Did you every notice Republicans don't talk about the GWoT anymore? Let Us Not Forget Armistice Day

As we solemnly recall the 11th of November, I pause to thank President Biden for a second consecutive Armistice/Veterans Day without an open US overseas conflict.  No new VFW memberships will be filled today.

But, besides the half-hearted ThankyouforyourService bromides you can't find a conservative today who talks about the Veterans of the Global War on Terror or the Iraq War or Afghanistan.  20 years ago Republicans and Rightwingers declared the so-called War on Terror the single most titanic clash of civilizations since the Cold War and the defining monumental struggle of the 21st century.  Today, nothing...

It's one of the most shameful actions of mass forgetting by Rightwingers in US History.  Additionally, while I don't slam Democrats who couldn't stand against the tide of war back then I understand it's de rigueur to claim the Democrats weren't even a tepid non-resistance to the Rush to War and were more than willing accomplices.  The cool cynics ape the declaration that there is one party in America; the War Party with two branches (left and right).  

But, let's be clear any candidate who was against the AUMF didn't stand a chance in 2004, yes Bernie Bros, beloved Bernie Sanders didn't run for President in 2004 because he knew he'd be annihilated.  And yes Racist Ron Paul's rEVOLution didn't come out until 2008. And Republicans ran on WAR in the 2002 midterms and won. 

But, by 2016 the Corporate Media was more than willing to let Rightwingers engage in the time honored America tradition of revisionist history and cast the blame for the GWoT mainly onto President Obama and HRC.  No one should forget the Maureen Dowd ridiculous too cute alliteration column Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk.

By 2021, after not covering the Afghan War for years when President Biden extricated the United States from Afghanistan Dick Engel raged at the loss of his War Boner and news agencies cultivated Lara Logan's insanity as the Corporate Media declared the End of the Occupation after 20 fucking years to be the greatest blunder in US foreign policy ever.  It was shameless and ridiculous, untrue and galling.  So if you think the Corporate Media would have laid off an anti-War candidate instead of constantly hounding anyone who stood against the GWoT in 2002 and 2004 you're either fooling yourself or a fool.

In fact, the only Republicans who talk about the War on Terror today are those running for office who inflate, exaggerate, and lie about their service records.  J.R. Majewski, that doughy lard-ass, continued to claim throughout the year his deployments are sooooooo classified that he can't show them to anyone after it was shown he completely lied about his military service.  Tyler Kistner in Minnesota was caught claiming combat experience when he had none.  Kistner, who claimed 4 combat tours took a page from Majewski and claimed his military action was so sensitive, "even basic details could help foreign adversaries."

This is really shameless.  But, Majewski and Kistner still received over 100,000 votes in their respective House races, though both fortunately lost.  But, I did't expect any rightwinger to not vote for these two Republican Liars.  Rightwingers are sheep and drones.  Remember every accusation by a rightwinger is a confession, they only care about power.  Rightwingers long ago jettisoned their so-called values, ethics, morals, beliefs, all that matters to them now is gaining the power of government to enforce their agenda of hatred, intolerance, and oppression.

Terrorist Fist Jab

So, understand The Military writ large isn't actually a bastion of conservatives anymore, even if psychotic Rightwing lunatics infest the ranks of Admirals and Generals..  It's not the Reagan 1980's anymore.  The majority of veterans in the 21st century are liberal.  The majority of Veterans and active duty voted for Joe Biden in 2020.    

Republicans and Rightwingers don't represent America anymore and have nothing to offer the American people but, violence and lies.  Veterans and active duty service members know and can sense this and it's why Republicans are steadily drifting away from helping and addressing Veterans issues and why in the 2022 elections Wisconsin Republicans committed election fraud via military ballots and sought to throw out overseas military ballots.

