(under) pressure

 phew. what scenes!

horsemouth wonders what russians must think looking at this. what serbs must think. what rumanians must think. anywhere where a government has been dragged down. where a mob has rampaged through the parliament building.

exciting times.  as the advert has it. 

now of course we are all supposed to applaud the return of due (democratic) process and the certification of the election of joe biden and kamala harris.

but wait. the biden victory is marked by the failure of his campaign to connect with both black lives matter and also the hollowing out of the lives of working people that found expression in make american great again,  it marks a return to politics as normal and inside the beltway.

had this been a majority black mob they would have been shot down on the steps but because they were a majority white mob sanctified by the president himself  the cops and security guards  didn't know where the boundary was. they let the theatre play out.

what does horsemouth (armchair general in chief) think? 

the 'patriots' (and their leader jamiroquai) must be secretly delighted (while remaining 'outraged' you understand). such moments are a heady charge. now the calculation must be about when the state will move on them, before the biden inauguration or after it or indeed at all. whether there will be an opportunity to come out to play again before the 20th. 

by the way kudos to jamiroquai for coming properly costumed -as buffalo bill, as a flag painted incarnation of america (as a certifiable berserker). the rest of the crowd (hoodies and winterwear) kind of let the side down sartorially, but at least they looked like americans 

trump still has 13 days to fuck shit up. he is the betrayed king, the man who has had the election robbed off  him (and off the american people) and in particular off the 74 million people who voted for him and the people who still believe that trump won. 

congress could (in theory) impeach him before he goes or he could be tried for treason after. 

could trump run again as a republican candidate after this? er. probably not. but if he doesn't run as a republican candidate and he runs again he will split the vote (which might be no bad thing, unless you are a conservative republican). 

in many ways the long game  of the conservative right via the supreme court is won. biden could roll it back by adding additional justices to the supreme court but will he in the current situation? the situation makes biden dependent on the good graces of conservative republicans to do anything (even though he has the extra georgia seats). 

horsemouth has to snicker at this situation. situations that are fucked up and irredeemable appeal to his sense of humour. he will return (emboldened) to his reading of the origins of totalitarianism.  

exciting times.