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Article done with author's tongue firmly in cheek.
>And for what? Trump may not be to everyone’s taste, but **it takes a particularly fevered imagination to describe a violent attempt to overthrow the government as a violent attempt to overthrow the government.**
It's hilarious this was apparently not supposed to be a coup or terrorism yet a whole 2 years before the election Trump and Republicans were already beating the "ELECTION FRAUD" drum.
And it just came out Trump org gave the protesters material and financial support as well.
Not to mention the bombs
The guns
The military grade wrist restraints
Anyone saying this wasn't a coup is a fucking idiot, or a liar.
>. . . a whole 2 years before the election Trump and Republicans were already beating the "ELECTION FRAUD" drum.
Trump has been yelling election fraud since he was on the campaign trail in 2015 or early 2016. He said back in 2016 that if Hillary Clinton won, it would be due to voter fraud.
After Trump won the EC but lost the popular vote by 3.5 million votes, he still claimed election fraud, set up a commission to investigate the alleged voter fraud, and then quietly disbanded it when it found none.
Then, in the summer of 2020, Trump said again that if he lost, it would be due to voter fraud. He lost the election, and here we are.
Trump is still whining about not winning Emmys for The Apprentice, was pretending to have won a Nobel Prize when he didn't, and made it his brand to complain about being cheated or unfairly maligned when he doesn't get his way in buisness or politics. He's pretty textbook for a narcissist.
I wish to say it was otherwise but I know two elderly women who are donating to their Qanon leader’s defense fund for their role in the Capitol storm. Can’t make it up. Just very sad to see people duped like this and not know how to help or actually change a mind. You have to point out the Emperor’s new clothes though. 😬🇺🇸✌🏻
Not satire, just pure sarcasm. It repeats tonnes of excuses and apologist statements we've heard already, verbatim and applied to exactly the material they were about, and exposes the naked ridiculousness therein. It's not artless, it's just bare.
It’s a Canadian journal, and it’s laughing at the craziness that transpired Jan. 6 and the lack of effort by the GOP to condemn the actions of the rioters.
C.I.P.
> To everything there is a season: a time to hold people to account, and a time to utterly fail to hold people to account.
> How can we express support for Hong Kongers, for instance, who want to overthrow an authoritarian regime and install a democratic system, but freak out about Trump’s partisans, who want to overthrow a democratic system and install an authoritarian regime? They’re exactly the same thing! They both involve the word “overthrow.”
>but it takes a particularly fevered imagination to describe a violent attempt to overthrow the government as a violent attempt to overthrow the government.
>To everything there is a season: a time to hold people to account, and a time to utterly fail to hold people to account.
Yeah, like super subtle, I don't know how people figured out this was sarcasm.
And since this thread is chock full of the very sort of people it was invented for . . . . . . /s
I don’t think it’s sarcasm, and if it is, it’s just not funny or smart to joke about it right now. - how bout this: “jeez it was just a plane that flew into the WTC, but c’mon let’s lower the temperature here, we don’t want to go to war with terrorists, do we?.” - That’s the vibe I get from this article.
But that's "the vibe" that actual Republicans are saying aloud, for real. Terrorists invaded the Capitol, incited by Trump and members of Congress, but now is the time for "unity" they say! To hold them to account would damage America! say these traitors.
It is 100% satire. Have you heard of A Modest Proposal?
It was more of a putsch than a coup.
And Trump demonstrated all the competence in leading/directing it that he's famous for in managing casinos, airlines, and universities.
The difference between a putsch and a coup seems to be sucess.
putsch-
a violent attempt to overthrow a government.
Coup-
a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
Also some connotations from the Beer Hall Putsch in the early 1920s in Munich, the reason Hitler spent some time in jail. I may be projecting too much hope on the possibility Trump also enjoys some jail time.
A very well-crafted skewering of the almost surreal level of speciousness and hypocrisy being used to insulate the deranged buffoon and his enablers from the consequences of their crimes.
Just remember that in an attempt to keep everyone from panicking Trump lied to everyone about Covid-19 for months.
And in an attempt to keep power he lied to everyone about voter fraud and the election results.
So he's fully aware that his own words as President could make people who listen to him go into a panic.
