I wish to hell the defenders of the capitol would have deployed the machine guns (they're there) and killed a few thousand of the Unreconstructed Confederate traitors, sex perverts, nazis, fascists, criminals,, child molesters, and general scum The Traitor Trump unleashed. MAGA would have learned what FAFO means, and there wouldn't have been any afterwards. Every last one of those insurrectionists should be in prison for life or Six Feet Under. Including their leader.
'American exceptionalism' is a myth used to 'excuse' depravities. History can teach us how to do better, but Americans collectively eschew history -- US and world-wide. How many US voters stated to TPM reporters/writers, on the heels of Jan.6, "it's time to move on'??
Splendid rendition of the “somebody will save us” trope as a branch of American exceptionalism. We are poised, with Trumps incoherence, his obvious decline from a less than happy place at his best, for the legacy media to declare our national nightmare over and forged in the grit of the common man. It’s nonsense. Trump is nothing new, the know nothings, confederates and kluxxers have always been with us, and will still be with us when he’s gone. So will the congressional impotence and the corrupt Supreme Court. Pretending things are back to normal or that democracy has triumphed will be the first mistake. Unwavering, unrelenting war against the MAGAs must be the first order of business. Never take the foot of the gas against MAGA and be prepared to seize control when the great unraveling commences soon.
The writer Garrett Graff also has a "five- year lookback" at the Jan6 riots, and positing this thought:
"In recent months, one of the central points of my talks on US politics is that I believe the major mistake that Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, made after January 6th — their “original sin” if you will — was viewing January 6th as the end of something, rather than the beginning of something.
Too many people saw January 6th as the final aggrieved death throes of Trumpism. We can now understand it was the start of something much darker."
And that last line, we all can agree, is indeed how Jan6 is playing out, but even "much darker" can't half-explain the incalculable damage trump, MAGA, Project 2025, Doge, et al have wreaked upon this country and nations abroad. Look out, Greenland, as Miller, trump, and Kegsbreath are coming for ya!
This is an excellent documentary about that day and its aftermath. January 6, 2021, I was in my home hearing the sirens of county police cars racing to the Capitol and watching the riot live on the Washington Post website. I live next to a major road that leads to the Capitol, 8 miles from the White House. Yesterday, on the 1 A radio show broadcasted on a local public radio station, they had a panel discussing January 6 that included a woman representing an organization concerned with mental health. I can't remember her name or the name of her organization. I could probably look it up, but I don't want to. Her last statement at the close of the program was, and I am paraphrasing, remember the people protesting (i.e. the ones who assaulted police officers) were traumatized by lack of economic opportunities and came to the Capitol to express their trauma. That was a slap in the face. I still feel my terror. I can only imagine what it was like for the people there.
I wish to hell the defenders of the capitol would have deployed the machine guns (they're there) and killed a few thousand of the Unreconstructed Confederate traitors, sex perverts, nazis, fascists, criminals,, child molesters, and general scum The Traitor Trump unleashed. MAGA would have learned what FAFO means, and there wouldn't have been any afterwards. Every last one of those insurrectionists should be in prison for life or Six Feet Under. Including their leader.
'American exceptionalism' is a myth used to 'excuse' depravities. History can teach us how to do better, but Americans collectively eschew history -- US and world-wide. How many US voters stated to TPM reporters/writers, on the heels of Jan.6, "it's time to move on'??
Splendid rendition of the “somebody will save us” trope as a branch of American exceptionalism. We are poised, with Trumps incoherence, his obvious decline from a less than happy place at his best, for the legacy media to declare our national nightmare over and forged in the grit of the common man. It’s nonsense. Trump is nothing new, the know nothings, confederates and kluxxers have always been with us, and will still be with us when he’s gone. So will the congressional impotence and the corrupt Supreme Court. Pretending things are back to normal or that democracy has triumphed will be the first mistake. Unwavering, unrelenting war against the MAGAs must be the first order of business. Never take the foot of the gas against MAGA and be prepared to seize control when the great unraveling commences soon.
broadcast network news can't die fast enough. it has served its purpose but it is no longer needed.
Weiss and Tony Whosit are certainly doing their bit to kill network news viability.
The writer Garrett Graff also has a "five- year lookback" at the Jan6 riots, and positing this thought:
"In recent months, one of the central points of my talks on US politics is that I believe the major mistake that Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, made after January 6th — their “original sin” if you will — was viewing January 6th as the end of something, rather than the beginning of something.
Too many people saw January 6th as the final aggrieved death throes of Trumpism. We can now understand it was the start of something much darker."
And that last line, we all can agree, is indeed how Jan6 is playing out, but even "much darker" can't half-explain the incalculable damage trump, MAGA, Project 2025, Doge, et al have wreaked upon this country and nations abroad. Look out, Greenland, as Miller, trump, and Kegsbreath are coming for ya!
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-to-remember-january-6th?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=five-ways-to-remember-january-6th&_bhlid=ce70e2145cdcc52abf0dfcdd07db464a39fda8a4
https://centerforpolitics.org/defenders-of-democracy/
This is an excellent documentary about that day and its aftermath. January 6, 2021, I was in my home hearing the sirens of county police cars racing to the Capitol and watching the riot live on the Washington Post website. I live next to a major road that leads to the Capitol, 8 miles from the White House. Yesterday, on the 1 A radio show broadcasted on a local public radio station, they had a panel discussing January 6 that included a woman representing an organization concerned with mental health. I can't remember her name or the name of her organization. I could probably look it up, but I don't want to. Her last statement at the close of the program was, and I am paraphrasing, remember the people protesting (i.e. the ones who assaulted police officers) were traumatized by lack of economic opportunities and came to the Capitol to express their trauma. That was a slap in the face. I still feel my terror. I can only imagine what it was like for the people there.
We cannot forget. My comments on what happened five years ago. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DGzwhr7SK/