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Why Trump Pardoned the January 6 Insurrectionists

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Trump pardoned the January 6 insurrectionists to justify his accusation that there was cheating in the 2020 election—and that he was the real winner. He knew that if he did so it would back up his claim, because if there really was cheating then those people would just be rebelling against the fake election results, and it was justified. By pardoning them, he reinforces his lie to not only them, but to all his supporters who put him in office – and it makes him look like he is innocent.

Trump does not care if they are innocent or guilty. He only cares if he looks innocent or guilty. But Trump has another motive by pardoning them: He has gained their undying loyalty, and they know that if they support him with violence again, he will again pardon them. After all, what would they have to lose? They have now become his Presidential Guard. His private army. The current Republican Party, or should I say Trump Party, and its leaders, are cheering him on, and the few Republicans who hold any power who don’t agree with these pardons will continue to support Trump in silence. They are that fearful. They are cowering in silence.

The situation is that bad.

 

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Trump’s supporters believe every word he says as absolute truth – without question.

Of course if we want to keep it simple, Trump pardoned them because he’s just a lying human being who has no morals, principles, or shame. He only wants power. He is a legend in his own mind.

In his inauguration speech, he actually claimed that God saved him so he could save the country. That is the final proof that he has a god complex and really is mentally sick.

His supporters believe every word he says as absolute truth without question, just like the people who followed Hitler, Mussolini—and other despots and dictators throughout history. Weak people need leaders like Trump, strong people don’t. And Trump knows his people are weak and will follow him anywhere. They never question him or seek the truth beyond what he says. Most of what he has said publicly and politically ever since he led the Obama birther movement in 2011 were said for only one reason: Because his followers believe everything he says. Whether it’s true or not does not matter; What’s important is that his followers hear it.

Again: The situation is that bad.

 

Elon Musk, DEI & the God of Efficiency

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During my over 50 years of being an employer and an employee in the American economy, there is one type of personality that I ran into all the time. And that is someone who’s new to a company who comes in with the idea that they are going to change and fix everything. They are generally pretty young, but always have this feeling that they are superior to others. The other employees who see this new person realize that he’s just another jerk who thinks that they are all inefficient and worthless employees and this guy’s going to fix it.

I was even one of those in my early days until I realized that I’m not superior to these others, and I can’t go in and fix everything because I learned over time that certain practices and habits are there for a reason, and those reasons have often come down over decades and centuries. What I learned was called humility.

Humility is something that Elon Musk needs badly. His money has gone to his head and now he has a God complex. He’s like Trump, who also has a God complex. Trump also thinks that he’s going to come in and fix everything in the world—and that he is superior to everyone else—that only he can fix it.

Someone needs to tell Elon—and Trump, for that matter—that efficiency is not the goal of everything. In fact, efficiency can almost be the bane of human existence.

And this thing with DEI. We need to have a society that’s diverse, equitable and inclusive of all types of people. DEI hiring is often bringing in people who live on the fringes of society because the majority of society, or maybe a large group, doesn’t like them, often because these people are of a different race, religion, sex—or have some other unpopular trait. In other words, they’re prejudiced against them, and they don’t want to deal with them, so these people just fall by the wayside because society doesn’t engage with them. And engagement means that they aren’t as efficient. But efficiency, again, is not the main goal in life, nor should it be in government and society.

 

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Democracy in the dictionary is defined as “rule by the people”

What good government and a good society should be has yet to be determined; It’s a work in progress, although there are a lot of people who are convinced that they know exactly what it should be and they want to force that on everyone else—except the idea of democracy, which is only defined as rule by the people—and is also a work in progress—stands in their way.

Elon should understand all this. After all, he grew up in South Africa, a place where the majority of the people who were black were once ruled by the minority of the people, who were white. The white people just didn’t like the black people. They thought they were superior to the blacks. Democracy came along and changed all that. And that is still a work in progress. But Elon, who is white, left. Maybe it wasn’t efficient enough for him.