This hurt. The long-time friend who posted the following commentary on the announcement above is someone I have long regarded as intelligent, reasonable, fair, perceptive and responsible. He is also deeply religious, and generally civically literate. Yet he posted the above announcement of this event, which I hadn’t hear of before, with the following commentary:
It seems we’re being given some warning. How do these people stay so enraged, for so long, based on such poor information? It exhausts me just reading about it…A million? The 5th anniversary of the January 6 Insurrection garnered only a few hundred participants. Success for this effort may depend on whom and from where the call to action is amplified. Let’s hope the President and White House are not inclined to acknowledge it. Ugh.
“Ugh” is right. How do “these people” stay so enraged? The online social media mob my friend is pandering to are the rage addicts; they have been enraged at MAGA and Donald Trump since he upset Hillary Clinton’s dream of being the first female President and Obama’s anointed successor! And ” based on such poor information”? “Based on such poor information”!!!!! What does he think was good information? That Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack?” That the Wuhan virus was so deadly that we had to shut down the nation, wreck the economy and tamer with election security just in time to elect Joe Biden? That the Republican party was the existential threat to democracy? That the inflation Trump inherited from the Biden administration was all Trump’s fault? That “the border is secure”?
Meanwhile, anyone referring to January 6, 2025 as an “insurrection” is either an idiot, a lair, hack, or believes everything MSNow says. Even Jack Smith, the Biden Justice Department didn’t try to claim it was an “insurrection,” and it was looking into every nook and cranny to come up with ways to lock those unruly conservatives.
This is like a production of “Rhinoceros,” Eugene Ionesco’s political allegory about a small French town where the residents start turning into horned beasts. Not you, my friend! Not you too!
