I know we like to believe that those responsible for yesterday’s horror show in Washington, D.C. will feel a speck of contrition for what they did and what they incited (and by the way, not just at our nation’s capitol, but all over the country). But of course, they won’t, and that goes for our politicians who encouraged it and cheered it on along with the usual suspects in our corporate media who tried to rationalize it and explain it away.
And that’s why those responsible need to be punished with the full weight of the law, and any and all remedies offered by our political institutions (insufficient though they may be for such treason as this), along with universal censure and scorn in the court of public opinion.
Because those responsible will have to be watched, because they SURELY will attempt insurrection again. And as somebody pointed out, do you SERIOUSLY think they would have met with the same result had the Republicans completely controlled our government, and assuming they would have been able to entice our military to help them to any degree at all?
We’re closer to the precipice than we realize (as Chris Hayes alludes to below). And anyone who ignores that also helps accelerate the pace at which we approach it before we collectively all fall into the abyss (and we should have invoked the 25th Amendment long ago)...
...and I don’t think calling this “Trump’s 9/11,” as K.O. does here, is hyperbole at all...
...and as noted, Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow brought what I thought was plenty of disgust and indignation that was completely called for...
...(or as somebody on Twitter said...I think that's where I read it...Lincoln was able to keep the Confederate Flag out of the nation's capitol, but not Mango Mussolini of course.)...
...and Ana and John of TYT make some GREAT points about the contrast in the D.C. cops between last summer’s BLM protests and yesterday’s chaos, with those duly deputized to “serve, protect and defend” in some cases taking selfies with the insurrectionists (and as more than a few others have pointed out, do we REALLY need to ask what would have happened if yesterday’s protestors had been black or Muslim?)...
...I also want to change the subject from what is quite rightly topic number one and point out that tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the Tucson, Arizona shooting of Gabby Giffords by Jared Loughner, in which Federal Judge John Roll and Christina Taylor Greene (niece of the late Phillies manager and executive Dallas Green) were also killed and others were injured (and leave it to that utter worm Chuck Todd and that hairdo sitting next to him to try and “both sides” the incendiary actions from Caribou Barbie and her map with the gun sights...we keep waiting for the other side to act like grownups, and as we saw yesterday of course, they basically still don’t, and possibly never will)...
...and I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to post over the next day or so, but I didn’t want to neglect to mention that Saturday marks the 80th birthday of the one and only Joan Baez.
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