Get Used to the Word “Insurrection”
Michael Fanone worked for the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia from 2001 until his retirement following the storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021. What he says here I find interesting.
Two points:
MAGA congresspeople appear to be “triggered” by the word “insurrection,” but that’s an act. These people all graduated from good colleges, and are anything but stupid. What they are, however, is a collection of a) liars and b) actors. They have all seen the video footage of the wreckage, but they know how to appear outraged to their constituents who are desperate to believe that the incident was simply an unplanned tour of the building, and/or that it was set in motion by Antifa, BLM, the Deep State, the Hollywood elite, the woke mob of radical thugs, etc.
By the time the justice system finishes up with Trump and his top brass, Americans will have been exposed to dozens, perhaps hundreds of times more evidence on this subject than what we’re sitting on today. When all this is over, only the world-is-flat QAnoners will reject the word “insurrection.”
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Here’s a reminder that we can have both a working Second Amendment and a ban on weapons of war.
Obviously, there are reasons that we’re still talking about Marcus Aurelius 2000 years after his death–and here’s one of them.
Here’s David Letterman’s suggestion to this effect.
One would think that the list of demographics that would refuse to vote for Trump is so large that the former president would be hard-put to get more than about 30% of the popular vote in the general election.
Where do you break the chain of single-use plastic? The manufacturer? The distributor? The retailer? The consumer?
But he’s sane, competent, and decent.
In addition to what Spinoza said here, we have Hegel’s clever remark that “the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
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