There are two stories about Jan. 6, 2021. One is based on the facts and events that the world saw at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The other is a sprawling work of collaborative fiction by supporters of former President Donald Trump who refuse to admit what happened.
Despite the arrest of nearly 600 people allegedly involved in the attack, a poll taken earlier this year found that 73 percent of Republican respondents placed at least some blame on “left-wing protesters trying to make Trump look bad.” That kind of collective mythmaking would not be possible to sustain without powerful public figures insisting that up is down and convincing others of the same.
The chasm between facts and mythology couldn’t have been deeper on Tuesday when the House of Representatives held a hearing into the realities of what transpired. Below are some examples of the facts and myths regarding those events:
There is a YUUUGE list with this article, and I was gonna print it, but WHY? The morons(R) who refuse to face reality aren’t gonna have a ‘come to Jesus moment’, when they live with their heads firmly and deeply implanted, and the rest of us already live in the real world.
So why bother?
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