"Catapillar" and Confederates; Texas declares War on the United States

Greg Abbott cooed over "Catapillar" moving to Texas, eliding the fact that Caterpillar is simply relocating their headquarters to Texas, to avoid pesky rules, regulations, Unions and taxes.  Companies are always willing to race-to-the-bottom, undercutting Government and empowering fascists because they expect after a few years of Republican malfeasance and neglect of government, sane Democrats take over and attempt to fix the damage wrought by Republicans.

Like an ever-growing accretion disc of fascism, Texas is drawing too itself all the biggest Rightwing thieves and grifters; Joe Rogan and Elon Musk for instance, but Greg Abbott signed legislation last year empowering CryptoCurrency Con-artists to move to Texas further overwhelming and undercutting regular Texans and the power grid.

It has been fascinating and horrifying year and half watching the Republican change from slowly slipping into Fascism into a full-fledged embrace.

The Texas Rape-publican Party released its' platform, and its' grotesque descent and muscular embrace of all things authoritarian, heralds the Future of the GOP.

As Heather Cox Richardson, the inestimable historian writes,

delegates to a convention of the Texas Republican Party today approved platform planks rejecting “the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and [holding] that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States”; requiring students “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization; treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”; locking the number of Supreme Court justices at 9; getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes; abolishing the Federal Reserve; rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment; returning Christianity to schools and government; ending all gun safety measures; abolishing the Department of Education; arming teachers; requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”; defending capital punishment; dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered; protecting Confederate monuments; ending gay marriage; withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization; and calling for a vote “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.” 

The January 6th hearings are showing how deep and widespread the fascist impluse is on the Right, as well as, highlighting how far reaching and coordinated the traitor Republican Government was in their attempted TrumPutsch.  It wasn't just a mob action, it wasn't just a bunch of wack-a-loon rightwing paramilitary dorks, even after the violence Republicans stuck to their script, blamed Antifa, and voted to suspend the transition of power.  And make no mistake the "peaceful" part of the transition of power had already been destroyed by Trump and his Republican cronies, the vote after the violence was just the bureaucratic attempt to re-install Trump and Pence via legislative Coup.

But, this Texas Platform of hatred, intolerance, bigotry, deference to Southern Conservative Arch-Traitors, and enshrinement of unrestricted gun violence is a Harbinger of what the Republicans will and are doing in other States and what the Rape-publican Party will do Nationally in 2025, if they recapture the Congress and Presidency.

Understand, despite the Texas Republicans waggling their thin dicks that they might secede, that's as hollow a threat as their heads in their Stetsons.  Texas and the Modern Republican Party are not interested in Secession like their Southern ancestors, not when they are successfully imposing their Will via bureaucratic violence and byzantine legal minutiae.  Successfully thwarting Democratic initiatives and delaying legislation which has overwhelming American backing, like Gun Control measures.

The future will be a return to conservative states imposing their Will, via the Federal Government, on recalcitrant liberal states.  We could see the Unjust Supreme Court mandating Police forces in Illinois, California, New Mexico, Georgia, detain persons with out of state plates from say Florida, Texas, and Missouri and determine if their is a pregnant women from that State in the car.  We could see Trump-appointed Judges issuing Country Wide warrants demanding the arrest and transport of married gays and 

If you think these are fanciful overwrought fears, think again.  Rightwing violence isn't coming... it's here.

The Conservative Constitutional Coup continues

This is exactly what conservatives said to Slaves.

Read it and weep #AOC!  Theoretically a fan of Ben Shapiro, after watching Ben suck on your toes, gets to rape you, as the Terrorists on Jan6th planned to do.  Afterwards you are obligated to carry Ben Shapiro's fan rape baby to term thanks to the decision by Sammy "Il Douche" Alito.  But, Ben Shapiro's tweet of 8 words contains multitudes.  "The Law" is something conservatives seek to do to Americans.  Obliterating Roe is a big victory for the Authoritarian Right.  But, it's far from the first vicious victory they've celebrated in their 50 year slow moving Coup.

Conservatives decided after Nixon was taken from them that they never let that happen again and would gain control of the US Government by any means necessary.  The Lewis Powell Memo predated Nixon's resignation but, it laid out one of the avenues of attack conservatives planned for the United States.  

Ronnie Raygun's Regime was unmitigated disaster for the media, for Unions, and advanced the economic dominance of the Rich.  Raygun getting away with high crimes and misdemeanors* via Iran-Contra was a foundational brick in the Slow Coup,

Under Bill Clinton, the Republicans gained control of Congress and despicable Newt Gingrich issued the Contract on America.

