When cholera threatens a nation or troops open fire in the rain

[sovay]

I just wanted to spend my afternoon announcing the poetry acceptance I woke up to and then finishing my film review from last night, but instead there is armed sedition—terrorism, treason—at the Capitol and I had so much wanted the stoking of this violence to be like the specter of a shooting war at the polls in November, all talk. I have not wanted a shooting war. What I want is this obscenity burned down and the earth where it grew salted and then burned over again. What I want is an actual democracy to survive.

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[kaffy_r]

Fucking insurrection. I can only repeat that. I'm so infuriated and horrified.

[sovay]

Fucking insurrection. I can only repeat that. I'm so infuriated and horrified.

There is no point in euphemisms. One could also call it an attempted coup.

[choco_frosh]

I have asked my congressional delegation whether there is grounds for prosecuting those involved for sedition - and the President for inciting sedition.

[sovay]

I have asked my congressional delegation whether there is grounds for prosecuting those involved for sedition - and the President for inciting sedition.

I hope the answer is yes. I hope there will be a government to do it. We can't be having with Reconstruction 2.0.

[davidgillon]

In among the Guardian reporting is a line saying Giuliani called for "trial by combat", I'd say he at least crossed the line there.

[troisoiseaux]

Yeah, "trying to pay attention in class while an armed coup goes down four miles away" was not how I expected to spend my Wednesday.

Congrats on the poetry acceptance! Sorry about, you know. *waves hands at the state of the world*

[sovay]

Yeah, "trying to pay attention in class while an armed coup goes down four miles away" was not how I expected to spend my Wednesday.

I was quite pleased with the progress of the review! I was looking forward to posting it before it got much later in the day! Who knew I was on a deadline of inciting civil war?

I would consider it very reasonable of your professors to dismiss class under the circumstances, honestly. The attention span is under some strain.

Congrats on the poetry acceptance! Sorry about, you know. *waves hands at the state of the world*

Thank you! God.

[asakiyume]

And we're going to be stuck living in the steaming wreckage, trying to fix things, make things better, for years and years to come--that's if we avoid the shooting war! My brain is fried with the rage.

[sovay]

And we're going to be stuck living in the steaming wreckage, trying to fix things, make things better, for years and years to come--that's if we avoid the shooting war!

That was almost certain to be true no matter what, because of the man in the White House and his claims of fraud and his stooges who amplify his treason, but I didn't want things to come this close. I wanted the Republicans who had declared their allegiance against democracy to waste their breath tying up the electoral confirmation and then I wanted a peaceful transition of power. I still want a safe transition of power to the government whom the majority of this country elected and our even outmoded electoral college confirmed, but I think we may just have lost the peaceful part and I hate it.

My brain is fried with the rage.

It is enraging.

[nineweaving]

And there sits the child emperor amid the ruin of his toys. “Now with real mob action! Rule of law not included.”

Damn him. Damn them all.

Nine

[sovay]

Damn him. Damn them all.

I want them hanged in chains.

[choco_frosh]

Dilexisti omnia uerba praecipitationis, lingua dolosa. Propterea ds destruet te in finem: euellet te, et emigrabit te de tabernaculo tuo, et radicem tuam de terra uiuentium.

[davidgillon]

Once this is all over, Congress needs to appoint someone to follow Trump everywhere he goes, constantly whispering in his ear "you will go down in history as the worst president ever".

[sovay]

Once this is all over, Congress needs to appoint someone to follow Trump everywhere he goes, constantly whispering in his ear "you will go down in history as the worst president ever".

The prospect of a future stable enough to support the appointment of a memento felare* is very attractive to me right now.

* "Remember you suck."

[yhlee]

Huzzah poem!

The other stuff - *hiss*

[sovay]

Huzzah poem!

Thank you! I was quite pleased about it before the fascist insurrection rather derailed the day!

The other stuff - *hiss*

I want it smashed and I hope this country can do it. I worry.

[selkie]

I... there’s nothing I haven’t... I’m just. Here to say GOD, I LOVE LATIN VERBS.

[sovay]

I... there’s nothing I haven’t... I’m just. Here to say GOD, I LOVE LATIN VERBS.

*HUGS*

[minoanmiss]

I am really sorry your major accomplishment had this steaming ball of shit roll through all the limelight. Ugh.

[sovay]

I am really sorry your major accomplishment had this steaming ball of shit roll through all the limelight. Ugh.

*hugs*

I may post about it properly this evening, just as a form of salvage from the day.

[swan_tower]

Since I have spewed my fury elsewhere, I will instead say, congratulations on the poetry acceptance! Good news is good news, no matter the other news of the day.

[sovay]

Since I have spewed my fury elsewhere, I will instead say, congratulations on the poetry acceptance! Good news is good news, no matter the other news of the day.

Thank you! I gave it a post of its own in that spirit, dammit.

[vass]

What I want is an actual democracy to survive.

Yeah. :(

[sovay]

Yeah.

*hugs*

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on the poetry acceptance. This has been quite a day.

[sovay]

Congratulations on the poetry acceptance. This has been quite a day.

I liked the bits with my poetry and with Georgia . . .

"Trump blocked by Twitter and Facebook"

[nodrog]

This is marvelous.  Only Heinlein predicted the 21st century would be so wacky.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55569604

(Even Ron Goulart, author of After Things Fell Apart, et al., only extrapolated from current trends.)

“How did we conjure up a monster in our midst?  And why?  That is the question we must answer.” - Avalow, Zardoz

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and millions still recognized him as the lesser of two evils

Timeline 191 - H Turtledove

[nodrog]

That picture of a common man, casually dressed and carrying a présumé “Confederate flag” through the Capitol lobby had an interesting AU vibe to it - while the real CSA flag flies over every State building in Georgia, unnoticed by the ignorant PC twits this guy was deliberately and successfully bull-baiting.

Re: Timeline 191 - H Turtledove

[sovay]

while the real CSA flag flies over every State building in Georgia

I don't think it matters that the flag in question was never an ensign of the Confederacy as a whole; it is and has been for decades recognizable across America as a Confederate emblem. It is displayed and used as such. The message it broadcasts is the same.