Empty oaths
Wikipedia ludicrously describes Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy as a “moderate,” which no doubt will comfort the regretful parents of dead children who were killed by the insanity that he voted to confirm, which he could have stopped.
Bill Cassidy certainly doesn’t think of himself as a moderate — or perhaps even a US senator.
He’s a physician.
Here were his opening comments to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. yesterday:
I’m approaching this as a doctor, not a senator. I’m concerned about children’s health, seniors’ health, all of our health.
Here are some of the words of the Hippocratic oath that Dr. Cassidy swore:
With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage. Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will give no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child. Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.
Here are the words of the meaningless constitutional oath sworn by Cassidy’s MAGA senatorial colleagues:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
And here are the words of the desecrated presidential oath that Trump turned into a meaningless mockery:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
These oaths were empty and sworn by hollow men and women of the United States of America . We have entered an era that is so dangerous that the 84-year-old architect of the collapse of the functionality and integrity of the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, compares the danger of the Trump era he did so much to abet to the 1930s, which prefaced the greatest catastrophe in human history. The world barely survived it.
I think this is the most dangerous period since before World War Two. There’s certain similarities right now to the ‘30s.
Mitch McConnell delivered his comments during an interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader, in which he did his best to curate his legacy and find meaning from the nihilism for which he will be singularly remembered
The delusional McConnell thinks his legacy will be this:
I would like everybody to be able to say, you know, I actually had an impact in a positive way on the country.
It will not.
He is a villain in America’s story. He is a coward in America’s story. After the Trump coup he caved to Trump when he had the power to end the MAGA obscenity. He was too weak, craven, dishonest and weak to use it.
He is the embodiment of the sunshine patriot castigated by Thomas Paine in the American Crisis, a self-interested man who grew immensely wealthy from his public service, and wrecked the greatest deliberative body in the world with the malfeasance of his leadership.
That is his legacy.
He wrecked the US Senate, turned it into a Trump Politburo, immolated the reputation of the Congress, destroyed trust in America’s system of government through his zealous tribalism, and deeply corrupted the Supreme Court.
McConnell’s legacy, according to McConnell, will be the University of Louisville McConnell Center, where the feeble and decomposing geriatric will spend his remaining days after leaving the Senate. He is proud of what he has built. Did you know that it produced Scott Jennings?
No doubt Mitch will be buried there, which means that every American patriot who drives through Kentucky will know where to stop to piss on the grave of the man who more than any other — beyond Trump — helped the fascists wrap themselves in the American flag.
Mitch McConnell cannot escape his fate or his legacy.
He did for the US Senate what polio did to his body. Speaking of polio, because of Mitch McConnell, singularly, 75 years from now, there will be a polio-ravaged old man who will have Mitch McConnell to thank for his miseries because he enabled an extinct disease to come back to life. Not through insanity like RFK Jr., but through his profound moral cowardice.
What a disgrace.
What will Dr. Cassidy’s legacy be?
It’s simple.
No 21st century American physician will be responsible for more death, disease, suffering or misery in America than Dr. Bill Cassidy.
Unlike most doctors, he had a vote.
He used his vote to make a selection.
He picked death.
What should be etched on his headstone when the day inevitably comes is: “Here lies Dr. Bill Cassidy, the man who let RFK Jr. become America’s angel of death.”
Maybe Nick Fuentes or Stephen Miller will nominate him for the Mengele Award, which I hear is the most prestigious award inside MAGA next to a Nobel Prize.
Everyone gets a legacy, especially the people who wrecked the United States of America, and unleashed a tyranny of corruption, insanity and incompetence that is just beginning.
What they didn’t appreciate about this era is that the victors write the history, and they are going to be on the losing side.
RFK Jr. is an interesting case.
He occupies rarefied space.
There is only one rotten apple in all of American history who fell further from the tree than the son of Senator Robert Kennedy.
That would be the traitor Robert Lee, son of General Light-Horse Harry Lee, who famously eulogized the life of his friend George Washington by declaring him “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
It is quite a thing when a poisonous son stakes his claim opposite a noble father.
Senator Kennedy was frequently quoted saying:
Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
His wretched and twisted son has offered the rebuttal with insane comments like this during his testimony:
When Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia asked Kennedy about his disparaging rhetoric about CDC employees before a deadly shooting at the agency, Kennedy responded by saying:
Are you complicit in the assassination attempts on President Trump?
We are all the worse off, but in the end, there is no escape for the authors of our national misery.
They will be judged harshly by the “high court of history,” which will hang them high.
America will endure through this season of malice and disgrace, but the delusions of the small men and women who brought us here will not. We know who they are, and what they did. There will be no escape from the coming judgements.
They have made their choices, and those choices will be etched in granite.
The men and women who betrayed America’s ideas, ideals and values will not write legacies.
We will.
Watching a doctor and a senator play MAGA games with the lives of America’s children and the rest of us is sickening! He should have never voted to confirm the obvious psychosis of RFK and he should immediately call for resignation and do everything possible to get that psychiatric patient out of Government. One orange psychopath is enough.
Mitch McConnell did more to produce a Donald Trump as a Supreme Court enabled Fascist dictator than anyone else in the country. He should be hung by the neck until dead. Fuck Mitch McConnell and his benefactors and voters. Death is the only thing that can set those assholes free from themselves. It can’t come soon enough as far as I’m concerned.