Hmmm...

Now it's Monday and I'm not really any less stumped than I was yesterday. I've got a few threads in my head that are vying for space, but nothing really cohesive just yet. 

It's still tied to the insurrection last week. To the fact that we are still nine days away from inauguration and Trump keeps plowing along. He's making new rules, firing more people, trying to enshrine others in to protected positions, he's looking at heading to Texas to tout his wall though he's going to do it a the fucking Alamo. Tell me he's not going for the Remember the Alamo martyr bullshit there.

Democrats are calling for Impeachment since there is no way Pence and the Cabinet (what's left of it) are going to invoke the 25th. And REALLY no way he will swallow his pride and resign. I mean he still needs to issue the pardons for his family and himself, no chance he risks leaving before that's done. 

Hawley and Cruz and the rest of the Republicans who lent credence to the completely false claims that the election was rigged are still in Congress. Still holding positions of authority in our government. In the freaking legislative branch. You know, legislative...laws. The part that deals with fucking rules. They still sit there. 

There are still a lot of people who are sure the election was stolen from them. Because people in positions of authority told them it was. And still say weasel words around it. Cruz especially with the weasel words. He's a lawyer so he tried his best to make sure what he said was in the "people believe" realm instead of in the "this for sure happened" world. But when you want to hear someone verify your version of the truth, you hear what you want to hear. 

And, of course, we have those Republicans and some Democrats, who don't want to pursue any charges against Trump and his minions in the spirit of unity. It's time to reconcile, dontchaknow?

You know what needs to be the first step toward any reconciliation? Admission of wrong doing. Truly. There is no path to unity if one side refuses to admit they were wrong. If Lindsey Graham wants to hold hands and sing kumbaya now he has to apologize for the past few months of screaming about how something was stolen that wasn't. You cannot accuse me of taking something from you, that you knew all along I didn't take, then when you realized I wasn't going to give you what you wanted decide we should now work together, without apologizing for the accusation. 

They were wrong. And not just wrong, like they made a mistake, wrong like they were fully aware that they were lying to the American public and were doing it cravenly and kept it up just in case it might work or more likely so it would cripple the incoming administration and taint it as dishonest from the start. 

They did that knowing it wasn't true. 

They did that fully aware of the damage they were causing. 

They did that and now without apology they want to move on. For the sake of the country.

Fuck that shit.

I mean that sincerely and deeply. 

And I honestly hope that democrats do a very undemocrat like thing and hold them to account. I know it's against everything Biden normally believes but he and his administration need to bring these people to some sort of justice. 

It needs to happen. 

I don't want unity or reconciliation with a party that does not understand or admit what they've done is wrong. Because that's not reconciliation, that's denial. And we've had enough denial. Denial is what has gotten us to this point. Denying our past. Denying our problems. Denying the truth we should have been able to hear before we all had cameras on our phones. 

So much denial.

And until we, all of us we, both sides of the aisle and those not represented by either side, stop denying our problems, stop blaming others for our issues, start apologizing for our wrongs and more importantly working to make them right, there will be no unity.

So if you really want that; if you are truly ready for reconciliation and unity then it's time to work for it. 

And part of the work is clearing out those that are in the way. Get them to resign, if they won't resign see if they can be impeached or recalled, if they can't be impeached or recalled then sideline them. No committees. No interviews on talk shows about how they are so persecuted. No attention. And for fuck's sake do not vote for them to come back. 

If that doesn't happen then we know you were never serious about reconciliation or unity. You just wanted everyone to move forward and pretend everything is fine. 

It's not fine. 

Last week should have showed you that in stark relief. 

So yeah, I'm still a little stumped, and I'm not really bring tidy little cohesive blogs to life right now, but I think that's normal. I think that's okay. I think we should all be a little uncertain right now. Because as the ancient ones have said...This Shit is Bananas.