My blood is boiling

[Warpy]

30. Boiling blood is no good

When I watched the Watergate hearings, my blood was not boiling. I was in a city with a lefty press, so we already knew what was going to happen in the hearings. Oh, there were a few odd bits and pieces left out, but that was because the tapes weren't released to the public. When they were decades later, those bits and pieces were confirmed. Nixon was hateful scum. Republicans were still decent enough to impeach him and I even voted for Ed Booke (the only R ever, the D was an antiabortion freak).

So I've been done with Republicans since about 1973, although I knew they were wrong about everything when I was a little kid.

Nixon wasn't nearly as bad as TFG (that fucking grifter). He'd signed OSHA and the EPA into law, along with creating a war on drugs/human behavior aimed at hippies, college kids, and POC while militarizing the cops to get around Posse Comitatus. His evil lives on long after him, and OSHA and the EPA have been weakened. Shakespeare was right about that.

The thing is that we don't need to watch those hearings, we already knew what went on, who most of the organizers were, how it was organized, and how far up the chain it went. The only thing we don't know is who funded it. We know where the money went. We just don't know how it got there and I seriously doubt that will come out in these hearings. A billionaire or ten might get hurt.

There is no need for boiling blood. These hearings are not for us. They are for the people out there in TV land who don't read DU, just like the Watergate hearings were for Middle America, which lacked a lefty press. Those worked. These will too. Take a walk, listen to music, lower your stress level. What we know about TFG and the people around him will soon be impossible for anyone to ignore.