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You are here: Home / Politics / GOP Death Cult / The Insurrection, Six Months Later

The Insurrection, Six Months Later

by Anne Laurie|  July 8, 202110:45 pm| 52 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Investigations Into Violent Extremist Attacks, Proud to Be A Democrat, Violent Insurrection at the Capitol

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Six months ago, I took this photograph at 5:04pm. pic.twitter.com/AJQ387yKjn

— Leah Millis (@LeahMillis) July 6, 2021

Six months ago today, insurrectionists carried out a violent and deadly assault on our Capitol. It was a test of whether our democracy could survive. Half a year later we can declare unequivocally that democracy did prevail.

Now, it falls on all of us to protect and preserve it.

— President Biden (@POTUS) July 6, 2021

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the Jan. 6 select committee chair, says he may subpoena former President Trump and other Republicans to testify under oath about the U.S. Capitol insurrection. @ashtonpittman https://t.co/TDa2monYEi pic.twitter.com/ey26FJaaCH

— Mississippi Free Press (@MSFreePress) July 2, 2021

… “January 6th was one of the darkest days in our nation’s history, with five people killed, 140 members of law enforcement physically harmed and countless more seriously traumatized,” she said in a statement today. “It is clear that January 6th was not simply an attack on a building, but an attack on our very democracy—an attack on the peaceful transfer of power.”

Thompson, who also chairs the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, told CNN today that he would consider calling former President Donald Trump and Republicans who communicated with him at the time of the insurrection to testify.

“I think we need to have access to all available information. Part of what we plan to do is hire some of the best people who can help us get access to that kind of information,” the Mississippi congressman told CNN. “… If we need to get it by request or by subpoena, I’m not reluctant to do that either.”…

Six months after the Capitol insurrection, the Justice Department is still seeking scores of rioters. Among those sought: people accused of attacking law enforcers and threatening journalists and the person who put pipe bombs outside RNC and DNC offices. https://t.co/a1jUeBrUeR

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 6, 2021

There's a surreal disconnect watching video of people on 1/6 so convinced the world would end if Biden was inaugurated that it justified overthrowing the government and on 7/6 watching the same movement seemingly bored with every item being debated in the Capitol they stormed

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 6, 2021

Very small portion of my video from inside Chamber 2:43PM on Jan 6 but I think it’s important people understand what it was actually like that day.

– glass to chamber doors shatter from rioters
– officers + lawmakers barricade doors
– loud gun shot
– lawmakers audibly praying pic.twitter.com/4mfy2oVe81

— Haley Talbot (@haleytalbotnbc) July 6, 2021

It's fascinating how conflicting narrative strands about 1/6 can co-exist on the MAGA right.

It was a tourist visit with cops opening doors for rioters, but it was also an inside job by FBI informants and Antifa agitators, yet it was *also* the police who incited the crowd. pic.twitter.com/roMIx5TwRD

— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) July 7, 2021

It's been six months since I took this photo after the attack on our Capitol.

As a member of the 1/6 Select Committee, I’m ready to get to work to find the truth and secure our democracy. pic.twitter.com/97JT7cvITJ

— U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy (@RepStephMurphy) July 6, 2021

Part of a long thread, from a CBS reporter:

Six months ago today, a violent mob of Trump supporters overran the Capitol in a deadly attack, spurred by a lie that continues to be repeated. They sought to overturn election results and harm lawmakers.

The attack changed politics. It changed the country. It changed me.

— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) July 6, 2021

I wrote about my experiences on 1/6 in late January. It's just one person's perspective, and it's not a full picture of that day, as we've learned so much more since it was published. But for a close to contemporary account, you can read it here:https://t.co/mEWBwylmSG

— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) July 6, 2021

why won’t liz cheney move on https://t.co/N1gTszT4gQ

— kilgore trout, dna harvester (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 6, 2021

Good time to remind folks that the Republican Attorneys General Association actively recruited people (via robocall) … and told them to march on the US Capitol … https://t.co/4RTlMcVONe pic.twitter.com/hiUG8gfKAu

— BRANDON (@BrandonRichards) July 6, 2021

insurrection noun
in(t)-s?-‘rek-sh?n

: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government pic.twitter.com/qqIDE0gp2c

— Daniel Schultz (@pastordan) July 7, 2021

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  1. 1.

    zhena gogolia

    July 8, 2021 at 10:57 pm

    Sorry, I’d love to see the discussion, but time for bed. Tropical storm on the way.

  2. 2.

    Ruckus

    July 8, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    I never thought I’d see an attack like this in the US, but then given the last 20+ yrs, I’m not terribly surprised either.

