TRUMP’S CALLOUT FOR INSURRECTION ON JANUARY 6, 2021 - THAT FORTUNATELY FAILED

It’s being debated but let’s face it, on January 6, 2021, there was an attempted, insurrection takeover of the  democratically-elected American government that barely failed. 

The intended, forceful takeover of the American government wras inspired by Donald Trump  (as he inspired prior to the 2016 election) and attempted with planned (premeditated) kidnappings, torture and executions-by-gallows-hanging on the Capitol grounds just in front of Congress. 

Although not a successful insurrection, bad actions were perpetrated by Trump’s followers resulting in deaths, injuries, and stealing and destruction of government property.

And it all began months earlier with Donald Trump’s pre-emptive whining, echoed by Fox News and other right wing voices, about his  possible 2020 election loses that could only happen except by Democrat cheating and vote rigging - which course, Trump’s state and national supporters were surreptitiously already putting in place for his benefit. (All of these ‘moves’ Trump committed leading up to the 2020 election.). 

Therefore, by Trumpist ‘logic’, his supporters had to anticipate Democrat Party cheating and ‘betrayal’ and prepare to act to take back their rightful 2020 election win. 

Hence, prior to the 2020 election, Trump began a program of anticipatory preparation for insurrection - culminating in a post-election call out for a ‘wild’ gathering of Trump loyalists in Washington DC at the Capitol Hall of Congress, on January 6, 2021.

TRUMP’S CALL TO INSURRECTION - ‘LETS HAVE A ‘WILDING’’.!

Trump’s invitation to a “wild’ time at the Capitol was an unsubtle reference to the term “wilding” which has been for some decades a label attached to Trumpist-like mobs and translates  to ‘destructive running amok’ with unconcerned, deadly consequences for persons and property — hence the gallows constructed by the insurgents and the plastic wrist ties, the guns carried, the Molotov cocktails, the bombs cached at strategic locations nearby, the feces smeared on the walls of Congress, the urinating on the Capitol carpets and elsewhere, the ‘wilding’ insane shouting for Vice President Pence, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other elected offices to come out of hiding.  To summarize, as planned, there was an incited deadly rampage (a ‘Wilding’)  carried out by a deliberately inflamed, run-amok mob … whose actions were pre-meditated to capture and kill elected officials (the wrist ties, gallows and guns) whose election legitimacy had prior been confirmed by 60 unsuccessful court challenges. January 6, 2021, was a Trump-inspired Insurrection, with tressxpassing, destroying property, gunfire and killings ... that failed.

THE DEBATE DEBACLE WAS NO SURPRISE BUT CHRIS WALLACE’S MODERATOR ATTEMPT WAS A FLOP

This post is a reaction to an October 1 (2020) article in CNN news (Failure of Imagination: Why Trump can still shock the media) that covers the September 29 (2020) First Presidential Debate of the 2020 election. By several media accounts, the debate was a ‘Sh...tshow’ and much cyber print has been given to what contributed to that outcome. This blogger, Pericles21, was strongly unimpressed especially by the non-performance of the moderator, Chris Wallace, who is touted as a ‘star’ Fox News element (anchor or actor - depending on one’s attitude about Fox News).

Note: Pericles21, in ’normal’ universes, has a warm respect for Mr Wallace but to be kind, the debate was very far from home.

Àn opinion overall - even a dummy expected Trump to ’perform’ at his most outrageous level. so why was the media apparently.taken by surprise? 

A second opinion - as to why the debate fell apart: of course the main actor, Trump, carries most of the weight for that failure but there was also a second factor, and not always a minor actor, the media moderator Chris Wallace who just plain failed to be an effective moderator. Wallace’s performance was a cringe-worthy side show as he struggled to keep control of the debate but then fell to preserving what little dignity left in the debate and belonging to him personally.  After 15 minutes, Wallace’s priority seemed to be to save what remained of his packaged media facade - the cultivated, stiff, poseur posture and out-of-touch fake voice modulation. (Does he whine in real life?)  Wallace appeared to be struggling to step outside from his ’poseur’ media straight jacket but he was never successful. He never became a ’real’ and moderating agent. Wallace looked so trapped in a faux media costume, desperately trying to maintain his image as Trump ranted away and just chased Wallace around.  Wallace should go on retreat and try to figure out who he is, what current America is all about and what side/pov he feels comfortable with. He was nearly as much a turn-off as DT.