January 6, 2025

Peaceful Transition

Where will you be on January 6, 2025? 

I suppose your first question would be, what is the significance of that date?  This is the day when the United States Congress will once again certify the presidential election, this time for the 2024 election.

We all remember what happened on January 6, 2021, when a mob, a violent mob intent on stopping the certification process, attacked the U.S. Capitol building. In the process, seven people died, hundreds were injured, and the very future of the Republic was in the balance.  Will it happen again?

Even before the election was held, Trump knew he was going to lose, and it was then the conspiracy began.  He announced that if he lost, it could only be because the election was rigged.  He then sold that lie through Twitter and Fox News to the point where his followers stormed the Capital at his encouragement.  What has followed has been three years of continuous lies and an increasing division within the nation.  All because of an incredible, devastating lie.

We can talk all day about how every state election official has announced the 2020 election was secure and that every court case brought by Trump claiming election fraud, starting with the Supreme Court (Reference) to every state case (reference) was defeated.  We can broadcast the 100-plus major political Republicans who have publicly denounced Trump (List), and still, the MAGA base will not believe it.

So, what of the 2024 election? Will the cycle repeat itself? The answer is, of course, it has already begun. Trump has already announced that the 2024 election is rigged. Before a single vote has been cast, Trump has begun spinning his new avenue for spreading lies, Truth Social.

Despite the polls and the pundits, I believe Biden will win.  But that will not be the end of it.  He will reach out to the MAGA faithful, tell them once again to “fight like hell,” and they will come.  They will come to the Capital but without the 1,000 others rotting in prison, already the victims of Trump’s unholy desire to rule.  They will march with signs of  “Stop the Steal” and angry shouts of “Trump won.”  But this time, they will be met with more security and a President who will not be sitting in his dining room watching the mob for three hours and doing nothing.  They will also be met this time by those of us who will be there with our signs of “Preserve the Republic” and “Peaceful Transition.”

This time another side of America will be there, the side for a peaceful transition and for saving the Republic.  On January 5, 2025, I will be on the Capital steps with my “Preserve the Republic.” Where will you be?

The Office of the President of the United States is all about honor and integrity, Trump has none, and the rest is just crap.  Thus ends the lesson.