11/9/20: Someone is having
a hard time coping with the results of the recent election, and that someone is
not this cheery blogger.
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“Who’s going to come in behind me? It’s going to be a real ‘yes man.’ And
then God help us.”
Former
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper
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Let’s take a look at the president’s
official schedule. November 9: “The President has no public events
scheduled.”
That made four days in succession, with Lame
Duck Donald in seclusion. Although he did get out twice for rounds of golf.
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ALSO HAVING A HARD TIME: Former Rep. Michele
Bachmann, who called for God to smash the clay jar of Biden’s win.
And let’s not forget Trump’s fraudster spiritual
adviser, Paula White, who promised African angels were on the way to grab the
win for her hero.
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WHILE the 45th President of the United States hunkered
down in a White House bunker issuing tweets and waiting for angels to arrive, President-Elect
Biden had already spoken about his plans to tackle the spread of the
coronavirus.
New
cases and new deaths
11/4:
106,537 1,141
11/5:
117,988 1,135
11/6:
132,830 1,211
11/7:
93,811 1,072
11/8: 105,142
490
11/9:
122,910
704
11/10: 134,383 new cases 1,859 deaths
Among those new cases of COVID-19: Dr. Ben
Carson, Secretary of Health and Human Services. Carson is just the latest
high-level member of the Trump administration to get infected, after attending
a fun gathering, mostly mask-less, at the White House on election night.
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IN OTHER NEWS, another cabinet member bites the
orange dust. This time it’s Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, who gets fired via
tweet.
In an interview with Military Times,
Esper admits he expected his ouster. He said he knew he was in trouble when he pushed
back hard in June, after Trump floated the idea of invoking the Insurrection
Act and sending in active duty U.S. troops to quell protests in
Washington D.C. – an 1860’s “Civil War” kind of move.
“The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should
only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire
of situations,” Esper said at the time, directly countering the president’s
threatening message. “We are not in one of those situations now,” he continued,
adding, “I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act.”
“I was really concerned,” he now admits, “that that continued talk about the
Insurrection Act was going to take us in a direction, take us into a really
dark direction.”
You don’t need any great reading skill to figure out what Esper was
worried about most – and it wasn’t
protesters.
“And I wanted to make clear what I thought about the situation as
secretary of defense and the role of the active-duty forces. And to kind of
break the fever, if you will, because I thought that was just a moment in history
where…”
He hesitated a moment before continuing, “…if somebody doesn’t stand up
now and say something and kind of push the pause button, then ... it could
spiral.”
Esper explained why he went along with the president as often as he did.
If he had a fight with the president, he could live with that, but if he were
fired, he had to think, “Who’s going to come in behind me? It’s going to be a
real ‘yes man.’ And then God help us.”
He did not mean, “God help us,” because our enemies were on the march. He
meant, “God help us,” if Trump had had free rein.
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