They. Are. Screwn..

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56. Sick and tired

Last edited Thu Jan 21, 2021, 07:13 PM - Edit history (1)

...of being sick and tired. I don't think I've fully absorbed what happened yesterday yet so please forgive this little rant. After 20 years coming to DU, starting with the Florida fiasco in 2000 (I'm a Floridian) it's just all been such a roller coaster. God, I need some wine.

So OMG YES, I'm fed up with the Democrats getting stuck with cleaning up the results of their catastrophic policies. I'm sick of their fake deficit hawk routine every time a Democrat comes into power.

I'm an optimist by nature and in my heart I believe this country is so much better than what we've been in the clutches of these past 4 years. However, my nature to believe in the best of all Americans, this time, must be tamped down in favor of justice and strict adherence to the law and our Constitution to prosecute the bastards that invaded our Capitol and terrorized our elected officials. We need to prosecute their elected accomplices just as hard--or even harder.

In a way, sadly, we've indirectly condoned terror in lesser forms for many years now by not prosecuting lesser crimes and always hoping to inspire the best in others. Sadly, the orange anus proved over and over that hoping and wishing our better angels will prevail is useless, and that justice is quite flimsy in this country, and pretty hit or miss. Especially when a pResident can terrorize all the Rs in Congress by threatening to sic his flying green monkeys on them if they don't do his bidding.

When "others" have nothing but criminal or murderous intentions and have shown it clearly by their speech and actions, there is no opportunity for unity. This is game over. Democrats need to be tough as nails here as this is the bright red line that cannot be stepped over. Prosecutions and punishment and maximum sentences are the ONLY way back to unity and, I believe, the only thing the criminals on the other side of the aisle and invaders of our Capitol will understand and respect.

These violent seditionists already proved this to be true by their complete non-response on Inauguration Day. They are afraid of our power. Might does not always make right, but when Might is on the right side of Justice and the rule of law, we need to swing that hammer down hard and mean it.

We also need to vote and remain vigilant with that same hardcore intention and devotion.

Our country and our democracy deserve nothing less. Indeed it cannot survive without it.

/rant off

Cheers to everyone here who helped make yesterday happen!! I am so proud of us all.. Salut!