They Got Us

In the movie Hunt for Red October, Jack Ryan and the Americans have boarded the Russian sub. Ramias is about to turn over the sub when a torpedo is fired at them, it misses, but it’s not over. The Russian sub fires again and the radio technician says, “I think they got us.” They’re all waiting to die. Then he says, “Way to go Dallas!”

The American sub, Dallas, has moved between the Russian attack sub and Red October. They’re saved.

I use this as an example of what we are facing in this election when America as we know it is on the ropes again.

In 2020 Bill Maher’s editorial on Real Time was a lament about the late great United States as he thought Trump would win a second term and with a six-puppet majority on the Supreme Court, he would set up a dictatorship.

It was close, so close that the election came down to 75 votes in Georgia and Vice President Mike Pence confirming Biden as the President. Even after a gallows was constructed outside the Capital building and the rioters wanted to hang him.

Way to go Georgia and Pence. They were our submarine, Dallas.

If the secretary of state in Georgia had done as Trump asked or if Pence had decided to not certify the election Trump might have been given the Presidency by the House of Representatives. And we would have been fucked.