J’Accuse!

This declaration, French for “I accuse” or “I accuse you,” became a familiar declaration in the days, weeks and months after France was liberated from Nazi occupation in 1945, and was directed at persons accused of collaboration with German occupation forces.  Although many men were the subject of “J’accuse!,” most of the people at whom it was directed were women who were accused of such collaboration.

Many of them were guilty to varying degrees of this crime against the national pride of the temporarily conquered French, and most of them did so for the prospect of making their lives easier in a time of great peril.  They took German lovers, or assisted the Germans in other ways, and for this, once the Gestapo was gone, their neighbors would brand them.  Many of the women were placed in chairs and had their heads shaved in public as their fellow citizens hurled insults, accusations, and spittle at them.  They then had to live as outcasts for a long time.

Many people thought that J’accuse dissolved into the dustbin of history, but it never did.  In twenty-first century America, the act of “J’Accuse!” is used by the republican party to hide what they do.  They accuse others; democrats, liberals, et cetera, of supporting the unAmerican policies they actually pursue as a means to somehow cover themselves.  The list is pretty long, but I’m only going to write on a few subjects.

Education

First and most importantly, education. Republican politicians, party operatives, and especially the mass of slaves to fox news, newsmax, and infowars, all the way down to the crack-heads of Truth Social that make up their cadres, continually accuse the left (or the radical left, as they call anyone who disagrees with them) of using the public schools to indoctrinate our children.

NOTE:  This act of labeling even moderate centrists in this country “the radical left” is yet another example of the right’s attempt to hide their position through accusation.

I suppose this is actually true, the left in this country seeks to indoctrinate our children into one of the most dangerous cults in the history of the world: knowledge born of intellectual curiosity.  This indoctrination into knowledge includes, but is in no way limited to, the evils of a holistic and egalitarian view of the world and its peoples, and science as an actual ‘real thing’ that can actually explain various realities we see in the universe around us.

It’s a knowledge that places religion in its proper place, and that place is inside an individual’s heart, and not in our public schools, our statutory laws, nor any governmental policy.  It’s a knowledge that honors every tradition of faith that the people of this world have ever produced.  It’s a knowledge that speaks against bigotry in all its forms, especially religious bigotry.  It’s a knowledge that speaks against racism and hatred, instead of embracing them within a grotesque bubble of nationalistic xenophobia born of hollow, venomous, false patriotism. 

If those aspects of knowledge weren’t bad enough, this ‘knowledge’ which the radical left is trying to force upon our children also includes a healthy understanding of both the positive and negative aspects of American history.  It’s a knowledge that, without even trying, destroys the republican fantasy shroud of “American Exceptionalism,” whatever that really is.

Their race to conceal uncomfortable truths about our own history from our children has become so all-encompassing that they have passed laws in the states that they control which actually make it illegal for our teachers to inform our children about the function of racism in our history.  Remember always that 2 + 2 = 4, but only if both twos are white.  If they’re not, then it should be illegal for them to be in the same equation.

God forbid that our children should know things other than the juiciest parts of the Old Testament; a set of documents that try to teach us that God made mistakes in creating certain people; that the people that god created as homosexuals, or who don’t identify their gender or sexuality within the narrow confines of ‘conservative’ social norms, are not actually children of god.  It also teaches us that a warmongering, murdering, rapist drunkard was, as they say, “a man after god’s own heart.”  Yeah, sure thing, Dave.

The bible, in the hands of republicans, has become no more than a collection of stories in which we are to believe that homosexuality is an abomination before this god, but that the practice of slavery, of holding another child of god as your personal property, of beating them without mercy or recourse on the slightest whim, of raping them whenever you wish without any accountability for your violence, and of actually working them to death in the name of your personal wealth is, for lack of a better term, the shit.

In their righteous opposition to this evil world of knowledge and intellectual curiosity into which the left is trying to indoctrinate our children, republicans have become the gleeful destroyers of knowledge.  Their “anti-indoctrination” efforts, from history, to civics, to science and beyond, amount to a decades-long, coordinated effort to indoctrinate our children into the prison of white-centered history, and bible-centered science.  After all, science must be taught with the caveat that god can do anything.  Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared only until god comes around and decides that it’s not, and then, well, it’s not, and so much for the treachery of your evil science. 

