Oh, if only those rioters on January 6 had been Black or Brown
We’d be telling a different story about that day; Trump would’ve had the National Guard at the Capitol before you could say “ Turn off the tv Melania!”
The steps of the Capitol would’ve gotten a “ paint” job that day- red with the blood of protesters
But Trump would’ve been president again either way
Just needed 4 years to get his next plan together
For sure, not ONE Capitol rioter would’ve been pardoned by Trump if they were Black or Brown
My people know better than attacking the center of our nation’s power
We’ve been killed for less, we certainly would’ve populated the ground at the Capitol; Trump would’ve seen to it, GLADLY
The day after J6, a friend said to me: "If, that would have been black's, their dead bodies would have been stacked on the lawn like firewood." I've never forgotten my friend's statement ....because, he was absolutely correct. The malice I hold within me about that day will never fade ....NEVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I read an article today, I think it was from NPR, showing photos of the stark differences of a Black Lives Matter protest in Washington DC in June of 2020, versus the insurrection at the capital on January 6th 2021. It was infuriating.
I got home from work early that day and watched the entire thing play out live on tv…..every minute of it. I was slack jawed, staring at the tv. The first thing I thought (when I started to come to grips with what was happening) was, “If those were black people, they’d be shooting them dead!”
On your article today please know I am 100% in your corner. I will NEVER forget what I witnessed 5 years ago. Unfortunately I truly believed that finished trump. I was wrong.
Tens of millions of us were wrong. We should have been right, but TRump and the complicit Republicans in Congress walked away scot-free, AGAIN! He should have been removed from office after his second impeachment, and NEVER been able to run for president again. 😡
The sick feeling I got when that inhuman orange monster was elected again has never left. I feel it every single day and it gets worse with each unlawful military action and ICE detention. I have to go to my job and act like everything is fine. It is wearing me down. I have protested, boycotted and called Congressional representatives. Still it gets worse. How can people be so evil, so delusional, that they still think the man turning the White House into a tacky gold-decorated Versailles while bulldozing the East Wing to build a huge gilded ballroom and "disappearing" citizens is fit to lead our country? The blatant racism and misogyny of those in power is horrifying. Despite the daily horrors in the news, I will keep fighting. We cannot roll over and let them win!
I burst into tears just reading this comment from you. I feel exactly the same way and I cry everyday. Every. Damned. Day. I can't help myself. My heart is broken. I feel defeated when I'm trying so hard to be strong. I wake up with resolve, and about halfway through the day I am once again crushed by the weight of what's happening to our country, right before our very eyes. It's comforting to know that I'm not alone, but feeling so powerless is absolutely excruciating.
Thank you, Megan. Some days are really bad. I feel like people who are not worried are not paying attention. I'm still shocked at the number of people who believe the orange charlatan. Even in my own family. I appreciate you. We have to stick together, even if there are days we don't even want to get out of bed.
I appreciate you too, Susie. I am so sorry that you have MAGAts in your family. That would be really hard! I have no family members who support TRump and I have gleaned every supposed friend I had who is a supporter. I simply cannot tolerate their indifference to, and their admiration for him. Hopefully we'll get through this, but as of right now, there's no light at the end of this sewage tunnel for me, but I'll keep on truckin'.
I SO wish that a huge gas line explosion would have blown up Mar-A-Lago on New Year's Eve, while the worst vermin in the world were attending that disgustingly lavish party, complete with a caviar bar!!😡. All of TRump's Clown Car Cabinet were in attendance, Rudy Giuliani, and even Netanyahu were there. The world would be a much safer, calmer place, if all of these mongrels were wiped off the face of the planet. I HATE them ALL!
Trump is like a malignancy in so many ways, and will likely be the death of American democracy, decency, and the rule of law, just as a metastatic cancer is most often terminal to an individual patient.
One of the parallels I see between Trump and cancer is the misplaced hope that people have regarding the treatments they receive to treat their illness. After each surgery or round of chemo or radiation, they regain hope and believe that the worst is behind them, only to be crushed when the disease reasserts itself. How many times have we all felt the same about Trump, that any particular crime or outrage will finally be his undoing, only to find his offenses minimized, normalized, and forgotten?
Merrick Garland was the last doctor who actually could have undertaken the radical surgery required to excise the Trump malignancy fully but, with Joe Biden's blessing, he decided to let the tumor go unchecked and hope for the best. Perhaps the immune system of our democracy would lead to voters rejecting the Trump malignancy and curing itself, right? We've seen that this was a fateful and likely fatal decision.
