With the election now over, indulge me for a moment and let me take you back to a specific point in time on January 6.
It’s early afternoon, and the Capitol is descending into chaos. By 2 p.m. Eastern, hundreds of rioters have stormed the barricades and flooded up the Capitol steps.
Inside, lawmakers are rushing to evacuate and secure essential documents. Overwhelmed officers struggle to hold back a mob that’s already chanting to ‘Hang Mike Pence!’ convinced he holds the power to overturn the election - because that’s what they’ve been led to believe.
Meanwhile, at the White House, Donald Trump is watching it all unfold on TV. He’s been briefed on the escalating violence, fully aware of the chants and the rioters targeting Pence.
Aides and allies are urging him to intervene and condemn the violence, but instead, he fixates on Pence’s role.
Then at 2:24 p.m. Eastern, rather than call for calm or set a plan in motion to help his VP, Trump sends the Tweet below.
When Trump was told that Pence’s life was in danger, he responds:
“So what?”
This is the person Republicans just put back in the White House.
So when Trump fires all non-partisan career professionals in government, replaces them with radical loyalists within every nook and cranny of the US government, and adds radical judges everywhere.
And every one of you that voted for him finally wake up from your fucked up fantasy just like the folks that woke up after 4 years of the last shit show, only to realize it’s much much worse, and much more permanent, this time.
When the cancer you caused has infected every bit of the American system and it can’t be unwound for a lifetime.
What then?
Do you beg this country for forgiveness for choosing fascism because you were conned into believing your eggs are too expensive because of Joe Biden?
You just put Steve Bannon in charge of American policy.
You just put Michael Flynn in charge of our military.
You just put Alex Jones in charge of media and propaganda.
You just put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration policy.
You just put batshit crazy RFK Jr. in charge of health policy.
You just killed free public education and privatized schools, which you will have to pay for.
You just sealed the deal on a national abortion ban, because you’re demented if you think it’s not coming.
You just radicalized the Supreme Court for a generation.
You just made women less safe and less free.
You just made this country an oligarchy with the billionaires quite literally in charge now.
You just put in office the one person that believes a president is a king, with the fucking Supreme Court ruling to prove it in his back pocket!
You just ushered in Fascism.
Because your cereal costs more.
Congratulations.
@altNOAA It will be much much higher this time.
All the guardrails are gone. The people who told him he couldn't use the military on peaceful protestors are gone.
@TallbarFIN Third times the charm.
USA in 1914 - not our problem -> WW I happens
USA in 1939 - not our problem -> WW II happens
USA in 2024 - not our problem ....
And irony is, eventually, they are FORCED to join, because IT IS "our problem".
And the f*cking russians know that they will now have free hands to do whatever the f*ck they want in Ukraine and propably also in their other neighboring countries.
Get ready for 4 years of American isolationism, dictator bootlicking & open fascism.
Europe will face dangerous and uncertain times, where our enemies keep growing stronger and strong will try to eat the weak
Extremely worried for Ukraine.
We can only wonder how stupid USA is.
MAGA-supporters are obviously too ignorant and stupid to realize it but the rest of us should know the overall situation and see the destructive path our world is currently on.
Americans, Finland welcomes you!
We have everything America has minus the common stupidity.
And we know how to protect our citizens.
Don't be afraid of russia behind our border, we have always managed to handle them. 😉
“I'm hearing from government employees right now… getting messages from them saying, ‘We’re worried. I’m scared.’”
@OliviaTroye, fmr. Homeland Security Advisor under Trump, tells @mehdirhasan she fears for her own safety: https://t.co/IhGP26qXbT