Let's talk about yesterday's bullshit coup attempt the fans of the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago tried to pull.
Yesterday was sup[posed to be merely the day a joint session of Congress counts the electoral votes in the final step to declaring the winner of the Presidential election back in November. In normal times this would be a non issue with, if there's any news coverage at all, any coverage buried in a small news article buried deep near the back of the front section of the newspaper. By then usually whoever lost already had conceded and this would be a mere formality. However, this was before the reign of the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago,
The Mad Fuhrer decided that even after losing over 60 court cases in various state and Federal court to try and overturn his loss to Joe Biden that he'd stir the pot and have a big rally for the more angry and vengeful of his fans to come and try and fuck shit up in Washington, Naturally the milita types and christian extremist fanatics decided to take him up on the offer and hit the nation's capital to try and sitr up some shit.
Tuesday night had the humorous moment of some of these so-called protests falling into some obvious police kettling situations and/or trying to start fights with the cops. However, the day of the rally the Mad Fuhrer gave a speech that instigated the crowd and told them to march to the Capital, even claiming he might join them (which, of course, he didn't preferring to hide in the White House instead). Once atg the Capital the rioters trashed the place, breaking windows and some doors to try and reach either the Senate or House chamber (both the Senators and Congresspeople were rushed into lockdown at a moment's notice with a couple of interns (are they interns or pages") grabbing the boxes with the electoral ballots and taking them to safety moments before they took the Senate chamber, armed with a mix of weapons, Trump and QAnon flags, and creating a menace as they chased the Capital cops who actually tried to do their jobs (as opposed to the assholes in their ranks who decided to take selfies with these arguments for why abortion should be encouraged). When all was said and done four people were dead and a number of people were injured.,
While the rioters thought they were instigating a revolution, their coup did backfire as they were eventually forced out in a way that angered a lot of activists who noted that they took a far harsher stance with Black Lives Matters protestors (whose protests nationwide last summer were over 90% peaceful) along with people who have actually been arrested for protests at the Capital and know the Capital police are more than willing to arrest people in a far more harsh manner than they treated these rioters. Even overlooking the seeming kid gloves treatment these idiots got from the cops it backfired in that not only did the military not drop everything and join them but what they did actually scared some Repub Senators off of challenging the election results (though seven did challenge Pennsylvania including TX Senator and often considered the most hated man in Senate Ted Cruz and Missouri Jr. Senator Josh Hawley (whom we'll refer to as Sen. Joshy from now on). In fact Sen. Joshy was phtotgraphed walking by and giving a raised fist in solidarity with the rioters just before the shit went down.
We'll leave a few tips on how to look at this for the next post but let's look at what they thought would happen and what actually did. These rioters thought that they could attack and bully their way into stopping the vote count and believed that doing so would keep the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago in office as election winner. Instead, a number of hours later the vote count resumed with the only states challenged being Arizona (which happened just before the riot) and Pennsylvania. In both cases the challenges were unsuccessful and somewhere around 4 to 4:30 am Eastern time it was official that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the election.
It was a surprisingly surreal day that began with news of the Georgia runoff election results being puple leaning blue with the win of Rev. Raphael Warnock and news during the riots that Jon Ossoff was declare the winner in the other runoff (thus giving the Senate an even number of seats with the Repubs (with VP Harris being the 51st vote when ties need to be broken) and ended with many angry (including a number of Repubs) over the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago's bullshit inciting violence that led to a coup attempt and four people dead in the crossfire.
We still have two weeks until inauguration day and it's going to be a rough ride.
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