America is full of cancer at this point, with a full 40% of its citizens on the side of the malignancy and cheering it on. Trump has corporate America and our rotten "democratic institutions" now doing his work for him, just as a tumor tricks the human body into providing it nourishment and protection while it kills the patient.
I'm sad and I'm furious about everything that's happened over the past decade, and in the 50 years prior when the seeds of the Trump malignancy grew unchecked in the Republican Party but, after all I've seen, I'm not hopeful about the outcome.
Proves "justice" can be bought. Hire a bunch of lawyers to confuse the jury and you get to walk or escape full accountability. Look at the Diddy Combs trial. Should have been life and only gets 5 years and it will be whittled down to nothing. All Trump trials go on for years paid by an endless stream of money. How does a known bankruptee get more loans? How did Epstein get his money when he barely worked? Who is really running the show????
Very impressive analogy and well written. I hope there are better days. Trump tore the system down but it can be torn down again and a new and stronger democracy built in its place. "We the People" was a rallying cry for everyone to never surrender but fight in the face of tyranny and self-doubt. Your forefathers beat the odds, and so can you. The world is pulling for you and you are on the side of right. Let that strengthen and invigorate you. Don't let Trump, his minions and MAGA fools defeat you. Cancer patients who fight their disease are proven to far more likely survive and go into remission and become cancer free than those who give up to their illness. Please don't give up. The world needs each and every one of you good people. We're sorry it's that way but it is. You give hope to freedom loving people everywhere and you honour the sacrifices of your forefathers. Thank you once again and good luck.
I am feeling the same way today, Earl. In fact, I’ve already received several Substack emails regarding this event.
My first hatred of trump started long before that day. It started when I saw him mocking the disabled reporter. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
His lack of empathy is clear evidence of mental problems. Then to have him running the nation with the full backing of half the nation is only a nightmare Hollywood could dream up. Yet here he is in living color with the nuke codes just one tantrum away.
Pretty bad when your mother does not love you and has to send you to military school. That is where he learned everything he needs to run the military. Amazing how brilliant one can be by shining your shoes.
Why there wasn't a SWAT team and a bus rounding up the J6 rioters, I'll never know. Trump was weakened at that point and I doubt he would have defied a police chief doing his job. Also, one place where the J6 committee failed was not showing what damage IN FILMED DETAIL that the rioters caused and then putting a price tag on it. Americans NEEDED to see what destruction Trump caused. He should have paid ALL DAMAGES to the Capitol. This, still, really bothers me. Did Trump supporters at home SEE the destruction? How many believed the "patriots touring the Capitol" narrative?
What about the damage to the capital police force. So much for Repubs supporting the police. Why they did not open fire when the capital building was breached I do not understand. Had the rioters been black they would have not problem shooting.
Garland is no better than your standard TRUMP apologist. It's past time for someone to do something about the fact that the major media covers NOTHING of Trumps out-front GRIFTING. Where are the headlines condemning him? I know that it's not ever going to happen, since the media is owned by the ruling oligarchs, and they are bribing TRUMP to get whatever they want.
Garland has never answered for his part in this abomination.
The Supreme Court, in allowing Trump to run for office again are also complicit. The fact that the six, pseudo Justices on that court have devised an immunity plan for presidents who brazenly break the law , has created the tyranny we are all too familiar with.
I know this raging attack on our world, put together by the hideous thought processes of the likes of Stephen Miller, Trump , Putin and Musk are killing this nation that once was a bastion of freedom.
The rage that is felt by those of us who have the sense to know this is a damn travesty ,is increasing with every minute Trump and his toadies are in office.
I’m definitely with you D. Earl, and this day should live in infamy for ever more. Thank you for reposting the evidence we all saw in real time. I firmly believe he should now be impeached for this latest end run around Congress. But I want his henchmen gone too—regime change for us instead of for others?
Your article today brought me to tears. I watched it with my late husband. He was a Navy veteran who served during Vietnam. We both were in tears watching it and today brings back those memories. I think I am done for the day already. It’s too much sadness that still wounds us all. Take care Earl, I recognize your rage and agree.
