As the blogmaster is typing he is witnessing a scene in the US Capitol akin to what is associated in countries often described as banana republics. It is impossible to find the words to accurately describe events which have caused the ceremonial event of the Electoral College to be suspended as members scatter to preserve life and limb.
The USA is Burning
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Looks like another impeachment coming!!
But this one will have evidence.
Might get some real big fish!!
Go look at the definition of an insurrection!!
the facebook stars, too love to post evidence of their own crimes online…….🤣🤣
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-retired-navy-seal-filmed-self-admit-storm-capitol-abc-20210115-uhqwmorvmjegzbdne22xwhtxs4-story.html#nt=pf-single%20chain~new-left-chain~flex%20feature~curated~navyseal-1138a~UHQWMORVMJEGZBDNE22XWHTXS4~1~1~4~5~art%20yes
“A retired Navy SEAL was so proud about participating in the storm on the Capitol that he reportedly filmed himself boasting about it and posted the footage online — prompting a call from the FBI.
Police with guns drawn watch as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
Adam Newbold, 45, of Lisbon, Ohio, admitted to his participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection in a since-deleted video posted on his Facebook page, ABC reported Friday.”
Definitely don’t want to be him or any of his family members, maybe his dummy supporters can help him out financially….where is GP.
“But now, finally, the end is at hand. Trump is suffering a series of wounds that, in combination, are likely to be fatal after Joe Biden is sworn in on January 20. Trump is obviously going to surrender his office. Beyond that looming defeat, he is undergoing a cascading sequence of political, financial, and legal setbacks that cumulatively spell utter ruin. Trump is not only losing his job but quite possibly everything else.
One crisis, though the most opaque, concerns Trump’s business. Many of his sources of income are drying up, either owing to the coronavirus pandemic or, more often, his toxic public image. The Washington Post has toted up the setbacks facing the Trump Organization, which include cancellations of partnerships with New York City government, three banks, the PGA Championship, and a real-estate firm that handled many of his leasing agreements. Meanwhile, he faces the closure of many of his hotels. And he is staring down two defamation lawsuits. Oh, and Trump has to repay, over the next four years, more than $300 million in outstanding loans he personally guaranteed.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/14/fact-check-insurrection-act-not-effect-and-unnecessary-dc/4144961001/
“Despite concerns from D.C. officials, Banks and Thaddeus Hoffmeister, a law professor at the University of Dayton, told USA TODAY that there was no need for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act during the events on Jan. 6 because the federal government controls federal police forces as well as D.C.’s National Guard.
However, House and Senate officials turned down former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund’s request that the National Guard be placed on standby, according to USA TODAY.
Trump ultimately did not to invoke the act on Jan. 6. “
Go and look at the definition of an insurrection!!
The only time up to now that the insurrection act was mooted was at the time of the BLM/ANTIFA riots in the various Democrat cities earlier last year.
Trump said then the time was not right!!
There actually was (still is) an insurrection, and it had been going on for a while (still is).
Go look at the definition!!
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One side effect of following stupidass politicians, another fallout…yardfowls = jailbirds..
i watched one make an ass of herself publicly for at least 2 years, now she’s disappeared off her soapbox, probably trying to save a career she didn’t need a politician to help her keep, but now need to fight to keep that career since all this shit she bathed herself in……if she loses her present position, she’s screwed. stop following politicians, they are toxic poison, they will COST YOU DEARLY…i won’t hire anyone who supported those who did this. Supporters of politicians have no credibility.
“Today’s news: Trump administration staffers struggle to find next jobs, a guide to hiring an Amazon agency, and the media free agents from WarnerMedia.
Trump administration staffers are getting snubbed while hunting for jobs. One recruiter tried to place six of them and couldn’t land any interviews.
Departing Trump White House communications staff are getting the cold shoulder from some corners of the job market, report Claire Atkinson and Sean Czarnecki.
One PR recruiter has been unable to place candidates, and Trump staffers are viewed as lacking credibility.
Those who stood up to President Donald Trump might find an easier route than those who stood by him, though.”
the blighted plight of yardfowls…i’ve been saying this for years…i put politicians in their place before they can get the last word out of their lying ass mouths.
“In an interview with CNN, Albert Watkins said his client, Jacob Chansley, “felt like he was answering the call of our president” when he stormed the Capitol building wearing no shirt, carrying a spear and wearing bullhorns as a hat, with his face painted red, white and blue.
