MAGA cons are, quite literally, trying to effect actual change in real life in response to delusional stances. That’s not going to work. (Keyword: “delusional.”) They seem to think that simply declaring their delusion makes it real. In the House, the cons have an entire committee looking into what they describe as “the weaponization of government.” To a MAGA con “weaponizing government” means prosecuting crimes using evidence, in this case, a staggering amount of well-documented evidence. They don’t really object to weaponizing government, though. Have you heard them talk? All they want is to gain enough power to use the government to attack their political opponents and, preferably, lock up said opponents for reasons to be determined later.

The MAGA’s also have a tendency to declare the way something works – and then expect that that is, indeed, the way that thing works. Freedumb Caucus member Jim Jordan is heading up the “weaponization of government” “investigating” committee. They’re doing all they can to harass the prosecutors and witnesses against Trump. You know, because they hate weaponization of government. So, Jordan, having randomly decided his power as a committee chair is unlimited and irrefutable, sends requests to Fani Willis, demanding papers and documentation and regular reports on her work. The biggest problem cons ALWAYS have is that they do NOT get to just decide how things work and this event is no exception. I imagine Jordan thought his was a pretty slick move.

Willis told him no. She’s just not going to play – and she doesn’t have to. She used professional level lawyer talk to refuse his “demand.” She pointed out that the pesky constitution doesn’t allow for Congress to interfere with state trials. She mentioned his request was rife with “inaccurate information and misleading statements” whose “obvious purpose is to obstruct a Georgia criminal proceeding” and pointed out he’s advancing “outrageous partisan misrepresentations.” I suspect that if he pushes too hard, she could charge him with obstructing a state procedure. Wouldn’t THAT be fun?

If Jim Jordan wants to find the culprit “weaponizing government,” he needs to look in the mirror. All of this, mind you, in defense of a guy, 45, who claims the law is on his side and he has all the evidence he needs to clear himself – he’s just waiting for that magical, “right moment” before he drops a ton of exculpatory evidence on the Dems. Silly me, this isn’t about ‘Dems,’ it’s about the law and I would have thought the right moment would have been before the charges were filed. Secretly, I suspect he doesn’t really have any evidence at all. Shocking, I know. I keep thinking, “If he has the law on his side, and he has all the evidence he needs to clear himself, why is he relying so heavily, instead, on a campaign of harassment, threats, and – to the limited extent the MAGA’s can – government weaponization?”

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I hear the writer’s strike is coming to an end. They’ve agreed in principle on everything and are just working out the language of the contract. Unions. STILL doing good in the US. Their strike worked. The UPS driver’s strike worked. The railroad workers strike worked. (In a weird way, but it worked.) I’m guessing the UAW strike is going to work, as well. Why, it’s almost as if employers know they have NOTHING without workers despite whatever rhetoric they spew.

I’ve written, in these pages and several times, my support for unions. I lamented that big business managed to off-shore most of the union jobs. “Oh,” they said, “we’ll become a service economy.” They liked that idea because many of the service jobs were not well organized. The shift gave the C teams across America the power they needed to do whatever they wanted and they wanted to pocket all the money. Executive-to-worker pay differences soared. When the workers said, “Hey, where’s our share?” executives said, “Shut up! Pay cut! Get back to work!”

I listen to Bloomberg Radio for financial news. They’re pretty good but they lean right. They’re not partisan, exactly, but the rightward lean is apparent. For example, they don’t like unions. I heard one of their talking heads trying to convince listeners that the USA hasn’t seen a strike succeed in over 40 years. That happened, literally, days after the UPS strike had, indeed, succeeded. The other day, I heard one of them pointing out that the latest strategy in the UAW fight, targeting parts distributors, would hurt the common man, people who need parts and can’t get them. If the workers don’t make the parts, she lamented, the company can’t ship the parts. Hey, that’s true.

In fact, I’d say that’s the point. The company needs the workers more than the workers need the company. Capital, as the adage goes, is subsequent to, and dependent upon, labor. That means nobody makes money without workers. Hey, the labor force has something the executives need? When I need gas, I pay what they gouge because they have it and I need it. Go to the doctor. Pay whatever number they make up – and they DO make them up, often, because they have what I need and I need it. I pay more for the delivery of electricity than the actual production of that energy – because PG&E owns the lines and they can charge what they want because they have what I need. All of that is viewed as “Capitalism.” (Capitalism – “You’re trapped! Pay up!”) Organizing for the control of their “product” – the labor the Capitalists need – is a VERY Capitalist move.

I’ll tell you this: I’m looking forward to more unionization and more labor actions to get what the workers deserve. I don’t like the disruptions from union actions but I very much like the ability to get a fair share for the people who create the revenues in the first place…