Then came the first open declaration of Rightwing War on Democracy via the Stolen Election of 2000 and the Republican Injustices Bush v Gore ruling. 

9/11 and the Phony War on Terror which followed for the next 20 years became a yolk around the neck of America which Democratic President's Obama and Biden removed.  Both paid a tremendous political price for ending, which really shouldn't matter except the Corporate Media was furious over losing their War Boners so they set upon ensuring Republicans could gain political power and disingenuously blame Barack and Joe for W(orst President Ever) and Dick Cheney's lies and war crimes. 

And that lead to the Corporate Media slagging HRC and elevating Donald John Trump; a known sleaze, a mobbed-up their, a money launderer for Russian gangsters, a slimy child rapist and absuer of women, to the Presidency because while it wasn't good for America it was good for CBS.  At the Boofer O'Kavanaugh hearings a smirking Lindsey Graham making a woman cry was delicious material for conservatives who had shared the crying HRC camping worker meme a billion times.  

And while in 2020, Trump was called the Last Middle Finger left to say fuck you to American Democracy we've seen every single Republican goose-step into line to #OwntheLibs and his the 3 miscreants he elevated to The Supreme Court are fulfilling the Bureaucratic Violence as the Coup has sped up since the Fascist Inflection Point of January 6th.

These are just the broadest of strokes of the rightwing slow-moving Coup.  There have been thousands of unjust "legal" micro-aggressions against America led by a cavalcade of local, state, and federal Republican villains and buttressed by the millions of hours rightwing propagandists have spent poisoning the Nation.

So since 2021 the slow-moving Coup begun 50 years earlier has morphed into a faster one and as the 2022 elections loom conservatives are steadily planning on ensuring the 2024 Elections don't matter and the United States is forever changed into a full-fledged Fascist White Evangelical Ethno-State 

*- "A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not." -Ronald Urekel Reagan admits ooops did I do that?

If your Insurrection lasts 12 months or longer call your Senator or Representative

First, I recommend reading this excellent piece Insurrections, Ancient and Modern by Bret Devereaux at A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry on how the Ancient Greeks (the inventors of Democracy) would clearly have understood the January 6th Insurrection as a clear attempt to overthrow the United States Government.  It doesn't require an Epiphany to understand Trump's goals, tactics, and motivation.  It also doesn't take a prophet to recognize a large segment of the American people are fully wedded to the Big Lie and very much want to engage in political violence, including the rounding-up and systematic execution of the Non-MAGA.  

So, any case brought against Traitor Trump, and the organizers of the Jan6th Coup needs to be as perfect and air-tight as possible, otherwise Trump will just pantomime an orgasm on stage again to belittle the investigation.  And the 139 Congresspukes and 8 GOP Senators who voted to overthrow the 2020 Presidential Election and dismantle the Nation will do everything in their considerable power to undermine the prosecution of Trump & his Criminal Cabal.

But, the Very On-Line Community (VOLC) is exasperated with the Democratic Party approach and the Dept of Justice slow grinding of arrest and trial of January 6th criminals, I am, to the contrary, very pleased with the constant drip-drip-drip release of news, evidence, video and convictions of those thus far arrested.    

One of the things the Republicans grasped is how to control the News Cycle.  Besides flooding the media with constant streams of Rightwing bullshit, to obfuscate and provide grist for the #bothsides mill, Republicans know the crimes they committed on January 6th would only dominate the News for a short, short while.  Then the Media having dutifully spoken about the attempted overthrow of the United States Government in the most blasé, prosaic way possible would pretend some anodyne Biden literal dog bites man story is equivalent to the GOP destruction of the Nation.

If 6 months ago much of the gathered evidence had been released en masse the Corporate Media would have discussed it for a day or two three and then moved on to their hyperbolic Afghanistan nonsense.

So, here is a newly released video of 3 hours of Trump Traitors attacking the Capitol Police.  Here's how we know the Trump cabal stalled and planned to give conservatives and Rightwing embedded Kill Teams every opportunity to capture and execute Speaker Pelosi, AOC, and as many of the recalcitrant members of Congress as possible.  3 hours with no Quick Reaction Force response.  No K-9's or Horse mounted Officers.  Horses and Dogs control crowds effectively, exerting far more control per pound than any person can. 

So, it's up to Us, the People to constantly highlight, discuss, and agitate for Justice and to guard against the Next Attempted Trump Golpe de Estado because the Corporate Media is not going to do it and Faux News  and the rightwing media is going to justify, promote and support the next Coup.