Yes, this is all extremely serious. Deadly serious for Brazil, and for the world in general as the criminals who planned and incited an insurrection and a cultural movement of hate are at it, still. Steve Bannon, charged with fraud for his work on Trumps boarder wall scam, as well as money laundering, convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress, and pardoned by Trump in a final moment as president, is likely at the bottom of it. Roger Stone and Michael Flynn’s names are in close association with Bannon’s in this sort of event.
This doesn’t change the situation when looking sideways, just a teensy little bit, the whole scene could be a side story of Dumb and Dumber, a new kind of Presidents Club. This one with a treehouse and a sign Gurls alowed.
The sentiment, Get in Loser and meme made with it, is a take off from Mean Girls, the Lindsay Lohan hit of 2004. This is a well worn meme from tick-tock and twitter infamy.
The Jan 6 coup in the United States did not reinstall Trump. It has caused hundreds of peoples arrests and incarceration. All Trump supporters. The deaths of five people. 138 police officers were injured as well as insurrectionist were injured. Repairs at the US Capitol have topped 30 million. How is any of the similar destruction in Brasilia going to help Bolsonaro? It won’t. But it will mess up Luis Inacio Luia da Silva, the newly elected president, significantly.
Destruction, raising questions, demanding answers that have been answered, badgering. We have lived through it and we continue on living through it. The wining, the obstruction and frankly, downright stupidity continues. Oh, and the adolescent grooming (or lack thereof) of Bannon has been mentioned many times by many with eyes, but it’s never addressed as the symptom that it is, a sign of poor mental health.
Fresh from our protracted Speaker of the House four day, fifteen vote performance, now is a good moment to mention the performances will continue on the House floor. The rules agreed upon by McCarthy to get the votes he needed to swing the gavel will be struck down after lengthy infighting and complaining to the media and fundraising will rain credit cards to be captured by the GOP in one way or another, to put on monthly donation cycles. Threats to Biden and his looming impeachment. What will they get done? Answering with another question, what have they gotten done?
Destruction is the motive. Destruction is the plan. They will continue on, no matter how stupid they look. What do they have to loose that they haven’t already lost?
Destruction is for a purpose and the purpose is each moment is a battle or a skirmish in a war we are fighting globally. It’s authoritarian in nature and bluntly, this is happening as an economic war for power change in the world. Putin and substantively, Xi fund it with purpose. Funding is cheap relatively to what it brings. Watch Harry and Megan on Netflix for a gripping understanding of how just a few tasked with social media directives can be more far reaching than imagined. Make little mistake however to the characters involved with skewing the media to question the place of Ukraine relative to Russia and what is happening. The slant towards Russia, and “whataboutism” is the step just before “so, Putin needs to be offered an offramp” have done and so much more. Big media with big salaries.
Biden is doing an excellent job. I can tell because he is attacked nonstop. He’s doing a terrific job no matter how the right squeals their infantile, above hearing range whistles for everything destructive.
Bolsonaro is on the lamb. But we know where he is. He is a guest at Mar a Lago.*
Arrest them all. It’s well deserved and then some.
*Bolsonaro, it is reported, has secured his own residence at this time. It had been reported previously that he was received by Trump at Mar a Lago.
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