Ron Johnson's letter a litany of laughable lies!
Wisconsin's so-called senator, Ron Johnson, sent a letter to Wisconsinites after Trump's second (!) impeachment trial. In it he supposedly explains his vote to acquit the Tribble-Crested Orangutan for inciting far-right militants and rabid Trumpists to attack the Capitol. But his “explanation” is a grab bag of guano, a word-salad of “alternative facts.” Drivel of this caliber once erupted from Sarah Palin's pie-hole.1
“Fall-down funny!” best describes the incoherence, clumsiness, and the pathetic servitude to his beloved tyrant that seeps from Johnson's words. They match his deeds, but, taken together, the unholy trinity exposes a wasted, empty, aimless life.
Parental Advisory: Parents, don't let your children grow up to be Ron Johnson.
From Johnson's letter: “I hate to call what occurred in the Senate a trial. It was political theater that never should have been held. Far from President Biden’s promise to heal and unify the country, it was vindictive and divisive.”
Newsflash, RonAnon! It WAS a trial! A specific type of trial. An Impeachment Trial! It happened in the Senate because the perp was the nation's Chief Executive2 (much ignominy attend him, the pus-bloated wart), but it was not a civil or criminal trial. The two (!) impeachments of the same guy during the same term of office were, in each case, the direct consequences of his actions! So don't rely on your constituents' unfamiliarity with Constitutional processes to imply that this Senate trial was faulty. The only fault here is your ignorance of the Constitution. But ignorance is, after all, your go-to...
Look, Senator Sedition, we know that getting facts to penetrate your eyeballs or eardrums is major elective surgery, but you've got your father-in-law's millions to blow, and one hell of a health plan as a senator.
Newsflash #2: As a senator, you were given super-secret, no-fingers-crossed permission to read the U.S. Constitution. Honest! Pinky swear! You can even ask what the big words mean. It's a crime your ideologically-constipated handlers didn't have the integrity to act on the knowledge that being a Senator is only for grownups. And no, puppets don't count as grownups.
“Far from President Biden’s promise to heal and unify the country...”. President Biden, or any president, simply doesn't have the constitutional authority to forbid or prevent either House impeachment proceedings or the Senate trial that follows. Even while it was still in office, that Tangerine Tyrant you worship couldn't have stopped this Constitutional process. He certainly didn't stop his own first impeachment while he was president. Did you blame him for that failure? So your sly insinuation that Biden is “to blame” is utter bullshit.
And the rhetorical elephant-in-the-room is the question: “Heal and unify”...? From what? What happened to this country that there is now a need to heal and unify it? Hint: It wasn't anything Biden has done in the past four years. Time for Republican misdeeds and abominations to suffer forced repatriation. More colloquially, it's time to let the shit-storm come home to roost. And that shit-storm has raged for decades.
“...it (the trial) was vindictive and divisive.” Well, lookee here now. Ron Van Winkle has stumbled back into town from the Catskills. The election results melted his congenital brain freeze and he can suddenly see vindictiveness and divisiveness.
Ron Johnson sees vindictiveness and divisiveness! Omigod, omigod, omigod!
Jaded readers, when your fits of uncontrollable laughter subside, when you have wiped the tears from your eyes, found your breath and picked yourselves up off the carpet, draft a list of issues and incidents in which Republicans deployed vindictiveness and divisiveness. Send it to Ron Johnson. Time to school the fool. And know this: that schooling will take the rest of his waste-of-a-life.
The Adolph Twitler Administration devised a “great” disincentive to forego the need for long-overdue immigration reform: lock migrant children up, in cages, in detention centers at our border with Mexico, and separate families. That's very, very recent news, Rojo. But you say that such twisted, sadistic and baldly inhumane treatment of human beings, of children, was not vindictive and divisive. Prove it! Spend a month in one of those cages to show that such treatment is not vindictive and divisive...and inhumane. Or is it okay if you are a Republican?
Ron Johnson, a member of the political party that celebrates vindictive and divisive behavior, the party that rejoices in perpetrating vindictive and divisive behavior, the party that mass-produces vindictive and divisive events, the party that passes vindictive and divisive laws, and whose judges make vindictive and divisive rulings, now has the ignorant, arrogant, ahistorical gall to whine that Trump's senate trial was vindictive and divisive. This dolt has no concept of irony. None at all.
A bit of history now, Ron, facts that many of your fellow Wisconsinites have never forgotten...
Your pill-popping, personality-disordered sociopath of the AM airwaves, Rush Limbaugh, called feminists “Femi-nazis.” Tell me that is not vindictive and divisive.
