I was amazed to read in last week’s News-Herald that we did not have an election in November, that we instead had an all out winner take all war, and that “liberals” were vanquished, at least that was the story according to Lloyd Geillinger.
Liberals, according to his fiat, have no right to exercise their freedom of speech, they cannot exercise their political opinions or challenge anything the victors may have to say, we instead are admonished to “return to our Art Colonies and Fluff Centers;” uh yeah, those are his actual words.
I don’t want to call it fake news, it was published in a locally respected newspaper, but being that the paper itself doesn’t call it news, maybe I can make, at the risk of being arrested by the “new sheriff in D.C.”, a few adjustments to his offensive and insulting blather.
He first attacks the federal courts (isn’t he for law and order?) by calling the ruling against Herr Trump a “coup de tat” by using “eminent domain” to block that order, saying they had no right to challenge the president. Oddly, the president himself seems to have accepted that order and has withdrawn any challenge and the order itself: seems to me that the order then stands. He seems to have ignored his own party’s court challenges to Obama’s executive orders, including the fact he was overturned on immigration; so much for the sanctity of EOs.
Lloyd goes on to refer to “Liberal Lunacy” and the marches against Trump starting the day of the inauguration and expanding worldwide with the women’s march the next day, calling them “disruptors” and guilty of “tribal behavior” (maybe insulting Native Americans as well), but notably did not make crowd size a point as the “moron in chief” was wont to point out.
But that was not enough, ignoring the vast wealth being appointed and appraised in D.C. he goes after George Soros, a favorite target of right-wing lunatics because he is a Liberal with money, the most frightening and confusing image Republicans have ever dealt with, like George comes anywhere near matching the right wing political patronage of the Koch Bros.
Jumping to another track he claims “the wall is being built,” it is not, the “extreme vetting is now happening” though nothing has changed, “he has a 4 star general” serving under him, even though he fired him before the feds could hit him for lying to the FBI, a felony, “and they won’t take any crap either” because they are in a “takeover of the American government.”
That is probably their silliest claim; we liberals are merely working now twice as hard to take the government out of the hands of these fascists, and restore it to the American people.
Finally he admonishes us to wear “maybe pink hats to save us….” “and get a grip on reality…” but Lloyd you seem not to have a grasp on reality: nationwide 11 million more people voted against Trump than for him, Hillary had 3 million more votes alone, only the anomaly of the Electoral College where some states have more votes per person than other states allowed Trump the office, but in 2018, there will be no Electoral College advantage, one person one vote will stand.
Locally, including Schroeder, Trump lost heavily to Hillary 56 percent to 34 percent, and overall it looks like “liberals” make up close to two-thirds of all voters here, and we have the highest voter turnout in the state. We liberals will continue to speak out, that’s the American way, one election does not set the tone forever, or for all, it is just one election with more to follow and Lloyd, should you feel buried in the losses next election, we liberals promise not to demand you to sit down and shut up, we will allow you to continue to make your ridiculous points.
Jerry Hiniker
Colvill
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