The Republic Has No Clothes: Some Lessons from Storming the Capitol

The Stream ^ | January 8, 2021 | John Zmirak

[Heartlander]

At the sight of tattooed, horned men loping around the US Capitol, and some jester squatting in Speaker Pelosi’s chair, it would take a man with a heart of stone to witness it all without laughing. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde.

Wait. What did Zmirak just say? Doesn’t he realize that a bunch of goons getting rowdy in the people’s own house is The Worst Thing Ever to Happen in America? That it discredits populism, Donald Trump, and the Christian credentials of every person who ever supported him? That it proves all the shrinking violets of the NeverTrump sorority Beta Dogma Stigma were right to snipe at everything Trump did from beneath their pink velvet fainting couch for the past four years? That in fact, it’s evidence of terrorism, as Joe Biden just claimed?

Never mind all that shrieking and preening. There was real tragedy at our nation’s capital. Just as in ancient Greece, the comedies honoring the horned god Dionysus were flanked by tragic tales. Dramas where the good and the great got destroyed.

Ashli Babbit, Rest in Peace

First and foremost, of course, was the needless death of USAF veteran Ashli Babbit. From the video available and eyewitness testimony, she was unarmed and posed no threat to anyone. If she’d been a sexual assault suspect like Jacob Blake who wielded a knife at police, her death might have caused the burning of cities. Democrat mayors would shrug at the violence, and CNN describe it as “mostly peaceful.” Her parents might be lobbying even now to speak before Congress, as Blake’s shameless clan is...

[Lurkinanloomin]

We have not had a Republic under the Constitution since noon on January 20, 2009 when BOTH parties abrogated the Constitution by swearing in an ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia.

[livius]

He’s right...the photos of the Viking loony and a few other pudgy, bearded people (of whom I believe at least two were identified as Antifa) would be for to laugh. It would be an embarrassment to us and give plenty of fodder for discrediting the right.

But that wasn’t enough for them. What they really wanted to do was to stop that vote, and they succeeded. First lead the people in (and you see them walking along peacefully between the velvet ropes, looking around like tourists), get them into an area where they seem mostly to be taking selfies and looking at things, then break a window and set off confusion. Somebody was bound to get overexcited and take the bait.

Granted, the optics of calmly shooting a clearly harmless woman wearing a Trump flag, not brandishing a weapon or even being able to do so if she had had one while she was in the window, weren’t good. But just ignore that. Don’t answer when they ask who shot her or why, if they were LE, they were allowed to shoot in that situation. Just stonewall.

And it worked.

[pabianice]

I am horrified by these lunatics!