This was a hell of a weekend. I hardly feel like I know up from down right now. Huge protests, tiny parades, political murder, American patriotism. Personal family stuff. A neck-snapping series of events.
Two things are staying with me this Monday night. I don’t know if they relate, or how they do, except perhaps they show the two poles of events in America this past weekend.
First, every time I see that video clip of the old tank squeaking down the street in Fotus’ limp-dick parade, I feel such a hot stab of mixed shame and glee that I burst out laughing – the kind of laugh that’s forced out of you as a defense mechanism.
Shame, because it hurts to see the United States Army brought that low, used like that. Glee, because it’s exactly what Fotus deserves, a creaky-ass vintage tank creeping alone along the street, while the few people there watch in dead silence. An absurd, pathetic failure. Instant karma. This is why we don’t have these sorts of parades in the United States anyway. They’re stupid and lame.
The second thing is the … I guess the lack of shock I feel at the political assassinations in Minnesota. Which by any normal metric is completely shocking and beyond the pale. A civil society with the rule of law does not use violence to resolve political disputes. Horrifying!
But we have been beyond the pale for quite a while now.
This is the way things are now. MAGA has been nursing and inculcating violence, poltical violence, for ten years. They’ve told themselves Democrats are commie devil-worshippers and deserve what they get. They’ve postured with their guns and cosplayed as warriors when half of them are on disability. They have actively seeded and stoked these sentiments all across the country while denying all responsibility.
I don’t know how we put that genie back in the bottle. I don’t know that we do, not in my lifetime. These people have been cultivating their rage, their violence, their sense of grievance for a decade now. It’s no surprise when it bursts out as actual violence.
But on the other hand there were the No Kings marches, where America stood up and flipped the big double bird to our wannabee dictator. Even in Minnesota, where the citizens had been advised to stay home because the assassin was still at large, they defied fear and showed up by the thousands.
I hope the world saw. All this bullshit is against our will. The majority of America does not want this. We want to end it. My intuition has always been, there are more good people than bad in the world. But the bad people do an outsized amount of damage. Right now the bad people are very loud and violent. But we have to remember they are a minority. A sick, broken minority. But this is a democracy, and we intend to keep it.
Atlantis Fallen 
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