This piece is why I am one of your many fans. Thank you for these sadly true words. We all watched as Trump did what he did, and then it disappeared, right down to all the work done to jail the characters who completed the task. And the coup never stopped. Not for 5 minutes. In 5 years. It goes on today. The defiling of our once thriving democracy. The halls are being shat upon, still, then framed in gold. We are driving beside a cliff at break-neck speed, will he take a sharp turn to complete the task? If he can, he will. God bless us. And the rest of the world. How Merrick Garland and Joe Biden sleep at night baffles me.
Garland was sworn in on March 11, 2021. Smith was appointed in November of 2022, 20 months later. A grand jury indicted Trump on August 1, 2023. Roberts waited until July 1, 2024 to release the immunity opinion. You have a right to rage.
I am all feels today, and I do not have the words to express it. RAGE is how I feel every day that he walks free. Everyday others defend him, and even more rage for those that refuse to stand up against him.
I agree with every word & feeling. It makes me sick to remember & the relive the events of that day. Today he is having a “pep rally” to offset the Democrat’s remembrance of Jan 6. He is desperate, despicable & guilty of high crimes & misdemeanors.
Oh, if only those rioters on January 6 had been Black or Brown
We’d be telling a different story about that day; Trump would’ve had the National Guard at the Capitol before you could say “ Turn off the tv Melania!”
The steps of the Capitol would’ve gotten a “ paint” job that day- red with the blood of protesters
But Trump would’ve been president again either way
Just needed 4 years to get his next plan together
For sure, not ONE Capitol rioter would’ve been pardoned by Trump if they were Black or Brown
My people know better than attacking the center of our nation’s power
We’ve been killed for less, we certainly would’ve populated the ground at the Capitol; Trump would’ve seen to it, GLADLY
Not a truer thing will be typed today.
TY
The day after J6, a friend said to me: "If, that would have been black's, their dead bodies would have been stacked on the lawn like firewood." I've never forgotten my friend's statement ....because, he was absolutely correct. The malice I hold within me about that day will never fade ....NEVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those are all terrible truths.
I read an article today, I think it was from NPR, showing photos of the stark differences of a Black Lives Matter protest in Washington DC in June of 2020, versus the insurrection at the capital on January 6th 2021. It was infuriating.
Sorry, I misspelled Capitol, I was doing talk to text...😞
I got home from work early that day and watched the entire thing play out live on tv…..every minute of it. I was slack jawed, staring at the tv. The first thing I thought (when I started to come to grips with what was happening) was, “If those were black people, they’d be shooting them dead!”
The whole thing is just sickening.
On your article today please know I am 100% in your corner. I will NEVER forget what I witnessed 5 years ago. Unfortunately I truly believed that finished trump. I was wrong.
Millions of us were wrong, which is yet another eternal bruise on the notion of justice in America.
I will never fall short of imagination again. Can't afford to. What the hell is the next evil?
Tens of millions of us were wrong. We should have been right, but TRump and the complicit Republicans in Congress walked away scot-free, AGAIN! He should have been removed from office after his second impeachment, and NEVER been able to run for president again. 😡
He should have been arrested, convicted for treason, and thrown in Gitmo.
For life.
Oh yes. Blindfolded at Leavenworth works, too.
The sick feeling I got when that inhuman orange monster was elected again has never left. I feel it every single day and it gets worse with each unlawful military action and ICE detention. I have to go to my job and act like everything is fine. It is wearing me down. I have protested, boycotted and called Congressional representatives. Still it gets worse. How can people be so evil, so delusional, that they still think the man turning the White House into a tacky gold-decorated Versailles while bulldozing the East Wing to build a huge gilded ballroom and "disappearing" citizens is fit to lead our country? The blatant racism and misogyny of those in power is horrifying. Despite the daily horrors in the news, I will keep fighting. We cannot roll over and let them win!
You aren't alone, Susie, and that is the best I can come up with this morning.
So we stand together and PUT THIS REGIME DOWN.
I burst into tears just reading this comment from you. I feel exactly the same way and I cry everyday. Every. Damned. Day. I can't help myself. My heart is broken. I feel defeated when I'm trying so hard to be strong. I wake up with resolve, and about halfway through the day I am once again crushed by the weight of what's happening to our country, right before our very eyes. It's comforting to know that I'm not alone, but feeling so powerless is absolutely excruciating.
