Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

[L'Emmerdeur]

There's a fair bit of rotten meat to be sliced when confronting the "It's alive!!!!!" phase. I admit I've pondered on various approaches to the dismayingly dystopian outcome.

Brief synopsis: Element 1: A fully televised and purely anti-patriotic assault on American democracy inspired and egged on by Trump. About 1,500 people convicted of or pleaded guilty to the crimes they perpetrated while participating in the assault.

Element 2: A significant number of people who'd voted for Biden said, 'Trump and his blatantly authoritarian ambitions, his pretentions to a monarchy--meh. Doesn't bother me enough to vote for Harris.' Not particularly amazing, knowing the American public. Still bothersome.

This item at least hints at the morbid progress of the stillborn zombie coup.

'Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.'

A former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to kill police officers has been named as an adviser to the Justice Department task force that President Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies.

The former agent, Jared L. Wise, is serving as a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called Weaponization Working Group, according to people familiar with the group’s activities.

Mr. Martin, a longtime supporter of Jan. 6 defendants, was put in charge of the weaponization group in May after Mr. Trump withdrew his name for a Senate-confirmed position as the U.S. attorney in Washington. His nomination faltered in part because of the work he had done as an advocate and defense lawyer for people charged in connection with the Capitol attack.

Even in a Justice Department that has often been pressed into serving Mr. Trump’s political agenda, the appointment of Mr. Wise to the weaponization task force was a remarkable development. His selection meant that a man who had urged violence against police officers was now responsible for the department’s official effort to exact revenge against those who had tried to hold the rioters accountable.

[Brian Peacock]

The Weaponization Working Group certainly sounds like a group working at weaponisation. It also sounds a bit like saying you're going to be employing the Sturmabteilung as glazers.

[JimC]

The Night of the Long Knives is coming...

[L'Emmerdeur]

So was there word on the pipe bomb in there? Or is it the same 'cat burglar' type who planted cocaine in the white house?

Must be really tough to figure out who did stuff like that, without cameras in place.

Maybe if they nudge taxes up a bit, they can afford some...

Do you expect legislators to be out in the streets of DC with magnifying glasses sleuthing after the pipe bomber? Do you believe that the FBI has ignored the pipe bomber? Really, why are you so fixated on the pipe bomber?

Just kidding, I know why. You use an unresolved element of the events of that day to dismiss any and all information that is actually known about the day. Here's a clue: it doesn't make you look clever or informed, but rather the opposite. So, maybe it was antifa! Would that exonerate the mob and those who encouraged them? Like your fixation on Officer Johnson, it's merely an excuse to dismiss the whole affair and write off the information presented by the committee as a 'clown show.' It's a transparent and ridiculous ruse, but I suppose it probably made for an interesting podcast.

Not at all, just highlighting how the people in charge, years later, still don't think you or I deserve to know the truth. Maybe after all the trials are done, they'll come clean.

It's been reported from a number of sources that the alleged pipe bomber who was of such interest to our occasional troll has been taken into custody. The wannabe bomber apparently already told the FBI that he thinks that Trump's election loss in 2020 was a stolen election. Of course that has to be fake news. It's leftists who are the violent ones, not MAGA.

[Brian Peacock]

The whole thing was made up by lefties. It was just a few out of state tourists who all just happened to visit the capitol at the same time - and the riot everyone saw on TV was actually generated by an AI that had been sent back in time by future Democrats.