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demmiblue

(39,239 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:20 AM Tuesday

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

Racygrandma

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

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

(54,069 posts)
2. I watched in real time
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:45 AM
Tuesday

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

calimary

(89,041 posts)
24. So did I.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:41 PM
Tuesday

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

(7,100 posts)
5. I cannot believe it's been 5 years...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:20 AM
Tuesday

And the TREASONOUS, IMBECILIC PIG is back in charge.

I am compleytely ASHAMED to be an American right now.

Totally DISGUSTED.

Silver Gaia

(5,248 posts)
8. Same here.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:25 AM
Tuesday

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

(3,126 posts)
31. Pride will return only if enough of us seize back control
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 08:32 AM
Yesterday

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

(5,248 posts)
7. I will never forget what my husband and I watched happen live on TV.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:21 AM
Tuesday

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

(10,983 posts)
12. Unless we DEMAND full and unadulterated accountability for ALL involved ASAP, it does not matter...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 11:11 AM
Tuesday

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

(89,041 posts)
25. RIGHTEOUS rant!
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:46 PM
Tuesday

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

NoMoreRepugs

(11,802 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
Tuesday

BurnDoubt

(1,472 posts)
18. Bias so egregious as to make the TRUTH unbelievable...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 03:34 PM
Tuesday

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

GiqueCee

(3,410 posts)
20. When Trump...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 05:33 PM
Tuesday

... 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

(19,092 posts)
22. History is written by the victors (equals) control the narrative in the moment
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 07:42 PM
Tuesday

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

FakeNoose

(40,180 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
Tuesday

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

sestina

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

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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