Weaponizing Ignorance

The conservative strategy in recent years is to sow chaos, doubt, mistrust, and hatred of any opposing views or opinions. Republicans don’t seem to have any platform except to be in control at any cost. How else could you explain their opposition to any policy to control the Covid outbreak? They have proved willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives simply to show that President Biden is failing. To keep their core intact, the first needed to strip them of anything approaching critical thinking skills and also teach them to have a profound contempt for science.

 Republicans have encouraged their followers to put faith in the most insane conspiracy theories imaginable to steer them away from the truth without showing the slightest concern of how to put the genie back in the bottle. How can America return from this point in which almost half of the population have lost all sense of reason? 

 This story begins with Ronald Reagan’s inaugural address on January 20, 1981, when he uttered what would go on to be his most repeated aphorism: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” He was referring to the economic ills the country was suffering at the time which were no worse than when he left office eight years later. He blamed the downturn on an unfair tax system and then promptly lowered taxes for the richest Americans who were already doing quite well, initiating America’s slide into an income inequality that is worse than any developed nation.*  

 His quip about how government was the problem would go on to fuel the American conservative movement for the next forty years which has sown a deep mistrust of not only our government, but of the very election system.

 I would be tempted to say that this contempt for our own democracy culminated in the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, except this isn’t anywhere near being over. It’s ironic that Reagan began his inaugural speech with this bit:

 “To a few of us here today this is a solemn and most momentous occasion, and yet in the history of our nation it is a commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place, as it has for almost two centuries, and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-4-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.”

 Trump was completely contemptuous of how “unique” we are by boycotting this orderly transfer of authority and siccing his mob on our elected officials ratifying the election. This time, the ignorant mob was unarmed, but as I said, this process is far from over. A lot happened to conservatives between Reagan’s call for a more privatized America and Trump’s insane and unhinged rejection of the 2020 election results. 

 Most of the Right’s emphasis has been cultivating a ground roots campaign to get their followers to believe any load of manure they shovel on them. A pedophile ring managed from a pizza parlor and led by Hillary Clinton? Why not? Covid vaccines are harmful so perhaps try injecting yourself with bleach? Sounds reasonable to most Trump lovers. Make America great again? OK, but when was that, exactly? Trump’s final “fuck you” to America was to scream that the election was rigged. Of course, there was no evidence of this, and election fraud is a topic Republicans have been harping on for years without a shred of evidence.

 Republicans have trained their followers to believe the most outrageous lies imaginable. Anything that they don't agree with the simply brand as "fake news" and give their alternate facts, as they call them. It seems that with each year and each new election cycle, the bullshit Republicans feed their base becomes viler and further from anything remotely resembling the truth. Conservatives have ignored almost all the scientific data we have obtained about combatting Covid, from wearing masks to vaccinations.

 

 *The United States’ Gini coefficient is .484, the highest it’s been in 50 years according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. has the highest Gini coefficient among the G7 nations. The top 1% of earners in the United States earn about 40 times more than the bottom 90% of earners. About 33 million U.S. workers earn less than $10 per hour, placing a family of four below the poverty line.

The Coming Storm Brought to You by The Republican Party

 The Republican strategy since the time of Ronald Reagan has been to erode the people’s trust in their own government. You know, the one run by the representatives we elected. Reagan’s soundbite was that government wasn’t the solution, it’s the problem. Except government is often the solution to many problems. I just got back from a fifty-kilometer bike ride on wonderful bike trails built by…wait for it…the government. Who the fuck else is going to build bike trails?

Of course, Republicans probably never ride bikes, but it still takes a government to build the airports for their private jets.

If you beat it into people's skulls that the government is the problem, their expectations are reduced to zero and government isn't expected to do anything for them, which is exactly what Republicans have accomplished. Trump did absolutely nothing for the vast majority of the people who voted him into office in 2016. He did a hell of a lot for a handful of ultra-rich creeps who benefited from his tax cuts and his decimation of environmental laws that paved the wave for easier profits while doing incalculable damage to the planet we are all forced to share.

You have to wonder if Republicans even want the USA to be a democracy. They’ve hated voting and try to deny the people’s right to cast their ballots, and now they hate fair and free elections. Every effort was made to perform a fascist overthrow of the democratically-elected candidate, and an even bigger push is being made to erode Americans’ confidence in our election process. Of course, they have zero proof that there has been any voting fraud, but the Republican strategy relies on repeating and hair-brained lie enough times that their brain-dead faithful gobble it up and puke it back out again and again.

Fact: there has been no proof at all that the 2020 Presidential Election was fraudulent. None. Trump and his creepy cabal have been pushing this lie since election night, simply because Trump is too fucking stupid to realize that an election isn’t over until all the votes have been counted. From election day until Biden was sworn in as President, Trump didn’t bother to carry out any of his duties as President because he was so obsessed with over-turning Biden’s rather sizeable electoral victory. Trump is stupid, but even I thought that he was capable of simple math, and the math looked like this:

Biden   81,283,098 votes
Trump  74,222,958 votes

 Biden won 7,060,140 more votes than Ex-president Pussy-Grabber who received fewer votes in 2016 than his opponent.

 If the Republicans truly believe that the 2020 Election was rigged, the only recourse is civil war. I suggest a division of the country along the lines of India-Pakistan. The Republicans can have the Red States. Fine with me, I wouldn't live in any of them.

Finally, in Liz Cheney we have a Republican with the guts to stand up to the Trump fascists and speak her mind:

“We have an obligation that goes beyond partisanship,” Cheney said, “Democrats and Republicans together, to make sure that we understand every single piece of the facts about what happened [on 6 January] and to make sure that people who did it are held accountable.

