The Doormat Congress: Republicans react to Trump’s overreach with shrugs. (GOP lawmakers are now bending the knee — to Elon Musk.
Elon Musk’s actions could be violating the Constitution. Many Republican lawmakers are shrugging. Steve Benen/MSNBC)
How fucking frustrating, how horrendously horrifying, how SO REPUBLICAN, and the people who vote for them. Ever since my parents worked for Adlai Stevenson ‘s second run to become President way back in 1956, I somehow had become a political junkie.
My parents would discuss how democracy was as valuable as the air we breathed and how democracy could only survive from its roots, which in political terms was called “THE GRASS ROOTS”, as in the people and their pursuit of truth and justice. Somehow, I had this sense that maybe I COULD MAKE CHANGE, as in me being just an ordinary citizen.
I still feel an obligation to save democracy to keep freedom alive, to aid the underdog, to right the wrongs, to do the right thing and to fucking ACT UP, BE LOUD, and swear, NEVER AGAIN.
This time in the year 2025, I am however terrified that the Republican Monster has grown to proportions of such enormity that, it will be uncontrollable uncontainable! People say wait until the Mid Term elections, and my response is what Mid-Term elections…because a few months before they are to happen, TRUMP/MUSK with declare MARTIAL LAW.
And then to make peace with my churning and tuning mind, I recall the story of David and Goliath, and how a small stone could change the world's fate!