    Republicans have been going off the deep end for a while and being supported by Murdoch’s crap, much more crap from SFB 6, the guns and shootings, the 8 yrs of SFB 5, it actually shouldn’t have been a surprise.

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 8, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    I never really saw or heard Mollie Hemingway pre-trump, but I used to hear her referred to as one of the serious up-and-coming intellectuals in the conservative movement. The name stood out. Then I saw her and her tweets. A barking mad amalgam of Ann Coulter and Meghan McCain

  4. 4.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 8, 2021 at 10:59 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Tropical storm on the way. 

    Stay safe.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    July 8, 2021 at 11:02 pm

    FYI. Lindsey Graham (R-Whiplash):

    Six months after a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on the day Congress certified the November election results, South Carolina’s U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters he hopes all the offenders are prosecuted.

    “I was there. It was shameful, it was despicable, and the people who did it need to go to jail,” the Seneca Republican told reporters Tuesday ahead of a meeting of the Easley Rotary Club.

    So far, at least seven South Carolinians have been arrested on charges connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Source

    About that Nay vote on establishing a commission to investigate the matter, Senator….

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 8, 2021 at 11:04 pm

    Well that’s an interesting take!

    It wasn’t an insurrection, just a “few-hour riot at the Capitol.”

    Good grief!

  7. 7.

    sanjeevs

    July 8, 2021 at 11:18 pm

    The WSJ has an account of the last days of TFG at the Whitehouse. I can’t imagine who this guy’s sources might be:

    But the vice president wasn’t practiced in confronting Mr. Trump. The only example some administration officials could remember was in 2018, when Mr. Pence’s political committee hired Corey Lewandowski, the president’s ubiquitous adviser. Mr. Trump was holding a newspaper article about the hiring and said it made him look weak, like his team was abandoning him as he was probed for his campaign’s role in Russian election meddling. He crumpled the article and threw it at his vice president. “So disloyal,” Mr. Trump said.

    Mr. Pence lost it. Mr. Kushner had asked him to hire Mr. Lewandowski, and he had discussed the plan with Mr. Trump over lunch. Mr. Pence picked up the article and threw it back at Mr. Trump. He leaned toward the president and pointed a finger a few inches from his chest. “We walked you through every detail of this,” Mr. Pence snarled. “We did this for you—as a favor. And this is how you respond? You need to get your facts straight.”

    Three years later, the moment seemed to call for another get-your-facts-straight lesson from Mr. Pence. But the vice president’s team believed he’d been clear with the president that he didn’t have the constitutional authority to overturn the vote.

  8. 8.

    West of the Rockies

    July 8, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    I really hope that soon incontrovertible facts come out to implicate the many QOP folks (from Trump to Bullshit Shaman), and that they begin to face meaningful consequences.

    Anyone know when the committee is set to get going?

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    July 8, 2021 at 11:25 pm

    @sanjeevs: Sorry. This story needs corroborating evidence. I refuse to believe Dense was anything other than a yes man toady.

  10. 10.

    sanjeevs

    July 8, 2021 at 11:28 pm

    @Yutsano: I’d sooner believe we were on the verge of buying Greenland than Pence’s story.

  11. 11.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 8, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    Here’s something fun and good.
    Meet spelling bee champ Zaila Avant-garde​

  12. 12.

    Steeplejack

    July 8, 2021 at 11:43 pm

    @sanjeevs:

    It’d be nice to know what your source is, like maybe a link to the story. Something more specific than “the WSJ.”

  13. 13.

    Chetan Murthy

    July 8, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    @Steeplejack: Probably this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-donald-trumps-last-days-in-the-white-house-and-plans-for-a-comeback-1162575992

    ETA: (1) I’ve seen this little snippet elsewhere; (2) it’s the FTFWSJ, so I kinda think it’s OK to not provide a link.  Fuck Rupert Murdoch.  Fuck all the Murdochs.

  14. 14.

    Ruckus

    July 8, 2021 at 11:51 pm

    @Chetan Murthy:

    Fuck Rupert Murdoch.  Fuck all the Murdochs.

    I hope you don’t mean Fuck in the fun meaning.

  15. 15.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 8, 2021 at 11:54 pm

    It was a tourist visit with cops opening doors for rioters, but it was also an inside job by FBI informants and Antifa agitators, yet it was *also* the police who incited the crowd.

    So it was Floor Wax and Desert Topping at the same time.And they are moved on from Epistemic Closure, this more like the fragmentation of the Conservative mind.

  16. 16.

