Desperate Republicans

Sunday, January 3rd, 2021

                                                          

                                                There's Something Happening Here

                                                      What it is Ain't Exactly Clear

                                                 "For What its worth" by Stephen Stills

 My Dear America:

I still remember the good old days when Elections were so much better.  We didn't realize it at the time but things were much simpler.  

You had Political Campaigns where Candidates introduced themselves.  There weren't usually many candidates in the race. 

You had Hard fought Primary Elections before the Political Conventions.

After the Republican and Democratic Conventions which were held in crowded Convention Halls, usually in Major Cities, You had an Election in which you went to your neighborhood polls, not worried about the prospect of being around other people, and voted for the Republican or Democratic Presidential Candidate of your choice.

And Then: Like Magic you turned on your TV that night and there was the Winning Candidate thanking their voters and also thanking the other Losing Candidate, the Candidate that they were running against for running a "Great Campaign."

Aw, it was so stress free back in the day if you were just the voter and not the Candidate.  

We didn't know how good we had it.

There was usually no fuss or hollering about who won.  The Candidate won who got more votes.  It was simple.  The votes were counted and the person with the most votes won.  I didn't always like who won but it didn't matter whether I liked it or not.  The person with the most votes counted won the Election.

What the Hell happened to that way of doing things.  What is wrong with counting the votes and declaring a winner.  That is what we still should be doing.

But we didn't have Donald Trump running for President back in those good old days.  Now we do.  And instead of a simple counting of votes and in some cases counting and recounting of votes we have instead a truly Undemocratic Russian Style Authoritarian Election Shit Show.

I don't know about You but I don't like it.  I want to go back to those simpler Democratic times when Donald Trump was still just an obnoxious Egomaniac Real Estate Mogul, Best Selling Author of books written by other people and Star of his own Television Show.  Life was simpler then when Trump was simply an Annoying Asshole with no Political Power.

But here we are just a couple of weeks before Joe Biden (The Legitimately Elected, by number of Actual Honest To God Votes, President Elect of the United States of America) is sworn in as our next President and the Donald Trump American Election Shit Show is still in high gear.

Today MSNBC and CNN kept playing excerpts of an Audio Recording of Donald Trump calling last night and talking to Brad Raffensperger, Secretary of State for the State of Georgia.  On the tape the MSNBC And CNN Anchors, Correspondents and their guests showed a mixture of outrage and disgust with Trump's abusive treatment of Raffensperger and his Agency Lawyer, with Trump demanding that The Secretary of State find the missing votes that would give the Presidential Election to Trump. 

Nobody really identified where the extremely well recorded Audio recording came from other than it was initially broadcast on the Washington Post Website.  It was presented as if the recording was surreptitiously obtained.

Was it or was it not?

I don't know.

What I do believe, however is that this recording was in fact released by Trump and his staff.  The more I listened to the tape the more I realized that Trump was doing what he has always done.  He was lying and kept saying over and over about how he "won the election" and there were problems with certain counties and that machines were moved etc.

Raffensperger was incredibly patient and let Trump ramble on for over an hour.  I don't know who eventually hung up but it was pure Trump Bullshit from start to finish from what I heard.  

Clearly this tape was released with the intention of manipulating the media into becoming outraged but getting Trump's base on board with putting the pressure on gutless Republicans to somehow go along with over a hundred Congressional Representatives and 12 Senators who care more about staying in the good graces of Trump Voters than they do about the continuation of legitimate Democracy in the United States of America.

In addition to his despicable recording Donald Trump is encouraging his supporters to come to Washington D.C. on Wednesday, the day that Congress votes on the legitimacy of the Electoral College.

Watch this Space Tuesday and Wednesday as the Donald Trump Shit Show  Continues.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher