Two and a half days of post-democracy

Never mind the declaration of war or the authorization of force, never mind the national debate or the campaign promises; now that The Party need not fear the press or the law or the people, they've dispensed even with announcing the war: among the Establishment's first orders of business for the fraud Joe Biden, signing whatever it is they place onto his desk and repeating whatever it is they whisper into his earpiece, was the ordering of hundreds of troops into Syria. The forces were rolled in and choppered in all of 24 hours after the inauguration, and the people were left to discover our latest war effort days after its ordering, second-hand from Syrian and other Mideastern press. Lest it be doubted that this is a Mideastern entanglement wanted by no-one but the Establishment, they never let on about it before the election, then the instant the inauguration is past them, they give the order and don't bother themselves even to acknowledge it to the country and the world.

 

This new Syrian entanglement is a war without an enemy or a point. It had been settled by Trump diplomatically, with the scantiest of deployments and not a shot fired -- Trump who is the only commander-in-chief in 40 years to not launch a new war. At question is a territorial dispute between the Turks our allies and the Kurds our friends: tell me who I'm supposed to shoot at. And there is no threat in this to the United States, no fear of terrorism or nuclear proliferation or Islamist fascism, and not even is there a shooting war to pacify, making it easily the most pointless military effort in living memory. Not to mention, the United States just now is in the middle of a civilizational collapse and losing a cold war against China -- China which has only just deliberately demolished 188 countries and come out the other end with scarcely a cross word against them. 

And it gets worse. Also among those first orders of business for Biden was re-cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta; there's tens of thousands of jobs wiped, direct and indirect, and the United States left to import instead from Russia and Venezuela. A moratorium on leases and permits for oil and gas on federal lands. Then there was the re-commitment of the United States to the Paris Climate Suicide Pact, notwithstanding that the global temperature has risen all of 0.9 of a degree Celsius in a century, that CO2 is the innocuous stuff we exhale and oxygen to the plant kingdom, and that the principal producer of CO2 in the world is exempt from the accord, namely China. So there's that much more manufacturing packed up and shipped away to China, and America that much more hobbled, for a lie. And Biden's press secretary added helpfully on Inauguration Day that the abolition of fracking is to follow, fracking being the single greatest technological advancement making for America's exporting more energy than we import for only the first time since the 1950s, under Trump.

 

Of course the puppeteers behind Biden's big chair in the Oval Office ordered an end to construction on the border wall, wiping another 10,000 jobs in a stroke, suspended deportations of illegal aliens, ordered the 14,000 mostly convicted-criminal illegals in federal custody released into society and in toto, and commanded that illegal aliens shall be counted in the 2020 Census, which not coincidentally has the effect of piling up Congressional seats and electoral votes for Democrats. And the promise was renewed, of a "path to citizenship" for the estimated 20-million-plus illegal aliens, with expedited voting rights inasmuch as that's the object of the exercise, packing the electorate with tens of millions of spare Democrat votes to rescue The Party from the murderous rage of the people coming for it at the next scheduled election and to reduce the republic ever after to one-party state. Lest it be doubted that they fixed the last election, they're fixing the next one while we watch, complete with a scheme to forbid Trump from standing again for president and even from holding rallies.

Biden mandated masks on federal property, and a matter of hours later broke his own darn mask law. Thereafter Biden read a speech shrugging that as it turns out, there's not a lot he can do about "COVID". Also there was an executive order on "racial equity"; I've no notion of what that means but I know well enough it's a declaration of war on whites. And among the very most pressing business for Biden, he somehow took onto himself the authority to compel school sports for girls to admit boys who claim to be girls, onto the field and into the locker room, swinging the wrecking ball of leftism now into girls' sports, in the name of "transgender rights".  

No element of this Bidenian program is popular or makes the country independent or self-sufficient, or strong or safe, or rich or free. The country repudiated all this on Election Day, before the visitation late Election Night by the Vote Fairy, and even a great many of the ones who did vote Biden -- and there is such a thing as a living, legal voter who really and truly did pull the lever for Joe Biden -- never signed on for this. The Democrat skews in the polling can't rescue Biden's job approval, and he walks into the White House at sub-fifty.  

The Biden inaugural was a sham and an abortion. Looking like some North Korean observation of the founding of the dynasty, and about as democratic: tens of thousands of troops and maybe a couple thousand people, with mass ranks of uniform flags where the people ought to have been. The most memorable bit of Biden's address may've been Bill Clinton's dozing off in the middle of it, then as if to enact a screenplay about a doddering old buffoon installed in power as a puppet, Biden said out loud "Salute the Marines," instead of saluting the Marines, mistaking the direction in his earpiece for dialogue.  

