Tag: #TrumpMob

  • Still Dealing with the Capital Riot

    I can’t seem to get my head in the game today. The kid’s schooling is going fine, and the wife is off and working.

    Me? I feel like there is this looming storm outside that is about to hit.

    Yes, this is a day of Covid fatigue, but also everything that has happened at The Capital, Trump, Biden, and all the other shit involved with it.

    I thought I was linked to the news before, but now, it’s like I can’t go five minutes to see if there was an update. It’s sickening. I feel like I am in a knot. This weekend was a loss for me, as I didn’t accomplish anything, just dealing with the anxiety of the moment.

    What I feel like is right after 9/11. Such as everything had changed, but at the same time, everyone was trying to go about their normal routines. Now, it seems even stranger as nothing was normal before 1/6, and today everything feels even weirder. The mere fact that people can’t even agree if the attack and its repercussion are worth dealing with. One side is, “Let’s Deal with This!” while to other is “Move on and heal.” The answer is both, but I don’t see that happening.

    The kid has asked a few questions about it, and I know she is trying to figure out what happened, and whether she should have an opinion. Clearly, the wife and I are very angry at Trump and want him removed immediately. But when I hear my kid parrots the same sentiment, that makes me uncomfortable. I know she can’t grasp all the details other than bad guys broke into an important building, so I feel like she should say those things. Yet, bad guys did break into an important building, and if we don’t stand up and defend this country from those bad guys, then what future am I leaving for my daughter.

    We have to show my kid how Americans deal with a situation like this. Protest peacefully. Vote. Get involved. Call and write your representatives on the local, state and federal level. Stay open minded and curious. Fight the fiery emotion of hate, with the cool logic of reason. And remember, always, that all Americans have a place at the table of Democracy.

  • The Sacking of The Capital

    Yesterday was pretty awful. I watched the whole Capital invasion unfold starting at about 2pm, and then I was pretty much stuck to the TV and social media for the rest of the day. My “Dry January” also got thrown out the window, as I watched the confirmation of the Electoral College late into the night. I called it at 1am, and tried to get some sleep.

    I am horrified at what happened, but not surprised. It had been building for months, and Georgia’s voting systems manager Gabriel Sterling had called out Trump saying this is what will happen if President didn’t stop his lies.

    But it didn’t stop with Trump. No, this is also Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley’s doing as well. Dan Patrick and his stupid lawsuit at the Supreme Court also had a hand in this. And I especially blame Mitch McConnell, who danced around saying Biden had won the election, which gave air to all of these lies. All of these actions led to this situation.

    And then there were all the cowardly Trump supporters, who had been saying since 2015 that Trump is just kidding, only making jokes, he would never do anything the threaten the country. Just a month ago, I had a friend say online that Trump would never incite mob rule, that it was just liberal fear mongering.

    And yet the President of the United States sent a mob to the Capital Building to stop the certification of a free, fair, and legal election.

    I want to laugh this off, and say that in two weeks Biden/Harris will be sworn in and things will start getting better.

    But, this is going to be a very scary two weeks. I don’t see Trump shutting up, and I don’t see that his supports were horrified at what happened yesterday. If anything, it seems to have energized them; That majority male and white mob that forced their way into the Well of the Senate and the House, went home yesterday with out any penalty. They looked like the Visigoths sacking Rome.

    The easy lesson here is that this is why you don’t elect people like Trump. That if we want to protect and preserve our Nation, then we all have to demand that all of our elected leaders must meet a minimum of decency and decorum. That if you ignore these norms, you get chaos and bedlam.