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Takin’ it to the streets…

Well…there seems to be something stirring out in the country where we have chiefs of police telling their officers to make sure they have their riot gear handy since there is some “intel” that Bob Mueller is going to be fired soon. As I’ve already said, the criminal in chief is going to put the final nails in the coffin of the repub party if he does it….and the protests across this country are going to be something that has never been seen if the repubs in congress let him get away with it…but, with the idiot McConnell announcing to trump yesterday that the bi-partisan bill to prevent Mueller’s firing “will never get to the floor”, he has given him the green light to do it without any consequences…and this will make McConnell the person who has done the most damage to our institutions and country than any other person but trump….we need to get ready to join the protests to shut this country down until trump is held accountable for his crimes…and then we need to vote every damn one of the repubs out of office in November…the country depends on it….impeach…

Taking it to the streets…

Well…with the criminal in the White House edging ever closer to obstructing justice even more than he already has by trying to get the justice department to fire Mueller, and with the repubs in congress ignoring their responsibilities by aiding and abetting this attack, we move on to the next phase for us as concerned citizens…and that is to take it to streets in massive protests that will shut this country down until the criminal is removed. Now, it has been many, many years since I have taken part in active protests…the last one when I was in high school and walked out to protest the Vietnam war and the lies we were being told on a daily basis…and I am no longer young, but I will be joining them next Friday when the idiot trump is going to try to subvert the rule of law by firing Mueller….and this will just be the beginning, next year we need to vote every damn repub out of office since they have shown that they don’t believe in democracy anymore….with their voter suppression, their payoffs to the 1%, and their constant lies, the cancer on this country that is the repub party needs to be cut out and I am going to do my part….I have my warm clothes out and I will be on the front lines come Friday…and every person who cares about this country should join me…it’s almost too late….impeach….

The thugs are in charge in Wisconsin…

Well…take a good look at what is happening in Wisconsin if you want to get the true picture of what repubs think about citizen’s rights….a few days ago, an unarmed man was attacked by the police as he stood filming his brother getting arrested for protesting in the capitol…and this man was doing nothing but what is his right as a citizen…his right to free assembly…but the repubs just hate it so much when they are called out for their thuggery and illegal behavior that three of them jumped on the unarmed man with his hands in the air that they now say was resiting arrest and committed a felony assault because one of the thugs that jumped on him got hurt when they fell on top of him. This is the picture of repug administrations across the US…wave the constitution with one hand while they are beating citizens with the other….I really hope the ACLU gets involved here and there are suspensions and fines all round for these thugs…the one thing these pricks don’t understand is that they were caught on video doing this crap…and they have 15 witnesses who say there was no resisting arrest…there was no reason for the thugs to do anything to this man except treat him as a citizen…something the militarized cops of this day and age just don’t understand….geez…

The pushback has begun…

Well…this is going to be a short one since the brain hasn’t been working that well the past few days…but I did want to comment on the signs of a progressive pushback to the nonsense that has come out of the tea party and even “normal” repubs lately…it used to be that progressives had no fight in them…they felt that they could reason with anyone if they would just sit down and talk with the opposition. But, it now appears that they have seen the truth that has been in front of their faces for years…that the right will not compromise, that the right will lie, cheat and steal to push their radical, women hating agenda…and we are doing something about it…like the thousands that have turned out every Monday in NC…the “Moral Monday” movement who are protesting the voter suppression, women suppression, and gay hating that is rife in the repub controlled legislature…and the many, many thousands who have turned out in Texas to protest the draconian intrusion into women’s lives there….we won’t win in Texas…not right now, anyway, but I think these two examples are the start of something big…the start of a movement that will take back the country from the money and the 15% of the crazies who are now attacking women across the country, who are still attacking gays and the poor…we can hope that this movement, along with the demographic changes that are coming, will finally put the nail in the coffins of the repub haters and get this country moving forward again…geez…

Still an “Occupy” supporter……

Well…from the start, I have been a supporter of the “Occupy” movement but I am starting to see some things I don’t really like…in Oakland yesterday there were some idiots who thought it would be a good idea to smash windows and do other acts of vandalism and I think it will hurt the movement in the long run if these folks are allowed to continue this lawlessness. It is a first amendment right to gather and protest, but it is just criminal behavior to allow these people to continue this nonsense. I don’t really place the blame on the “Occupy” organizers, since with any movement you get the outlier idiots that take it too far, but if they want to be taken seriously, some plan to find and remove these people should at least be in the works. I think we need to remember the right wing tricks of the sixties where people that were not members of the protests were sent in by the repubs to act badly and give the right excuses that could then be used to tar the whole movement. So, I would counsel vigilance at this point…to keep an eye out for this kind of shenanigan and to end it quickly when it happens….