Sedition

Day before yesterday was an historic day but for some really God-awful reasons.  

Our off the rails President incited protesters who scaled the walls and gained access to our Capitol building.  (That is a brief sentence that truly doesn't convey the extent of what happened.  It was chaos.)  I write that sentence and still can't wrap my head around any of it.  His constant completely baseless assertions that the election was 'stolen' from him - that he actually won but somehow the votes were 'lost' or 'mishandled' - he appears to believe that if he keeps saying it, it will be so.  And then the additional SADDEST part of that is: there are actually people in our country who BELIEVE HIM SO MUCH that they stormed the Capitol to protest. 

Five people died as a result of the days events.  Five people - including a Capitol Policeman who was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher.  He returned to his station, collapsed and died.  One of the deceased was a protestor who tasered himself in the balls and had a heart attack.  Darwin is smiling at you, you moron. 

We are 12 days away from the Inauguration which thankfully, our President has agreed not to attend. First time in 150 years the outgoing President hasn't attended. 

There will be a second impeachment proceeding initiated against him on Monday and this time (he's already been impeached in December, 2019, but was not convicted by the Republican controlled Senate so he stayed in office) there's a lot of movement towards making it official.  If he is impeached a second time, he will be the first President in history to have that 'distinction'.  

His gutless VP won't invoke the 25th Amendment to get him.  But there's plenty of Republicans who agree that Wednesday's events were too much.  A PRESIDENT inciting violence.  Geez.  It's incredible.  

Four years of this asshole's 'leadership' - he is incapable of any true leadership because he's a malignant narcissist.  Always has been, always will be.  You can't lead effectively when your ego is front and center and in his case, he's got so many mental health issues that impact his personality/actions, it's pointless.  

Oh! and before this week's fiasco, he was recorded calling the Georgia Secretary of State asking him to 'find' 11,780 votes.  President asked the SoS to 'recalculate' the number of votes.  Which is a crime.  

While COVID continues to ravage our country.  My Aunt died on January 6th from complications of COVID and while her age and other health issues contributed to her body's inability to fight off the virus, it was still a COVID death in our family - which hits hard when it's obvious that the failed leadership of our country through a(nother) historic event (global pandemics do not happen often, thank goodness) has made the number of cases and the death toll continue to rise day after day.  

It's been a long, hard week.  I'm really, truly hoping that the House & Senate will convict him this time so his sorry ass can be booted out - it's a damn shame it's taken to the very end of his term to boot him out but it's a psychological 'lift' to think it could happen.  It needs to.  Bring the House and Senate together to put party affiliation aside and do what's right for our country.  Better late than never.