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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Trump finally found himself some voter fraud, even if he created the fraud himself. On tape.
Cruz & Gohmert better jump ship unless they prefer sticking around as co-conspirators.
1I hope somebody is saving all this stuff up for 18 days from now.
2I’m hoping that in 72 hours from now, the fires will be out in DC and all the Trumpf noise is mute. Question is, which repugnanticans can we depend on to finally put a dagger in his brain. It’s scary to have to depend on them to end this nightmare.
315 days after that and the NY AG can have at him full time and we can move on to recovery.
If there was any justice, the Georgia AG would be filiing charges against him now. I won’t hold my breath.
Also, the House would impeach him, the Senate would try and convict him, and then would bar him from public office for life. Then all the lawsuits that have been pending or are in the planning stages would hit him at once. Still not holding my breath.
Then there are the hundreds of millions he owes that are coming soon, money he owes to some not so nice people . . .
4Sadly, this will make no difference to Ted Cruz and the Treasonweasels. Trump supporters are so deep in the cult they are more angry that the tape was “leaked” than the contents of the call. The same people were ticked about the New York Times getting Trump’s taxes and ignored the tax evasion exposed.
5The true problem is that for “The Base”, this is *proof* Hair Furor is fighting *for them*!!! That is why the senators and representatives are so intent upon sedition: They expect to be rewarded…
6Husband’s comments on this “I remember when the Republican Party was all about (or said they were) ‘personal responsibility’ and ‘holding people accountable.’ Now it’s all about ‘leaks are evil.'”
7One of those “You can’t make this stuff up” temporal overlaps. Wednesday in our church is the Feast of the Epiphany…the showing of the holy infant to the three (kings, priests, wise men) who came bearing gifts. The proof that their following the star was the right thing to do, and that they had the wisdom/perceptiveness to see that wiggly little infant was special (who, for all we know, was squalling his head off when they got to the stable door.
Many people have “epiphanies” of various sorts when they see something a new way, or see something they haven’t seen before. Including people who think they know it all, who think they’re already as wise as any three kings of orient are, who have the world all figured out, down to the “facts” of the latest conspiracy they heard about somewhere last week.
So this Wednesday, January 6, we’ll see what happens in D.C., and we’ll find out what happened in the Georgia runoff on the day before, and the people IN D.C….the ones who live there and the ones who are coming there to raise hell…will see who has what power and how it’s used. And over in the National Cathedral, the Feast of the Epiphany will be celebrated in a muted Covid-pandemic way. We all expect the Proud Boys, the white supremacists, the Trumpies, to be noisy and arrogant and (though we hope not) violent…and meanwhile, over across the city and up on a little height, the focus will be on something else. Epiphanies old and epiphanies new will be side by side, one showing demands for power and more power…the other showing recognition of yet unknown greatness, respect for that 12 day old infant.
The Three Kings (or Wise Men) had a profound political effect (dragging myself back to the core of this site), since Herod, the satrap king under the Roman rule, perceived them as a threat, and their tale of a remarkable infant they thought meant he would become a king, meant that infant–any male infant–might be a danger to his own rule.
What they intended to do, by their courtesy visit to him, we can’t be sure: they came from the East, and it was from the East that danger had come before to the lands bordering the Mediterranean. Babylonians, Persians, and who knew what might *really* have sent them west? We do know (or think we know) of the result: the Slaughter of the Innocents, Herod’s order to kill all male Jewish infants less than two years old (just to be SURE…) It’s clear this was a political, not a religious, decision. Herod was an intensely political man; he had to be, since he was between the Roman millstone above him, always ready to squash him, and the teeming rebellious mob below, for whose behavior he was held responsible. Herod had his own Proud Boys among the Jews to deal with; a Roman governor of the province had Herod to deal with (and a legion of Roman soldiers to carry out his orders), and back in Rome the SPQR, the Senate and People of Rome, and the Emperor, had lots of provinces to deal with and various wars and rebellions as well.
We have new tech; we don’t have new political problems, just the ‘same old same old’ human nature dressed in new fashions and armed with different weapons and using the new tech for the same old goals: power, wealth, war.
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