General Discussion

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shortly after the January 6 attempt to overthrow our government by Trump and the Maga goons, I called into Thom Hartmann's show and spoke with either Mark Pocan or Ro Khanna. I can't remember which. It was obvious to me, based on my opinion of Trump's obsessive compulsive behavior that even though he lost the election we weren't done with his sorry ass BS.

Thom asks callers to ask a question of the congress people visiting the show.

My question was "What will the Democrats be doing to "Trump Proof" the presidency?"

Nothing was done. No action was taken by the Democrats to bar Trump from running, declare him unable to hold public office due to his involvement with January 6. Not a damn thing was done to correct the issues that a criminal like Trump was able to take advantage of while in office. Nada, Zilch, Zip, Nothing.

Instead the Democrats scurried around trying to fix all the stuff Trump broke in his first term and did nothing to prevent future versions of Trump or Trump himself from coming back and doing it all over again.

The Democrats are like ants busily working away, following the rules, building their nest, earnestly laboring away to keep everything in working order. Repairing the damage they go on never getting beyond the repairing phase.

The Republicans are like the giant boot that comes along regularly smashing the carefully built ant nest, stomping it into oblivion, destroying everything the ants so carefully built.

Of course the ants dutifully come back each time and quietly begin attempting to rebuild everything, laboring diligently, trying to put everything the giant boot destroyed back in order.

Tim Walz, while well meaning is wrong. While the Democrats do need to eventually rebuild the nest, address health care for example, the first thing the Democrats need to do after taking power is......take a god damn giant chainsaw to that boot wearing leg and remove it completely so that we don't continue to have endless cycles of Democrats dutifully coming back to quietly rebuild the ant colony back to order.

In other words...THIS TIME....put the criminals in prison where they belong. Trump proof the Presidency. Purge the federal government of corrupt Supreme Court Justices who accept bribes. Imprison congress people who "give tours" to J6 criminals. Rescind pardons issued by a criminal President. Remove all Republican political appointees in federal positions. Arrest elected officials who colluded with foreign dictators and committed treason. Give them all the penalty reserved for treason in this country.

Only by doing this first can we go back to quietly rebuilding the ant colony and have any hope of progress in this country not being repeatedly stomped into oblivion.

Nuremburg.