Believe me, if the Pharisees of 4 A.D. didn’t know that there is a massive black hole at the center of our galaxy, then there isn’t one.  If the closet homosexuals who wrote Deuteronomy need to cover their tracks by telling you that homosexuality is frowned upon by god, believe it.  Believe it without question, because we all know, first and foremost, that republicans have a direct line to the divine will that the godless libs, with their love of knowledge and intellectual curiosity, will never have.  Remember this, too; Eve took a bite of an apple from the tree of knowledge, not stupidity.  What does that tell you?

Weaponization of the Government

This particular republican ploy would be funny if it weren’t so dangerous to the very existence of our republic.  As I write, the House Oversight Committee (HOC), under the ‘leadership’ of the troll-under-the-bridge in charge, Representative Roy Comer, is engaged in a bogus attempt to impeach President Biden.

The problem here, is that the entire ‘weaponization’ issue only exists because the vast majority of elected republican officials have the intellects of home-schooled twelve year-olds, and we have twelve year-olds in congress because the mass of racist, christian nationalist republican voters, who have the intellects of unschooled eight year olds are enraptured by the very concept of making America white again.  

This weaponization practice really entered the public eye in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the US Embassy in Benghazi in 2012.  The republicans tore after Secretary of State Clinton for weeks, to no real end, except that that they were eventually able to assess that mistakes in reading the intelligence coming forward occurred.  The United States Government made mistakes in interpreting intelligence?  That’s a first.  Oh, yeah, and Hillary’s emails.

It’s difficult to calculate exactly how much money the American taxpayer shelled out for that farcical aquatic ceremony, but I guarantee you that the republicans in Congress didn’t care how much it cost.  All they cared about was dragging a high-ranking member of the Obama administration through the mud, which they did, ad nauseum.

Now, the republicans, in a blatant act of vengeance against democrats for having defended our republic from the vicious and unceasing onslaught on the very principles upon which this our country was founded by donald trump, have launched an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden.  To this day, February of 2024, we still don’t know what the charges against Joe Biden are, or for what exactly, they think he should be removed from office.  It’s like one of these trolls said on fox news in early 2023 (and I paraphrase): “There is no evidence out there.  All we have are accusations, but we know that accusations are out there.”  Really?  Is that it?  I think I’m safe in saying “Is this all you can muster, Saruman?” because believe me, the republicans have no bomb shoved into the only weak spot of the defenses of Helm’s Deep, and no methed-up orc with a torch willing to sacrifice his lame ass to set it off.  In fact, they have nothing at all; nothing but hatred and the childishness with which their twelve year-old intellects have defiled the formerly hallowed halls of Congress.

Roy Comer, the republican chair of the HOC, is humiliating himself, his party, and to some extent, the entire United States of America with his dog and pony show.  Earth to republican boot lickers: not a single witness called before HOC has divulged any evidence against Joe Biden for any wrongdoing, let alone the high crimes and misdemeanors of which his predecessor is accused, and, given the evidence known to date, for which he will hopefully go to prison.  Every witness, when asked bluntly “Do you have any evidence, or any direct knowledge to support the claims of the republicans on this committee that President Biden acted in any manner contrary to the law,” has answered “no.”

The republicans scream that the Biden Administration is weaponizing our government, in a vain effort to try to erase from people’s minds the blatant attempts by donald trump to do so.  trump, being the idiot that he is, not only bragged about this when he was president, but he continues to do so now.  He has stated over and over throughout 2023 and into 2024 that he will use the government as a weapon against those he considers to be his enemies if elected president again.  He has been quite clear that he holds the opinion that as president, he should be able to use the entire executive branch, especially the United States Department of Justice, to pursue and persecute his political enemies.

donald trump, from even before his first day in office, tried to turn this government of the people, by the people, and for the people into a weapon that he could place at his disposal.  Now, the republican party, in its complete and total surrender to this threat to our republic, endorses this idea, while it points and shouts “J’accuse!” at others blindly in the dark to try to mask their rejection of democracy in favor of dictatorship.  The worst part of this is that they don’t engage in these childish antics for the American people, they do it for trump, which means that they do it for Putin.