From Politico:
On Tuesday, Chansley became one of the first three people indicted by federal prosecutors in connection with the violence at the Capitol. He was charged with a felony violation of the Federal Anti-Riot Act, as well as obstruction of Congress and other offenses.
In a filing on Thursday, prosecutors said Chansley was as “an active participant in” and “the most prominent symbol of” what they described as a “violent insurrection.” Prosecutors also said Chansley had expressed his intention of returning to Washington, D.C., for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week.
The language in the filing suggests more severe charges, such as sedition or insurrection, could be coming for those involved in the siege.
Watkins claimed that his client was following lockstep with the president’s commands.
“He felt like his voice was, for the first time, being heard,” Watkins said, Politico reports. “And what ended up happening, over the course of the lead-up to the election, over the course of the period from the election to Jan. 6—it was a driving force by a man he hung his hat on, he hitched his wagon to. He loved Trump. Every word, he listens to him.”
Before the mayonnaise marauders stormed the Capitol, Trump held a terrorism pep rally in which he and his family and political allies, including the unhinged Rudy Giuliani, riled up his followers. Trump urged the seasonless secessionists to march on the Capitol as Congress was attempting to certify Biden’s Electoral College victory.
“If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” Trump said. He also said that “you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
Seems clear to me. Also seemed clear to Watkins’ client.
“We all have to understand that the words that were spoken by the president meant something, not just to my client. They meant something to a lot of people,” Watkins said in his interview.
“They listened to those words. And those words meant something to them. And they had a right to rely on the words of their president that was strewed forth worldwide,” he said. “And they did. And now they’re turning around [and] they’re getting arrested, as well many should be.”
But, Watkins added that Trump needs to claim the people who did his dirty work. He “needs to stand up and own these people,” Watkins argued. “He has an obligation to them. He has an obligation to our nation. It’s not going to happen.”
And if Watkins’ request wasn’t clear, he noted that the president needs to give them “a pardon.”
As Chansley’s attorney, “my role is not to judge somebody. My role is to be an advocate,” Watkins said. “If there’s one iota of a chance that the guy who’s the president of our country — who invited everybody down Pennsylvania [Avenue] — will give my client a pardon, you know what? I’m going to do it,” Politico notes.
Even Watkins noted that the pardon might be a longshot.
“Am I holding my breath thinking that Donald Trump is going to be sitting around going, ‘You know what? … What’s the name of that guy with the horns? Yeah … let’s give him a pardon.’”
Watkins even went so far as to “compare the president’s supporters who stormed the Capitol to the Jonestown cult members who died in a mass suicide at their settlement in Guyana in 1978: ‘You know the only thing different here? There’s no Kool-Aid.’”
All of this is interesting considering Republican lawmakers have argued that the president’s words didn’t incite the violence that unfolded, and here is a lawyer for one of the most recognizable terrorists saying that’s exactly what happened while simultaneously begging for a pardon
It will take more than just clorox to rid that house of the toxicity left behind.
“By Dareh Gregorian
Stacks of empty boxes were delivered to the White House grounds Wednesday while the clock continues to tick down for the Trump administration.
The pallets of cardboard boxes were delivered to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building as the Biden administration is set to take office in a week, on Jan. 20. Most of the offices in the building are for White House staff members.
The Biden administration plans on a deep cleaning of the White House itself.”
The whole evil white intent was to overturn black votes…hope someone ends up with a hot needle to send a serious message to other clowns suffering with the same virus..
“The mob considered Biden’s election illegitimate mainly because they consider Democrats “illegitimate”. This is in no small part because a majority of Black voters vote for Democrats, and Black people, in their eyes, are not “true” Americans, hence their votes do not and should not count.”
Enter.
The breath is a doorway.
Welcome a sense of playfulness and a willingness to not make any decisions about how this is going to go, stay open.
We are
Building strength,
Building resilience,
Reinforcing meaningful connection.
After today you will be halfway through this journey!
The breath is a door. It’s where you and I and everyone else began.
It’s where all life begins. Without the breath, what is there?
WIM HOF
The Turd is reported to have taken the names of GOP members who voted for to impeach.
Steupse! You two racist fools have the verbal equivalent of tiny limp twigs and no stones. (pun intended)
As for the posts to which you refer – let us take a BU madness vote!
Meanwhile….. white supremacists are being arrested by the dozens and charged with violence against the State in an effort to cancel black votes. Several policemen are among them! Ain’t nobody of consequence arguing against the BLM claims of police brutality! And even OTHER BLUE LIVES who did their job and stood in their way were brutalized, beaten, crushed and almost shot with their own guns. Just as white ” nigger lovers” were brutalised and murdered in the days of Jim Crow, these men were victimised simply for doing their jobs and following the law.
