Blue Lives Ain't Having It

Pro Publica gets the story from the defenders of democracy

I can’t add anything to this first story. Kudos to the team that got it.

“The riot squad defending the embattled entrance to the west side of the U.S. Capitol was surrounded by violence. Rioters had clambered up the scaffolding by the stage erected for the inauguration of President Joseph Biden. They hurled everything they could get their hands on at the cops beneath: rebar, plywood, power tools, even cans of food they had frozen for extra damage.

In front of the cops, a mob was mounting a frontal assault. Its members hit officers with fists and baseball bats. They grabbed at weapons slung from the officers’ waists. They unleashed a barrage of M-80 firecrackers. Soaked in never-ending streams of bright orange bear spray, the officers choked on plumes of acrid smoke that singed their nostrils and obscured their vision.

One officer in the middle of the scrum, a combat veteran, thought the rioters were so vicious, so relentless, that they seemed fueled by methamphetamine. To his left, he watched a chunk of steel strike a fellow officer above the eye, setting off a geyser of blood. A pepper ball tore through the air over his shoulder and exploded against the jaw of a man in front of him. The round, filled with chemical irritant, ripped the rioter’s face open. His teeth were now visible through a hole in his cheek. Blood poured out, puddling on the pavement surrounding the building. But the man kept coming.

The combat veteran was hit with bear spray eight times. His experience overseas "was nothing like this,” he said. “Nothing at all.”

ProPublica gets the inside story. It’s worse.

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Meanwhile, the Washington Examiner makes it clear Trump won’t go away:

Early on, we’re told he's likely to make trips to the districts of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him, starting with House GOP leader Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming.

We’re also told that his support network, including his sons, will campaign against the 10 Republicans in the revenge campaign.
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Meanwhile, Nikki Haley, who wants to run for president, is now distancing herself from him but in her typical genteel way of praising all his other work, (pandemic anyone?) She’s evolving into Susan Collins before our eyes, thinking he’ll overlook any slight at all to his tender ego.

Maybe she’s right since she doesn’t have a vote in this fight. But she’s convinced he’s not going to run again.

I’m pretty certain he will unless ill health or other looming court cases take him out. He’ll run unless running a SuperPAC and getting paid for speeches proves more lucrative. After money and ego, all he has left is vengeance and golf. Business,ego and golf he sucks at. But the boy sure knows how to do vengeance.

Middle America’s paper isn’t buying the game either.

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Something I find myself daydreaming about….

Can't wait to see an impeachment manager stop midsentence, look past all the senators, his eyes growing really wide as he shrieks "LOOK OUT HE'S GOT A FIRE EXTINGUISHER!" and drops behind the podium.

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Why, back in my day, we didn’t have a whiny drama mobster trying to make everyone die.

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