January 6th And The Cesarean Who Should Have Never Crossed The Potomac

Donald Trump’s presidency ended three years ago in the midst of a cockamamie riot in the US Capitol Building. On the evidence, it was essentially a happenstance outbreak of blind mob mayhem enabled by piss poor policing conducted by the amateur cops who are pleased to call themselves the Capitol Police. Nothing that happened during that five hour melee remotely resembled the violent insurrection against American democracy it’s now cracked up to be.

But like in almost everything else nowadays, this wholly confected narrative of the political class has supplanted reality. Completely. Absurdly.

Indeed, we have even reached the point where the risible “imperiled democracy” trope has been embraced as the core issue of the 2024 campaign by the same claque of Democrat pols who have the nerve to stand-up the pitiable “Joe Biden” for another term in the Oval Office.

So it is no exaggeration to say that the final spasm of the Trump Derangement Syndrome that engulfed the nation’s ruling elites and MSM megaphones on January 6, 2021 has spawned the Big Lie of the 21st Century. But not one bit of the Day of Infamy narrative is true, plausible or warranted.

In the first place, there was nothing organized about it. What preceded the leaderless march of the mob to the Capitol was little more than a handful of rightwing whackadoos pinging each other on social media. They acted spontaneously and spasmodically without plot, plan, preparation, training, war chest, directorate, communications network or any other kind of prearrangement whatsoever.

Even more surely, there was nothing armed about it, either. Among the thousands of yokels and diehard Trumpites who frolicked through the Capitol Building, law reinforcement has not identified a single man, woman or child who was carrying a gun, sword or even a stink bomb when the Capitol Police essentially stepped aside and gave them the run of the building.

Not surprisingly, therefore, the only blood that was shed during this faux “insurrection” and alleged attempt at coup d’ etat was that of Ashli Babbitt, a decorated hero of America’s pointless wars and earnest Trump supporter. She was shot point blank without warning by a Capitol Police officer, who had a record of anger management issues that were hardly trivial.

Moreover, what kind of insurrection has no list of demands, no ringing declarations of purpose, no fiery ultimatums? In most of the hours upon hours of video footage now available the meandering crowds look as surprised to be there as was the proverbial car-chasing dog who finally caught his prey.

Likewise, the audio track of the event resembles nothing so much as the undulating din of a milling crowd. Even the normal menacing chants of a purposeful demonstration were few and far between. For crying out loud, as far as we can tell these unarmed insurrectionists descended upon the Capitol without the aid of even a hardware store bullhorn.