Still waiting for the mass arrests of BLM and Antifa!
@ Theo
I was pointing out that a second Trump term would have been multiple times worse than his first with his extremism and demagoguery raging like a forest fire that can not be put out.
@ WURA-War-on-U
You are pointing out dysfunctional people and politics in USA, but not dissecting it and breaking it down fully with your biting analysis.
Such as the cult of personality with Trump supporters who were on terrorist / white supremacist watch lists of Government Agencies. They included several Police and Army vets. These nutters followed every lie out of his mouth.
Presidents and Politicians are supposed to serve all the people and be held accountable by the people. They are not supposed to be blindly followed for their divisive and racist rhetoric like KKK or White Supremacists or Nazis.
The shaman guy was well known to Police and Spy Agencies and published in media as a proud boy icon and was allowed to roam and watched by agencies to be caught and arrested in same way that muslims who joined Isis were allowed into Syria.
What is this we are hearing the stockpile of vaccines put abroad by Trump and his minions are not to be found?
Liar anyone?
Let us resume the countdown.
4 more days to go until …
Happily, David! Let’s!
🎵 It’s the final countdown! 🎶
“4 more days to go until …”
Reset
New Breath
Change of Guard
Musicians come to nice up the Lawn
Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez will be there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9md8lumcos
One problem is filthy warmongers USA and UK always start fresh new wars every 10 years at start of a decade with new tech and new kit and they have been ramping up their war talk for a battle versus China already
“You are pointing out dysfunctional people and politics in USA, but not dissecting it and breaking it down fully with your biting analysis..”
a bigger picture is emerging, what for that one.
wait for that one.
Funny that Rabbit failed to give the only countdown that matters.
His lectures on the constitution, courts and the electoral college appears to have gone unheeded responsible parties in the US.
I am suspending my wait for the Kraken or results from Powell or Guilian
@David, since inauguration day and the blatant fabrications then there have been 29,000 more deliberate falsehoods … any of us believing ANYTHING from DJT is either foolish or slow of wit … well or a sycophant!
But to the substance of the vaccines … we need to get a grip!
There are now THREE US companies with an FDA approved vaccine; all of them with an efficacy rate reportedly over 90%… they will get manufacturing up to speed and soon the question of shortages will be moot.
The REAL question and concern remains: will enough people take the damn thing!
And then of course profiteering will raise its head and fights by the pharma execs to get their drug as the main ‘elixir’ will lead us to talk of corrupt under table deals and all that sorta thing… in short: the same ole, same ole.
But that apart the actual future dissemination and availability appears to be perfectly well set!
Forget Trump … the Biden team has already started to state their case … now let’s see how good (or bad) they are.
de pedantic DribblerJanuary 16, 2021 9:31 AM
The REAL question and concern remains: will enough people take the damn thing!
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I certainly won’t be!!!
I don’t know which strain the vaccine is for … do you!!
Will you and Sitting Bull be taking it?
“Despite concerns from D.C. officials, Banks and Thaddeus Hoffmeister, […] told USA TODAY that there was no need for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act during the events on Jan. 6 because the federal government controls federal police forces as well as D.C.’s National Guard.”
Ok… that’s a factual remark.
“However, House and Senate officials turned down former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund’s request that the National Guard be placed on standby, according to USA TODAY.”
THAT, makes no practical sense and is a mis-characterization of reality.
“Trump ultimately did not to invoke the act on Jan. 6.”
… And to mimic @Donna in one word: Steeeupse.
The Insurrection Act is a figment of reason based on your right wing readings (clearly) as it should have no impact on anything re June 6th…
That was in simple terms a PROTEST (that obviously was mismanaged and got out of hand) … It SHOULD HAVE BEEN HANDLED by the protective authorities in DC…
– which btw includes the Capitol Police, the DC Police, and of course the FBI … AND because of the WH, intel services like the NSA also keep their eyes focused on any insurgency issues and the Secret Service do too! –
More protection, intel and firepower for the few acres of space than is available for all our islands in the Caribbean, all of Africa excluding SA and many a European nation too!
So not to be crude but that was the proverbial cluster-effery: obviously contrived malfeasance.
There have been protests in DC forever and the proverbial day and in some years almost every week and often several days per week …. The Insurrection Act was not invoked for most of those protests previously so why is that so pertinent to you right wing talkers now!
