Anyway all of this was incredibly clear on January 6, and it's taken a lot of effort by a lot of people to get to the point where there's any confusion about it slate.com/news-and-pol...

I’ve never doubted humanity’s boundless capacity for self-delusion. But even I didn’t think it would be this easy to make people not only forget what they saw with they’re own lying eyes, but to invent a wholly fictitious alternate reality that they are ready to fight to the death over.

Operating under the “if it didn’t work it doesn’t count” rule for coups that has famously never backfired

pretty soon they're going to treat anyone who talks bluntly about the violent attempted insurrection on 1/6 as if we are claiming that squads of UFOs appeared over the Capitol and teleported down Bigfoot soldiers

sometimes you just have to shake your head in wonder that in our lifetimes a President sent a violent mob primed to kill the Vice President for what basically amounted to the Electoral College version of “gold fringe on the flag means this is an admiralty court”

You'd think that the Secret Service feeling the need to take Pence underground would be evidence enough, but what do I know, I haven't taken my justice system class in college yet. 😂

45’s a Nazi.

Which ties in to Tuberville's attempt to block all military promotions. Suspect the goal was to leave the 400+ positions unfilled until Jan 2025. Ambitious, but spectacularly useful (for the fascists) if it had worked.

And it ended when the ringleader called it off, reluctantly, only after it became clear that it wasn’t going to work