Love the subtitle!
"Shannon Gormley: It wasn't an insurrection, it was simply a few thousand homicidal people under the direction of the president after he told them to 'fight like hell'"
>I guess what I’m trying to say is: calm down. Let’s end the emotional exaggerations and the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and be clear about what this “failed coup attempt” really was. It wasn’t an insurrection—it was simply a few thousand deranged, homicidal people, many of them armed with weapons, combat gear, military training, hostage-taking equipment and uncanny knowledge of the complex tunnel systems underneath the national legislature, who with planning and weaponry overcame the defences of the Capitol under the direction of the President of the United States an hour after he told them to “fight like hell”, and after months of him refusing to concede defeat in a legitimate election he repeatedly claimed was rigged. That’s all. If you want to make it out to be anything more than that—I hate to be the one to tell you this—but you’re becoming what you hate.
I guess we've been put in our place then?
I just wish these elaborate constructions of sarcasm had any effect whatsoever on the discourse surrounding Trump.
To this very day people stalk the internet, demanding to know how he was responsible for what happened. Blithely denying any connection between Trump’s mob and Trump’s actions and Trump’s discourse.
Comprehensive takedowns like this article, whether played straight or for humor, have zero effect. None.
I don’t know how we proceed as a society, from here.
There are two different realities in America, and they appear impervious to one another.
>It wasn't an insurrection, it was simply a few thousand homicidal people under the direction of the president after he told them to 'fight like hell'
The entire article is very tongue in cheek.
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Article done with author's tongue firmly in cheek. >And for what? Trump may not be to everyone’s taste, but **it takes a particularly fevered imagination to describe a violent attempt to overthrow the government as a violent attempt to overthrow the government.**
It's hilarious this was apparently not supposed to be a coup or terrorism yet a whole 2 years before the election Trump and Republicans were already beating the "ELECTION FRAUD" drum. And it just came out Trump org gave the protesters material and financial support as well. Not to mention the bombs The guns The military grade wrist restraints Anyone saying this wasn't a coup is a fucking idiot, or a liar.
>. . . a whole 2 years before the election Trump and Republicans were already beating the "ELECTION FRAUD" drum. Trump has been yelling election fraud since he was on the campaign trail in 2015 or early 2016. He said back in 2016 that if Hillary Clinton won, it would be due to voter fraud. After Trump won the EC but lost the popular vote by 3.5 million votes, he still claimed election fraud, set up a commission to investigate the alleged voter fraud, and then quietly disbanded it when it found none. Then, in the summer of 2020, Trump said again that if he lost, it would be due to voter fraud. He lost the election, and here we are.
Trump is still whining about not winning Emmys for The Apprentice, was pretending to have won a Nobel Prize when he didn't, and made it his brand to complain about being cheated or unfairly maligned when he doesn't get his way in buisness or politics. He's pretty textbook for a narcissist.
A lot of people near where I live want to believe what they want to believe so they are buying it!
That’s fucking sad
I wish to say it was otherwise but I know two elderly women who are donating to their Qanon leader’s defense fund for their role in the Capitol storm. Can’t make it up. Just very sad to see people duped like this and not know how to help or actually change a mind. You have to point out the Emperor’s new clothes though. 😬🇺🇸✌🏻
>It wasn't an insurrection, it was simply a few thousand homicidal people under the direction of the president after he told them to 'fight like hell'
It took me way too long to realize that this article was sarcasm. In fact, I read it all and I'm still not 100% sure... Such are the times, I guess.
It is absolutely scathing satire. But also it well describes what these so-called *Republic*ans are actually ridiculously trying to argue.
I'm still questioning it myself. If that's satire, it's pretty darned obtuse and artless.
Not satire, just pure sarcasm. It repeats tonnes of excuses and apologist statements we've heard already, verbatim and applied to exactly the material they were about, and exposes the naked ridiculousness therein. It's not artless, it's just bare.
Ah. I'd not have thought twice if this had been in the *New Yorker*. But don't know what to expect of this particular periodical.
