Nightfall

Washington D.C., January 6, 2021, 6pm. The national guard swarmed over the grounds of the capitol. Flood lights lit the night, smoke or steam rising off them into the cold night air. The lights blanketed the pavilion of the capitol in a garish, phosphorescent light. The bodies of Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi still hung in the gallows the insurrectionists had erected. The violence was the flower of the seed Trump had planted. The guard now had the insurrectionists penned off to the side awaiting transport to the nearest jail or prison. They had served Trump’s purpose and he didn’t need them anymore, but he couldn’t leave them walking around to tell their story, they needed to “disappear.”

The hanging was the excuse Trump needed to declare a national emergency, federalized the national guard and sent them in to round up the insurrectionists. He went on TV and said there had been an attempt to overthrow the government and that he alone had saved American democracy. That future generations would venerate January sixth as the fourth of July had been, and he would be revered alongside Washington and Lincoln as the savior of America.

Arrest warrants had been issued for Joseph Biden, Kamala Harris and a long list of Democrats for trying to steal the election from Trump. To their surprise so were a lot of republicans, who were deemed disloyal or not loyal enough, too ambitious, or who knew too much by Trump. Names like Gosar, Greene, Boebert, Graham, McConnell, Cruz, Hawley, will sooner or later find themselves a prison cell. From now on what was a coup, what freedom was, what truth was, would all be defined by Trump, by fiat, by dictate. George Orwell’s ghost screaming from his grave.

The revolution had been televised but as of, yet no reaction has presented itself, no resistance encountered, no outrage perhaps it is milling about out in the darkness or viewers had simply changed the channel.

Editor’s Note: This is where the reporters notes end. We’ve heard but have been unable to confirm the reporter was taken into custody and he’s neither been seen or heard from since, nor have we been able to locate him with any official law enforcement agencies.