So it turns out a forty-two year old police officer was killed in the midst of the American carnage which took place at our Nation’s capitol on Wednesday.
Where were Steve Bannon and Steven Miller when we really needed them? Kind of like Trump with the bone spurs it appears. Nowhere to be seen. Just send in the dumb uneducated clueless whites from the Trump base and allow them to take the heat for this.
This officer lost his life because these felons assaulted the sacred cathederal of our democracy. I would assume this officer had a wife, maybe children, maybe a brother or sister, an uncle or an aunt… perhaps parents still living.
Would their husband, their father, their sibling, their niece or nephew, and their son still be alive if not for the actions of Donald Trump?
This is what we must ask ourselves as if we are jurors sworn to follow the tenets of our laws.
We cannot live in a lawless society where this type of human carnage takes place in our streets let alone within the halls of our Nation’s most hallowed halls.
We’ve all seen Trump’s speech…as well as those by Guiliani and Junior. We’ve all seen these people in the Trump base then assault our Nation’s capitol. It’s all there on video, on Facebook, on Twitter. It’s a veritable plethora of evidence which goes beyond any realm of reasonable doubt.
It’s stunning. It’s basically treason, sedition, unlawful rioting and insurrection on federal property–and felony murder as it turns out. It’s everything any prosecutor worth a grain of salt would want at their disposal.
Our constitution is very simple unless you live in the boundaries of the Trump Confederacy. We are created equal in the eyes of the law. No one is above the law. This is why we have laws.
This is an incredibly dark period in our history. We clearly have two countries. We have 255 million who still live in the Union and I’m to assume 75 million who no longer believe in the constitution or in the basic doctrines of our democracy and have joined the New Confederacy of Donald Trump.
I mean, this wasn’t Donald Trump’s first rodeo in abusing the law of the land. He’s pretty much done it every day four years running.
So how does Joe Biden handle all of this within the notion these seventy-five million Trump Proud Boy Confederates can redeem their souls as Americans?
I think he has to be very careful. This is the Civil War flip-flopped in that it appears somewhere around maybe thirty million whites in this country shouldn’t be allowed to vote or hold office at the national level or even maybe perhaps at the state level as well.
In essence it’s kind of like a set of Jim Crow laws for whites which need to be put in place to prohibit these crazier Trump Confederates from taking place in the running of our country. Kind of like what Germany had to do with the remnants of the Nazi party in the aftermath of WWII.
These Trump ‘people’ are all over the place in Oklahoma and Alabama state governments. Biden at some point we may have to put federal appointees in place to run these rogue outliers of the Union. Maybe the entire SEC minus Georgia. We’d like to keep the college football, but at the same time get rid of the ‘people’ running these states as if the South never lost the Civil War.
So much nuance will be needed moving forward to keep these people in the Union without them being a detriment to the rest of us who abide by the laws stated in our Constitution.
If we had the prison capacity to incarcerate ten million or so of the dumbest involved in the Trump insurrection this would be easier. But we can’t put all these people in prison for committing treason and sedition all at once. We just can’t even if we should. Are we at this point ready to admit we can’t put Tommy Tuberville and Mike Gundy in prison at the same time? I’m big enough to admit that… besides as an OU fan I want Gundy on that O State sideline for the rest of my life so it’s an almost automatic win in Bedlam. I’m giving Gundy a pardon for this reason. You can wear the shirt—just stay on that sideline, dude.
I’m almost certain this will be Michael Smerconish’s national question of the week tomorrow. So..I’m beating Michael to press with his question and I’ll be back after I see the results of his national poll.
Have a nice day. The Union has held and our flag is still flying.
Here’s a bonus movie clip which might be somewhat applicable to our current legal question.
Entire Final Scene And Justice For All (1979) Pacino – YouTube