Like I said, it would be funny, if it wasn’t so dangerous.  It’s dangerous for many reasons, but the worst is that this weaponization brings with it both a low level of violence and a general loss of faith in the integrity of our electoral processes.  It is the goal of the republican party to insure that both of these dangers to our republic become normalized.  

The War on Christianity

The republicans are right about this one.  There is a war against Christianity in America, and the people waging it are the white christian nationalist evangelical republicans who try to claim the birthright of the Christ while serving darkness in all its forms.  They claim that the left is promoting moral decay in this country because the left stands for letting people live the life they want to live, as long as they don’t actually hurt someone else.

The bare truth of the matter is this: someone privately living the life they want to live is not moral decay.  Two consenting adults being in love, no matter who they are, is not moral decay.  Practicing your faith in pursuit of salvation and inner peace, no matter what it is, as long as it doesn’t harm others, is not moral decay.  Moral decay is trying to force your faith and your lifestyle onto someone else, because you think you are somehow morally superior to them.  That is moral bigotry and decadence.  Being who you really are, openly, with pride and no regrets is moral purity.

A man by the name of John Fugelsang wrote the following, and I think republicans need to digest the information, if only because it will make them puke.

“Jesus was a radical, non-violent revolutionary who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks: wasn’t American, never spoke english; was anti-wealth, anti-death penalty, anti-public prayer; but was never anti-gay, never mentioned abortion or birth control, never called the poor lazy, never justified torture, never fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarines, never asked a leper for a co-pay; and was a hong-haired, brown-skinned homeless community-organizing anti-slut-shaming Middle Eastern Jew.”

That being said, I have a few bullet points of my own for you christian republicans to digest after you’re finished puking your guts out from having just read Mr. Fugelsang’s short piece.  Here you go:

• Jesus was not a ripped action hero with a machine gun, and an American flag and bald eagle tattooed across his chest, as you like to portray him.
• Jesus would destroy the offices of all evangelical “leaders” who support and lay their hands upon people like donald trump.  He did this once before in the temple in Jerusalem, clearing the place of those who had turned it into a den of thieves.
  • You have turned Christianity into a den of thieves.
    • Related to this, Abraham Lincoln would slap the shit out of each and every one  of you for claiming that your cruel, racist cabal is “The party of Lincoln.”
• God did not send donald trump as some savior of unchallenged white rule in America.
  • In fact, god did not send donald trump at all, unless it did so as a warning to everyone as to what can happen if:
    • christians place their faith in antichrist preachers who are wealthier than Caesar, sit on golden thrones in TV studios, hire professional telemarketers to divest elderly people of deep and simple faith of as much of their fixed income as possible, and live the gospel of greed as they proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ!
    • It’s also a warning as to what can happen to your country if people don’t vote.
• Listening to right-wing christians say “I’m not even allowed to practice my religion anymore” is an absolute joke.  Seriously, the rest of us look around when we hear that from you and think; “Really? Because the last time I checked, there was one of your damned fire and brimstone churches on almost every street corner.”
  • At least there used to be, before the marijuana dispensaries started taking over.
  • No one in America is preventing you from practicing your faith.  You’re just pissed off because when you run around telling everyone else how their lives are full of sin, most people rightfully tell you to take your bible and your religion and stick both of them straight up your ass.
    • You are, however, trying to prevent other religions from freely practicing their faith in America.  Your bigoted goal is to rid what you see as your white, christian country of Islam and other religions.

While I’m here, let’s talk about your jewel of a free-market theocracy issue you like to tie to Jesus; limited government.  After years of observation, I can put into words for you exactly what you want out of this.  You want limited government when the subject is the wealthy and powerful of this world exploiting the poor and powerless.  That’s when you want government to stay out.  However, as soon as we start talking about what consenting adults do in their private lives, especially their bedrooms, then, what you want more than anything, is for government to rush in there like a bunch of storm troopers and control things based upon your own, narrow imperial religious dogma. Oh, yes, I almost forgot, you definitely want unlimited governmental intervention and control when the subject is women’s uteruses.

