It depends on the working definition of kook. Arguably, this single member LLC website selling 52-card playing decks that focus on the 52 senators who chose to acquit Donald Trump of his first impeachment charges, is a bit kooky. Not Building 7 kooky, but in the same neighborhood.
According to this website, holding Ronald Reagan responsible for convincing the mullahs of Iran to hold onto our hostages until after his inauguration isn’t very kooky, because there’s proof. Still being upset at the injustice of the Supreme Court voting 5-4 to stop the vote count from continuing in Florida so as to end the drama of the 2000 election, and thereby appoint the presidency to a popular vote loser, isn’t very kooky, because that, too, had happened. So did the fact that a Diebold executive died in a plane crash while conducting landing and take-off maneuvers for certification months before the 2004 election despite being an experienced pilot. Now, whether that exec was going to blow the whistle on his company’s business practices is up for speculation as there’s no news coverage of that angle. However, research did find an article about a second Diebold whistleblower who gave all his evidence to Hustler magazine and then getting sued into submission, which, admittedly, is a bit kooky.
Maybe I wouldn’t feel this way if the first election I remember wasn’t called a landslide on national TV before the polls closed on the West Coast.
For the record, and despite the lack of current coverage, there was election interference in 2016, and voting machines are easy to hack. But somehow we are all told to accept the notion that 52% of America’s white women voted for the convicted sex offender (with pals like P. Diddy and Jeffrey Epstein) over the pretty, lady prosecutor whose experience includes being a local D.A., a state A.G., and a U.S. senator and its vice president due to the rising cost of eggs? In this same vein, the notion that Latino men in Texas flipped from Biden to Trump just doesn’t cover it. They aren’t the reason Donald Trump’s has turned the federal government into a den of Gotham City villains.
It’s the billionaires. They don’t want to pay more in taxes. So they have decided that America should be an oligarchy. Which is bewildering for anybody who had ever taken an sixth grade social studies course until we realize that our country of hundreds of millions is fed 90% of its media by a total of six conglomerates. If they all decide that the rapist gets to return to office, and thereby escape justice in the most absurd of fashions, then that is the bubble in which we will suffocate. Add in how corporations are people, too, and my friends, what we have a failure to communicate. The banjo we’re dueling wants us to squeal like a pig.
And to think, 25 years ago the Republican Party lost its collective gourd trying to make a federal case out of the President receiving illicit oral sex while in the Oval Office.
We live in interesting times. Sometimes you’ve got to laugh to keep from crying. Might as well play some cards.