January 6 for Four Years

Anthony Bialy
4 min readJan 6, 2025

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Do what we like and we’ll behave. A threat against reality doesn’t change anything but the perception of the pouters. The January 6 huff constituted an ending so perfect that it’s a shame to make a sequel. The producers are going to make money off their franchise, so it doesn’t matter if the story concluded naturally. The only thing worse than Donald Trump not getting his way is when he does.

Another presidency based in winning itself feels familiar. Outdated notions of believing in something ancient like a governing philosophy won’t save the country, at least according to those who again got what they wanted.

The previous and next president does embrace an important principle. It’s just that same principle involves proving how awesome he is. Triumph is a self-fulfilling prophecy. With the sole policy goal completed, Trump can relax and know his existence imbues greatness.

January 6 is neither September 11 nor July 4. A disproportionate freakout to a shameful but historically trivial outburst only lets the displayed anger be contagious. Dragging others into the muck where he set up his office is exactly what makes Trump thrive. One of these years, his adversaries will stop fueling him.

The moral panic over a miniature riot resembles pretending the Fourth Reich starts in a few weeks instead of bracing for the ineffective run full of bloviating that is actually coming. He was already president, which both his slavish devotees and sworn enemies seem to forget. It’s nice they share common ground.

Playing down Trump’s impact is precisely how to humiliate him. Doing so involves controlling simmering emotions, which is also a way to differentiate from his perpetual childishness. The only ones more irrational in pursuing base instincts than Trump are Trump’s antagonists.

A delinquent rumble remains an appalling display that only one particular obnoxious executive could’ve initiated it. Trump’s legion shows how conservative they are by blaming others for their actions before endorsing tariffs and continued federal involvement in screwing up health care. Pretending it was FBI agents climbing the legislature’s walls is part of the deluded justification. Those constantly explaining why everyone else gets everything wrong about them might want to consider why their actions are so easily misinterpreted. But that’d take self-reflection.

The faction that treats rudeness as a virtue misbehaved as they rallied against mathematics. Even those who stood peacefully fibbed. Everyone there fell for a charlatan’s biggest lie about how he couldn’t have possibly lost to Joe freaking Biden. If he did, it was only to fix what his conquerer busted dramatically. Don’t you like streaming drama?

A goon gang investing their entire personalities in someone who never loses wasn’t sad enough. The fact he then lost was as funny as their inability to accept it. We may as well get laughs out of those inflicting shame while never displaying any.

Our blessed vanquisher of all foes commercial and political surely couldn’t have lost to anyone and especially not Kamala Harris’s boss. The fact it happened still provokes smoking synapses. And the apparently impossible outcome surely couldn’t have led to the lightest conservative agenda possible. The first of the split terms saw such meager results that Richard Nixon’s ghost blushed.

Trump is way more of a RINO than his alleged replacements, which we’re about to rediscover. But at least he cares about his supporters less than even conventional politicians. To be fair, that’s something the professional candidate has been for awhile.

Trump had an excuse ready to go. It’s the only time he’s thought ahead. He either won or was swindled. The latter shouldn’t happen with such a robust visionary: it must’ve been pilfered from him. Minions remain ready to throw a fit for the least inspirational savior possible.

One apparently can’t overcome unfairness without ceaseless complaints about it. A true leader would accept that conditions are not fair and thrive despite injustice. By contrast, Trump stormed out of the room while flaunting how many profanities he knows. The only one who plays his board game flips it upon losing. It’s not his fault: who could figure out the rules?

Two things can be simultaneously true, and not only when it comes to hating one side’s candidate while noting the other also sucks. Picking the least worst has become a common dilemma. It may not be that millions of votes are as fungible as trillions in spending. There’s no scenario where the conspiracy about arithmetic’s nature adds up despite resentful denial a cycle later.

We instead endured yet one more campaign where the alternative to Democrats running everything was enduring bitching about how they’re mean cheaters. The professional swindlers didn’t put their skills to use this time.

An entire campaign spent setting up moaning about voter fraud as the only possible way the greatest businessman ever could lose to Kamala was to have an excuse ready. Not needing it means the platform of resisting cheating intended to sabotage his majesty went unused.

A commitment to the cause of not being Kamala leaves no time for details. The core goal of preventing the Democrat who’s awful from seizing office must be why Trump couldn’t explain how he’d reduce federal spending or allow aspiring retirees to invest their own funds instead of being forced to deposit in a lockbox that doesn’t lock.

The difference between an achiever and complainer is irrelevant to believers in images. Pretending it happened summarized Trump’s career. The truest things he’s ever done are win two elections and throw a fit after losing the one in between.

Either getting his way or bitching that he doesn’t is how a previous and future president acts like a grownup. That tendency will surely change in the next half-century. Tantrums substituting for toughness are perfect for a thorough phony who boasts instead of achieving. Pretending it’s an alpha move to shriek is just the start of empty gestures. Trust us: we’ve already lived through it.

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Anthony Bialy
Anthony Bialy

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