Greg Olear: War Between the States (of Reality)

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Greg Olear
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"In this new Civil War, states do not secede from the Union; instead, citizens divorce from reality, inventing their own alternative universe, in which Donald John Trump, not Joe Biden, is the rightful President of the United States."

War Between the States (of Reality)
The battle for the soul of America is a narrative war. And we must prevail.
gregolear.substack.com
4:20 AM · Mar 30, 2021

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/war-between-the-states-of-reality

THE JANUARY 6 besiegers wanted, expressly, to kick off a new Civil War.

Some of the insurrectionists even wore t-shirts emblazoned with CIVIL WAR 2.0. (The silkscreening of garments, you see, is a critical first step in organized revolt; it is a little known fact that the gladiators in the Third Servile War of 73-71 BCE all wore tunics with I AM SPARTACUS splashed on the breast.) The Boogaloo Bois are so called because they seek a sequel to the war of 1860-65—Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo.

I am kidding about the Spartacus tunics, but not, sadly, about the provenance of “Boogaloo.” It is both easy and amusing to poke fun at grown men in cosplay military get-ups who name their clans after breakdancing movies and songs from Aladdin. The Q Shaman will be a figure of ridicule until the day he dies. But the more we learn about the insurrection, the more it becomes clear that for all the slack-jawed MAGA taking sedition selfies and smearing feces on the walls of the Capitol, this was a well-planned, coordinated attack on our government. The photojournalist Sandi Bachom, who witnessed and filmed the insurrection, explained it perfectly:

You all don't seem to get it. The insurrection wasn't planned by the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, they were just the army. The 20,000 people on the west side where I was were the dress extras. Who were the generals? Who were people on #bullhorns talking to?

What happened on January 6 was a military operation. To the insurrectionists, the besieging of the Capitol was the storming of the Bastille—a revolutionary act. “Insurrection,” after all, is a violent uprising against an existing government. There was fighting that horrible day: hand-to-hand combat. Blood was drawn. People lost their lives.

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1. Best line...

Regarding the gov of Mississippi...

“An flatable penis with a toupe”