Chips

 Good news!  The American Government actually got something done that will help America - Congress passed a bill to finance probably the most important technology in the world - semiconductor manufacturing.

“The United States has invested “nearly nothing” in semiconductor manufacturing, she said, while China has invested $150 billion to build its domestic capacity.”

A moment of sanity.  Thank you.

Sig Sauer because AR-15s aren’t violent enough

 I believe that there were approximately 40 million AR-15s in America. These are semi automatic assault rifle weapons of war. I expect that about 95% of the owners of these horrible weapons of slaughter are Trump supporters, ready and willing do use them in political warfare. 

But wait! These weapons which are so destructive that some of the children killed in the Uvalde massacre were unrecognizable and had to be identified using DNA evidence are about to be replaced with an even more destructive assault weapon. Welcome to the world of Sig Sauer  

SIG Sauer’s new MCX-SPEAR fires bullets with twice the kinetic energy of those from an AR-15. That means double the horrifying force that mangled the victims of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and left one youngster essentially decapitated. 

 Guaranteed to penetrate law enforcement body armor  

Fascist violence locked an loaded  

Shit. 

Pence's security members called their families to say goodbye

The eighth presentation of the January 6 Committee was given last night.  VP Mike Pence's security forces were so threatened by the coup rioters searching to find and kill the VP that they called their loved ones to say goodbye in case they did not survive.  

They thought they might be killed.  

They thought that Mike Pence might be killed.

One way you can look at Trump's behavior on the 6th was that he "did nothing".  Absolute nonsense. Trump very actively "did something" - he kept the military from intervening in the coup attempt - he refused to call the Military of any kind to come to the aid of the White House police to put down the rioters. That is an active action to aid and abet the attempted Coup.  Eventually, Mike Pence did call the military and the violence was ended.

Trump sat his filthy fat ass in the Dining Room next to the Oval Office and watched it all on Fox News (where else?).  Trump was pleaded with by virtually everybody on the White House staff in the White House to call off the violence.  He VERY ACTIVELY let the violence continue because they were doing exactly what he asked them to do - trying to overturn the election.  

All the phone logs and diary entries for that day while he was in the White House were wiped out - admission of guilt via coverup.

He allowed no photos in the White House on that day - admission of guilt via coverup.

These are admissions of guilt via coverup of his ACTIVITIES that day.  He did NOT "do nothing".  He actively stoked and promoted the violence. 

At a critical juncture he tweeted that Mike Pence was a coward and didn't do what he was supposed to do.  That tweet was read as it was intended - an order from Trump to the rioters to go find Pence and kill him.  

At one point Trump tweeted to stop attacking the police - and that was understood by the rioters to go after the Congress People, not the police, and do them harm.

One fabulous image was the despicable Josh Hawley running for his life along the halls as police watched him go.  This after he raised his fist in defiant solidarity with the rioters-to-be prior to the violence.  Hawley is apparently making his presidential run on the notion that real manly manly men are no longer allowed in this country because of ??? liberals ???  Nice to see the manly manly man turning tail and running.

Finally Trump was forced by fear of the invoking of the 25th amendment that would remove him from office because of mental incompetence, he robotically read something telling the rioter to go home, that he loved them, that the election was stolen, stolen, stolen, he loved them, loved them, loved  them.

Fascism in action.  It is still ongoing.  The Party that Used to be called The Republican Party has become the fascist party dedicated to ending democracy in America - limiting votes of color, installing fascist operatives to "count" the votes, and "certify" Republican victories.

America is in trouble.

Prison please.

When you eliminate the right to privacy, don’t be surprised that your privacy is disturbed

 I don’t approve of nor condone protestors disrupting Supreme Court Justices at restaurants or their homes. I believe in civility. But didn’t these justices just declare that there is no constitutional right to privacy?

Trump commits the crime of witness tampering

 When you have always “gotten away with it” all your life, what do you do when the noose  tightens?  Well, the Former Guy just commits another crime. In this case - witness tampering. He has very publicly witness tampered throughout his presidency by praising witnesses publicly who would not testify against him and publicly threatening those about to testify. And I guess he thinks he got away with it. Liz Cheney revealed at the end of today’s seventh presentation that a witness we have yet to hear from got a call that they refused to answer from the Former Guy but turned it over to their lawyer who turned it over to the Committee who turned it over to the Department of Justice. It’s a crime.  One of thousands. 

Take him down, please. 

Today’s hearing detailed the military style planning to use weapons to overthrow the government by radical white supremacist fascists. Compelling. At the request and direction of the Former Guy. 

Take him down, please. 

Europe appalled by U.S. Supreme Court

 It is not just American liberals that are shocked by the American Christian Fundamentalists crushing of women's freedom to choose and shape their own lives.  The European Parliament condemned such tyranny and offers themselves as a safe haven for reproductive health care for all.

"There was international condemnation of right-wing policies in the U.S. today, when the European Parliament voted 324 to 155, with 38 abstaining, to condemn the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision recognizing the constitutional right to abortion. It also demanded that the European Union recognize the right to abortion in its charter, and to provide “safe, legal and free abortion services, pre-natal and maternal healthcare services, voluntary family planning, youth-friendly services, and HIV prevention, treatment and support, without discrimination.” 

America and Europe have been moving toward individual liberties for decades and it is pretty distressing to me to see America stripping freedom from over half of its population.  It would be so nice if Christians focused on trying to enroll people into their churches rather than turning America into their church.  

The Land of the Free

 It is hard to celebrate the 4th this year right on the heels of the Supreme Court severely restricting the freedoms of women and couples to choose the shape of their own lives by being the ones who make their own personal decisions about family size. 

Of course The Land of the Free wasn’t very free for Native Americans, black slaves, Jim Crow blacks and browns, women’s endless supressions, or Chinese being hunted for scalps in early California.  

But the American Dream of freedom has always been stronger than the tiny, petty little tyrants trying to kill freedom.  And this too shall pass.  

Screw the Supreme Court