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Shock and awe. World watches as Trump’s lunatics take over asylum (hurl alert)
Irish Independent via Press Reader ^ | 9th January 2021 | Miriam O’Callaghan

Posted on 01/09/2021 5:44:28 PM PST by Ennis85

THEY came. They stormed. They wandered. On screen, a ragged line of polyester-clad insurgents sauntering through the vestibule of the Capitol, the red ropes on brass stands confirming their status of visitor or tourist to the home of their government. At the cordon, they seemed to lose their anarchic zeal, lining up between the ropes, raising their phones to record the moment of their arrival, literal and metaphoric. An incongruous sight.

Shock came with the signal shaman in bared teeth, chest, furs, horns; the ‘freedom-fighter’ advertising Camp Auschwitz; rebels in assorted MAGA gear designed by fear, embroidered by hate, the camo of billionaire treachery; the police apparently caught off-guard, meek, obliging. A different force to the masked guard, a different country to the America that faced down the song and dance of BLM, set dogs on philosophers, tear-gassed veterans, stretched grandfathers, skull-split, on the sidewalk.

On TV it was ‘a coup’, they said. ‘Insurrection’ they said. ‘Revolution’, ‘rebellion’, ‘sedition’. Only the ‘coup’ had occurred when a serial bankrupt-cum-billionaire, size-sensitive, self-aggrandising, pouty, paranoid, vindictive, was selected by the GOP as the best man to occupy the White House, lead the Free World.

In the end, reasonable suspicion of shenanigans by old-enemy agencies clouded his election. Within days of taking office, he banned entry from seven predominantly Muslim countries, instigating the order on Holocaust Memorial Day. Eminent public servants who demurred were recategorised as ‘career bureaucrats’.

The inauguration speech, where traditionally, new presidents extend hands, heal hurts, speak with grace and gravitas to America and the world, set the tone. To the greatness of America he admitted impediments of racism, hate, suspicion. Instead of Arcadia, or a renewed republic of kindness, decency, the common good, he offered personal peeve, sneer, darkness, a vision from Armageddon. From the outset, it was all the US had ‘brought democracy’ to their countries. The mob were “special”, “patriots”. He “loves” them. For the politics of exclusion and suspicion, hate and incitement, debt and poverty, lies and manipulation, January 6, 2021, was the Epiphany for America and the waking world. Obviously, millions of disenfranchised would never invade the Capitol, but there were enough who would and did, even at the edges of chaos. Swathes of Republicans should hang their well-coiffed heads, be politically charged, for what they have fomented and unleashed. But there are questions, too, for Democrats whose elitism and corporatism have blinded them to the abandonment, need and suffering of their fellow Americans.

To them, President Bernie Sanders was unthinkable, because he would have made them Untouchables to the financial status quo. New entrants to the Democrats bring new thinking. Until that is established and widely, the new administration will have its work cut out. If a wound heals from the edges in, the 46th President of the United States must attend, immediately and exquisitely tenderly, to the poor and forgotten of America, not raised up, but savagely exposed by shallow, manipulative politics that governs of itself, by itself, for itself and its co-dependent lobbies.

As Joseph Biden Jr takes office, the virus is exposing precarity, loneliness, injustice, inequality across America, Europe, the world. In essential services, it’s showing societies how the ignored Nobodies, are in fact, the Somebodies; how ‘Important’ people are not always Valuable; how Valuable people are, too often, not Important or Valued at all.

Simultaneously, while the trivia and trash that fascinate on social media are creeping into MSM news and analysis, what is of real import in the continuity and continuum of public life, can be trivialised, avoided, ignored. It is arguable that deference by some media, and certainly social media, to Trump and his lies, helped torch decency and humanity, rile by headline, radicalise by algorithm, give comfort to suspicion, community to conspiracy, bring chaos, death to the Capitol.

Mark Zuckerberg has banned Trump from his platforms for the rest of the presidency: days, hours. Outrageous courage in dissing a dangerous, departing and hopefully, disappearing (as Donie can explain to America and I suspect Biden understands) “Believe Me” bollix.

Good health and luck to Biden and Harris. The votes and the Capitol stand. God bless America.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bannedtext; blm; capitalriot; fakenews; irishindependent; stopthefraud; trump
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"a different country to the America that faced down the song and dance of BLM, set dogs on philosophers, tear-gassed veterans, stretched grandfathers, skull-split, on the sidewalk."

Ashli Babbitt is dead in case she missed it.