After the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, courtesy of the vindictive and divisive Reagan Administration, Limbaugh's oral diarrhea of conspiracy theories, misogyny, xenophobia and related conservative “values” was syndicated, i.e., flushed into the airwaves nationwide. But in Ron Johnson's ideological Disneyland of a brain, spreading hate-filled lies, misogyny and xenophobia, without any kind of accountability, without consequence, isn't vindictive and divisive when a “conservative” does it.
And so Ron Johnson does it.
Speaking of the vindictive and divisive Reagan Administration, which wielded thinly-disguised open hate as a political weapon over forty years ago, let's revisit two of the “Great Communicator's” signature moves. While campaigning for president, Reagan sent this letter to representatives of the Air Traffic Controllers, hoping to earn their support and their votes:
“I have been thoroughly briefed by members of my staff as to the deplorable state of our nation’s air traffic control system. They have told me that too few people working unreasonable hours with obsolete equipment has placed the nation’s air travelers in unwarranted danger. In an area so clearly related to public safety the Carter administration has failed to act responsibly.
You can rest assured that if I am elected President, I will take whatever steps are necessary to provide our air traffic controllers with the most modern equipment available and to adjust staff levels and workdays so that they are commensurate with achieving a maximum degree of public safety. . .
I pledge to you that my administration will work very closely with you to bring about a spirit of cooperation between the President and the air traffic controllers. . .”3
When the Reagan Administration failed to act on these campaign promises, over 11,000 unionized Air Traffic Controllers went on strike. Reagan abruptly fired them. Oh, and he also imposed a lifetime ban on rehiring them. But these actions, ignoring his own promises and firing the Air Traffic Controllers, were not vindictive or divisive, eh, RonAnon?
Reagan's words ring as hollow as the man himself.
The Administration of this same doddering fool dragged its feet as the AIDS epidemic blossomed in all its horror. And really, they reasoned (with pathological entitlement), why act decisively? Didn't “those” people bring it upon themselves? But our ignorant senator wouldn't dream of characterizing Reagan's slow-walk response to that era's epidemic as “vindictive and divisive.” And it is more than disturbing to note the parallels between that Administration's “limited government” response to AIDS, and the Trump Administration's blatant bungling and inactivity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adding fuel to the fire, Johnson himself has promoted quack medical treatments for the COVID-19 virus, including hydroxychloroquine, which his Fearless Liar first hawked, and which has been firmly, completely and scientifically discredited as a treatment for COVID. Johnson is not a doctor, virologist or epidemiologist. He is, however, a board-certified idiot.
The stupid not only burns, it kills. And it kills blindly.
Funny thing: this “limited government” party he belongs to religiously limits the benefits of its reign to the already-rich, predominantly white, socially regressive and reflexively prescriptive types. And, incidentally, to flaming hypocrites of the McConnell breed. This is the Great Republican Conceit, a profession of faith rarely spoken in mixed company. These same Republicans, too, by no coincidence, if they profess any faith at all, tend to be practitioners of a shallow, fundamentalist corruption of Christianity. Their daily dose of “scripture” amounts to a diligent reflection on the twisted wisdom of some arcane “Prosperity Gospel,” authorship unknown. Ron Johnsons, these cult members, one and all...
This Ron Johnson who whines about vindictiveness and divisiveness is the same Ron Johnson who said about a proposed mosque to be built in New York City near the site of the twin towers: "Those folks are trying to poke a stick in our eye. I just hope the zoning officials and the city, the state revisit that, rezone that piece of property."4
“Those folks” happen to be Muslims. Any chance our idiot-Senator might see something a bit, oh, I dunno, “vindictive and divisive” in that little pearl?
Get this worthless fool out of elected office. He is no public servant.
Footnotes
1. And where, you may ask, is the Caribou Queen these days? Adrift in a moral, intellectual and social wilderness...of her own creation. A fate that foreshadows that of Wisconsin's idiot-puppet senator. But don’t expect introspection from such creatures during their ignominious twilight decades. Such brain activity is more likely to be found in a tapeworm.
2. The nouns “Trump” and “Chief Executive,” when placed in proximity, have been known to induce various autonomic responses in sane, well-balanced and educated Americans. These responses may include, but are not limited to, winces, grimaces, tics, headaches, dry heaves, abdominal pains, nausea and vomiting. Placing “President” in proximity with the aforementioned surname induces similar adverse reactions. I apologize if my syntax has caused any of these symptoms.
Bibliography
3. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-cost-of-defying-the-president
4. https://journaltimes.com/news/local/article_38bd2992-acac-11df-988e-001cc4c03286.html