Watch 150 GOP try to turn America into a dictatorship!
Not gonna lie: There’s a part of me that wants to see the world burn, Joker-style, when Congress meets Wednesday to count the Electoral College votes.
I mean, there are at least 12 senators and 140 members of the House who plan on voting to not certify the victory of Joe Biden in November’s election.
To be clear: What these schmucks are doing is 100% political grandstanding and will have as much legal standing as my 7-year-old demanding a later bedtime, but — actually, scratch that: I think — not even being a dillweed here — my 7-year-old would have more legal standing in a court of law.
I mean, Joe Biden won the election. Over 60 lawsuits claiming he didn’t have been unceremoniously tossed. The United States Supreme Court basically said, “Bugger off.” And this isn’t a political thing, either: Plenty of Republican-appointed judges ruled against the Trump Crazy Train. But no matter. People like New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew, the former Democrat, now Trump sycophant, are still planning on grandstanding their way in their naked attempt to hasten the death of democracy.
“I won’t be voting to certify the electors,” Van Drew told the Press of Atlantic City. “It’s what I’ve talked about all along. There has been ... a disrespect of millions of Americans who really do believe that something’s wrong. It’s not a matter of who would win or lose — maybe the results would be the same — but we should abide by the rule of law.”
Oh do shut up, Rep. Weasel. You don’t throw the United States Constitution in the toilet and turn our country into a legitimate dictatorship because “millions of Americans who really do believe something’s wrong.” That’s not the way things work, you dingus. (This is quickly devolving into an anti-Van Drew screed, but I’m just using him because he’s a Jersey guy and I’ll use him as a stand-in as I’m really speaking to the entirety of the country, both elected and not, who are Jim Jones’ing themselves to the Trump jive. Anyway …)
Anyway, that’s not the way things work. Just because somebody posts on Facebook that they think the Democrats stole the election — but just in a few states, and just at the presidential level, totally cool with letting Congress, where the real power lies, fall to the masses — does not mean you get to abdicate your responsibility to the Republic by attempting to disenfranchise millions of voters. You know, because “millions of Americans really do believe something is wrong.”
By the way, you know what else “millions of Americans” believe? That Bigfoot exists, that the Earth is flat, and that palm readers are legitimate. Should Congress be voting on Bigfoot hunting laws? Should we convene hearings on the Earth’s curvature? Perhaps we should elect our leaders via palm readings? (Actually, scratch this whole paragraph. I don’t want to give these Van Drew-types any ideas.)
What these lawmakers are going to do Wednesday — to legitimately side with a man who wants to overturn the results of a presidential election and turn this country into a de facto dictatorship because he didn’t like the result — listen to that tape of Trump threatening the Georgia secretary of state if you don’t believe me — is the single most antiAmerican thing I have ever seen. It is disgraceful.
And really: Let’s say they actually get their way and Trump strongarms himself back into the Oval Office. Is that the country you want to live in? Is that the country your father, and grandfather, and uncle fought for in World War II? Really? Is it?
So yeah. This is so beyond the pale, I almost think we’d be better off long-term if we watch it all burn Wednesday, if there’s a real attempt to throw out the results of Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, if it all comes to a big ugly head.
It would make for interesting viewing, that’s for sure.
But in the end, you know what I think is going to happen? I think Trump is going to sulk into the shadows, I think the fight for the soul of the Republican party is going to play out over the next four years, and I think Van Drew and his ilk are going to be looked upon as borderline traitors by the history books.
The Joker gets all the meme love for the “We live in a society,” bit, but it was another famous nihilist — George Costanza who came up with the whole thing in the first place.
“You know we’re living in a society,” he once said. “We’re supposed to act in a civilized way.”
That should be engraved on the walls of Congress after this shizz show.