    Chetan Murthy

    July 8, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: Are fragmentation grenades fun?  AFAF

  17. 17.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 9, 2021 at 12:00 am

    @Ruckus: I hope you don’t mean Fuck in the fun meaning.

    So you two cool with rape as long as the target is a designated enemy, eh?  Pie on you two low lives.

  18. 18.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 9, 2021 at 12:04 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    So it was Floor Wax and Desert Topping at the same time 

    Which desert is kinky?

  19. 19.

    Ruckus

    July 9, 2021 at 12:05 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    I believe I’m saying exactly the opposite. At least that was the intent.

    I also don’t believe that I’ve ever called for revenge here on BJ, although I’ve been here about a decade and a half, so it’s possible but I can’t remember ever calling for revenge, not ever. I will admit to thinking about it on occasion, but call for it, no.

  20. 20.

    Ruckus

    July 9, 2021 at 12:10 am

    Also on this note, I’m going to take a short break from BJ.

    We are seemingly all pretty heated up, what with an insurrection, and a complete, utterly moronic dolt as our ex president making life so much fun. I need to think of better things, for my own health.

  21. 21.

    Chetan Murthy

    July 9, 2021 at 12:14 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    cool with rape as long as the target is a designated enemy, eh?

    Nah.  “Fuck” is meant in the general sense of “may bad things happen to them, unendingly and unendurably”.  Though, yeah, whatever it takes to get Murdoch out of the picture, I’m good with it.

    Yeah, I know: nihilist.  I’m brown, and I know what awaits my kind if they win.  All I can say is: I’d rather they get blown up now, than a lot of innocents get blown up later.

    We *can* convert their children.  But the Deplorables?  They’re irredeemable.

  22. 22.

    Nutmeg again

    July 9, 2021 at 12:27 am

    Just dropped in to brag: Leah Mills is FAMily. Unspecified for privacy reasons, but not so distant. (I claim no credit whatsoever for her raising or her talent, however!)  Yes, she is a fantastic photojournalist, and yet another reason to say: The kids are alright.

  23. 23.

    VeniceRiley

    July 9, 2021 at 12:31 am

    My Chery Ropher approved comment is that I wish the guilty prison … and ingrown toenails.

  24. 24.

    stinger

    July 9, 2021 at 12:32 am

    @Ruckus:  Ruckus, I will miss your comments.

  25. 25.

    Nutmeg again

    July 9, 2021 at 12:37 am

    @Nutmeg again: PS. Leah Mills shot the photo at the top of this post.

  26. 26.

    jnfr

    July 9, 2021 at 12:38 am

    Thank you for this remembrance, although it is horrible. I can barely deal with thinking about it.

  27. 27.

    smike

    July 9, 2021 at 12:45 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: …fragmentation of the Conservative mind.

    They’ve got no place left to go. In the proverbial corner, they are. I watch in awe as they ‘own the libs’, even if means dying because they refuse to have a free vaccination. Amazeballs.

  28. 28.

    Mary G

    July 9, 2021 at 1:39 am

    @Ruckus: I’ll miss you and hope you come back, but only if you want to.

  29. 29.

    rikyrah

    July 9, 2021 at 1:46 am

    @HumboldtBlue:

    She holds three Guinness World Records???

  30. 30.

    rikyrah

    July 9, 2021 at 1:48 am

    @Ruckus:

    see you when you come back?

    and remember

     

    Protect yourself from the lying unvaccinated ??

  31. 31.

    Dahlia

    July 9, 2021 at 2:00 am

    @Ruckus: Take care of yourself.  I look forward to reading your comments when you return.

  32. 32.

    Felanius Kootea

    July 9, 2021 at 2:02 am

    @HumboldtBlue: Nice!  Murraya huh?  Never heard that word before.

  33. 33.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 9, 2021 at 2:06 am

    @Felanius Kootea: ​ 

    Neither have I.

    Better yet, Zaila is a baller!

  34. 34.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 9, 2021 at 2:09 am

    @rikyrah: ​ 
    YES YES YES JUGGLING!

  35. 35.

    Edmund Dantes

    July 9, 2021 at 2:29 am

    Here’s a question. If they do eventually get around to sending out those subpoenas, what exactly is their plan for when they are ignored?

    Leave it up to the DOJ? What happens if DOJ decides to half ass enforcing them to protect presidential prerogative? Write some sternly worded letters?

  36. 36.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 9, 2021 at 2:45 am

    @Edmund Dantes: Jerry Ford as a sitting President testified before Congress about Nixon’s pardon, it’s been done before.

  37. 37.

    James E Powell

    July 9, 2021 at 2:53 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Those days are gone forever. Over a long time ago, oh yeah.

