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A Perfectly Calm Blog Post.

7/1/2021

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Good fucking morning, Readers.
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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Well fuck.

I'm angry.

I'm so angry that I'm numb.

There is some good news amongst the idiotic madness in DC and fascist coup attempt being made in the States right now - The senate has been flipped. Both Rev. Warnock and Jon Ossoff have won the Georgia run-off elections. Good. Maybe now someone can do something about righting this ship.

But the news about the MAGA morons storming the Capitol has left me so enraged I can barely think. What gets me the most is the hypocrisy of it all. Echoes of 2016 Republican chants of "We won, suck it" are echoing in my head. The BLM movement - peaceful protests literally begging the police to stop killing folks - was met with tear gas, riot gear, rubber bullets, beatings and death.

Indigenous Americans were gassed, endured water cannons and far worse ON THEIR OWN FUCKING LAND for having the audacity to try and protect it.

These fuckers storm the Capitol, with fucking guns, and there's nothing from the police.

In fact, there's footage of the police opening the fucking gates to these fascist clowns.

There are reports of planted explosives.

How many arrests have been made? Huh? These fuckers are just being allowed to leave.

What did Trump say to these fucking terrorists - don't argue with me. They're fucking terrorists - we love you? You're special?

Don't you fucking dare tell me that this isn't about race, because you bloody well know it is. You have to stop burying your head in the sand - face what your countrymen are if you've any hope of fixing it.

And wipe that smug smirk off your face, Canada. Take a good long look at your own politicians, because they are just the same. Don't think we're any better than the US. We're not.

I'm just so angry right now.

I'm not surprised. No one who has been paying attention is surprised.

But I am furious.

Fuck anyone who supported Trump. And doubly fuck you if you still support him.

Fuck.
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Tim
7/1/2021 10:45:11 am

Hey boo.

Yeah, it was an incredible shitshow. And it highlighted not just how yt ppl are treated when they have a grudge, a belief and the 'right' cause, but how the people who support authoritarianism in power, and fascism support such efforts.

The Capitol police were informed and unprepared. This has been organized in the open for weeks. They literally opened the gates, took selfies with the insurrectionists, and laughed with them while every partition was breached.

And a woman was shot and killed by protective services as they tried to breach a critical area in service of protecting the representatives in power. They stopped cold. Consequences will stop them.

And these insurrectionists are trying to lionize her now. 'Say Her Name'. Like she was shot, in her bed, while she slept, utterly innocent of any crime. Because of the colour of her skin. It's enraging.

As for consequences, well. Will there be any? That's the test. That's what will determine the course of history. There is a window to act and we shall see what the system does. How the people make the decisions. And we will judge.

I'm not holding my breath. A lot of hay is being made about it and a lot of voices are yelling. But it's all fodder for the both-siderism that we've been subjected to for decades now in the media, luring us into a waking somnalescence. I'm thinking whatever happens, it will be blunted and less than required.

This only emboldens the powers in the dark, the ones that lurk in the collective unconscious, that speaks to power for power's sake. and the easiest paths there. This will happen again without a properly structured response.

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Sonia Carriere link
7/1/2021 10:59:23 am

"As for consequences, well. Will there be any? That's the test. That's what will determine the course of history. There is a window to act and we shall see what the system does. How the people make the decisions. And we will judge...

This will happen again without a properly structured response."

That is my fear; that those who enabled this to come to pass will reap not what they sow.

Just thinking about how they will get away with it is making my blood boil.

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Tim
7/1/2021 05:01:18 pm

Relevent link:

https://medium.com/@indica/i-lived-through-a-coup-america-is-having-one-now-437934b1dac3?source=search_post---------2




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