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demmiblue

(39,919 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:20 AM Jan 2026

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2026-01-06T12:40:23.183Z
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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2026 OP
NEVER FORGET!!! niyad Jan 2026 #1
Agree, but.... democrank Jan 2026 #6
They were just tourists Racygrandma Jan 2026 #11
I watched in real time UpInArms Jan 2026 #2
So did I. calimary Jan 2026 #24
As did my wife and I, here in the U.K. Layzeebeaver Jan 2026 #27
The whole world saw it on live television. dalton99a Jan 2026 #3
ding. this. AllaN01Bear Jan 2026 #9
never forget. AllaN01Bear Jan 2026 #4
I cannot believe it's been 5 years... AZ8theist Jan 2026 #5
Same here. Silver Gaia Jan 2026 #8
Pride will return only if enough of us seize back control RVN VET71 Jan 2026 #31
I will never forget what my husband and I watched happen live on TV. Silver Gaia Jan 2026 #7
Thanks for posting this. Martin68 Jan 2026 #10
YES! Seinan Sensei Jan 2026 #16
Unless we DEMAND full and unadulterated accountability for ALL involved ASAP, it does not matter... Moostache Jan 2026 #12
Ding, ding, ding...great list. Thanks for this post. c-rational Jan 2026 #14
Perfect. GiqueCee Jan 2026 #21
RIGHTEOUS rant! calimary Jan 2026 #25
For all my uncles and Dad and FIL who fought in WW2 and my grandfather who was with Pershing in WW1 I WILL NEVER FORGET. NoMoreRepugs Jan 2026 #13
I Was So Devastated Coolgoober Jan 2026 #15
oh, all those headlines were BEFORE the mob became just a bunch of tourists nt orleans Jan 2026 #17
Bias so egregious as to make the TRUTH unbelievable... BurnDoubt Jan 2026 #18
Revolutionary War ancestors here. NEVER FORGET!!! Clouds Passing Jan 2026 #19
When Trump... GiqueCee Jan 2026 #20
And it's lower down. calimary Jan 2026 #26
History is written by the victors (equals) control the narrative in the moment alittlelark Jan 2026 #22
Those newspapers assumed that there's NO WAY Chump could ever get back in the White House again FakeNoose Jan 2026 #23
It is depressing and maddening sestina Jan 2026 #28
K&R spanone Jan 2026 #29
J6 archive by NPR Be Leave On Jan 2026 #30

Racygrandma

(199 posts)
11. They were just tourists
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 12:08 PM
Jan 2026

Who did not have a permit. So says my sister. I watched it on tv in real time. I told her honey you were watching Sesame Street. You need to turn the to another channel.

UpInArms

(55,271 posts)
2. I watched in real time
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:45 AM
Jan 2026

As they stormed the Capitol, assaulted journalists and screamed for the deaths of Pelosi and pence

calimary

(90,600 posts)
24. So did I.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:41 PM
Jan 2026

Totally dumbstruck, I must admit.

It was shocking to witness this shit, live and in “living color”. It was almost impossible to believe my own eyes. I couldn’t believe the bad behavior taken to those extremes! Cops DIED, okay? Tough, trained and well-equipped police officers DIED that day. I heard the death toll in this evening’s network “look back” reporting: FIVE.

How low we sank.

And for WHAT???

For that self-flattering, hollow-hearted, lying, cheating BASTARD?

How low we’re still stuck.

AZ8theist

(7,577 posts)
5. I cannot believe it's been 5 years...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 11:20 AM
Jan 2026

And the TREASONOUS, IMBECILIC PIG is back in charge.

I am compleytely ASHAMED to be an American right now.

Totally DISGUSTED.

Silver Gaia

(5,409 posts)
8. Same here.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 11:25 AM
Jan 2026

I used to be proud of my country, but now I am ashamed to be an American. I hsve nowhere else to go, though.

RVN VET71

(3,211 posts)
31. Pride will return only if enough of us seize back control
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 09:32 AM
Jan 2026

And we do it via the ballot box.

But that can only happen if there is a vote, and it looks like the Nazis are preparing to cancel it.

