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.

[choco_frosh]

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

[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]

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.

[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.

[kaffy_r]

Yes. I'm so fucking enraged, it threatens to choke me.

Congratulations on your poetry news.

[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.

[sovay]

Yes. I'm so fucking enraged, it threatens to choke me.

There are other people who should be choking. You're not one.

Congratulations on your poetry news.

Thank you. It just feels weird to make the delighted post I was about to before the national incels hit the scene.

[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]

Exactly.

[nineweaving]

I was going to say, "For the crows," but the crows know poison when they smell it.

Nine

[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.

[nineweaving]

Now that's what I call a curse! Unlike crows, the Erinyes aren't dainty.

Nine

[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.

[sovay]

Now that's what I call a curse!

It's from the 52nd Psalm. I am hoping the bit about all of us flourishing like olive trees when those who glory in malice and injustice are laid waste also applies.

[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."

[troisoiseaux]

I would consider it very reasonable of your professors to dismiss class under the circumstances, honestly.

They did cancel evening classes (my last class of the day juuust didn't make the cutoff) and my professor said at the beginning of class he'd be flexible if people needed to hop off to get groceries or stuff before the curfew. (Downside of virtual classes; if we were in person, I imagine they'd have locked down the campus.)

Ironically, the two classes I had this afternoon were Constitutional and criminal law.

[sovay]

Ironically, the two classes I had this afternoon were Constitutional and criminal law.

Ouch.

[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.

[choco_frosh]

OH GOD SOMEONE TAKE HIM, PERSONALLY, UP ON THAT