Law, Power, and Justice

Wednesday 25 October 2023

The Republicans have finally agreed upon someone to nominate for Speaker.  According to postings…

• He maintains that women have abortions after a baby is born.
• Trump won the 2020 election.
• Jan. 6^th was a “legitimate protest.”
• Covid was a hoax
• Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme.”
• He wants to cut Medicare
• Climate change is a hoax.

“They Legitimized the Myth of a Stolen Election – and Reaped the Rewards.”

• Just after Jan. 6^th, the Republicans were wringing their hands, afraid that the voters were going to hold them responsible.  They decided they had to make a clear stand against the events.
• Now, people who voted to reject the results of the election wear it like a “badge of honor.”
• The Times calls Mike Johnson “the most important architect of the Electoral College objections.”
• “Corporate backers have reopened their coffers to lawmakers they once denounced as threats to democracy.”
• “…a dozen Republican lawmakers who broke with Mr. Trump have either lost primaries or chosen to retire.”

Tweet from Mondaire Jones

• “Mike Johnson built a legal career in Louisiana opposing the basic civil rights and civil liberties of the LGBTQ+ community….Voting for him as Speaker is despicable. 

Tweet from Sawyer Hackett, Johnson…

• Architect of House effort to overturn election
• Was on Trump legal defense in both impeachments
• Supports national abortion ban
• Wants to ban same-sex marriage
• Thinks weed is a gateway drug

And…

I just refilled the bird feeder.  Ten minutes later, the porch was filled with our squirrel girls, titmice, and the rarely seen enormous Blue Jay.  Our cats love watching all this.

When I was growing up, there were Blue Jays everywhere, but in Coastal Georgia, we rarely see them.  I don’t know whether this is the change in location (West Georgia to Coastal Georgia) or the intervening decline in bird (and insect species) in fifty years.