2021, how COULD you?

 

With the month -- and the year -- fast running out, I was all set to finish up and publish a post about one of this blog's favorite serial scammers. But then... this happened.

Way to suck even more, 2021.

Celebrity deaths don't usually faze me all that much, with the exception of Leonard Cohen in 2016, which was made exceptionally awful because of the other horrifying thing that happened around the same time.

But... Betty White?!? I only wish it were a hoax, but I can't live my life in denial.

I will be back early in the New Year with more bloggish material. For now, I hope you have a safe New Year's Eve. Stay off of the mean streets, and stay far away from crowds... in fact, if I were you I'd stay in altogether and watch Life With Elizabeth or Mary Tyler Moore (beginning with Season 4) or The Golden Girls or Boston Legal episodes, or find a way to watch Lake Placid. Or The Proposal. Lake Placid is on Ron's and my schedule tonight.

Rest in power, Betty. And as for you, 2021, as Mrs. Delores Bickerman said in Lake Placid, "If I had a dick, this is where I'd tell you to suck it."

Day of Rage: The most in-depth look yet at pro-Trump riot on January 6, 2021

If you love The 4th of July,
never forget The 6th of January.
~ Facebook user Stewart Safran, 4 July, 2021

On June 30, 2021, the New York Times released a powerful video for their "Visual Investigations" series titled, "Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol." It provides the most detailed review yet of the "peaceful tourists" and "great patriots" (or, alternatively, antifa/Black Lives Matter et al. masquerading as supporters of the former guy) who stormed U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Six months in the making, the video is well worth the time and the bandwidth to watch it.

Here's the direct YouTube link, in case the embedded video above does not work.

Here is the link on the New York Times web site, which also provides links to previous Visual Investigations.

So far, unfortunately, the mango Mussolini who incited these "peaceful tourists" with his Big Lie has yet to truly be held accountable. And the "leadership" of the republican party, aka the Grand Obstructionist Party, continues to do everything they can to stymie thorough investigations of what happened on January 6, while downplaying the event or at least shifting blame.

Of course, the misinformed and the willfully blind will still believe the lies about what went down that day, and many may say that the NYT video is "doctored" or heavily edited to make the event look far worse than it really was. Or the true idiots will say that it all really happened as shown, but that the violence was justified because Joe Biden "stole the election." Unfortunately, many of these folks are eligible to vote.

We who are eligible to vote in the US just have to continue to outvote them, because American democracy has never been in such peril.

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