My Twitter handle is Never Forget: 1.6.21, so, no, I am not going to ‘move on’ from the events of that day or all of the events that led up to that day starting with election day November 2016.
Jesus.
Over 4 years listening to a fat turd with a pinched asshole for a mouth sporting a godawful orange spray tan. I don’t know how any of us are sane. The time that has elapsed occurred to me when I went to type in the year of the election day.
Four long years none of us will ever get back.
Of course, I am being insensitive because racists were forced to endure 8 years of a cosmopolitan, hip, Ivy League-educated black man speak to them from the steps of the White House in perfect English—and it drove them fucking crazy. What was even more infuriating to them was that they kept choosing guns and ammo over feeding their families because the Kenyan Muslim president was said to be coming for their Second Amendment rights. . . but he never did.
Then they had to pretend they didn’t understand the ACA (Affordable Care Act) and Obamacare was the same thing because they couldn’t bring themselves to give credit where credit was due. Even the toothless had to admit that it was nice to have pre-existing conditions no longer be a reason that they could receive no health care insurance whatsoever. Barack Hussein Obama, who some believe formed ISIS, made sure of that because he ran into that issue when his mother was ill.
Speaking of moms. . . my mother used to say, “It’s all fun and games until you poke someone’s eyes out.” And that is exactly where we stand with democracy. The fun and games are over, and we are all in danger of having our eyes poked out.
I’m going to digress a bit as I am prone to do.
Elected representatives are not necessarily smart. I spent some time in Olympia, Washington, in the mid-nineties helping to usher a bill along that was destined to impact my business and saw a bunch of them up close and personal. I’ve seen sharper tools made from Lego sets.
I don’t know what motivates people to become politicians but, let’s suffice it to say, there are a significant number of them you would not want seated at your Christmas dinner table. They would be incapable of holding a coherent, entertaining conversation and they would undoubtably spend a portion of their time picking their teeth.
I spent a few weeks in Des Moines, Iowa, during the 2004 Democratic primaries and that’s when I realized national politics is little different from high school elections. The maturity level was identical. Lots of rah-rah, lots of sign waving and lots of supporters glaring at one another. I also realized being a Rhodes Scholar or a Yale graduate meant nothing when it came to a candidate’s common sense or empathy department.
So, here’s my point.
The People’s House in Washington, D.C., is made up of a mish-mash of individuals who need not have a single, lone brain cell. There are 435 of them with voting rights in the House of Representatives. They come from districts rich and poor, big and small, rural and metropolitan. They only need to be 25 years old. I’ll do the calculating for you—that’s 7 years post high school.
They could have been snapping towels in the locker room or passing notes in sex education less than a decade ago and now they’re elected to help pass laws in the United States of America. They don’t need a college education. They can even have numerous run-ins with ‘the law’ and still be placed in power to produce or prevent laws.
Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado has an extensive ‘rap sheet’ which includes a propensity to neglect showing up in court.
Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida is under investigation for sex trafficking.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia can’t shut up about QAnon and continues to get fined for not wearing a mask on the floor of the House.
Representative Andy Gosar of Arizona’s family considers him certifiably nuts.
Representative Madison Cawthorn of Virginia lies repeatedly about his connection to the military.
(This ignominious list of ne’erdowells reminds me of something The Former Guy once muttered—“They’re not sending their best. . .”)
What do these imbeciles have in common besides having been elected to office by people in their districts who’ve been body-snatched by the diaper-wearing, faux billionaire who is also known as Individual 1 in a case brought by the Southern District of New York? They’re all seditionists. They all made their deal with the devil—their Faustian bargain.
Faustian bargain, a pact whereby a person trades something of supreme moral or spiritual importance, such as personal values or the soul, for some worldly or material benefit, such as knowledge, power, or riches.
They all plotted the overthrow of the United States Government.
It’s not a surprise then that people of that nature would believe governing is “fun and games”. Planning, encouraging and fomenting rebellion would also seem like a worthwhile use of their time in office, especially if they suspect they’ll face no more consequences than if they had been caught pulling a high school prank.
The tinfoil-hat wearing representative from Georgia who’s a dedicated adherent to all the things Q posted and prophesied said on Steve Bannon’s cable show ‘War Room’:
January 6th was just a riot. . . and if you think about what our Declaration of Independence says, it says to overthrow tyrants.
A Rolling Stone journalist places all of these tools—and more—at meetings prior to the “Stop the Steal” rally (which morphed into the January 6th coup attempt).
It’s easy to make fun of these representatives but, I will remind you, ridiculing MAGA didn’t work the first time around. I will also remind you that history is littered with marginalized fanatics that rose to power on the backs of a fanatic minority.
This is why January 6th cannot go unpunished.
We hung Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
We imprisoned Aldrich Ames for life.
Robert Hanssen was sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole.
More recently, Reality Winner was given the longest sentence ever imposed for unauthorized release of government information to the media for leaking an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. She was sentenced to five years and three months.
The “fun and games” part needs to be over. No one wants their eye poked out. No sane American wished for the chaos, destruction and traumatic stress of January 6th. Actions have consequences.
Unlawful, seditious actions need to have unpleasant consequences.
The day the photo below happened, I paid little attention. I thought for sure that no one could penetrate the hallowed halls of Congress. In my wildest dreams of storming the Capitol to give Mitch McConnell a noogie*, or racking Ted Cruz like I’d never racked anyone before, I would have thought I would have been shot dead at the bottom of the steps. Of course, now I know if you want access to either of those guys I should storm the Capitol with a herd of enraged conservatives.
Also, if you’re a centrist or moderate, you might be interested in the Renew America Movement. They’ll steer you toward candidates who have not smoked what The Former Guy is offering and will not back radical leftists that—in all honesty—hew closer to FDR than Mao. Oh, well. Anything is better than more high school drop outs like Lauren Boebert.
*noogie
