is keeping it to himself.

Racism, anti-Semitism, insurrection,

what’s not to love

The party of the insurrection and their leader who fomented, incited and delighted in the violence at the Capitol on that day continues their efforts to pretend nothing out of the ordinary took place that day, despite hours of video, nearly 150 law enforcement officers injured, and more than 700 arrests and 70 (Is that all? Really?) sentenced. And they continue kneeling on the neck of democracy.

The repugnant Ratpublican base comprise the same people who still insist the Civil War was about states’ rights. These are the people who do not want their children to be exposed to any words, thoughts or books that might dangle their tiny, fragile, white minds above the roiling waters of non-alternative facts, which might cause them some discomfort, or heaven forbid, self-reflection. And these are the same people who continue kneeling on the neck of democracy.

Golden (Rainbow, actually) oldie video interlude

Fuck Mike Pence!

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