*Various Author’s Notes:
- What an opener for my real first piece, huh? Well, y’all know me…
- I’ve made a conscious decision to rarely - if ever - include hyperlinks in my pieces here on Substack (other than ones to my own sites). I’ve never really been a fan of those; I feel as if they take away from the reading experience. For me, I’m wanting this, Dear Reader, to be more like reading a newspaper, magazine or a newsletter.
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- This is not a newssite. This is a commentary page. Mine, specifically.
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With that out of the way, let’s get down to business.
1/6 wound up becoming truly a transformative event for the Body Politic of the Home Country for several reasons.
The peculiarity of the whole affair was perhaps best encapsulated by the images of the Q Shaman fella, you know, the one with the painted face, wearing the horns on his head with a fur pelt.
I knew right away that regardless of anything else this event was going to lend itself to some major knee-jerk reactions while advancing the size & scope of the federal government.
Check & check.
The problem with this situation, as I see it, is the same problem we’ve been dealing with for years now — polarizing, tribal politics; a true dearth of common sense & a continuing plunge into the madness of the current reality of the situation (see also: New Normal).
Mysteries & Questions
Why has the federal government refused to release thousands of hours of its video surveillance footage?
Why have they refused to release the full autopsy report of Rosanne Boyland, who we now know was likely killed by the Capitol Police? After reading about her & her family’s terrible plight to get any real information about her killing, I feel so bad; my heart hurts. But, for some, she was a simply a MAGA person; so, for them, who cares, right?
Just how many federal agents, informants & assets were in DC that day? And how many were actively involved with the day’s events?
Who is Ray Epps? And why was he taken off the FBI’s list for wanted persons in connection with this?
There are many other questions I’d like to see answered, but first, let’s clear something up.
The Myth
That Trump lathered up & whipped the assembled body at his speech that day into a frenetic frenzy & then they ran - RAN! - towards the Capitol in a white-supremacist, Q-loving rage & then proceeded to perform the worst act in human history - worse than The Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, The Civil War, WWI, WWII, Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin & 9/11 COMBINED! - all the while pouring sugar into the gas tanks of the downtrodden & punching old folks in the face.
The Reality
The still-unknown “black-clads” (with the color coordination scheme thing going on) as well as most assuredly various FBI plants (again, Ray Epps), assets & agents in addition to at least a few known Antifa/agent provocateurs (remember, CNN was paying the one guy) - broke in BEFORE Trump even came close to finishing his speech. That’s been clearly documented.
But those break-ins were actually few & far between (again, proven fact). For the most part - and as countless cell phone videos have shown - the capitol police were not only letting folks in, they were literally waving folks in. Shaking hands w/ ‘em. That, too, is incontrovertible fact. They also led old ladies to the bathroom. Some of these folks - including the old ladies - were later arrested.
In addition to the aforementioned Ms. Boyland, the more well known Ashli Babbit was the other woman killed by government agents that day though the legacy media zeroed in almost instantly on a quickly discredited fact that one police officer was supposedly bludgeoned to death by a fire extinguisher. That report has been totally debunked. That man went home that night. His cause of death was not the aforementioned fire extinguisher as it never happened. To date, that story has not been corrected by most media outlets.
And to this day, ten months later, hundreds of American Citizens, who have seemingly been stripped of their Constitutional rights continue to languish in what is now known as DC Gitmo.
The US Marshal’s Service investigated the horrid conditions of this place a few weeks back & removed several prisoners, including one of the 1/6 political prisoners who’d been denied chemo for his cancer.
Reports, including from some of the incarcerated, paint a picture of a gulag that the USSR would’ve been proud of (and yes - I ended that sentence w/ a preposition; you should try it sometime).
More & more people, including those on the left, are starting call this out for what it appears to be:
Political Persecution
Regardless of how you feel about DJT, CRT, Covid, #CancelCulture or anything else for that matter -- this SHOULD absolutely terrify you; however, some simply don’t care because it’s only the folks from the Bad Team so it doesn’t matter.
Well, people, check your history on how that likely works out for you, as well as for our beloved Republic.
Per the thoughts of many politicos right now, the midterms are gonna be a bloodbath & that may likely set the stage for a return of MAGA to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in 2024.
One enduring truth about American politics is that it is cyclical. It ebbs & flows very much in a Newton’s Third Law kind of way — equal & opposite.
I don’t know if I’ve ever in my lifetime seen such a large amount of political force wielded in these last ten months. Between the vaccine mandates, classifying concerned parents as domestic terrorists, the ongoing charade of what this article is about & so many other things, I have a feeling that an equal & opposite effect will be the absolute minimum.
Is that really what you want? Are you sure you want to continue on this path?
The Rub
So many things are interconnected with the situation that to fully unpack it all would probably take a several thousand words which is a piece I’m not inclined to write at this point; however, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the elephant in the room.
Trump
He’s a thin-skinned buffoon. That’s why I didn’t vote for him in 2016. He cast shade on my main man, Rand Paul. He’s so undisciplined. A total asshole.
But…
We now know that everything Russia Collusion was a total & absolute lie.
Once one accepts that, then you have to take a different perspective on all things.
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Did some easily-led folks get caught up in the moment?
Yes, of course, that’s been proven.
But is it what the 1/6 Commission, power elite & the corporate, legacy media is claiming?
For anyone with any intelligence who is not blinded by the Team Blue/Team Red B.S., obviously, no.
And that’s the view from my vantage point.
- MBM