A Date That Will Live in Infamy

Yesterday, January 6, 2021—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by ground forces of the Empire of Trump. That paraphrasing of FDR’s famous address to the nation seemed appropriate to describe the attempted armed insurrection called for by a sitting United States President. Donald J. Trump, his son, and his lawyer in recent days, called for the overthrow of our democracy by the very armed seditionists who showed up on the very date specified by the president and his gang.

 

 

It has been 209 years since something like this happened and that was during the War of 1812, when British forces burned the capital. Hundreds of Trump’s supporters broke windows, scaled walls, planted pipe bombs, and destroyed property within our capital. They had responded to Trump’s call for this very type of activity. Only the Capitol Police were initially on hand to hold back this mob and they were ill-prepared to respond even though they had been warned for weeks that this might happen. Now, compare this to Donald Trump and William Barr’s response to legal peaceful protestors who were attacked, beaten and maced by unidentified military personnel to allow this president to hold up a Bible for a photo op.

 

Donald Trump rallies his Thug-publicans to action, Jan. 6, 2021

 

Trump’s takeover of his Thug-publican Party was complete. His anarchists were running amok through the halls of our Capitol and he relished the thought. He refused to send in the National Guard and they were not dispatched until senior Whitehouse officials intervened. Four people died during this riot. One was a woman who was shot by Capitol Police and three died as a result of “medical emergencies.” Fourteen Capitol Police were injured and two were hospitalized. It was only after a pipe bomb was discovered at the Republican National Committee headquarters that Trump told the mob, “You have to go home now.”

 

 

Donald Trump took to social media to openly condone this attempted coup which prompted Facebook and Twitter to remove his seditious posts and lock his accounts. It looks like Trump will be serving some time in Facebook jail and Twitter lockup. He ended one of his tweets with “Remember this day forever.” I think we can all assure him that we will.