Christ!  How bluntly does someone have to spell it out for you that you people are the ones attacking Christianity!?  You’re the ones defiling the teachings of Jesus!  It’s you, and each and every one of you needs to be careful that you don’t place the eternal fate of your soul in jeopardy.  Seriously, take a big step back and unpack the bag of what is inside of your heart.  I guarantee you that the actual teachings and example of Jesus are probably not going to be part of what you pull out, but the imperial bigotry of TBN will be. “The Lord put it on my heart to be a nazi jackass.” Probably not, actually, you did that yourself.

Election Integrity

This one is the biggest joke.  For almost twenty-five years now, republicans have been screaming about election integrity.  They have been making false allegation after false allegation that the American democratic process has been tainted and destroyed by the left.  Their claim, if I have this correct (and I do), is that the radical left and its mindless minions who live off of the free money that democratic politicians hand out in exchange for votes, have devised a nationwide scheme in which millions upon millions of both living and dead people vote multiple times in every election.  

Well, okay then.  Never mind that our entire electoral system is so decentralized that it would not only be absolutely impossible to set up and coordinate such a system, but it would be even more impossible to actually operate such a scheme.  These multiple impossibilities notwithstanding, the republican party claims that the left has figured it out, and is stealing elections through this impossible system.

Let me say this now, just so my opinion is completely transparent.  This superhuman ability to do the impossible is proof that we intellectual elites on the left are so smart that we really do need to be running things.  I mean, I’m sorry, but if we’re smart enough to figure out how to dupe a system that, by its very nature, is designed to defeat any large scale attempt to tamper with its results, then we need to hold every political office in this country, from the local dog catcher to the president, because we’re obviously the only ones smart enough to fix America’s most pressing problems.  So, either we on the left are using our superhuman abilities to steal elections, or god is on our side and is doing it for us.

Earlier in this section I stated that the republicans’ claims that the left is stealing elections are “false allegations.”  I say this because like the adults they have to emulate (no matter how painful it is), they know that this concerted effort by the godless libs about which they rant and rave does not exist.  Either that, or the entire planet, especially the US judiciary system, is not only against them, but is trying to keep the truth hidden from us all.

Now, there are anecdotal examples in every election of mistakes being made by voters on both the left and the right, so I’m going to throw in a couple.  Let us consider a couple of examples from the great states of Florida and Nevada.  In 2018 a 79 year-old Florida woman, was arrested for voting illegally after she received a notice on how to register to vote from a private firm.  She mistook the form for one coming from her county election board, because these companies do their best to create forms the look ‘official.’  So, she registered, and cast her ballot.  However, Florida law states she was actually not allowed to vote while she was still on probation.  Though she was initially arrested, the District Attorney recognized the “innocent mistake” and dropped the charges.

In the 2020 election in the state of Nevada, a ballot was received and votes thereon were registered in the name of Dorothy Hartle, who died in 2017 of breast cancer. Kirk Hartle, her grieving husband, contacted the local news outlets, screaming that this was proof of voter fraud by the left.  Fox News picked up the story, and zoom, off it went.  Kirk Hartle became the poster boy for the right’s claims that the left was steeling elections through voter fraud.  Mr. Hartle claimed during his several featured interviews on Fox News that he never received the ballot, and that he was “sickened” by the possibility that someone would do such a thing.  However, in October of 2021, Mr. Hartle, a registered republican, was arrested and charged with voting twice in an election, a class D felony.  Mr. Hartle voted and also did so in the name of his dead wife…for donald trump.

The Attorney General of Nevada wrote the following when a plea agreement was announced on November 16, 2021: “Though rare, voter fraud can undercut trust in our election system.  This particular case of voter fraud was particularly egregious because the offender continually spread inaccurate information about our elections despite being the source of the fraud himself…” Fox News dropped the story.  Whoops.  J’accuse!

Of course, these are just simple examples of individuals making mistakes, whether the intent was innocent as with our 79 year-old woman who had found herself in trouble with the law some years earlier and was not yet eligible to vote, or, not so innocent, as in the case of Mr. Hartle.  Certainly, there are examples of the godless libs trying to steal elections in the 21st century in which the scheme was much larger and more organized.  Ah, I have some juicy tidbits for you!  Let us look at the case of the 9th congressional district in North Carolina in both the 2016 and 2018 elections.

