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mellowtiggerToday's historic vote is almost irrelevant. That's how bad things are. I've read too many news articles during the last few days to remember them all, but several video segments do stand out as very good summaries of recent events. From Stephen Colbert's excellent reaction, LegalEagle's timeline review, Jordan Klepper's on-the-ground interactions, Trevor Noah's metaphor of Trump as America's African president, Beau of the Fifth Column's reminder that Trump stood by waiting for the capitol's government to fail, and Jimquisition's newly-naturalized citizen reaction as it relates to simulations of insurrections in computer games.
Here's the main 5-minute point, though, that I'd like to convey.
Looking at national guard troops sleeping on the floors of Congress today, U.S. Representative Andy Kim asked, “How did it get so bad here? How did we get to this point as a country?” There are some longer answers to that question, but there are 3 easy steps to this point, as presented in that video above.
Sound familiar?
Do you remember when Steve Bannon (the first Chief Strategist for this current Republican administration) was asked if he really said that he wanted to "destroy the state", and his only reply was that he didn't remember? Or how about after he left that job and was happy to tell a reporter: "Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing."
The Republicans are big on courting the favor of religious groups. Trump used troops to kick out protesters for his photo opportunity where he held up a borrowed Bible (upside down). I'm pretty sure that Bible prop included lessons about lying. It might've even made the "Big 10" list. It doesn't matter, though. 74 million Americans voted for the lie strategy, the second time. And here we are.
I've spent a year reminding you about Wonder Woman's lasso of truth. Be like Wonder Woman. Be antifa.
Here's the main 5-minute point, though, that I'd like to convey.
Looking at national guard troops sleeping on the floors of Congress today, U.S. Representative Andy Kim asked, “How did it get so bad here? How did we get to this point as a country?” There are some longer answers to that question, but there are 3 easy steps to this point, as presented in that video above.
- Lie, all of the time, about everything.
- Say it is your opponents and journalists who lie.
- Look around and conclude, "What is truth? There is no truth."
Sound familiar?
Do you remember when Steve Bannon (the first Chief Strategist for this current Republican administration) was asked if he really said that he wanted to "destroy the state", and his only reply was that he didn't remember? Or how about after he left that job and was happy to tell a reporter: "Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing."
The Republicans are big on courting the favor of religious groups. Trump used troops to kick out protesters for his photo opportunity where he held up a borrowed Bible (upside down). I'm pretty sure that Bible prop included lessons about lying. It might've even made the "Big 10" list. It doesn't matter, though. 74 million Americans voted for the lie strategy, the second time. And here we are.
I've spent a year reminding you about Wonder Woman's lasso of truth. Be like Wonder Woman. Be antifa.
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