"Day of Hate" --Never Allow Them To Forget

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I think this deserves a thread, and mostly for the short documentary I link below. Also because until it becomes impossible, I will continue to remind people of 1/6/21, and I will not stop. I wish we had easy access to the epic thread then on the old ZZLP. The fears I felt that day are not gone at all. The video is a portrait of the people now in power, and to some extent the people who voted for those in power. There will always be some debate as to what that extent was, what it is, and how it might even grow. I am not entertaining much thought about our current political forces in action, as I stated in my own thread recently. But I will not allow any "Ministry of Truth" to control the past just by being the ones who control the present--and hopefully not the future.

All Trump voters and everyone else who in any possible way helped Trump and the Republicans should watch this:

 
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Everyone who voted for Trump supports this crap, and that's why it's just not politics, and why someone like Trump should have never been President. This country is screwed if there are more people that think it's ok for a person like Trump to be elected than those who know he has no business being President. You can't just separate the person from the politics and say you voted for Trump because of the policies and not him as a person when it comes to someone like Trump who is a narcissist, pathological liar, sociopath, crook, fraud, and horrible person. The policies are not more important than the person when it comes to someone like this. Unfortunately, there are still too many racist, bigots and Christian nationalists in this country that care more about having a country only for them and will vote for someone like Trump to try and get the fascist nation they want.
 
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an0maly said:
I think this deserves a thread, and mostly for the short documentary I link below. Also because until it becomes impossible, I will continue to remind people of 1/6/21, and I will not stop. I wish we had easy access to the epic thread then on the old ZZLP. The fears I felt that day are not gone at all.
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Here you go [not sure if this board's rules allow me to link to it so if it gets nuked, you can go there and it is on Page 13 of the dead board]
 
www.theguardian.com

January 6, five years on: sustained effort by Trump to rewrite history

President and Republican allies have tried to make sure the deadly attack on the Capitol has been erased from memory
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...Ed Martin, an attorney who represented January 6 defendants, now occupies a powerful position in the justice department, where he has led the effort to exact retribution on Trump’s rivals. One of the people working with him is Jared Wise, who referred to police officers as “gestapo” and “Nazis” on January 6 and said “Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!” when violence broke out, according to an FBI affidavit. Charges against Wise were dropped when Trump issued his pardon.

The justice department has demoted and fired career attorneys who worked on January 6 cases. Republicans have even refused to install a legally mandated plaque at the US Capitol building honoring those who defended the Capitol on January 6.

“The plaque matters because January 6 matters,” said Brendan Ballou, a former January 6 prosecutor who is representing two police officers who defended the Capitol in a lawsuit seeking to force the installation of the plaque. “If the president and his allies manage to erase the history of that day – or worse yet, convince people that the riot was legitimate political discourse – they will make any future attack on our democracy permissible. So we have to memorialize January 6 so that it never happens again.”

The effort to rewrite January 6 has gone hand-in-hand with Trump’s stunning political comeback. After January 6, Trump faced one of his most politically vulnerable moments. Having lost the election, the president was somewhat of a pariah in his party and Americans blamed him for the attack. After the US House of Representatives – including 10 Republicans – voted to impeach him, the Senate voted to acquit him. Seven Republicans voted in favor of a conviction.

Mitch McConnell, then the Senate majority leader, and other Republicans rallied around the idea that a former president could not be impeached. The acquittal gave Trump a critical breath of oxygen to begin a resurrection that would lead him back to the White House four years later. Many of the Republicans who voted in favor of impeachment are no longer in Congress.
 
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