The Weirdest Thoughts From August
That Entered My Mind
Well of course the biggest news is Donald Trump as it has been for so long…so long. Enough. You know how to shut him up…don’t give him all the attention he wants. The media feeds his ego way too much. And I keep eating at the same trough.
That is of course the biggest news that should have never remained in the news. He should have muzzled the day he left the white house. You don’t give the man who told everyone to stop an election a microphone to keep everyone in preparation to do it again. The lone wolf terrorist is just a disguise to prepare the successful coup. The day he walked out of the white house it should have been to confinement. That is how it is done. In democracy or aristocracy or autocracy. That is how it is done. Now we can look at history and we can see what happens when you let the man who wants to overthrow the government the freedom to keep on advocating the same overthrow.
William, when he conquered England, may have promised the saxons he would let them stay in ascendancy, but as soon as he got wind of a plot to combat his ascendancy he shut the down and installed Norman overlords, and probably he would have done it anyway, and maybe he was the successful couper, but he ended up on the right side of history instead of being a footnote to history.
Hitler, well they put him in jail and let him write and publish a book about his plans to murder any who were not “pure blooded germanic” (as if such a thing existed, certainly Hitler fell short of his ideal), and a sympathizing judge let him out with his popular diatribe now spewing into the ears of all Germans beyond just Bavaria. He’s on the wrong side of history, but not a footnote.
Trump should have been a footnote that was never allowed to be on any side of history. At the very least, he should have been escorted out of the Whitehouse and sent into immediate confinement, guarded, not protected, and kept in isolation until justice could prevail.
Sometimes justice prevails after freedom is curtailed. That’s why some are denied bail. I’ve read a lot of history, I’ve not found any parallels that ever gave any leader of a suspected coup or those who tried to carry it out such liberty for such a lengthy period (generally with no period) of liberty after such an attempt. Don’t tell me he (they) hadn’t yet been convicted. That is the point, there are times when you imprison first and investigate afterwards. I keep hearing if we revoke his bail there might be the potential for violence and at the same time he is being allowed to spew rhetoric and possibly set the stage for greater potential violence. Would there have been absolutely no violence if we had confined him? Of course not. But it’s quite logical from my perspective, to assume the threat has been increased by not doing so. And to make a similar assumption that if no one had heard from until the day he walks into trial that Trump would be a footnote by now and a yawn when it was announced he was facing his reckoning in court.
Freedom carried to an extreme can be a denial to freedom.
Ron DeSantis has done so many illegal things it is hard to catalog. Book banning is illegal, kidnapping migrants from another state (or even his own) is illegal; editing interpretation of thought is illegal; being smarter than “educational” boards is not illegal, but being so dumb one quivers in fear that anyone could possibly be smarter, and then conspires to make himself smarter by making everyone else dumber is illegal. Firing prosecutors that are not under his jurisdiction but have been elected is illegal. There are certainly processes that can be carried out against a rogue, corrupt, or otherwise incapable publicly elected official,but firing them without due process is illegal.
Ron DeSantis needs to wake up in a cell, not on a campaign trail. When you tell me he went to Harvard and Yale, what I want to know is who he paid to do his work to obtain his credentials. He is just too mean to be smart. To be smart you have to at least be able to fake a smile and he can’t even do that.
Cruelty to others denies freedom.
But perhaps no one is more cruel than that cripple of heart in Texas, Greg Abbott. I can’t imagine his vindictiveness against others is anymore than payback for his own crippled body.
If Clarence Thomas says he was harmed by affirmative action because his Yale law degree is so worthless, then why is even sitting on the court. It may have been unwise to issue the degree to him (or maybe any lawyer) without first determining their mental fitness, and certainly a prospective lawyer that is mentally unfit if he is afraid to speak. If you don’t talk in your job interview, you wouldn’t even get hired for an assembly job position. Of course he didn’t get hired for a position in a “high-powered” law firm. So Clarence got the very position his personality,not his Yale education, enabled to get, he became a shoeshine boy with a Yale law degree. Clarence is vindictive because his personality was weak.
