Conviction As Prevention

 Ken came by and wrote out my pay check and dropped off a few boxes and we talked about science-y stuff for a while, and then he was done. We didn't bring up politics. 

I'd listed a nice stack of large test instruments so I didn't really have to do anything more but wind down and go to bed. 

I was awake around 10 but didn't get out of bed until noon. My arm hurts and muscles in it keep twitching. I hope this gets better because it's not like I can see a doctor. 

I turned on the radio around 10 and it's just more horror. The insurrectionists were talking about, knowing the politicians were in the tunnels 3 floors down, "Doing like I did in the Corps, going down through floors straight down until we get 'em". One Trump-mob illuminary got an hour-long call with Trump who agreed that his statement, "The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat" is great and wonderful. This is why I'm armed up. 

Not only is the trial revealing a lot of things like this that make the situation even more horrifying, but on this day the case is being made that if Trump isn't convicted, there will be another, larger attack. It's been a build-up from Charlottesville (the day after which I bought my rifle) to the Wisconsin state capitol to the National capitol. Again as Hitler said, the only way for Germany to have prevented the Nazis coming into power would have been to crush them with extreme force when they were still a small organization. And I'll stand by my stance that in the insurrection, the Capitol police, Secret Service, and anyone else able, should have treated it as a turkey shoot for chuds and should have ended up with mounds of dead Trumpists. 

So the good guys are making a very solid case. Now they're talking about how we look in the eyes of the world which is a huge point. 

I am old now and my ganked-up arm makes me feel older. Except for my marksmanship skills and ability to teach same I would not make much of a fighter. I've had no plans to kill fascists unless the fascists come to me. My plan has always been to withdraw from this shitshow and try to have some fairly pleasant last years. I'd planned to convert to Judaism and go to Israel, but that requires professing to believe in far too many silly things, and my memories are not in Israel. They are back in Hawaii.