"The “American carnage” that Donald Trump vowed to end at the dawn of his presidency was revived in terrifying, treacherous form at its sunset Wednesday, as Trump made a fiery last stand and incited his supporters to storm and sack the U.S. Capitol as part of an attempted coup."- Philip Rucker, Washington Post, today
"Today's effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule was fomented by Mr. Trump. His use of the presidency to destroy trust in our elections and poison respect for our fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo-political leaders who will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice." - Ret. General James Mattis
"It wasn’t hard to see, when it began, that it would end exactly the way it has. Donald Trump is America’s willful arsonist, the man who lit the match under the fabric of our constitutional republic. The duty of the House of Representatives and the Senate, once they certify Joe Biden’s election, is to reconvene, Wednesday night if possible, to impeach the president and then remove him from office and bar him from ever holding office again." - Brett Stephens, 'Impeach and Convict Right Now', NY Times
"A mob riled up by a demagogue storming the seat of government and forcing elected leaders inside to flee is the stuff of the Third World. It is how Mussolini and Hitler got started. It was not part of the American story. Until Donald Trump.." - NY DAILY NEWS
"This lie that the election was stolen is the jet fuel feeding this insurrection, and what Trump is now tweeting" - David Axelrod on CNN yesterday.
(bottom) ought to have been stopped cold
Remember that - in the midst of a mob of wild terrorist apes overrunning the Capitol - Traitor Trump tweeted out : "We are the party of law and order." No, Traitor, you are the party of terror, sedition and insurrection. What more needs to be said? If it was a mob of Muslim terrorists they'd all have been shot dead, but not these white domestic terrorists - who held the Capitol hostage for hours, carrying their Confederate traitor flags, invading the Senate chamber, and the House. One ape - identified as Richard Bigo Barnett, 60, from Gravette, Arkansas - even had the nerve to sit in the House Speaker's office with his feet on her desk. One hopes his cornpone ass will now be busted for assorted federal crimes including trespassing and destruction, theft of federal property.
No way in hell can a security clusterfuck like this happen again.
Indeed, a fully manned National Guard needs to be present in the D.C. streets for the Inauguration of Joe Biden on the 20th. No pussyfooting about not wanting to confront the mob of terrorist swine or being unwilling to use force - even deadly force. No calling them "protesters" when they are terrorists! As for the chief terrorist he ought to have been hung by now. But at the very least he needs to be impeached again to ensure he can never ever hold a public office, again. Yes, this is what it has come to and how far our nation has descended into the abyss under this detestable, depraved criminal rat.
When I watched part of the maggot's incitement of the gathered mob to bedlam and insurrection on CNN i.e. "Because you'll never take back our country with weakness! You have to be strong!"
I recalled thinking 'Where are the CIA snipers when the nation needs them?'. But then on replaying the scene I saw the coward had a plexiglass shield in front of him. Incite the mob to insurrection but be sure your shield is in place. Trump the Traitor then barked louder for his conned terror apes to march on the Capitol (he vowed to go with them but didn't) , creating a scene evocative of coups and uprisings associated with authoritarian countries around the world.
Within minutes of the terrorists arriving they breached the walls of the Capitol building, smashed windows and crawled inside, violating even the inner sanctum of the People's house. One ape was even seen carrying a Confederate flag into Statuary Hall - desecrating it on the spot. This as shots were fired and the Capitol police were overrun and overwhelmed and lawmakers ordered to shelter in place.
The Capitol was put on lockdown and tear gas was deployed inside the once citadel of American democracy - now defiled by a raging, brain-fucked mob of QAnon lunatics and white nationalist terrorists incited to insurrection by the Traitor-in-chief. Meanwhile Metropolitan police officers guarding the House chamber drew their pistols in an armed standoff but knew it was a losing wicket without the National Guard to back them up. Others, incredibly, had selfies taken with the MAGA traitors and insurrectionists.
