Yesterday was my birthday, and no, I did not ask for coup d’état, so whichever despotic lunatic ordered one should kindly take it back for a full refund.
Of course, redneck Nazis storming the capitol is less of a shocker and more the inevitable final act to a presidency based on lies, authoritarian tactics, racist appeals, and conspiratorial rationales.
Every day since Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, Republicans have been smugly dismissing the legitimate concerns of progressives as Trump Derangement Disorder, and snapping that we need to get in line and stop hating the president.
And then this morning, the GOP exclaimed, “Holy shit, Trump is a dangerous madman. Who possibly could have known?”
For years, liberals have been saying Trump was a sociopath who would lead us into chaos and violence. Today, the GOP acted surprised when chaos and violence erupted.
But if you supported a neo-fascist freak for three years, eleven and half months, you don’t get credit for ducking out for the last two weeks.
Republicans could have removed Trump via impeachment just one year ago. But they demurred.
Interestingly, Republicans are now openly debating getting rid of this crazed imbecile through the 25th Amendment. Many conservatives are also now willing to say Biden actually won the election.
And all it took was a riot, the attempted overthrow of the government, and someone getting shot to death in the capitol.
Before yesterday’s insurgency, the capitol had been “overrun by a mass group one other time, in 1814 during the War of 1812, when British troops set fire to the building.”
And not even Robert E. Lee came close to marching through the capitol waving a Confederate battle flag.
So these are Trump’s latest milestones, to go along with the unprecedented death and destruction that he has provoked across America.
Yesterday, the president asked right-wing thugs to attack his enemies. And they did as he asked. So who the hell is actually surprised?
This is what happens “when one group of Americans are taught generationally to believe they are the sole, true owners of a country their ancestors seized from the indigenous and reaped via the blood and toil of others they never viewed as fully human.”
Now, we could ask a number of unpleasant rhetorical questions. Such as why are we spending $700 billion on defense when a bunch of hairy old men can just take over the seat of US government in five minutes flat?
We could also ask what would have happened if the rioters were Black? Ha, just kidding — we all know the answer to that one.
But ultimately, it comes down to one undisputable fact:
Those assholes totally ruined my birthday.
