Big fun for the cosplayers at the Capitol today. Looks like the cops let the other cops dressed up like..uh.. vikings or something run wild inside the building for a while. The President put out a video telling them they are all "special people." The other President is on TV right now complaining about broken windows. Nobody knows when the cops will finally ask the other cops to leave. Maybe they will spend the night there. Who knows?
Overall, I gotta say, not great. But, despite the breathless hype-slobber coming out of the cable news regulars, it's not a "coup." It's more like, well like this.
It’s a coup in their minds but not in real life. The United States government cannot be sacked by a mob of angry white dudes. If the police or the military wanted to flex and end this right now, they could. They’ve decided to let them blow off steam
— Keeanga-Yamahtta T. (@KeeangaYamahtta) January 6, 2021
It is a shocking display of double standards, the rot of the GOP, and the utter racism of American police and those who direct them. This is desperation, not an actual plan to take power. it’s frightening and appalling, but I don’t think the US govt is abt to collapse.
— Keeanga-Yamahtta T. (@KeeangaYamahtta) January 6, 2021
Trust me, we are still living under the same shitty undemocratic and racist regime of increasingly authoritarian oligarchy. Today's LARP will not interrupt that. If anything, it can only make it.. more of what it already is. Looking around Twitter and TV the only possible acceptable policy response will come in the form of an expansion of police powers and a crackdown on political organizing. Not a crackdown on the kind of people who made the riot happen, of course, but there will definitely be some cracking down. Probably on leftist and Black Lives Matter groups first. You know.. usual suspects. Hilariously, but predictably, some of the loudest voices already calling for such a thing are emanating from ostensibly "left of center" actors. It's always amusing to see what brings the inner cop out in certain people.
Anyway, rest assured, your government is not overthrown. It remains in full possession of its power and glory fully poised to once again meet the moment of crisis by punching down and left.
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