The Memory Hole

 

      I remember everything about January 6, 2021 just as I recall everything about September 11, 2001. It was the second time within 20 years that our nation was attacked. Except, the last time, it was attacked from within by 1600 of the stupidest people who ever lived and, by proxy, a discolored, demented  criminal named Donald fucking Trump.

      The pawns, of course, went to trial and many were sent to prison while Trump, a bug-eyed psychopath named John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani never saw the inside of a courtroom, much less a jail cell.

      Congressmen, albeit the more sensible ones, realized who'd kept them alive during a riot that wound up killing nine people. It was the DC police who fought a mob of lunatics and were handed an impossible task: Securing the Capitol. The rules of engagement handed down from the DoD were simple: Not to engage the mob.

     Congress swiftly moved to give some of the officers gold medallions. Several Republicans voted against it while pretending to be outraged over the word "insurrection" (even though that's exactly what January 6 was). Then Congress commissioned a plaque to be made commemorating the police's role in guarding the Capitol building and all in it.

     Then it disappeared.

     Since it was commissioned by an Act of Congress, by law it was supposed to be displayed. But Mike Johnson hasn't unveiled it. Trump's law firm, formerly the DOJ, is trying to dismiss an officer's lawsuit to display the plaque. Now congressmembers are reduced to putting up crude facsimiles of it on their office doors.

     It's rumored to be sitting in storage. More likely, it's sitting on a landfill somewhere in Virginia.

     So, what happened? Is it really up to the majority party to put up a plaque created by an Act of Congress and mandated to be displayed? Why was the Republican Party allowed to flaunt the law? Who got rid of it? Who decreed that it never be displayed?

     Why wasn't it put up during the Biden administration?

     And why are the feckless cunts of the Democrat Party not raising a bigger stink about this?

     Every day that goes by without that plaque displayed on a federal building is an insult to the men and women who put their lives on the line (and, in five cases, lost their lives) that day. 

     But the invertebrates in the worthless Republican caucus are in such lockstep with Donald Trump, the guy who'd started the riot five years ago today, that they can't bring themselves to put up a plaque reminding us all of perhaps their Dear Leader's greatest crime.

     What a pack of wet-legged cunts.