Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Why GOP candidates are still embracing Trump's election lie" video.

  1. Why hasn't Merrick Garland and his DOJ not yet arrested and charged Trump, Jeffery Clark, Mark Meadows, John Eastman and any other accomplices for their involvement in federal election interference and sedition??? WTF? How much more evidence is needed? If Garland doesn't stand up for justice and democracy, this nation is soon doomed. 18 U.S. Code § 595 - Interference by administrative employees of Federal, State, or Territorial Governments "Whoever, being a person employed in any administrative position by the United States, or by any department or agency thereof, or by the District of Columbia or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or any political subdivision, municipality, or agency thereof, or agency of such political subdivision or municipality (including any corporation owned or controlled by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States or by any such political subdivision, municipality, or agency), in connection with any activity which is financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by the United States, or any department or agency thereof, uses his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both." Disqualification form Holding Office, U.S. Constitution, 14th Amendment, Section 3.1.1 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
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  2.  @D...M...A...  ~ The AG and the DOJ are dragging their feet, trying not to appear political. But appearances shouldn't matter, because justice and enforcing the law come first, and because Republicans have been painting him and the DOJ as political, anyway. Appearances shouldn't prevent the DOJ from doing its job. Garland has already made a number of unwise decisions regarding the former administration, and the decision to prosecute Bannon holding him in contempt of Congress should not have taken weeks to decide. Bannon's hearing on that charge won't happen until July 2022. The clock is ticking, and in about a week it will have been a year since the January 6 insurrection, and still none of the major players have been indicted yet. Nor is there any sign of the DOJ prosecuting Trump for his other crimes. That's far too long, and it is sending the wrong message to those trying to subvert our democracy. "If the result of Garland's de-politicization is tiptoeing around the egregious serial wrongdoing of the leaders of the Republican Party, then his efforts will have exactly the opposite of the intended effect. By failing to hold Trump and Co. accountable, Garland will set the stage for them to continue unabated their efforts to turn the U.S. into a one-party state in which only Republicans can win elections and any tactics they may use to hold on to power will have been effectively validated by the inaction of Garland and his DOJ. Garland’s behavior to date has left me apprehensive. Conversations I have had with folks inside DOJ have not eased those concerns. There, frustration with Garland begins with his management style (which insiders liken to that of a judge running his chambers in which his office is a kind of bubble apart from the department and staffed by a small team akin to the clerks he had when he was in the judiciary). It extends to concerns that he will err too far in the name of caution and a desire not to be perceived as political. This too is a hold-over from his court days and ignores that A) he is a political appointee, B) the issues he is dealing with are hyper-politicized and c) there is no way to prosecute politicians for crimes committed in the name of partisanship without appearing political."
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  3. "Without accountability, an attempted autogolpe or insurrection is just practice." "What happened on January 6 is the very definition of sedition." ― Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Why has Traitor Trump not been charged yet by the DOJ? That's what a lot of people are wondering! Not just prosecution of Trump, but all his accomplices, too! Obstruction charges outlined in the Mueller Report, the Ukraine extortion racket, inciting an insurrection, sedition, and federal election interference. The evidence is all in plain sight, where are the indictments, the arrests? Our democracy hangs in the balance; this is no time to play nice, there is no time to waste! The DOJ shouldn't be worried about appearances, either, because it's a matter of impartially enforcing the law and not setting bad precedent that encourages future lawlessness and authoritarianism by the Executive Branch. And because justice matters.
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  4. "Call this civic barbarism. Instead of promoting the values of responsible citizenship, Trump, Republican leadership, and their media enablers have elevated and blessed the very worst among us. They are making many Americans less suited for self-government and more dangerous to their neighbors. And they are doing so for the reason some of the Founders most feared: To lead the mob against true democracy." ― Michael Gerson, from 'Trumpism is American Fascism' (NOTE: Gerson is a staunch life-long conservative, who served as former President George W. Bush's chief speech writer.) Trump and Republicans are like Jack and his band of boys in 'Lord of the Flies.' Ralph, Simon, Piggy and the other group of boys represent the rest of us. Just as Jack and his band turned savage, killing and cannibalizing their fellow students on the deserted island they landed upon, Trump and Republicans have also turned savage, rejecting responsibility, reason, civility, morality, and science, killing their fellow Americans and cannibalizing our government. Except there will be no adults arriving to save those of us trying to do the right thing, like in the classic tale. It is strictly up to us to save ourselves and this country from the fascistic, nihilistic impulses of Trump and Republicans.
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  5. GOP cult: “Democracy is great…only so long as we can subvert it with lies, cheating, a multitude of Jim Crow voter suppression laws, egregious gerrymandering, obstruction, coups, election interference, sedition, and terrorism to gain power and maintain our corrupt, plutocratic, minority fascist rule!”
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  6. It's a game of asymmetrical warfare the Republicans are playing, as they don't care if they burn the government down if they can't have minority rule, while Democrats value democracy----win or lose----and want to make government work for the American people. It's clear that this situation with Republicans isn't something Democrats want or with which they are comfortable, but find themselves forced to deal with as best they can. I do fault Democrats like Charlie Brown Manchin and Silly Sinema, who want to play pretend that the situation is normal, when it's more than obvious that Republicans are unwilling to operate in good faith or practice bipartisanship in any serious way, and the GOP is embracing nihilism and fascism. Both Congressional Democrats and Garland's DOJ need to start playing hardball, or we may not have a democracy for much longer. They urgently need to hold those most responsible for January 6 to account, protect the voting franchise, and deliver for the American people. There is no time to waste.
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