January 6th was the Fascist Inflection Point

These a-holes usually 
leave only one way

"What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change.  He went golfing this weekend. It’s not like he’s plotting how to prevent Joe Biden from taking power on Jan. 20. He’s tweeting about filing some lawsuits, those lawsuits will fail, then he’ll tweet some more about how the election was stolen, and then he’ll leave." - A Senior Republican Official

It is clear every insurrectionist who invaded the Capitol on Jan6th were not part of the various planned and coordinated attempts to overthrown the Electoral College certification and prepared to do violence (although all of them were more than willing to disrupt and subvert the United States Government) but, the criminal complaint and attesting documents against Oathbreaker Leader Stewart "Lonesome" Rhodes shows that while hundreds of MAGA mob who invaded the Capitol building were just dumb as bag of hammers and caught up in the moment, there was a cadre of villains (including the charged Seditious Conspirators) prepared to use the tumultuous riot to execute Democratic Representatives, and to violently stop the orderly and peaceful transfer of power.

Obviously, from the pleas and statements from the Burberry bedecked Kulas Maids boys, to the delusional Texas-based blonde terrorist Jenna Ryan, or Ice Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer show an astonishingly lack of acumen and a incredible amount of hubris and privilege it seems clear almost all the conservatives who invaded the Capitol expected never to be charged with a crime and are shocked to find out they are the bad guys.

On the other hand, it appears the Proud Boys and Oathbreakers and various other rightwing paramilitary terrorist organizations who participated in crimes at the Capitol thought their attempt to overthrow the government and install Trump would either succeed and thus they would be lauded as the Newest 3 Percenters in American mythology or if unsuccessful would spark a general revolution allowing them to institute the DAY OF THE ROPE and kill as many Non-MAGA as possible.  Thus, burying the evidence of the Insurrection under the weight of new daily outrages and murders and keeping them free from being charged for their crimes of January 6th.

Unfortunately, from the antics of the lowliest lectern looter to the plans of OathBreakers QRF and the continuing plots of Trump and his caucus of conservative criminals the fascist inflection point was January 6th.  

Such dates, signaling the end of a democratic nation aren't always readily apparent.  But, weak spineless Republicans are more than willing to let Coup Conspirators like Major Traitor Greene, Josh Hawley and their 145 confederates turn the Nation into a Evangelical Fascist Ethno-State, with the deranged shambling mound of putrescent fascist flesh Donald John Trump re-installed as a pusillanimous potentate.

The last year has been a frustrating one for Americans interested in Justice as it seems the ring leaders of the Insurrection remain free to plot again and Republicans have reverted to their previous ways, while attempting to run out the clock on this Democratic Congress until the GOP takes over in 2023.

Since the 2020 election we've uncovered the MAGA Traitors various schemes to Overthrow the election results; from the Alternate Slate of Electoral College Votes, to invalidating the popular vote and using bureaucratic malfeasance to throw the election to the Republican dominated State Legislatures, to the rightwing lies about Dominion Voting Fraud, to the violence and Autogolpe de Estado of January 6th.  Now, the last 14 months have been about the Rightwing attempts at revisionist history which seems to have coalesced around the Tucker & Trump Fedsurrection Conspiracy.  

Conservatives have been complaining for years the FBI is not nearly Reactionary and Authoritarian enough.  The FBI...  Today's Conservatives don't trust the FBI because the Feds aren't sufficiently loyal to Trump.  But, distrust of Federal Police goes back  a couple of generations ever since Eisenhower and LBJ used the Feds to enforce Civl Rights.  So when Trump began his campaign to discredit and demonize the FBI he found fertile ground ready to believe Fedsurrection! the Woke FBI having been infiltrated by BLM and Antifa and the Deep State concocted the Insurrection to discredit the Trump Love Fest of January 2021.

"There was love that day. There was so much love out there during the speech. The crowd itself was the biggest crowd I've ever – and I've spoken before the biggest crowds – the biggest crowd I've ever spoken by far.  Nobody ever shows pictures of that." - Traitor Trump Jan 18 2022 to OANN.

