I knew a
year ago in February 2016 that the world, more specifically the United States,
has passed through some unseen portal into a completely Biz-ar-aye version of
what we knew to be logical, ethical and justifiable. Those events played out at
the wildlife refuge at Malheur, Oregon. Several dozen heavily armed white men
and women took over a Federal wildlife refuge and buildings to protest the
ownership of real estate by the Federal government. After 41 days of
essentially doing nothing, the occupation was terminated with a traffic stop
along a snowy rural highway wherein one many demanded to be killed to become a
martyr. Lavoy Finicum was given that status as he orchestrated his death at the
hands of a tyrannical government.
After all
the hoopla was over and the Federal trials were conducted, the outcome was a
universal not guilty verdict for all involved who pled not-guilty. The four
main leaders were likewise found not guilty even though they continued to face
other criminal charges in Nevada for other similar crimes.
All the
while meetings between conspirators and state-level elected officials took
place where in the position of the occupiers was both condoned and praised as
heroic against the nasty federal government. The US Congress even has proposed
legislation that would facilitate the transfer of ownership and control to the
states by Law rather than lawlessness. Every notion of propriety was destroyed
in that altercation and the positions GOP Legislators took in response.
So even as
black and other minorities were being killed daily by police for "crimes"
far less serious than armed insurrection and sedition, the white men all got to
leave, save the one who chose to "fall on his sword" for the cause.
This is when the upside down nature of the world became highly evident. It
heralded the next year of TTPT events and outcomes. (Totally Twisted Political
Twatwafflery).
The lead
Republican presidential candidate could say and do the most outlandish thing
and exhibit all the negative behaviors that made it impossible for a lesser
Republican to be given the time of day due to not being conservative enough,
family oriented enough, Christian enough, spousally fidel enough, and patriotic
to the GOP cause enough. Little did anyone realize, the GOP itself was in the
process of deprecating all of those attribute both to favor their loutish
selection and their own skins. All too often a politician would berate an
opponent only to be caught being exactly the same. The Undiscovered Lie used to
be a career killer. But today they are "political capital assets"
needed in order to prosper.
So we jump
ahead. Donald Trump has bested Hillary Clinton by every means possible that
includes, Gerrymandering voting districts, voter suppression in the form of
challenging all persons without a photo ID, challenging voters who names are
similar in other districts, alleging widespread fraud, alleged tampering with
voting machine tabulations, organized misinformation/disinformation (aka Fake
News) and all the other usual suspect shenanigans of the electoral process. Let's
not get bogged down in those allegations and accusation.
So here we
are with a GOP controlled House of Representatives, a GOP Controlled Senate,
and a GOP controlled Presidency and Vice Presidency. This Trifecta of dominance
had been avoided by the electorate in most elections for many decades.
Rightfully so was the answer too. There always was the constitutionally
prescribed "Checks and Balances" among the Three equal Branches of
government. The President has the responsibility to appoint the Judiciary Branch
people and the Senate has the responsibility to confirm or reject the appointee.
But when the Legislature and the Executive Branches are similarly aligned they
have the power to determine the political allegiances of the Judiciary.
Members of
the Trump Team have (allegedly) conspired with Russian agents, their President,
spies and cyber attackers who would
assist Donald in becoming President in a Manchurian Way to assist them with
global fiscal and energy development policy. Now with the SPECTRE of being
labeled treasonous, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets with US
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday in Bonn. Tillerson states that the
US and Russian might work together as allies of "certain" things.
Wow! What a deflection from the scandal of Flynn talking with Russians before,
during and after the November 2016 Presidential election where the allegations
are Russian intelligence operatives guided the Us election toward Donald Trump
and other alleged American government officials, FBI Director James Comey, sandbagged
Hillary Clinton to favor Trump in the 2016 election.
If the USA
and Russian are "friendly" and "allies" how can Flynn's
actions be counted as treason? Even as we try to characterize political actions
as unpatriotic, treasonous, as sedition or merely unwise, the rules are being
changed right before our eyes. There is some form of "mission-creep"
going on that rights the wrongs after the fact. It is like one can actually
alter the Past.
