Anyone claiming: -govt has defeated the insurrection -we have a functioning constitutional democracy -this will be resolved with the inauguration of Joe Biden -Jan 20 is an expiration date for when the govt will be required to address the threat of Trump is WRONG A Tweet by @BreeNewsomeartist – grassroots organizer – free black woman – scaled 30ft flagpole & removed sc confederate flag in protest on june 27, 2015 – Isaiah 54:17North Carolina, USA whentheyseeusvote.com
REPUBLICANS: “We are going to tear this country apart, by an armed militia if necessary.” [Republicans fail at this attempt] DEMOCRATS: “You will pay the consequences.” REPUBLICANS: “Whaaa whaaa! We need ‘unity’ after what we just did! Why are you tearing this country apart?” A Tweet by Mrs. Betty Bowers @BettyBowers TITHE: https://paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JFPPTRFFKBSGJ&source=url…http://patreon.com/MrsBettyBowers Americasbestchristian@gmail.com A Country Not in Bible cameo.com/mrsbettybowers
I like to think that I have a pretty good idea of what is happening but I did not foresee the breach and desecration of the Capitol by rioters a week, or so, ago, and it bothers me. At first, I thought I missed it because I was blinded by my Male White Filter (MWF)- I mean, these people are like me and I wouldn’t do that- and I’m sure that’s a factor (a friend asked me if I would have thought a Black Lives Matter crowd would do that and the answer is “No, I wouldn’t have.” Thinking about it, it just didn’t occur to me that anybody would do that. What I didn’t see coming was an act of such utter futility and stupidity. To me, it seems obvious that stopping the count of Electoral College votes is not going to result in Donald Trump remaining as president.
What exactly happened is going to take a while to unravel but there are good reasons to think the Capitol guards were undermanned on purpose and backup was purposely delayed in getting there. There does seem to be some rudimentary planning but, disrupting the Electoral College in front of a massive Mainstream News presence without securing the area and local communications is not really a well-thought-out game plan. The plan – such as it was – seemed to be to break-in and take prisoners thereby stopping the Electoral College vote. If no prisoners were available because they had been evacuated, the default plan – I guess – was to mill around, breaking and stealing things, until escorted out. No effort to control the media, no thought about locking down the country and securing Washington with troops, not much thought about anything really. It is such an amateur bungled job that it is easy to write off as not that big a deal.
That is exactly what some Republicans are trying to spin now, “let it go, it is time to start healing”, but it is a big deal and the White Supremacists are showing no sign of going away – “Not gonna lie … aside from my kids, this was, indeed, the best day of my life. And it’s not over yet.” Tweet by #CoupAttempt participant & former(?) sheriff’s lt. Roxanne Mathai – and President Trump is showing the opposite of remorse, saying “The impeachment hoax is a continuation of the greatest and most vicious witch hunt in the history of our country and is causing tremendous anger and division and pain, far greater than most people will ever understand, which is very dangerous for the U.S.A., especially at this very tender time.”
I do not see that the House of Representatives has any choice other than another impeachment of Donald Trump as they are doing at this very minute.
So as of now the ball is in Mitch’s court but most disturbing would have to be the cascade of revelations continuing to surface about Wednesday’s attempted putsch, not only the police complicity [not a surprise to me though I kind of wish my cynicism wasn’t being so thoroughly reinforced] but even moreso the part of certain members of the House and Senate who aided and abetted it…and are still walking in to the chambers around the newly installed metal detectors without repercussions. Claiming, for instance, that going through security screening is a violation of their inalienable rights. Jeez, haven’t they been through an airport in the last couple of decades? Probably not; private planes like the ones their Christian Corporate sponsors provide them are not subject to TSA checkpoints.
But, seriously, the clowns were sent in, sure, but there were some serious bad actors among them ready to pounce, fortunately thwarted [this time] because not ALL the cops were on their side.
From what I understand, Lauren Boebert, who carries a gun, just went through the metal detector. I don’t understand why they let her do that.