The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

So you thought the New Year would be better than the last, didn’t you? You thought maybe a regime change would do the trick. Or that vaccine would cure what might ail ya. You thought things couldn’t get any worse now that the election was over. Well, that light you saw at the end of the long dark tunnel of 2020 could just be a train headlight bearing down on you. And the new year has barely begun.

If you were thinking Donald J. Trump was leaving office in a few short weeks, here’s your first clue that nothing much has changed. He ain’t going anywhere. He’s not conceding, he’s not playing by any bogus rules of a few hundred years of succession, no sir, he’s screaming foul! The elections were rigged, they were hacked, dead people voted in zombie apocalypse numbers, mail in ballots were a fraud, the whole thing was phony just like the fake news that insists Sleepy Joe won by 7 million votes. No, Donald J. Trump does not lose. Nobody fires the greatest president in American history. Nobody!

Ted Cruz is leading the crusade to stop this week’s certification of Sleepy Joe. He and nearly a dozen of his fellow senators want a commission to investigate the worst fraud in our country’s long experiment with democracy. They want to overturn the election results based on their certainty the votes were wrong, the votes were bogus, the votes were phony, the votes were really for Donald J. Trump. Any fool can see that. The Proud Boys can see that. Over one hundred representatives in the House could see that. Biden didn’t win this election, not by a long shot, and a panel commissioned by Ted and his pals will prove that without a doubt or one whit of evidence. Take their word for it, Trump won.

You can bet that most of those Senators are either running for president in 2024 or their own seat in the next couple of elections. Pence, who has about as much chance of being the GOP candidate as Mister Ed the Talking Horse, waffles on this one too, first asking not to have the lawsuit invalidating the certification of the electoral college votes, then saying he welcomes Team Cruz’s efforts to investigate possible fraud in the states that Biden won. Profile in courage, not too much. Say adios, Mike. We hardly knew ya. But what we knew was plenty.

So if you thought 2021 would be a fresh start, hang onto your crying towel. The jackals are in the tunnel too. They smell blood on the tracks and they’re howling for meat. If you think democracy doesn’t hang in the balance, you must have been quarantined with Covid most of last year hooked up to a ventilator. We have met the enemy and for once I can tell you, he isn’t us….

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