Ever since J6, Fascist MAGA has largely taken one of two tacks: the first one they tried was stupid, “What?!? Nothing happened! It was just an unauthorized tour. A peaceful unauthorized tour!” You’ll still hear it, from time to time, but it never did play well. We had all seen the events of the day with our own eyes and we weren’t about to believe MAGA’s lies over our own eyes.

The second story rolled out a bit more slowly but one could see it coming: blame it on Democrats. It was Pelosi who failed to properly secure the building. No mention of why the Congress suddenly needed extra protection, of course. MAGA likes to pretend they’re a bunch of tough guys so MAGA maniac Marjorie Taylor Greene has a new book out that takes tack two. Look for it in the remaindered bins in a week or so. She claims that when a number of House members were trapped in the gallery during the MAGA attack, she saw Republicans stay behind to “defend the chamber” but didn’t see one Democrat.

Fortunately for the Republicans, several Democrats DID stay and help. I say “fortunately,” because the Dems that stayed noticed that many of the members didn’t know how to put on their gas masks – so they helped. AFTER claiming she didn’t see one Democrat left in the gallery, she THEN claimed she saw Democrats “lying on the floor, hysterical.” (It’s part of MAGA de-humanizing efforts. Conservatives are strong, Liberals are weak. The idea is to show how easy it’s going to be to fight and beat Liberals. They did the same thing just before they started their losing effort in the American Civil War, too. Wrong then, wrong now…)

It’s really the bigger picture I’m concerned with here, though. When you first deny an event even occurred, then try to pin blame on someone else, you know what you’re doing? You’re confessing you know what happened. You know it was bad. You know it was wrong, and you know who did it.

Dear MAGA, you want to prove how manly and tough you are? Take responsibility for your actions. WE know what you did, YOU know what you did. Stand up and say so…

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With the help of Democrats, Kevin McCarthy passed a stop-gap spending bill to keep government open while he was still Speaker. So, MAGA fired McCarthy. (How DARE he do anything to help the country?) It was stupid and put them on full display as morons, so they (wait for it) blamed the Democrats. Yes, of course they did. Republicans try to blame Democrats for every stupid thing Republicans do. Then, they finally came together around someone I guess nobody really knew, Mike Johnson.

Now we all know a LOT about Mike Johnson and most of us wish we didn’t. Increasingly, most of us want to know what the hell he’s doing with his money, too. He claims he has no assets and no bank accounts. Nor does his wife. No assets, no bank accounts. How does he cash his House Check? Where does he put the cash? He makes, like $205,000/year, before taxes. That’s $17, 083.33/per month, paid in two monthly checks of $8,541.67. Is the Speaker of the House walking around with $8,500 dollars in his pocket every payday until he can get home and shove it under his mattress? But I digress…

It seems Johnson may have taken the Speaker job essentially just so he could get an investigation started on himself by authorities. Now, he passed a stop-gap spending bill to keep the government open through the holidays. MAGA hates the idea and Johnson got it done with the help of Democrats (obviously, their fault) and some of the moderate Republicans still occasionally found in Congress. If MAGA follows their previous behavior, Johnson now has to be removed. After all, he worked with Democrats for the benefit of the nation. MAGA will not have that. It flies in the face of their motto: “F*ck this country!” (Yeah, not very inspiring. Take it up with them…)

I don’t guess it’s particularly surprising MAGA is made up of people who know little to nothing about nearly everything. There’s a reason Trump “loves the uneducated.” Anybody who had any actual knowledge of the workings and realities of authoritarian states knows it’s a very bad idea and people pushing for it have their ignorance on full, neon display. But make no mistake: these people are dangerous and they don’t have enough information to know just how dangerous their ideas are.