What happened here is that a long-time political operative in this district, and a high ranking member of the campaign staff of congressional candidate Mark Harris obtained a list of all of the absentee ballots mailed in the district.  He and his army of zombie warriors went house to house, claiming to be officers of the election commission with orders to collect and mail all absentee ballots for the voters.  They then took these ballots and fraudulently completed that ballot for their preferred candidate, forged the signature of the voter, and turned them in to the proper election board.  Ten people were eventually indicted in this case, and the state ordered the entire election redone.  As I’m sure you have surmised, all of the people indicted in this scheme to steal an election, as well as the candidate, Mr. Harris, for whom they cast these fraudulent ballots were republicans, and in 2016 they also cast fraudulent votes for trump.

Since they first started screaming about election integrity, republicans have not only refused to take steps to make the voting process more secure, but they have blocked efforts by the godless libs to do so.  Instead, they have decided that effectively disenfranchising voters who they think will not vote for republican candidates is the best answer to a problem they dreamt up in order to cover their crimes in polluting or democratic processes. To wit, they have done the following in two different states; Georgia and Kansas.

The Georgia case is most famous, but only, I suppose, because Georgia’s minority populations are more numerous, and, of course, because Kansas is the very essence of ‘fly over’ country.  The process for the republican-controlled government in Georgia was simple.  First, you reduce the number of polling stations in heavily populated, urban areas where democrats seem to congregate.  This causes immense lines and hours upon hours of waiting in line to engage in the most basic of constitutionally guaranteed rights: the right to vote.  Second, you make it illegal to offer refreshment to anyone waiting in line to vote.  The purpose is to make voting as difficult as possible.

Kansas, although less famous, is an even more extreme example of republicans’ attempt to steal elections through the effective, if not legal, disenfranchisement of large sections of the electorate.  Take the case of Dodge City.  Yes, the famous Dodge City from all of those westerns.  Over the years, Dodge City became more and more populated by voters who were members of racial and ethnic minorities.  Therefore, the republican controlled government; the legislature and the republican Secretary of State specifically, banded together and did the following.

First, the Secretary of State, the person who runs elections in each state, removed all poling stations from Dodge City.  You read correctly, they removed ALL polling stations from Dodge City, which required any citizen living within Dodge City who wanted to cast a ballot to drive to a surrounding town to do so.  The legislature then passed a law, which was signed by the republican governor, making illegal to give another person a ride to cast a vote.  Yeah, J’accuse.

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Republicans…just stop!  Your efforts to defile our political system so that you can establish some sort of christian untethered, unregulated, free-market theocracy dedicated to the proposition that donald trump should be able to reign over this country as some sort of white power dictator is a sham, and the rest of us won’t let it happen!  The rest of us actually outnumber you by about 30-1, so your chances of doing this are just a little bit less than zero.  Seriously, your horrendous and painful-to-watch existence of falsehood upon falsehood, screaming like banshees that the left is doing what you are actually doing is becoming old hat.  You really do need a new schtick, but we all know that there isn’t one.  You’re stuck with being the childish liars you are, and love being.

Actually, I have a great idea for a new schtick for you.  It’s called honesty.  You really should try it, but be very careful, because the second you start being honest with the rest of the world and, more importantly, with yourselves, you’re going have to come out of the closet.  Now, we on the left know that a lot of you will come out of the closet as homosexuals, transgender men and women, or other variants of the LGBTQ+ community.  That’s fine.  It’s about time.  We accept you and will help you adjust to your new life of pride in who you really are, who god made you to be.  On the other hand, the vast majority of the rest of you, when you come out of the closet, are going to stand up proudly and declare that you are racists, neo-nazis, white supremacists, etcetera.  I’m sorry, but we will not be so kind to, or accepting of you.

I read a wonderful science fiction series. years ago titled “The Lensman Series” by E. E. “Doc” Smith.  In this tale, one of our heroes, who was, of course, fighting to save civilizations throughout multiple galaxies from enslavement, openly declared one of his tactics.  It was to, as he said: “Conceal himself by his own obviousness.”  This is the tactic the republican party is using today to undermine our democratic institutions, principles, and processes, and their success to date can largely be traced to the fact that they are doing it right out in the open, concealing themselves by their own obviousness, while accusing others of the same, or worse actions.

J’accuse.