Like a lot of Americans, I am enjoying the sneaky quiet of social media that used to keep me up at night.  In just four years as president, the Washington Post compiled and verified over 30,000 lies spewed by Trump - an incredible average of 24 lies per day.  24 lies per day!  Now that seems like a lot, but the media really couldn't bring themselves to label them as lies, instead using the innocuous terms of "misinformation or misleading." Bullshit.  Trump was not only a full blown liar, his entire Administration was too.   The lies weren't necessary, but they sure hit their intended targets.  Just look to his supporting casts on Fox News, Newsmax and OAN - they still spew them.
        The little lies do tend to add up over time, but not as much as the two biggest areas he consistently lied about (and was allowed to get away with).  Those two big topics?  The Coronavirus and the election. 
       Now we learn that Trump actually had NO plan on how to deal with the distribution of the vaccines for Covid- none. And what do the talking heads at Fox report?  "Biden had a very bad week with the virus out of control and death tolls at their highest daily total."  Only an idiot would believe this bullshit considering Biden had been in office less than 24 hours when Sean Hannity made this inane pronouncement.  Yet, as we have come to learn over the past four years, logic and brain power is lacking in millions of people claiming to be actually smart.  How else would millions of Americans even vote for Trump?  Yet, they did.  I'm willing to bet that a relatively small percentage of his voters actually now are re-considering their previous support for the Orange Turd. But, thinking is obviously something Fox and their ilk know their viewers really aren't interested in.  After all, their audience is populated by the same folks that thought American history and civics was "boring" and a "waste of their time."  How else can anyone explain the Q-Anon crowd?  We surely have an education problem in America - but it is  too late for millions that have become hardened in their respective stupidity bubbles.  MAGA was their club, and one day (maybe), they may wake up and realize they were actually the clowns following the Trump circus all along. 
         I could go on and on, but no one wants to read more than they already know to be true.  Joe Biden won the presidency in a full and fair election.  The second big lie is that he did not.  When politicians like Jim Jordan, David Nunes, Kevin McCarthy, Louis Gohmert, Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have the chutzpah to repeat proven lies about the election, they can't now claim that they are simply responding to wrongful impressions they have themselves created in the minds of their constituents. A simple "we lied about the election" would suffice.   Yet the people they are "representing" are too stupid to know their "representatives" were the arsonists that started the fire all along who now demand they alone are the ones to douse that fire.  As someone once said, "We are all born ignorant, but one has to work hard to remain stupid."  If the shoe fits...
         As Abraham Lincoln once wrote; “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”  May all Americans return to their senses and reject the lies and misinformation shoveled daily from the hyper-partisan and ideologically oriented for-profit media (now that's a mouthful)!  Have a safe week and enjoy the fact that America is Back.  Thank G-d!

         Now that Joe Biden has been certified the winner of the Electoral College and will be inaugurated President of the United States, things are sure looking up and everything is great now.  Except it isn't great - and will not be great until action is undertaken to identify every person involved in the seditious act of attacking our Nation's Capitol and they are held responsible. The people that must be accountable can't just be limited to those that actually stormed into the Capitol - but also those that gave support to the notions that the election was "Rigged" and "Stolen" and that group goes very far beyond the people that physically blitzed our capitol.  It extends to those that undertook  efforts since November 3 to attack our democracy and its legitimacy.  
      You see, elected officials claiming Trump had "every legal right" to contest the election are now cowering behind the shield of hypocrisy they alone created.  When you repeatedly lie and tell people the election was rigged, flawed and stolen, how can you expect them to not believe you? And when you then state you are only supporting the feelings of your constituents by supporting the attack on our Election's legitimacy, you are now engaged in a circular logic created solely to confuse and corrupt.  
