The January 6 Insurrection

 It's been a while since I wrote a new blog entry. The big news now is that the January 6 Committee is making headway in showing that Donald Trump was actually guilty in promoting the January 6 invasion of the American Capitol by his mobsters. Toward the end, a number of  Republicans in Trump's administration realized the futility in continuing to push Trump's lie about Joe Biden not being honestly elected president and said so. In trying to stay in power, Trump committed treason in stirring up an insurrection against America.

EXIT FROM AFGHANISTAN

 The Afghanistan war has been a difficult problem into which America was dragged 20 years ago. The entrance was unavoidable because America was attacked at the twin towers by Al Qaida which which the Taliban supported. In addition it was then complicated by a side war in Iraq. Iraq was an unnecessary diversion. George Bush was an honest president, but he did make a mistake in Iraq. However, in the end, America was able to exit gracefully from Iraq but not as gracefully from Afghanistan. Afghanistan had to end, and unfortunately the Afghan government folded when we left, but we eventually had to leave. The exit was initiated by Trump and finished by Biden. The Republicans laid the blame on Biden for political reasons, but neither party is guilty. Completion of the withdrawal by Trump would not have been any smoother than by Biden. It probably would have been worse.

PUTIN'S PUPPET IS GUILTY

It is not American patriotism to support Putin's puppet Trump.

It is not American patriotism to support Trump self-serving dishonesty and authoritarianism.

It is not American patriotism to be part of or to support a violent insurrection against the American seat of government to support an overturn of the honest election of an American president to keep Putin's puppet in the presidency.

The insurrectionist mobsters who attacked the capitol were anti-American criminals.

President Biden won the election fair and square.

Trump is afraid that now that he is no longer president, he is liable to be convicted of his crimes as the most dishonest, treasonous, and self-serving president in American history.

A TRUMPER RUNNING FOR CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR WITH OLD TRUMP CRAP

I watched Caitlyn Jenner on the View today. She is running for California governor as a Republican against Gavin Newsom in the upcoming recall election. She claims to be inclusive. She says although she is new to politics but is surrounding herself with the “best people.” Joy Behar asked her the most important question which forced Jenner to reveal who she really is. The question was essentially, Did Biden fairly win the last presidential election or was the election rigged against Trump as Trump claims? Jenner’s answer was that she did not want to get into that. This reveals that Jenner is really a slavish Trumper, not inclusive. Surrounding herself with the “best people” is exactly what Trump said about himself. As it turned out, he surrounded himself with crooks like Trump, some of whom have been indicted and some of whom have gone to jail. Some have avoided jail because Trump used his power as president to get them off the hook. I suspect that Caitlyn Jenner would be an incompetent governor surrounded by incompetent crooked Trumpish advisors. As for California taxes being too high, you pay for what you get. If you want a state with good services, you have to pay for those services with tax money. Republicans have a history of lowering taxes as a benefit to their rich contributors while the rest of us (especially the poor) pay for those lower taxes with less benefits.

STATEHOOD FOR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

The population of the District of Columbia was 689,545 in 2020. In that same year, the population of Wyoming was 595,653. Yet the people of Wyoming enjoy statehood including electing 2 senators and one representative to Congress. Why do the people of DC not enjoy the same representation? Is it because DC has a large Black population and Wyoming is mostly White? Is it because most of the people in DC are Democrats and most of those in Wyoming are Republicans? The American citizens of DC deserve the same representation as those of Wyoming. Our fellow Americans in DC deserve the same citizenship as the rest of us. America needs statehood for the District of Columbia.

GAZA

 I am a Democrat and consider myself a liberal both in American and International politics. I often agree with positions taken by Daily Kos (not always). Recently Daily Kos took a position more than just critical of the action of Israel in regard to Gaza and asked that the readers advocate that position. In this case I felt that I needed to reply, This is my reply:

"I do not agree with your one sided request of blaming Israel for the recent war between Israel and Gaza,. I would criticize Israel for evicting some Palestinians from their Jerusalem homes that were acquired after the 1948 war because many people were displaced on both sides.

However your criticism of Israel for bombing Gaza neglects to mention that Gaza started the conflict by shooting rockets at Israel. What would be your suggestion for Israel's response? To simply sit still quietly and allow the Gaza rockets to kill Israeli citizens (including Israeli Arabs)?

Incidentally, the separation of Gaza from Israel was originally intended as a first step in the creation of an independent Palestinian state peacefully living side by side with Israel. Gaza was chosen as the first step because of its distance from the population center of Israel (compared to the West Bank). Unfortunately the people of Gaza elected Hamas as their government. Hamas then proceeded to attack Israel with rockets and terrorists tunneling under the border." I would add that the goal of Hamas is not a Palestinian state existing side by side with Israel, but rather a Hamas Palestinian state from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River with no Jews in it.

TO WHAT COUNTRY ARE THE TRUMPUTINCANS PATRIOTIC?

The Trumputincans claim to be superpatriots. What is so patriotic about loyalty to Putin and his puppet Trump? What is so patriotic about invading the American capitol or supporting the invaders?