The Charge Of The Unfuckable Dork Brigade.

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade.

Last Tuesday, two Democrats won the runoff election in Georgia, the next day I had planned to write about how on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners stood together to defend our democracy, and perhaps, to set that table of brotherhood at long last.

Instead, a bunch of Trump Supporters stormed the Capitol building, and following that whole shit-show, which delayed Congressional certification of the electoral college vote by about twelve hours. I've been intending to write about this, but I've been struggling with what to write for the last five days.

Yesterday, I watched a video of the mob singing "The Star-spangled Banner" while they beat a cop to death. I guess Blue Lives don't really matter either, do they? Of course, I'm not surprised. The same people popped off with "Support The Troops" back in the day and that was just another bad-faith bullshit statement aimed at bashing anybody who didn't agree with what Republicans thought they wanted at the time, too. 

When you've stood there, at an anti-Iraq War protest wearing a ratty old BDU jacket that still has your name on the chest and a Sergeant's stripes on the sleeves getting screamed at in spittle-flecked rage by some old bearded weirdo that you know never served, who despite all their talk doesn't live their supposed conservative values, nor given any more thought to the military than his own recently purchased "Support the Troops" T-shirt, it's hard to be surprised by these things. 

And I'm not surprised, I'm just angry. No, strike that, back the truck up here. I'm madder than a motherfucker and don't you forget it.

I spent much of my life as a "small-c" moderate conservative Republican. I have a church background, I'm a veteran, and I volunteered for George W. Bush's campaign with my local county-level Republican party.

Yet I might as well be a card-carrying Communist according to these motherfuckers, never mind that Communism hasn't even been a thing since 1989.

I'm frankly tired of hearing about "Communism" from people who refuse to stop doing the bidding or sucking the dick of a KGB agent, and that is absolutely what Vladimir Putin is, and was, and ever and always will be and if you doubt me, ask a Russian. They'll tell you, there are no former KGB men.

I'm fucking sick of it.

And I'm tired of every claimed value, every single thing these fucking people claim to value being cast aside, set on fire, and left in the middle of the road to burn the very second it becomes inconvenient or doesn't play along with whatever they think they want.

These fucking people would run over their own grandmothers for ideology or profit.

All modern Republicanism cares about is Donald Trump, and the Republicans' own personal pleasure, power and wealth, and fuck you, too, and whatever bullshit and conspiracy theories can be used to justify or provide cover for this shit. And they'll outright threaten to kill you if you even so much as ask a simple, necessary question like "Just what the hell is conservative about any of this crap?

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade

Now, don't get me wrong, this coup attempt was a planned operation, and it was apparently aided and abetted at the highest levels of government and there were those inside the Capitol itself, including some Capitol Police officers and Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Q-Anon) and Senators like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz who were all too happy to jump into bed with the insurrectionists.

But that being said it was in fact, probably the worst damn operation I've ever heard of in the history of the world. The insurrectionists got in, and though there were a few apparently trained individuals trying to accomplish various objectives, none succeeded. Most of these people just milled around, did petty crimes and vandalism and took an extensive opus of photos and videos of themselves doing this shit. At least one insurrectionist was killed by the Capitol Police, several more died in various situations including one older gentleman who somehow managed to taser himself in the balls (And how is that even possible?) while trying to steal a painting of Tip O'Neal and gave himself a heart attack. Before the day was even over these people were being identified and arrested and put on No-Fly Lists and fired from their jobs and whining about the fact that they were being called terrorists.

They managed to get themselves represented by Nazi Yak-Man, Q-Anon freaks and an old guy who sat at Nancy Pelosi's desk scratching his balls on camera, terrorists is probably the most charitable thing they could be referred to as. This was the charge of the unfuckable dork brigade.

This was people you wouldn't let in your own house, storming We The People's house.

And they have the nerve to be mad when Trump gets kicked off of Twitter and all these goddamn nuts are getting deplatformed or fired from their jobs or mocked on social media.

And they can't even handle that, how the fuck did these idiots think they were going to fight a civil war?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. If you don't want to be called a terrorist don't commit terrorism against an entire branch of your own government. Hell, a fair number of these people were absolutely enraged or emotionally shattered by the fact that the Capitol Police put up even a half-ass defense, or that Congress evacuated instead of just waiting for the people chanting "Hang Mike Pence" to show up and try it.

In many, perhaps most countries in the world, they'd have walked back out into the light into a phalanx of troops and tanks, killed if they resisted, and taken and handed over to the police if they didn't, thence to spend decades in prison if they didn't get executed instead. And these fucking people have the balls to be upset because they can't post on Parler anymore?

Bitches, ya'll pulled down the American flag and put the Trump flag up in its place. That makes you my enemy, along with anybody else who'd so symbolically try to tear down my country. 

Flashed all their sabers bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabering the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered.

Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade

And for what? Listen to their own words, some MAGA terrorist screaming about how "He's being treated like a fucking black person" when he gets tackled by the cops.

You know what? I want my country back, I want my country back from these motherfuckers, period.

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