Insurrection Day and Fires Cross in the News

Ashli Babbitt got what she deserved. The Capitol Police and Washington, D.C. Police should have opened fire on a lot more of the traitorous insurrectionists that day, four years and two days ago. The capitol and D.C. police should have gone after the insurrectionists with all the zeal and aggressiveness that is generally reserved for unarmed black men.

There is an Associated Press article about Babbitt that claims her past paints a complex story — seriously, Babbitt was just another violent and treasonous extremist who got what she deserved. Her story isn’t any more complex than that.

The real question should be: Why weren’t more of those traitors fired upon and killed as they attacked capitol and D.C. police with all types of weapons, like poles, pipes and bear spray? There were some traitors attacking the capitol with firearms as well. Yet, only one of the capitol police officers had the cojones to fire on the traitorous criminals: Lieutenant Michael Byrd. The shooting was deemed “lawful and within department policy.”

Is it surprising Lieutenant Michael Byrd is an African-America? I don’t think so, not that Lt. Byrd had any anti-white people sentiments. He obviously has strong sentiments to protect himself and those around him and more importantly, the members of Congress and their staff members. What kept his fellow officers from responding in the same fashion? How different would it have been of the rioters were Black folks smashing, pissing and shitting on an in the U.S. Capitol?

Maybe I think too much.

On Monday, January 6, 2025 both houses of Congress carried on with the usually forgettable piece of congressional business of verifying the Electoral College selection of Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance as our next president and vice president. It went off without a hitch, without any calls to stop for unneeded recounts or investigations and no disgruntled American voters storming the capitol grounds because they didn’t like the outcome of the presidential election on November 5, 2024. As House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries reminded everyone: “There are no election deniers on our side.”

No election deniers, even if the president-elect is a convicted criminal. I heard on the news he isn’t a felon until he’s been sentenced  — even if he’s been convicted of 34 felonies. That is supposed to happen Friday. Trump and his lawyers have been so successful stalling, delaying and getting charges dropped all I can say is, “Okay, we’ll see.”

In this week, when  convicted criminal was certified as the next president, on the four-year anniversary of the failed insurrection he started and cheered on as his acolytes pillaged, pissed on and shit on the U.S. Capitol as they attacked the police.

Ashli Babbitt got what she deserved.

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Now, four years later, Los Angeles County is on fire. The blaze in Pacific Palisades is getting the most coverage, but there are at least five others, including one in the Hollywood Hills.

The largest fires in Los Angeles County history. As of this writing six people have been killed, over 2,000 structures destroyed, hundreds of thousands displaced. Some of the fires are 100& contained, others are 0% contained.

President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration so millions — billions — could be sent to California. Governor Gavin Newsom declared Los Angeles County is in a state of emergency.

As fires continue to burn without any containment, it feels and looks like everything getting done isn’t enough.

Pacific Palisades ran out of three million water for firefighting in less than 24 hours.

When this is “over” (over is relative. It will take years, decades , to recover), L.A. County fires will be the biggest and worst disaster in state history — and this won’t even be the end of the fire season in the Golden State.

The president-elect is already politicizing this event, making claims about a federal bill the doesn’t and never did exist. The first time he was president the convicted criminal punished states in need of disaster relief that he felt didn’t vote for him or outright opposed him.

For some unfathomable reason enough of the American electorate voted for the criminal so he could be a failure of a president a second time. There’s a meme going around social media you may have seen. It says “For the rest of my life, I will never understand how January 6th wasn’t a deal breaker for everyone.”

There is no doubt an original author, but way too many people are sharing it across all the social media platforms to try and pin it down. It puts words to what many of us, roughly half the population, have been thinking. But then, the “Access Hollywood” video wasn’t a deal breaker either.

What does a second term for the adjudicated sexual predator say about our nation? It’s a rhetorical question. As a nation we are populated by enough fucking idiots who would prefer to see a convicted criminal govern the United States than a highly educated, highly experienced Black woman be president — and the effin’ idiots win the election.

For the life of me, I will never understand how January 6th wasn’t a deal breaker for everyone.

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One last note: James Earl Carter, Jr. has always been and will remain, my favorite president. Rest in Peace Jimmy Carter, Jr.