Nobody ever shows pictures of all the love on January 6, 2021... The TrumPutsch isn't over.  Trump is never willingly going away...  

The Fedsurrection Conspiracy

Last year <- How conservatives see Jan6th -> This Year

"Be embarrassed & hide if you need to- but I was there. It was not Antifa at the Capitol. It was freedom loving Patriots who were DESPERATE to fight for the final hope of our Republic because literally nobody cares about them." - direct quote from the criminal complaint of Brandon Straka, well known rightwing troll, laid out in the state of facts section.

So, when faced with the consequences of their actions, conservatives and Republicans retreated to their favorite Safe Zone; the nebulous conspiracy theory.  The Party of Personal Responsibility has None.  When writing my last post on the Congressional Republicans efforts to swindle the 2020 election through the John Eastman Memo and legerdemain, I forgot to mention the newest dodge Republicans profred up; the Feds did it!

Before going on I would like point out if the FBI and other domestic law enforcement agencies did cut off and interdict the Trump GOP Legislative Coup attempt it would go down as the greatest counter intelligence operation in United States History. 

Gaetz texts real time location data to Terrorists 01/06

As part of their lying counter-narrative to January 6th, Republicans rolled out two neck deep Co-conspirators in the attempted Autogolpe De Estado, the Republicans attempted to pull off last year; Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene.  Rafael Ted Cruz used his Senate pulpit to imply there was a large array of FBI informants and agents in the riotous criminal crowd which battered Officers, stormed the Capitol building and planned to execute the Vice President, Speaker of the House, and any Democratic Representative they could lay their hands upon.  Of course, on 01/06/21 just an hour before the storming of the Capitol building Ted Cruz was on the Senate floor giving impassioned speeches about baseless Voter Fraud (part of the legislative Coup the Senate and House Republicans were plotting). 

Anyway I won't play the game of chasing the Republican Gish Gallop of lis about January 6th but point out 738 arrests have been made from the Capitol Insurrection; and the people thus far arrested are not Antifa or BLm but, mostly well-to-do Trump supporters.  Additionally, those people who arrived in DC in January 2021, were probably bused in by Republican heavily funded Turning Point USA as this now deleted tweet by low-life Charlie Kirk alleged.

Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer face twisted in rage, long stringy gray goatee flowing in the cold wind, festooned in an Oath Keeper hat, of which he is a founding member, is a well-known white supremacist deeply steeped in rightwing extremism. 

Additionally, besides Trump's speech, "We're going to the Capitol.  We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country", inciting the Crowd to Storm the Capitol, Republican Congressman Mo Brooks stated quite plainly, "Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.”  Afterwards Brooks told everyone to "not rush to judgement" and "wait for the investigation" as evidence was growing it was the work of fascist ANTIFA.

But, of course, conservatives will never believe the results of the on-going investigation into the rightwing attempt to overthrow the United States Government, usurp the rightful election of President Jospeh R. Biden and install floppy, flabby, fascist Dictator Donald John Trump because conservatives made up their minds that day.  Remember the MAGA crowd does not see the FBI as an ally and defenders of Law&Order but, as a counterproductive agency stopping Trumpism from reigning.  The FBI is the most reactionary organization in American history but, what MAGA want is a Trumpstapho or Trumpstazi personally loyal to Trump and ruthless in pursuit of their enemies.  

A Cult of Personality.  A Paramilitary Squad outside the rule of law and unconstrained by oversight or chain of command.  Like the Proud Boys. The Oath Keepers Breakers.  And all the other thousands of fascists and rightwing domestic terrorists who stormed the Capitol that day with the clear intent on disrupting the Electoral Process and overthrowing the United States government.

Additional:

Part of the rightwing Jan6th revisionist history involves the biggest name in TV Tucked Dick Carlson just asking questions (the true answers don't matter) about Law Enforcement involvement.