Greg Abbott (perhaps) was not so weak in personality as DeSantis or Thomas. Gregg Abbott was severely injured. He was paralyzed. By no fault of his own when an oak tree fell on him. Abbott had been jogging after a thunderstorm. More sane than me, I jogged during one. An oak tree apparently had been weakened and was in a state of advanced decay and should have been removed already. It fell on Abbott. We would all be angry. We would all want justice. But eventually we would go beyond the stage of anger. He might have been a champion of rights for others. Abbott certainly was (is) intelligent. He argued before the supreme court, he won before the supreme. David Souter complimented him for being very effective and without needing to stand at the podium. His legal arguments are cogent, or seem to be to be so. If I didn’t always think his briefs were on the wrong side of the present I would probably be convinced. He, unlike DeSantis, can stab a spiral steel rod into humanity with full impunity and smile while he is doing it. If others hate because they were hated, too afraid to fight back and want to wield the sword of political vindictiveness, to return the venom spewed on them during their childhood.
But this is not Abbott. His venom is not because he felt lesser, but he was made lesser. His body became deformed and he suffered in agonizing pain. He is not only paralyzed but his frame is inserted with steel rods to even maintain its shape and they are painful, but without he would be a mind in a void with no physical control whatsoever. He would be a Stephen Hawking, a vital intelligence without a functioning body.So why didn’t he?
I can’t know, can I? But he suffers physically and he delights not in taking away the rights of others, he wants to make them hurt physically. He wants to deprive the worker from water; he wants parents to lose their children to gunfire because he was unable to have his own. He delights in the pain of the parents of their loss, but equally in the inflicted deaths on the children. He doesn’t want other women to bring forth children his wife couldn’t bring forth to him. It’s not as much about abortion being illegal for Greg Abbott, it’s to create an environment where a woman who is pregnant will suffer the most possible, maybe even die. So that he can lie in his bed and curse God that he is defeating him, he is defeating him, he is proving to God that torture is acceptable and planting his (God’s) own commandments on the capital grounds in mockery, twisting his knife into the very God he says gives him the moral right to be the satanic force he is to the citizens of Texas. He denies others all sexual pleasure because sexual pleasure was stolen from him and tries to argue sex for any reason but procreation is profoundly wrong. All, all because he hasn’t had the ability to have sex since the day that tree crushed his body. But it crushed his brilliant mind and twisted it more severely than the bullied frightened childhoods of a Thomas or a DeSantis.
I make massive psychological assumptions in the above paragraphs. But my basis for this is simple. I think psychology, or the way a person acts can usually be found in pretty simple examples of behavior. Stokely changed from an ideology of following Dr.King in peace, to being a proponent of black people defending others because he saw too many beaten when they offered their cheeks. Experience plays on a personality and the outcome is the actions of a human being. I really don’t think it’s more complicated than that.
The injury allowed Abbott to sue the homeowner and a tree service company, resulting in an insurance settlement that provided him with lump sum payments every three years until 2022 along with monthly payments for life; both are adjusted for inflation. Abbott has said he relied on the money to pay for nearly three decades of medical expenses and other costs. In 2003 Abbott took office as Texas attorney general. In 2003, Abbott supported the Texas’ legislators move to cap non-economic damages for medical cases at $250,000, with no built-in increases for rising cost of living.
And he tells Joe Biden, bring it on, if he thinks Biden can get him to remove razor wire from the border rivers. I haven’t the slightest idea what razor wire is or how it works in rivers, but it sure doesn't sound pleasant. Apparently it isn’t pleasant as there are international treaties forbidding its use. Joe, bring it on, don’t talk about other nations violating treaties and other leaders being prosecuted for war crimes and then exempt Americans. Arrest Greg Abbott as an international war criminal, sign the treaty, and send him to the Hague.
Joe Biden, if you and the democrats imagine a big victory in 2024, don’t rely on rhetoric against the cruelty which does nothing against the cruelty. Joe Biden it is your responsibility to end the cruelty. That, Mr. President is what the American people want and that is why your popularity remains low. Stop the cruelty. And see if you don’t soar in the polls.
Stop the online and other rhetoric that leads to the violence. Stop the voices who spout in on the news. Stop the illegal actions of pathetic governors that are blatantly illegal. You can’t take away the guns that are already there, but you can stop the voices who give people the call to use them. Otherwise you do have to take them all away by force.
Use the law that exists and don’t be intimidated by those same voices who falsify the established interpretations of the law. And guess what happens if you take action and get overruled in court by Clarence and Sam. You win, Mr. President. You win big. You win so big you steal the hearts of millions of voters.
You win if you act.