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What does that say about We, the People?
Absolutely nothing.
We, the People, have elected a convicted felon to be our leader. Now, granted, the crimes for which he has been convicted by juries of his peers as per our Constitution do not fall under acts of sedition; all of them are crimes against individuals and deal with predatory sexual behavior and financial malfeasance through the falsification of business records, but even if they are all state, not federal, crimes, he remains a felon at large.
CNN reporters Amy O'Kruk and Curt Merrill addressed the issue of federal charges thusly:
President-elect Donald Trump will face no legal penalties for his conviction in the hush money case. Judge Juan Merchan upheld Trump’s conviction in the case on January 3, 2025, rejecting the president-elect’s effort to throw out the jury’s verdict because of his reelection in November. Merchan set a sentencing hearing for January 10, but indicated the case is essentially over.
Previously, special counsel Jack Smith announced on November 25 that he was dropping both his election subversion case and the classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump. While Smith is dropping his prosecution of Trump, he said that prosecutors would keep alive their case against two of his employees in the classified documents case.
Since Trump’s reelection, Smith had been in talks with Justice Department leadership about how to end both cases. Trump has said he would fire Smith once he retook the office, shattering previous norms around special counsel investigations.
There will be no repercussions, no assignment of responsibility, no further examination of how our democracy came precariously close to ending at the hands of a mob.
So it goes.
At this point, one might hope for a peaceful period of transition, but Congress has already made it clear that is not going to happen. Cabinet positions are being closely scrutinized from both sides, and not without good reason and, in some instances, bipartisan agreement. Without naming names, nominating a person whose brain is worm-chow does raise some interesting questions about fitness to serve. A few nominees have known issues with inappropriate sexual behavior and booze, neither of which make for good bedfellows in the land of confidentiality and national security. Then again, there is no expectation of either in the new administration... based on their last go 'round with security clearance.
And a whole lotta seditionists are expecting pardons for their January 6th 2021 actions. How will history view this blanket protection? Hard to say. Ask us again in 2028 ...if there is a next presidential election. What does it tell the world when the rule of law is discarded and the perpetrators are pardoned by the president? I don't think I'm alone when I think it undermines that founding concept as well as the idea of peaceful transition of governance. These are both core to how this country is supposed to operate.
Recently, I was asked what worried me most about the incoming administration.Well, it's not the administration that has me worried: it's the Supreme Court. A New York Times analysis of SCOTUS decisions in 2024 is a good overview of the cases and the votes. You can see clearly how the court voted. Currently, there are 6 decidedly conservative justices and 3 liberal justices on the bench. I'm not for an all-or-nothing bench. I want dissent and a variety of opinions to be heard AND considered. But the court, as it sits now, is moving in lock step toward the extreme right. If any liberal justice dies or resigns, our laws will radically change. That worries me, and I worry that the greatest victim will be the Constitution.
I worry about the midterms. A lot. Will they happen? Will they be suspended if the country shows signs of political unrest?
In preparing for the new administration, I had but one adjustment to make: what to call the incoming president. In the last, he has been Feckless Leader, and Feckless Loser. Most recently, I've used Feckless Felon. I'll let you know what I decide.
They had all gone to ring in a New Year, and instead, ended up dead and injured at a festival. Not like that's never happened before. Kinda like the kids who went to the Nova Music Festival on October 7th, 2023. In NOLA, 14 were killed and dozens were injured. And it would've been significantly more had the cooler bucket bombs placed by Shamsud-Din Jabbar detonated as planned.
So kiddies at all those universities chanting GLOBALIZE INTIFADA...I'm guessing what happened in New Orleans is okay with you because you support the idea of Intifada in the streets here in the US. But terrorism doesn't necessarily discriminate between what you think is okay and what a bomb thinks is okay. And if you're hard left liberal, you're okay supporting a movement that executes and imprisons LGBTQ people. And you're also okay if that's your brother or your significant lying dead in the street after a bomb goes off; you'd be saying, yeah, well, it's okay; it's for the sake of the movement.
If that's all okay with you, keep chanting.
The Wifely Person's Tip o'the Week
Terrorism is terrorism.
Those who spread terror in the name
of one movement or another
are not given a free pass for ideology.
They are terrorists who must be stopped.
It's just that simple