It’s a NONSENSE. Get serious please.
The man incited a riot and then stood back and admired it as it developed into full scale sedition… HE should be charged with the insurrection!
Perhaps the phrase, “Release the Kraken,” came from the movie ‘Clash of the Titans.’
Ironically, when Zeus ordered the Kraken’s release, it immediately turned to stone when Perseus showed it Medusa’s head.
Sidney Powell has been extremely quite recently, causing me to wonder who was the ‘Medusa’ that turned her into stone and silencing her in the process.
Team Trump’s play for a takeover Coup was not as disorganised as you were led to believe. Military personal led the charge to hijack the proceedings and they were let in by allies in the Capitol Police force. They knew where they were going as they were fed intel by Republicans who had been giving Guided Tours of the building to the Trumpers.
War Zone
“you who work iniquity” = “you who break the law” = evildoers
Will the iniquity workers of babylon go away or will they regroup and come back again. Their mediocrity uses legacy of white supremacy racism as a crutch. Trolls like John Knox are persistent with their ingrained bullshit and are so brainwashed they don’t even notice it anymore.
Artax,
So you think I should stop singing, “Come thou long expected Kraken?”
No chance of the Kraken Coming????
Awww shucks!
Meanwhile….
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJ1RSzShUlZ/
FYI
The lady up above made a reference to Kirk Franklin Revolution at which point I stopped listening and did some search research and found a tune
The elections company Dominion Voting Systems, which has been at the center of many of President Trump’s conspiracy narratives about the 2020 election, filed suit Friday against one of the loudest amplifiers of those false stories.
The company sued Sidney Powell, a lawyer who previously worked for the Trump campaign and who has spent much of the past two months claiming Dominion rigged the election and was somehow tied to the Venezuelan regime of the late Hugo Chavez.
None of those claims are true. Dominion was founded in Toronto and is now headquartered in Denver; its machines have been used in American elections for more than a decade. Chavez died in 2013.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and in it Dominion asks for more than $1.3 billion in damages. Powell’s “viral disinformation campaign” has destroyed the value of the business, the lawsuit says.
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When you are being sued for that kind of dinero , you learn to shut up. Everyone allied to Trump even some of those being charged in the mob attack on Congress is establishing a “Go Fund Me” or some kind of fundraising scheme. Steve Bannon had one with building a wall perhaps Powell will set up one soon.
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/954836971/dominion-voting-sues-former-trump-lawyer-seeking-1-3-billion-in-damages
hello…when is this nightmare going to end for the people…damn…this one looks like he was planning a killing.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-arrest-virginia-man-fake-inaugural-pass-guns-20210116-jzkhkclqq5d6fmayfwmvdpviui-story.html#nt=pf-double%20chain~top-version1~flex%20feature~curated~virginia-442p~JZKHKCLQQ5D6FMAYFWMVDPVIUI~1~2~1~7~art%20yes
“A Virginia man with fake inaugural credentials, a loaded handgun and more than 500 rounds of ammunition was busted while trying to pass through a U.S. Capitol Police checkpoint in downtown Washington on Friday, according to authorities.”
https://thegrio.com/2021/01/16/officials-probe-congresswoman-tweeted-lawmaker-locations-riot/
“68 elected officials from Colorado have sent a letter to lawmakers requesting a probe into Rep. Lauren Boebert’s actions before and during the day of the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to multiple reports.”
A call
https://youtu.be/4lFc5uOTRaU
DavidJanuary 16, 2021 8:51 AM
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4 more days to go until …
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… add 1 day for the day after!!
This is the official countdown.
3 days before …
WURA-War-on-UJanuary 16, 2021 7:06 PM
Bunch of Christian Evangelical terrorists. Disgraceful. Trying to impose their minority will on the majority of good Americans.
The real law enforcement will deal with them properly. Most of them will be writing to Trump from prison. He has the money from their donations to fight any potential New York tax case for the next ten years. He will be at Maralago playing golf, while they spend time at the government’s pleasure.
Nincompoops.
@ Donna
You may have to sing a different song. Dominion Voting Systems and their US$1.3B law suit against Powell could be the ‘Medusa’ that turns her into stone.
But, it provides Sidney with the perfect opportunity to present ‘evidence’ of her conspiracy theories to be examined in Court. She will now have to prove what she says is the common relationship between Dominion, Hugo Chavez and the November 3, 2020 presidential elections.
