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Trump was openly and notoriously brazen in his egging
on the demonstrators, some of whom quickly turned to
ransacking and violence when they entered the Capitol
Building.
Not only did they march, en masse, to the Capitol but
they bum rushed the pathetically understaffed Capitol Hill
Police and the D.C. police forces and breached the security
barriers and, like drunken sailors, entered the
Congressional chambers and wreaked havoc.
The planned mayhem included damaging some of the
interiors of the building and mobbing the front of the
Capitol where scaffolding was being set up for the January
20 inauguration of President Biden and V.P. Harris.
This hyped-up crowd of white people (numbers are given
anywhere from 20-30 thousand who appeared on the Capitol
grounds) were enraged that the House and Senate were about
to confirm the Electoral College votes and thus confirm the
legitimate status of President-Elect Biden and V.P. Elect
Harris.
The marauders threw off all restraint as they pillaged
the Capitol Building with their flags and made a mockery of
civility and any respect for the established democratic
norms and niceties that have been relied upon since 1801
regarding a peaceful transference of power after an
election.
The mob, bent on stopping the tallying of the Electoral
College votes, were acting at the hope and bequest of Herr
Trump who told them to march to the Capitol and he would
lead them (of course, he did not lead, he left for safer
grounds with his Secret Service entourage).
Herr Trump, the originator of the Great Lie that the
election was stolen from him and repeatedly denying all
overwhelming evidence to the contrary, acted like a spoiled
brat and verbally “turned the keys” over to the mob and
probably chortled to himself while they busted up the
Capitol Building.
One rioter lost her life doing perverted homage to Herr
Trump and his swamp gas induced dream of serving another
term as President.
Any loss of life by his supporters was probably deemed
expendable to Trump
for those who died, probably died in a good cause: The
Second Lost Cause (Question? What was the First Lost Cause
in American history?).
We continue to witness the erratic ravings of a lunatic
who lives in a parallel universe consisting of alternative
facts; and populated by a coterie of lapdogs and brain
damaged politicos who rode the Trump gravy train for all its
worth.
Compare the overwhelming police presence at the Capitol
when the Black Lives Matter demonstrators protested the
killing of black people as opposed to the sketchy presence
of police during this attempted coup of the Capitol…but, I
digress!
This attempted coup is an international sensation with
some other countries, allies and foes, taking the US to task
for its effrontery in lecturiing them how they operate their
governments versus what they saw on CNN.
Malcom X was right. Countries that throw stones at the
glass houses of other countries who allow questionable
political acts should not be outraged when those same
countries pick up the same stones and rain them on America’s
political glass house.
The chickens have come home to roost.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com
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