Stop Trivializing The Term "Coup": Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-01-09 at 02:44:15 )

Stop Trivializing The Term "Coup": Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Stop trivializing the term "coup". It is a real thing the United States government really inflicts on other countries in a way that actually does topple governments and cause immense destruction. You cannot take over the United States government with a small squadron of wingnuts. That is not a thing.

A coup attempt does not have to be successful for that term to be legitimate, but it does have to have some possibility of success. Donald Trump has no more likelihood of being in office after January 20th than I do; he has got nothing resembling the kind of support from the military, political establishment, oligarchs and other backing he would need to accomplish such a thing.

I hereby declare the United States election invalid and I, Caitlin Johnstone, am the new President of the United States.

Have I just instituted a "coup"? Or does my complete inability to put such a claim into effect make the use of that term silly?

And now Donald Trump has conceded. My what a funny looking coup.

It is very telling how fast the plutocratic media have been to use the word "coup" to describe some idiots interrupting congress for a few hours, since they bend over backwards to avoid using it when their government enacts blatant coups of infinitely greater destructiveness.

Here are some of the headlines from when the United States-backed coup in Bolivia was taking place:

-"Bolivian President Evo Morales steps down following accusations of election fraud" proclaims CNN.

-"Bolivias Morales resigns amid scathing election report, rising protests" reports The Washington Post.

-"Bolivian Leader Evo Morales Steps Down" says The New York Times.

-"Bolivian President Evo Morales resigns amid fraud poll protests" declares the BBC.

-"President of Bolivia steps down amid allegations of election rigging" we are informed by Telegraph.

-"Bolivias President Morales resigns after backlash to disputed election" says the Sydney Morning Herald.

In reality Mr. Morales was forced from office by the military after winning a legitimate election, which is exactly the thing that a coup is. This has never been anywhere remotely close to a possible outcome for Donald Trump, but since it does not interfere with imperialist agendas they are allowed to use it.

Narrative managers have been falling all over themselves to tell us that conspiracy theories on the internet are going to get everyone killed. They want conspiracy theories censored, especially the ones about how the government murders people around the world and lies about it. FYI your government is many orders of magnitude more dangerous, deceitful and deadly than even the craziest conspiracy theories.

Also, nobody who spent years saying the highest levels of the United States government had been taken over by Russia has any business bitching about conspiracy theories.

Modern liberalism is just QAnon for people with diplomas on their walls.

The left is always the real target of pushes for more censorship and surveillance. They are not worried about rightists, who support most of what the establishment wants and who can be manipulated into compliance with a simple 8chan psyop. They are worried about the faction that wants to dismantle the oligarchic empire.

Rightist wingnuts are always used to justify policies that are designed to neuter the left. That is why any leftist who has cheered internet censorship for the wingnuts has been applying their own muzzle on behalf of the authoritarians. Many still do not realize this.

Sometimes things happen that make people frightened and angry, and there is a major push (always spearheaded by the plutocratic media) for more authoritarian government control to shut down the bad guys. You can choose to get swept up in that frenzy. Or you can choose not to.

Just so we are clear, the policing lesson of the Capitol Hill riots was not that cops should have been more brutal with the Trumpers, it was that they should have been much more restrained during the BLM protests but chose not to be. Do not let them troll you into cheering for police brutality.

None of Donald Trumps post-election shenanigans rank anywhere near the top ten worst things he has done while president. Mass media coverage has not reflected this fact because they regard imperialist warmongering as normal presidential stuff and do not regard its victims as human.

It will never stop being hilarious when United States of Americans rend their garments about the death of a "democracy" that does not exist.

United States of Americans finally discover they can storm the Capitol to demand what they want, and they do it to defend a corrupt plutocrat.

United States of Americans think only about America while their rulers think only about conquering the rest of the world.

What is it going to take to get United States of American progressives to understand that the Democratic Party is explicitly and deliberately rigged against progress? It is simply not the tool for advancing progressive agendas. It is like watching a kid try to open a can of beans using a sneaker.

FYI you do not actually need to keep begging for the permission of condescending gatekeepers to push progressive agendas; you can just do it.

They are not the lefts supervisors, they are just people who speak in a forceful and assertive tone. You are the left.

You are trained to see one mainstream political faction with all its politicians, pundits and rank-and-file members versus the other faction with all its politicians, pundits and rank-and-file members.

Really it is the politicians and pundits of both factions versus everyone else.

While the poor have been inundated with religions glorifying poverty, meekness and obedience, the rich have been circulating their own private doctrines among themselves about why it is fine for them to have so much while everyone else has so little. They have their own religions.

Feel free to reject anything at all about your society, your culture, or any traditional relic at all. Our species is now staring down the barrel as a result of everything we have done up to this point. The old ways have failed. They are demonstrably bad. Try something new.

Unless we make drastic changes, and make them approximately now, we will likely go extinct due to climate chaos or nuclear war. Everything that brought us to this point has failed as spectacularly as anything can fail. Do not cling to the old ways. Bring in the unprecedented.

Trust is a very simple thing: you can trust people to act out the behavior patterns they normally act out. Behavior patterns are generally pretty trustworthy. You can trust nurturing people to do nurturing things, and you can trust destructive people to do destructive things. As long as you are trusting someone to do what they normally do instead of what they do not normally do, your trust will probably be well-placed.

We are so far from justice that even the table scraps of "You are too crazy to extradite" are welcomed. You want justice? Free Julian Assange, shower him with awards and compensation, and lock up everyone who helped persecute him. That would be justice. Then you would be getting somewhere.

We fight on.

Sometimes it knocks the wind out of us.

Sometimes it knocks us down.

And we lie there and blink a minute.

Just lie there.

And then, after a bit, the air begins sucking back into our lungs.

And the strength returns to our limbs.

And we get up.

And we fight on.

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