Thank you, Megan. Some days are really bad. I feel like people who are not worried are not paying attention. I'm still shocked at the number of people who believe the orange charlatan. Even in my own family. I appreciate you. We have to stick together, even if there are days we don't even want to get out of bed.
I appreciate you too, Susie. I am so sorry that you have MAGAts in your family. That would be really hard! I have no family members who support TRump and I have gleaned every supposed friend I had who is a supporter. I simply cannot tolerate their indifference to, and their admiration for him. Hopefully we'll get through this, but as of right now, there's no light at the end of this sewage tunnel for me, but I'll keep on truckin'.
Susie, I do take some comfort in the thought that when that f’ing ballroom is finished, they’ll all be under one roof - if ya get my drift 😊💣
I SO wish that a huge gas line explosion would have blown up Mar-A-Lago on New Year's Eve, while the worst vermin in the world were attending that disgustingly lavish party, complete with a caviar bar!!😡. All of TRump's Clown Car Cabinet were in attendance, Rudy Giuliani, and even Netanyahu were there. The world would be a much safer, calmer place, if all of these mongrels were wiped off the face of the planet. I HATE them ALL!
Trump is like a malignancy in so many ways, and will likely be the death of American democracy, decency, and the rule of law, just as a metastatic cancer is most often terminal to an individual patient.
One of the parallels I see between Trump and cancer is the misplaced hope that people have regarding the treatments they receive to treat their illness. After each surgery or round of chemo or radiation, they regain hope and believe that the worst is behind them, only to be crushed when the disease reasserts itself. How many times have we all felt the same about Trump, that any particular crime or outrage will finally be his undoing, only to find his offenses minimized, normalized, and forgotten?
Merrick Garland was the last doctor who actually could have undertaken the radical surgery required to excise the Trump malignancy fully but, with Joe Biden's blessing, he decided to let the tumor go unchecked and hope for the best. Perhaps the immune system of our democracy would lead to voters rejecting the Trump malignancy and curing itself, right? We've seen that this was a fateful and likely fatal decision.
America is full of cancer at this point, with a full 40% of its citizens on the side of the malignancy and cheering it on. Trump has corporate America and our rotten "democratic institutions" now doing his work for him, just as a tumor tricks the human body into providing it nourishment and protection while it kills the patient.
I'm sad and I'm furious about everything that's happened over the past decade, and in the 50 years prior when the seeds of the Trump malignancy grew unchecked in the Republican Party but, after all I've seen, I'm not hopeful about the outcome.
A sad (accurate) metaphor, Chauncey.
If only the great Chauncey Gardiner was president. We could grow good strong things ...
Well said. I also go back to Mitch O'Connell who could have made sure Trump could never run again but instead gave Trump a pass.
BINGO. There's a special place in HELL reserved for Moscow Mitch McConnell!😡
Proves "justice" can be bought. Hire a bunch of lawyers to confuse the jury and you get to walk or escape full accountability. Look at the Diddy Combs trial. Should have been life and only gets 5 years and it will be whittled down to nothing. All Trump trials go on for years paid by an endless stream of money. How does a known bankruptee get more loans? How did Epstein get his money when he barely worked? Who is really running the show????
Very impressive analogy and well written. I hope there are better days. Trump tore the system down but it can be torn down again and a new and stronger democracy built in its place. "We the People" was a rallying cry for everyone to never surrender but fight in the face of tyranny and self-doubt. Your forefathers beat the odds, and so can you. The world is pulling for you and you are on the side of right. Let that strengthen and invigorate you. Don't let Trump, his minions and MAGA fools defeat you. Cancer patients who fight their disease are proven to far more likely survive and go into remission and become cancer free than those who give up to their illness. Please don't give up. The world needs each and every one of you good people. We're sorry it's that way but it is. You give hope to freedom loving people everywhere and you honour the sacrifices of your forefathers. Thank you once again and good luck.
I am feeling the same way today, Earl. In fact, I’ve already received several Substack emails regarding this event.
My first hatred of trump started long before that day. It started when I saw him mocking the disabled reporter. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
There is nothing to recommend him except his hate, Kim.
His lack of empathy is clear evidence of mental problems. Then to have him running the nation with the full backing of half the nation is only a nightmare Hollywood could dream up. Yet here he is in living color with the nuke codes just one tantrum away.
Wonder if Maduro golfs?
His own mother got him out of her house - I’ve hated him forever - always wondered why he was holding hands with Hoffa.
