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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.

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 Wednesday #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
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