I opted to stop ranting and raving about politics when the tide turned and Biden won. (And he won, he really, really won). But to have come to the precipice of disaster (envision hanging off the cliff with our fingers slipping, slipping, slipping) and to have it averted by hope … it was a huge relief. And I chose to honor it by letting things be and not focusing on the negative aspects.
But for crying out loud, really? We have a majority, but as usual, monumental decisions are left in the hands of the random. Susan Collins has had many of those moments; and now we have Manchin and Cinema. I know that’s not how you spell her last name, but I don’t care. She’s obviously a Republican asset, as is he (how many West Virginians have a huge yacht to live in while in residence in DC?) and yet, we continue to do politics as usual, paring down a bill to its skeleton in order to accommodate these obvious plants.
Hey now, how about that insurrection? WHY THE HELL has nothing come of this? In a leaked memo, Facebook has admitted to hosting many groups who were planning the January 6 shenanigans (https://sfist.com/.../leaked-internal-facebook-memo.../) and of course, that hush announcement (as in not hitting the airwaves like, say, how the unvaxxed are killing the vaxxed) about how a conservative lawyer handed off a detailed description to Trumps legal team on how Pence could throw the election. https://www.businessinsider.com/memo-details-how-pence...
There are two headlines here…one that Pence could have thrown the election; and that he didn’t! But no one wants to chat about that, because now they are trying to take down the already fiscal instability of the country altogether — because of course, an unstable country is much easier to take over. They don’t care how they do it — either through hanging people on the quad or through their DINO squad. THEY ARE HELL BENT.
And Biden, unfortunately, is the typical white man who thinks he can solve everything. Yo, grandpa, time to man up and put your bulletproof vest on and start lobbing some grenades into the cesspool that is minutely less than half in the houses of government, and bolster the serious lawmakers (assuming there are any) up by eliminating the filibuster and enlarging the Supreme Court. These are not drastic measures — they are THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO TO SAVE DEMOCRACY. What does that mean? It means the majority rules. And the majority of Americans would like to be able to vote, have an abortion, access to healthcare, etc.
And we should do away with fossil votes. What are those? Senators and congresspeople who are so old and feeble they can hardly stay awake, but they vote the way they are told.
I have this perpetual optimism within me that wants to believe that they are doing everything they can, to at the very least, maintain the status quo. But facts don’t matter — until you convene a committee who hashes things over ad nauseum, comes to a decision, and then goes to a vote where it all just gets swept under the rug. The rug in Washington looks like those retired landfills with candy canes sticking up so that it won’t blow up. BABOOM.
So they have kicked the can down the road once again, with Biden signing a bill that keeps the government afloat until December 3.
The kicker in all of this, is it could be worse!
