{"id":97,"date":"2025-02-21T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:05:02","slug":"storm-the-f-ing-capital-um-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/storm-the-f-ing-capital-um-yeah\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm the f-ing capital? Um, yeah?"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Clooney was on Colbert\u2019s \u201cThe Late Show\u201d and when asked how the most recent election went for him he said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat am I supposed to do?\u201d Clooney replied. \u201cStorm the fucking Capitol? It didn\u2019t work out. That\u2019s what happens. It\u2019s part of democracy. And there\u2019s people who agree and people who disagree, and most of us still like each other. We\u2019re all going to get through it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Who cares what a celebrity says? Except that this response is one of the things that is crippling any real, effective resistance to the\u00a0autogolpe<\/em> currently happening in the U.S. The left has spent the last 4 years decrying the Magat\u2019s attempted coup on January 6, 2021 when they stormed the capital, battered police officers, and threatened to kill elected leaders. We talk about it like it\u2019s the worst thing they have done, and until now perhaps it was. But what that means is that we have trouble envisioning direct resistance that would be acceptable or even possible for us. They<\/em> did it and it was very wrong, so\u00a0we<\/em> can\u2019t do the same thing, right?\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s true as far as it goes, but there are massive differences between what the Magats did on January 6 and what we should be doing now, or what we probably will have to do before this is over. We should<\/em> be storming the fucking Capitol, but not for the anti-democratic, authoritarian, and false reasons like those motivating the attempted coup of January 6, and not with the violence that they demonstrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Direct resistance, marching in the streets, occupying offices and buildings \u2014 all nonviolently!<\/em> \u2014 are tried and true means to express political opposition and to stop the machine and demand change, and nothing is needed more at this moment than to stop this machine that is dismantling our democracy right before our eyes and to demand that Congress do it\u2019s damned job as a check on the executive! We may be past the point where our checks and balances are going to be able to stop the destruction of the United States of America as a \u201cshining beacon\u201d of democracy or anything good, but it seems like we owe it to the generations before us that fought for this country and the ideals it stood for, and to generations to come, to at least stand up and\u2026. try? to stop this fucking madness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bottom line: It\u2019s one thing for violent insurrectionists to storm the Capitol to attempt to overthrow the lawfully elected government. It\u2019s another thing for concerned citiziens to nonviolently<\/em> occupy the streets (and perhaps any government buildings they can) to\u00a0nonviolently\u00a0<\/em>stop the machine and demand their lawfully elected representative stop violating the law and the Constitution and start doing their damned jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Clooney was on Colbert\u2019s \u201cThe Late Show\u201d and when asked how the most recent election went for him he said: \u201cWhat am I supposed to do?\u201d Clooney replied. \u201cStorm the fucking Capitol? It didn\u2019t work out. That\u2019s what happens. It\u2019s part of democracy. And there\u2019s people who agree and people who disagree, and most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}