At the No Kings Day protests it was very clear that Trump wasn't the only target. Congress came in for its fair share of abuse, and rightly so. As we have pointed out in earlier posts, the Founders gave Congress the lion's share of authority among the three branches of government with the intention of preventing the rise of an autocrat. And what happened? Over the course of several sessions members pissed away their power, granting it to the president in the name of convenience.
They say convenience, I say laziness and apathy. Thus was born a wannabe autocrat.
Right now the Senate is the last barrier between us and disaster--pure unmitigated economic, social, public health, political disaster--and they should damn well take notice that if they fail us we will come after them.
The House of Sycophants, unsurprisingly, passed Trump's ridiculously named "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act, aka H.R. 1. The bill is a recipe for enacting Project 2025, the ultra-conservative guide meant to drive the United States into third-world nation status. It's now before the Senate, and God help them--and us--if they let it pass.
On June 14, in more than 2,000 locations in all 50 states, an estimated 6 million Americans gathered to protest Trump. Not just his policies, programs, etc., but him, the disgusting beast that crawled out of the muck of the Hudson River.
He wants to kill us and he doesn't care how he does it. H.R. 1 is his most frightening weapon yet, and if the Senate doesn't stand up to it with a resounding "You shall not pass," we are done for.
Assuming 5 million protesters on 6/14, that means there were 50,000 individuals for each U. S. senator. If members of Congress were terrified by just the few thousand thugs Trump threw at them on 1/6/21, how might they react to the hundreds of times that number of furious protesters that will crash down on them like a great righteous and wrathful wave if H.R. 1 passes? Hm?
Just sayin'.
---Diogenes, Juneteenth, 2025
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