Charles P. Pierce: The President* Should Be Appearing on the Truman Balcony in a Bathrobe Any Day [View all]

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35118453/trump-call-georgia-secretary-of-state/

The President* Should Be Appearing on the Truman Balcony in a Bathrobe Any Day Now
We are clearly in the Vincent (The Chin) Gigante chapter of this national crime drama.
By Charles P. Pierce
Jan 4, 2021


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Man, just fck these people.

This should come as no surprise to anyone who has been following Republican conservative politics over the past four or five decades. I admit that today's vandalism is more grossly public than it ever has been before, but all the president* is doing is voter-suppression in extralegal—when it's not actually illegal—form. And voter suppression has been an article of faith among Republican politicians since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. And it's not like that's going to change. In fact, while we're all following the president* through the stalactites of his mind, Republican politicians out in the states already are scheming up ways to keep inconvenient people from voting, and that includes Brad Raffensperger, who is being widely acclaimed a hero for not caving to the president*'s raging paranoia. Most people seem to have forgotten that Brian Kemp may well be governor, and Raffensperger Secretary of State, because voter suppression was successful enough to euchre Stacey Abrams out of the governorship in 2018.

(My god. Listen to that whole tape. We are clearly in the Vincent [The Chin] Gigante chapter of this national crime drama. He should be appearing on the Truman Balcony in a bathrobe any day now. Of course, The Chin was faking the crazy in order to avoid prosecution. The president* is genuinely batty, and is trying to avoid prosecution.)

Not that I don't respect Raffensperger for taking that stand, but I'm not going to take any Republican seriously on this topic until the party abandons its generation-long assault on the franchise. Look at the pathetic bunch of poseurs in Congress. Over 100 Republican members of the House are on board, including the Minority Leader, the execrable Kevin McCarthy. Eight incumbent Republican senators have said they'll back the play, and all four newly elected Republican senators declared their intention to violate their constitutional oaths before they'd even taken it. This includes Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Outback Bowl) who very likely will not find his way to the capitol until just after Easter. Please, someone, tell him it's in Maryland. Tuesday's certification process in Congress already looks like a cockfight among blind roosters.

At the end of Terry Gilliam's criminally underrated Time Bandits, a lump of concentrated evil explodes, taking out the young protagonist's parents. I've decided that this week is a lump of concentrated leftover 2020. Don't touch it. It's evil.