Perhaps John may want to assist her legal team. After all, he keeps reminding us he’s ‘half a lawyer.’ Someone should remind him the qualifying prerequisites for the profession do not include watching 40 hours of Matlock, Perry Mason, L.A Law or Boston Legal.
Crusoe…he pulled in a cool 200 million off those idiots, while they have cases they can’t fund, most will be seeking legal aid for their bright idea to storm a restricted area on the say so of a madman. Saw another one begging for a pardon after she made it her business to take a private jet, fly across the country and go terrorize people who did absolutely nothing to her……lol
A lot of these are going to be pariahs.
“Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) got a fundraising punch in the gut for his Jan. 6 objection to President-elect Joe Biden’s win — and for raising his fist in solidarity on the day pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol.
In a tweet, Loews Hotels on Saturday canceled a planned fundraiser at its Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando.”
Mental illness is real.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-naked-man-subway-electrocution-20210116-dmqab3kqk5gujalkc77buyb6ui-story.html#nt=pf-double%20chain~top-version1~flex%20feature~curated~naked-655p~DMQAB3KQK5GUJALKC77BUYB6UI~1~1~1~7~art%20yes
“A naked, emotionally wrought man was electrocuted on a subway third rail in Harlem on Saturday after he shoved a man to the tracks and jumped down himself to prevent the man from being rescued, eyewitnesses told the Daily News.”
This is called MOMENTUM.
For a few hours (but it felt like days), I watched mostly white men and women ransack the Congress. They climbed walls. Broke doors and windows. Shouting that they were the true patriots. Someone filmed a police officer in riot gear, holding the hand of an older white woman in a camel-haired coat with a red, white, and blue ribbed pom beanie hat with TRUMP emblazoned on the front, as she carefully walked down the steps. She was one of the many who stormed the Capitol building and who simply walked away from the act.
There were no tanks or militarized weapons. No police in army fatigues. No bullhorn warnings to the assembled crowd. As these white men and women engaged in insurrection, no one shot rubber bullets, few police rushed into the crowds to arrest anyone. It was a glaring example of the different quality of their citizenship: that white lives, at least those who claim to be patriots of this sort, matter more than others.
James Baldwin once said, and it was a statement meant to unsettle the listener, that “for Black people in this country there is no legal code at all. We’re still governed by the slave code.” It is a startling image, which, at once, characterizes a form of policing as well as the thinking behind it. In the United States, Black people are meant to be disciplined, corralled and contained, and the violence of police is all too often the primary mechanism by which they are kept in their place.
The point here is not to suggest that Black people are still slaves and that police are slave catchers; rather, Baldwin captures with the image the logic behind why Black people are treated so. The slave code brings into view a host of assumptions about who is valued and who is not, about who has standing in this country and who can be treated, to echo the sentiment of the Dred Scott case, with a generalized sense of disregard.
To be sure, the bacchanal of grievance and hatred on January 6, 2021 exposed the clear and present danger that Donald Trump represents. The mob made concrete the threat of white nationalism to the nation. President-elect Joe Biden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and others are right to demand that all of those involved in the insurrection and those who incited it should be held to account.
But I have to say, and America’s history is my witness, that impeaching Donald Trump or invoking the 25th amendment will not get us very far. Nor will prosecuting those who sacked the Capitol address what I saw on January 6th. Both should happen, mind you, but they should be understood as just a beginning of sorts. The expression of that different quality of citizenship by the mob and their treatment by the police—the form of dissent with impunity and without fear of consequence—is rooted in the belief that this country is theirs alone and that only their votes count. (One can imagine this thinking shaped Trump’s conclusion that he won by a landslide. He did among white voters.) In order to uproot this sentiment, which has haunted the nation since its birth, we have to do something much more dramatic and sustained than getting rid of Donald Trump, democratizing who we call “thugs,” and prosecuting the criminals who threatened the Republic.
What then ought we to do after this?
In January 1871, Congress held hearings and took testimonies about the atrocities of the Ku Klux Klan throughout the south. Reading the transcripts is a horrifying endeavor. The level of cruelty and barbarity in response to black people exercising the right to vote astonishes the reader. But what becomes immediately clear is that Congress had decided that enough was enough. They aimed to destroy the KKK, and with the passage of The Enforcement Acts, which aimed to protect Black people as citizens from white violence, they succeeded for a time. Of course, the nation’s betrayal of radical Reconstruction and its assent to the “Lost Cause” occasioned the return of the Klan and the horrors of the world that sanctioned their existence. But, for a moment, they proved that, in fact, America could be otherwise.