And then the inauguration developed into a disgusting scandal and outrage: Democrats first accused the white males who constitute something on the order of 90% of the National Guard, of plotting an "insider attack" on the sham inauguration they were ordered to secure, and subjected them to three layers of investigation on suspicion of conspiracy; then it turns out the Democrats provided for no accommodation for the Guard, reducing the men to sleeping on a cafeteria floor. These would be the same Democrats who when the National Guard rescued Washington from smashing up and burning down last summer in the Black Lives Matter riots, turned Guardsmen out of their hotels. Now it turns out that 5,000 troops ordered to stay on after the inauguration for no good reason, were left by the Democrats to sleep on the floor of an unheated parking garage with one bathroom and as many electrical outlets.  

"This is how Joe Biden's America treats soldiers," pronounced the source in the Guard who smuggled out the truth and accompanying photos. Trump saw the outrage and at once he opened his luxury Trump Hotel in Washington to the troops; they've forbidden Trump from tweeting to the world and from e-mailing his supporters or raising funds, and somehow they've even closed his personal bank accounts, among other "depersoning" of the Last Elected President by the unelected Establishment, but they haven't yet confiscated his properties. 

And that is an accounting of but the first two and a half days in our Age of Biden. But these are democratic arguments in a post-democratic age, arguments like we might've made in the holiday-from-history Clinton '90s or in the punishing and brutalizing, bleak and grim barrenness that was the the Age of Obama, persuading the people to vote Republican in the midterms. 2020, as the advertisers say of it, changed everything: in 2020 we won the argument and won the votes, but lost the election. Already we're winning 2021; Democrats aren't winning the argument but neither are they trying. The Party in 2021 have transcended politics and persuasion: anymore they only cram it down our throats, and fix it to where we can't say peep about it. 

"If you need all this to protect your inauguration from the people, maybe the f'ing people didn't f'ing elect you!"

I can't improve on those, the words of a bluecollar worker in the national capital on the weekend before the first post-democratic presidential inauguration. For the first time in 53 years the Democrat Party have discovered an application for armed force that meets with their approval: enforcing against the civilian population their seizure of total power for remaking America into Venezuela, and playing a part in the party pantomime to impress on us all that those people who dissent from The Party are dangerous and murderous "insurrectionists" and "seditionists".   

25,000 National Guard complemented by hundreds of specialized regulars, plus city and Capitol police -- several times the numbers deployed today to Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria put together -- licensed to kill civilians at their discretion. A Green Zone and a Red Zone as in wartime Baghdad, military checkpoints for entry to and exit from the downtown, bridges to the capital closed, and the perimeter secured by twelve-foot razor-wired fencing. And still The Party blame "security threats" for the abortion that is their inaugural ceremonies, and the dirty FBI "vet" the patriot National Guard. The commander of the Guard for the District of Columbia subjects his men to three layers of investigation, on suspicion of plotting an "insider attack", and a senior Democrat helpfully explains that it's the white male Guardsmen who are suspect, which is to say something like nine Guardsmen in ten.

Mass censorship and mass criminalization of the political opposition are well along even before The Party assume total power formally, and the "depersoning" of the opposition already is complete. The Last Elected President is to depart the capital on the morning of Inauguration Day without attending the ceremony or meeting the successor as was the custom of the republic, when it was a republic: the outgoing president cannot concede defeat because manifestly he won a historic landslide, and he cannot congratulate or acknowledge the incoming president who can't make second in a two-man race, even in an establishment poll, for most-admired. Secession is under discussion already, and language like "civil war" is common enough. And the theme of the inauguration: "America united", as if to plop the cherry on top of the fiction, and for all the world to see.

The Sixth of January

First they censored us; then they stole our votes; thereafter they denied us our day in court; next they dismissed our thousand sworn witnesses and whistleblowers and The Law pronounced that there was "no evidence of fraud" and would be no investigation; and finally they refused us even a stay of ten days, to audit and reconsider for only the first time the most spectacularly obviously stolen election in the history of the free world.  

And then when we did all that they had left to us to do, confronting our national legislature unarmed to shake awake the country and the world, at the business end of what was among the largest peaceful political demonstrations in the history of the republic, conspicuously unreported by the press, they clubbed us and gassed and maced us and shot us, preemptively and without a declaration of unlawful assembly or so much as a warning. By the end four of our number were dead* including a small, unarmed woman 14 years in the service of the United States Air Force, she having bled to death where she fell from a bullet to the neck. Within hours they declared us enemies of the state and determined to "cleanse" the country of us, "cleanse" being the prescription of a network news director. But we are the country, 84% of it.

A revolution is an uprising of the people against the powerful; 2020 was a coup d'etat, by the powerful against the people. The Sixth of January in 2021 was the completion of that coup, and time will tell if it was also the Boston Massacre for a Second Declaration of Independence.           

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* - Four patriots rallying for Trump and the Republic dead, one known to have been shot unarmed by police; one Capitol policeman dead, not as claimed by The Party by violence with a fire extinguisher but evidently from heart failure; then two Capitol police in the days after the 6th dead by suicide, and I leave it to the reader to infer from that. That accounts for the Big Lie of the "seven dead" promulgated by The Party, who would have you imagine Trump supporters as murderers with the blood of seven against their souls, when not one died of deliberate violence by Trump's patriots, and the patriots themselves accounted for four of the five dead on the day.