Minor Thoughts from me to you

It’s not like we need further examples of Republican perfidy and hypocrisy, but I’ve never let that stop me before.

The libertarian that I was strongly bought into the idea that we didn’t need government regulation, because we had contracts and tort law. If someone did something bad, you’d sue them and the courts would uphold the right. Or if you had a contract with someone and they violated it, you’d sue them and the court would ensure that the contract was enforced.

And then we have the trail derailment in East Palestine, where Norfolk Southern will skate and no amount of lawsuits will meaningfully damage them in a way that would change future behavior.

And we have Twitter and Elon Musk — new darlings of the New Right — where Musk is refusing to honor any of Twitter’s contracts. Not rent, not airline travel, not software bills, and certainly not to the employees that he fired in violation of their contracts. Those contracts aren’t worth the paper that they’re printed on or the billable time for the lawyers that wrote them.

We don’t have regulation and we don’t have contracts and we don’t have tort law. The new Republican status-quo: let the rich go forth and screw everyone else!

The President must be impeached and removed from office.

President Trump spent the last 2 weeks calling his supporters to Washington D.C. This morning, he held an outdoor rally in the capitol, riling up his supporters. He and his personal lawyer talked about fighting for the Presidency, having a “trial by combat”. Then he spent hours silently watching from the Oval Office as his supporters left the rally, marched to the Capitol Building, fought their way inside, and prevented Congress from tallying the electoral votes that would finalize his loss.

This is insurrection and an attempted coup. No American president should ever be allowed to incite violence. Even less should a president be allowed to incite violence in the furtherance of their own power. Condemn this action now, in the strongest way possible, or America will be forever weakened. Possibly fatally.