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SPEECH AND DRAMA DEPT./
FOURTH ESTATE/FIFTH COLUMN/
GENTLEMEN’S HABERDASHERY DEPT.

The on-air correspondent at WUSA9 in D.C. had a great View of events; but you can hear the bewildered shock in her voice. Merely from the clip, it seems she was all set to wrap her story up as the usual centrist flag-waving featurette. Hear the scales fall from her voice, as she understands what’s really happening: this isn’t just a tawdry, infantile display of confused and terrified badly-socialized lunatics: it is in fact a pre-conceived, pre-planned staged terrorist demonstration bent upon violent vandalism and the overthrow of the election.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/shocked-by-the-capitol-building-riots-you-were-warned

Sinclair Lewis warned us well, but not apparently in the words attributed to him. Try this: “But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word ‘Fascism’ and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and traditional Native American Liberty.” https://english.illinoisstate.edu/sinclairlewis/sinclair_lewis/faq/faq-homepage.shtml

In View of the mob violence at the Capitol that His Odium incited this week:
Click back to the Dog Days of August 2020, ages ago last summer. The Covid-spooked-at-last Republican Party had re-formatted their traditional “National Convention” as a bizarre, non-interactive TV broadcast. All the key Trump characters got time to fill an empty, flag-hung auditorium with bullshit — hysterical, nonsensical, threat-drenched, subversive, Apocalyptic, Fascist speeches. Re-View to hear nauseous Kimberly “Gold Leaf” Guilfoyle: https://valleyvillage.home.blog/2020/08/25/the-lady-or-the-tiger/

One after another, smiling but strident, Hyundai dealers and hypno-healers, they peered straight into the cameras and spewed hours and hours of terrifying racist propaganda, emotional histrionics, dark incoherent warnings, sex-and-power soaked premonitions, each and all calling on their supporters to make a last-ditch, do-or-die fight to seize power by violence, or their country would be swallowed by a socialist revolution. Exaggerating? Re-View, Patriot Reader, and gape open-mouthed at Rep. Matt Gaetz, calling for what we now call the Capitol insurrection in Crypto-Nazi code. Look for him to him to pick up Trump’s muddied colors. I’m surprised this creepo wasn’t fragged in his sleeping bag by the sorry boys assigned to his Cub Scout tent: https://valleyvillage.home.blog/tag/rep-matt-gaetz/

Why do I URGE you to Re-View this now? Because in the United States of Amnesia, the corporate media won’t, and every patriot should. You’ll actually feel better; stronger. You will. Trust me. You will laugh! And find God Herself laughing along with you, at them. Plus each speech comes with its own special antidote; and those will make you feel even better, and even stronger.