Even as I write this, Thiel , Musk, Karp and other demented billionaire traitors are laughing and laughing at the thought of the little American people doing anything against the GOP juggernaut's march to total (and totalitarian) power.

(Thiel, mentor to J.D. Vance, once claimed that the last decade of tries American freedom was the 1920's. Hmmmm, interesting how that all worked out for America, considering how it ended in October, 1929.) (Musk just wants to impregnate white women, to preserve the race, spreading his DNA over the world -- and Mars - like mayonnaise over a deli sandwich.)( Karp just wants to get in your britches and temporal lobes, enabling the complete control of your mind via good ole Artificial Intelligence. Thought crimes, anyone?)

This will be the beginning of the last stand for America. If we have mid-terms, we have to crush the fascists, absolutely crush them. If we merely eke out a majority in the House it will be because MAGA morons have not learned the lessons of history. If we lose in the mid-terms it will be because they were -- I hate to say it, knowing I sound like the Syphilitic Saint in the White House -- rigged.

Silver Gaia

(5,409 posts)
7. I will never forget what my husband and I watched happen live on TV.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 11:21 AM
Jan 2026

It was a violent insurrection attempt that Trump also watched on TV at the White House and did nothing to stop. Rather, he sermed to enjoy what he saw, so why stop it? He told them he loved them. i remember it all.

NEVER FORGET.

Moostache

(11,262 posts)
12. Unless we DEMAND full and unadulterated accountability for ALL involved ASAP, it does not matter...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 12:11 PM
Jan 2026

SOME of the biggest mistakes of the nation's history are:

1) refusal to hunt down and execute the leaders of the Confederacy in toto - they should have ALL been tried for treason and given the full sentence of law, period.
2) allowing reconstruction to be as mangled and hideous as it was including Jim Crow and everything since Civil Rights Act as well
3) allowing Bush v. Gore to conclude without a forensic tally of ALL votes cast and demands for SCOTUS recusals for conflicted justices that owed their seats to a litigant's family.
4) everything in response to 9/11 that attacked nations uninvolved in the plot and ignored US actions that could have been different
5) Trump
6) not prosecuting everyone involved in J6 actions and the election stealing plot to the fullest extent of the law
7) Democratic party failure to enshrine reproductive rights by law
8) Japanese internment camps
9) failure to listen to Eisenhower's farewell address more literally
10) failure to treat the FIRST amendment as equal in importance to the SECOND as an electoral issue and counter balance to the right's campaign of fetishizing guns and the 2nd as primary.

calimary

(90,600 posts)
25. RIGHTEOUS rant!
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:46 PM
Jan 2026

And a VERY good and comprehensive list of ills that America has suffered in the past and is still facing today.

NoMoreRepugs

(12,212 posts)
13. For all my uncles and Dad and FIL who fought in WW2 and my grandfather who was with Pershing in WW1 I WILL NEVER FORGET.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 12:30 PM
Jan 2026

BurnDoubt

(1,854 posts)
18. Bias so egregious as to make the TRUTH unbelievable...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 04:34 PM
Jan 2026

Even BEFORE “Citizens United”.
Heritage Foundation… Funding Treason and drowning out Freedom Of Speech.

GiqueCee

(4,611 posts)
20. When Trump...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 06:33 PM
Jan 2026

... mercifully expires – which can't happen soon enough – he does not deserve to be buried in Arlington Cemetery; he should be buried at sea entombed in a concrete sarcophagus directly over the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep. We can be pretty sure his malignant spirit won't escape from there.

alittlelark

(19,143 posts)
22. History is written by the victors (equals) control the narrative in the moment
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 08:42 PM
Jan 2026

Our history is NOT what we have been taught………….. 1812 etc

FakeNoose

(42,195 posts)
23. Those newspapers assumed that there's NO WAY Chump could ever get back in the White House again
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:32 PM
Jan 2026

They figured Chump would be in prison long before 2024, so he couldn't possibly have a political career....

sestina

(529 posts)
28. It is depressing and maddening
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 12:23 AM
Jan 2026

to see the denial of the truth of J6 by so many brainwashed or ignorant or evil people.
This administration has got to be stopped somehow and held accountable for all the crazy stuff they're doing, someday soon I hope.

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