About Yesterday

There's a thousand or two thoughts rattling around my brain because of that stupid little stunt that President Stoopid cooked up in DC yesterday.

In no particular order:

One of the terms I'm hearing most is "humiliating". I kinda get that, but this particular shit's been going on for 5 years, and here in USAmerica Inc, humiliation is just part of the deal to begin with.

We play big, and we win big, and we lose big. And we're supposed to do it all out in the open.

By way of example, I grew up watching NASA fall on its face for all the world to see. For every Mercury-Redstone 3 and Apollo 11, there was an Apollo 1 and a Challenger.

We did WW2 and eventually followed it up with Vietnam - we are not unaccustomed to either triumph or humiliation.

But we do have a tendency to set ourselves up for trouble because we mis-identify insurrection, and then fail to respond to it adequately.

BTW, the BLM protests and the Women's Marches were not the same as that crap we saw in DC yesterday. You can fuck off with that shit right now.

BLMers want changes in the policies that are getting citizens of color injured, killed and generally fucked over - which translates to all of us, and eventually threatens all of us.

Some smart guy said: None of us is truly free until we are all free.

So the point is to make the democracy work for more than just the privileged.

The MAGA bunch on the other hand, have been bamboozled into thinking they're all about "freedom and their god-given rights", but the people pushing them into the fight are using them to shit-can democracy altogether, which of course will strip them of the very freedom they think they're fighting for. That nonsense yesterday showed them all up for the phony manipulators and useful idiots they are.

When you need the straight skinny - go to the late night comics. 

Seth Meyers:

He wanted it, he directed it, incited it, encouraged it and supported it.

What does the law have to say about the shit that went down?

On "the left", this story will probably play like, "They got one of their own killed", but as wrong-headed and misguided and gullible and even stoopid as I may consider her to have been, she was one of us. And Qult45 will not be forgiven for what they caused to happen to her.

When a group of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol and smashed windows on Wednesday, a woman jumped onto a pane and started through.

Seconds later, a gunshot rang out and the woman, who had a Trump flag tied around her waist, tipped back and fell onto the marble floor as blood spilled from her shoulder.

“They shot a girl!” someone yelled as the crowd ran out of the southeast entrance.

She died later that day, police said. She was one of four fatalities from the violent rioting that wreaked havoc through the halls of Congress on Wednesday, halting the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Three others died of unspecified medical emergencies during the chaos. 

Looking forward a bit:

Nicolle Wallace

Killer Mike

We have a metric fuck ton of work to do, so we can't afford to think we're all good now because we squeaked thru with a few big wins. 

We can't let up, thinking we did it, so now we can slump back into that comfortable bullshit where we relax and take little potshots at the silly old Democrats as they disappoint us once again, because they aren't winning everything in sight, because we put 'em in office and now they're suppose to do some kinda magic and make it all better and blah blah blah.

Shut the fuck up, get off your fuckin' ass, and try to help for a fuckin' change.

This is democracy 

You do the work or you get the fuck out.