For as long as I live I will never understand how anyone could have sent the sociopath who incited that horrific attack back to the office he was trying to steal.
In case you missed it, this past weekend Donald Trump said he was going to pardon the January 6th terrorists on his first day in office (weird how his number one priority ain’t tackling the price of eggs huh). This of course, is in addition to his threats of charging members of the January 6th committee with “crimes.”
And as we well know, when it comes to things like healthcare plans, infrastructure bills or Mexican vanity wall funding, he says a lot of shit he doesn’t mean, but when it comes to retribution — the Tinkle-tape traitor typically says what he means and means what he says.
And now that the slimmest majority of the stupidest Americans have returned that motherfucker to the office we all watched him try to steal, he wants nothing more than to erase the truth of that day. More than that — he wants to flip reality on its head. The bad guy thugs become the heroes, and the truth seekers become the thugs.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984
Make no mistake, Republicans are trying to rewrite history. And the whitewashing of January 6th has been well underway for a very long time. What’s happened since the election however, should terrify us all.
His win has “legitimized” the horrific events of that day. It has emboldened the domestic terrorists who now feel more than just exonerated, they feel entitled to special considerations like commuted sentences, because the treasonous fuckstain they attacked the Capitol for, gets to go back to the office they tried and failed to help him steal.
All of this is to say that the rest of us cannot allow Team “tourist visit” to redraft the truth of that day. We have to cling to the truth with both hands, and never let it go. So, to that end, some reminders…
January 6th was not a regular tourist visit, it was not legitimate political discourse, it wasn’t peaceful or patriotic, it wasn’t perpetrated by the deep state, the FBI, Antifa, Nancy Pelosi, drag queens or furries. Those who attacked the Capitol are not “heroes”, “patriots” or “warriors”, and Ashli Babbitt is not a martyr.
It was a violent and deadly domestic terror attack intended to assuage the battered ego of a madman loser which was fueled by a perpetual proliferation of lies and conspiratorial propaganda in an effort to stop the certification of the 2020 election.
Which. He. Lost.
It was incited by Donald Trump, perpetrated by HIS rabid cult, and it claimed the life of Ashli Babbitt because she CHOSE to threaten the lives of members of Congress and she was stopped in that effort by a police officer’s bullet.
No matter how many times MAGA tries to rewrite the events of that day, no matter how they whitewash it or water it down, downplay or diminish it, we still have the truth. We still have what we saw with our own eyes, what we heard with our own ears, we can still see the physical scars and we can feel the emotional trauma the officers on the ground that day carry with them as we speak.
January 6th was a very dark day for this country.
There was a physical attack on the citadel of our democracy, and it was horrific, but it was the intentional and deliberate attack on the bedrock principles of our Democracy itself which has forever scarred this nation.
Yes, we ultimately prevailed that day. The attack was thwarted. The physical threats were put down, and the rioters were jailed. But sadly, in the end, those behind the attack were never truly held accountable for their actions. They got away with all of it, hell, the treasonous madman behind it was returned to the very office he tried to steal, and as a result, they are more determined and more emboldened than ever.
Their objectives are the same, even if their tactics and language have changed. They are still coming for our Democracy. They are still seeking to destroy what it is that makes this little experiment of ours so uniquely special.
And soon, the calls will be coming from inside the house. Literally.
Because now, in a still surreal twist of previously unimaginable fate, thanks to a few hundred thousand people in a handful of critical states, they’ve been handed the keys to the front door, so they can get to the work of sledgehammering the walls from within.
They won’t need to wear tactical gear or brandish baseball bats and bear spray this time. They’ll be dressed in suits and skirts and carrying Bibles they don’t read while cloaked in the flag they don’t really care about.
They’ll be working from the Speaker’s chair, from their town halls, from their podcast studios, their book tours and their Twitter accounts.
They’ll be working from the Oval Office itself.
They’ll continue telling lies, weaving narratives, repainting reality, and spinning the truth into their own version of events. And it’s all designed to achieve the same end today as it was on that cold, January day three years ago.
They want to destroy American democracy. They have their hands on all the levers of power now, and they don’t plan on ever letting go.
So they are going to what they can while in power to dismantle anything which would or could try to take it from them.
But We the People will not stand for that. We will hold tight to the truth. We will trust our own eyes and ears. And we will never, ever forget what was done on January 6th, or lose sight of what they are trying to do right now.
What happened in Washington DC on January 6th, 2021 is not a matter of opinion.
It’s not open to interpretation.
It was a strike against who we are as a nation.
Against who we want to be.
They want us to “get over it.”
We’re never going to be “ over it”
We shouldn’t ever be “over it.”
We have to remember it, in all its gruesome detail.
They think they have done a good enough job memory-holing the truth, that we will all forget.
That we won’t think about the fact that JD Vance is only the incoming VP because Mike Pence wouldn’t break democracy for his rotten-tomato marinated running mate.
Something he was nearly hanged for.
We haven’t forgotten. We will not forget. We cannot forget.
Those who were beaten with their own shields defending the Capitol deserve more. Brian Sicknick deserves more. Our lawmakers deserve more. Our country and our democracy deserve more.
Our children deserve more.
The truth is ugly. It’s painful, and it’s hard.
But clinging to it with everything we have is the way forward. The only way forward.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell
Stay strong. Stay sane. Stay resolute. Stay relentless. Stay bold. Stay brave.
And with that:
Love,
Jo ❤️
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