I believe in January 2021 Congress should hold hearings, covered live on cable news, about the threat of white nationalism to this country. These hearings should expose the workings of white supremacy groups, create the conditions for the eradication of organizations like the Proud Boys, and lay the groundwork for legislation that will, once and for all, banish these groups from the body politic. America can no longer afford to coddle these organizations and the people who join them. Political parties and politicians can no longer seek to leverage their resentment and hatreds for their own political gain. I know this will be difficult, because many of these people are your loved ones. We treat them with the gentleness of the officer who helped the white woman down the Capitol steps. But we have to finally put to rest the politics of white resentment that has fueled so much of American life, especially since the mid-twentieth century. The attack on the Capitol showed us what awaits if we don’t.
President-elect Biden should direct his Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland to develop a detailed plan to rid the nation of these groups. That will involve a widespread investigation of the scope and extent of the penetration of white supremacists into law enforcement throughout the country and a plan to purge police departments of these elements. I suspect the failure of the Capitol police may be, in part, that some agreed with the mob and that they did not perceive them as a threat.
In the end, we cannot respond lightly to what has just happened in this country. And we cannot place the blame solely on a small number of rogue individuals, a few power-hungry members of Congress, and on the obvious madness of the President. America faces a crisis that has its roots in what caused the Civil War and what led us to turn our backs on the promise of the Civil Rights Movement. We have never really faced those demons. Our response has been to tinker around the edges, hide our faces beneath the covers when the darkness descends, and continue to make money no matter the costs. Herman Melville comes to mind: “But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and learned why it appeals with such power to the soul.”
Politicians must step up, but they will inevitably disappoint. We have to act, too. Americans will have to do the hard work of living our way through this crisis and learning how to trust one another. That will involve close to the ground civic action, holding each other accountable—especially in our own families—and tending to the needs of our neighbors, and declaring, once and for all, that no one can claim this place as uniquely their own.
Broken though it may be, America is ours, and together we can make this place anew, if we are finally honest with ourselves about the ugliness that has the country by the throat again. We will need the help of our poets to imagine a new language for a new America. They will need to write about what happened on January 6th. Perform what we saw and what we know to be the root causes of the mayhem. And with that new vision of who we can be, like the voters and organizers in Georgia, we can enact a new America shorn of the haunting hatred of those who refuse to let the old one die.
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I choose to show up for myself for the next 15 days.
The practice of drawing your attention inward.
This is what we are committed to.
We are slowing things down today as we begin the second half of this journey.
I will introduce some foundational elements for the next wave of this journey, as well as offer practice of a new technique called breath ratio.
Breath ratios are breath patterns set to counts. They are a wonderful tool for expanding your awareness and ability to control your breath.
They are also full of transformative potential and wonderful to pull out of your tool kit when you are feeling mentally, physically, or emotionally stressed or lost.
They can be short, or long, but they do require a bit of focus and yes you guessed it…. discipline.
This morning I watched the deer
with beautiful lips touching the tips
of the cranberries, setting their hooves down
in the dampness carelessly, isn’t it after all
the carpet of their house, their home, whose roof
is the sky?
Why, then, was I suddenly miserable?
Well, this is nothing much.
This is the heaviness of the body watching the swallows
gliding just under that roof.
This is the wish that the deer would not lift their heads
and leap away, leaving me there alone.
This is the wish to touch their faces, their brown wrists—
to sing some sparkling poem into
the folds of their ears,
then walk with them,
over the hills
and over the hills
and into the impossible trees.
This Morning I Watched the Deer
By MARY OLIVER
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#6….someone has to pay for those deaths…. the blighted plight of yardfowls.
“A supporter of the US president who was arrested at the Capitol riot was said to have died by suicide.
A medical examiner in Fulton County, Atlanta, ruled on Tuesday that the death of Christopher Stanton Georgia was by suicide, confirming earlier reports.
The 53-year-old was also said to have suffered a “gunshot wound to the chest”, the medical examiner said.
He was found by his wife in the basement of their home in Alpharetta, Georgia, on Saturday, according to reports.
Georgia, who was said to have been a regional portfolio manager at a North Carolina bank, was arrested in Washington DC on Wednesday evening after taking part in the riot on the Capitol.
FBI: QAnon backer from Iowa was among 1st to breach Capitol
According to the Washington Examiner, he was charged with attempting to break into the US Capitol alongside supporters of the US president.”