Another Day That Will Live in Infamy

Today started off a good day. I got out of bed. I had breakfast. I logged into my work account and graded some papers, responded to some emails, filled out some paperwork. 

I helped a student understand valence electrons and ion formation a little better, and conferred with my paraeducators about how to better support some students. 

I graded some more papers, worked on some lesson plans. 

Then, for some reason, I decided to search out how the elections in Georgia had gone. When I went to sleep last night, pundits were calling both races for the Democrats Ossof and Warnock, but I wanted to see what the vote tallies were looking like. 

What I saw across the Internet was terrifying. 

People who were protesting the election had become -- no, revealed themselves to be -- terroristic fascists, pushing past Capitol Police and forcing their way into the Capitol building while the senators were running their mouths instead of just certifying the election. Congress had to be disbanded, the electoral votes had to be protected, and everything went into a lockdown. 

All because the man-child in the White House can't accept that he lost the election, and his man-baby supporters have fallen under his cult-spell and can't think for themselves. 

The images from today will be forever seared in the minds of the American public... or they should be. There are still a lot of seditionists out there -- as evidenced by attacks on state capitol buildings in Kansas, Michigan, Oregon and other states. It's time to stop accepting sedition as expression of free speech and start prosecuting it as treason and hate crimes. 

Some images. 

Portland 2020 D.C. 2021 pic.twitter.com/10rAjb2mia

— Megan Reyes (@megreyes_) January 6, 2021

Cops are taking selfies with the terrorists. pic.twitter.com/EjkQ83h1p2

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 6, 2021

Mitt Romney yelled “This is what you’ve gotten” to Ted Cruz and his fellow Senate colleagues as protesters swarmed the building. https://t.co/Yt8ZPArYpE

— David Freedlander (@freedlander) January 6, 2021

That’s the confederate flag flying outside the Senate chamber pic.twitter.com/1XB5TlAsuv

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 6, 2021

The same House chamber doors where the armed standoff took place hours ago is being cleaned for members to return for the joint session: pic.twitter.com/JlZgzwci8n

— Daniella Diaz (@DaniellaMicaela) January 7, 2021

There are some stark differences here between what we saw during the summer and the Black Lives Matter protests after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, and what happened today, and everyone sees it, at least anyone who isn't a racist. 

The Day of Reckoning has begin. Even the Vice President, Mike Pence, is trying to distance himself from the insanity, going as far as to change the cover photo on his Twitter profile to a picture of Biden and Harris from their victory speech in November 20202. 

After doomscrolling for a good two hours, which made me feel more and more sick to the stomach as I watch the terrorist attack unfold in real time, I had to step away from the computer for a few hours. It's still terrifying, and this image is going to haunt me for a long time. 

Day 1 vs. Day 1,448 pic.twitter.com/OohffkCQrc

— 11th Hour (@11thHour) January 6, 2021

There are Senators back on the floor of the Capitol, running their mouths (and in some cases, trying to covering their asses) about unity and democracy and all that. STFU, really. Get the vote done, then expel the assholes among you. 

We need to be done pulling punches. Fascists, racists, Nazis, anti-Semites, misogynists.... they all need to run and hide if they are unwilling to be rehabilitated. Every Single One Of Them needs to lose their jobs and fear never being hirable or desirable again. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. Shame them. Call them out. If they can't accept the world in 2021, they need to find themselves alone and crying, homeless in a cave with no friends and no money. 

This really needs to end. Now.