Pretty bad when your mother does not love you and has to send you to military school. That is where he learned everything he needs to run the military. Amazing how brilliant one can be by shining your shoes.
Why there wasn't a SWAT team and a bus rounding up the J6 rioters, I'll never know. Trump was weakened at that point and I doubt he would have defied a police chief doing his job. Also, one place where the J6 committee failed was not showing what damage IN FILMED DETAIL that the rioters caused and then putting a price tag on it. Americans NEEDED to see what destruction Trump caused. He should have paid ALL DAMAGES to the Capitol. This, still, really bothers me. Did Trump supporters at home SEE the destruction? How many believed the "patriots touring the Capitol" narrative?
I have a source who told me the damage to our Capitol was in the $5 million dollar range.
The damage to our country was incalculable.
What about the damage to the capital police force. So much for Repubs supporting the police. Why they did not open fire when the capital building was breached I do not understand. Had the rioters been black they would have not problem shooting.
I doubt the accuracy of only $5 million.
Seems a guy who made billions just this year could have paid for the damage.
Merrick Garland is the best friend the MAGA insurrection ever had.
Garland is no better than your standard TRUMP apologist. It's past time for someone to do something about the fact that the major media covers NOTHING of Trumps out-front GRIFTING. Where are the headlines condemning him? I know that it's not ever going to happen, since the media is owned by the ruling oligarchs, and they are bribing TRUMP to get whatever they want.
Agree, John.
Garland has never answered for his part in this abomination.
The Supreme Court, in allowing Trump to run for office again are also complicit. The fact that the six, pseudo Justices on that court have devised an immunity plan for presidents who brazenly break the law , has created the tyranny we are all too familiar with.
I know this raging attack on our world, put together by the hideous thought processes of the likes of Stephen Miller, Trump , Putin and Musk are killing this nation that once was a bastion of freedom.
The rage that is felt by those of us who have the sense to know this is a damn travesty ,is increasing with every minute Trump and his toadies are in office.
Imagine defending Garland ... as too damn many did, and astonishingly continue to, Patricia.
We’ve got to get straight with the truth. Accountability is about the truth.
It’s necessary to a sane world.
I’m definitely with you D. Earl, and this day should live in infamy for ever more. Thank you for reposting the evidence we all saw in real time. I firmly believe he should now be impeached for this latest end run around Congress. But I want his henchmen gone too—regime change for us instead of for others?
Yes, the people controlling him are scary AF. And far worse, imo.
Jan 6 didn’t happen without DJT. It’s not difficult. That’s who is culpable.
Thus my anger at the people who appeased him, did nothing to make sure he was jailed, and made excuses for this dereliction of duty.
Same D. Earl. Same. Right here with you. He. Must. Be. Removed.
Your article today brought me to tears. I watched it with my late husband. He was a Navy veteran who served during Vietnam. We both were in tears watching it and today brings back those memories. I think I am done for the day already. It’s too much sadness that still wounds us all. Take care Earl, I recognize your rage and agree.
Thanks (as always) for your family's service.
This piece is why I am one of your many fans. Thank you for these sadly true words. We all watched as Trump did what he did, and then it disappeared, right down to all the work done to jail the characters who completed the task. And the coup never stopped. Not for 5 minutes. In 5 years. It goes on today. The defiling of our once thriving democracy. The halls are being shat upon, still, then framed in gold. We are driving beside a cliff at break-neck speed, will he take a sharp turn to complete the task? If he can, he will. God bless us. And the rest of the world. How Merrick Garland and Joe Biden sleep at night baffles me.
Thanks, Marc.
Garland was sworn in on March 11, 2021. Smith was appointed in November of 2022, 20 months later. A grand jury indicted Trump on August 1, 2023. Roberts waited until July 1, 2024 to release the immunity opinion. You have a right to rage.
It was all a sick joke, Keith.
I am all feels today, and I do not have the words to express it. RAGE is how I feel every day that he walks free. Everyday others defend him, and even more rage for those that refuse to stand up against him.
If rage keeps me from becoming numb like too damn many other people, I'll live with it, Chris.
I agree with every word & feeling. It makes me sick to remember & the relive the events of that day. Today he is having a “pep rally” to offset the Democrat’s remembrance of Jan 6. He is desperate, despicable & guilty of high crimes & misdemeanors.
"He is desperate, despicable & guilty of high crimes & misdemeanors."
Endorsed.