The Revolution Is Being Televised

The Revolution Is Reality TV

January 13, 2021

As it turned out, the revolution is being televised. Because it was a made-for-tv revolution. Brought on at the behest of a made-from-tv president. And make no mistake, the whole world is watching, and the whole world was appalled on January 6, and the whole world knows exactly who lit the fuse, started the fire and fanned the flames. America’s friends and enemies alike have all called out Donald Trump for inciting, if not demanding a coup d’état. Perhaps most unfortunate of all, there was plenty of dry, seasoned kindling just waiting for a well-placed match.

Close cover before striking and STFU

(not pictured, Sen. Josh Hawley because, who gives a fuck about Josh Hawley)

T’reason Everything Is AFU

Trump has told us since 2015 that he would not accept the results of an election that did not go in his favor. It was much easier for him to work hand-in-iron-fist with Russia the first time and he was able to prevail on the strength of the Constitution he so reviles. Now that reality has smacked him square in his circus-peanut-colored puss, and he fears to his miserable bones that he will wind up on the wrong side of prison bars, he is stopping at nothing to remain in power, despite the clear and blatant desire of the American public, most of whom have long been fed up with all his winning at their expense. But know this, even if Trump had been re-elected, this despicable assault on both the philosophical and physical manifestations of our democracy still would have happened when he was denied a (completely illegal) third term…assuming there was anything left at that point.

This was obviously not the revolution Gil Scott Heron had in mind. That one – more like the peaceful Black Lives Matter response to the brutal murder of George Floyd, et al – was viciously beaten back, though not down, by Trump’s army. An army that was conspicuously absent when crazed white people, aided and abetted by the Pentagon upper echelon recently installed by Trump, stormed the Capitol Building on January 6^th. The army that will hopefully be prepared for what is likely to be part two of the attempted coup signed, sealed and in the process of being delivered in the coming days by all manner of white nationalists, anti-democratic insurgents, domestic terrorists and radicalized Trump loyalists.

Gil Scott Heron

Televised or not, we return you now to the revolution already in progress. Calls are already out for more lunatics with more weapons to invade every state capital as well as Washington, DC in the coming days, particularly it seems on January 17^th. Expect the stupid, deplorable and terrorism to get turned up to eleven. Thankfully, many (surely not nearly enough) of the instigators and perpetrators of the January 6 storming and siege of the Capitol have been identified and arrested. Unfortunately, the ringleader – Donald J. Trump, and his fellow travelers in the House of Representatives and United States Senate, in particular Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley – remain at large, unrepentant and poised to continue providing aid and comfort to the active insurrection.

Sticks and stones and assholes beating you with American flags and shooting you can break your bones, but words can never hurt you…except when they are used to incite psychos with sticks and stones and guns and using the Flag as a weapon to beat you senseless, or to death. Don’t forget, these psychos actually built a gallows, ostensibly for Mike Pence, Pelosi and others.

I guess they didn’t have enough time to build a gas chamber.
Come for the Jews, stay for the blacks.

Just before the storming of the Capital, Trump read his sheep the go-ahead-and-riot act, said he would march with them, which of course he did not, then went to watch the reality show he launched – Asshole Apprentice: Operation Treason – on television. According to some with firsthand knowledge, Trump reveled in the chaos he fomented and could not understand why more of his long-time enablers and co-conspirators were not enjoying the show Trump produced and directed.

They say no man is an island, but Donald trump is an I-land. There is no ‘I’ in team and there is no brain in Trump. Only venom. And racism. And fascism.

I. Mangrey reporting. Maybe his hands aren’t small, maybe there’s just way too much of the rest of him.

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