the chicken's roost

let/s be honest. My head hurts. I can/t sleep. There/s so much scheisse in the ether right now for even the most dogged optimist to digest. I have been glued to my 3 social media platforms of choice since October and it/s gotten me nowhere on the road to wellness . to compound my misery, I have added online dating to my procrastination portfolio. Where did it all go wrong? Anyone with half a brain should acknowledge that we have been in the midst of a coup since election day, if not the previous 4 years at best. There is enough culpability currently floating around to man a south Dakota gulag with white collar slime for the next 50 years. The general state of sedition is as plain as the coke filled nose on junior/s smug bearded mug. But the quiet complicity, the perceived collusion that is, is certainly enough to drive the most ardent conspiracy theorists on the left down a rabbit hole of internet time drag and street corner haranguing til the end of time. We complain about transparency of government , but the republican party couldn’t make it any more clearer that they care about no one but themselves, and by themselves, I mean the scum at the surface of the pond. They don’t care about democracy or the will of the people, they are drunk on power and willing to kill their colleagues on both sides of the aisle to retain or foster power further. It/s one thing to burn a papier mache likeness to whatever ghoulish grebo is fashionable at a protest for clean water, lgbtq rights, blm march, etc, as a form of political theater, but to erect a gallows in front of the capitol and send a legion cosplaying goobers, off duty police, active military, sad sack boomers in full MAGAT regalia, ACADEMI professionals, and alt right wack jobs with plastic cuffes and spears is an altogether different form of ‘protest’. The fact that they breached a security line more equipped for a suburban Christmas parade in a dry town is cause to wonder in and of itself. It was pretty obvious from online chatter that it was game on , and the seeds of rebellion from even the most passive little piggy was further fueled by the future ex president , his cracker spawn, and his ever irrelevant minions were met by a Sunday afternoon at the Kiwanis club security presence is a question that needs to be asked in perpetuity, or until they bury their findings next to the ghosts of panama papers past. As a college freshman, I wrote a term paper alleging that the contras were being funded by the cocaine trade. It seemed pretty obvious to me at the time, as there was an awful lot of very pure shit about, and you weren’t buying it from slick assholes in white suits or standard drug dealer types. These were well dressed latino twenty somethings in slick los feliz apartments with undesrated but flash cars, or sketchy central americans in anonymous pads near macarthur park. I knew all about the smack that came back from Vietnam in body bags or diplomatic pouches that flooded the streets of Oakland, watts, mott haven, harlem and Detroit some years before. Keep em high and jail em forever, right? My Iranian bred professor told me that if I could cite legitimate sources for my claims, I could basically sign up for his classes for the next 4 years and get the best grades. The only catch being, that the source would likely be in central America, and as much as I didn’t give two fucks about much in those days, death by ak47 to the rectum was not on my to do list at the time. The risk v reward factor didn’t seem palpable at the time. 18 months later, cocaine/cash/contras were the only news. Conspiracy theory proved. And ya know , I believe in so much more- white water had as high of a hinky body count as the warren report. Who could believe that lee Harvey could hit for 6 from that distance on his own with a mail order rifle, nor could I believe that vince foster ate his chiefs special whilst out for a stroll in the park. Christ , the Tonkin gulf incident was a coupla dudes in a speed boat chasing the 7th fleet and just like that an entire geopolitical region and its peoples, and most of a generation of poor americans are flushed down the proverbial shitter under the guise of keeping the dominos upright. No one had ever successfully invaded or occupied Vietnam in its history, they had a literacy rate several points higher than this one, yet we bombed them like nowhere ever before to keep the dominos upright and keep the rubber industry safe. Sound familiar? Sure thing , Lyndon. We/ve heard it all, and I believe none of it. We are supposed to accept the fact that 20 arab men went to flight school together around the country and no one knew about them? We then proceeded to invade two countries that had nothing to do with 9/11 and everything to do with the Seven sisters and the opium fields and oil pipelines. Or how florida was won cleanly in 2000 despite counting stopping thanks to roger stone and his disciples in the brooks brothers riots and the fact that the attorney general of florida may have been the governor of florida’s mistress, and the fact that the governor of florida just so happen to be the winning candidate’s brother. Uranium cakes and electoral votes for all. Go Halliburton, go blackwater. Gotcha. Or how about john hinkley junior being such a taxi driver fan that he brought a .22< ok for mob guys to tap two in the back of a rat’s skull, to take on the president. As I shoot hoops on that sunny day in fullerton, I thought- this is a stunt- hit the president and turn him into a real life gipper, who cares about collateral damage. They will politicize it in some fashion. And who believed that the Iranian regime was so afraid of the Reagan administration that they just so happened to hold on to them until after the election, beholden to the military industrial complex check book- a few special forces and helicopters were simply human currency in the quest for a one term wonder. Every picture tells a story, and the ruling class has been speaking legions to me in imagery for 40 years. Which brings me to wednesday January 6, 2021. 400 of 2200 eligible capitol cops come into work besides well publicized actions being broadcast across every social media platform. No guns or riot gear because the powers that be are worried about ‘optics’. Yet we flash back to hundreds of troops in full tactical gear stood across the steps of the Lincoln memorial in perfect formation. I think about one cop murdered with a fire extinguisher, and I think about Serpico. I think of another cop committing suicide and wonder what did he know and when did he know it. I think of stories of people being told not to come to work, hinky guided tours, and cops with maga hats giving directions, and the zip tie guys, and active military and off duty cops showing badges asking capitol cops to stand with them. I think of 15 guys in full tactical gear snaking their way through selfieville, looking more like academi mercenaries conducting a snatch and grab in a Baghdad street market. Too inconspicuous to be goobers, too well equipped and disciplined to not be pros. I think about Q anon politicians fanning the flames and live tweeting their locations whilst orange Julius and his coterie of cranks and cokeheads watch the events live , unmasked and en masse, and the words riot and protest do not cross my mind. What I see is a coup, and speculation of assistance from republicans in the building, and other government agencies, disabled panic buttons, the current uproar of magnetometers and lack of accountability and just move ons , the obvious blue by day white by nightness of law enforcement, the entitlement of no consequences for actions is sickening. There is only so much stress eating one can do in their pajamas. Who knew what and when and how much were they paid and who pulled the strings. Seems to be that the shit runs deep and both ways, and we will likely never know.