Thursday, January 7, 2021

Les Etats-Unis...

Et voila les États-Unis sont arrivées desormais au monde moins développer.

The news of armed militants storming the Capitol has spun the world.  

This morning there have been long, serious discussions on French TV about the fragility of American democracy.  These were not in the tone of "we're better than that."  Rather they were deeper philosophical discussions of what democracy means and what it enables and the dangers of its collapse.

How is it that a sitting President is allowed to encourage what to many around the world see as a coup d'etat, and there are no hard, real world consequences?

The contrasts between how anti-fascists, Black Lives Matter, and Trump supporters are dealt with is all too telling to even the most casual observer.

UPDATE 18 January, 2021 - So this is what the birth of a Third World Country looks like?

[From the original post]

There is of course more...

Police let insurrectionists come right on in

Enabler cowers as the Capitol is stormed by those he enabled

The Confederate flag finally made it into the core of the Capital

Police remove barriers so insurrectionists can take "selfies"

And just a bit of irony thrown in

... with something that's no better than aged milk


Is civility too much to ask for?


UPDATE 19:47 -

'Today I am briefing my government that we believe with a reasonable level of certainty that Donald Trump attempted a coup'

 

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