I often watch the Medici on Netflix and I was watching it tonight. I was struck by how the Pazzi, another banking family in Florence, were plotting against Lorenzo and Giuliano one Sunday. The Pazzi were going to overthrow Lorenzo and the rest of the Medici family and return the rule of these tyrants back to the people. The Pazzi were plotting against the Medici and had decided to use that particular Sunday when the Medici were celebrating the Catholic mass. They were planning and plotting to murder the Medici brothers: Giuliano and Lorenzo, men the Pazzi considered tyrants during the celebration of the mass when both brothers were going to be present at the mass.
I was horrified that these tyrants, according to the Pazzis, were going to be murdered in cold blood in full view of the people the Pazzi were intent on protecting from these tyrants in order to return the rule of Florence to the people.
And so the Pazzi killed Giuliano and told the people they had killed both brothers in order to overthrow these tyrants and return the rule of the republic of Florence to the people.
Like me, the people were horrified, especially when Lorenzo walked down the street to where Jacopo Pazzi stood in front of the Palazzo Vecchio as they spoke to the people. Lorenzo's throat was obviously slashed but he was still alive and still walking toward where Jacopo Pazzi stood in front of the priory, claiming to have taken over as gonfalonier to return the rule back to the people locked out of the priory by the men Lorenzo had had the foresight to post at the priory, the same priory where Jacopo Pazzi was still locked out of as he spoke to the people.
The people Jacopo had just saved were picking up stones to throw at Jacopo as Lorenzo stood calmly bleeding as Jacopo Pazzi searched for a quick exit away from the people he had just saved from the tyrants before the people could stone him.
Some of the people told Pazzi that when Lorenzo and the Medici had been in power before the Pazzi were murdering and overthrowing the tyrants, stonemasons worked, the people had jobs and food, and the Medici made sure the people were safe and fed well. So much for protecting the people Pazzi was murdering the Medici brothers and saving the people from those tyrants, the Medici. Maybe that is why the story goes that a Pazzi was hung from that selfsame balcony where another Pazzi brother, one who had become a priest, a priest who not only sanctioned the bloody murder of the Medici brothers during mass in the Duomo that Sunday, frightening the people and setting them to picking up stones to pelt Jacopo Pazzi as he slunk away from the Palazzo Vecchio before the people stoned him for saving them and turning the rule of Florence back over to the people. Funny how it all turned out.
I am reminded of the Democrats in Washington, D. C. who have begun impeachment proceedings and impeachment hearings against President Donald J. Trump. The Democrats, much like the Pazzi claiming the Medici had to be removed because they were tyrants, are claiming the need to remove President Trump from office because he has gotten too big for his britches. Sound familiar?
Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, is acting, she says, to protect the people of the United States of America. Sound familiar? She sounds, as do the rest of the Democrats, much like Jacopo Pazzi planning and executing (badly I might add) the murder of Giuliano and Lorenzo de Medici that bloody Sunday during mass in the Duomo. With the media on the side of the Democrats, we will not get to see the truth of what the Democrats are doing to pull down President Trump and give the Republic back to the people.
I have heard that Nancy Pelosi is much like Jacopo Pazzi as the people pick up stones to hurl against Pazzi as she ducks and covers her backside since she is also on the hot seat and scampering for a safe place to hide away from the stones the people are picking up to stone Jacopo Pazzi as he scampers away from the priory to find a safe place to hide before the people show what they feel about Pazzi pulling down the Medici, the tyrants, in order to hand the republic of Florence back to the people, as the Democrats are planning to do if they impeach President Trump.
How many people in the United States of America will stand up like the stonemason and the other people did when Pazzi showed the people how he had removed the tyrants, the Medici, from the rule of Florence in order to give the rule of Florence back to the people? How many people will stand up and say they still have jobs because Trump made good on his promise to give the people back their jobs? How many people will remind the Democrats that Trump's efforts have kept their jobs and made sure they are fed well and their livelihoods are safe?
Trump is a loose cannon and he tweets too much, but Trump has also gone to North Korea, the first sitting president who has gone to North Korea and spoken to Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-un is still launching missiles, but those missiles are not targeting the USA and the talks continue. Trump has called out China and will raise tariffs, forcing China to face the rest of the world and stop stealing plans and technology from the rest of the world. Maybe that is why Hong Kong, that separate but equal Chinese city where the people have a say about what goes on in their country. China is scrambling to get Taiwan to take the deal Hong Kong was promised (separate but equal) while the people of Hong Kong chafe against the communist rule and where the communist troops are ready to remind them that communism is the government of ALL China in their separate but equal plan. Taiwan has been independent since Mao Tse Tung became the leader of all China and, though Mao is dead, mainland China is still communist and Hong Kong, with its separate but equal status, the same status that Taiwan rejects as Taiwan remains separate but democratic and not communist or under the thumb of the current Chairman of mainland China as the communist thugs do their best to strong-arm free and democratic Taiwan back into the communist fold just as Hong Kong with its separate but equal status struggles to remain separate and free and democratic.
Such is the way of force. Will Hong Kong remain free and democratic or will Hong Kong end up like the young people that demonstrated at Tiananmen Square and ended up dead? Will that also be Taiwan's fate in the end?
The Medici remained in power as the Pazzis slunk to their hidey holes. Will Pelosi remain in power as Speaker of the House or will she end up fighting for her political life before she, like Jacopo Pazzi, end up hanging from the balcony strung up by her intestines?
Only time will tell. Trump is an ass and he does tweet too much, but Trump has also done his best to
There was no quid pro quo and the Democrats have wasted the past three years going after Trump, but their witch hunt has failed yet again. Trump is a jackass (as I have always seen). Trump has made blunders, but Trump has delivered nearly everything he promised during his campaign and the Democrats are still frothing at the mouth over Trump's win against Hillary. Trump is not a politician, but he is the President of the United Status (POTUS) and he has done nothing to warrant impeachment, but it looks like Pelosi has overstepped her boundaries.
This impeachment will not go down like the impeachment against Nixon and Trump will not resign, though Pelosi may have to resign since she has stepped so far out of bounds. Bernie is back on the stump and Elizabeth Warren, once a Republican, is running as a Democrat.
Where will this Sunday massacre end up? Will Pelosi lose her seat? Will Pelosi be impeached?
Or will Trump, like Lorenzo, stand in the street while the people pick up stones to hurl at the Democrats (or Pazzis) and back Trump for another term in office? We shall see?
In the end, it is up to the people, the same people for whom the Democrats are continuing this impeachment nonsense. Actually, I think this whole impeachment is all about the Democrats' ego and not about the people. The Pazzis planned their massacre of the Medici for the people. Are the Democrats planning their impeachment investigation for the people are they putting this whole impeachment process show on for their egos.
That is all. Disperse.
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