The Rude Pundit: Notes on the Anniversary of a Failed Coup

[babylonsister]

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The Rude Pundit
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1/06/2022
Notes on the Anniversary of a Failed Coup


The riot/insurrection/coup on January 6, 2021 was violent. We know that various members of law enforcement were beaten, gassed, cut, crushed, and more. We know that a great deal of property was damaged. If you had been on the receiving end of it, it would have fucked you up. And if you had been a Democratic member of Congress or Mike Pence, you would have shit yourself when you heard the violent herd of morons yipping in gleeful rage as they tried to get to you so they could...what? I'm pretty sure that once someone's beaten a cop with a pole that has an American flag on it, they're not there to have a calm discussion about election law.

But that violence and threat of violence isn't enough for too many Americans, including members of Congress, who crawled on their bellies and invited Donald Trump to jack off on their backs as they begged for forgiveness for ever saying a truthful word or two about his complicity. No, we're told by right-wing media figures and by insane and/or opportunistic politicians, this wasn't violent, this was just people expressing their anger over an election loss, calm down, nobody died. And all I can think when I hear that shit is that they're saying that they need corpses to even consider the seriousness of what happened. They're saying they need to have had Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mike Pence hanging in the rotunda in order for it to have been more than a bit of overzealousness. And even then, those motherfuckers would still be yelling, "False flag" or "Lies" or whatever because to admit that the actions of the insurrectionists were wrong would be to have to grapple with their role in the insurrection.

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And we should all be as angry all the time about what was done to us on January 6. In the midst of a deadly pandemic, in the midst of despairing about the economy, we held the fairest, best-run election anyone has seen. That should have inspired confidence in us that we could survive all this shit and get back to something like normalcy.It wasn't perfect by any stretch, but, fuck, it went so much better than anyone expected. That feeling was taken away from us by Donald Trump. Our security about the stability of our nation was undermined further. Goddamnit, every fucking day should be an expression of our anger about that until we are made whole with his ass in prison. Or else just toss the fucking country out into the trash heap of history.

Still, yeah, we're a little antsy about what Attorney General Merrick Garland and the January 6 committee are finding and what they're gonna do. It's not just because the clock is running out should the GOP win back at least one chamber of Congress. It's because everything that the GOP is doing, at the local, state, and national level, everything that their media accomplices are doing in nutzoid online videos and on Fox "news" and elsewhere points to them just fucking doing it again in 2024 if not to re-install Trump, then to put in some other deranged monument to incompetence and madness like Josh Hawley. As we learn time and time and time and time again, if you let the powerful go unpunished, they take that as permission to get more powerful and do it again. Appeasement is not an option. Even today, the right is screeching with outrage that people would dare be angry at Trump. Fuck all of them with wooden scroll holding the Constitution.

If I'm being completely honest, the only thing we should be arguing over at this point is if Trump should die in prison or be executed. (I'm for life in prison only because I oppose the death penalty.)

On this one-year anniversary of the Yahoo Coup, we can say with quite a bit of evidence that the morons lost the battle but have a real chance of winning the war.

[Irish_Dem]

1. The only thing we should be arguing about is how are we going to stop

this from happening again.

I don't think what happens to Trump is going to answer that question.

[babylonsister]

2. mf45 was and is the catalyst even today.

If the gop doesn't have him as a go-to for their marching orders, I do wonder what they'd do. Likewise with their brainless sycophants.

[Irish_Dem]

3. The GOP has tasted the immense wealth and power to be had in an autocracy.

Trump vanishing from the face of the earth will not deter them in the least.

Trump grows crazier, more unpredictable; he is a liability politically. If they can find a replacement, one more malleable and presentable, the GOP would be happier.

I also do not believe Trump is the catalyst. This GOP coup d'etat has been a long time in the making.

[Mr. Ected]

4. I think there's a limit to what the Democrats can do to quell this fascist uprising

The old-guard, Cheney-led GOP is the Real Slim Shady, and it's high time for them to "Please Stand Up". If the GOP cedes its leadership to the Trumpists, then they are no longer the Republican Party, more like pod people having been taken over by the body snatchers. The GOP has first dibs at quashing this mess, and I'm less than hopeful.

[riversedge]

5. xx