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“Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose

“People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed”

- Bob Dylan, from “Things Have Changed”

January 6, 2021 – some rioters literally walked through a door of the Capitol while some police stood there like Walmart greeters opening the store for a flat-screen sale on Black Friday.

Let’s cut to the proverbial chase, the whole shebang is layered with hypocritical ludicrousness. The Brainwash Media and Big Tech can calmly report (or not report) news of atrocities in foreign countries, for example, Saudi Arabia, with USEmpire-bought weaponry, has been bombing the hell out of Yemen for years and have you seen the photos of emaciated children with their ribs protruding? Did you see those photos on your how-Smart-are-you-Phone if you are lucky enough to stroll the aisles of Bezos-owned Whole Foods deciding which of the twenty or so salsa choices would best suit your nachos for a super-spreader Super Bowl gathering... Brainwash Media calmly report, yet (and am not condoning riots or violence and am no fan of Trump) as soon as the Capitol chaos unfolded and without legally deciding whether in fact Trump’s words, for example “wild”, can be considered as “incitement” and/or whether there were any infiltrators responsible for the violence, Big Tech bans a sitting president from using their Social Media outlets, plus there is video of police saying what sounds like “we disagree with you but respect you”[1] as rioters walk past them into the Capitol building, plus the Rumsfeldian “known knowns” that the stuff was likely to go down and hit the fan yet security wasn't fastfood beefed-up like it will be for Inauguration Day around the country (though no crowds allowed at the National Mall), so lesson learned and the show must go on.

For Trump it's: Don’t let the Capitol door hit you on the way out, while for the rioters: Don’t let the Capitol door hit you on the way in. Whatta conundrum and odd sequence of events considering Washington DivideConquer and Corporations are a revolving door haven, the most recent example being, “Biden Picks “Mr. Monsanto” Tom Vilsack to Head the USDA: Under Obama, Vilsack brought us cloned farm animals, lab-grown meat and more GMOs than any Agriculture Secretary before or after him.”[2]

And while impeachment blares the headlines, why not also the revamping of the security system and personnel for their utter failure in protecting the Capitol? If that doesn't raise tremendous eyebrows it indicates that people care more about identity politics than about actual safety, or in other words, emotional buttons have been pushed while reason sits alone in the corner begging for touch.

Remember the “free-speech zones” during the 2004 DNC (Democratic National Convention)?Protesters were allowed to exercise their constitutional right INSIDE A CAGE! Yet a “known known” typically rowdy bunch of MAGAers were shown the open door, a bunch of MAGAers some of whom had broadcasted potential violence before 'the meetup' via, wait for it, Social Media.

A brief backtrack of events reveals the layers of accomplices other than Social Media and Trump: Bernie Sanders was, at least with verbiage, rousing the People for actual change when the DNC threw him under the proverbial bus squelching change and the Bern went willingly. As with any energy that is unable to find its natural outlet, the energy tends to back-up before oozing out the sides in volatile fashion. So the DNC burned the Bern because Trump was the boogeyman to defeat; then a non-transparent s/election with some level of shenanigans no how matter how many people say it was all fair and above board because Biden was crowned by Brainwash Media BEFORE the vote tallies were clear; then Trump’s reaction to the lack of voting transparency; then words of debatable incitement; then warnings of violence slated for the day of the official tally for President Biden along with the question: what happened with regard to FBI and Capitol Police warnings/communications?; then a no appointments necessary walk-ins welcome violent incident inside what Pelosi calls “the temple of American democracy” (sounds like a verbal loophole to avoid issues of separation of church and state), though outside the so-called temple she's long been crying 'Let them eat cake!'; then Brainwash Media jumping to conclusions and brand Trump ditched by the PGA,[3] NYC,[4] Walmart,[5] and more. I don't have enough fingers to point at all the Epiphany of Empire Has No Clothes Day accomplices.

One so-called reason being mentioned for the confluence of events is the potential crackdown under the vague category of “domestic terrorism,” which by definition could include but won't, sexual abuse in relationships, not to mention Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). Two of a long list of statistics: “Intimate partner violence accounts for 15% of all violent crime.” & “1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year, and 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence.”[6] However, the protection of the “temple of America democracy” is more likely the raison d'être.

Meanwhile I wonder about this time-lapse theater of the absurd as distraction from pending further environmental disasters, from covid-19 health issues and mass unemployment issues. But don't get me wrong, the Capitol incident has stoked potential civil war-esque fires.

According to Hopi and Navajo (Diné) cosmology, there’s what’s called the Fourth World (after three previous Worlds), which in short is an age of strife, chaos and purification then followed by the Fifth World, a golden age of consciousness, healing and light. In 1996, Floyd Hand (Oglala) noted the end of the Fourth World as January 21, 2021.[7] I don’t know how accurate or what the date is based on yet uncannily that’s the day after the inauguration and crowning of #46. So the golden age can't get here fast enough. Hinduism has a similar storyline with the Kali Yuga followed by the Satya Yuga, but am unaware of any specific dates.

In 2008 the real estate bubble busted but banks too big to fail were fed bailouts.

In 2020 and into 2021 the covid-19 crisis causing massive unemployment and health crises with loss of many lives while select corporations and billionaires continue pillaging trillions.

Cue the karaoke night (with apologies to Don McLean) . . .

We started singin' bye-bye, American slice of the pie
drove my Chevy to the drive-thru but the burger was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and telling lies
And singin', “This’ll be the day the American slice of the pie dies,
This’ll be the day the American slice of the pie dies.”

Yet the dying won't be pretty as the fading USEmpire with its value-pak of accomplices and factions foams at the mouth of the dog-eat-dog world.

Meanwhile, am guided by the lyrics of Dylan to keep on keepin' on:

“Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake / I’m not that eager to make a mistake.”

NOTES
[1] 1-minute video

[2] See here.

[3] “2022 PGA Championship leaving Trump National”

[4]“NYC to terminate all contracts with Trump, Mayor de Blasio says, citing deadly Capitol siege”

[5] “Walmart and Disney Join Companies Halting Donations After Riot”

[6] See here.

[7] “Star Knowledge UFO Conference: Report by Dr. Richard Boylan: So. Dakota, June 12-16, 1996”

Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet at Axis of Logic, as well as a correspondent-poet for the WUSB 90.1FM radio segment “Radical Words”. In addition to his work as a writer and small press publisher, he travels a holistic mystic pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island. His website is here.

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