"he banned entry from seven predominantly Muslim countries, instigating the order on Holocaust Memorial Day."

At least she had the courtesy to not call it a muslim ban though not sure point she was making by invoking the Holocaust.

1 posted on 01/09/2021 5:44:28 PM PST by Ennis85
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Oh my gosh. Don’t tell me they were wearing polyester!


2 posted on 01/09/2021 5:46:08 PM PST by Faith
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To: Ennis85

more hysteria porn posted here from leftists opinions

AT THIS POINT WE CAN JUST POST ONE ARTICLE BECAUSE THEY ALL SAY THE SAME DAMN THING.


3 posted on 01/09/2021 5:46:24 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Ennis85

“On screen, a ragged line of polyester-clad insurgents sauntering through the vestibule of the Capitol . . .”

This is a piece of trash.


4 posted on 01/09/2021 5:47:40 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: Ennis85

She sounds like a bandy-legged, besotted mick.


5 posted on 01/09/2021 5:50:19 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Ennis85

The paid liars are out in force.

They must be really scared.

They should be.

Our politicians exposed themselves as the cowards that they are.

They ran scared because PEOPLE HAD FLAGS.

How frightening.

Our politicians ran like thieves running from the police in a raid.

Our politicians knew they were doing wrong.

They knew they were doing wrong by certifying a stolen election.


6 posted on 01/09/2021 5:52:43 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Ennis85

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ind-news-media-m-a/mediahuis-to-buy-irish-newspaper-group-inm-for-163-million-idUSKCN1S61E0


7 posted on 01/09/2021 5:55:52 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Ennis85

Written by a hopelessly lost dimwitted irishman.


8 posted on 01/09/2021 5:57:51 PM PST by Nadial
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Or irishwoman..


9 posted on 01/09/2021 5:58:29 PM PST by Nadial
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It’s Ireland they’re down to like 6 people


10 posted on 01/09/2021 6:02:54 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: snarkytart

It’s mental masturbation. They are so terrified and are compelled to reinforce their delusional fantasies of projection. They are truly disturbed and in need of medication.

Had a conversation yesterday with a couple of leberal knuckleheads (pretty sure they were homosexuals) when I stopped to rest during bike ride. They were absolutely apoplectic about the “riot” in DC and asked if I was equally upset. I just chuckled and told them if conservatives really wanted to riot there would be blood in the street and government officials hanging from street lights and not a single liberal would be safe. They snickered and asked what made me so sure to which I replied, “There are probably about 800 million registered and unregistered privately owned firearms in this country and conservatives own 90% of then. They just stood there dumbfounded with their mouths open. I then said, “Have a nice day and be safe out there,” and resumed my bike ride.


11 posted on 01/09/2021 6:06:24 PM PST by Glide Plane
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leberal = liberal. D’oh!


12 posted on 01/09/2021 6:07:57 PM PST by Glide Plane
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To: Lod881019

Pretty country but the people are dim. Their best DNA came here.


13 posted on 01/09/2021 6:08:50 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Glide Plane

that’s okay I knew what you meant, but they’re not liberals these people are Marxists who support a Marxist party.


14 posted on 01/09/2021 6:09:47 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Ennis85

Mark Zuckerberg has banned Trump from his platforms for the rest of the presidency: days, hours. Outrageous courage in dissing a dangerous, departing and hopefully, disappearing (as Donie can explain to America and I suspect Biden understands) “Believe Me” bollix.

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This takes courage? Conservatives are being banned left and right. How big of a delusional idiot can you be?


15 posted on 01/09/2021 6:10:30 PM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Glide Plane

I love that story btw :)


16 posted on 01/09/2021 6:10:39 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Ennis85

Even the fraud pope got in on the action.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/09/politics/pope-francis-us-capitol-violence/index.html

Where were they when our cities burned. It’s very hard to take the righteous indignation seriously


17 posted on 01/09/2021 6:15:10 PM PST by HollyB
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To: HollyB

Didn’t Trump also condemn the violence and said the preps should face the full force of the law? I think everyone should speak out against people who break the law like this.

I do agree with you that a lot on the left should have also condemned the riots in the summer.


18 posted on 01/09/2021 6:19:33 PM PST by hawkaw
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To: Glide Plane

Perfect


19 posted on 01/09/2021 6:19:57 PM PST by HollyB
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To: hawkaw

Absolutely Trump did. Just as he denounced racism. But nobody acknowledges it.


20 posted on 01/09/2021 6:21:15 PM PST by HollyB
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