The previous president was supposed to re-take office. Okay, we're waiting.
We're waiting for anything that Q-Anon believes to become anything close to being true. We wait for Godot. So do they, except they don't understand that.
The kidnapping ring--Remember that?--that is supposed to be comprised of Democrats, among others (It's sure a mystery to me), hasn't surfaced. It's done about as much as that guy learned when he charged into a Washington, DC pizza restaurant five years ago, gun in hand, convinced that Hillary Clinton, President Obama and (of course) George Soros (What a wicked man!) were at the bottom of it, eating the kids' bodies and drinking their blood.
The guy thought the kids were being hidden in the basement. But not only were there no kids, there wasn't even any basement. That didn't stop a whole national movement from developing, members of which partly responsible for raiding the Capitol on January 6. Once the curse of hysteria hits you, it's tough to shake it.
They must be hiding the kids really, really well. Maybe if they pray real hard, they will emerge.
Not that kidnappings don't happen. They do, and human trafficking is no joke; it happens in every county in America. But we've learned to watch Q-Anon people direct their energy in the entirely wrong direction.
Being steadfast, angry, and misdirected helps nobody. Being stupid makes it worse. Being stupid and dangerous makes them people to be avoided. Make no mistake: Being stupid is an intentional act. It is intentionally ignoring the facts and preferring not to use reason, the one thing that separates us from other primates. It's preferring to make up a more comfortable world that you can dominate, that you can pretend exists and does so only in your own head.
Someone made up the nonsense that since 1871, the U.S. secretly became not a government, but a corporation now run from London. Thus, every president since Grant, who was president at the time, is not legitimate. So to replace Biden with Trump on the date when the inauguration originally took place--changed to January 20 by constitutional amendment--is a concoction that's all their own. Don't ask me where any logic was inserted; I just work here.
None of this makes sense, of course, because none of it is true. Just like the election being rigged, which they cling to, in the end, as legitimizing their raid on the Capitol and claims that the previous president is still supposed to be in power. A number of them have already stood very humbly in front of a judge and pretended to be remorseful.
I don't believe it for a second. They are as insincere as the awful man they wish to interpose back into the presidency. All they want is for another chance to invade the Capitol and take it by force. The more we know about that portentous day, the more that becomes evident.
There are other "signs," as they put it. Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet. When the previous president made his farewell speech, there were apparently 17 flags behind him. On the first day of Joe Biden's first term, he apparently signed 17 executive orders. This is apparently a signal that Q-Anon is somehow legitimate, that they have a point, that their wills will be done.
Santa Claus is more legitimate. So is the Easter Bunny. So is Brigadoon, once every hundred years.
This would be simply ludicrous and ridiculous, the stuff of selling elixir, but they also say that executions will begin on March 5, tomorrow. And, of course, Democrats must be executed.
These people aren't just crazy. They have weapons. They are dangerous. And they're already having an effect beyond January 6: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held two votes last night and cancelled business today.
That's right: The House has had to stand down because of these awful, crazy, stupid people. That means they have won. If they have held up the business of the American people for only a day, they are walking, talking, breathing menaces to the republic and should be treated as such. The law will catch up to some of them, but not all, and they will take that as an inspiration to try again.
This is sad business, but security must be beefed up around the Capitol and remain so. It will no longer be the inviting place it used to be. March 4 will pass, but the danger will not. The compromise to our democracy is now a living thing, a crawling, writhing, ugly percolation. It will take longer than a day to stare it down.
Be well. Be careful. Wear a mask. Two vaccine shots now. With some luck, I'll see you down the road.
Mister Mark
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