We aren’t taking what occurred in 2021 critically sufficient.
The US Capitol seen by means of safety fencing.
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Washington, DC, appeared so stunning this morning, blanketed in its first snow of 2025. It was virtually as if the fates had been making an attempt to whitewash the January 6 of 4 years in the past, that, bloody, abominable crime in opposition to democracy that smashed home windows and doorways, claimed 5 lives and injured greater than 150 folks. If any of the survivors took at the moment’s stunning snow as a constructive omen, I admire that for them. However typically I don’t admire a whitewash.
I discovered myself pondering at the moment about how on each September 11 for about 20 years, NBC Information, after which MSNBC, performed its personal protection of that day, for a lot of hours, beginning with when the punchy Immediately Present obtained first phrase of this unthinkable assault, and continuing all through the gory particulars. Please don’t suppose I’m conflating the tragedies. So many extra folks died on 9/11; so many buildings had been destroyed, not simply broken. The one factor that provokes comparability is that September 11 was achieved by international enemies of the U.S. We had been attacked by our personal folks on January 6, 2021. They usually had been cheered on by their president. And there have been some ugly scenes that needs to be preserved.
So couldn’t we have now an hour exhibiting when issues obtained to be their most terrifying 4 years in the past at the moment? I’m not even certain when that may have been. For me it was after I came upon my daughter was trapped in a Home workplace constructing. However there have been far more dramatic moments, bloodier moments, police battered, and poor Ashli Babbitt shot useless.
In a greater nation, we’d have a nationwide commemoration. On this nation, we fake it was all a misunderstanding.
Don’t get me mistaken. The 2024 election outcomes had been clear. (As had been 2020.) Not a mandate, not a landslide. However a win. So Vice President Kamala Harris did the suitable factor.
“The peaceable switch of energy is without doubt one of the most elementary rules of American democracy,” she declared. “As a lot as another precept, it’s what distinguishes our system of presidency from monarchy or tyranny.”
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And hey, I dug listening to her referred to as “Madame President,” a formality, for each state’s Electoral Faculty report.
We knew Kamala can be very aware, very demure, and certify Trump’s victory. I felt it was my job to observe her arise and do her job, whereas I assume Speaker Mike Johnson was entitled to take a seat down? No matter. She knew what her job was, and she or he did it.
All the time with grace, not at all times with pleasure. I did discover that when the Texas GOP jumped up and applauded rowdily, she didn’t smile. However she not often smiled for her personal votes, both, whereas Mike Johnson chuckled and clapped for the GOP wins. However she did cheer when Trump crossed the road.
But it surely damage. You understand, you at all times have the lady doing the work, not getting the credit score. I do know, males have accomplished this earlier than. However after she misplaced to this gargoyle, to see her being chipper and doing her job. It damage. That’s all.
And shortly we’ll be trying on the chance that 1,600 January 6 criminals, many violent, will likely be pardoned.
I used to be pleased that the vp was capable of swear in Consultant Lateefah Simon. She was one in all Harris’s mentees. She is going to take our beloved Barbara Lee’s seat. We’ll go on.
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Sure, he received the Home speakership, after 1.5 makes an attempt. However he nonetheless doesn’t management his chamber.
