It’s Friday. I don’t like politics. And I generally don’t like talking about politics on my website. Before this administration came along it was a pretty rare thing to see anything political from me. I’m normally a pretty laid back guy but following politics over the past 4 years has been increasingly disturbing to me. I’ve seen the escalation of division and hatred and how this president not only allowed it, but more importantly encouraged it. This type of behavior is dangerous and has been fueled with lies that escalated into the violence we saw at the Capitol. He, his son, and Giuliani pumped up that crowd and sent them up the hill in the hopes to disrupt and overturn the election results. This president then went the other direction back to the safety of the White House to watch it all unfold on television, telling people that it was going to get crazy. People on his own staff implored him to address the rioters and demand they stop their assault on the Capitol and call in the National Guard. He waited. People died and were injured. When he did finally address them he spent 40 seconds of a 1 minute prerecorded message talking about the fraudulent election before calling the rioters “very special” and “we love you.”

This man is a disgrace. He will go down in history as a morally bankrupt piece of human garbage. And to those who still stand by him, keep in mind that in just 4 years he has cost the republican party the House and the Senate. And best of all, in two weeks we don’t have to listen to his shit anymore.

-keep

It’s Thursday. I heard someone call yesterday’s attack by pro-trump supporters on our nation’s Capitol, the darkest day in history for American democracy. After watching the whole thing unfold on live television, I think that’s a fair assessment. This is an example of what can happen when a president is allowed to spread bold face lies, promote conspiracy theories, and baseless accusations—repeatedly—again and again. Truth and facts mean nothing to this president. He has refused to accept the results of the election, despite numerous recounts and failed baseless law suites. Instead he has chosen to spread disinformation to energize his followers. His lies should have consequences. A sitting president rallied his followers to storm the Capitol in hopes of pressuring lawmakers to toss out the election results, ignore the will of the people, and install himself as president for another term. It’s called an insurrection and one person was killed and several injured. It happened and something needs to be done.

-keep

 
It’s Wednesday. Wow. Anti-maskers stormed a mall and grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday confronting shoppers and employees that were wearing masks. These protesters claim that Covid-19 is a hoax and that it’s their right not to wear a mask. When I see people like this I wish that my girlfriend (a nurse) could walk each one of them through the ICU at her hospital, or really any hospital, to show them the people dying from Covid-19. Introduce them to the overworked doctors, nurses, and techs risking their own lives and the lives of their families to treat the infected. Allow the anti-maskers to speak with patients recovering from Covid-19 and get their thoughts on what they just went through. It’s all there.

And if that doesn’t open the mind of an anti-masker, well then you know what they say about stupid… you can’t fix it.

-keep