Let's celebrate Failcoup!

Pictured: That time Trump supporters 
literally and figuratively shat on democracy.

I'm not saying that not falling to a right-wing dictatorship is a high bar or anything, or that we're not terrifyingly close to seeing it happen anyway in the next year or two, but for the time being, I think we should seriously consider making January 6th a national holiday. One that celebrates that the failure of some armed goons who almost, but not quite, installed the "author" (oh please, he's never read a book, much less written one) of The Art of the Deal as President for Life. Because good for us, right?

"We'll have no more of this insurrection
malarkey, thank you very much. No sir."

-Joe Biden, getting fiery*

The President, that is, the one that one the election and gets the Seal and the office and isn't a hate-tweeting, narcissistic lunatic--gave a fiery speech this morning actually--well, fiery for him. This is Joe Biden we're talking about. Anyway, he gave a speech this morning in which he publicly laid the blame for the insurrection at Trump's feet for the first time, and it felt good to hear it. It probably would have felt better ten or eleven months ago, and he didn't actually mention Trump by name, but still.

Failcoup! It's got a nice ring to it,
Like failson, but with treason.

I mention it because that's why I think we need to mark the anniversary of the coup: to reinforce firstly that it happened, and secondly that it's not something that we can allow them to repeat. There are a lot of dumbs out there. Dumbs who insist on parroting the demonstrably false assertion that the coup was a hoax, and we have to keep calling them out on it. Every time. And what better way to do that then to make  Failcoup a holiday?

Yeah, Failcoup. That's what I'm proposing we call it. And I think we should celebrate it every year. With cake. Oh, and consequences for the people who participated in, facilitated, and then lied about January 6's failed coup. 

To be clear, that's consequences for the insurrectionists, and cake for the rest of us.

*I kid, it was actually pretty good.