Jack of Harts

TLDR version – Stay home. Be peaceful. Don’t provide them the visual of angry Trump supporters protesting the swearing in of Biden. Just stay home, watch a nice movie with your family, and enjoy your day like any other. Please don’t do anything stupid this week.

Full version.

Washington DC is locked down like East Berlin this week, with 10,000 (scratch that) 20,000 (scratch that) 25,000 soldiers deployed in it at the time I’m writing this post. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more by Monday. We’ve got fences and walls and concrete barriers and all kinds of similar crazy going up right now. And of course there is all the silencing of moderates and conservatives on the social media platforms. Beyond that, I’m seeing all kinds of crazy ads exhorting Trump supporters to come out and protest all of this. Ads that do not look like the kind of ads I normally see from Trump supporters. Some of them have odd phrases or color pallets that are not common to the Trump side of the spectrum. But I study history, and I recognize some of those common elements.

Now some people may call me paranoid. They may even be right. But I was taught to distrust the government, and to distrust the media, and basically to distrust everybody who demands that I do what they tell me to do. So when I see phrases and color pallets that I recognize comes from people like that, I get profoundly distrustful of the entire situation. There are too many things going on right now when it comes to this week for me to be at all comfortable. In a nutshell, I’m getting bad vibes, and I have never regretted listening to those bad vibes.

So what I say to all of you, if you support Trump, listen to Trump. He told you to be peaceful. He told you not to promote violence. He told you to go home.

I reiterate that suggestion. If you attend any protests this week having to do with the swearing in of Biden, do not listen to any loud voices telling you to attack anything. Walk away if you hear anything like that. Don’t let the media see you near those bad actors. Better yet, don’t go to the protests. Go to work as usual if you are in a State where the governor hasn’t put you in lockdown. Go home and enjoy a good movie with your family. Watch the swearing in if you want to. But don’t go to the Capitol and protest.

I pray to God my bad vibes are wrong, that everything goes peacefully this week. But if something bad happens, don’t be there. Don’t take your spouse, don’t take your children, don’t take your idiot cousin Earl who might listen to a loud voice telling him to go someplace and do something stupid. Stay home.

Let Washington DC go through whatever pomp and circumstance they want to go through, behind their East Berlin walls, their tens of thousands of soldiers, and their battalions of main stream media reporters ready to tell the story of violent Trump insurrectionists trying to overthrow Democracy.

You stay home and watch everything they do. Or watch a movie. Your choice.

All I really want for you, for any of you, is for you to be safe in your home, your possessions, and your freedom to do or not do whatever you want. Please be careful to preserve that this week. Don’t do anything stupid.