    Different Republicans, different press/media, different federal courts. All three will do whatever they have to do to prevent Trump’s testimony.

  38. 38.

    Winston

    July 9, 2021 at 3:38 am

    Well, a late night open thread. On my beloveds birthday. Just want to say, my dear, the birthdays keep going on, even in heaven. So I send you this song 

  39. 39.

    MagdaInBlack

    July 9, 2021 at 5:15 am

    @Ruckus: Well, that sucks, but I get it. Stay safe.

  40. 40.

    JPL

    July 9, 2021 at 5:31 am

    @Winston: That was so sweet.    You’re a good person.

  41. 41.

    No name

    July 9, 2021 at 6:27 am

    @Ruckus: You need to take care of yourself.  I do hope you return since your comments always make my (mental, emotional) health better.  Be safe.

  42. 42.

    BellyCat

    July 9, 2021 at 7:08 am

     

    @Ruckus:

    Echoing other’s appreciation for your perspective. Breaks are needed if mental health is imperiled. Step away if needed, but do hurry back!

  43. 43.

    satby

    July 9, 2021 at 7:22 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: WTH?

  44. 44.

    Procopius

    July 9, 2021 at 7:27 am

    I am so glad to see that a judge in Detroit has summoned all the Trump lawyers who filed suits there claiming the election was stolen. The Michigan Attorney General has requested that they be sanctioned. The hearing is scheduled for July 13, you might want to mark your calendar.

  45. 45.

    satby

    July 9, 2021 at 7:29 am

    @Ruckus:  You aren’t the only one.

  46. 46.

    debbie

    July 9, 2021 at 7:41 am

    @satby:

    ?

  47. 47.

    satby

    July 9, 2021 at 7:49 am

    @debbie: thumbsucker central around here lately. Fuck that*

    *not a threat of rape, and how asinine was THAT statement?

  48. 48.

    debbie

    July 9, 2021 at 7:59 am

    @satby:

    Quite a leap at the very least!

  49. 49.

    Chris Johnson

    July 9, 2021 at 8:09 am

    My take on Cheryl’s recent observations is: damn straight, correct, and I have maybe an additional take on WHY to avoid getting riled up and bitey.

    I am still very much of the opinion that this is what WWIII is: meddling on an unprecedented scale to get the enemy nation to self-destruct. As such, insurrection and civil war is absolutely necessary: can’t go bombing folks, certainly can’t invade when your country is weaker than Texas, but with enough effort you can make them destroy each other as long as they don’t wise up.

    It is very easy to see this activity when it’s manifesting on the other side as insurrectionists and QAnons, but it’s much more difficult to see it when it’s happening in the circles we trust. Yet the way this sort of warfare works, the messages MUST go to both sides. It’s not like Putin wants the Republicans to WIN or anything. He wants us all to die, or failing that, spend all our energy either fighting each other or going mad.

    I’m a progressive and have been good and extreme in the past, and currently am fond of folks like Vaush, and one reason is: Vaush lately is extremely, fiercely critical of ‘leftists’ like Jimmy Dore who are basically carrying water for Putin, plus being awful in other ways. I don’t trust anybody who’s talking about unredeemable, evil monsters on the other side who can never be reformed. This point of view was DONE TO US by extreme, patient effort of media manipulation and shitloads of moles and trolls everywhere feeding every community its own formulation of poison.

    Cheryl Rofer’s position on this is the only effective one. These people all over the political map are sick, when they’re not gettin’ paid to work for Putin’s purposes. There’s continued effort made to keep them sick, and it’s always through painting the enemy as (a) domestic and (b) irredeemably evil and must be destroyed.

    It’s the new warfare. Don’t help Putin by heightening the panic and despair.

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    July 9, 2021 at 9:08 am

    @Procopius:

    I am so glad to see that a judge in Detroit has summoned all the Trump lawyers who filed suits there claiming the election was stolen. The Michigan Attorney General has requested that they be sanctioned. The hearing is scheduled for July 13, you might want to mark your calendar.

    More of this, please.  Consequences, bitches.  That may be the most effective way to fight this.

  51. 51.

    Brantl

    July 9, 2021 at 12:30 pm

    But the vice president’s team believed he’d been clear with the president that he didn’t have the constitutional authority to overturn the vote.

    This is hard to do, when speaking with someone who doesn’t have the attention span for a single, 2-syllable word.

  52. 52.

    Chris T.

    July 9, 2021 at 6:30 pm

    As to who killed Ashi Babbitt, that’s easy: Ashli Babbitt killed Ashli Babbitt. She committed suicide-by-cop.

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