Where was the National Guard in all this? Who knew? We kept seeing tweets from Kayleigh McEnany over CNN that they were "on the way"- but all Janice and I saw was more bedlam on the screen. Later, Daily Kos and other media reported that Trump ordered the Guard to stand down. Also, he ordered his traitor toady defense secretary to prevent the Guard from other states (.e.g Maryland) from coming in. Which comports with his subsequent praising of the rabble as "patriots". Can't have white racist bigots and "patriots" getting shot or gassed now can we? After all, they ain't black or brown folks. Like the unfortunate peaceful protesters pepper -balled and flash-banged into submission when Trump pulled his bible prop stunt near Lafayette Square back in June.
Then around 4 p.m., while the nation’s lawmakers fled and "national security" became the punch line of a joke, the mob made it onto the dais of the Senate where the vice president had stood shortly before the onslsught. As we watched, Janice asked: "If that was a mob of black BLM people do you think they would get through the barriers and raise hell like that? They'd have been shot by those D.C. cops" Of course they would be shot, all would have been whacked, many dead. Same with a Muslim mob of radicals trying to storm the Capitol. But her point was the Trump white nationalists, MAGA lunatics, Johnny Rebs, Boogaloo Bois, Oath Keepers and other traitors got to run free - no shooting (ok, just one) and even minimal pepper balls. What gives?
The smart money is that the arrayed D.C. forces didn't want to come down too hard on the whities ("Vanilla ISIS", the term used by one actual BLM activist interviewed by Joy Reid). After all, the moron head of the Capitol police said he believed lots of force wasn't needed - since the MAGA bunch were thought to be just good ol' "first amendment" protesters - which bull crap I shot down in my Tuesday post.
Chaos thus ensued whenever authorities inside the building released pepper balls or smoke bombs into the rampaging crowd but it was never enough to disperse the group completely. How could it be? There were too many deranged apes running wild! What those cops needed was a wide range radio frequency vomit cannon- to make them all start puking. E.g.
On the west side of the Capitol, facing the Washington Monument, protesters mounted more Confederate flags and Trump 2020 flags to waves of applause from the crowd. As law enforcement in riot gear arrived at the Capitol around 3:30 p.m the Trump rabble and terror apes shouted:
“Traitors! What’s your oath?”
Unable to process their oath isn't to appease or serve Trump - or shouldn't be - but to the Constitution, which most of these dregs have probably never read. As Trump's cult renegades scaled the wall in front of the Capitol and - incredibly - sang the national anthem - more sober Trumpies who knew there'd be a legal reckoning, fled.
For years, Trump’s critics like me, Chris Hayes, Keith Olbermann, Adam Schiff, John Brennan, have warned of worst-case scenarios derived from Trump's upending of norms and disregard for the Constitution. Many of us called repeatedly for his removal, by the 25th amendment, or any other means. But it was like we were shouting into the wind.
We were dismissed as alarmists or "nervous Nellies" - especially when we cited Bandy X. Lee's book: "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump." . But those who criticized us were the ones shamed to the core yesterday as a spectacle never seen before in American history unfolded before the world. It was a worst case shitstorm which materialized for 4-plus hours as Trump's rabble stormed the United States Capitol, forcing a halt to the process formalizing his election defeat and the evacuation of Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress.
Even for the lowest I.Q. observer it was obvious that Trump's incessant 4 years of incitement had finally seen his cockroaches come to roost, and in our very Capitol. This after Trump egged on his zombies at a rally to march to Congress to protest its acceptance of the results of the election that he lost, blabbing:
"We will never concede! It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that’s what this is all about.”
The Traitor even suggested that he would join them, although he did not. But given these zombies believe anything Trump farts out of his pie hole they marched on - full of grievance - and likely stoked on Ripple, year- old bennies and bad weed.
True, Trump did not explicitly urge them to force their way into the Capitol building but he tweeted enough incendiary words to drive them to rage. Including:
"These are the things that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long."
