All is Quiet on the Nation's Capital Front
The January 6th insurrection never ended, it evolved into a geopolitical strategy. Plus, updates on New Year's attacks and the North Carolina Supreme Court race, and more.
All is Quiet on the Nation's Capital Front
On the anniversary of Donald Trump’s instigated coup against the United States, the Joint Session of Congress convened to certify the insurrectionist-in-chief as the winner of the 2024 election.
This time, there was no violence or demands to disrupt the proceedings or mounted legal challenges to overturn the results because the election went the way the GOP willed it to. Had Vice President Kamala Harris won, January 6, 2021 would have repeated itself — Donald Trump laid the groundwork to guarantee it. But since he got his way (again), all is quiet on the Nation’s capital front.
And yet, winning a trifecta is still not good enough for Trump or his MAGA party.
Instead of messaging what the incoming regime will do for the American people, Trump is taking to his digital bullhorn to threaten U.S. allies with annexation and filling his cabinet with anti-communist (namely, China) war hawks while his unelected co-president, broligarch Elon Musk, is making demands of European leaders to overthrow their governments or to step down as he advocates for far-right parties to usurp control.
This geopolitical saber rattling signals a billionaire class desire to overthrow the World Order and indicates dark times of a new frontier of global empirical colonization by the American oligarchy.
Once again, the corporate news media dismisses these very real threats as an old man and his billionaire handler yell at cloud type of flippant buffoonery. But not taking Donald Trump or those surrounding him seriously is why we are at this current existential juncture.
In fact, because the corporate news media deliberately chose to make the 2024 election a horse race between two equally normal candidates instead of making the January 6th insurrection an albatross around Donald Trump’s, the Republican Party’s, and the MAGA base’s necks is why the world is now at a crossroads.
Because the corporate-owned press did not stress to the American electorate the danger that Donald Trump poses because of his actions that culminated on January 6, 2021, voters reelected him. And because the corporate news media downplayed and largely ignored the Biden administration’s, as well as the previous Democratic controlled Congress’, economic record, voters were misled going into the polls.
This irresponsible and deeply skewed news coverage helped Donald Trump evade the one remaining check on his power as the institutions failed to do so. The American people ultimately elected not to wield this check, which many still have yet to understand opened Pandora’s box — a box that cannot be closed.
And now we face a Donald Trump, a billionaire class, and a Republican Party that feels emboldened to enact a counter-revolutionary and contrarian agenda. Underpinning this is the bought-and-paid for regime with imperialist ambitions.
In a way, the January 6th insurrection has simply evolved on an international scale. Donald Trump ultimately prevailed in his coup on the United States. Now, his focus is on forcing MAGA’s will (and, by proxy, Vladimir Putin’s) on U.S. allies and he’s deployed his billionaire commander in chief to unleash political violence in the only way he knows how: inserting himself in matters that don’t involve him to embolden the far-right.
That’s all for now. Read on for more news headlines below.
- Stephanie
Updates on New Year’s Attacks
The FBI revealed that the domestic terrorist who terrorized New Orleans on New Year’s Eve visited the city in October and November. On these trips, the radicalized U.S. Army veteran recorded video of the French Quarter using smart glasses produced by Facebook’s parent company Meta.
Las Vegas investigators unveiled the screeds written by the radicalized U.S. Army Green Beret before he died by suicide and caused his rented Cybertruck to explode in front of Trump’s Las Vegas Hotel. In the letters, he addressed active duty military members and veterans, as well as the American people, giving a call to action that advocated for political violence against Democrats.
Update on North Carolina Supreme Court race
A Federalist Society judge in North Carolina ordered the GOP-led lawsuit attempting to steal a state Supreme Court seat be decided by the GOP-controlled state Supreme Court. In a 27-page order, Chief District Judge Richard Myers decided that GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin’s motion asking the court to not certify Allison Riggs’s win and to disenfranchise 60K voters should be up to “state’s rights,” not the federal courts.
Political Upheaval
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned as party leader and suspended parliament until March as opposition parties exploited economic issues to mount pressure on Trudeau’s majority Liberal Party, bringing the government to a standstill. Trudeau acknowledged in his announcement that he is stepping down to give his party a fighting chance in the upcoming election. He will remain as Prime Minister until his party elects a new leader.
Trump renewed threats to annex Canada after Trudeau announced his resignation. And like anything else he posts on his knockoff Twitter, the corporate news media does not take his intent to bully and to invade a U.S. ally as the serious threat that it is.
Trump vs. New York
On Monday, Trump requested an indefinite hold on his sentencing in the NY criminal case against him as he appeals to overturn the unanimous jury verdict. Hours later, Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case, rejected Trump’s request. Unsurprisingly, within minutes, Trump sued Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Merchan because they opposed his motion for dismissal on the grounds of absolute presidential and president-elect immunity.
On Monday, a federal judge found that Trump’s personal lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was in contempt of court for failing to comply with requests for information about his assets. Giuliani admitted in court that he selectively withheld information because he believed the requests were overly broad, inappropriate, or a “trap” set by the plaintiff’s lawyers. He also claimed that the other criminal and civil court cases against him made it difficult to produce factual information.
Biden Awards Medals to Trump’s MAGA Enemies
President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, billionaire George Soros, tech entrepreneur and LGBTQ rights activist Tim Gill, chef and humanitarian Jose Andres, conservationist Jane Goodall, and others.
Legacy Media Fallout
The Washington Post continues to lose more senior newsroom staff as leadership of the Billionaire-owned legacy newspaper turns the legacy newspaper into a propaganda outlet.
On Monday, Puck News announced it poached political journalist Leigh Ann Caldwell as its chief Washington correspondent. Over the weekend, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced her resignation from the outlet on her substack, stating she did so because the editorial page editor rejected her latest cartoon that mocked media and tech executives for kissing Donald Trump’s ring.
What to Watch: Special Election in Virginia
On Tuesday, Virginia will hold a special election to fill 3 general assembly vacancies that will determine whether Democrats will maintain control of the state’s legislative branch.
Democrats are expected to keep the 2 Democratic-held seats in Loudoun County, which cradles Washington Dulles International Airport as Republicans are expected to hold on to a gerrymandered Republican-held seat that includes several counties such as Hanover, Powhatan, Louisa, and Goochland.
If no seats are flipped, the Democratic controlled Senate will remain 21-19 and the Democratic controlled House of Delegates will remain 51-49.
The Candidates
Voters in the 32nd Senate District have a choice between Democratic candidate Kannan Srinivasan and Republican candidate Tumay Harding.
Voters in the 26th House District have a choice between Democratic candidate J.J. Singh and Republican candidate Ram Venkatachalam.
Voters in the 10th Senate District have a choice between Democratic candidate Jack Trammell and Republican candidate Luther Cifers.