strings in the earth and air (all I am asking you to do)

 'strings in the earth and air

make music sweet;

strings by the river where

the willows meet.

there's music along the river

for love wanders there,

pale flowers on his mantle,

dark leaves on his hair....'

following on from syd barrett with lyrics by james joyce (goldenhair) we have the incredible string band (well one of them) with lyrics by james joyce (string in the earth and air). 

horsemouth is up. it is a moderate-ish morning (it was a bit cooler than has been usual last night). horsemouth does not seem to have come down with the C-O-V-I-D yet. he's trying to stay out of the way of his housemates and keep the house well ventilated. 

ok he's had his first cup of coffee time to go get the second (and final) cup and then on to the business of the day. 

soon the midpoint of the calendar year (displaced 10 days from  the solstices) july 1st and july 2nd. 

before january 6th trump was told that the department of justice could not overturn the results of the election. his reply was most instructive.

'that is not what I am asking you to do. all I am asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congress.'

this was the coup's strategy. an attempt to change the head of the DoJ to someone more obliging failed. and so we have trump's coup strategy in full.

it is a viable strategy (and given the right circumstances - a complaisant head of the department of justice, a president with the will, a republican congress - it could yet succeed). 

trump's problem was that he was proposing something too radical for his republican party associates, he was not sufficiently trusted by them to have his hands firmly on the levers of power (or indeed teh steering wheel of his car). but the candidate who has this could yet come and the myth of the betrayal of donald trump by the establishment will help them. trump's supporters are fanning out through the republican party capturing it if not for trump then for whoever comes afterwards on that trajectory. 

trump himself is a deluded egomaniac but the people he represented are real, the people locked out of representation by the very design of US politics. the populist movements cannot take anyone anywhere it would be good to go but they have an essential truth in the dissatisfaction of the people with the lives available to them under a democratic and neo-liberal system.

it now looks like trump was not there at congress in person on the day because the secret service would not let him go. it is by no means certain that the democrats and non-amnesiac republicans can land charges on him but by revealing him as someone actually attempting the coup they restore his position as coup leader. trump moves from someone who abandoned his people to someone who was prevented by the deep state from being there with his people. 

now in a battle between trump and the establishment (the deep state if you will) horsemouth is firmly on the side of the deep state - the separation of powers, the decent democratic lineaments, all these horsemouth regards as set dressing but it is considerably better that the state has to observe them  than if it doesn't. 

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horsemouth is not sure what he is up to today. 

yesterday he was mostly reading the FT (there's still a little left to go).  the trials of boris/ the trial of trump/ the coming economic depression/ iain sinclair touring the olympic site (text for free here)/ vladimir sorokin/ alexander crummell/ gardens in toronto - it's good to read an actual newspaper (and to read what you would not normally read).