{"id":1015,"date":"2021-01-07T03:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T03:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2021-01-07T03:35:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T03:35:19","slug":"january-6th-2021-the-coup-coo-brigade-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"January 6th 2021 — The Coup-Coo Brigade Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 6th<\/sup> 2021<\/p>\n

The Coup-Coo Brigade Strike<\/p>\n

Various people today have declared that today\u2019s assault on the Capitol of the United States was a date that would \u201clive in infamy\u201d.<\/p>\n

My mum wouldn\u2019t have been too thrilled to hear that. If she were alive, this would be her 102nd<\/sup> birthday. She wouldn\u2019t have been chuffed at having her special day listed along with December 7th<\/sup> or September 11th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

She wouldn\u2019t have been too surprised if she were around to hear how the story came about. From the 80s up until her death a few years ago she took the measure of Donald Trump and considered him an utterly vile man, amoral, rude, and vulgar. Since my own view of Trump was about the same, I used to watch the members of my family who liked Trump squirm uncomfortably should anyone mention his name within her earshot. Her profound deafness in her final years was no protective wall; like many people in her position, she had a knack for hearing key words in a conversation. Discussing Bridge, or British terms for flatulence, could provoke an outburst.<\/p>\n

She was old. She wasn\u2019t stupid. Trump was trash, and she knew it.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s events, and Trump\u2019s role in them, wouldn\u2019t have surprised her. It didn\u2019t surprise me. It\u2019s a wonder it surprised anyone, really. Trump had been saying right along that he didn\u2019t accept the results of the election, and would encourage his inane clown posse to fight on his behalf. Indeed, the reason Congress was vulnerable to such an attack stemmed from the notion that Congress could somehow overcome the will of the states (not to mention the people) by disrupting the normally ritualistic tabulation of the electoral college votes. Stooges and seditionists in Congress planned to object and drag out the proceedings in a forlorn hope that somehow they could get Congress to abandon the vote.<\/p>\n

While this was going on, Trump stood in the speech and told his tin-foil hat brigade to march on Congress and that he would march with them. They began marching, and Trump promptly scurried off to the F\u00fchrerbunker formerly known as the White House.<\/p>\n

In a weird way, he may have actually done the nation a favor. On several levels, really.<\/p>\n

First the events of today unleashed a tidal wave of anger and rage against Trump and the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d movement. Suddenly it stopped being one of those loony things the crowd that believe the Queen is a lizard or that Hillary ran a pedophile operation in the basement of a pizza shop, and became a genuine insurrection against the country. Even people who like Trump were taken aback by today\u2019s events. \u201cSupport the President.\u201d Doesn\u2019t matter how trashy or crazy the president is, and Trump is part of a rather long list of Presidents who didn\u2019t belong in office. But supporting the president no matter what is a thing\u2014until that president tries to overthrow the government of the US. You have to go back to antebellum days to find one of those. \u201cSupport the President\u201d? Well, OK. \u201cDestroy the Country?\u201d Not so much.<\/p>\n

Trump is finished. There are rumors that the Cabinet is considering 25th<\/sup> amendment removal of Trump before he does yet more damage. Congress may take up an unprecedented move to impeach, and if they do, it\u2019s likely that Trump will be convicted. A wave of resignations in his administration has already begun. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have all suspended his account.<\/p>\n

His supporters that don\u2019t feel they can abandon him are going to ridiculous lengths to rationalize the events of today. One Trumper I spoke to this morning denied any knowledge of the assault on the Capitol, and when I told him to switch on his TV, airily replied \u201cWhy? There\u2019s nothing I can do about it.\u201d Several Trumpers, including the idiot A-G of Texas, proffered the theory that all the thousands of protesters waving Trump, Confederate and even Nazi flags were actually all Antifa in disguise, a false flag operation.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m listening to the debate in resumed hearings tonight, and it\u2019s clear that support for Trump has effectively collapsed. I suspect that holds true in much of the country. I\u2019m watching the Senate vote on debate on objections to the electoral vote count, and this morning 11 senators were expected to sustain the objection, but I think there\u2019s only five \u201cayes\u201d now.<\/p>\n

Even Qanon crazy Loeffler switched sides. (The final vote was 93-6).<\/p>\n

Another thing that may benefit the country in the long run is that the insurrection today was a cold shot of reality. Americans believed it could not happen here. I was raised in England, two big civil wars, endless religious strife, and war after war after war, not only with the other nations in the British Isles, but with much of Europe. Insurrections, regicides, riots\u2014all part of the glorious tapestry that is England. England regards itself as a great nation, fully cognizant of the fact that it has unrest and violence as part of its legacy. I was born in Canada, one of the most genuinely peaceful and stable nations on Earth\u2014one with a long and not entirely vanished history of violence against First Nations people. The Riel rebellion, the FLQ crisis, and even major riots over hockey games. Canadians KNOW they aren\u2019t \u201cbetter than this.\u201d It\u2019s part of history.<\/p>\n

America is better at regrowing its spiritual hymen better than any other nation on Earth, aside from the French who consider whoring an alternate virginity. For a generation, at least, Americans will be cognizant of the danger presented by extreme and even insane political movements.<\/p>\n

If this beast rises its head again, perhaps they won\u2019t have politicians coddling them, cowardly presidents leading from behind, or police taking selfies with the nuts because the nuts wave Confederate flags.<\/p>\n

Perhaps American will learn to recognize, and adjust for their own humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 6th 2021 The Coup-Coo Brigade Strike Various people today have declared that today\u2019s assault on the Capitol of the United States was a date that would \u201clive in infamy\u201d. My mum wouldn\u2019t have been too thrilled to hear that. If she were alive, this would be her 102nd birthday. She wouldn\u2019t have been chuffed … <\/p>\n

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