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demmiblue

(39,426 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:20 AM Jan 6

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

Racygrandma

(186 posts)
11. They were just tourists
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 11:08 AM
Jan 6

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

(54,369 posts)
2. I watched in real time
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:45 AM
Jan 6

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

calimary

(89,270 posts)
24. So did I.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:41 PM
Jan 6

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

(7,130 posts)
5. I cannot believe it's been 5 years...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:20 AM
Jan 6

And the TREASONOUS, IMBECILIC PIG is back in charge.

I am compleytely ASHAMED to be an American right now.

Totally DISGUSTED.

Silver Gaia

(5,271 posts)
8. Same here.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:25 AM
Jan 6

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

(3,146 posts)
31. Pride will return only if enough of us seize back control
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 08:32 AM
Jan 7

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

(5,271 posts)
7. I will never forget what my husband and I watched happen live on TV.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:21 AM
Jan 6

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

(11,093 posts)
12. Unless we DEMAND full and unadulterated accountability for ALL involved ASAP, it does not matter...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 11:11 AM
Jan 6

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

(89,270 posts)
25. RIGHTEOUS rant!
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:46 PM
Jan 6

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

NoMoreRepugs

(11,862 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, 11:30 AM
Jan 6

BurnDoubt

(1,573 posts)
18. Bias so egregious as to make the TRUTH unbelievable...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 03:34 PM
Jan 6

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

GiqueCee

(3,579 posts)
20. When Trump...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 05:33 PM
Jan 6

... 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

(19,100 posts)
22. History is written by the victors (equals) control the narrative in the moment
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 07:42 PM
Jan 6

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

FakeNoose

(40,621 posts)
23. Those newspapers assumed that there's NO WAY Chump could ever get back in the White House again
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 08:32 PM
Jan 6

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

sestina

(517 posts)
28. It is depressing and maddening
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 11:23 PM
Jan 6

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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