That you would have the dishonesty to even try to compare 9/11 to the capital protest is sickening.
It was worse in so many ways! It was an attack on democracy, an attack on our Nation and our Constitution, by an enemy, from within....and it still is right now, with the BIG LIE that Biden stole the election from the Trumpster, the biggest threat we have, to our Nation.
Divide we fall.
I just tried to find Fox News coverage on 1/6 to see what in the hell were they showing you on that day? I came across a Fox News article on 1/8....close to the event, BEFORE Trump cronies decided it was best for Trump to rewrite what actually happened to make Trump appear better....
One of the most malevolent, toxic moments in American history unfolded at the Capitol this week.
www.foxnews.com
Jan. 6 under the Capitol Dome: The darkest entry yet in Clio's tablet
One of the most malevolent, toxic moments in American history unfolded at the Capitol this week
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It’s forever stamped as a shameful date: Jan. 6, 2021.
They damn near lost the building.
It’s an overwrought metaphor. You’ve heard it before. The Capitol Dome, piercing the Washington, D.C., skyline, is a symbol of democracy. A beacon of freedom throughout the world.
The U.S. Capitol is that. But it’s also an office building. A museum. An art gallery. And, the U.S. Capitol is the temple where American history plays out.
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Marauders roamed the Capitol. Trashed the Senate parliamentarian’s Office. Wielded Confederate flags in the Ohio Clock Corridor outside the Senate chamber. Ripped down the nameplate to the entrance of the office suite of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Vandalized a statue of President Zachary Taylor. Carved "Murder the Media" in a Capitol doorway. Extremists defecated in the hallways, stomped in their own feces and tracked their excrement across the encaustic, Minton tiles.
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Jan. 6, 2021, would have been historic enough on its own.
The 12th Amendment to the Constitution dictates that the House and Senate huddle in a joint session of Congress to tally the Electoral College votes. The House and Senate convene in a joint session (different from a joint
meeting) only for a president's annual State of the Union address and to certify the electoral votes. So, while this quadrennial session is often a sleeper and rote in nature, it is an important event proscribed by an entire constitutional amendment. And, the 12th Amendment dictates that the vice president preside over the session.
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This isn’t about a "building." This is about American democracy. And if they "lost the building" Wednesday, the United States of America would have lost much more.
Capitol security failed. But would the institutions of American democracy falter as well?
Authorities are now rounding up some of the hoodlums and arresting them. When they came to the Capitol, one was in possession of explosives. Another toted Molotov cocktails. Another wielded an M4 carbine. Some had multiple handguns. Another thug brought "homemade napalm."
The continuity of American government teetered on a narrow ledge Wednesday. It wouldn’t have taken much for democracy to plunge into a crevasse of catastrophe.
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