Jeez, I can’t even sleep for a few hours…

My representative, Conor Lamb, gets up to defend my honor and that of millions of other Pennsylvania mail in voters and a fist fight nearly breaks out on the House floor:

Hey, Lamb has a newborn at home. Can Republicans refrain from rioting in the house for a few damn hours until they get their work done?

Here’s the thing: Lamb is being honest with his Republican constituents. The lies that Republican House members are telling about voter fraud are just that -lies. And they serve no useful purpose except to fluff the political careers of those who tell those lies for the purpose of tearing down the government they claim to serve.

I don’t know how these Republicans end up at the place where they hate their government more than they love their fellow citizens. Every one of them have constituents whose votes they are willing to trash for no reason but self interest. But they aren’t satisfied with that. No, they have to reach over to insult and dishonor the constituents of Lamb’s district who used an officially state legislature sanctioned mail in ballot in 2020. They have to insult the voters and of Lamb’s entire state simply because the election result in Pennsylvania defies some pre-conceived notion that Donald Trump, Fox News, Newsmax, and Rush Limbaugh planted in their heads.

How do they get to the place where they actually repeat the delusion with a straight face that Joe Biden is the reincarnation of Hugo Chavez willing to make the US into the next soviet state? How do they get triggered to believe that utter nonsense while they give a pass to the Trump enablers who are tearing down our entire government?

I’m sure there are average Joe Republican Pennsylvanians who know damn well that those millions of mail in ballots were cast in a perfectly legitimate manner. They may have even witnessed it themselves on a cool October day.

That was the day when thousands of us took our families to the drop boxes in our lovely Allegheny County parks and showed our children how to cheerfully and proudly exercise our constitutional right to participate as full citizens in our government.

But the representatives from other states are asking who are you going to believe? Them or your lying eyes?

Personally? I am sick to death of defending myself to people who should know better because they were there. In the end, whether they believe the lie that somehow Pennsylvania mail in ballot voters did something wrong when mail in ballot voters in Washington state and Oregon and Colorado and other mail in ballot states did not, well, it doesn’t make a lick of difference. The process was followed to the tee, it was challenged in court, the challenges in court failed because the Trump Campaign did not produce ANY evidence of fraud, the electors were chosen, the electors voted, the votes were certified and Biden is the next president.

In every election, there are winners and losers and with this past election with so much of a paper trail that wasn’t available to us in 2016, we can be absolutely sure beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump lost. The reason why Trump and his party are so bent out of shape about it is they can’t seem to make these mail in ballots and the mountain of evidence they document go away.

Therefore, they lie.

We should be asking them why they seem to believe that only Republicans are legitimately elected and no Democrat ever is. That’s the root cause of all this turmoil. Why do they hate Democrats so much that they are willing to destroy their governments over it? And whose interest does it serve for them to believe that?

I only regret that I wasn’t there on the House floor a couple hours ago so I could personally deliver the first blow to the kisser of any “gentleman” who dared to perpetuate the lie that somehow what I did in October was criminal.