{"id":6057,"date":"2021-10-02T19:35:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T23:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/?p=6057"},"modified":"2021-10-02T19:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T23:35:50","slug":"sifting-through-the-ashes-part-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2021\/10\/02\/sifting-through-the-ashes-part-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 42"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greetings and Salutations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ran across the following essay on Facebook, and thought it would be an excellent addition to the commentary here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_Scary_Elephant.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6060\" width=\"317\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_Scary_Elephant.png 436w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_Scary_Elephant-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_Scary_Elephant-102x150.png 102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><figcaption>From  &#8220;American Horror Story&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cDear Republicans,<br \/> I\u2019ve been wondering the last several days if there was literally anything that your party could do before you finally stopped and said to yourself, \u2018this is just too far from me, I am leaving the party?  Steve Schmidt, Nicole Wallace, George Will, David Frum and a who\u2019s who of former star Republicans got to that point. So what does it take before you abandon all the lies and the cognitive dissonance but more importantly, the insanity that has spread like the Delta strain within your party? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_Jesse_Benton.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6059\" width=\"240\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_Jesse_Benton.png 691w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_Jesse_Benton-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_Jesse_Benton-150x121.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>Jesse Benton<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You probably did not hear about this since Fox does not have any interest in reporting facts but Jesse Benton got indicted the other day, again. Don\u2019t remember him? Let me help. Jesse Benton was pardoned by Trump after he was convicted in another scheme to bribe a notable official in Iowa to get his endorsement for Ron Paul. You probably don\u2019t remember that either. So Trump pardoned him for that because cheating in elections has become common practice for you all these days and you obviously no longer care about the rule of law since you were all so conspicuously silent about Trump pardoning so many of his cronies. Yet you were so very loud when Clinton pardoned Marc Rich. So you are only outraged when Democrats do something you don\u2019t like but when your guy does it, that\u2019s okay. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How does that hypocrisy feel coursing through your veins? Do you remember the nauseating nattering you all were doing when you were saying, \u2018the Russia hoax\u2019? Pepperidge Farms remembers. The thing about that was that you all said that there was \u2018no collusion.\u2019 Well I guess we have come to the point where you all no longer care about the definition of words anymore huh?There was oodles of collusion with Russians. Jesse Benton was a campaign advisor first for Ron Paul, then he went to help Rand Paul and then he ran Mitch McConnell\u2019s campaign so he\u2019s kind of a big deal Republican operative.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>What Jesse got indicted for the other day was for laundering money for a Russian oligarch into the Trump campaign. It\u2019s almost as if the Russians wanted to get Trump elected. Wonder why that was? Oh that\u2019s right, Trump said Russia is our friend now and that he has a personal relationship with Putin even before the campaign. I guess that is why he wanted to meet with him privately without even State Department officials present which had never happened before because he was making a deal and stuff. Then he said nobody was tougher on Russian than him. I dunno, seems like Hillary was awful tough on Putin but somehow Putin wanted to get someone even harder on him because that makes sense doesn\u2019t it? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>So why did Trump say that Putin didn\u2019t pay bounties for American soldiers to the Taliban when every single intelligence agency had the verifiable proof that Putin had paid those bounties? Was he trying to protect Putin for helping him win his election?That didn\u2019t seem fishy to at least 75 million of you and to the 83 million of us who voted for Biden, we\u2019re wondering what the hell happened to you all because you used to be Ronald-Reagan-tough on Russia but not anymore. Why the ginormous flip-flop with you guys? Is it the enemy of your enemy is your friend? With Democrats being your enemy and the enemy of Russia? You don\u2019t have to answer, the rest of the country knows that the hypocrisy that courses through your veins is equaled only by the dishonesty and treason. Another thing that you all missed the other day was the revelation that inside the White House, officials confirmed that Smartmatic was not owned by or have anything to do with Venezuela or machines that tallied ballots in foreign countries. That was just something Sydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani thought you all were dumb enough to believe and guess what? You did. Did you ever stop and think about why Mark Twain said, \u2018it\u2019s easier to fool a fool than convince them they were fooled? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>That\u2019s rather important because it appears now that the only elections that you think are legitimate are the ones you win. Apparently you have forgotten that there\u2019s many millions more Democrats than there are Republicans but you all get all pissy when Trump lost the popular vote, twice but something something \u2018election fraud.\u2019 Well the news this morning is that even the Cyber Ninjas \u2018audit\u2019 found that Joe actually won, so how about you all call off all those bills you\u2019re trying to pass to make it harder for black people to vote because you\u2019re not racists? I know that\u2019s pissing into a hurricane but now that you all have become \u2018fiscal hawks\u2019 again after adding more to the national debt in history, we are now on the precipice of you all doing something completely asinine by playing debt-ceiling roulette where you all try to inflict even more damage on the country simply to \u2018own the libs.\u2019 My friends think I am completely insane to think maybe some of you might read this and come to the realization that you all have become a cancer on our Republic and maybe they\u2019re right. So I ask again, what would your party have to do for you to abandon it like so many other notable Republicans have? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_politico_Elephant_Melting.com_-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6058\" width=\"337\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_politico_Elephant_Melting.com_-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_politico_Elephant_Melting.com_-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_politico_Elephant_Melting.com_-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_politico_Elephant_Melting.com_-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Part_42_politico_Elephant_Melting.com_.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Because at this point, you are behaving like a death cult bent on destroying our democracy because you cannot adjust your ideology enough to start winning elections. Right now your elected leaders are trying to suicide our Republic by playing a dangerous game of brinksmanship with the full faith and credit of the United States which will have consequences that your grandchildren will be dealing with. Every single time Trump needed the debt ceiling raised, Democrats voted to raise it unanimously but now that Joe is in the White House, you all want to have a hissy fit about it like you did repealing Obamacare 73 times. I think I can speak for all of us in saying that we sure wish you all would start acting like responsible citizens instead of petulant children.\u201d- <strong>Thomas Clay Jr<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could not have put it better myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More articles by<a href=\"https:\/\/tclayjr.medium.com\/\"> Mr. Clay<\/a>  And here is his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Thomas-Clay-Jr-1487095678084006\">Facebook exposure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God Help Us All!   Wear your mask,  social distance,  wash your hands&#8230;and GET VACCINATED   (The number of dead as of today has just passed 700,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bee Man Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations. I ran across the following essay on Facebook, and thought it would be an excellent addition to&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2021\/10\/02\/sifting-through-the-ashes-part-42\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22,9,764,10,11,23,12,13,16,19],"tags":[1006],"class_list":["post-6057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology-astronomy-2","category-ethics","category-humanity","category-improving-life","category-nuttiness","category-observations","category-political-rants","category-politics-2","category-questionable-decisions","category-ruminations","category-vaccinations","tag-republicants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}