Fake claims and protests heavily funded by the top 2% are not democracy
You can fool all the people some of the time till the bluster and bullshit and pandemic restrictions make everyone cranky and they look for smarter and more honest leadership
Police in Ottawa, Canada have ramped up efforts to end the illegal or disruptive actions of the ongoing protest of several hundred truckers. They’ve begun towing some of the trucks, but at a deliberate pace that seeks to avoid hostile confrontations. At least 15 have been arrested.
Protest is protected in Canada, but the efforts of the protesting truckers have included overt and self-defined attempts to damage the economy, to disturb the peace in communities, and to overthrow democratic processes like the decisions of a majority of Canada voters.
Truckers are being advised how to retrieve their trucks if they get towed and it appears they won’t be paying towing fees to do so.
With a large number of foreign donations funding the protest and a handful of Republican US politicians offering verbal support for the small band of truckers, Canadian voters have had enough. Among those few politicians: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R- QAnon and Beyond) - himself under an ongoing criminal investigation - plus US Senator Ted Cruz (R- Cancun, Mexico) and US Senator Rand Paul (R- Eye Doctor Sorta).
This week saw the former president allege that a political opponent he faced in 2016 lost the election, then spied on him while he served as president. And suggested that opponent should be executed for that.
It’s not entirely clear why he continues to be obsessed with jailing or executing an elderly woman who hasn’t held a government position for more than 5 years.
What is clear is his fake outrage in this instance has no merit. The investigation by Special Counsel Durham has not revealed any new evidence with its latest press release to merit such a claim of spying on President Trump. But the Propaganda Machine of the GOP quickly ramped up to amplify those claims till the national media took a look and called it what it was: a manufactured charade.
The Washington Post: ”At 10:25 a.m., the anonymous Techno Fog Twitter account, with nearly 350,000 followers, tweeted: “Special Counsel John Durman [sic]: DNC/Perkins Coie allies — Rodney Joffe, et al. — ‘exploited a sensitive US govt arrangement’ to gather intel on the ‘Executive Office of the President of the U.S.’ They spied on Trump.” This tweet also had a screenshot of paragraph five. Before noon, this person had tweeted a substack analysis that emphasized, in bold type, “they essentially spied on President Trump.” “
”Anonymous Techno Fog Twitter account” … what kind of bullshit megaphone is that? Does Roger Stone run it? Steve Bannon? Somebody else that Trump pardoned?
Former US Senator Hillary Clinton has been the most investigated politician and person in US history, she has never shied away from testifying before any prosecutor, judge or Congressional committee and none of them saw enough evidence of any lawbreaking to sustain a successful prosecution. She has made political miscalculations, she’s hired a few people who proved to be inept, but those aren’t crimes. Hundreds of members of Congress can be accused of that.
So…. execution?!!? This is not a theocracy like Iran or Saudi Arabia. We don’t live under a dictator like North Koreans have to fear. Democracies and democratic republics work much better than that. With his calls for evidence-free executions and imprisonments of political opponents, Trump’s mimicking the bad old days when Senator Joe McCarthy and FBI Director Hoover called for such excesses and injustices.
It’s tiresome and unoriginal.
And it’s trying to divert public attention from his own past actions, which have cost him millions in financial settlements and penalties, include defrauded students and money stolen from a charity, as well as ongoing criminal investigations that he and his children have just been ordered to answer to.
His past efforts to deceive and lie have been wildly successful in the past, but now, not so much. The US justice system is the least political branch of government because judges always have to review evidence and reject baseless claims. Judges can and have erred but if too many stray from political neutrality, they end respect for all law and destroy the necessary foundation of democracy.
The majority that has never been fooled by the former president and the social media echo chambers is growing, which does not bode well for sore losers like Trump.
From ABC News: “Durham raised the new set of allegations as part of a filing regarding concerns over whether Sussmann's defense attorneys have a conflict of interest in representing him. No additional criminal charges have been brought against Sussmann or others related to the new allegations.
What I find so troubling about those truck rallies is that each truck can be a proverbial Ryder truck; a trojan horse, packed will who knows what? As we've sadly learned...cars are weapon enough. But even more troubling are the suits, safe in their security, pulling all the strings. No skin or time in the game.