September 11, 2021: The Eight Month and Five Day Anniversary of January 6th
Whacko lefties have agreed upon a pivotal date to give their lives meaning.
Wearing antlers ain’t great but is completely reasonable compared to asserting that January 6th was worse than 9/11.
Setting aside the obscene and disgraceful nature of such a contention for a moment, it is also a preposterous-on-a-nuclear-level thing to say.
But they’re saying it anyway.
Matthew Dowd, a political consultant, pundit and the kind of guy who loves to be on panels and DC Ted-Talky kinds of things jumped on Joy Reid’s stupidfest to kvetch about the Capitol riots.
“What would happen if after 9/11 we had done nothing?” he queried. “And to me, though there was less loss of life on January 6th, January 6th was worse than 9/11 because it's continued to rip our country apart and give permission for people to pursue autocratic means.”
Dowd’s concession that there was “less loss of life” on January 6th is appreciated but would have also been the factor, the incredibly stark factor, that would have compelled sound minds to holster the reference and feel ashamed for even considering it.
But he was all in. It’s the left’s new fetish.
Not surprisingly, some personalities who even bottom feeders consider bottom feeders were happy to echo the remarks. Enter Steve Schmidt who spent last year at the Lincoln Project, not disclosing that his business partner had made unwanted advances towards many young men, including one minor. The money was too good for Steve to put the brakes on John Weaver even when he targeted men at the Lincoln Project itself.
Schmidt wormed his way onto MSNBC and announced, “The 1/6 attack for the future of the country is a profoundly more dangerous event than the 9/11 attacks. And in the end, the 1/6 attacks are likely to kill a lot more Americans than were killed in the 9/11 attacks, which will include the casualties of the wars that lasted 20 years following it.”
The spectacular lunacy around the Capitol riots is nothing new.
A couple of months ago, HuffPost White House reporter S.V. Dáte tweeted, “The 9/11 terrorists and Osama bin Laden never threatened the heart of the American experiment. The 1/6 terrorists and Donald Trump absolutely did exactly that.”
When someone replied, "United 93 was intended to crash into the Capitol. You think January 6th was worse than that?"
Dáte’s response:
"1000 percent worse."
A couple of obvious things here.
On 9/11 about 3,000 people were killed and subsequently we went to war and then went to war again, just in case. Our lives changed in many ways. Processes changed, our government changed and we were all emotionally changed because we Americans had collectively witnessed the murder of thousands of our countrymen.
On January 6th or “1/6” for hyperventilating tinybrains and opportunistic politicians, one person was killed. She was an unarmed rioter.
A collection of morons, some clad in animal skins and horns, others dressed like dudes playing paintball on the weekend, and still others who looked like lost tourists had gotten inside the Capitol.
This does not represent a toppling of government or a threat to “the heart of the American experiment.” (Puke.)
It doesn’t work like that.
If you occupy the Capitol while the legislators have fled you don’t suddenly get the keys to the country.
Most days of the year Congress is not even working and is not in the building. That doesn’t mean that the 4-H takes control of a branch of government if fifty of them are taking the tour of the old senate chamber.
What’s even more obscene than the grifters using the riot for attention and political gain is watching journalists lather themselves in victimhood since the event.
“Reporters who survived the deadly Capitol riot are still struggling. Some won’t go back into the building. Several have sought therapy to deal with trauma. Many still aren’t sleeping well,” read the Vice News story.
“I’m still not sleeping like I used to, even to this day,” said PBS correspondent Lisa Desjardins. “I became kind of an insomniac.”
Desjardins likened the subsequent atmosphere among legislators to witnessing mommy and daddy fight.
“It’s like when you know your parents are bitterly, abusively fighting, and you go into a room and can sense their hostility, and can sense nobody’s figured out a way out.”
Poor thing.
When they’re not the object of reporters’ parental fantasies some of the lawmakers are memorializing the horrific day in very bizarre ways.
Rep. Andy Kim of New Jersey is donating his suit he wore on January 6th to the Smithsonian. He was reportedly wearing it in a viral picture (news to me) while he solemnly cleaned up water bottles from the Hall of Statues.
Talk about self-important melodrama. Congressman Steve Scalise was shot a few years ago and his wardrobe has failed to make it into an exhibit.
Many of us already take great pains to avoid the more mundane wings of the Smithsonian, I think I’ll pass on Andy Kim’s suit and Ed Markey’s cuff links.
And so progressives of every sort look to build January 6th into a crucially important historic moment. A watershed event upon which all else is built. It’s “Remember the Maine” without the ship exploding.
But it’s a little bit more. It also justifies all of their bad behavior for the last four years. They have something to point to.
“See, I had to wear the p*ssy hat and wail loudly in the street while dressed like Handmaid’s Tale and put up embarrassing lawn signs and make up news stories and pretend to carefully read the Mueller Report and harass Republicans at restaurants and bully petite women at stores over masks because I knew 1/6 was coming and I was so right!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Nope. You were wrong and you’re a jerk and you know it. You’re a jerk on 1/6 and 9/11 and all of the other days. Seek therapy for your issues, not the for the “trauma” from the people dressed like Braveheart, jerk.
Dowd is looking for any angle to get publicity. We are seeing so many whackos come out and look for the self promoting opportunities. He actually searches his name on the internet looking for any reaction. very sad.