Emotional Testimonies during the January 6th House Committee Hearing.

 

This day of testimony to the January 6th hearing is the most emotional part of the whole hearing. There is no moderation here. With this evidence, Trump and his allies involved in the conspiracy to overthrow the election of 2020 should be arrested and tried in court ASAP. When you have Trump trying to convince a Georgia Attorney General to commit election fraud and the Georgia Attorney General refused to do so, then Trump is complicit in a federal violation of the law. When you have Trump falsely calling a black woman election worker a criminal and a "hustler," you can tell immediately that Donald Trump is a racist and sexist liar. Also, Trump allies harassed and threatened a black woman election worker and her mother in vulgar ways. This is no time for centrist nonsense. This is a time for accountability and justice.

All of the testimony confirms what we knew about Trump and his supporters. Trump is a neo-fascist. Every Trump supporter is wrong period. All Trump supporters, involved in the conspiracy to overthrow the election of 2020, are criminals and traitors to American democracy period. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, deputy Gabe Sterling, Arizona House of Representatives Speaker Rusty Bowers (who gave emotional words on his duty to follow the Constitution despite the false narratives made by Trump, Guiliani, and others), and election worker Wandrea "Shaye" Moss gave hard-hitting testimony about their experiences. Raffensperger found no evidence of election fraud. Brad faced threats and harassment to himself and his family. Sterling said that Qanon supporters threatened people. Wandrea Moss was accused by Trump and others of using a fake ballot scheme in Fulton County, Georgia. That was a lie. Wandrea Moss also said that she and her family received threats. Many people illegally came into Moss's grandmother's home. Wandrea faced racist and hateful threats via Facebook. Her mother is Ruby Freeman. To this day, Wandrea and her mother fear for their lives from far-right extremists. Far-right extremists are terrorists, plain and simple. If anyone watched the testimonies from all of these witnesses, you should know that Trump should be arrested and convicted of treason against the United States of America after a trial. It is the human testimonies describing the seriousness of the time that we live that should inspire us to defeat fascism once and for all. This is the most serious threat to our nation since the American Civil War. These GOP extremists aren't playing any games. The DOJ must do the right thing. Therefore, we should not only vote them out of office, but we should cultivate a society where democratic freedoms are strengthened plus preserved.

I'm not shocked at the TX GOP platform recently adopted by far-right Republicans. The Republican Party mainstream is filled with extremism, bigotry, and heinous views. To deprive any human being of basic human rights is abhorrent. Also, this extreme bigotry from the Texas GOP platform is not representative of the vast majority of the people of Texas who believe in sober-minded views. This development should make anyone aware that we shouldn't be complacent. Our rights are under threat. We can't get patient with injustice. They targeted my people. If they hate my people (i.e. black people), they certainly hate you without question. So, we have to realize that we live in a community, and we have to resist this growth of fascism in the world. The Texas GOP Convention rejects President Joe Biden as the rightful winner of the 2020 election. Many members of the convention denied that the 2021 terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol was an insurrection. The platform is not finalized yet. Corryn (who is a far-right conservative himself) was booed, but he isn't innocent. Corryn even rejects universal background checks, so he is just as extreme as the people who booed at that hate-mongering convention. These far-right extremists are silly and rather a threat to the fabric of American democratic society.

The proposed Texas GOP platform is even worse than I thought. It has a plan that wants to have a referendum on secession and calls for the abolishment of the Voting Rights Act. They want to violate the separation of church and state, create a state electoral college, limit the power of the federal government, remove the Endangered Species Act, abolish the EPA, refuse to classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant, oppose net neutrality, ban mask mandates, remove the estate tax, defund a city or county if they remove 10 percent or more of the police budget, and restrict executive orders to be enforced on states. This is fascism. This is not democracy, and this is the biggest threat to our democracy since the American Civil War. This is not hyperbole. This is real. We have the facts and truth on our sides indeed. 

Days ago was the Birthday of Sister Kierra Sheard, and she is 34 years old. She has won many gospel awards as a great singer. She represents the new school singers of gospel filled with talent and a love of spirituality. She also is an actress, author, entrepreneur, and creative director. She is the daughter of the living legendary gospel singer Karen Clark-Sheard (member of the Clark Sisters). Her debut album is I Owe You in 2004. She was born in Detroit, Michigan, which is one city that's a large mecca of soul and gospel music. She was raised in the suburb of West Bloomfield, Michigan. By the age of 5, she began singing in the choir at Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ, pastored by her father, Bishop J. Drew Sheard. She was on her mother's debut solo album called Finally Karen (1997) when she was 9 years old. Sheard was in the film Preacher's Kid (starring LeToya Luckett, Durrell Babbs, Clifton Powell, Gregory Alan Williams, and Sharif Atkins). I saw the movie before, and it was inspirational plus great. Free was Sheard's fourth album. She played Karen Clark-Sheard (her mother) in the Lifetime 2020 film The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel. She graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit with a Bachelor's degree in English with a minor in psychology. She is married to Jordan Kelly. She has written literature too. I wish Sister Kierra Sheard continued success. 

By Timothy