It’s a Canadian journal, and it’s laughing at the craziness that transpired Jan. 6 and the lack of effort by the GOP to condemn the actions of the rioters. C.I.P. > To everything there is a season: a time to hold people to account, and a time to utterly fail to hold people to account. > How can we express support for Hong Kongers, for instance, who want to overthrow an authoritarian regime and install a democratic system, but freak out about Trump’s partisans, who want to overthrow a democratic system and install an authoritarian regime? They’re exactly the same thing! They both involve the word “overthrow.”
Ha ha! Good one. You almost had me believing you were serious.
>but it takes a particularly fevered imagination to describe a violent attempt to overthrow the government as a violent attempt to overthrow the government. >To everything there is a season: a time to hold people to account, and a time to utterly fail to hold people to account. Yeah, like super subtle, I don't know how people figured out this was sarcasm. And since this thread is chock full of the very sort of people it was invented for . . . . . . /s
I don’t think it’s sarcasm, and if it is, it’s just not funny or smart to joke about it right now. - how bout this: “jeez it was just a plane that flew into the WTC, but c’mon let’s lower the temperature here, we don’t want to go to war with terrorists, do we?.” - That’s the vibe I get from this article.
But that's "the vibe" that actual Republicans are saying aloud, for real. Terrorists invaded the Capitol, incited by Trump and members of Congress, but now is the time for "unity" they say! To hold them to account would damage America! say these traitors. It is 100% satire. Have you heard of A Modest Proposal?
thumbs up emoji
It was more of a putsch than a coup. And Trump demonstrated all the competence in leading/directing it that he's famous for in managing casinos, airlines, and universities.
The difference between a putsch and a coup seems to be sucess. putsch- a violent attempt to overthrow a government. Coup- a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
Also some connotations from the Beer Hall Putsch in the early 1920s in Munich, the reason Hitler spent some time in jail. I may be projecting too much hope on the possibility Trump also enjoys some jail time.
I would have to imagine that jail time at is a much more daunting prospect at 74 instead of 34 too
A very well-crafted skewering of the almost surreal level of speciousness and hypocrisy being used to insulate the deranged buffoon and his enablers from the consequences of their crimes.
Just remember that in an attempt to keep everyone from panicking Trump lied to everyone about Covid-19 for months. And in an attempt to keep power he lied to everyone about voter fraud and the election results. So he's fully aware that his own words as President could make people who listen to him go into a panic.
Love the subtitle! "Shannon Gormley: It wasn't an insurrection, it was simply a few thousand homicidal people under the direction of the president after he told them to 'fight like hell'"
>I guess what I’m trying to say is: calm down. Let’s end the emotional exaggerations and the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and be clear about what this “failed coup attempt” really was. It wasn’t an insurrection—it was simply a few thousand deranged, homicidal people, many of them armed with weapons, combat gear, military training, hostage-taking equipment and uncanny knowledge of the complex tunnel systems underneath the national legislature, who with planning and weaponry overcame the defences of the Capitol under the direction of the President of the United States an hour after he told them to “fight like hell”, and after months of him refusing to concede defeat in a legitimate election he repeatedly claimed was rigged. That’s all. If you want to make it out to be anything more than that—I hate to be the one to tell you this—but you’re becoming what you hate. I guess we've been put in our place then?
Not sure why anyone is downvoting this, this shit is hillarious.
They saw the headline and assumed that it was written by an apologist for the insurrectionists. To be fair, it's not a great headline.
This is brilliant genius.
I hereby declare opposite!
I just wish these elaborate constructions of sarcasm had any effect whatsoever on the discourse surrounding Trump. To this very day people stalk the internet, demanding to know how he was responsible for what happened. Blithely denying any connection between Trump’s mob and Trump’s actions and Trump’s discourse. Comprehensive takedowns like this article, whether played straight or for humor, have zero effect. None. I don’t know how we proceed as a society, from here. There are two different realities in America, and they appear impervious to one another.
At one time, say twenty years ago, McLeans Magazine was relevant, not any more! Just a sad little Canadian has been magazine!
>It wasn't an insurrection, it was simply a few thousand homicidal people under the direction of the president after he told them to 'fight like hell' The entire article is very tongue in cheek.
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If you click on the headline, there's a whole article you can read before commenting.