           Nothing could further prove this insanity than when sycophantic television personalities along with Republican officials publicly claim that the real insurrectionists were "infiltrated by Antifa" - as if that alone is the reason for treason. But facts, which have been conveniently "Altered" by the GOP for four years, can't seem to resonate with the brain dead MAGA crowd.  The only people that attacked our Capitol were Trump supporters.  Yet, without a shred of evidence, GOP members of Congress (See Matt Gaetz) claimed on the House Floor in the joint session that Antifa was really involved.  Now we all know that is a lie, but Tucker Carlson said that night on on his Fox show, so it must be true, right?  Except it is not true.  You see, the very same logic was applied to the outcries that the election was stolen. Based upon lies and more lies, the GOP and MAGA ran with it.  Unfortunately, this crowd will never learn that spewing lies will someday come back to haunt you - because they are never held to account for their behavior and speech.  Free Speech has never been absolutely free.  Inciting violence is not protected by the Constitution.   The entire Trump MAGA phenomena has been built upon lies and the only way to resolve this problem and heal our Nation is to expose the lies and the liars that promoted it as being untrustworthy and culpable for criminal sedition.  Now some are saying we must let Trump and the elected officials that supported him be left alone so we can heal - ignoring the great damage done.  Our Founding Fathers and Framers would have none of this nonsense.  It's as if some would actually believe they would have apologized to King George for revolting against him.  Not a chance.
        Perhaps one of the most disappointing images of the Trump insurrection is the one with the two idiots atop a scaffolding along the wall of the Capitol Building taking down the American Flag and hoisting a Trump flag.  Perhaps they would be better off living in Trumpistan than America?
       This reminds me of the time a former student approached me on the first day of American Government class to claim that taxation was not allowed under the Constitution. When I pointed out the Sixteenth Amendment allowing for the direct taxation of the people, he commented that because it was "an Amendment, it wasn't what the original Constitution allowed for and therefore, shouldn't be considered."  When I asked him how he would defend himself on this claim, he said we had the "right to arm ourselves!"  When I pointed out it is the Second Amendment that protected his right to bear arms and that the original draft of the Constitution didn't originally proclaim such a right, he simply slinked away.  This is along the same line of thinking MAGA's have about of Government. When confronting a women who was teargassed during the insurrection, she cried and said it was "unfair" she was tear gassed.  When asked what she did to get herself gassed, she innocently claimed she was only trying to get into the building because she was part of "The Revolution."  So being gassed is too much mistreatment while admitting to seeking to overthrow the government? (This ignores the inequity of how people were treated by law enforcement during the BLM protests this past summer). Remember MAGA supporting Trump when he said "When the looting starts, the shooting starts?"  Where was the shooting when these White MAGAs committed sedition?   Her privilege over runneth if she honestly believed herself to be a "patriot" if her aim was to destroy our democracy in favor of a monarchy led by Donald J. Trump.  
        Perhaps what is sadder are the reports Trump was actually "enthusiastic" while watching the chaos of the insurrection piercing the sanctity of our republic while rampaging within the halls of our Capitol.  And now the GOP and MAGA are demanding we heal by letting them all off the hook.  I say no.  I say, prosecute them all.  I mean all - from every media pundit that spewed this Un-American bullshit to those that actively objected to the election on the floor of Congress.  There is a cancer in America and it is the GOP and MAGA.  It must be eradicated so America can recover and heal. Stay safe, and try to have a great week. 
         

           Happy New Year!  After four long years, 2021 has arrived along with all of the hope for much better times than what we experienced in 2020.  No one needs any reminders as to why 2021 can only be better.  After wishing so many a Happy New Year, I can't seem to shake the feeling that 2021 really will not take "affect" until the afternoon of January 20, 2021.  I mean, the stain of 2020 surely will not leave us until the man occupying the White House leaves us as well - and that means the real advancement of our lives will coincide with the inauguration of Joe Biden as our Nation's 46th President.  Until then, 2021 will simply be an extension of the Trump legacy - entirely captured by the all of the negatives associated with the year 2020. 
         So by this January 20, then we can all rest easier and begin to wish each other a monumental and life changing and joyous Happy New Year.  I know I can't wait - and neither can our American Democracy. Have a safe week!