a coup attempt
Jan. 7th, 2021 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireYesterday, I had a cheerful morning. I worked out, I watched a very enjoyable stream. I started a new book and ate a salad for lunch.
Then a bunch of white nationalist fascists stormed the DC Capitol building to derail the certification of the election. The police just let them do it. Guns were drawn on the House floor. Windows were smashed. Rioters trashed offices, took selfies on the Senate dais. They hunted for the vice president in the halls. There's a photo of a man carrying a gun and zip ties, of a man carrying a confederate flag into the Capitol. The amount of pure evil on display was nauseating. I heard one of the Oklahoma representatives, Mullin, say the violence was "on both sides."
The president stoked all of this. He spoke at their rally and basically pointed them down the avenue. He refused to call in the national guard to protect the senators and representatives, much less the staff of the government offices caught up in this nightmare.
It is hard not to see this as civil war at this point. Only 13 people were arrested during this riot. 13. They'll be emboldened, ready to come back and do it again. This isn't going to disappear when he's out of office. It's a cult. How do you deprogram so many people across the country from a cult?
The legislature went back into session late last night and the odious Republican objectors kept them at the floor til almost 4am. Biden's win is certified though. A possibility that happened because some staff members of the parliamentary office saved the ballots in the evacuation so they could not be destroyed. Heroes.
Then a bunch of white nationalist fascists stormed the DC Capitol building to derail the certification of the election. The police just let them do it. Guns were drawn on the House floor. Windows were smashed. Rioters trashed offices, took selfies on the Senate dais. They hunted for the vice president in the halls. There's a photo of a man carrying a gun and zip ties, of a man carrying a confederate flag into the Capitol. The amount of pure evil on display was nauseating. I heard one of the Oklahoma representatives, Mullin, say the violence was "on both sides."
The president stoked all of this. He spoke at their rally and basically pointed them down the avenue. He refused to call in the national guard to protect the senators and representatives, much less the staff of the government offices caught up in this nightmare.
It is hard not to see this as civil war at this point. Only 13 people were arrested during this riot. 13. They'll be emboldened, ready to come back and do it again. This isn't going to disappear when he's out of office. It's a cult. How do you deprogram so many people across the country from a cult?
The legislature went back into session late last night and the odious Republican objectors kept them at the floor til almost 4am. Biden's win is certified though. A possibility that happened because some staff members of the parliamentary office saved the ballots in the evacuation so they could not be destroyed. Heroes.
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