"Great Patriots?" They were rabid, disgusting, vile APES! "Badly and unfairly treated"? They haven't been treated yet, but will be! In effect, the Turd was justifying the lawless actions of his terrorist rabble and degenerates. Btw, I refer to these degenerates rampaging through the Capitol's rooms, offices as "apes" because that's exactly how they appeared to me. Grubby apes rummaging clumsily through drawers and pawing documents, historic artifacts, important letters into which they had no insight. Then tossing them into piles on office floors- after ape-handling them- and leaving snot all around as well as Redman tobacco spittle - which hazmat crews will now need to clean up.
In the meantime, congenital assholes like Ted Cruz were actually trying to blame Antifa, while chowderheads like Rep. Steve Scalise (La) argued "both sides need to turn down the rhetoric." No, Stevie, YOUR side needs to tone it down and stop inciting the lowbrows to rage, riot and terror.
He also told them again that his presidency was being "stolen" and that no one should stand for it. Thereby inciting unbridled passions that overflowed and led to vague notions of retribution - with some even suggesting conducting trials and hanging recalcitrant congress men and women. E.g.
Trumpists intended to take members of Congress hostage, hold show trials, conduct executions
Sen. Mitt Romney made no bones about where to place blame for this depraved spectacle, declaring:
“This is what the president has caused today, this insurrection,”
Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois and another outspoken Trump critic went even further, accusing the traitor's KKK, Nazi and Proud Boy apes of seeking the violent overthrow of the government. “This is a coup attempt,” he wrote on Twitter.
Meanwhile, one has to finally give credit to VP Mike Pence for locating his balls, if a little late. Pence rejected Trump's pleas for overturning the certification just minutes after he continued to publicly pressure him. This after Trump yapped to his rally on the Ellipse. “I hope he does it. I hope so because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election.”
Pence released a letter saying he did not have the power to do what the president wanted him to do. “Vesting the vice president with unilateral authority to decide presidential contests would be entirely antithetical to that [constitutional] design,” he wrote. Adding: “It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not."
Good thinking there, Mikey, and better to find courage late than never. Hell, even that Trump shill Lindsey Graham finally got 'religion' and said "Enough!" last night when the electoral vote certification resumed. I couldn't believe it.
Meanwhile, an even more critical event looms in 2 weeks: Biden's inauguration. As former FBI director of counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi noted on NBC last night, yesterday was not an intelligence failure because everyone saw it coming. Trump himself had bragged for weeks about instigating it, and yet when forces were needed they weren't there. In retrospect it ought to have been designated a National Security special event - like the Superbowl is each year. An event which always features full federal forces- including Secret Service, FBI and local law enforcement.
That event designation also needs to apply to the Biden inauguration, no more lapses or failure to use adequate force. In the meantime politicos across the board need to finally get it into their heads that what we beheld yesterday is what the Founders feared: A mindless beast of a mob, unthinking and stoked by rage fueled by a demagogue. THAT was why they created the Electoral College, to stop any demagogue from becoming president. That use evaporated when voters became too stupid, too ignorant, too uneducated - to recognize demagogues - like Donald Trump.
The Electoral College has now become merely an archaic means to try to manipulate elections and sow distrust because of its phased complexity. This shows it's now time to retire that venerable entity to the historical archives.
What about the apes that invaded the Capitol and desecrated so many objects, offices, documents? They need to be hunted down from their video images - which many are stupidly sharing on social media now- and using facial recognition and cell phone tower technology. As former Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards put it ('Deadline Whitehouse', MSNBC) they cannot be allowed to get away with this brazen terror assault. Every one of them must pay, with up to 10 years in prison each, especially as ABC reported 11 Molotov cocktails were found, "ready to go off". The fucktards that left those as well as pipe bombs and assault rifles don't get to chant "USA! USA!" . Nor do you don't get to ransack and violate the center of our democracy and not pay a price!
If my Revolutionary War ancestors beheld this rabble and their misdeeds today they'd want every one of these imp traitors hung, drawn and quartered - especially the ones carrying emblems of the Revolution (like "Don't Tread On Me" flags) they have no insight into.
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