“And to call it a false flag operation to spread those kinds of lies is really dangerous.”

Guilty as Charged

I’ve been watching the impeachment trial of the former president. If this were a normal court case, his conviction would be a slam dunk. Unfortunately, Republican Senators are mostly either sycophants or cowardly and won’t vote to prosecute. If they choose not to convict, further violence will be on their hands. If he goes unchecked, I’m sure that Fuckface Von Clownstick will egg on more crowds of brain-dead MAGA creeps. 

This video was broadcast even while his moronic minions were still rampaging through the corridors of the Capitol. Not only does he exhibit no remorse, but he is still harping on his bullshit claims of election fraud. He is a threat to our democracy.

Final Days of Trump?

Desperately working to get to the bottom of the Capitol Insurrection, Fox News uncovers the seditious mastermind of the Antifa movement. A black dude did it! You have to wonder about police priorities when they arrest a black dude among hundreds, perhaps thousands of white slobs acting badly. Fox News went all-in on this ridiculous revelation with their entire stable of half-wit opinionists weighing in on it.

Fox News is on the Case

In a related matter, Fox News now says that it's possible the Capitol rioters were aided by Maoist Shining Path guerrillas from Peru. I did see a dude in the crowd wearing one of those Andean knit hats.

 

Or perhaps it was Al Qaeda? The fat hicks descending on the Capitol certainly would have made Al Qaeda proud in their attack on American ideals of democracy. Or was it Russia? Putin probably jerked off to the images from January 6, 2021.

Antifa infiltrators cleverly disguised as fat rednecks.

 

Trump Weaponizes Ignorant Hicks in Failed Coup Attempt

First and foremost, we must ask, how did this happen? In the spot where our democratically-elected officials carry out the duties assigned to them by the constitution they were all sworn to uphold, an angry, armed mob enters by force and the police stand around doing nothing? In the video where the mentally ill, half-witted woman is shot and killed, there are at least four armed police officers standing behind the insurrectionists as they are breaking down a door to gain access to a restricted area. 

There are other images of police practically waving the hillbillies into the Capitol, like they are ushers at a rock concert. A lot of people need to answer for this outrage. Number one on that list needs to be the insane and half-witted Donald Trump who instigated the violence. He needs to be removed from office immediately before he incites more violence.

This is Trump's incoherent message to the people he incited to act violently. Even in this lame appeal for rioters to stand down, Trump is egging them on further.

This is how hillbillies think they will make America great again. The MAGA logo should henceforth be associated with what it is: a catchphrase of racists and fascists, vile scum intent on destroying our democracy. All of them working together with their fearless leader couldn't pass a high school equivalency exam.

Tub of shit hick who was trying to find the Weight Watchers meeting.

Please tell me that the police plan on arresting and prosecuting this moron.

Possibly the most insulting and despicable image of the day, and that's saying a lot.

This is the insane half-wit who was shot and killed as she was trying to enter a restricted area of the Capitol after she and other insurrectionists had broken the shatter-proof window of a door that they obviously weren't meant to enter.

Just before the shooting, at least four heavily-armed policemen walk up the stairs, witness that the scum are breaking the shatter-proof glass on a barricaded door that they obviously aren't meant to open, and the cops turn around and walk back down without even telling the scum to clear out of the building. Something very weird was going on with the police, like they were in on it. 

Yet another video angle of just how complicit the police seem to be in Capitol fiasco. Three officers are standing in front of a door which is locked and heavily barricaded on the other side with furniture making it completely obvious that access to this area is restricted.

Four more SWAT cops walk up the stairs on the left, then turn around and leave while the rioter morons are breaking the glass on the door. Mentally ill half-wit lady is the first to attempt to go through the window into the restricted area and is shot by a cop inside the area.

It’s impossible to observe the action of these police officers and not come to the conclusion that they were on the side of the rioters. I’m guessing that most of them are pro-Trump, QAnon kooks.

Hall of Shame

Along with the Republican congress members who voted to defy the election results, these eight scum bags need to be held accountable for their actions. There has been absolutely no proof of election fraud, a meme that Republicans have been pushing for years in their completely undemocratic vision for America. 

 Weaponizing Ignorance

We are witnessing the effects of a long process of misinformation, which is an extremely polite word for lying. Republicans have been screaming that our elections are rigged for years, that the voting process is corrupt, that millions of illegal votes are cast whenever Americans go to the polls. This chord has been struck countless times since Trump learned that things weren’t going his way in his race with Biden. Their tactic is to repeat these lies until they are accepted by the faithful as fact, and by "faithful" I mean quasi-literate, far-right kooks.

Look at the video above of Ashli Babbitt in her car ranting and raving about whatever the fuck she is talking about. Does this look like a mentally stable human being? Would a sane person break down a door in the Capitol and enter an area plainly not intended for public access? Call it suicide by ideology. 

Think of truth as oxygen. The far-right propaganda mill has suffocated their constituents with lies for so long that we see the results in national disgraces like this assault on the Capitol. A fury has been unleashed and where this anger will lead is anyone’s guess, but only a fool would believe that this will end well. And good luck trying to put that genie back in the bottle.

If I thought that the election had been rigged, that the voting process was nothing but a sham, I’d be angry, furious even. The fact is that there are no facts to support this myth, with “myth” being a very polite word for a vile lie. If the voting process is so corrupt, so utterly flawed, then why don’t Republicans dispute all of the elections that they have won? Both houses of Congress are almost evenly divided between the two parties, we have a Republican President (at least until he is rightfully impeached), yet they claim our elections are a fraud.